Placements / Heritage Joinery - Brookehaven Estate Trust
Heritage JoineryDemo only - not a real placement
Brookehaven Estate Trust
📍 Matlock, Derbyshire📅 18 May 2026 – 29 May 2026
About this placement
Brookehaven's joinery workshop produces and repairs timber elements throughout the house and its many outbuildings. Students will work on live projects using both hand tools and traditional machines, learning to make mortice-and-tenon joints, repair sash windows, and understand historic timber species selection.
About Brookehaven Estate Trust
Brookehaven has been in continuous occupation for over 400 years and our skilled craftspeople maintain its historic fabric daily. We offer placements across our joinery workshop, paint conservation and roof metalwork teams.
Requirements
- • Interest in woodworking or carpentry
- • Basic hand-tool familiarity helpful but not essential
- • Safety footwear required
Expenses & provisions
Travel expenses up to £50/day covered. Meals not included.
2
places remaining
- Duration
- 2 weeks
- Dates
- 18 May 2026 – 29 May 2026
- Cost to student
- Free
Applications open soon. Email office@craftgate.org to hear when placements open.
18+ only
This placement is for applicants aged 18 and over.