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Porch builders in Leeds: a new entrance for your home

Oak porch canopies and full stone or brick porches, supplied, built and fitted by one team with 27 years in the trade. Every quote is written and itemised.

What we do

A new entrance to your home

An oak porch canopy on stone dwarf walls turns a plain front door into a true entrance. It adds shelter, kerb appeal and value to the front of your house, and it is built in days rather than weeks.

We supply and fit the canopy, build the stone base and pave the entrance, with one team and one written, fixed-price quote.

Architect's sketch of a stone porch we built: coursed gable, dressed surround and flag path, drawn from the job photo
Our stone porch, drawn up. The photograph it was traced from is in the jobs below.

What goes into a canopy

01

The canopy

An oak or timber porch canopy, posts and gable, ordered to suit your door. We supply it and we fit it.

Sketch of a porch with the oak canopy, posts and gable highlighted in green
02

Stone dwarf walls and pillars

The posts stand on stone or brick dwarf walls we build, coursed and pointed to match your house. This is the part we're known for.

Sketch of a porch with the stone dwarf walls and pillars highlighted in green
03

The entrance paving

Natural stone or porcelain paving is laid up to the door, level and to a fall so it sheds water.

Sketch of a porch with the entrance paving up to the door highlighted in green
04

The tie-in to the house

The canopy is fixed, flashed and pointed where it meets the wall, so the porch reads as built in rather than added on.

Sketch of a porch with the house wall it ties into highlighted in green

Considering one over your door? Get in touch and we will price it.

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Benefits

Benefits of a porch

  • →Kerb appeal: a porch on a stone base changes the whole front of the house.
  • →Adds value: a well-built entrance improves the first thing every viewer and valuer sees.
  • →Shelter over the door for keys, prams and parcels.
  • →Built in days, without an extension's budget or disruption.

What a porch will and will not do

A porch gives you shelter, an entrance and kerb appeal. It does not give you a room: if you want enclosed living space, that is an extension, and we build those too.

Real projects

a stone-built house with the coursed stone porch and Indian flag path we built to the front door

A full stone porch: coursed gable, dressed surround, Indian stone flags to the door.

the stone dwarf walls and pillars built up, ready for the porch posts
Fixed price, in writing

Measured on site and itemised line by line.

Get a written quoteor see more of our work in the projects

See our porch work in Halifax.

a stone porch going up, walls and pillars coursed, ready for its canopy

How we build your porch

Most porches are built, paved and tied in within days. This is how the project runs.

01 · Footings first
We excavate and pour a full footing, so the porch is carried by masonry, not by four post feet bolted to a slab.
02 · The stone base
Dwarf walls and pillars are built in stone or brick, reclaimed or matched to your house, coursed and pointed.
03 · Canopy fitted
The oak or timber canopy, ordered to suit your door, is fitted onto the finished stonework.
04 · Entrance paved
Stone or porcelain paving is laid level and to a fall, so rainwater runs away from the door.
05 · Tied in and tidied
The porch is flashed and pointed into the house, the old step removed and the front left clean, all within days.
  1. the porch set out on the first morning, tape and level out, first blocks bedded

    01 · Footings first

  2. the porch dwarf walls coursed and pointed in dressed stone, close

    02 · The stone base

Send a photograph of your front door and we will advise on what would work there.

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a full brick or stone porch built from the ground up, all masonry

A porch built from the ground up

Not every porch is a canopy

A full brick or stone porch is built from the ground up: walls, roof, all masonry. It is a larger project than a canopy and a smaller one than an extension, and the stonework is the craft we're best known for.

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Planning permission

Do you need planning permission for a porch?

For most houses in England, the answer is no. A porch is permitted development provided it stays within three limits.

3 square metres

The floor area of the porch, measured on the outside, is 3 square metres or less.

3 metres high

No part of the porch, roof included, stands more than 3 metres above ground level.

2 metres clear

No part sits within 2 metres of a boundary that meets a road or a public footpath.

Listed buildings and conservation areas are the exceptions. We confirm what your house requires before we quote, never after.

What it costs

What a porch costs

A porch is priced as a single project, not by the square metre, and the stonework decides the figure. Send a few photographs of your door and step and you will receive a written quote: itemised, fixed, with no surprises. Six factors move the number.

01

How much stonework

Two low pillars carry one price; full dwarf walls around the entrance carry another.

02

Reclaimed stone or brick

Reclaimed stone costs more to buy and more to lay.

03

The entrance

A single step is light work; a raised porcelain entrance is more involved.

04

The canopy

A small two-post oak canopy costs less than a wider gable in heavier timber.

05

What is there now

Levels at the door, the old step, and anything that must be removed first.

06

Canopy or full porch

A built stone porch is a larger project, and priced as one.

Why us

Why we're the right fit

One team manages the whole project. Here is what that means.

Everything in one job

  • →Canopy ordered and fitted to suit your door.
  • →Stone or brick dwarf walls and pillars on a poured footing.
  • →Entrance paving in stone or porcelain, laid to a fall.
  • →Flashing, pointing and matched stone where it meets the house.
  • →The old step removed and the front left clean.

Why homeowners pick us

  • →27 years in the trade, and the person who quotes the project runs it.
  • →Stone is our specialism: reclaimed and matched masonry is what we're known for.
  • →Written, itemised, fixed-price quotes before any work begins.
  • →Planning and building regulations checked before we quote, not after.
  • →On and off site within days, with the front kept tidy throughout.

Common questions

Before you call

For most houses in England, no. A porch is usually permitted development if the floor area is 3 square metres or less, no part is more than 3 metres high, and no part sits within 2 metres of a boundary next to a road or public footpath. Listed buildings and conservation areas are the exceptions. We confirm what your house requires before we quote.

Other services

Our other services

One team, one standard of workmanship, across everything we build.

If a canopy over the door is all you need, that is what we will build.

Send a photograph of the front door and the path up to it

Tell us where the porch would go, roughly how wide the front is, and whether you want an open canopy or a full porch. You will receive a written, itemised, fixed-price quote.

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