Percy Houfton

He started work for his older cousin, J. P Houfton at the Bolsover and Creswell Colliery Company.

[1] After designing Creswell Model Village for the colliery company in 1895, he turned to architecture and opened his own practice in Chesterfield in 1898.

[1] In 1905 he was awarded a prize of £100 for producing the best cottage at Letchworth Garden City.

[5] He had obituaries in He was born in 1873 in Alfreton, Derbyshire, the son of Elijah Houfton (1832-1908) and Elizabeth Bond (1842-1937).

Percy was educated at St Mary's House School in Chesterfield.