Architect & interior designer in Chester

The houses of Chester

Beyond the Rows and the walls, Chester’s residential wealth sits in Georgian terraces around Abbey Square and King Street, substantial Victorian and Edwardian villas in Curzon Park and Queen’s Park, and period houses through Handbridge toward the Duke of Westminster’s estate villages. Conservation areas are extensive; plans are generous but often chopped by a century of alteration.

Where the value usually sits in Chester

Curzon Park and Queen’s Park villas typically hold three reception rooms nobody uses and one kitchen everybody crowds. Rebalancing that equation — inside the existing envelope where possible — is the classic Chester project.

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 Chester 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.