We would encourage everyone interested in oak timber framing to visit our Claverton Workshops to see timber framing in progress – we also have a finished building adjacent to our workshops that will give you a real flavour for our Timber Frames.

Your Build

English Oak Buildings will tailor its approach to suit your requirements.

For the self-builder, an English Oak Buildings green-oak frame represents an ideal approach. We will provide and delivers a structural, free-standing frame tailor-made to each client’s needs, allowing them to finish the build to their own specification and timing.

As part of a partial build, English Oak Buildings would work alongside project architects and the main contractor to design, fabricate, and raise the main oak-framed structure - perhaps also being commissioned to provide specialist cladding panels for the frame. The main contractor then assumes responsibility for finishing the build.

English Oak Buildings’ turnkey option is increasingly popular and offers a construction and project management service designed to draw upon our wealth of knowledge and experience in all areas of successful green oak-frame builds. We will oversee your project from start to finish, managing architects, planners, engineers and contractors, while you simply relax and plan moving into your new home.

Your Project

One of the key benefits of green oak frame construction is that during the fabrication of the frame in the workshop all the foundations and other preparatory building works can be completed on site. This makes for a more efficient build time with the associated cost savings.

Our attention to tradition and detail enables us to deliver accurate structures that we can raise with the help of a crane in a matter of days. For example, as soon as the foundations are complete a large three-bedroom house frame could be erected and ready for the next stage of construction in less than one week. A smaller frame can be put up in as little as a day.

We are also able to produce and install specialist cladding panels for the walls and pre-decorated warm roof systems including timber shingle or shake-roof coverings. These elements are pre-fabricated in the workshop, ready to be applied to the frame once it is raised.

With the correct preparation and planning a large oak frame can not only be raised but can also be entirely weather-proof within just three weeks.