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Architect & interior designer 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.

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Curved terracotta hallway
Period plans can take brave, respectful moves

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.

How these houses respond in Nantwich

Timber-framed houses move, breathe and forgive — provided the design works with the frame. The decisive question in Nantwich is where the heavy modern insertions, kitchens and bathrooms, can sit without fighting the structure; get that placement right and the rest of the project follows easily.

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 Nantwich 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.

Coverage · Nantwich and the surrounding villages
Planning authority · Cheshire East
Led by · Camilla Monk, architect & interior designer (ARB 076180J)
No local office · I visit the property — which is where the answers are
Recognition · Best Interior, Daily Telegraph Homebuilding & Renovating Awards 2020. Press & recognition →
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What I can help with

ArchitectureDetails

Remodelling, extensions where justified, planning and technical design. Read more →

Concept & FeasibilityDetails

£1,950 — measured survey, two or three layout options, one CGI visual and indicative cost bands. Credited against the full design fee if appointed. Read more →

Interior DesignDetails

Full-house walk-around and written report £595 · room moodboards £75 · Interiors & Specification £3,250. Read more →

Everything starts the same way: a free phone conversation about the house, after which I recommend the appropriate next step rather than the largest one. See how a project unfolds →

Questions from Nantwich owners
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.

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Other areas we serve near Nantwich

Audlem · Bunbury · Malpas · Holmes Chapel — or see all of Cheshire.

Worth reading before you start

Do you actually need an extension?
Where to spend and where to save
Renovating a period home without losing it

Planning a significant project in Nantwich?

My first conversation with you is free. You do not need a finished brief — an outline of the property and what is not working is enough.

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