Bathrooms Ruddington
Ruddington still has its framework knitters’ cottages, and they are a reminder of how the older housing here was built — small rooms, thick walls, low ceilings, and workshops rather than bathrooms in the original plan.
Nothing in that housing was designed with plumbing in mind, which is why the bathrooms in the older parts of the village are almost all conversions of something else.
We fit bathrooms across Ruddington from our showroom on Derby Road in Stapleford, nine miles north-west, about twenty-three minutes.
Modern & Traditional Bathrooms
Ruddington, Nottingham
Ruddington has framework-knitters’ cottages and period brick around the green, with interwar, postwar and modern development beyond.
The knitters’ cottages are small-roomed with low ceilings and, often, tall narrow windows on the working floor. A bathroom in one is a tight fit, and the honest approach is to plan the room around the head height and the window rather than around a standard suite.
A wall-hung vanity so the floor runs underneath, a sliding or bi-fold shower door rather than one that swings, the WC on the wall nearest the stack, and a 1600mm bath instead of a cramped 1700.
Those four decisions do more for a small bathroom than any amount of pale tiling.
Across to Derby Road in Stapleford, under Rushcliffe, with everything on display.
Traditional Bathrooms Ruddington
The older cottages and period property
Small rooms, walls that are nowhere near straight, ceilings that change height, and floors that have moved over two centuries.
Fitted furniture is the sensible answer, because it can be scribed to what the wall actually does rather than sat against it with a filler strip covering the gap. In small rooms that matters twice over — you lose nothing to dead space, and every millimetre counts.
Where a property is listed, alterations affecting the fabric can need consent from Rushcliffe Borough Council, including a new extract vent through a visible elevation. It rarely stops a bathroom; it regularly changes where the extraction runs, so it is worth confirming a specific property’s status before anything is ordered.
Ventilation is the priority in solid-walled cottage property. Extraction ducted properly outside on a run-on timer. Without it the plaster takes the moisture and the paint lifts within two winters.
Modern Bathrooms Ruddington
Interwar, postwar and the newer estates
Squarer bathrooms upstairs, regular walls, straightforward plumbing. Where there is a separate WC next door — common in the interwar stock — knocking the two together is usually the single best improvement available, and it is generally a stud wall.
The newer estates have a family bathroom plus an en-suite. The en-suite is the harder job: small, often internal with no window, and ventilation decides whether it stays pleasant or turns damp.
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Traditional Bathroom Furniture
Ranges on display. Traditional: Chiltern and Brecon , which suit the cottage property. Chiltern Hunter Green and Brecon Marine Blue hold their depth where light is limited, and in small rooms with one window it usually is. Modern: Levanto Graphite and Selter Slate darker, Amaro White Gloss and Selter Lagoon Mist brighter, Pentland Shale between them. We are an Aqualisa dealer and the Midas 220 is live on the wall.
Pentland Shale Traditional Bathroom
Twenty-three minutes out
Derby Road, Stapleford, NG9 7AD. Parking on site, no appointment needed.
Call 0115 877 7595 or come and look.
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