Company history

Carpenter Oak & Woodland operates from a very strong ethical and environmentally responsible standpoint – for example, we plant up to ten trees for each one used, with all of our timber coming from sustainable sources.

Carpenter Oak & Woodland is an established, industry leading timber-framing company.

Carpenter Oak & Woodland was founded in 1987 by Charley Brentnall, a leading expert in the oak timber framing industry, and was developed from the roots of an established, but small, oak timber-frame repair and conservation business. We opened our first oak timber-frame office in Wiltshire, in that year, and have grown steadily ever since – opening our Scotland timber-frame office in 2000.

The company was founded on the concept of creating new barn-style properties for those who couldn’t obtain a suitable property for conversion. The company has since diversified and grown – into a leader in not just residential oak timber-framed houses and homes, but also commercial timber-framed buildings, and historic timber-frame conservation and restoration, along the way gaining a reputation as the inducstry experts in this area.

In 2003 we opened a specialist division to concentrate timber engineering for high specification and difficult projects.  Built on our high levels of technical expertise and years of practial experience of complex design, exacting manufacture and erection methodology, we are now regarded by many as the leading authority in the UK.