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Rooms that keep their age
Larkfield designs interiors for old houses in Bath and the West Country: kitchens, bathrooms and whole floors that look as if they had always been there.
Old houses, quietly renewed
A Georgian terrace was not drawn for a dishwasher, a walk-in shower or forty sockets. Most refits either hide the house under new plaster or leave it cold and inconvenient.
We do neither. We measure what is there, keep what is good and draw the new work in the same hand: joinery in the old proportions, lime where there was lime, and the wiring where nobody will ever see it.
The result is a house that works like a new one and still feels like itself.
86Houses finished
14Years in Bath
9People in the studio
31Listed buildings
Recent projects
Oak kitchen, Lansdown
Kitchen
A basement kitchen brought up to the garden floor and made in oak from one tree.
Bathroom, Widcombe
Bathroom
A box room turned into a bathroom with a window seat and underfloor heating.
Evening room, Bathwick
Whole house
A north-facing sitting room painted dark on purpose, for winter evenings.
What clients say
CWClare WhitcombeKitchen and ground floor, Lansdown
Friends walk in and ask what we changed. Everything, is the answer, and that they cannot tell is exactly what we paid for.
PLPiers L.Whole house, Widcombe
They found the original shutters boxed in behind plasterboard, had them repaired and hung them again. Nobody had asked them to look.
TATolu AdeyemiWhole house, Bathwick
The drawings showed every socket and every hinge before a single thing was ordered. There was not one surprise on site.
Before you write
Do you work on listed buildings?
Yes, about a third of our work. We prepare the listed building consent ourselves and know the conservation officers in Bath by name.
Do you design or build?
Both. We draw everything, our own joiners make the kitchens and fitted furniture, and we manage the trades on site until the last coat of paint.
How long does a kitchen take?
About six weeks of drawing and choosing, eight in the workshop and three on site.
What does a first visit cost?
Nothing. It takes an hour, and you keep the notes and the rough budget we send afterwards whether or not you go on.
How far do you travel?
About an hour from Bath: Bristol, Frome, Bradford on Avon, the Chew Valley and the southern Cotswolds.
Tell us about your house
A first visit is free and takes an hour. Within a week you have our notes, a rough budget and a date we could begin.