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Interior Ideas


Make an entrance:
10 matt black porch lights
for the heritage home



Our heritage outdoor lighting designs are skilfully made in our Suffolk based workshop, using traditional metal working techniques to create the quality product you take home. Our outside lights will transform the look of your garden, entrance or outbuildings, making the most of architectural features and the natural beauty of your building materials. Choose from period splendour or simple country cottage styles to find your perfect outdoor light.

For classic styling, you can’t do better than matt black when it comes to exterior design. An historic colour that dates to the earliest days of blacksmithing, black hued ironmongery will give your home a smart and traditional feel that will never age. Our Matt Black is a clean uniform paint that looks striking no matter the setting, sitting bold against natural building materials like brick, stone, wood and plaster. Admire this smooth and durable finish across our varied offering of black porch lights.

THE HACKNEY LANTERN


Hackney Lantern (wall mounted)

Our wall mounted Hackney Lantern is a handsome, vintage-style outdoor wall light that has been hand crafted from high quality steel and painted Matt Black for a quality look to your outdoor lighting scheme. Traditionally styled on the carriage lanterns of the 19th century, it has a an elegant swan neck arm, gently tapering frame and hand blown glass sheets that gives it a beautifully robust and practical design that will lend your garden, porch or outbuildings a sense of timeless charm.

Hackey Outdoor Lantern

An alternative to the wall mounted design, the Hackney Lantern with chain can be ceiling mounted to suspend in your porches and hallways. The Hackney Lantern comes supplied with 50cm of black chain and cable and a ceiling rose and fixing screws in the same finish. We also make a selection of wall brackets should you wish to hang your pendant lantern from a wall but keep the feature of the cable and chain.

THE SHIP'S LIGHT



The Ship's Light


Hand crafted from high quality forged iron that has been painted in our smart, hard wearing Matt Black, the Ship’s Wall Light features a hand blown glass shade encompassed in an industrial-style steel cage. Inspired by the deck lights once found on ocean liners and steamboats, the Ship’s Light is as stylish as it is hardy, capturing the essence of a vintage find rather than a new item you can easily purchase at the click of a button. Of course, this is because they are handcrafted and finished by us, which means they are made to last just like the high quality designs of days gone by. This might be why they have long been one of our most popular outdoor lights.

THE BOATHOUSE WALL LIGHT



Boathouse Wall Light


This wall light is the beautiful Boathouse, a Gold Award Winner in the Best Lighting Category at the House Beautiful Awards. As the name suggests, this light has a lovely nautical feel that will enhance any outdoor setting whether a coastal property or a modern townhouse. A relatively small wall light, the Boathouse’s most appealing feature is the elegant spun brass bell shaped shade and short swan neck arm that has been painted in our smart and hardwearing Matt Black to complement its heritage roots.

THE PEACOCK LANTERN


Peacock Lantern



A pretty vintage-style forged iron lantern made for your porch, garden and exterior walls. The Georgian style Peacock Lantern is one of our most popular outdoor wall lights, the sweet detail of the back mirror reflecting light from the bulb at night and the beauty of your garden during the day.

Handcrafted from solid, high quality forged iron, this Peacock has been painted in our Matt Black for a simple, elegant matt finish. It also depicts a decorative peacock emblem stamped onto the cap. The Peacock Lantern is modestly sized so it will work well in a small space and it looks fabulous when hung in pairs either side of a doorway or in a row along a back wall.


THE FINSBURY


Finsbury Wall Light


A more pared down version of our best-selling Peacock, the Finsbury Lantern combines the classic elegance of a traditional outdoor wall light with modern LED technology, to produce a light that is as beautiful as it is practical.

Handcrafted from high quality steel that has been painted Matt Black for an authentic, traditional appearance, we’ve kept the design details of the Finsbury to a minimum to create a simple, linear wall light with an understated elegance that will complement a modern setting yet won’t look out of place in a traditional one

THE NEWPORT DOWNLIGHTER


Newport Downlighter

A dream choice for the more contemporary home, our Newport Downlighter will provide beautiful accent lighting and important saftey lighting wherever it is used. This unique light projects decorative beams of warm light down your walls, perfect for illuminating house names, letters and numbers and for lining a path or lighting up a driveway.

COACH LANTERN



Coach Lantern

A decorative outdoor wall light in classic matt black, our Coach Lantern design takes the best old fashioned styling and combines it with modern lighting technology to produce a handsome exterior wall light that is as practical as it is pretty. Featuring hand blown glass panes with a forged iron cross lattice on the front for security and an attractive handle detail on the top housing, this is one for the traditional country cottage.

SOMERTON WALL LANTERN



Somerton Wall Lantern

Beloved by garden designers looking for elegant garden lighting ideas, our classic, vintage-style Somerton Wall Lantern pays homage to the beautifully decorative wall lighting of the Georgian period where glass mirrors where often used on indoor and outdoor wall lights to project and reflect candle light to make spaces feel brighter and warmer. This wall sconce's classical proportions and clean lines make it an ideal choice for introducing elegant period detailing to any home or garden space.

Browse the Jim Lawrence website to see all of our hand forged and finished lighting and homeware.



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