Cambridge is home turf, but it's not the only place we work. Here's everywhere we currently cover:
Because we're a service-area business rather than a shop you walk into, we travel to you rather than the other way round. That's Cambridge itself plus the towns and villages below, spanning Cambridgeshire and into West Suffolk and North Essex. Tap a place to read a bit about it.
Cambridge
Home turf for us. The older streets — Mill Road, Romsey, Petersfield — are mostly Victorian terraces, much of it within conservation areas, while newer edges like Trumpington and Eddington are still growing. Between the two we see everything from careful period extensions to loft conversions on modern family homes.
Newmarket
Newmarket's character comes from its racing heritage as much as its buildings — Georgian townhouses and stable yards sit alongside Victorian additions and some 1970s rebuilding around the old town centre. Plenty of scope for extensions and general upkeep on both the older housing stock and the newer estates.
Bury St Edmunds
A genuinely historic market town, laid out on a medieval grid with Georgian townhouses around Angel Hill and the abbey ruins at its centre. Renovation work here tends to mean working sympathetically with older buildings rather than starting from scratch.
Bedford
A mix of Victorian terraces near the Embankment and more modern housing further out. Most of the work we'd expect here is fairly typical — extensions, loft conversions and general maintenance on family homes of varying ages.
St Neots
The old riverside core around the Georgian market square is a world away from Love's Farm and Wintringham, the big newer estates built on the edge of town over the last twenty years. That range means everything from period-sensitive renovation to straightforward extension work on modern builds.
Royston
A practical crossroads market town rather than a showpiece one — Georgian and Victorian buildings sit around the historic centre, which has been a conservation area since 2007. Solid, unfussy housing that mostly just needs looking after well.
Bourne
A Lincolnshire market town with a genuinely old core — 71 listed buildings, including the abbey church — alongside solid Victorian terraces and good-quality early-20th-century housing. A fair bit of variety for extension and maintenance work.
Cambourne
About as different from our older market towns as it gets — Cambourne didn't exist before 1998, and it's still growing, with homes built across four separate neighbourhoods. No period sensitivities here, just modern family homes that need extending, converting or maintaining like any other.
Caxton
A small village on the old coaching road, with a mix of building ages — a 15th-century inn, a flint-and-stone church, and some Victorian rebuilding after a couple of fires in the 1890s. Small enough that most jobs here are straightforward extensions and repairs.
Linton
One of the more architecturally rich villages we cover — over 120 listed buildings, more than 50 on the High Street alone. Anything here usually means careful, sympathetic work rather than a standard extension.
Duxford
Best known for the airfield, but the village itself is a quieter mix of older cottages around two medieval churches and newer community buildings. Fairly typical village housing stock, well suited to general extension and maintenance work.
Harston
A small, old Cambridgeshire village with roots back to the Domesday Book and one standout building, the Tudor-and-Georgian Harston House. Otherwise fairly traditional local housing that benefits from routine upkeep as much as anything.
Sawston
Sawston Hall aside, most of the village grew rapidly after the Second World War, with large estates spreading north-west and south, blurring into neighbouring Pampisford. That's a lot of mid-to-late-20th-century family homes — good territory for extensions and loft conversions.
Pampisford
A very small village that's grown gradually around Pampisford Hall rather than through any big development. Modest, low-key housing that mostly just needs steady maintenance.
Whittlesford
An old village — once even a market town in its own right — built around a Grade I listed church, with a fairly traditional mix of local housing.
Great Shelford
Genuinely mixed — a handful of surviving 16th-century timber-framed farmhouses sit alongside housing from its rapid Victorian and 20th-century commuter growth. One of the better examples of a village where period and modern renovation work sit side by side.
Clare
A proper medieval wool town — 133 listed buildings, timber framing and decorative pargeting throughout its conservation area. Work here tends to mean respecting genuinely old building methods rather than modern shortcuts.
Sudbury
Gainsborough's birthplace, and it shows — a strong run of Georgian townhouses and timber-framed buildings from its centuries as a weaving town. Period-sensitive renovation is the norm here, alongside general upkeep on the surrounding newer housing.
Thaxted
One of the most architecturally protected towns we cover — medieval timber-framed buildings cluster around the Guildhall, and a local conservation society keeps a close eye on planning. Work here is almost always about careful, respectful renovation rather than anything more drastic.
Great Dunmow
An old market town — chartered in 1227 — with a Grade I listed church and town hall at its centre, now growing fast thanks to nearby Stansted. A genuine mix of careful period work in the centre and more straightforward extension work on the newer housing at the edges.
Birdbrook
A very small, quiet village with a couple of notable listed houses (Moyns Park among them) but otherwise modest, traditional housing. Small jobs, done properly, are the norm here.
Halstead
Shaped by its weaving and mill history — Georgian and Victorian terraces, including some built for Courtauld's mill workers, line the town along the River Colne. Plenty of solid, older housing that benefits from regular maintenance and careful extension work.
Haverhill
A market town that grew fast in the 1960s and 70s as part of London's overspill programme, roughly tripling in size from around 5,500 people. Most of the housing is post-war family homes built over the last seventy years, with a smaller historic core around the old Corn Exchange — good territory for extensions, loft conversions and general maintenance rather than heavy period work.
Kedington
A quiet West Suffolk village between Clare and Haverhill, built around a genuinely remarkable medieval church — John Betjeman once called it "a village Westminster Abbey." Housing here tends to be traditional and long-settled, the kind that benefits from careful, respectful work.
Steeple Bumpstead
An old Essex village with roots back to before 1042, centred on a Grade I listed 11th-century church and a 16th-century Moot Hall. Traditional village housing throughout, with the odd older building needing the kind of careful attention that comes with genuine age.
Castle Camps
A small, quiet village named for its Norman castle earthworks — now a Scheduled Monument — just south of the old motte. Modest, traditional housing, the kind of place where jobs tend to be smaller-scale but still done properly.
Cambridgeshire-wide
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