Georgian city houses
The four quadrants inside the walls — tall, elegant rooms, often listed, needing cabinetry scaled to the proportions.
West Sussex
Handmade kitchens in Chichester and the harbour villages
Georgian city houses inside the walls, flint cottages in the villages, and harbourside homes at Bosham and Itchenor. All of them older than any standard cabinet size.
Chichester · West Sussex
Bespoke kitchens for Chichester homes
Chichester is a conservation officer's city, and rightly so. The four quadrants inside the Roman walls contain some of the best Georgian domestic architecture in the south, and a lot of it is listed. Kitchens here have to be designed with an eye on what can and cannot be altered — and with the understanding that a beautifully proportioned Georgian room deserves cabinetry with proportions to match.
Out towards the harbour, the character changes entirely. Bosham, Itchenor, Birdham and West Wittering are flint, brick and weatherboard, with low ceilings, thick irregular walls and floors that have been settling for three hundred years. A kitchen for one of these houses is measured in a completely different way: nothing is assumed, every wall is checked at three heights, and every unit is scribed on site.
Then there are the larger houses north of the city towards Lavant, Boxgrove and the Downs — generous farmhouse kitchens where an island, a range recess and a full-height larder are exactly what the room is asking for.
Chichester is around forty minutes from the Worthing bench along the A27, which is comfortably close enough to do the work properly: survey, fit and return for painting, rather than trying to compress everything into one visit.
Local housing
What we typically work on in Chichester
Flint & brick cottages
Bosham, Birdham, the Witterings. Thick uneven walls, low ceilings, and nothing remotely square.
Harbourside homes
Itchenor and Dell Quay. Coastal exposure, so moisture-resistant construction and sealed interiors throughout.
Downland farmhouses
Lavant, Boxgrove, Singleton. Big rooms that take an island, a range recess and a proper pantry.
Why local matters
The person who makes it fits it
Every kitchen is cut and assembled on one bench in Worthing and installed by the same pair of hands. No subcontracted fitters, no franchise, no handover between a designer who sold it and a fitter who has never seen the drawings.
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One point of contact
Ollie surveys, quotes, makes, fits and paints. If something needs adjusting in two years, you ring him directly.
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One kitchen at a time
Yours is not queued behind three others, and nobody disappears halfway through to start somebody else's job.
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A fixed written quote
Itemised cabinet by cabinet before anything is ordered, so you can see exactly what each element costs.
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Two-year guarantee
Plus £1m public liability cover for the whole time work is happening at your property.
Kitchen styles available in Chichester
Other joinery we do here
Also covering, near Chichester
BoshamWest WitteringEast WitteringBirdhamItchenorLavantFishbourneSelseySidleshamBoxgroveTangmereSouthbourne
Local answers
Questions from Chichester clients
Regularly. It is about forty minutes each way from Worthing, which is well within normal working distance. There is no travel surcharge for anywhere in West Sussex.
That is precisely what scribing is for. Every unit is measured against your actual walls and cut to follow them, so there is no gap at the top of a run where a wall leans away. It takes longer on site than fitting a straight kitchen to a straight wall, and it is the only way an old cottage kitchen looks right.
Yes. Freestanding and removable kitchen cabinetry usually falls outside listed building consent, but anything fixed to or altering historic fabric may not. The sensible route is to speak to Chichester District Council's conservation team early — Ollie will design around whatever the constraints turn out to be.
Next step
Kitchens in Chichester start with a visit
Ollie will come to you, measure the room properly and tell you honestly what it can take. Free, no obligation, and a written quote within the week.