Tonight he travels to Scotland to catch up with Michael and Jenny Wilmer, who sold their family home in Buckinghamshire and bought a historic 600-year-old ruin near the fishing town of Kirkcudbright, which they planned to transform into a four-bedroom farmhouse.

However, building their dream home looked rather dicey from the start as the remains of the property lacked a roof, walls, plumbing and electricity.

The couple budgeted £90,000 on the rebuild but structural repairs alone cost £100,000, with a similar amount needed for the interior.

With spiralling costs and the sheer scale of work needed to get this project off the ground, Clarke is hoping the pair succeeded.