38 | Sector Focus: Joinery
SUMMARY
■James Wilding Joinery launched in 2014
■The company specialises in replacement doors and windows and heritage work
■It has taken on a number of apprentices
■The company buys most of its timber from James Latham
BACKING BESPOKE SERVICE WITH SKILLS
A Yorkshire joinery manufacturer sees positive prospects for building on the momentum achieved in its first decade. Mike Jeffree reports
James Wilding acknowledges the challenges facing the wider joinery sector right now. However, his company, James Wilding Joinery, continues to develop, invest and importantly, bring on new talent. The business is based in Rylstone, near Skipton, and serves an area within about a 30-mile radius of its workshop. This incorporates the Yorkshire Dales National Park where there is buoyant demand for non- standard sized joinery for the area’s numerous barn conversions and listed buildings, tying in nicely with James Wilding’s focus on bespoke high-grade doors and windows. It works with domestic consumers and builders, and, while it does take on new build contracts, its bread and butter is replacement doors and windows and heritage work.
The company launched in 2014. “After a number of years working for a highly regarded local joinery firm, I decided it was time to go it alone,” said Mr Wilding. “We started small with a micro workshop in Gargrave, but soon graduated to a larger unit. After several years, with my wife Emily, we grew the team to nine, and we’ve continued to expand, moving to our current workshop, just outside Skipton.”
The company specialises in the manufacture of staircases, as well as doors and windows, and also produces an exclusive range of bespoke fitted furniture and kitchens branded as ‘Millybell Interiors’. The mission is “to provide high quality, bespoke joinery, using traditional methods, together with modern machinery”.
Above: There is buoyant demand for non-standard sized joinery TTJ | May/June 2025 |
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“Machinery is a continuous area of capital investment, and we are always on the
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