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Timber framing

The UK's leading provider of bespoke traditional and contemporary timber frames.

Featured three times on Grand Designs
Residential timber-framed houses

Timber-framed houses

Our bespoke hand-crafted timber homes, featured three times on Channel 4’s Grand Designs, always ensure an oak framed home of unique character.

Commerical timber-framed homes

Commercial timber frames

Whether for work, learning, worship or recreation, an oak timber-framed building provides an environment which is second to none – whether the design is traditional or highly contemporary.

Conservation, restoration and repair

Conservation and restoration

Carpenter Oak & Woodland has been responsible for the conservation, restoration and repair of some of the UK’s best-loved oak timber-framed buildings, including famous historic sites.

Timber engineering

Timber
engineering

With an exceptional in-depth understanding of oak timber engineering, Carpenter Oak & Woodland has undertaken projects which range from the breathtaking to the highly unusual.

Download our free guide to oak timber framing

Timber framing guide New to timber framing? Need to find out how to successfully undertake a timber frame project? Our free guide will give you the answers you need

Find an architect who specialises in designing oak frame homes

Find the ideal architect to bring your dream to life: visit the Directory of Oak-Frame Architects.

Resources and help for architects and engineers

Architect's rule Our extensive resource library and CPD programmes provide expert help to architects, engineers and construction professionals wishing to incorporate timber frames into their structures.

News, blogs and project updates

Latest news

Conservation of oak roof at St James Priory

May 27, 2010

St James Priory is one of the oldest buildings in Bristol and work to restore the buildings fabric is underway. Carpenter Oak & Woodland are proud to be involved in this important project.

Stowe Landscape Gardens

May 25, 2010

A £350,000 contract at Stowe Landscape Gardens has been awarded to Carpenter Oak & Woodland to help bring an 18th century inn and its surrounding oak framed buildings back to life.

Recent projects

Oak frame for new Rosslyn Chapel visitor centre

Wrenwood: a superb timber frame home in Cheshire

Latest blogs

Past project revisited

Andy Parker
22 March 2010

Directory of Oak Frame Architects

Tim Burrell
28 February 2010

Specialists in bespoke, handcrafted, oak timber frame homes and timber frame buildings


The building, conservation, restoration and repair of oak timber frame homes and houses, oak barns and barn conversions, swimming pools, oak frame garden rooms, oak timber frame commercial buildings, public buildings, offices and visitor centres in England, Wales and Scotland; specialist oak timber engineering of unusual and large structures, including grid shells and bridges.


We work across all UK counties, including, in England: Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Cheshire, Cornwall, Cumbria, Derbyshire, Devon, Dorset, Durham, East Sussex, Essex, Gloucestershire, Greater London, Greater Manchester, Hampshire, Hertfordshire, Kent, Lancashire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Merseyside, Norfolk, North Yorkshire, Northamptonshire, Northumberland, Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Shropshire, Somerset, South Yorkshire, Staffordshire, Suffolk, Surrey, Tyne and Wear, Warwickshire, West Midlands, West Yorkshire, West Sussex, Wiltshire, Worcestershire. In Wales: Anglesey, Cardiff, Clwyd, Dyfed, Gwent, Glamorgan, Powys, Gwynedd. In Scotland: Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Angus, Argyll and Bute, Ayrshire and Arran, Banffshire, Berwickshire, Caithness, Clackmannanshire, Dumfries, Dunbartonshire, Dundee, East Lothian, Edinburgh, Fife, Glasgow, Inverness, Kincardineshire, Lanarkshire, Midlothian, Moray, Nairn, Perth and Kinross, Renfrewshire, Ross and Cromarty, Roxburgh Ettrick and Lauderdale, Stirling and Falkirk, Sutherland, The Stewartry of Kirkcudbright, Tweeddale, West Lothian, Western Isle, Wigtown, Orkney Shetland.

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