Home Remodeling in Nottingham, PA
Kitchen, bath, basement and exterior work for the farmhouses and newer neighborhoods of Nottingham.
Nottingham is a crossroads, not a municipality: the place where U.S. 1 meets Route 272 a short drive north of the Maryland line, split between East Nottingham and West Nottingham townships. Its history runs older than most of the county's. In 1701 twenty families led by Cornelius Empson settled the Nottingham Lots, 20,000 acres in 37 parcels, on ground Pennsylvania and Maryland both claimed until the Mason and Dixon survey settled the line, and the two townships separated between 1715 and 1718. After 1820 West Nottingham became chromite country, with mines such as Scott-Engine-Kirk on what is now Nottingham County Park, until production stopped around 1900. The park, Chester County's first when it was dedicated in 1963, sits on one of the largest serpentine barrens on the East Coast and was named a National Natural Landmark in 2008.
The newer story is growth on the East Nottingham side, which had 3,841 people in 1990, 5,516 in 2000 and 8,650 in 2010, a jump that shows up as new streets of houses. West Nottingham grew far more slowly, and its neighborhoods, Canterbury Acres, Sunland Estates and Nottingham Estates among them, sit among farms. Dawson's serves the Nottingham address on either side of the township line, about forty-five minutes from Middletown.
East or West Nottingham decides the permit
The crossroads sits near the line between the two townships, so the permit follows the parcel, not the post office. East Nottingham enforces the state construction code through a building code official who may be a township employee or a certified firm the township retains. Its zoning ordinance dates from 1971, was revised in 1989 and was comprehensively amended in 2005, and no use and occupancy permit issues until the zoning officer certifies the use complies. West Nottingham keeps its own ordinances and its own permit process, so a house on that side files there.
Farmhouses and country houses
Across both townships the older houses are farmhouses, some with additions from several generations, and their kitchens usually sit in a later wing and get rebuilt there, with cabinets scribed to walls that are not straight and new circuits run for today's appliances. Bathrooms get a waterproofed shower and a fan vented outdoors. Where the soil is thin over rock, as it is around the barrens, digging footings for an addition or holes for deck posts can hit stone quickly, and that is planned for up front.
East Nottingham's newer houses
The houses that came with East Nottingham's growth since 1990 are now fifteen to thirty-five years old. Their projects: a kitchen opened to the family room, a primary bath with a larger shower, an unfinished basement turned into living space, and tired siding and original windows replaced. Where a street has a homeowners association, its approval for exterior changes comes before the township's.
Dawson's serves Nottingham for kitchens, bathrooms, basements, additions, windows, siding, decks and carpentry.
Nearby, Dawson's also serves Oxford, Lincoln University, New London and Kemblesville.
Nottingham is part of the Chester County, PA service area.
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