GILDHOUSE.

Bespoke web design for the British high street

The best-dressed shopfront on the internet.

Gildhouse builds rare, beautiful websites for England’s independent businesses — pubs, boutiques, solicitors and trades. Crafted like a hand-painted sign. Engineered like nothing else on your street.

Watch the gold go on — or run your cursor across it and lay it yourself.

Est. England · By appointment to the high street

Serving: York · Bath · Ludlow · Whitstable · Harrogate · Totnes · Shrewsbury · Rye · Frome · Beverley · Marlborough · Hebden Bridge · Stamford · Lewes · Bakewell · Holt

No. 2The Window, The Parade

You’d never trade from a shop with a peeling fascia and a hand-Sellotaped notice in the window. Yet that, give or take, is what most local websites are: built in a weekend in 2017, squinting on mobile, apologising for itself.

Here is the uncomfortable bit. Your customers now walk past your digital window far more often than your real one — every search, every “pub near me”, every recommendation forwarded in a family group chat. The business with the better shopfront online wins the booking before anyone has put their coat on.

A proper website isn’t a luxury. It’s the quietest unfair advantage on your street.

We build it the way the best things in this country have always been built: by hand, to last, with no fuss and no jargon. You will not hear the word “synergy” from us. You will hear the till.

No. 3The Trades, The Parade

No. 4The Method, The Parade

  1. Week one

    The Survey

    We come to you — or ring, if you’d rather. We learn how your business actually earns its keep: the questions customers always ask, the jobs you want more of, the ones you don’t. No forms. One good conversation and a pot of tea.

  2. Week two

    The Draught

    You see the design before a line of code exists — words, pictures, the lot, in plain English. You mark it up like a proof from the printer’s. We revise until you’d hang it in the window yourself.

  3. Weeks three & four

    The Gilding

    The build. Hand-set type, photography handled, every page tuned to load in a blink on a weak phone signal in a beer garden. Tested on real devices, not just expensive ones.

  4. Launch day

    The Unveiling

    We put it live, point Google at it, and hand you the keys with a one-page guide a busy person can actually use. Then we stay on the end of the phone. Forever, in practice.

No. 5The Plaque, The Parade

No. 6The Tariff, The Parade

  • The Plaque

    £2,400

    A single, immaculate page. Your story, your photographs, your phone number — done properly. Live in a fortnight.

  • The Shopfront

    £4,800

    The full premises. Up to eight pages, bookings or enquiries built in, photography directed, Google sorted. Our standard pour.

  • The Flagship

    from £9,500

    For the ambitious: online ordering, gift vouchers, membership, the works. The site your competitors send their nephews to study.

All prices plus VAT · No retainers you don’t understand · Hosting & care from £39 a month, cancel whenever

The questions everyone asks

How much does a website cost?
Fixed and on the board: a one-page site from £2,400, a full website from £4,800, advanced builds from £9,500. All plus VAT, no surprise retainers.
How long does it take?
Four weeks, first conversation to live: a week to understand your business, a week to agree the design, two to build, then launch day.
Do you only work with businesses in England?
We specialise in independent English high-street businesses — pubs, shops, practices and trades. That focus is exactly why the work fits them so well.

No. 7Last Orders, The Parade

Put the kettle on. The first conversation costs nothing and changes everything.

Twenty minutes on the phone. We’ll tell you, candidly, what your current site is costing you and what we’d do about it. If we’re not the right fit, we’ll say so and point you somewhere good.

Arrange a call

hello@gildhouse.co.uk · 01904 000 000