Joiners in Sutton-in-Ashfield

Three miles from the yard gate

Of everywhere we work, this is the closest. We are at 43 Bleak Hill Way, NG18 5EZ, off Kings Mill Way on the south-western edge of Mansfield, next door to the reservoir and the hospital. Kings Mill Way is the A38, and Sutton lies about three miles due west along it. Call it eight to ten minutes, though that is estimated from the road rather than measured.

Church and Market Place: the newest conservation area in the district

The Sutton in Ashfield Church and Market Place Conservation Area is one of six in the district. It was designated on 17 July 2015, with the appraisal and management plan dated March 2015 and consultation run through November and December 2014. It is recent enough that plenty of owners inside the boundary do not know they are in it.

Consent: what is on the record and who confirms the rest

Ashfield's published list runs to nine Article 4 directions across the district. The one falling in the Sutton area is Dalestorth Close. We have not been able to read that direction's schedule, so we cannot tell you what it removes, and we will not guess on your behalf.

Beyond that direction, the general position applies. Sitting inside a conservation area does not, by itself, mean a house needs planning permission to have its windows or doors replaced. What triggers permission is an Article 4 Direction, or the building being listed, or it being a flat, a maisonette or something other than a single dwellinghouse. Thirteen buildings in this parish are listed, so listed building consent is a live question for a small but real number of properties.

None of that is a substitute for asking. Ashfield District Council's conservation officer can confirm the position for your postcode, and you want that confirmation in writing. Nothing gets cut until it is settled, because the gap between a straightforward like-for-like replacement and an enforcement problem is often one street.

What the town is built out of

Sutton was a framework knitting town before it was a mining one. Stocking frames appear in local wills by the end of the seventeenth century, and Anne Clay left four silk stocking frames to her son in 1675. Coal came later and lasted longer: Sutton Colliery at Stanton Hill worked until 1989, and the site is Brierley Forest Park now. Hosiery ran on into living memory, with Pretty Polly on Unwin Road from about 1927 until April 2005. This is the largest town in Ashfield, 36,404 people at the 2021 census, with Skegby, Stanton Hill, Huthwaite and Teversal around it.

Of the thirteen listed buildings in the parish, one is Grade II* and twelve are Grade II. The Manor House is the one to look at: early seventeenth century, in stone, its list entry recording "casements with hood moulds" and two gabled dormers. The Church of St Mary Magdalene is the Grade II*, twelfth century, with a two-stage west steeple and an embattled parapet. Unwin's Mill of about 1770 is a former cotton mill of eight bays with an ogee-headed carriage opening.

From those periods, the joinery most likely to need replacing here is: vertical sliding sashes, mostly horned, on the Victorian terraces and the Market Place frontages; hood-moulded stone casements on the few seventeenth-century stone survivals, The Manor House being the documented example; interwar casements, often bayed, with leaded top lights; and plain modern casement work on the post-war estates. Only the listing descriptions there are documented. The rest is read off building period, so check your own elevation.

Made here, start to finish

Terence "Tez" Cudworth set up in 2004 and holds City & Guilds qualifications. Every piece of work is made in the Mansfield workshop from timber we machine ourselves. None of it is a factory product with our name added, which is what lets us reproduce an existing profile or an odd sash horn rather than offer the closest thing off a shelf.

We hold a manufacturing licence for Accoya, which carries a fifty-year above-ground warranty. Awkward one-offs are the bulk of what comes through the door. Tina runs the customer side, and photographs of your job go out over WhatsApp as it progresses.

Staircases and balustrades, kitchens, fitted wardrobes and bars all sit under bespoke joinery. There are separate pages for bespoke timber windows, for handmade timber doors of every sort, and for commercial joinery.

You are ten minutes away. If something in your house has rotted, dropped or never fitted properly, ring 01623 530838 and we will look at it.