Architect & interior designer in Alderley Edge

The houses of Alderley Edge

The village grew when the railway let Manchester’s wealth build country villas: gothic and Italianate houses on Macclesfield Road and the Edge’s wooded slopes, later joined by twentieth-century and contemporary rebuilds. Plots are generous, values are high, and the temptation to solve everything with more square footage is strong — and often wrong.

A design note for Alderley Edge

At Alderley values, a mis-planned extension is an expensive way to move a problem sideways. The better question is what the existing volume can do: these villas hold magnificent rooms hostage to poor circulation, and releasing them is where the value lives.

Architecture and interiors, decided together

The wall you move decides the joinery that fits against it; the window you add decides the colour that works beneath it. Because I design both, decisions in Alderley Edge houses get made once — plan, light, kitchen, storage, materials and lighting resolved as a single scheme rather than handed between an architect and a decorator six months apart.