We were commissioned by a local client to completely renovate and remodel an old garage & coach house block to create an annex. We simultaneously constructed a double garage with workshop and a home office.

Repeat clients Sue & Tony decided to develop on old, dilapidated farmyard renovating the old barn, creating a water feature, rebuilding an ancient potting shed, and constructing a bespoke timber double garage and building all the masonry for a heritage style greenhouse. We also landscaped and paved the surrounding area.

We have been involved with this scheme to demolish an old garage and create a new double garage, workshop and a one bedroom flat above. We introduced the client to the architect and constructed a superb building, using Cotswold walling stone and reclaimed stone roof tiles. We used Bath stone quoins and mullions. All windows and joinery were in Oak.
This high-class building blends in well, situated in the historic village of Lacock on one of the few privately owned properties not far from the Abbey.  

This customer had an overgrown tired driveway with the gardens slipping and spilling into the drive.
We regraded and changed the levels as well as installing drainage and creating small walls and steps.
The drive was resurfaced using Romsey clean shingle over as dug to help with binding. 

​This is a triple garage with an oak frame effect but the main construction being in softwood without it being obvious. This keeps costs at a sensible level while producing a traditional style open bay garage. The Façade is all green oak on staddle stones white the studs, trusses and feather edge are all in softwood. Roof is tiled in Retained Double Roman Tiles.
After completion the body of the house asked about the possibility of a traditional clock tower which we sourced and fitted. 

This job entailed knocking down some unsightly buildings and constructing a two-bay garage with store and games room in concrete block work. To improve the visual impact we incorporated oak beams and used ebony stained featheredge boarding to provide an attractive cladding.  

Careful siting and design meant that this improvement provided the additional benefit of altering the outlook from our clients’ property by effectively blocking the view of some rather unsightly, neighbouring, barns.

We also created a shingle access driveway to compete this project.

We replaced an old wooden five-bar gate with a pair of modern, heavy duty, electronic gates.
These imposing gates formed part of a much larger conversion but provide a secure and attractive entrance to the renovated property project above being as part of a larger project. The bricks are hand made Mickelmersh with Ashlar copings and caps.

Stone Garage with Wine Store, Southwick Trowbridge - The garage was built in a sympathetic style to match a number of barn conversions we had completed 10 years previously for the same client.  The walls were built in a solid construction and faced with stone.  The roof is formed of old pan tiles while the apron in front is Cerney shingle.

This was a design and build project to provide a double garage and a large workshop which arose from a direct approach by a client.  

Because of its very rural location, it needed to look, in some ways, like an old barn. We helped to design the building, which comprised of a block work shell which we clad in softwood sawn boarding with oak posts for an authentic effect. The roof was formed with second-hand double Roman tiles to match other buildings in the vicinity. The building was designed in such a way that it would be very simple to make this larger in the future, if required.

Brackstone Builders have been working in and around the Cotswold village of Biddestone for almost 30 years - almost exclusively as the direct result of personal recommendations.
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This particular project involved a careful and sympathetic approach to save the remainder of the building and then to enhance it and create usable accommodation at first floor level with garaging and a games room on the ground floor.

We take a huge amount of pride in our work and this project proved to be particularly satisfying for the team on site as by completion, they had saved an old building and created something truly special.