Home Remodeling in Cheyney, PA
Remodeling for the older houses and country homes of Cheyney, on either side of the county line.
Cheyney carries the name of the family whose land it grew on. Squire Thomas Cheyney is remembered for warning George Washington of the British march at the Battle of the Brandywine, and George Cheyney's farm became the campus of what is now Cheyney University in 1902. The village began in the mid-1700s as Cheyney's Shops at Creek and Cheyney roads, with a general store, post office, hotel, blacksmith and wheelwright. When the railroad came through, the post office moved to Station Road, and the first station, a brick building just east of Cheyney Road, still stands as a private house. The university took down the buildings on the northwest corner of the crossroads in the late 1960s or early 1970s, but a stone wheelwright's shop and two related buildings survive on the northeast corner.
Around those survivors are houses on Station Road from the early 1900s, older farmhouses, and later country houses on generous lots in both townships. Dawson's serves Cheyney on either side of the county line, about fifty minutes from Middletown.
One village, two Thornburys
When Delaware County was carved out of Chester County, Thornbury Township was split between them, and landowners were allowed to choose their county. The result is an irregular line that wanders through Cheyney property by property. The Delaware County Thornbury runs its own Code Department; the Chester County Thornbury, a township of 3,177 people on under four square miles, has its own building code official, forms and fees. They are separate governments with separate zoning, so the deed and the tax bill, not the mailbox, decide which office reviews the plans.
Houses the township has numbered
Thornbury in Delaware County keeps a historic resource inventory, and its Historical Commission writes up properties one by one: the original Cheyney rail station at 139 Station Road, a 1909 house called Between Ways at 133 Station Road, a house on Creek Road. Being on that list is a reason to show the commission an exterior plan before it is final. The work itself follows the house. Original windows are repaired where the wood is sound and copied where it is not, trim and siding profiles are matched rather than modernized, and an addition is placed where it reads as a later wing.
Farmhouses and country houses
The farmhouses have kitchens in back wings, baths added in the last century and cellars that were never meant to be rooms, so the projects are a kitchen rebuilt in its wing, a bath reframed with a proper subfloor and fan, and moisture control before any thought of finishing below. The later houses on large lots take the full range: kitchens, primary baths, walk-out basements, decks, and additions where the setbacks allow.
Dawson's serves Cheyney for kitchens, bathrooms, basements, additions, windows, siding, decks and carpentry.
Nearby, Dawson's also serves Thornton, Glen Mills, Concordville and Chester Heights.
Cheyney is part of the Delaware County, PA service area.
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