Architect & interior designer in Macclesfield

The houses of Macclesfield

The silk industry left three-storey weavers’ houses with top-floor garret windows, handsome Georgian streets around St Michael’s, and Victorian villas toward the Peak side; Kerridge, Rainow and the fringe villages add stone cottages and farmhouses. Tall, narrow plans with vertical circulation set the design questions here.

What is worth doing first in Macclesfield

Vertical houses live or die by their stairs: where light enters, where the kitchen sits relative to the garden, whether the garret becomes the best room in the house. Macclesfield’s stock rewards sectional imagination more than any extension.

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 Macclesfield 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.