Inside Richard Hammond’s timeless private clubhouse!
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You may have seen snippets of it in past videos, but Richard now gives us a full tour of his private barn/clubhouse that has been a project of his for the past few years. Predictably, motorbikes have started to invade the space!
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‘ery noice.
Just about perfect lair.
Absolutely have a model railway. But Richard should have the choice of what trains run on it >:D
Tell Mike to build his own clubhouse / 'man cave' for his toy trains. Or tell him to go & pester James May as he loves children's toys & has a train set-up. Your space is for your grown ups boys toys 😁
air bnb hammond?
My dad sold you the katana 1000 a few years ago. He was so smug to tell us all that you were buying it. It’s so nice to see it as almost a centre piece to your room. He passed in Nov 2021 and absolutely adored the GSX series. Especially the katanas. He would be over the moon to see it on here
Thanks for sharing this, mate. Lovely to hear but extremely sorry for your loss. ❤️
your dad had a beautiful taste, I am sorry for your loss, may you always remember him and everything he stood for. Kind regards mate
Source: Trust me bro
@@ojdubz2grow up
@@ojdubz2 what was the point in this
I just love how he keeps some of the items from his top gear days like those gt3 oven mitts that Jeremy gave him
whas that wooden boat model the 1 they game him in the philipines?
@@bobedwards8896 Nah, it's not even a sailboat.
@@bobedwards8896 you mean vietnam special, where they use motorcycles.
The boat is from the start of his and Jeremy's best trip without James may it started in that boat in Venice
I was Grand Tour Paramedic on the set. Richard was kind, friendly, informative fellow.
How many times did you have to extracate Richard from a burning vehicle? 😂 On another note, thanks for saving peoples’ lives. That’s an honorable profession.
Liar
Managed to stay pretty busy then, eh?
@@bigdog2432 how do you know?
@@ammarisrar2005 I can smell bs
I enjoy the idea that Richard's spaces are constantly being invaded by sentient motorcycles. Like, imagine he's at work and we cut to security camera footage of his barn here; a lone wild motorcycle peeks into the barn through an open door, then cautiously enters, followed by another wild motorcycle, then another, then another, and they start wandering about, checking out their new home, then Hammond returns home to find a new herd of wild motorcycles have moved in.
lame joke
@@user-ud3ce9vr2c Actually it sounds very much like something Terry Pratchett would have written which works for me.
respect to dufenshmirts
This guy’s a natural narrator, he should do a tv show or something.
not sure If he can get further than KZhead, he'd never make it on the telly box :)
@@SoSimonSays Yes, I mean not without a slow captain and a grumpy farm boy.
I mean obviously he would need years to get into a tv show, he's just starting up!
Drain the hot tub / pool (to get rid of the moisture) and have a carpenter build you a sectioned cover for it (so that it can be put in / taken out in pieces) and a ramp (maybe one which is movable). Then put the bikes on it, as if it were a short plinth or just a raised display area. You could even have him build in uplighting like you have in the main barn, with each section having a plug, rather than being hardwired into the building. Easily reversible if you ever want and the only cost would be to build the covers.
My thought as well. Just cover with some nice decking. If you used that manufactured wood you wouldn’t even need to drain it for worries of moisture. Maybe rust though. If chlorine
I could see how the moisture would be a problem but how cool would it be to leave the water and then make a clear platform with LEDs lighting up the pool to illuminate the bikes from underneath.
Display for favorite bike at that time. :)
Absolutely, a glass floor over the water and having it lit from the water with bikes or potentially cars but might be too heavy and too big, but it would look amazing. Plus like said it can be reversible and will help resale value. 🎉😊
he's spent his whole life being destructive and wasteful, why stop now....
Loved the tour. For the swim spa, how about draining the water, put some protective coverings and then build the model train room there. You could use the depth of the pool to create a "valley". Something like a swiss village and the back walls could be built like the mountains with tunnels and a small access way behind which could double as train storage on vertical racks along the back wall "inside the mountain. Trains could be at all different heights allowing for multiple runs. Then turn the other room which would have been the train room in the the bike room. The swiss village would be a great concept for winter / holiday times when more people are inside.
This is such a clever idea to make use of the space (if you must have a train set) whilst retaining the Spa should the family ever decide to re-use in years to come …
...or have the model railway suspended from the ceiling in this room and if you ever going to use the pool again, you could use a pully to lift the "railway table". Maybe combine it to be a trick cover for the pool as well.
That’s a fantastic idea! Especially cuz I want him to keep the messanine for art and music
This is brilliant.
It’s a great idea but it’s too James May-ish 😂😂
Richard is such a creative guy. Great to see his passion in this clubhouse. I have just finished watching The Grand Tour Season 5, and had such great fun!
It's so kind of Hammond to be housing all the stray motorcycles :)
The choice was between stray cats and stray motorcycyles. He chose wisely.
Even have motorcycle food bowls with oil set out under\for them xD
@@Nicmadis Only the British ones! ;) (Goes and checks the drip trays on my BSA's)...
it´s so selfless of him to give them shelter
@John Jones I am editing this, as I now get it hahaha! You had a dealer say that to you years ago! Ok, now I get it! Its true though! I am trying to make mine oil tight, and its proving to be elusive!
My jaw dropped when I saw the GT3 branded oven cloves. My life flashed thru my eyes literally all the memories all the long challenges, the christmas specials like Botswana, Bolivia, Source of the Nile, Iraq, India, all the tours in eurooe, Ukraine, Romania, Albania, Spain, Vietnam, all the challenges like saving Hammond in Canada, Lorries, 1970s convertibles, hot hatches, etc etc. I am speechless. It is all coming back to me.
never thought I’d feel this way seeing a burnt mitten.
Same
For the indoor spa/pool, a potentially neat idea would be to make it into a fish pond that is covered except for the ends with a thick glass or acrylic. Motorcycles that spontaneously appear can be displayed on top of the glass.
This is an absolutely beautiful design and it looks amazing. I would love to see more videos of you guys doing work in the clubhouse!
Yes a model railway with James May and Mike coming with the crew to make content for What Next.
hamster will be amused for a day and then start plotting to accidently blow it up ok the latter maybe is more like clarksons role but still he might secretly engage him to do it for him.
Yes build a model railway but don't let Richard put coins on the line in tunnels so you don't notice to derail the trains or something 😂😂
@@CustomiZe_ A Scalextric track surely!
It just needs to be made.. functional. So a large enough gauge to carry freight. Then track side "water" towers that the old steam locos used, except these may smell strangely of gin. Wagons could carry flagons, but not to scale. Unless you were planning on pickling an entire village. Other wagons could carry dry goods from convenient silos. Like nuts, M&Ms etc. Log haulers could carry a selection of sausages, and if the topology allows, a small dumb waiter down to the kitchen for delivery of burgers, hot dogs etc. Some model railway enthusiast somewhere on the web probably already has a suitable control/signalling system to manage snack & beverage delivery or there's always James. And possibly a few videos to be made from the construction and testing.. Might need to make sure any bar stools at the stations aren't able to transfer guests from mezzanine to ground floor, should they become gravitationally challenged. Or fit seatbelts.
James + Mike + Model railway, i dont care if the video is an hour long, i will watch it!
If the model railway features a Jag pulling several Caravans, then absolutely yes!
And the caboose on fire!! 😂
yasssss
😂😂 definitely
That ZXR-750 is absolutely amazing. That model's from 1991, I'm more of a fan of the 1993-1995 ones where the air intake pipes were removed. It looks sleeker to me and I'm obsessed with it. Richard's got an amazing bike and car collection and he's got quite a nice clubhouse (not man's cave) ;) Richard, promise me you'll keep that bike forever!
I’m in total envy of your barn, especially love the style from the outside. Beautiful
What a place. You know you’ve done alright when your “clubhouse” is bigger than most actual houses.
The world needs communism 😅
@@doubleL_S Ask the ex-Soviets how that worked out, lol!
@@illuminati955 communism comes after capitalism.
@@doubleL_S ...have you even read marx, lol. communism is the end stage of socialism, when the state has withered away - it is naturally and dialectically opposed to capitalism
@@illuminati955 but it first needs many years of capitalism to succeed and be sustainable. I.e the middle class gets robbed and moved into the lower classes.
It's great to see that Hammond still uses his GT3 branded driving gloves 👏
Congratulations Richard and crew for having "Richard Hammonds Workshop" renewed for a 3rd season, I can not wait to see it.
Everything so classy and tasteful. Not to mention the amazing collection of dream bikes
I must say Hammond has one of the nicest properties/houses I have ever seen
Yep - totally agree. His taste is very similar to mine (except he has the wherewithal to realise his dreams haha).
It's actually Bollitree Castle in Ross-on-Wye, Wales. Look it up. Since it's protected, he and Mindy had to get special permission to do much of the work.
@@soulcornflake1 probably why it’s taken 15 years
Can I just say I love the Doofenshmirtz on the barn wall. Great taste!
Ooh get you knowing art
A pleasant surprise, but a welcome one.
Hammond appeared on Phineas and Ferb, makes sense the favor would be returned
If I had a nickel for every time Doofenschmirtz and Hammond were both in what I was watching I would have 2 nickels, which isn’t a lot but it is weird it happened twice
Been scrolling a while looking for this comment😂
Thank you for sharing your home with me. It was wonderful what I like about you. You get to the point many others talk about themselves and what they did last week instead of getting to the point you do a great job. Thank you for sharing love the videos.
I love how relateable Richard Hammond is. He has given me great ideas for my 2 bedroom rental.
A man cave bigger and more kitted out than any house im ever going to live in. Fair play to him, and the bikes 😍
Absolutely, if you could you would fair play to him.
You can tell how grateful and proud he is of the barn but while still remaining humble, fully deserved for being one of Britain's best TV entertainers for decades! That kawasaki is beautiful! Staiano bike shop is still going strong in Harrogate cool that he gave a shoutout
Humble is not a word I would use to describe him.
@@NoName-ql1wk you should listen to the diary of a ceo podcast with Richard as the guest :)
Mate of you think that is what humble looks like...
Gorgeous and tasteful update of a classic structure. Also, many of my car friends also have model railroads, including me, so you definitely need to allocate some space for one, which also needs to be a 'no bike zone', lol. Again, well done!
Spectacular! Love the huge wood beams and the industial combination. Well spec'd. -From Florida
I will always love everything about those 3 guys.
Go give them a head
Richard has never taken it for granted about his career. He is still grounded and that is why he is so loved.
what a load of ..... he knows full well what he has through acting the way he does! as for loved hahahaha wake up and smell the money lol
You think?
This is a joke, right?
Sycophant.
He's excited about his home and happy to show it. Bravo, so he should, it's very very cool.
Both Mike and James should be allowed to build a massive model train display.🎉🎉🎉
Wow, the concept of a private clubhouse, especially one associated with Richard Hammond, sounds like an incredible space for creativity and relaxation! A clubhouse often reflects a person's interests and passions, serving as a sanctuary where they can unwind and enjoy their hobbies. It's wonderful to think about the unique memorabilia and personal touches that could be found in such a place. The idea of a timeless private clubhouse really sparks the imagination about the history, stories, and experiences that might be shared in such a cozy and personal setting! 🏠✨
The model railway is a great idea! Choosing the type sounds like a task for Captain Slowly.
scalextric would be much more fun
@@bensaunders1567 Agree, but if there has to be a railway then the scalextric needs to run in and around the railway setup.
I know that this is not gonna happen, but Fernie's model railroad sounds like a kind of perfect idea for the architectural piece in the library. He could make it look like a mountain or something, and then have the tracks go in and around and over it as a sort of futuristic-ish idea of trains. OOH. You could also have cable cars! Once complete, you encase it in a big acrylic (or glass if you'd rather) display case, with controls somewhere on it to operate various trains/cars/? Livin' vicariously through y'all's projects don'tcha know. :)
A big Scalextric track would fit better imo!
He has a room full of motorcycles that take up all the place but at at the same time he made a little table that rises so it wont take up any place. I love it 🙂
+1 to see Mike build model railway. I think something based on his Scottish roots would be fitting. Maybe a replica or influence to the route from Fort William to Mallaig which could also include the Glenfinnan Viaduct. Would compliment that space aesthetically too and would also be an enjoyable watch.
You sir, are a genius. Should have the Hogwarts Express train on the set
What i find most refreshing about this is that they've lived there for 15 years and it's still an ongoing project with a skip outside the window. I don't feel so bad now about my unpainted skirting boards (5 years and counting)! As for the unused pool/spa thing, get Hadrian to use a few more of those RSJs to put a raised floor over the top of it so it can be used for bikes, but removed in the future.
A house and outbuildings that size would take me two lifetimes especially with all the toys in it .
The model railway could probably use a flying Scotsman with realistic chuffing sound.
1:14 That has got to be the best rail idea I have ever seen, and it had been built perfectly!
The Top Gear studio from the 2000s had them.
The villain cartoons on the wall are amazing!
amazed he still has the gt3 oven gloves from the old top gear days
Exactly, surprised not many comments about it too
That’s my grandads old house. Please keep his pool . X ❤Love what you’ve done with the Barn.
The hand rail up on the mezanine is absolute GENIUS!! 1:12 I've never seen anything like that!.......ABSOLUTE GENIUS!!! If I ever have the opportunity to do something like that in my own house I certainly will!! Amazing Idea!!
What a lovely clubhouse! Hope you manage to chill often. The pool can be emptied and a solid cover/stage erected to show off your favourite bikes. The fly infested tree reminds me of my childhood eating those yellow fruit in my grandparents garden. Very sweet when ripe. Please don’t chop it. Thanks for sharing.
No words. That place is astonishing. That view in the window was amazing too. I wish he wouldve shown us the garden
The whole time I was watching I was thinking wow this is fantastic but a model railway would really complete it, then you brought it so YES, absolutely build a model railway there!
With a transportation system for gin like James may has
@@fatmunch6318 I was just thinking May would be over to supervise.
would be nice to incorporate a slot car race track into it for fun.
What I'd do with that table is weld a small pin in the top of the pole and as you have it on the bottom. Cut in a horizontal groove to vertical hook. That way what you does lift the table up then twist till it catches the pin in the hook witch will hold it for you to put pin in to secure.
Loved the tour, great multipurpose spread. Regarding the pool, turn the room into a greenhouse, fill the pool with dirt and plant it.
Mike deserves any model railway he wants
Yes, and Hammond can invite James May to play with the train set. That would be a treat! 💯
@@FLAMABBLEMay would find something not to like about it.
Truly an inspiration with such dedication to work and meetings. Personally I think he could have had a few meetings while he showed us round
Wow!.loving your club house Richard.
As for the pool quandary, just build a floor over the top of it. And blend it with a slight ramp or a step or two going up to spot specifically designed to spotlight your nicest bikes.
That's mental! I remember when Hammond was walking around the dilapidated barn. Such progress.
10:54 Holy smokes, what a picture! Giving me goosebumps. Am I the only one who truly enjoys just looking at it? I love that picture. Amazing!
+1 .. Hammond living large... More power to him !! .. Understated elegance, yeah man..
You could add a false floor on top of the spa area rather than cutting it. And maybe put a ramp where the door is so you can easily move the bikes in-between rooms.
let the bike sneaking in & out🤭
Would love to see a vintage 3-rail Hornby Dublo build series from you and Mike, maybe with James May’s occasional engineering input and a wave of his fibreglass pencil!
Love the drip trays under the older bikes ❤ Dang Mr H, that's a fine bike collection.
That's a gorgeous barn!!!
Love the "barn." What an exceptional collection of Motorcycles. I can only imagine that if any more magically appear, they'll be as equally impressive... Thanks for the tour...
Ahhh Hammond! I do miss watching you three on the telly regularly! Love the barn & the bikes!! 😎👊🏼
I love the bikes appearing from nowhere! As for the flies and gnats try a bowl of water with citrus dish detergent in it. Place that on the top of the planter and change it every so often.
I love it when he goes it’s a clubhouse for the first time, kind of reminds me of the old caravan bank holiday special. Where he goes this is the clubhouse with the darts board
Looks incredible!! I saw a few bikes from Richard’s collection in a lovely family owned motorcycle centre. The 5 valve was special, KR1S and 916 but the GSXR1100 I have a deep soft spot for! Really nostalgic and a lovely family who run the shop who are hugely passionate about what they do!
But haven’t mentioned their name lol.
@@mattmorris2867 sorry I think it was Lucas Motor Cycles in Ross on Wye.
That’s really impressive. I am amazed on how much time Richard Hammond and his crew put into that Barn/clubhouse.
You seriously believe he went anywhere near a toolkit?😂
This is proffesionaly renovated, he might have pushed a bike into place but I even doubt it. He says 15 years into the making, this thing in this state is a month or two for a professional. It's big, so maybe a bit more but that's it. There is not that much decorum, really they did not spent that much time in this place. It's so "new" there is even paint on the floor in the rooms corridor mate (look at 9:45). There are visible cut cables in some places ... Don't believe everything they say x) Might takes 15 years yeah, but because he's too busy doing things everywhere but certainly not time to actually DO this place.
Why? They keep getting sacked. They have lots of time
Yes! Get that model railway built. Lovely ZXR, I used to have a red H1, great looking bike! 😁
That is arguably one of the most enviable club houses I've seen. Mr Hammond truly sounds like the sort of lad I'd be chuffed to bits to do a motorcycle trip with. I tried to pitch the idea to Ewan McGregor about circumnavigating the globe on a motorbike but I suppose he wasn't interested. Could do a @Drivetribe series, "Around the World in Eighty Days" or something like that.
Nice clubhouse! When you asked about the train, my wife's suggestion was to drain the lap-pool thing, install some lifts, and locate the train on a sturdy surface that can be raised and lowered, thus installing the rail set AND hiding the pool (without having to demolish it). She also added, make it *really* expensive. A bit snarky, that one. My suggestion would be to put it on the mezz, but have it be lowered in/out from the ceiling. That way it's out of sight when not in play. Lower it down, play engineer for an hour, raise it back up out of the way.
Really loved this tour episode, thanks for showing us around. Would love to see more of the buildings and maybe a review of the four wheeled vehicles in the collection. Looking in great shape too, hope it's not from the stress of the Smallest Cog. 😂
Well now we need your wife’s ghost stories!
That's a beautiful place! The downstairs -bar- kitchen island looks like a great place for a nice civilised drink
Hi Richard, thanks for the tour. As for a way to get around your swim spa without extensive demolition and dealing with a large void left behind, I think I have an idea. Have a welder fabricate a platform that fits over the spa. If your spa has built in lighting you could have the floor made out of slotted steel, so that lighting from inside the spa can be seen from the top. Or finish the floor with a solid surface. Then have a simple 1 meter wide ramp cast to allow your bikes up to the platform.
That was my thinking, give the bikes a stage to sneak onto
Yeah I was thinking build a frame/solid pool cover strong enough to keep a few bikes on top.
thank you for keeping our hopes up in these hard times, to inspire us petrol-heads, and for sharing what most of men would dream to have someday... cheers!
Pretty astounding example of a soulless space.
build a raised deck over the the hot tub which has removable sections where the tub is. store your bikes on top like a raised museum. then if and when you want to use the tub, move the bikes out and lift the hatches !
Excellent show. Thank you for the amazing tour of your clubhouse. I would suggest you keep the pool but cover it with a clear floor panel like glass or clear acrylic. This will allow you to use the floor space and keep the pool if required in future. Also moving water below glass enhances the visual experience.
Put fish in the pool. Maybe piranhas.
Very cool collection 👍 Love the style and the stories that go with everything!
For the first time in my 49 year old life I wish I liked cars and motorbikes more…. That’s an amazing space to show off to your mates 👍🏻
10:25 Oh wow he still has the Galleon from the Vietnam Special 😃.
Strange you mentioned a model railway. It's what came to mind for somewhere for May to play and with that amazing view it would be ace.
I absolutely agree with the clean and drain the spa. Then have a platform built with a movable ramp to put bikes on it. Leaving the path to the next door open.
That’s just on another level. Most of us aspire to have a shed in the back garden as a “clubhouse”
What a spectacular building, Richard. So chuffed you have invested your earnings so wonderfully to enrich your life.
Richard, you should know that somewhere, in the bowels of a Honda warehouse is a set of pipes for the CBX that make it sound like an F4 Phantom at takeoff chat. They exist, I promise you. Find them, borrow them and take it for a squirt up the road.
The scale model inspired railings are one of the coolest pieces of functional decor I have ever seen.
Have you seen the railings at his restoration shop, The Smallest Cog?
The triangular roof structure look like a perfect ramp for two bikes mounted face to face.. Two classics would make a nice centerpiece..
You can put the “massive” table for your train set over the exposed beam on the area leading up to the guest rooms and mezzanine, should be a great showpiece for friends and relatives. Enjoyed the video!
That's a gorgeous space and I love all the bikes in it, and indeed would like to see more bike content generally on DT. Regarding the pool, just drain it and build a decking over it for now, make use of the space without doing any drastic decisions like destroying it. As for the trainset, ehhh. Model trains are cool, but he can put it in his own home. Unless you'd be actually keen on it and play with it yourself, that would be a really big use of your space that could be better utilised.
Make a wooden cover, in sections (think large dining table with leaves to make it longer) to span over the spa (you would of course drain it and dry it completely)to create a display platform, just like you would see at a car show. The underside would have foam so it could rest on the edges of the spa for support. If done right, and out of a nice strong wood like oak, it could support a lot of weight. You may have create some kind of center supports, wrapped in some soft material for mid span support/strength. When assembled (it would take two guys to handle each piece)and in place, you could put the best/most rare bikes up on there…..creating a very cool “motor show” vibe….with the spa hiding underneath for future use! “You’re welcome”CB from California 😁👍
Funny thing, I showed my wife this video and she HATED the part about bikes turning up. So in house floor plans I’ve drawn I’ll put bikes in rooms. I have a motocross bike fully fitted with all the go fast and shine parts, I have been slowly moving it from the garage, to the back screened in room, and closer to the living room. No joke a little while later I was given a perfectly functioning motorcycle (2012 Honda nc700x) for FREE from a friend of mines coworker. It is 100% true motorcycles just have a way of turning up. Can’t wait for the next one to appear, hopefully a thruxton 🤞
That "clubhouse" is nothing short of awesome!!! I want it!!!!
Wait so just to reiterate: This is his Barn?
One of his barns ;)
Hey Richard, yes mate a model train built in that room would be really nice and I think a vintage one would look real nice
Seeing the Porsche oven gloves at 4:37 which Jeremy have to Richard on top gear just melted my heart
Ohh that ZXR-750😍 Ive had 2 of those, awesome bikes!
Your clubhouse is bigger than my house! It's absolutely fantastic - looks great.
Unfortunately, we live in the 'Age of the Fool' where anybody involved in 'entertainment' is paid vastly more than their worth and contribution to society..........
That would make an awesome indoor garden :) the pool that is
Advice for lap pool/ bike storage. A Murphy bed style Floor that folds down and covers the pool. Then park bikes on top. If the need for a swim occurs...roll off the bikes, flip of the floor with gas struts down and presto, multiuse space.
For the dis-used pool...what if you make a frame that slots inside it, fill it with lighting of your colour choice, and cover it in a thick piece of plexiglass or something similar that won't scratch easily and can bare the weight of the bikes? Imagine it, you do that and design a ramp and trim pieces so that there's no real evidence of it being a pool, and at nightime you'll have this showroom - esque area that is lighting the bikes up from underneath and really showing off their curves and features!