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Green Oak:
There are a number of companies
specialising in green oak framed buildings using traditional
construction methods. Typical this comprises massive framed structure
held together with pegs in an A-frame or cruck frame construction
with lightweight infill panels.
Oak framing has seen a revival
in recent years and there are a plethora of companies offering
everything from oak components to and entire building.
  
Oak Joinery
Companies:
- Carpenter Oak
-specialists in green oak construction, founded in 1987 by Charley
Brentall. Useful image library, fact sheets and blog.
- English
Heritage Buildings
-traditional oak framers in East Sussex. Can provide self build
frames and the technical backup to erect your frame.
- Hobbans
-traditional timber framers in Essex.
- Inantuda -traditional oakwrights based in Harrowgate
who produce handcrafted oak frames and buildings for home, garden
and landscape.
- McMurdy
and Co -craftsmen and
specialists in the repair and conservation of
historic timber framed buildings -they were responsible for the
reconstruction of Shakespeares Globe Theatre in London.
- New
Forest Oak -oak framed
barns and other buildings -they also utilise their offcuts to
make furniture or for smokeries.
- Oakcraft -bespoke or standard oak framed buildings
from their locations in Hampshire, Berkshire or Surrey/Sussex.
- Prime
Oak -bespoke oak framed
buildings manufactured on a 368 acre estate in Staffordshire,
and also in Holland, Belgium and Ireland.
- Roundwood Construction -Kent based company specialising in traditional
oak construction methods.
- Sussex Oak Structures -their speciality is in the design, manufacture
and erection of traditionally jointed, mortice and tenon oak
frames.
- Welsh Oak Frame
-design and manufacture of oak timber frame houses, aimed primarily
to the self build market.
- Wessex Oak Frame
-small craftsmen based company founded by James Reid working
almost entirely in oak and based in Corsham, Wiltshire,
- Westwind
Buildings -specialise
in the design and construction of green oak framed houses using
traditional techniques, combined with modern design and construction
methods.
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- See our pages on: Joinery
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