A family firm building homes since 1998.
We started with four houses on a farm track outside Baldock. Twenty-six years on we still buy the land, draw the schemes and lay the brick ourselves.
The drawing office, in the old granary at Baldock. Every scheme starts on this table.
We still buy the land, draw the plans and lay the brick.
Tom Hartley built his first four houses on a farm track outside Baldock in 1998. He sold them to four families he still knows by name.
Twenty-six years on we are a team of sixty, with our own bricklayers, joiners and site managers. We build around a hundred homes a year, never more than four schemes at once.
Every scheme starts with a family who owns a field and wants to know it will be done well. Most of our land comes to us by word of mouth.
1,840
homes delivered
212
acres brought forward
60
people on our payroll
10
years we stay on call
The directors
Tom Hartley
Founder and chairman
Tom built his first four houses on a farm track outside Baldock in 1998 and still walks every site on a Friday.
Clare Whitlock
Land director
Clare finds our land and talks to the families who own it. She has bought every site we have built since 2009.
Sam Okafor
Build director
Sam runs our site teams. He started as a bricklayer on Orchard Close and now builds every scheme we draw.