The Reeve & Co Group
Sporting Cabinetmakers is one of four workshops trading out of the same yard on Stonham Road, alongside a bathroom company run by the same family. Same machine shop, same finishing room, largely the same hands. Different disciplines, and different people asking for them.
Most firms in this trade are one workshop with one name. We are one workshop with several, and it is worth explaining why, because the arrangement is unusual enough that people assume it is either a marketing exercise or a group of separate companies pretending to be friendly. It is neither.
A gun cabinet, a hand-painted kitchen, a panelled library and a refectory table are made with the same machines, the same timber stock and the same finishing process. What differs is the knowledge around them: what a firearms enquiry officer will accept, how a painted door behaves over twenty years, how to scribe panelling into a room that is nowhere near square, how a table survives being scrubbed weekly for a generation. Those are genuinely different specialisms, and pretending one brand can speak with authority on all four is how you end up being mediocre at all of them.
So each has its own name, its own website and its own people answering the phone. Behind them is one building, one standard, and one person whose name is on all of it.
On this page
Reeve & Co Interiors — the fitted joinery
What it is. Reeve & Co Interiors is the original business, founded in Suffolk in 2015, and the one everything else here grew out of. It designs, makes and installs fitted joinery for private houses: libraries, panelled rooms, staircases, studies, wardrobes, boot rooms, hidden doors and whole-house interior packages. It works largely through architects, interior designers and main contractors, in London, the Home Counties and across the country.
How it relates to what we do. Gun rooms are fitted joinery. A steel-lined room, a run of cabinets scribed into an eaves cupboard, a firearms door clad in timber to match the panelling around it — that is architectural joinery with a security specification on top. Sporting Cabinetmakers exists because that work needs its own expertise and its own conversation, not because it is a different craft. On a large house the two frequently run together: we take the gun room, Reeve & Co takes the library, the panelling and the joinery elsewhere, and it is one drawing office, one installation team and one delivery programme.
When to talk to them instead. If the gun room is one item on a much longer schedule — panelling, staircase, studies, wardrobes — start with Reeve & Co and we will pick up the sporting element from inside that project.
Reeve & Co Interiors — Stonham Road, Mickfield, Stowmarket, Suffolk IP14 5LS. 01449 710 500 · sales@reeveandco.com · www.reeveandco.com
Square & True — the kitchens
What it is. Square & True makes bespoke hand-painted English kitchens and the rooms that serve them — pantries, utility rooms, boot rooms and back kitchens. Everything is drawn, made, painted and fitted from the same yard, in the same timbers, by the same makers.
How it relates to what we do. More closely than you would expect. The boot room is where the sporting end of a house meets the domestic end of it, and it is usually the room that decides whether a house works in January. Wet coats, wet dogs, cartridge bags, boots, and a door that everybody actually comes in through. Square & True builds that room; we build what goes in the parts of it that hold guns and kit. Commissioned together, they are drawn together and finished to agree with one another.
When to talk to them instead. If the kitchen and its adjoining rooms are the project and the gun storage is a secondary consideration, start there.
Square & True — Stonham Road, Mickfield, Stowmarket, Suffolk IP14 5LS. 01449 710 500 · hello@squareandtrue.uk · www.squareandtrue.uk
Bryn Hall — the freestanding furniture
What it is. Bryn Hall makes fine English freestanding furniture to order: tables, chairs, dressers, sideboards, cupboards, beds and bookcases, across ten collections that run from Welsh vernacular through Georgian to Gothic. Any size, any of the standard timbers, any finish, including matched to a piece you already own.
How it relates to what we do. Fitted and freestanding are not the same craft, and this is the clearest illustration of why the group is organised the way it is. Fitted work is scribed to a building that is never square and has to survive being screwed to a wall that moves. Freestanding furniture has to stand on its own, be moved, and hold up when somebody looks at the back of it. Different jointing, different tolerances, different temperament. Where it meets our work: cleaning tables, cartridge chests, Wellington chests and trophy cabinets sit on the line between the two, and whichever side of it a piece falls, it is made in the same shop.
When to talk to them instead. If what you want is a piece rather than an installation — a table, a chest, a cabinet that stands on its own feet.
Bryn Hall — Stonham Road, Mickfield, Stowmarket, Suffolk IP14 5LS. 01449 710 500 · sales@brynhall.co.uk · www.brynhall.co.uk
Old Fashioned Bathrooms — the separate one
What it is. Old Fashioned Bathrooms supplies traditional and period bathrooms: cast iron baths, high-level cisterns, brassware, tiles and complete suites, with a showroom on the same site and delivery across the UK.
An honest distinction. This one is not us. It is a separate company with different shareholders — run by the same family, from the same yard, but not a trading name of Reeve & Co Interiors Ltd and not part of the same business. We list it here because it is next door, because clients ask, and because a house getting a gun room from us often needs bathrooms that suit its age. We have no commercial interest in whether you use them.
Old Fashioned Bathrooms — Stonham Road, Mickfield, Stowmarket, Suffolk IP14 5LS. 01449 711 782 · sales@oldfashionedbathrooms.co.uk · www.oldfashionedbathrooms.co.uk
Why this matters if you are commissioning
Three practical consequences, and they are the only reasons this page is worth your time.
What the arrangement actually gets you
One programme instead of three. If a project needs a gun room, a boot room and a library, they are drawn in one office and installed by one team to one date. Coordinating three unconnected joinery firms around a live building site is the part that usually goes wrong.
Finishes that agree. Same spray booth, same polisher, same colour reference. Matching a painted finish across firms is difficult; across benches in one shop it is routine.
One person accountable. Torben Reeve owns Reeve & Co Interiors Ltd outright and makes the final call on every one of these brands. If something goes wrong there is no question of which company it belongs to.
The reverse is also worth saying plainly: you are under no obligation to use any of the others. Most clients come to one workshop for one thing and never speak to the rest, which is entirely as it should be.
Not sure which workshop you need
Tell us what the project involves and we will point you at the right one, including when that is not us.
Sporting Cabinetmakers, Reeve & Co Interiors, Square & True and Bryn Hall are all trading names of Reeve & Co Interiors Ltd, registered in England and Wales, company number 09593800, Stonham Road, Mickfield, Stowmarket, Suffolk IP14 5LS. Old Fashioned Bathrooms is a separate company. “The Reeve & Co Group” is a way of describing the workshops on this site; there is no holding company.