Est. 1998 Penshurst
Builders & joiners · The Kent Weald
Built to
outlast the trend.
Twenty-eight years of handmade kitchens, oak extensions and joinery that is cut to fit the building rather than the other way round. One team, start to finish, on every job we take.
- Est.
- 1998
- Projects delivered
- 640+
- Guarantee
- 10 years
Free site survey within 15 miles of Penshurst · fixed-price quotations, itemised line by line.
Recent work
Thirty-two jobs on the board this year. Here are nine of them.
Filter by the kind of work you need. Every project below was designed, built and fitted by our own team — no subcontractors on the finishing.
Showing all 9 projects
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Kitchen Cranbrook shaker kitchen
32 m² · English oak worktops · £24,800 -
Kitchen Horsmonden handleless kitchen
26 m² · stained ash · quartz worksurfaces · £31,500 -
Kitchen Tudeley galley kitchen
11 m² · bespoke oak carcasses · £14,200 -
Extension Penshurst side-return extension
26 m² · steel frame · sedum roof · £68,000 -
Extension Lamberhurst loft conversion
34 m² · new trusses · dormer · £52,400 -
Joinery Handmade oak staircase, Sevenoaks
7.4 m flight · mortise and tenon · £18,600 -
Joinery Library wall & window seat
5.2 m run · painted tulipwood · £9,400 -
Restoration Grade II sash restoration, Cranbrook
14 windows · draught-proofed · £22,400 -
Restoration Barn roof truss repair, Brenchley
9 bays · oak scarf joints · £37,000
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How we work
Five steps, and you know the price before we lift a tool.
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Survey & brief
We come out, measure properly, look at how you actually use the space, and tell you what is and is not worth doing. Free within fifteen miles of Penshurst, and no pressure to book anything.
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Fixed-price quotation
A line-by-line schedule: materials, labour, plant, waste, and building control fees shown separately. The number on the page is the number on the final invoice.
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Drawings & samples
Workshop drawings, a door and drawer sample in your chosen timber and finish, plus the schedule of works with your start date and named site lead.
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Build, fit, snag
Our own carpenters and joiners on site, one site lead throughout, and a daily tidy-up. You get a walk-round with the snagging list closed out before we ask for the final payment.
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Aftercare
Two visits in the first year, a care sheet for the finishes we used, and a ten-year guarantee on our workmanship. Ring the workshop and you speak to the person who built it.
What we cut
Six materials we know inside out.
We buy from two Kentish sawmills and one timber merchant in Tonbridge, all FSC certified. If you want something we do not know well, we will tell you rather than learn on your job.
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English oak
Our workhorse. Structural frames, staircases, worktops and front doors. Best left to darken.
Grown in Kent & Sussex -
Ash
A paler, springier alternative to oak for kitchen doors and drawer fronts — takes paint beautifully.
From FSC plantations -
Walnut
Reserved for worktops, desks and inlay. Figured boards, hand-selected at the mill.
American black walnut -
Reclaimed pine
Salvaged floorboards and joists from Kentish demolition, de-nailed in the workshop and denailed again.
Reclaimed & re-seasoned -
Lime mortar
The only mortar we will put near a listed wall. Breathes, moves, and lets the timber do the same.
Made to NHL 3.5 -
Welsh slate
Roof and hearth. We still cut it by hand for anything tighter than a 300 mm run.
Penrhyn quarry, second grade
The workshop
The Old Sawmill, Fordcombe Road.
Iron & Oak started in a single bay of a disused sawmill in 1998, with one bench, one table saw and a Land Rover that did not always start. We have the whole yard now — 4,200 square feet, a spray booth, and a drying shed for timber.
Nine people work here: four carpenters, three joiners, one apprentice and two people in the office who answer the phone themselves. When you ring, you will not be passed to a call centre, and the person quoting your job is the person who will be on site for it.
- Founded
- 1998
- Workshop
- 4,200 sq ft
- Team
- 9, four of them carpenters
- Accreditations
- FMB, TrustMark, Which? Trusted Traders
- FMB Master Builder
- TrustMark Government Endorsed
- Which? Trusted Trader
- City & Guilds
- SafeContractor
Word of mouth
Most of our work comes from people we have already built for.
★★★★★
“They quoted £24,800 and that is exactly what we paid. The kitchen was cut in the workshop and only dry-fitted on site, so we ate at home every night of the build except two.”
Helen and Peter R. Kitchen · Cranbrook
★★★★★
“Fourteen sash windows on a listed house, and not one of them replaced with plastic. The conservation officer actually complimented the joinery, which I understand is unusual.”
Michael T. Restoration · Cranbrook
★★★★★
“Iron & Oak handled the whole side return — steel, build, roof, kitchen — and it was finished four days early. The site was swept every afternoon. I would not use anyone else now.”
Priya S. Extension · Penshurst
Free quotation
Tell us about the job.
Send us the basics and we will ring you within one working day to arrange a survey. Nothing is charged for the visit or the quotation, and we do not pass your details to anyone.
- Workshop
- The Old Sawmill
Fordcombe Road
Penshurst, Kent
TN11 8EP - Telephone
- 01732 870 441
- hello@ironandoak.co.uk
- Opening hours
- Monday – Friday · 07:30 – 17:00
Saturday · 08:00 – 12:00
Workshop visits by appointment