7 miles from Crossley Mills
Paint stripping in Emley.
The local stock
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.
How we serve Emley
Emley is a short drive from the workshop. Farmhouse and cottage pieces — heavy doors, settles, ranges — are usually collected on the van, while smaller items are dropped at Crossley Mills in Honley.
Common questions
About paint stripping in Emley.
Can you strip a heavy farmhouse plank door from Emley?
Yes — old ledged-and-braced plank doors and solid oak farmhouse doors are bread-and-butter for us. We dip-strip the paint and any old varnish, treat the timber, and hand-finish so the grain comes back. Heavier doors are quoted individually; ring 01484 666 333.
Do you collect from Emley?
Yes. Emley is on the regular collection round — for larger or heavier pieces Daniel comes out on the van. Smaller items can be dropped at the Honley workshop, around fifteen minutes away down the hill.
Can you restore an old cast-iron kitchen range?
We strip and refinish cast-iron ranges, inserts and surrounds. Full ranges are quoted after we see them, as the condition and amount of seized paint vary a lot. Send a photo to the workshop and we'll give you a realistic figure.
Nearby
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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.
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.
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.
Get in Touch
A quote, a phone call,or a kettle.
Tell Daniel what you're stripping (a door, a fireplace, a chair) and he'll come back to you with a price and a timing. Pre-filled message, just hit send.
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Unit 3, Crossley Mills, Honley, Holmfirth HD9 6PL. Kettle on, most days.