Penrith, Cumbria

Kitchens and fitted furniture in Penrith.

Made at our workshop in Dalston and fitted by our own men. Carrfoot Lodge at Mansergh, February 2024.

Kitchen at Carrfoot Lodge, Mansergh, with arched windows, a white island and turned wooden stools — Kitchen, Mansergh. Fitted February 2024.

The houses here

What Penrith is actually built of.

Penrith is red sandstone and the Eden Valley behind it is farmhouses, stone barns and a steady run of conversions. The barn work is the interesting part: a converted agricultural building usually gives you height, exposed trusses and a very large open room, and then no two walls that meet at a right angle. Standard units in a room like that leave gaps you can put your hand in.

The Eden Valley conversions tend to want one long run and an island, because the room is big enough to need a working centre. An island is also the piece where making it ourselves shows most plainly: it can be any length the room wants, it can carry a table on the end of it, and it does not have to be assembled out of two standard boxes and a filler panel.

OUR OWN JOB · MANSERGHThwaite Holme · Lingey Close · Dalston

carcass: Birch ply, lipped
front: Hand-painted in-frame
island: White, hand-painted on site
worktop: Stone
floor: Oak by others

Made at: Dalston
Fitted by: Our own men
Room in: Mansergh
Fitted: February 2024

What we make

Any room in the house.

01Bespoke kitchens in PenrithMade in our own workshop at Dalston, and fitted by our own men.See the work 02Fitted bedrooms and wardrobes in PenrithWardrobes 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 Penrith

Do you fit kitchens in barn conversions near Penrith?

Yes, and they are some of the best rooms to work in. A conversion usually has the height and the space, and what it does not have is a straight wall, so the furniture has to be drawn to the building. We measure it, draw it and make it to that drawing.

Can you make an island long enough for a room that size?

We can make it whatever length the room wants, because we build the carcasses. An island is not limited to the sizes a supplier happens to stock, and it can carry a breakfast table built into the end of it if that suits how the room is used.

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