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. It is a farming town more than anything else. The housing is a mix. 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 meanwhile.
We cross the border constantly. 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 here. The houses out this way take weather and livestock in through the back door all year.
We have made kitchens in Carlisle and across Cumbria since 1972. We buy the timber. We cut the carcasses at Dalston. We prime them in our own paint shop. Our own men paint them by hand in your house, then fit them. 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. 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, and the rooms around them. Utility rooms with a deep sink and space for the machines. 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 each door sits inside a frame fixed to the carcass. That is how a piece of furniture is made. The cheaper way is to hang the door on the front of a box.
It takes more timber and more machining. It takes far more accuracy, because the gap round every door has to be even the whole way round, and you can see it.
It is also why a good in-frame kitchen still looks right in twenty years. There is a frame holding it all square.
Can you match a colour I have already chosen?
Yes. We prime the work here and hand-paint it on site in water-based eggshell. The colour is whatever you want. That is the practical gain from having our own paint shop instead of ordering doors in somebody else's fixed range.
Nearby
We work right across this area.
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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
