Family-run, over 35 years in the trade. Grant prices the job, and Grant is on site while it gets done.
County Structures are carpenters and joiners in Brighton, and Grant leads the work. We are a small family building firm with over 35 years in the trade, so our carpentry sits alongside the building work rather than apart from it.
So if the new door is going into a frame that has dropped, we sort the frame as well. If the joists under a floor have gone soft, they get replaced before any new boards go down. Most of this is done in lived-in homes around Brighton and Hove.
Call Grant on 07885 325954 for a free visit and quote.
Structural timber before the plaster goes on, then doors, skirting and architraves once it is dry. We do both on our own extensions and loft conversions so nothing gets lost between trades.
New internal doors hung to the frame, old panelled doors eased and repaired. Stairs get new treads, handrails or spindles, or the old carpet comes up and the timber is brought back.
Alcove cupboards, under-stair storage, landing shelves and eaves cupboards in loft rooms, made to fit walls that are rarely straight.
Joists strengthened or replaced, floorboards lifted and relaid, engineered and solid wood floors fitted.
Cut roofs for extensions, dormer framing, and stud walls to split a room or add a bathroom.
Brighton’s Victorian and Edwardian terraces, and the Regency houses near the seafront, keep a carpenter busy. Very little in them is square. Floors slope and door openings lean, and the skirting has usually been patched more than once.
Where the original woodwork is worth keeping, we keep it. Damaged skirting, architraves and door panels can often be repaired, or matched with a new length run to the same profile. If the problem is a sagging floor or a frame that has dropped, we deal with the structure first. Our structural repairs page covers the bigger fixes.
Grant leads every job. He comes out to look at the work and prices it himself, and he’s the one you ring once we’ve started.
Because we are a building firm, other trades are close at hand. If a new door opening needs making good, our plasterers do it, and the decorators can paint the cupboards we’ve just fitted. It’s one firm and one phone number for all of it.
Our office is at Stanford Gate on South Road, Brighton BN1 6SB.
Got a carpentry job in Brighton or Hove?
Call Grant on 07885 325954 or the office on 01273 950800.
Hove is a short drive from our office, and we work there as well as in Brighton. The houses are a little different. The Avenues and the streets off Church Road have big Victorian and Edwardian rooms with tall doors and deep skirting. Further north, 1930s semis around Hove Park often want new internal doors, fitted wardrobes or a loft room.
We don’t charge for the visit or the quote in Hove either. See our builders in Hove page for the other work we do there.
It is worth asking a few plain questions before you pick anyone.
We are happy to answer all of those at the first visit.
As a rough guide, 2026 price guides put a general carpenter in the South East at about £230 to £300 a day, with specialist joiners charging more. That is usually labour only, before materials and VAT.
We usually price the whole job rather than by the day. After a visit you get a written quote.
Neither is better. They are two sides of the same trade. A joiner traditionally makes things in a workshop, such as doors, stairs and frames. A carpenter fits timber on site, such as roofs, floors and doors. Most of our work is on site, plus fitted joinery made to measure.
People usually mean rough carpentry (roofs, joists and stud walls), finish carpentry (doors, skirting, stairs and cupboards) and joinery made in a workshop. We cover the first two and fitted joinery.
With pre-hung door sets in a new build, a carpenter can fit several in a day. An older Brighton house is slower going. Each door has to be planed and packed to suit a frame that isn’t square, and we’d rather hang fewer that close properly.
We work across Brighton and Hove, including Preston Park, Hanover, Kemptown, Seven Dials, Fiveways, Patcham and Withdean, and out to Portslade, Shoreham and Lewes. Call Grant on 07885 325954 or the office on 01273 950800.
Refurbishment & Renovation · Loft Conversions · House Extensions · Painting & Decorating · Plastering
Call Grant on 07885 325954 or the office on 01273 950800. We will come out, look at the job and give you a free, no-obligation quote.
I can confirm that Grant has worked for me on two projects. The first project was to build two semi-detached houses in Hove. The second project was to convert an 1850s listed building in Brighton into four top-end apartments.
Grant is a very practical builder and gets on well with people, particularly neighbours, helping projects run smoothly. He works to a high standard and, should you decide to have him work for you, will leave you with a feeling that you would willingly use him again.
Grant and his team carried out our flat conversion (converting the top two floors of our Victorian house to two self contained flats) last year.
For our works they started on the agreed date and finished within days of the predicted finish date. For us the work was all to a very good standard and we have been very pleased with the finished job.
The team were friendly and approachable, happy to change or add little things as the conversion evolved. Grant and John were always at the end of the phone if needed. I would not hesitate to recommend them and if I need further construction works carried out would look to them first.
Tell us a little about your project and we will call you back. If you have drawings or photos, mention it and we can arrange a site visit.
County Structures Ltd
Stanford Gate
2nd Floor, South Road
Brighton
BN1 6SB
