Thwaite Holme
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Brampton, Cumbria

Bespoke kitchens in Brampton

Made at Lingey Close in Dalston and fitted by our own men.

Barn conversion kitchen near Bassenthwaite under an exposed king-post truss, with a navy island and pale in-frame cabinets
Made at Lingey Close, Dalston.

The houses here

Why a standard one will not fit.

Brampton is a sandstone market town with a cobbled square, sitting under the line of Hadrian's Wall. The houses in the middle are old and generally listed or in the conservation area, and the country around Talkin and Lanercost is farms and converted agricultural buildings. Both kinds of property have the same characteristic: the room dictates the furniture, not the other way round.

Conservation-area work needs furniture that suits the age of the building without pretending to be older than it is. Hand-painted in-frame cabinets in a quiet colour usually sit better in a Brampton town house than anything with a modern slab door, and a painted finish can be matched to what is already in the room.

We buy the timber, cut and machine the carcasses at Dalston, prime them in our own paint shop, hand-paint them on site in water-based eggshell, and fit them with our own fitting team. One firm, one drawing, one number to ring afterwards.

BESPOKE KITCHENS · SPECIFICATIONThwaite Holme · Lingey Close · Dalston
Carcass
Birch ply, cut and machined at Dalston, lipped
Doors
In-frame, made to the drawing for your room
Painted
Pre-primed in-house, hand-painted on site in water-based eggshell
Timber
Two-pack lacquer, satin, tough and maintenance free
Worktops
Quoted with the kitchen, chosen from the showroom displays
Appliances
Sinks, taps and appliances on display at Dalston
Made at
Dalston
Fitted by
Our own men
Trading since
1972
Drawings kept
Always

Brampton: the questions we get

Do you work on listed buildings around Brampton?

Yes. Free-standing and fitted furniture both have a place in an older building, and because we make everything ourselves we can work to whatever the building and any consent conditions require rather than to a catalogue of standard sizes.

Will a hand-painted kitchen suit an old sandstone house?

Usually better than anything else. Painted in-frame cabinets have the same lines as the joinery that would originally have been in the house, and the colour is chosen to sit with the stone rather than to stand out against it.

What is an in-frame kitchen, and why does it cost more?

In-frame means every door and drawer sits inside a face frame fixed to the carcass, the way a piece of furniture is made, rather than hanging on the front of a box. It takes more timber, more machining and far more accuracy, because the gap around each door has to be even the whole way round and it is visible.

It is also why a well-made in-frame kitchen still looks right in twenty years. There is a frame holding everything square.

Can you match a colour I have already chosen?

Yes. Painted work is primed here and hand-painted on site in water-based eggshell, and the colour is whatever you want it to be. That is one of the practical advantages of having a paint shop rather than ordering doors in a manufacturer's fixed range.

Talk to the workshop

Come to Dalston and look.

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