Outbuildings
Hand crafted from the finest natural materials, our outbuildings are built to feel like they’ve always belonged with your home.
From bespoke creations designed to meet your exact needs, complete with project management, manufacturing and a full build service, to pre-fabricated self-assembly kits for your local contractor to erect, there’s an option to suit every project.
Border Oak clients have used their outbuildings to house classic cars, as a home office, a swimming pool room, a garden studio, a gym or yoga space, stables, or simple garden storage space.
Desgin & Planning
During our first meeting either on site or at our offices, we’ll discuss how best to realise your ideas. You’ll then receive initial budget costings and our dedicated in-house design team will start turning your ideas into a workable reality.
If planning permission is needed, our associated planning services can help with coordinating, writinging and submitting the planning application, organising any additional surveys needed and liaising with the relevant Local Planning Authority.
We can also work alongside your consultant/ architect and simply provide the design of the building whilst they submit the planning application.
Download our guide to find out more about planning permission and building regulations.
Materials & Specification
Our concept is deceptively simple and based on traditional oak framed outbuildings. Every Border Oak frame is handcrafted using age-old English carpentry techniques, minimising reliance on energy-intensive machinery. We scrutinise every element of our buildings with regard to aesthetics and engineering, ensuring our buildings remain unrivalled when it comes to specification and quality.
We use traditional oak arched braces and seasoned oak tapered pegs, and all our outbuildings come with treated, planed softwood rafters, pre drilled and cut ready for fixing.
Outbuilding Options
We offer a wide range of build options. Our Classic range of oak framed outbuildings have been designed and engineered with self assembly in mind. You can choose for us to undertake the entire project for you or simply supply and erect the oak frame.
We use our own Border Oak teams throughout the process, from design to build, and are able to deliver and erect across the UK and abroad.
Our full Project Managed build service gives you peace of mind knowing one contractor is responsible for the whole project, start to finish. Alternatively, we can work with your own contractors.
Designed for DIY
We design with self-assembly in mind. Our handcrafted oak frames are test assembled in our workshops to ensure quality and fit. Our unique ‘factory fitted’ weatherboard panels are preformed at our workshops and simply require lifting and fitting into place.
The rafters are pre-cut with individual ‘birdsmouth’ details to sit perfectly on wallplates. The rafters are also marked to illustrate the position of the battens. Nail holes are pre-drilled and we also supply a unique self assembly pack containing nails, fixings, gloves, goggles, hard hats, ratchet straps, teak oil and a special drill bit.
Our full self assembly kit includes instructions, drawings, basework specifications and structural calculations, if required. A typical two bay garage could be erected by two people over three days. The detail of our ‘kit’ is unique with as much of the building as possible being prefabricated in our workshops to maintain quality and to produce a building that is genuinely ‘self-assembly’.
We can also make bespoke buildings to suit your specific needs – designing, making and building exactly how you want it.
Customer Comments
We have always wanted a Border Oak House!
We needed a family home that was also a working farmhouse, and would be adaptable as our children grew and our working lives changed.
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