'Amanda and Clive Owen take on tough farmhouse renovation to rival Grand Designs'

Renovating a ruined farmhouse with lots of character? Battling all weathers to plough on with the build? A marriage break up after 22 years? You would be forgiven for momentarily thinking you switched on an episode of Grand Designs, featuring Our Yorkshire Farm's Amanda Owen and her family.

More4's Our Farm Next Door: Amanda, Clive and the kids certainly has the building blocks of Grand Designs, one of Channel 4's most successful shows that has been on our screens for 25 years. Fans of Our Yorkshire Farm will be delighted to see the family united, despite the marriage break up.

Our Farm Next Door moves their story forward as the beloved family, who live at Ravenseat farm, have decided to renovate a rundown farmhouse known locally as Anty Johns.

Every time the floor plan comes up on screen, you half expect to hear the Grand Designs presenter Kevin McCloud's famous monologues or perhaps even see him coming up the dramatic landscape in the Yorkshire Dales to talk to the couple.

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Besides, you could count on McCloud to ask all the questions we want to know about their marriage being over. He never shies away from asking the difficult questions on-screen, especially when it comes to the budget.

While we don't know their budget or how much they expect it to cost (although people get this wrong on Grand Designs all the time), Amanda did say the project was going to be "heavy on the purse strings".

Where not a lot of progress is made in the first episode, you can see why Grand Designs builds are edited into their 47 minute slots (even if the builds have taken years and years which, let's be honest, they often do).

What makes the show an interesting choice is that it's a project the family have wanted to take on together after Amanda and Clive's 22-year marriage was destroyed by fame. They are putting themselves back in the limelight because they want to secure the new farm for their nine children as the family don't own Ravenseat, their home on Our Yorkshire Farm.

Our Farm Next Door puts their marriage under the microscope once again but it's clear, as farmers, they are incredibly resilient. They do take ownership of their own story though but their honesty makes them relatable.

Candidly, Amanda and Clive seize the opportunity to reflect on their split on their own terms and you can see it has been hard for them both. "Although we're still husband and wife, we are separate," Amanda said. "This last year has been incredibly hard in so many respects. But we've got through it."

Clive added: "Me and Mandy, we've had a strange few years. But we're now at a place where, although we're not actually together, we're still in business together, we still have kids together, which is a crazy situation but it's the most sensible thing for everybody to do."

Thanks to their nine children (Raven, Reuben, Miles, Edith, Violet, Sidney, Annas, Clementine and Nancy) and the farm renovation project, they are brought closer again and a different kind of companionship is formed.

The Yorkshire Shepherdess told the cameras: "It’s just what happened, just pressures and stresses but now we are kind of pulling back together again, because we kind of need to, because we’ve got a house to do up."

When things get tough, because they will renovating the farmhouse ruin on the exposed hill in the Yorkshire Dales, I'm pretty confident Amanda and Clive are up for the challenge.

Our Farm Next Door is streaming on Channel 4 now.