Longtown, Cumbria
Bespoke kitchens in Longtown

The houses here
Why a standard one will not fit.
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.
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.
- 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
Longtown: the questions we get
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.
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.
Nearby
We work right across this area.
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- Bespoke kitchens in Keswick
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- Bespoke kitchens in Appleby
- Bespoke kitchens in Gretna
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Talk to the workshop
Come to Dalston and look.
01228 710085- Monday to Thursday
- 8am – 5pm
- Friday
- 8am – 3.30pm
- Saturday
- 8am – 12pm
- Sunday
- Closed
