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Bespoke Garden Rooms in Walcot

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 Walcot

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

Walcot · Garden Rooms

From a recent Walcot 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 Walcot

What garden rooms typically look like in Walcot

Walcot gardens are similar to central Bath's — the Georgian terraces have 5–8m of usable rear garden depth, while the larger Georgian villas along London Road have 10–15m. Walcot sits on the edge of the Bath World Heritage Site and parts of it fall inside the Bath Conservation Area.

Honest note: The descriptions below are generalisations — what's typical or commonly found in Walcot, 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 Walcot

Same as central Bath — most Walcot garden rooms need a planning application because of the Bath Conservation Area restrictions on PD rights. Tom will tell you on the site visit whether your specific property needs an application or qualifies for PD.

Common garden-room patterns in Walcot

Common Walcot garden room patterns: 4×3m garden offices (12m²) sized for the typical rear gardens, 3×3m small offices (9m²) for the tighter Georgian terraces, occasional cedar-clad studios with EPDM roofs on the wider London Road villas. Most jobs go through full planning because of the Conservation Area restrictions.

Local questions

Walcot — common questions

Is Walcot inside the Bath Conservation Area?
Parts of Walcot are inside the Conservation Area (the area nearest the historic core), and parts are outside (the streets further north and east). Tom will tell you for your specific property on the site visit.
My Walcot Georgian terrace has a 6m garden — is there room for a garden room?
Yes — a 4×3m office (12m²) fits comfortably in 6m of rear garden depth as long as the room stays under 2.5m ridge and 2m from the boundary. Most Walcot jobs of this size still need a planning application because of the Conservation Area.
Will my Walcot garden room need planning permission?
Most Walcot garden rooms do — the Bath Conservation Area restricts Permitted Development rights. B&NES standard applications take 8–13 weeks. Tom will tell you on the site visit.
Can I build a garden room in front of the principal elevation?
No — PD rights don't allow it and B&NES would refuse it. Garden rooms in Walcot have to sit behind the house as you look at it from the road.
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