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Bespoke Garden Rooms in Bathwick

Insulated garden rooms designed for year-round living, not just summer. TM Carpentry manages every aspect of your garden room project, from foundations and structural framing to insulation, cladding, roofing and the complete interior finish. We coordinate all specialist trades, including electrical, plumbing and plastering where required, giving you a single point of contact and a seamless build from start to finish. Whether it’s a home office, gym, studio or annexe, you’ll have a fully finished space that’s ready to use. Available across Bath, Bristol and Keynsham

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What's included

What's included

Every garden rooms job covers the items below — always. The exact specification depends on your space and what you want it to do.

  • Foundations (ground screws or concrete pad)

  • Timber frame construction

  • Insulation to year-round U-values (roof, walls, floor)

  • External cladding (timber, composite or render)

  • Roofing — EPDM, felt or insulated panels

  • Doors, windows and interior fit-out

A real job

Recent garden room project in Bathwick

Carpenter fitting oak cladding boards to a garden room under construction, insulated frame and roof already in place

Bathwick · Garden Rooms

From a recent Bathwick job — a garden office or studio build with insulated frame, cladding, glazing, and electrics. [Real project story placeholder. Replace with the specific job: the customer, what they wanted, what was tricky about the site, how it turned out. The photo shows oak cladding boards being fitted to a garden room during construction.]

About Bathwick

What garden rooms typically look like in Bathwick

Bathwick gardens are typically small — Georgian terraces here have 5–8m of usable rear garden depth, often with a raised terrace and steps down to a lower garden level. Slopes are common on the upper streets (Sydney Buildings, Bathwick Hill). Most Bathwick properties sit inside the Bath World Heritage Site and many are inside the Bath Conservation Area.

Honest note: The descriptions below are generalisations — what's typical or commonly found in Bathwick, based on the area's documented housing stock and garden sizes. Every property is different, so Tom will always confirm what's actually there on the site visit before quoting.

Planning & permissions

The planning context in Bathwick

Most Bathwick properties need a planning application for any garden room over 2.5m ridge or in a visible position. The Bath Conservation Area rules apply to most streets, and many Bathwick properties are Grade II listed (Listed Building Consent required). Tom will tell you what's needed on the site visit.

Common garden-room patterns in Bathwick

Common Bathwick garden room patterns: 4×3m garden offices (10–12m²) sized to fit between the rear terrace and the boundary wall, often partially below ground level on the upper streets to keep ridge height under 2.5m. Cedar cladding is the dominant choice to match Bath stone context. Most jobs go through full planning because of the Conservation Area restrictions.

Local questions

Bathwick — common questions

My Bathwick garden is only 5m deep — is there room for a garden room?
Yes — a 4×3m office (12m²) fits comfortably in 5m of rear garden depth as long as the room stays under 2.5m ridge and you keep 2m from the boundary. Most Bathwick gardens are tighter than this, but Tom works to PD thresholds where possible to keep it simple. If you need more space than 12m², planning is usually needed.
My property is Grade II listed — does that affect garden rooms?
Yes — Listed Building Consent is required for any substantial outbuilding in the curtilage of a Grade II listed property if it's considered to "fix" to the listing (which usually means anything insulated, with power, or visible from the listed building). Tom will tell you on the site visit whether LBC is needed for your specific case.
Will my Bathwick garden room need planning permission?
Most Bathwick garden rooms do — the Bath Conservation Area restricts Permitted Development rights for outbuildings. Anything over 2.5m ridge, within 2m of a boundary, or visible from a public road will need an application. B&NES standard applications take 8–13 weeks.
Can you build a garden room on my rear terrace level?
Yes — Bathwick's raised rear terraces work well for garden rooms on the lower level. The ridge height is measured from the original ground level (or the higher of the two if the room is between levels), so a partially below-grade room can keep ridge height under 2.5m.
Are you VAT registered?
No — below the threshold. Quotes are VAT-free.

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Our step by step process

Our step by step process

Every job follows the same six stages. Some are quicker, some are slower — but the order and what to expect at each point is fixed, so you're never wondering what's happening.

  1. 01

    Planning check

    Most garden rooms fall under permitted development. We confirm this for your specific site and flag any conservation-area or listed-building complications up front.

  2. 02

    Design and quote

    Size, position on the plot, intended use, services needed. Fixed-price quote.

  3. 03

    Foundations

    Ground screws or concrete pad, depending on ground conditions. Usually a single day.

  4. 04

    Frame and roof

    Timber frame raised, roof fitted, windows and doors installed. Most rooms take 1–2 weeks on site.

  5. 05

    Insulation and cladding

    Insulation fitted to target U-values (roof below 0.20, walls below 0.25, floor below 0.22). External cladding applied.

  6. 06

    Interior finish

    Lining board, flooring, electrics (first-fix and final). Snagging and sign-off.

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Modern garden office pod with vertical cedar cladding and large black-framed glass doors