Sarum Systems designs, installs and maintains fire alarms in Saffron Walden and the surrounding villages, for shops and offices around the Market Square, schools, care settings, holiday lets and guest rooms in period buildings, and units on the Shire Hill Industrial Estate. We fit Apollo detection with Kentec and Advanced panels, take over systems installed by others and service them to BS 5839-1. The survey is free, the work is planned around the fabric of old buildings, and maintained systems get an engineer within three hours of a fault.
HD & 4K camera systems with remote viewing, recording and smart motion alerts.
Wired & wireless intruder alarms, monitored and app-connected, fitted to BS EN 50131.
Keypad, fob and door-entry systems that control exactly who goes where.
Fire detection and alarm systems designed, installed and serviced to BS 5839.
Most fire alarm work in Saffron Walden happens inside old buildings. The centre grew around the Market Square, and Gold Street and the lanes off the square are full of timber-framed and Georgian properties now used as shops with flats above, offices, cafés and holiday accommodation. Fire behaves differently in them. Concealed voids behind lath and plaster, open stairs and later extensions let smoke travel in ways a modern layout would not, so detection has to follow the real structure. The County High School, with over 2,000 pupils and Saffron Hall attached, shows the other side of the town: a modern campus that also hosts public evening events. Out on Shire Hill, the work is industrial and trade units with offices, where a well serviced addressable system does the job and any access-controlled doors on escape routes release on alarm. Fire safety in Saffron Walden is enforced by Essex County Fire and Rescue Service, and we design and document every system so it stands up to their inspection.
Paying guests are the point many Walden owners miss. If you let a cottage, a room or the flat above your shop to holidaymakers, the Fire Safety Order applies and you are the responsible person, with a fire risk assessment to record. Government guidance for small paying guest accommodation sets out what is expected, and interlinked detection is usually part of it. In listed buildings we work to minimal intervention: cable along existing lines, radio devices where a run would cut into historic fabric, detector finishes that sit quietly on old ceilings, and a panel that is discreet but easy to find on arrival. We will tell you when the conservation officer should hear about it before any drilling. Shops with flats above get one coordinated design, so a fire downstairs warns people upstairs early.
Fire and security is all we do — from design to long-term maintenance, across every system.
An East Anglia-based team means faster surveys, quicker call-outs and engineers who know the area.
We don't disappear after install — ongoing maintenance keeps every system compliant and reliable.
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