Maggie’s Highland Care Centre in Inverness, one of our award-winning projects in Scotland.

Carpenter Oak & Woodland’s commitment to traditional oak-frame building methods, local design and regional craftsmanship is embodied nowhere better than in our office close to the Loch of Lintrathen, in the heart of Scotland.

Our Scottish oak framing yard was opened in 2000, to provide a local platform for our growing oak timber frame business in Scotland – and enable us to be better situated to support local customers.

Choice of indigenous timbers

It’s important for many timber-framed buildings that they reflect the local building vernacular, especially in the choice of materials. In Scotland, using Douglas fir or larch in addition to green oak can be especially important in meeting these regional design goals.

Local resources, national strength

Our Scottish team works both independently on its own projects and together with the English team, when required, drawing on Carpenter Oak & Woodland’s national resources, in order to undertake more ambitious timber frame projects. In addition, our Scottish office gives Carpenter Oak & Woodland true nationwide capability with an in-depth understanding of local needs.

The Natural Power Offices in Dumfries and Galloway

Working in the local style

A large amount of our work in Scotland is specified to meet the local style of building in addition to using indigenous materials – for example, combining oak timber frames, floor beams and roof trusses with local stone.

Notable timber projects in Scotland

The extensive work of our Scottish office includes award-winning restoration work at Stirling Castle and Dolbelydr (in Wales), plus new timber-framed buildings for Griffon Park Golf Club in York, Finzean House in Aberdeenshire, Moffat’s House (which was featured on television) and the Scottish Ornithologists’ Club in Aberlady. We have also undertaken timber engineering projects for organisations such as Lauder College in Dunfermline, the Renewable Energy Offices in Dumfries and Galloway - and award-wining work at Maggie’s Care Centre in Inverness, as well as Britain’s largest timber framed building at Loch Lomond.  One of our more unusual projects was to build a recreation of a Roman ballista (a huge stone-hurling catapult) for BBC TV and the Discovery Channel.