The workshop's reach
Across Yorkshire, one workshop.
From the Holme Valley villages on our doorstep to Huddersfield, Leeds and Wakefield, and out across North Yorkshire to Harrogate, Wetherby and York. Most customers drop smaller pieces at the workshop, and we collect the larger ones on the van.
Huddersfield
Huddersfield is stone terraces, end-to-end. Victorian mill workers' cottages off Leeds Road, Georgian semis around Edgerton, and a townhouse belt in Lindley and Marsh. Most have original four-panel doors and stained floorboards that have been painted over more times than anyone can count. Cast-iron fireplaces are everywhere too — often boarded up behind a 1970s gas fire and only discovered when the chimney breast comes out.
Holmfirth
Holmfirth cottages are the romantic Yorkshire stone the postcards sell: weavers' lofts above the Holme, terraced rows up the valley to Hade Edge and New Mill. Plenty of beamed ceilings, original stone fireplaces, and the occasional stripped-pine door that's been in place since 1840. Up the hills, the farmhouses are bigger and the woodwork is heavier — flagged floors, oak lintels, the lot.
Honley
Honley sits in the bottom of the Holme Valley, two minutes from the workshop. The architecture is a mix of stone cottages around the village centre, Victorian terraces along the main road, and a few larger detached houses on the slopes above. Most pieces we strip from Honley are doors, original Victorian fireplaces, and the occasional cottage settle.
Halifax
Halifax has one of the best collections of Victorian and Edwardian terraced housing in West Yorkshire, particularly around Savile Town, King Cross, and Copley. The houses are tall, narrow and full of dark-stained woodwork — staircase banisters, dado rails, four-panel doors — most of it original pitch pine or mahogany, much of it painted over. The Piece Hall and the surrounding Georgian townhouses set the tone for the upper town.
Leeds
Leeds is a city of contrasts. Headingley and Hyde Park are full of late-Victorian and Edwardian semis with original stained glass, tiled hallways and pitch-pine stairs. Round the city centre the Georgian and early-Victorian townhouses have survived in pockets — Leylands, Sheepscar, parts of Holbeck. Out toward Roundhay and Moortown the houses are bigger and the woodwork is more often oak or walnut, sometimes veneered.
Wakefield
Wakefield's housing stock runs from the sandstone terraces of Kirkgate and the city centre to the biggish Victorian semis in Sandal, Agbrigg and Ossett. Out toward Pontefract and Normanton the houses are a bit later — Edwardian and 1930s semis — and the woodwork is often oak-stained softwood rather than pitch pine.
Shelley
Shelley is a hilltop village above the Dearne and Fenay valleys, and most of it is gritstone — Victorian weavers' cottages along Far Bank and Huddersfield Road, larger stone-built houses up toward the conservation area, and a scatter of old farmsteads on the lanes out to Shepley and Emley. The original woodwork is heavy: four-panel pine and oak-stained doors, deep skirtings, and the odd cast-iron range still sitting in a farmhouse kitchen. We're proud sponsors of Shelley FC, the open-age football team, so the village is one we know well.
Skelmanthorpe
Skelmanthorpe is a textile village strung along the ridge between Denby Dale and Scissett. The housing is classic West Yorkshire: long terraces of stone weavers' cottages with their tell-tale upper-floor loom windows, plus solid Victorian semis along Commercial Road. Behind the gloss paint on those cottage doors there's almost always original pine, and the old fireplaces are often cast iron boarded up since the 1960s.
Emley
Emley sits high on the moor edge under the famous Emley Moor mast, and it's a proper old stone village — the conservation area around the church and the Green is full of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century cottages, with working farmsteads on the lanes out toward Emley Moor and Flockton. The woodwork tends to be older and heavier than the valley terraces: solid plank doors, oak lintels, flagged floors and the occasional original kitchen range.
Holme
Holme is the last village before the moor on the Holme Moss road — tight clusters of dark gritstone cottages, weavers' rows and Pennine farmsteads built to take whatever the tops throw at them. The woodwork is heavy and weathered: thick plank doors, deep mullioned window surrounds, beamed ceilings and the odd original stone fireplace. A lot of what we strip from Holme is original cottage joinery that's been painted over many times.
Upperthong
Upperthong perches on the hillside straight above Holmfirth, a tight grid of stone weavers' cottages and terraces with some of the best views in the valley. The houses are old and characterful — original four-panel and plank doors, stone fireplaces, beamed ceilings, and stained pine floorboards that have usually been painted at some point. Parking is tight up the narrow lanes, which is one reason villagers tend to drop pieces with us rather than have a van squeezing through.
Netherthong
Netherthong sits on the hillside between Honley and Holmfirth, and it's one of our nearest villages — a compact conservation area of stone cottages and Victorian terraces around the old church and the village school. The woodwork is typical Holme Valley: four-panel pine doors, cast-iron fireplaces behind later gas fires, and stripped-pine furniture that's been handed down through the cottages for generations.
Harrogate
Harrogate is a spa town built for show, and the housing reflects it — grand Victorian and Edwardian villas around the Stray, Montpellier and Duchy, with bay windows, deep cornices, panelled hallways and pitch-pine staircases. The townhouses off Cold Bath Road and Kings Road have some of the finest original joinery in North Yorkshire: heavy four-panel doors, dado rails, and shutters, much of it grained or painted over the original timber.
Wetherby
Wetherby is a Georgian market town on the River Wharfe, and its centre is mellow sandstone — Georgian townhouses around the market place and the Shambles, with six-panel doors, fanlights and sash windows. Out toward the racecourse and the newer edges the housing is mixed, but the period stock in the town has the kind of original joinery — panelled doors, staircases, shutters — that rewards stripping back rather than replacing.
Knaresborough
Knaresborough tumbles down the gorge above the River Nidd under its famous railway viaduct, and the old town is a warren of Georgian and Victorian houses in warm gritstone — steep streets like Kirkgate and Briggate full of panelled doors, sash windows and original staircases. Many of the houses are listed or in the conservation area, so owners tend to restore the original joinery rather than swap it for modern replacements.
Ripon
Ripon is England's third-smallest city, a cathedral town with a Georgian market square at its heart. The older housing is sandstone and brick — Georgian townhouses around the square and Kirkgate, Victorian terraces toward the river, and substantial period houses out toward Studley and Fountains. The original joinery is exactly what we love: panelled doors, shutters, staircases and cast-iron fireplaces, much of it hidden under generations of paint.
York
York is a city of layers, and the housing runs the full range — medieval timber framing in the centre, Georgian townhouses around Bootham and Bishophill, and street after street of Victorian terraces in The Groves, Holgate and South Bank. Those terraces are full of original joinery: four-panel doors, pitch-pine staircases, tiled hallways and cast-iron fireplaces, most of it painted over at some point in the last century.
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