Bespoke Gun Rooms and Gun Cabinets
Gun cabinets, fitted gun rooms and concealed storage for shoots, country houses and private collections — hand-made in our Suffolk workshop and fitted across the UK. Cabinets from £7,000 plus VAT; rooms from £20,000.
Made properly, and made to be looked at
Most gun cabinets are chosen for what they withstand. We have spent more than twenty years making the case that the same cabinet can also be the best piece of furniture in the room.
Almost everything sold in this category is a steel box. A steel box, properly fixed, does its job — but it also tells everyone who walks into the room what is in the house and precisely where. In a farm utility that does not matter. In a study, a library or a boot room that somebody has thought about, it is the one thing that spoils it.
Everything we make is hand-made in solid oak, walnut, mahogany or hand-painted hardwood, steel-lined behind the timber, and drawn around the collection it has to hold. Nothing comes off a shelf, and nothing is a standard carcass with a timber front stuck on it.
We work at three scales: a single cabinet, a fitted room, or joinery built around a cabinet you already own. Which one is right usually becomes obvious within ten minutes of seeing the room and the gun list.
Three ways to do it
Gun cabinets
From a pair of guns to thirty. Freestanding or fitted, glazed or solid, in oak, walnut, mahogany or hand-painted hardwood. From £7,000 plus VAT.
Fitted gun rooms
We line the room in steel, clad it in timber, fit a steel firearms door clad to match, then fit all the joinery and gun racks. No building work. From £20,000.
Concealed storage
Joinery built around a cabinet you already own, so the room reads as a library, a boot room or a run of wardrobes.
Which one do you need?
| Gun cabinet | Fitted gun room | Concealed storage | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Best for | Two guns to thirty, in any room of the house | A dedicated room for the guns, the kit and the cleaning | Keeping a cabinet you already own out of sight |
| What we do | Make, deliver and install a steel-lined timber cabinet | Steel-line the walls, clad in timber, fit a clad firearms door, fit all joinery and racks | Build joinery around your existing cabinet |
| Building work | None | None — the room must already exist | None |
| Delivered and installed | Yes, included | Yes | Yes |
| Typical lead time | From about six weeks | A few months | From about six weeks |
| From | £7,000 plus VAT | £20,000 | Priced on the joinery |
Not sure which applies? Send the gun list and a photograph of the room and we will tell you plainly, including if the answer is the least expensive of the three.
Recent commissions
Glazed oak cabinet, dentil cornice
Case-furniture detailing over a steel-lined carcass, with laminated anti-bandit glass.
Four-door run, large collection
A fitted run in book-matched figured oak, drawn around a collection too large for one cabinet.
Separate ammunition storage
A baize-lined interior with a separate lockable compartment in the base.
Built into painted panelling
Set into the wall so that closed, it is simply a panelled elevation.
Bespoke gun cabinets →
The specification in full: steel, glass, locks and fixings. Sizing by collection, timbers, finishes and prices.
Fitted gun rooms →
Steel lining, timber cladding, a clad firearms door and all the joinery — fitted into a room you already have.
Concealed gun storage →
Four ways to build around an existing cabinet, and the two rules we will not break doing it.
What we build, and how
Drawn around the collection
Side-by-sides, over-and-unders and rifles are all different lengths, and a rifle with a scope left mounted is a different object again. A cabinet built to a standard size is a compromise for everybody — you either waste a third of the space or take the scope off every time.
So we start from the gun list. Racks are set out so guns stand without touching, which matters more for the finish on a pair of London guns than most people expect. Heights are set so scoped rifles go in scoped. Where the certificate requires ammunition to be held separately, that is a separate lockable compartment with its own lock, not a shelf behind the same door.
After that it is a question of what else lives in the room: felt-lined cleaning racks, drawers for cartridges and chokes, brass fittings, and lighting on a door switch so you can see what you are reaching for.
Timber, finish and the room it sits in
Oak, walnut and mahogany are the three we are asked for most. Quarter-sawn oak shows medullary ray and is hard enough to take a knock in a boot room. Walnut is the show timber — book-matched across a pair of doors it is the reason people stop and look. Mahogany suits a formal room and a French polished finish better than either. Where a scheme is already painted, we make in hardwood and hand-paint it.
All finishing is done in our own spray booth by our own polisher, not sent out. We antique where the room asks for it, because a new cabinet in a house full of old furniture can look wrong precisely because it is too perfect.
The workshop at Mickfield runs CNC and a Felder spindle moulder alongside full-size rod drawings on the wall, which is roughly the point: the machines do the repeatable work and the makers do the rest.
We talk to your firearms enquiry officer first
This is the part most makers leave to the client, and it is the part that causes every unpleasant surprise in this trade.
Responsibility for the security condition on a firearm or shot gun certificate rests with you, as the certificate holder. The adequacy of any particular arrangement, at any particular address, is a matter for your local police firearms licensing department — assessed case by case, taking account of the guns, the property and its location. No manufacturer can promise you an outcome, and any that does is telling you something that is not theirs to tell.
What we can do is remove the guesswork. Before anything is made, we set out the proposed specification in writing and agree it with your firearms enquiry officer. On completion, every piece leaves with a signed specification sheet — steel thickness, glass specification, lock model and its BS number, fixing type and centres — so the FEO can verify what has been built, and so you have a document for your insurer.
Prices, lead times and coverage
Cabinets start at £7,000 plus VAT for a single or double cabinet in oak. Fitted runs, figured timbers, glazed doors and matching drawer banks move that upwards. A full gun room is a different project, starting at around £20,000, because it is four pieces of work rather than one: steel lining, timber cladding, a clad firearms door, then all the joinery.
Lead times run from around six weeks for a single cabinet to several months for a substantial fitted room. Shooting is seasonal and so is this work — the enquiries arrive in spring for rooms wanted by the autumn, and the workshop fills accordingly.
We are at Mickfield in Suffolk, within easy reach of East Anglia, London and the Home Counties, and we install across the whole of the UK. For a room, we will always come and look at it before quoting.
Common questions
Does the law require a gun cabinet?
No statute requires a cabinet specifically. The Firearms Rules 1998 impose an outcome — firearms must be stored securely so as to prevent, so far as is reasonably practicable, access by an unauthorised person. A cabinet is simply what is normally considered reasonable in an ordinary domestic setting.
Is there an approved list of cabinets?
No. There is no Home Office or police approval scheme for gun cabinets or gun rooms. Independent attack testing exists and is worth having, but it is a commercial test result rather than an official approval.
Cabinet, room, or build around what I have?
A cabinet suits most collections. A room earns its place when you want somewhere to clean, change and keep kit as well as guns. Building around an existing cabinet is the least expensive way in, and in our experience it is how a good many gun rooms start.
Do you work with architects and builders?
Yes, and for a room we would prefer to. Most of what goes wrong in this category goes wrong because the joiner arrived after the walls were closed up.
Where we work
We are at Mickfield in Suffolk, and we deliver and install across the whole of the United Kingdom. Travel is included in the quoted figure rather than added afterwards. We also ship internationally: a great many collections abroad contain English guns, and there is a natural logic to the case coming from England too.
| Where | How we work | |
|---|---|---|
| England | Delivered and installed by our own team | Gun cabinets |
| Wales | Delivered and installed; four territorial forces administer licensing | Wales |
| Scotland | Delivered and installed; air weapons are licensed there | Scotland |
| Europe | Delivered and installed where practical, or shipped for local fitting | Europe |
| United States and beyond | Shipped through our freight partners, crated and documented | Worldwide |
Send us your gun list
Send us your gun list and a photograph of the room, and we will come back with a drawing and a price. Made in Suffolk, fitted anywhere in the UK.
Start a commissionFurther reading: gun room security, and what the rules actually say. Responsibility for the security condition on your certificate rests with you as the certificate holder, and the adequacy of any storage arrangement is a matter for your local police firearms licensing department. Information on this page is general guidance and is not legal advice.