Architect & interior designer in Ellesmere

The houses of Ellesmere

The town centre carries handsome Georgian and Victorian brick; around the meres and toward the Welsh border sit farmhouses, granges and twentieth-century houses on generous plots whose best asset — the outlook — is often squandered by their plan.

What is worth doing first in Ellesmere

Waterside and big-plot houses here usually need re-orienting more than enlarging: moving living space to the garden side, opening a gable, and letting the working rooms take the road side. The glazed gable extension in the project library shows how deliberate that move should be.

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 Ellesmere 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.