Restoration · Listed Buildings · Conservation
Joinery for buildings worth keeping.
Listed Sussex farmhouses, conservation-area cottages, Edwardian shopfronts, Georgian fanlights, for thirty years we've been quietly putting them back together. Profile-matched and faithful to the original.
Restoration starts with the survey. We measure the original openings, photograph the existing profiles, take templates of mouldings, then draw the replacement to match. New work goes in looking like old work, because that's the point.
Most of our restoration work comes through architects, surveyors and word of mouth. We've worked across Sussex and Kent on listed buildings, period cottages and shopfronts, and private homes from Tudor through Edwardian.
Where the original piece can be saved, we save it. Splice repairs, scarf joints, in-situ rot treatment, lead-light reglazing. Where it can't, we draw and build the replacement to the original profile. Same timber where possible, old oak, old pine, salvaged where the conservation case demands it.
What We Make
- Listed-building approved window and door reproductions
- Splice and scarf repairs to period frames
- Leaded-light and stained-glass reglazing
- Period staircase repairs and rebuilds
- Decorative joinery, mouldings, panelling, fascias
- Conservation-area shopfront restoration
- Drawings and profiles for planning approval
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Reproduction Gothic-style leaded window, oak frame, leaded glazing, matched to the original.
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Period staircase brought back to working condition for a Sussex listed home.
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Mid-restoration. Original treads retained, strings spliced, balusters drawn and replaced.
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The quickest answers come by phone. For drawings or photos, send them through the contact page and Simon will come back the same day.