Who will live at Amanda Owen’s Anty John’s when it is finished?

Who is actually going to live there?

The centuries-old property close to the family’s famous Ravenseat Farm has become the centrepiece of More4 series Our Farm Next Door: Amanda, Clive and Kids.

Viewers have watched walls rebuilt, floors laid, electricity installed and rooms slowly take shape as the Owen family attempts to transform what was effectively a ruin into a modern home.

Anty John’s Aerial View (Image: CHANNEL 4)

But the project comes at an intriguing time for the family.

Amanda and Clive separated in 2022, and their eldest children have increasingly begun building lives of their own.

The nine Owen siblings now range from adults with careers to youngsters still growing up on the farm.

Despite all the work that has gone into Anty John’s, neither Amanda nor Clive has publicly confirmed exactly who will eventually make the farmhouse their permanent home.

Why did Amanda and Clive Owen buy Anty John’s?

Amanda and Clive bought Anty John’s in 2020, before announcing the end of their marriage two years later.

The farmhouse stands near Ravenseat in Upper Swaledale and had been abandoned for decades before the Owens began their ambitious restoration.

When Our Farm Next Door was originally commissioned, Channel 4 said the property had been bought to “plan for the family’s future”.

The series follows Amanda, Clive and their nine children as they work with local tradespeople to bring the building back to life while dealing with the difficulties of restoring a listed property in such a remote location.

It means the house has always been presented as more than simply a property development.

It is a project tied to the long-term future of the Owen family in Swaledale.

Exactly what that future looks like, however, has never been definitively revealed.

Will Amanda Owen live at Anty John’s?

It would be easy to assume Anty John’s is destined to become Amanda’s new home.

But that has not been officially confirmed.

Amanda continues to be closely involved with the renovation – and has made many of the decisions seen on Our Farm Next Door, from researching the property’s history to working out how its interior should look.

She described the restoration in 2025 as a huge undertaking and admitted she was often learning as she went along.

Asked when the project might finally be finished, Amanda compared it to painting the Forth Bridge and described putting the house back together as a seemingly never-ending process.

What she did not reveal was that she personally planned to move into it once the work was complete.

Will Clive Owen live there?

Similarly, no one has announced that Anty John’s will become Clive’s permanent home.

That question is particularly interesting because Amanda and Clive have continued to work remarkably closely since their separation.

When they announced the end of their marriage in 2022, the couple said they would continue working on the farm and co-parenting their children.

That arrangement subsequently extended to the renovation project and their return to television together.

Clive remains heavily involved with farming life and Anty John’s, while Our Farm Next Door continues to feature both him and Amanda alongside their family.

However, involvement in the restoration does not necessarily establish who will eventually occupy the building.

Could one of Amanda and Clive’s children live at Anty John’s?

This may ultimately be one of the most significant reasons Anty John’s matters to the Owens.

Amanda and Clive have nine children, Raven, Reuben, Miles, Edith, Violet, Sidney, Annas, Clementine and Nancy, and the property has repeatedly been described in connection with the family’s future.

The children are now at very different stages in their lives.

Older siblings Raven and Reuben have already begun establishing independent careers away from the day-to-day childhood viewers saw on Our Yorkshire Farm, while others remain much more closely involved with Ravenseat.

Our Farm Next Door itself has increasingly documented that transition.

The Royal Television Society, which is hosting a special event about the programme in Northallerton on September 30, said three years of filming had shown the Owen children change enormously and develop into “very different individuals”.

Anty John’s Front View (Image: CHANNEL 4)

It is therefore possible that Anty John’s could eventually provide a home for members of the next generation of the family.

But there has been no confirmed announcement identifying any particular Owen child as its future occupant.

How far has work on Anty John’s progressed?

The question has become increasingly relevant because Anty John’s is finally beginning to resemble a home.

The first stages of the restoration focused heavily on rescuing and securing the structure.

As the project progressed, attention turned towards the interior.

Channel 4 said the third and fourth series would follow the family after the exterior was finally completed as they embarked on the “huge interiors project”, including working out room layouts and installing plumbing and running water.

Viewers have since seen major milestones.

Episodes have followed the installation of floors and electrics, the underfloor heating being fired up and an antique fireplace being fitted.

The farmhouse has also had electric light for the first time as its transformation from an abandoned rural building into a functioning home gathers pace.

Yet there is still more to do.

Anty John’s has a history long before the Owens

The fascination surrounding the farmhouse is not purely about its future.

Amanda has also spent considerable time investigating its past.

The property is known locally as Anty John’s after former resident Anthony Clarkson, a Swaledale map-maker whose story has featured prominently in Our Farm Next Door.

Channel 4 has said Amanda’s research into Clarkson and the history of the property will continue alongside the renovation.

That historical element has helped make Anty John’s almost a character in its own right rather than simply the backdrop for another home-improvement programme.

So who will eventually live at Anty John’s?

For now, the most accurate answer is that the Owen family has not publicly confirmed who will permanently live at Anty John’s when it is finished.

Official descriptions have consistently said the property was purchased with the family’s future in mind and that it is being transformed into a modern home.

They have not said that it will specifically belong to Amanda, Clive or one of their nine children.

That unanswered question is likely to become increasingly prominent as the renovation approaches its final stages.

And viewers could soon learn more.

Our Farm Next Door is returning for a fourth series, while a special event at Everyman Northallerton on September 30, 2026, will feature an exclusive preview of what is coming next.

Three years into the transformation of Anty John’s, the building that began as an abandoned farmhouse is edging ever closer to becoming a home.

Who ultimately calls it home could prove to be one of the biggest remaining questions in the Owen family’s story.