Architecture & interiors in Nantwich
Nantwich holds one of the North West’s best collections of timber-framed townhouses, rebuilt in a burst after the great fire of 1583. I work with owners of the town’s historic houses and the farmhouses of the surrounding dairy country.
The houses of Nantwich
Welsh Row and Hospital Street carry Elizabethan and Georgian listed houses in remarkable numbers; the countryside toward Audlem and Wrenbury adds moated granges, farmhouses and village houses. Timber frames bring particular joys — and particular structural and thermal questions few designers relish. This practice does.
A design note for Nantwich
Timber-framed houses move, breathe and forgive — if the design works with the frame. Kitchens and bathrooms, the heaviest modern insertions, need placing where the frame welcomes them; that placement decision is the whole project.
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 Nantwich and the surrounding villages — there is no shopfront to visit; I come to the house, which is where the answers are.

Who handles structural questions in a timber frame?
I design with structural engineers experienced in historic frames — the design and the structure are decided together, never in sequence.
Are modern comforts possible in an Elizabethan house?
Comfort, yes; carelessness, no. Heating, insulation and services all have frame-friendly answers, chosen building by building.
