Wigton, Cumbria
Bespoke kitchens in Wigton

The houses here
Why a standard one will not fit.
Wigton is the market town between us and the Solway. The centre is mostly Georgian and Victorian. Behind it, farms and smallholdings spread out across the plain. Farmhouse kitchens out this way tend to be large, cold and awkwardly shaped. A range at one end, a door to the yard at the other. They need furniture that accepts the shape of the room instead of 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. A proper boot room changes how the whole house works. Bench, drying space, real storage. It is one of the jobs we are asked for most, and one of the easiest to justify.
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
Our own job, near Wigton
A painted canopy under sash windows, the Old Vicarage

Wigton: the questions we get
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. 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.
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
