Architect & interior designer in Shifnal

The houses of Shifnal

Fire rebuilt much of Shifnal in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, leaving a compact centre of Georgian brick and older timber survivals, ringed by twentieth-century growth and estate farmland dotted with substantial farmhouses and former estate houses.

Where the value usually sits in Shifnal

Georgian town plans are disciplined — and that discipline is the design opportunity. Respect the room hierarchy at the front, and concentrate change where these houses always changed: the rear service range, which is usually ready to become the kitchen the house never had.

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 Shifnal 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.