Architect & interior designer in Mobberley

The houses of Mobberley

One of Cheshire’s largest parishes by lanes if not population, Mobberley’s stock is agricultural at heart — brick farmhouses, shippons and barns, joined by twentieth-century houses on paddock plots. Mud, dogs, boots and horses are design parameters here, not lifestyle photography.

What is worth doing first in Mobberley

Country houses run from the back door: boot room, utility, larder, dog shower — the unglamorous suite that decides whether the beautiful rooms stay beautiful. Designing that spine properly is the most valuable unfashionable work I do.

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 Mobberley 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.