Fellridge

Fellridge Heritage Crafts
Traditional Carpentry, Roofing & Masonry
Serving Cheshire & Derbyshire

02/05/2026

Stable doors on a green house: Derbyshire Oak frame & Larch bead & butt with copper clinched nails. Young Will's carpentry and glazing on the greenhouse. I played no part in the PIR.

30/04/2026

Chimney rebuild in ye olde lead mining village of W-W-W-Winster. First job on a list longer than my leg on this G2 public house turned private house. Three nice matching Harry Potters on top and a lick of linseed oil for viewers pleasure. No joy tying courses in as original was eye-balled, built up with footing mortar and an off-bond plinth. Could be tighter but maybe only Ger will notice. Lou's leadwork & Joe Egan's graft, putting big shifts in to save pennies for the wedding of the year. Not missing it hailing under the canopy. Stonemason up the next village thought it would be a smart idea to spray foam the fire backing and surround on 10 years ago but that all came out in the wash. It be nice if people stopped behaving like that. Anyway, happy days - keep making good, conserving & conversing and trying in kind.

28/04/2026

Documentary evidence of recent copper nail clinching party. Slow, loud joy in the doing but terrible listening.

Best wishes to

22/12/2025

Ye olde Derbyshire oak gate for the 2025 finale. Ledge and brace structure with copper clinched nails, salvaged iron hardware and hand-planed timber. The top capping piece was an old stud-turned-prop that was supporting the rotten ridge beam upstairs, now repaired. Bossed and welded lead post caps by Lou.

Continuing considerations of the creative process: utility vs aesthetics; machines vs hands; contrived vs intuitive. Essential food for thought as a human bean.

We've been working on and off at this 17th C. house for over two years, starting with the roof and chimney. Making and installing this garden gate is the last job.

Thanks to for rebuilding an unstable section of the garden dry stone wall with odd bits of gritstone to accommodate the gate post. Everything worked out exactly as intended 👍

Happy solstice/midwinter/Christmas and thanks to everyone in our extended community of craft, conservation and construction.

19/12/2025

As we're soon to be arching back towards the summer solstice: photos from earlier this year at .croft.living renewing the original roof of the late 19th C. outhouse, which was right about ready for it (see last photo).

The work on this building was started by participants of the 2024 working party, with the classic Calbux 90 'tears of joy' (lime leeching) as evidence.

One of the challenges with 'working parties' (apart from tending to all of the pointing) is ensuring there is some continuity beyond the event itself. So, it was grand to be back here keeping things moving forward for J&E, who continue to put their own hands to work across their property.

The roof will eventually be torched internally, along with the rest of the work needed to return the building back to its former glory: providing first class sanitation as a professional latrine.

10/12/2025

Bit of lead work done for at Liverpool to prevent any further damage to brick and stonework

17/11/2025

Rewarding to see my multi-page spread in the Autumn magazine: reflecting on travelling via opportunities in building conservation, from Orkney to Antarctica.

Mentions of great sources of inspiration in: .daleperrin

Good times, people & places.
Love what ye do & do what ye love.

02/11/2025

Lead roof recently finished off on a property in Rhosesmor, North Wales

28/09/2025

1. Just prior to removing window in Antarctica back in February.
2. Post-mortem in the workshop.
3. Signal Red going on the frames.
4. Painting sashes with
5. Packing for shipping with Dan and Jo
6. Myself & Princess Jasmine: goodbye Antarctic windows and goodbye ye olde feld cabin, which has sold and is leaving the workshop this coming week.

Got there in the end. 🥲

26/09/2025

6 windows for Antarctica finished this week. An incredible opportunity that I've thrown everything at. A summer in the workshop seems to have passed by in a blink.

These are exact replicas of a 1950s window I shipped back in March that was beyond repair. They're fairly complex with some odd details like separate (though easily replaceable) sills and lower sashes that don't open.

I used slow-grown, straight-grained Swedish redwood and quartered and oriented the heartwood outwards on every component. I'm hoping this will go a long way in prolonging their lifespan.

Painted with Restoration White and Signal Red, which was a custom colour to match the original paint. No micro-plastic paint...

beading on the glazing as the birds on the island eat the linseed putty.

and hardware.

These are packed for shipping now and will arrive in Antarctica in December. I'm due to arrive in January to fit them.

Photo at the end of where they'll be fitted.

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