Fitted furniture, kitchens and staircases, designed, made and fitted by one maker in her own Testbury workshop.
Now booking commissions for January
Site carpentry makes a room work. Furniture-grade joinery makes it feel finished. Every joint, grain match and edge is drawn, cut and fitted by one maker, in one workshop, to be lived with for decades.
18 years in the trade
Everything made in our own workshop
10-year guarantee on joinery
Aldergate builds bespoke joinery to commission for homes in and around Testbury: fitted furniture, kitchens, staircases and garden rooms, each drawn for the house it will live in.
Fitted furniture joinery for Hollinwood’s Edwardian alcoves, from library walls to wardrobes.
Bespoke kitchens in solid timber and veneer, built in our Testbury workshop and fitted to the millimetre.
Staircase joinery cut and fitted by hand, including open-plan renewals in Marlow Heath.
Panelling and doors made to measure, because no two Chapel Green openings are ever quite the same.
Timber-framed garden rooms and pergolas, joinery built to suit the long plots of Redfern.
Sash windows, doors and staircases carefully restored in Aldwick’s older homes.
Before
Hollinwood
Bare alcoves, surveyed before drawing
After
Hollinwood
Quarter-sawn oak, hand-cut dovetails, oil finish
Marlow Heath
European oak, steel-reinforced treads, hardwax oil
Testbury
Solid ash frames, painted doors, oak worktops
Redfern
Douglas fir frame, larch cladding, oak doors
Our first choice for staircases and libraries: strong, stable and rewarding under an oil finish.
Deep, even colour for desks, wardrobe interiors and statement kitchen islands.
Pale, straight-grained and tough, used for painted kitchen frames and flexible, hard-wearing steps.
Marked by fine black lines, kept for feature panels, shelves and tabletops where the grain leads.
We talk through the space, the style and your budget, at your home or in the workshop.
Eleanor measures, designs and draws the piece until it is right.
A fixed price from the approved drawings, with no surprises later.
Everything is made in our own workshop, never subcontracted.
We fit it ourselves, leave the room clean and stay on call afterwards.
Fitted wardrobes typically start from £3,500; kitchens from £18,000; staircases from £6,500.
about 8 weeks
No charge, no obligation.
I trained as a cabinetmaker and spent my first ten years in a restoration workshop, where I learned that good joinery is mostly patience.
I build everything in our own workshop because it is the only way I can vouch for every joint. I take on fitted furniture, kitchens, staircases and garden rooms, and I decline work where speed matters more than finish. I visit and design every project myself, and nothing is built until you have approved the drawings.
“The drawings were so clear we changed nothing once building started. The fit against our crooked chimney breast is flawless.”
Helen
Hollinwood, fitted library
“Eleanor treated our house like her own. The kitchen finish is superb, and every evening the site was left spotless.”
James
Testbury, bespoke kitchen
“Our new oak staircase is the first thing visitors comment on. The price matched the quotation to the pound.”
Priya
Marlow Heath, oak staircase
Fitted wardrobes and library walls for Testbury’s Victorian terraces, made a few streets from the workshop.
Hollinwood’s 1930s semis suit bespoke kitchens that open up the back of the house without losing its character.
In Marlow Heath we build staircases and balustrades for the larger detached houses around the common.
Chapel Green cottages often call for panelling and doors made to measure, as no two openings match.
Redfern’s long gardens are well suited to timber garden rooms and pergolas built to the plot.
Aldwick’s period homes keep us busy with sash window repair and careful joinery restoration.
We travel further for larger commissions, including whole-house fitted joinery and staircases.
A consultation is a conversation at your home or in the workshop, usually about an hour, where we talk through the space, the style and your budget. It costs nothing and carries no obligation. If you want to go ahead, the next step is measured drawings.
Fitted wardrobes typically start from £3,500, staircases from £6,500 and kitchens from £18,000. Every commission is priced from drawings, so you see a written quotation before you commit to anything.
Our current lead time is about 8 weeks from signed drawings to fitting. Larger kitchens and staircases can take longer, and we confirm dates in your quotation.
Yes. Eleanor designs and draws every piece herself, so the person you meet is the person who builds it. You approve the drawings before any timber is cut.
Yes, regularly. We match existing mouldings, scribe to uneven walls and floors, and advise on listed building consent where it applies.
All our joinery carries a 10-year guarantee against defects in materials and workmanship. Because everything is made in our own workshop, any repair is handled by the people who built it.
No charge, no obligation. We reply within one working day.
Aldergate Bespoke Joinery
The Old Pattern Shop, Foundry Row, Testbury, TB1 2CD, GB
studio@aldergatejoinery.example
Studio Mon–Fri 8am–4:30pm; consultations by appointment, including evenings
We reply to every enquiry within one working day.
What happens next: we read every enquiry personally, reply within one working day and arrange a consultation at a time that suits you.