Carlisle, Cumbria

Kitchens and fitted furniture in Carlisle.

Made at our workshop in Dalston and fitted by our own men. Red Hall, August 2024, and a parquet-floored kitchen at Burgh by Sands, September 2025.

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Open-plan hand-painted kitchen at Burgh by Sands with a navy island, integrated wine store and a glazed dresser run over herringbone parquet — Kitchen, Burgh by Sands. Fitted September 2025.

The houses here

What Carlisle is actually built of.

Carlisle is a red sandstone city and the houses show it. Stanwix, Denton Holme and the terraces off Warwick Road went up between the 1870s and the 1900s. Tall ceilings. Chimney breasts still in place. Bay windows. Back walls that have moved a little in a hundred and fifty years. Add the interwar semis at Belah and Morton, and the newer estates at the city edges. Almost every kitchen we are asked to look at in Carlisle is a room a standard run of units will not fit without a fight.

We are four miles from the city. It is where most of our work comes from. A Victorian terrace usually wants the chimney breast worked around rather than ripped out, with a larder built into the alcove beside it. A 1930s semi usually wants the back wall opened up. Then the kitchen and the dining space become one room. That is a job for furniture drawn to the room, not bought in modules.

OUR OWN JOB · BURGH BY SANDSThwaite Holme · Lingey Close · Dalston

carcass: Birch ply, lipped
front: Hand-painted in-frame
island: Navy, hand-painted on site
worktop: Stone
floor: Herringbone parquet, laid by others

Made at: Dalston
Fitted by: Our own men
Room in: Burgh by Sands
Fitted: September 2025

What we make

Any room in the house.

01Bespoke kitchens in CarlisleMade in our own workshop at Dalston, and fitted by our own men.See the work 02Fitted bedrooms and wardrobes in CarlisleWardrobes cut to the wall you have, not the wall a catalogue assumed.See the work 03Boot rooms and utility roomsThe room that takes the weather, the dog and the washing.See the work 04Dressing roomsA spare bedroom turned into the room you get ready in.See the work 05Home offices and studiesDesk, shelves and cupboards built into the room as one piece of furniture.See the work 06Media walls and TV unitsThe television, the boxes and the cables, put away inside the joinery.See the work 07Kitchen islands and lardersThe two pieces people remember, and the two worth making properly.See the work 08Free-standing furnitureWhere Bob Postlethwaite started in 1972, and we still make it.See the work

Questions from Carlisle

Do you work on Victorian terraces in Carlisle?

Most weeks. A sandstone terrace off Warwick Road or in Denton Holme almost never has a square room in it. That is exactly what a made-to-measure carcass is for. We measure the room as it actually is, draw it, and cut the furniture to the drawing.

Can you work around a chimney breast?

Yes, and we would usually argue for keeping it. The alcove either side is the natural home for a larder on one side and tall storage on the other. Done that way it looks like it belongs to the house. Not like it was delivered to it.

How far is your showroom from the city centre?

We are at Lingey Close in Dalston, the village just south-west of Carlisle. There is parking on site. We are open Saturday mornings from 8am until 12, for people who cannot get out during the week.

Nearby

We cover the whole of this corner.

Talk to the workshop

The showroom is at Dalston.

01228 710085

Book a showroom visitor come in. No appointment needed to look round.

Lingey Close, Dalston, Carlisle, Cumbria, CA5 7LB. Parking on site.

Monday to Thursday: 8am – 5pm
Friday: 8am – 3.30pm
Saturday: 8am – 12pm
Sunday: Closed