Wigton, Cumbria

Kitchens and fitted furniture in Wigton.

Made at our workshop in Dalston and fitted by our own men. The Old Vicarage at Mealsgate, February 2023.

Kitchen at the Old Vicarage, Mealsgate, with a painted extractor canopy, sash windows and a scrubbed pine table — Kitchen, Mealsgate. Fitted February 2023.

The houses here

What Wigton is actually built of.

Wigton is the market town between us and the Solway, and its housing is mostly Georgian and Victorian around the centre with farms and smallholdings spread out across the plain behind it. Farmhouse kitchens out this way tend to be large, cold, awkwardly shaped rooms with a range at one end and a door to the yard at the other, and they need furniture that accepts the shape of the room rather than arguing with it.

Boot rooms matter more here than almost anywhere else we work. A farmhouse back door takes mud, dogs, waterproofs and boots every day of the winter, and a proper boot room with a bench, a drying space and real storage changes how the whole house works. It is one of the jobs we are asked for most and one of the easiest to justify.

OUR OWN JOB · MEALSGATEThwaite Holme · Lingey Close · Dalston

carcass: Birch ply, lipped
front: Hand-painted in-frame
island: Central island
worktop: Stone
floor: Timber by others

Made at: Dalston
Fitted by: Our own men
Room in: Mealsgate
Fitted: February 2023

What we make

Any room in the house.

01Bespoke kitchens in WigtonMade in our own workshop at Dalston, and fitted by our own men.See the work 02Fitted bedrooms and wardrobes in WigtonWardrobes 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 Wigton

Do you fit kitchens in farmhouses around Wigton?

Regularly. Farmhouse kitchens are usually big rooms with an old range, a stone floor and walls that are not straight, and they are among the most satisfying rooms to make furniture for because nothing off a shelf fits them.

Can you build a boot room off the back door?

Yes, and on a working farm it is often the room that earns its money fastest. Bench, boot storage underneath, hooks and a drying space above, all in materials that will take being wet every day through the winter.

Nearby

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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