Thwaite Holme
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Keswick, Cumbria

Bespoke kitchens in Keswick

Made at Lingey Close in Dalston and fitted by our own men. A barn kitchen at Bassenthwaite, August 2025, and a green library wall at Threlkeld, July 2022.

Barn conversion kitchen near Bassenthwaite under an exposed king-post truss, with a navy island and pale in-frame cabinets
Kitchen, Bassenthwaite. Fitted August 2025.

The houses here

Why a standard one will not fit.

Keswick and the country around Bassenthwaite and Threlkeld is Lakeland stone and slate, older cottages, big Victorian houses and a large number of properties that are let out for part of the year. A holiday let is a different brief from a family house: it has to look right in photographs, and it has to survive changeover after changeover without marking.

We have worked on both kinds up here. A barn conversion at Bassenthwaite, under the roof trusses, and a fitted library and media wall at Threlkeld facing the fells through a picture window. Both are rooms where the view is the point and the furniture has to know that.

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

Our own job, near Keswick

Under the trusses of a barn, Bassenthwaite

Barn conversion kitchen near Bassenthwaite under an exposed king-post truss, with a navy island and pale in-frame cabinets
Kitchen · Bassenthwaite · fitted August 2025

Keswick: the questions we get

Do you fit kitchens in holiday lets around Keswick?

Yes. A let needs a harder-wearing specification than a family kitchen in some respects and a more photogenic one in others, and both are easier to hit when the furniture is made to order rather than chosen from a range.

Can you make furniture that works around a view?

That is usually the whole job up here. At Threlkeld we built a full library and media wall facing a window onto the fells, which meant keeping the height of the joinery under the line of the glass and putting the storage where it would not fight the view.

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