Kitchens Newton, Nottinghamshire
There are several Newtons in the East Midlands, so to be clear: this is the village near Bingham, in the Vale of Belvoir, off the A46 — not Newton Solney, Newton Burgoland or any of the others.
We cover it along with Bingham, East Bridgford, Granby and the Vale villages, from our showroom on Derby Road in Stapleford — seventeen miles west, about half an hour on the A52.
Village housing
Newton is small, and the housing is mostly period property with postwar development around it, some of it connected to the former airfield.
Kitchens in the older buildings have the usual constraints of village stock: thick walls, ceilings that vary room to room, and floors that have settled. Fitted furniture is scribed to what the wall actually does rather than sat against it, and a standard wall-unit run at standard height can foul a lower ceiling. Both are survey questions, not showroom ones.
Traditional Kitchens Newton Nottingham
Traditional Kitchens
Newton Nottingham
The postwar houses are more regular — square kitchens, straight walls, a door to the hall and another to the garden. The common project there is opening through to the dining room, which is usually a load-bearing wall and means a steel plus building control involvement through Rushcliffe Borough Council. That is a real cost and belongs in the budget from the start.
Newton is a village of a few hundred people in the Vale of Belvoir, with period property, postwar housing and some stock associated with the former airfield.
The older buildings behave as you would expect — thick walls, modest openings, rooms that are not square. A framed kitchen scribed to the building is the approach that produces a clean result, because nothing modular will sit flush against a wall that bows.
Some of the housing here has its origins in the airfield rather than the village, and it tends to be simpler and more regular than the period stock, straightforward rooms, practical proportions, and fewer surprises behind the plaster.
That makes them good value to fit out. Less has to be made to accommodate an irregularity, so more of the budget goes into the kitchen itself.
Soft-close hinges and runners, dovetailed drawer boxes, 18mm carcasses. In a rural house a long way from a showroom, the parts that wear are the parts worth specifying properly.
Modern Kitchens Newton Nottingham
Services in the older properties
Out here the constraint is usually where the services already are rather than what you want to do with the space. Waste runs are fixed, gas can be surface-mounted, and moving a sink any distance means achieving a fall to the existing waste — which on a solid floor is a bigger job than it looks.
Entirely doable. It just needs pricing in at the start rather than discovering in week two.
The later housing in the village is regular and level, which opens up contemporary options that the older cottages resist.
Handleless doors need a straight ceiling line and true walls to look right, and here they generally get both. Zagen and Pentland Shale are the usual starting points.
Village kitchens take a different kind of use, more storage, more bulk buying, more coming in from outside. A full-height larder and a boot-room run of tall storage earn their space here more than a second oven does.
Quartz is the pragmatic choice where a kitchen is the main room of the house. Porcelain is harder still, and laminate remains perfectly respectable on a shorter run without an island.
In Frame Kitchens Newton Nottingham
Doors and colour
Painted shaker suits this housing. Rooms with small original windows take deeper colour better than pale finishes, which go flat and grey in poor light — Colbeck Heritage Green and Georgian Thicket both hold up, and Georgian Damson Lavender is the one people come back to.
Denton Porcelain Cashmere and Clarkwell Light Grey Graphite work in the brighter postwar rooms. Zagen and Cameo cover the handleless end.
Choosing Our Kitchen
Showroom near Newton
Warwick is the in-frame range, with the door set inside the cabinet frame — the more traditional construction, and the right look in the older village property.
We fit Neff appliances including the venting hobs.
Out along the A52 to Stapleford. From this distance the trip is worth planning, and everything is out on display when you arrive.
0115 877 7595 to confirm a particular range is on the floor.
Nothing is ordered from a showroom sketch. We measure the room, the floor and the services on site.
Newton falls under Rushcliffe. Structural openings need building control, and any listed property needs its status confirming before design work starts.
Kitchens Gallery
Half an hour on the A52
Derby Road, Stapleford, NG9 7AD. Parking on site.
Painted doors photograph badly, so it is worth the drive to see them under real light. Call 0115 877 7595 to check a particular range is out before you set off.
