Architect & interior designer in Tarporley

The houses of Tarporley

The high street’s listed brick houses hide long plots; the surrounding lanes carry Cheshire-brick farmhouses, converted barns and twentieth-century country houses in serious grounds, many with stables, yards and outbuildings that the main house has never quite embraced.

A design note for Tarporley

Country properties here are usually estates in miniature — house, barn, yard — designed by accident. The rewarding work is composing them: deciding what each building is for, and letting the house borrow light, view and logic from its own yard.

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 Tarporley 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.