Glamorgan Heritage Coast
Green oak frames, cut and pegged on the Welsh coast.
We're a workshop at Llandow, near Cowbridge, framing in green oak the way it's always been done — mortise and tenon, oak pegs, curved braces. Garden rooms, garages, porches and orangeries, plus gates, carpentry and engraved oak.
Why the frame matters
Three things that decide whether a building is still here in a hundred years.
Jointed, not bolted
Every frame is draw-bored mortise and tenon, pegged in oak. No brackets, no bolts, nothing that rusts or works loose. As the oak seasons the joints pull tighter, which is why frames built this way are still standing after four hundred years.
A workshop, not a van
Frames are cut dry and to a line at Llandow, then raised in your garden in days. Less weather in the timber, less mess in your garden, and tighter tolerances than anything cut on site.
Structures are what we do
Years building climbing walls: engineered timber structures that get loaded, get hammered daily, and have to be signed off. Your building gets the same thinking, and the same attention to what happens in thirty years.
What we make
Four things, one workshop.
Oak framing is what we're known for. The other three keep the machines running and the lead times honest.
Oak-Framed Buildings
Lead offerGreen oak frames cut and pegged at Llandow, raised on site: garden rooms, studios, garages, cart lodges, porches, orangeries, gazebos and extensions. Insulated and lined to a finished building where you want one.
Oak framingOak Gates & Estate Joinery
Fastest to fitArched and braced oak gates, driveway pairs, side gates, field gates, posts and ironmongery. Built square, braced properly, and wired for automation if you want it later.
GatesStructural Carpentry
Trade & self-buildRoofs, floors, stud and first fix, beams, decking, structural repair, and oak frame repair or replacement members on older buildings. For builders and self-builders who need someone who reads a drawing.
CarpentryEngraved & Carved Oak
Posted UK-wideHouse name signs, business and landmark signage, plaques, memorial and gift pieces. Live-edge oak boards, engraved and hand-finished, posted anywhere in the UK.
Engraved oakHow it works
Five steps, from a phone call to a raised frame.
- 1
Talk it through
A call or a message. Tell us roughly what you want and where it's going.
- 2
We come and measure
A site visit across the Vale, Bridgend and Cardiff. No charge, no pressure.
- 3
Drawings and a fixed price
A proper drawing, and a price that doesn't move unless you change your mind.
- 4
Cut in the workshop
Machined, jointed and dry-fitted at Llandow while your garden stays yours.
- 5
Raised, and then some
Put up, cleared up, and we pick up the phone afterwards.
Planning permission
Most garden rooms in Wales don't need it. We design to keep it that way.
Permitted development sets height, position and footprint limits for outbuildings. We design to those limits when that's what you want, and tell you plainly when what you're asking for goes past them — because a bigger room, an annexe, or anything you intend to sleep in usually does.
Where we work
Across the Vale of Glamorgan, and beyond it for the right job.
From the workshop at Llandow we cover Llantwit Major, Cowbridge, St Athan, Barry, Penarth, Dinas Powys, Bridgend, Porthcawl and Cardiff. Engraved and carved oak we post anywhere in the UK.
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Tell us what you're thinking of building.
A call takes five minutes and we'll tell you straight away whether it's something we should be quoting for.