Welcome to Tennant Carpentry & Building

Measured on site, made for the room it goes in.

Rooms in older Sussex houses are rarely square. Cabinetry bought off a shelf shows it — at the scribe, at the cornice, at the point where a run meets a wall that has moved over two hundred years. Every job here starts with a survey, not a catalogue.

From one wardrobe to a whole floor.

From a single fitted wardrobe to a full in-frame kitchen or a timber-frame extension, every job is measured, made and fitted to the room it belongs in.

Renovations & Conversions

Whole houses taken back and put right, from Pulborough to Worthing — and, at the other end of the scale, a single weather-damaged door.

Extensions & Loft Conversions

Loft conversions and extensions in Horsham, Cuckfield and the villages between them, surveyed before anything is promised.

Hand Cut Roofs & Trussed Roofs

Roofs cut by hand on site in Bolney, Pulborough and Billingshurst, and trusses set and braced where the design asks for them instead.

Oak Frame Structures

Oak framed porches, screens and doors across West Sussex and into Surrey. Joints cut into the timber, pegged, left bare to weather.

Bespoke Kitchens

In-frame cabinetry, islands and tall runs for West Sussex houses, drawn around the room rather than ordered to fit it.

Bespoke Fitted Furniture

Wardrobes, alcove cabinetry, bookcases and staircases for houses from Arundel to Horsham, scribed to walls that have moved over two centuries.

The way the work is done.

Five things that do not change, whatever the size of the job.

Measured On Site

Every job begins with a survey of the room as it is, not as the drawing says it should be.

In-Frame Construction

Doors sit inside a face frame. Slower to build, and still closing properly a decade later.

Same Team Throughout

Tom surveys and prices every job. It is built by a team and the specialist trades this business has worked with for years.

Clean & Unobtrusive

You are living in the house while we work in it. We work accordingly.

Fixed Written Quote

A written quotation before anything is cut, and no moving figure afterwards.

A few rooms, recently finished.

A new trussed roof standing complete over a house, seen from the road: bare timber rafters running the full length, a gable sheathed in board at the near end, scaffold across the front and overhead cables crossing the sky above it.

Truss roof, Horsham

Horsham

A trussed roof fitted in Horsham, designed and supplied by a manufacturer and lifted in entirely by hand because a low overhead cable ruled out a crane.

A long single-storey outbuilding with a garage door, finished: the whole roof re-tiled in its original plain clay tiles, white fascias and a brick gable end, under a clear blue sky.

Roof renovation, Billingshurst

Billingshurst

A trussed roof in Billingshurst that had moved for want of any bracing, pushing its brick gable 150mm out of plumb, taken apart and put back with the original tiles.

A sage green shaker kitchen in an L round two walls, with a white worktop, chrome bar handles, open oak shelves between the wall cabinets, a chimney extractor over an induction hob and a herringbone floor running through.

Kitchen and oak doors, Worthing

Worthing

A sage green shaker kitchen in Worthing, designed and fitted by Tennant, with a new doorway formed into the room and oak glazed doors hung through the rest of the house.

A large kitchen looking down the length of a navy island with its carcass open and no worktop on it: warm grey shaker units and full-height cabinets down both walls, brass handles, double ovens to the left, and a doorway at the far end through to a smaller kitchen.

Kitchen and island, Colgate

Colgate

A kitchen in Colgate with a navy island down the middle of it, designed and fitted in warm grey shaker units and photographed at handover with every worktop still to come.

A kitchen fitted on three walls in warm grey shaker doors with brass handles: a pale veined worktop turning two corners, an apron-front ceramic sink centred under a black-framed window, and a black induction hob beneath a black chimney extractor.

Fitted kitchen, Colgate

Colgate

A kitchen designed and fitted in Colgate in warm grey shaker doors with brass handles, set out from an apron-front sink centred on the window, its cabinet cut to suit.

A modern white kitchen fitted into a corner: gloss slab doors with bar handles, solid oak worktops mitred at the corner and returned under the window to a sink, a gas hob under a chimney extractor, and a tall double oven housing.

Modern kitchen, Haywards Heath

Haywards Heath

A modern kitchen in Haywards Heath, designed and fitted by Tennant, with solid oak worktops mitred round a corner and scribed into the window reveal.

Tell Tom about the room.

The more detail you can give, the more useful the first answer will be. Every enquiry is read by Tom.

07469 820977

tom@tennantcarpentrybuilding.com

10 Spring Gardens
Washington
West Sussex RH20 3BS

You send thisTom reads every enquiry personally, then brings in the team the job needs.
He calls you backA short conversation to understand the room, the house and the scope.
Survey and quotationMeasured on site, then drawings and a fixed written quotation before anything is cut.

Bespoke kitchens, joinery and building work across Sussex.