Before their shock split, Amanda Owen and Clive Owen purchased a rundown cottage near their tenanted farm in the Yorkshire Dales, Ravenseat. The pair, who were married for 22 years and share nine children, applied to renovate the Grade II listed building way back in 2020.
Despite their break-up, the former couple continue to work together—raising their brood and bringing the farmhouse, known as Anty Johns to locals, to life. Their efforts are currently the subject of Our Farm Next Door: Amanda, Clive and Kids.
The subsequent spin-off to Channel 5’s Our Yorkshire Farm and Reuben: Life in the Dales, sees The Yorkshire Shepherdess, farmer Clive, and a host of friends working to bring the dilapidated building to life.
Work on the property has been slow and steady in the five years since the project was taken on. Fans however have been kept in the loop, both with Our Farm Next Door and Amanda’s flourishing Instagram pages.
Below, we’ve cultivated some of the best snaps taken during the Anty Johns renovation period. These include the family resetting the roof, turning the electricity on for the first time, and smiling alongside their cottage conversion.
Amanda has previously admitted that she feels ‘helpless’ with the ongoing renovations, remarking there’s not actually a lot she “can do” to help.
"We come back and it's like, 'What's been done? A few more slate [roof tiles]’,” she said in October 2024.
"I'm getting messages from electricians and heating engineers and, of course, Phillip the joiner. They want to know [when they can start]. I need it to move in," she said at the time.
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Amanda has previously explained that she sees the Grade II listed property as “a very solid foundation for something for the children.”
In an interview with BBC Radio York, she said she currently has no idea who is going to move into the home, situated in the Swaledale parish of Muker, a short distance from the Ravenseat sheep farm.
“I have plenty of people who are vying to move in,” the mother-of-nine added.
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