Architect & interior designer in Much Wenlock

The houses of Much Wenlock

Medieval burgage plots, the priory’s legacy, limestone and timber frames: Wenlock houses are often deep, low and dark by modern taste, with thick walls and small openings that resist casual alteration. The surrounding Edge carries farmhouses and quarry-era cottages with their own robust character.

A design note for Much Wenlock

In thick-walled limestone houses, light is the project: window reveals, internal openings, and the disciplined use of glazed doors can transform rooms that a conventional extension would only bypass. Build last; borrow light first.

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 Much Wenlock 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.