Janet Street-Porter now lives in Norfolk in "a ramshackle house miles from a road, surrounded by water, hares, marsh deer and free roaming cattle", as she revealed in her column for The Independent.

In 1997, however, she and her architect friend Piers Gough designed Janet's dream "representation of a medieval castle" in Clerkenwell, London. The statement design was highly controversial, with a blue roof and abstract shaped windows, which Piers described as a "portrait" of Janet's outspoken TV personality.