Our business was originally founded on the concept of creating new oak barn-style properties, built to traditional standards, for those who couldn’t find a property to convert. We are known for our strong ethics and for operating an environmentally responsible business.

Whether it’s a decision based on design, practicality, craftsmanship, ecology, lifestyle or aesthetics, opting for an oak timber-framed building demonstrates the desire for excellence above compromise.

That’s what you’ll find at Carpenter Oak & Woodland, where we apply quality design, craftsmanship and traditional methods to the creation, maintenance and even conservation of some of the UK’s most beautiful, functional and individual green oak timber-framed buildings.

Residential and commercial oak timber frames

We’re equally adept at creating oak timber-framed buildings for both home and work, using traditional and contemporary designs. Our experience ranges from the best time-proven traditional methods to the most cutting-edge integration of green oak timber with modern materials such as steel and glass.

Making your dreams of an oak frame building a reality

We don’t provide off-the-shelf designs or impose standard solutions. Our bespoke, craftsman-based approach to building oak timber frames ensures that your desire for a building of individuality isn’t compromised. We don’t impose an in-house design style on you, but work with you adding our expertise – helping to make your personal design goals a reality in the best way possible.

Nothing compares to the visual warmth of an oak timber-framed home

Big enough to cope, small enough to care

With two oak timber-framing yards (one in England and one in Scotland) and seven carpentry teams, we can handle oak frame projects of almost any size. Even so, we have retained a uniquely personal way of working – assigning the same team to an oak frame project from start to finish, to ensure quality, continuity and good communications.

Expert advice for individuals and architects

Whether you’re an individual undertaking a new-build for the first time or an architect wanting to try something new with an oak timber frame, we can help.

• By listening to individuals and understanding their needs, we can help you to select exactly the right architect for your oak timber-framed building.
• For architects proposing unique designs, we’re skilled at making the unusual work – and work well.

An award-winning, recognised leader in oak timber-framing

Our oak frame work has received many awards and has featured on television over fifty times, on programmes such as Grand Designs and Build, Buy or Restore. We also appear regularly in print, in architectural publications and lifestyle periodicals.