Architect & interior designer in Goostrey

The houses of Goostrey

The village core carries brick cottages and a handful of older farmhouses; around it sit twentieth-century detached houses on generous plots, many now on their second or third round of improvement. The dairy country beyond has the low, long farm buildings typical of the Cheshire plain — often with more potential in the outbuildings than in another rear extension.

How these houses respond in Goostrey

One genuinely local consideration: the observatory means radio interference is a material planning matter in this area, and it pays to know that before specifying services and equipment. Beyond that, Goostrey houses tend to be wide and shallow — which makes borrowing light across the plan more valuable than pushing the back wall out.

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 Goostrey 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.