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Bespoke Timber Windows & Steel-Look Casements in Oxfordshire
Oxfordshire is where the studio’s contemporary work sits inside a protected landscape — slim steel-look casements in Cotswold stone, within an AONB whose planning resists pastiche in both directions.
We Are Woodland works across Oxfordshire — Oxford, Burford, Witney, Woodstock, Chipping Norton, Charlbury, Thame, Banbury, Bicester and Henley-on-Thames, and the stone and brick-and-flint property between them.
The county’s building stock is covered in the studio’s Regional Context article, which is the place to start if the question is what a house is. This page is about the other half of the county’s work, and the one the studio is anchored on here: contemporary joinery that has to hold its own in a protected landscape. The Oxfordshire project is a period stone property in the Cotswolds AONB, extended with an unapologetically modern glazed addition — a planning context that resists pastiche in both directions, refusing both a fake-old extension and a modern one that ignores the setting.
The specification problem in that job is worth stating plainly, because it is the one clients ask about most. Crittall-style steel gives beautiful slim black sightlines and brings a thermal and maintenance burden that suits a domestic building badly. Getting that look in timber is a matter of drawing the sections fine enough to convince at close range while the window still performs — which is a joinery problem, not a product choice.
What the studio makes for Oxfordshire properties
- Steel-look timber casementsSlim dark sections in Accoya that give the sightlines of a Crittall-style window without the thermal and maintenance burden of steel on a house.
- Bespoke timber windowsCasements and sashes for the county’s period stock — stone-mullioned west, brick-and-flint through the chalk south, Georgian in the river towns.
- Bespoke door setsBifolds and glazed door sets drawn in the same language as the windows around them, so an opening reads as one decision.
- Contemporary door setsWhere the register is modern rather than period — the studio’s Urban Designed work, applied with the same architectural discipline.
- Heritage and period joineryListed and conservation-area work, including the drawings and specification a consent application is judged on.
- Covers
- Oxford · Burford · Witney · Woodstock · Chipping Norton · Charlbury · Thame · Banbury · Bicester · Henley-on-Thames
- Anchor work
- Slim steel-look timber casements and bifolds for a contemporary stone extension inside the Cotswolds AONB
- The specification problem
- Crittall sightlines without steel’s thermal and maintenance burden — solved by section, not by product
- Timber
- Accoya with slim dark-grey steel-look profiles, against natural Cotswold stone
- Read the background first
- The Regional Context article covers the county’s geology and period stock; this page covers what the studio makes
- Pricing
- Set by the building and the specification, not a price list
Common questions
- Can timber windows be made to look like steel or Crittall windows?
- Yes, and it is a specification problem rather than a product choice. The sections have to be drawn fine enough to convince at close range, in a slim dark-grey profile, while the window still performs thermally — which genuine steel on a domestic building does not. The studio specifies these in Accoya, so a painted dark finish holds and the sections stay stable.
- Can a contemporary extension be glazed inside the Cotswolds AONB?
- It can, and the planning context tends to resist pastiche in both directions — neither a fake-old addition nor a modern one that ignores its setting. The studio’s Oxfordshire project is exactly that case: a period stone property extended with a modern glazed addition, where the joinery had to be unapologetically contemporary and still belong to the stone it sits in.
- Do you work on both period and contemporary property in Oxfordshire?
- Yes. Period and rural work is the studio’s main body, and the contemporary register runs alongside it as Urban Designed. Oxfordshire is the county where the two most often meet on one building — an old stone house with a modern addition — and specifying both halves together is what stops them arguing.
- Which parts of Oxfordshire do you cover?
- The county broadly — Oxford, Burford, Witney, Woodstock, Chipping Norton, Charlbury, Thame, Banbury, Bicester and Henley-on-Thames, and the stone and brick-and-flint property between them. The studio is at Upper Farmcote near Bridgnorth in Shropshire, and designs, makes and fits across the county.
- What does bespoke joinery cost in Oxfordshire?
- 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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