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Bespoke Joinery in Gloucestershire — Windows, Doors & Oak Porches
Gloucestershire is where the studio’s whole-elevation work is anchored — a timber-framed Cotswold farmhouse whose windows, entrance and porch were drawn as one scheme rather than bought as three jobs.
We Are Woodland works across Gloucestershire — Cheltenham, Cirencester, Stroud, Tewkesbury, Gloucester, Painswick, Bourton-on-the-Water, Moreton-in-Marsh and the farmhouses and cottages between them, from the wolds down into the Severn Vale.
The county is not one place architecturally, and the studio’s Regional Context article sets out why in detail. What matters commercially is narrower: a Gloucestershire house usually needs its joinery decided as a set. On the studio’s own Cotswold project the house had been worked on piecemeal for years, and it showed — windows of differing ages and proportions, an entrance with no shelter, nothing agreeing with anything else. The casements, the entrance doors and a new oak porch were specified together and made together, which is the only way the elevation reads as one building afterwards rather than as a sequence of separate purchases.
What the studio makes for Gloucestershire properties
- Bespoke timber windowsCasements for farmhouse and cottage stock, sashes for the Regency and Georgian towns — sections drawn fine, because this county’s elevations show heavy timber immediately.
- Bespoke door setsPainted entrance doors and oak plank-and-ledge doors, specified with the windows rather than after them.
- Oak porches and frame extensionsGreen oak porches with the presence to mark a principal door and the structural honesty to belong to a framed building, rather than a canopy bolted to an elevation.
- Full joinery packagesThe county’s characteristic commission — a whole elevation, or a whole property, drawn and made as one scheme so nothing reads as an addition.
- Heritage and period joineryListed and conservation-area work, including the drawings and specification a consent application is judged on.
- Covers
- Cheltenham · Cirencester · Stroud · Tewkesbury · Gloucester · Painswick · Bourton-on-the-Water · Moreton-in-Marsh
- Anchor work
- Windows, entrance doors and an oak porch specified as one scheme on a timber-framed Cotswold farmhouse
- How it is specified
- As a set — the elements drawn against each other before any one of them is made
- Timber
- Green oak for structure · Accoya for painted casements · painted hardwood for entrance doors
- Read the background first
- The Regional Context article covers the county’s four building cultures; this page covers what the studio makes
- Pricing
- Set by the building and the specification, not a price list
Common questions
- Can a whole elevation of joinery be specified as one scheme?
- Yes, and in this county it is usually the right call. Windows, entrance doors and a porch drawn against each other before any one of them is made will agree on proportion, section and finish; bought separately over several years they will not, and the elevation shows it. On the studio’s Cotswold farmhouse project that was the whole brief — the house had been worked on piecemeal and nothing agreed with anything else.
- Can an oak porch be added to a timber-framed farmhouse?
- Yes, and a framed house is unusually unforgiving about it. A porch on this stock has to have the presence to mark the principal door and the structural honesty to belong to the building — green oak, jointed and expressed, rather than a canopy bolted to an elevation. It is drawn to the house rather than selected from a range.
- Do you make casement windows for Cotswold farmhouses?
- Yes. Casements are made to the opening that exists, with sections kept as fine as the stock demands — heavy modern sections are the single most common way new joinery announces itself on a Gloucestershire elevation. Accoya is often specified where the timber will be painted, because it holds a painted finish and resists movement without changing how the window reads.
- The studio is in Shropshire — do you work in Gloucestershire?
- Yes. The workshop is at Upper Farmcote near Bridgnorth and the studio designs, makes and fits across Gloucestershire; the timber-framed Cotswold farmhouse in the project list is the county’s anchor. Specifying a property’s joinery as one package means one survey, one specification and one fitting programme rather than repeated visits for separate orders.
- What does bespoke joinery cost in Gloucestershire?
- There is no price list, because the figure depends on the building — the openings, the sections, the timber, the glazing and the ironmongery all move it. The studio works at three tiers of project: single elements, multi-element commissions, and full architectural packages. An indication follows once the scope is understood.
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