Architecture & interiors in Malpas

In the quiet hills of south-west Cheshire, Malpas and its borderland villages carry rectories, farmhouses and village houses of real quality — far from the Golden Triangle’s noise, and often better for it. I work throughout this border country.

The houses of Malpas

The village core around the church holds Georgian brick and older timber; the surrounding countryside toward the Welsh border and Bickerton hills is scattered with former rectories, sandstone farmhouses and estate cottages, many little altered — which means original character survives, and so do original inconveniences.

A design note for Malpas

Little-altered houses are the best briefs: nothing to undo. The discipline is restraint — new services, warmth and one or two decisive spatial moves, leaving the house’s accumulated character to do what a century of taste already perfected.

How I can help here

Whole-house thinking first, always: architecture, interior design and architecture & interior design combined as one appointment, with a free first conversation and a £595 consultation as the intelligent first steps and buyers advice before you commit to a purchase. I work with homeowners in Malpas and the surrounding villages — there is no shopfront to visit; I come to the house, which is where the answers are.