Architect & interior designer in Church Stretton

The houses of Church Stretton

“Little Switzerland” grew as an Edwardian health resort, and it shows: generous villas and Arts-and-Crafts houses with verandas and bay windows on the hill roads, alongside older cottages and farmhouses in the Stretton valley. Many houses face the view but turn their plans away from the sun; many have accreted extensions that never resolved into one home.

A design note for Church Stretton

Hill-town houses reward sectional thinking — half-levels, landings and roof volumes — more than footprint. A landing here can become a library with the best view in the house, which is exactly the kind of move I made in my own award-winning home.

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 Church Stretton 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.