Longtown, Cumbria

Kitchens and fitted furniture in Longtown.

Made at our workshop in Dalston and fitted by our own men. We have worked across Cumbria from Lingey Close for 54 years.

Book a showroom visit 01228 710085

Cream in-frame kitchen at Red Hall with a plate rack, a range cooker and a pine table under the window — Made at Lingey Close, Dalston.

The houses here

What Longtown is actually built of.

Longtown sits on the Esk with the Scottish border a couple of miles further on, and it is a farming town more than anything else. The housing is a mix of older cottages on the main street, post-war housing behind it, and farms out towards the Solway and the Kershope forests. It is the sort of place where a kitchen is expected to last twenty years and take a hammering in the meantime.

We cross the border constantly, so a Longtown job and a job the other side of the line are the same job to us. Utility rooms and boot rooms come up as often as kitchens, because the houses out here take weather and livestock in through the back door all year.

What we make

Any room in the house.

01Bespoke kitchens in LongtownMade in our own workshop at Dalston, and fitted by our own men.See the work 02Fitted bedrooms and wardrobes in LongtownWardrobes 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 Longtown

Do you come out as far as Longtown?

Yes, and past it. We work across north Cumbria and into Dumfriesshire, so Longtown is comfortably inside the area we cover and on the way to a good deal of the rest of it.

What do you make for a working farmhouse?

Kitchens, but also the rooms around them: utility rooms with a deep sink and space for the machines, and boot rooms built to take wet coats and dirty boots without falling apart. Those rooms take more punishment than the kitchen does.

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