Our conservation work on Stirling Castle’s Great Hall one of our largest restoration projects.

Carpenter Oak & Woodland undertakes conservation projects both large and small – everything from barn to a castle.

Carpenter Oak & Woodland has been responsible for the conservation, restoration and repair work on many of the UK’s historic oak timber-framed buildings – to preserve our unique architectural heritage for current and future generations to enjoy.

Religious buildings

Some of the UK’s most stunning architectural heritage is found in our many oak framed religious buildings. We’ve helped to restore timber work in some of the oldest, including St Mary’s Church in Breamore (repairs to the medieval belfry), Thurso Church (repairs to the doors, for Historic Scotland) and Foxham Church in Wiltshire (repairs to the Butterfield belfry).

Oak frame public buildings

We have undertaken oak frame conservation, restoration or repair work on a wide range of public buildings right around the UK, including Floods Farm Cart Lodge at Botley Manor Farm Museum (for the Hampshire Museum Service – a massive project which needed an 18th-century building to be dismantled and moved to the museum) and the Blue Anchor in south Wales (conservation and reconstruction of a fire-damaged medieval inn, with Caroe & Partners Architects.

Oak frame barns

Although humble, timber-framed barns are an important part of our national heritage. We’ve restored many oak frame barns, including Charlton Court Tithe Barn, which dates from 1406, in Steyning, Sussex; also, the Wakes Field Centre, at Gilbert White Museum in Selbourne, Hampshire (we dismantled and moved an aisled barn to its new home), the Commandery at Ansty, Dorset (a Knights Templar site, for which we were commended at the Wood Awards) and Halesowen Abbey (where we provided timber shingles for the site’s huge roof).

Castles

Britain’s great castles represent a key part of our history – and preserving these has to be done with great care and skill. We undertook the award-winning restoration of the roof at Windsor Castle, ravaged by fire in 1992. Also at Windsor Castle, we restored the Deans Cloister roof, on behalf of Martin Ashley Architects. We also restored the roof at Stirling Castle – which had been missing for hundreds of years. At Berkeley Castle, in Gloucestershire, we made repairs to what is thought to have once been a kitchen.

Historic sites

As well as well-known historic sites, such as castles, we have also been involved in the restoration of unique sites, such as the preservation of Shackleton’s huts in Antarctica.

Residential oak timber-framed properties

It’s often forgotten that we have many residential oak timber-framed buildings of historical importance – whether in use or preserved as a museum. We have also restored many of these sites, including Dolbelydr in Wales (a fine 16th-century house, where Henry Salesbury wrote his Grammatica Britannica - the oak frame restoration work was commended at the Wood Awards and won a commendation at the RICS Awards) and Great Porch House, in Devizes, Wiltshire. We were also responsible for the restoration of the Sanctuary,  at Steeple Ashton in Wilshire, which was featured on the TV programme, Under The Hammer, on BBC1.