An oast house in Kent, a water tower and two Gothic churches for George Clarke
Banijay History spent the week working through season two of The Restoration Man, from episode six to episode twelve.
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18th-Century Ruin Saved From Collapse | The Restoration Man | Season 2 Episode 9
Banijay History handed its week to George Clarke. Fifteen uploads went up, and the ones viewers watched most all came from the second season of The Restoration Man, the series in which the architect follows people who take on derelict historic buildings and try to turn them into homes.
The titles read like a tour of British oddities. A hall described as silent for six hundred years. An abandoned Victorian railway water tower. A Gothic church, then a second Gothic Revival church whose owners, the title says, remortgaged everything to buy it. An ice house paired with modern glass. And, on Saturday, an oast house in Kent, one of the round-roofed kilns once used to dry hops.
That newest episode is the quickest starter of the run, with more than 4,000 views in its first eleven hours. The episodes before it each opened at a gentle, similar pace and then settled down, although the 18th-century ruin saved from collapse is still picking up more than a thousand views a day four days on, and it has the most views of the week's uploads so far. Its lone comment is a reminder that the series is a rerun on this channel: the season first aired on Channel 4.
Overall the channel ran a little below its usual daily pace, and its subscriber count held at just over a million. Among documentary channels of similar size it gained the fourth most views of the week, about 1.3 million, a little ahead of Odyssey and well behind RocaNews and Channel 4 Documentaries.
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- Channel
- Banijay History
- Subscribers
- 1,040,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 1,279,102
- Videos published this week
- 15
- Video published
- September 30, 2026
- Video views so far
- 6,813
- Views on its first day
- 3,666
The numbers
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Oast houses, like the one in Kent restored this week, were built to dry which crop?
Oast houses are kilns built to dry hops for brewing, and Kent was the heart of England's hop-growing country.
