Newell Farm Builders Inc

The most useful thing to know about Newell Farm Builders is the paper trail: 24 permitted projects on the books around West Newbury, and a Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration that is active. Tim Lattrell runs the company from 70 Church Street in West Newbury. The permit history reads like a working general contractor rather than a single-trade shop — two-story additions, kitchen and bath remodels, roof replacements, and an $87,000 water-damage repair permitted in West Newbury in June 2025. Recorded job values span $3,000 patch jobs to $250,000 structural work, which is a wide range for a small outfit and tells you they are used to both. BuildZoom scores them 101, which it places above 88% of the 139,240 Massachusetts contractors it tracks — a permit-activity measure, not a measure of how the finished work looked. The gap is reputation. No customer reviews have been published about them on BuildZoom, and the permit record shows three projects in the last three years, so there is no body of client accounts to weigh against the paperwork. That is not a mark against the work; it just means you have to do the checking yourself. A reasonable candidate for an addition or a gut kitchen-and-bath job in the Merrimack Valley towns if you are willing to vet them the old way: ask for three recent client references you can call, walk a finished project, and confirm registration number 161177 yourself at the state's Consumer Affairs site before signing.