Watch: ‘Grand Designs’ viewers can’t believe the price of this epic gothic project

A £4.5m ‘Gothic’ house built in the grounds of a Victorian graveyard and featured on Grand Designs is causing quite the buzz on social media.

Fans of the show headed to Twitter to give their views on one of the most unique builds in the show’s history, with some describing the episode as the “best Grand Designs ever”.

The episode followed former army captain Justin Maxwell Stuart, who now runs extreme fishing expeditions, as he realised his vision to do “something really off the beaten track” after purchasing a graveyard site in London.

Stuart’s plan was to convert a neo-Gothic cemetery keeper’s lodge and the derelict public toilets next door into a dramatic, modern home within the cemetery gates.

Kevin McCloud and the property owner Justin Maxwell Stuart. (Channel 4)

Having forked out £1.8m on the graveyard site, Maxwell Stuart budgeted a further £1.6m for building works, although projections later came back at £4m.

Eventually, he settled on a building contract worth £2.1m, with total costs coming in at a whopping £4.5m.

“In my mind is an enormous amount of fear and terror that I’m heading down a catastrophic financial black hole,” Maxwell Stuart exclaimed at one point during the episode.