Oak-framed doors and a glazed screen set into a Cotswold stone barn
New oak rafters and an X-braced truss inside a barn conversion roof
A semi-circular floating oak staircase with open treads

Traditional carpentry. Careful building.

A family business with over 70 years' experience, working on barns, cottages and period homes across Oxfordshire, the Cotswolds and Warwickshire.

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A lot of what we do is on buildings that have been standing a long time. Barns, cottages and period houses where the roof, the stonework and the joinery all have to be dealt with properly, and often on the same job.

We're a family business with over 70 years' experience. We cut roofs, make and fit oak joinery, rebuild stonework to match what was there, and take on whole-house renovations.

Call Ryan 07791 410013 What we do

A solid oak ledged and braced door with iron strap hinges and a ring latch
Oak joinery Ledged and braced door A very old solid oak door, altered to fit a new opening. The frame, architraves and stops were handcrafted from a matching door, and the oak was ice-blasted to remove hundreds of years of lacquer and dirt.

Recent work

Every picture on this page was taken on site. Where we have them, the small inset photographs show the job before or while it was being built.

Barn conversion Cotswold village

Back to the stonework, then a new roof.

Sub-contract work on a barn conversion. The old roof was stripped back to the stonework, then new wall plates and ridge beams went in, ready for the new cut roof.

Ridge beams
270 × 150 mm
Trusses
Two handmade oak trusses, X-braced
Roof
New rafters, with openings cut for roof lights
Eaves
Tapered sprockets, front and back, cut to follow the curve of the building
Rear
A new lead gutter detail
A rafter table book, notebook, calculator and carpenter's pencil on a worktop
Working out the roof.
The new roof frame seen from inside the barn, with X-braced oak trusses and new rafters
From inside, once the roof was framed.
Two oak trusses standing on the roof deck against the sky
The oak trusses.
A long run of new rafters on the stone gable, with scaffold boards in the foreground
New rafters on the long run.
The arched barn doors after repair, with new v-jointed boarding, original iron bands and pins The same arched barn doors before work began, weathered grey and stuck shut Before After

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Barn doors Cotswolds

Doors that wouldn't open.

A pair of original barn doors that didn't open at all. After a lot of persuasion we got them off, saved the original pins and bands, got them working again and fitted new v‑jointed boarding.

Same arch, same stonework. The doors now work.

More recent jobs

Oak bi-fold doors and a glazed top unit seen from inside a stone barn
The empty barn opening, with scaffold tower, before the doors were fittedBefore

Oak joinery Cotswold barn

Oak doors and glazed screen

Solid oak bi-fold doors with a glazed top unit, fitted to an old barn. Solid oak fillers, 40 mm thick, were scribed in between the glazed units.

Oak treads of a semi-circular floating staircase seen from above
Steel brackets and a spirit level on the wall where the staircase was set outDuring

Staircase Cotswolds

Floating oak staircase

A semi-circular oak staircase, designed and built by us. Steel brackets are fixed into the wall, and the skirting was bent slowly to follow the curve while the other work carried on.

A restored stone inglenook with an oak beam, salvaged brick and a lit log burner
The inglenook before restoration, with the stonework and beam exposedBefore

Restoration 300-year-old cottage

Inglenook fireplace

Stonework repointed in traditional lime mortar, beams sandblasted, and bricks salvaged from a fallen garden wall. A new hearth carries the log burner.

A birds-beak dormer window above a double bay window on a white rendered house
The dormer frame under construction behind scaffolding and tarpaulinDuring

Loft conversion Warwickshire

Birds-beak dormer

A double bay window and a one-off dormer, both with lead roofs, made to the architect's specification. Most of the old roof came out to make room for new steelwork.

A new dormer faced in natural stone tiles on a Cotswold stone roof
The timber studwork of the new top floor roomDuring

Extension Cotswolds

Timber frame extension

Built in timber frame to keep disruption down while the house stayed lived in. The new roof went on before the old one came off. A new dormer went in for the top floor, and the existing one was rebuilt to match.

A new open-plan kitchen with a dark painted island, pendant lights and a garden view
The old kitchen before the cottage was renovatedBefore

Renovation Cotswolds, AONB

Cottage renovation

The whole ground floor renovated and extended, with a wrap-around single-storey extension, new stone, steels to open up the plan, underfloor heating and a handmade kitchen.

A green oak pavilion with two gables, cedar shingle roof and decking on a lawn
The oak frame of the pavilion going up on its deckDuring

Green oak Warwickshire

Garden pavilion

No drawings. The customer sketched it on a scrap of paper and left us to work the roof out: a double gable at each end, hipped inside, around a custom glass skylight. Cedar shingles on top.

A tiled shower with stacked vertical tiles and a rain head beside an oak door
The room before work, with crumbling plaster on the wallsBefore

Interiors Cottage

En-suite and dressing room

Crumbling lime plaster removed, solid walls insulated, a double-door wardrobe built in, and bead and butt panelling throughout for that classic cottage feel.

A shaker kitchen in Old English white with a blue island and a skylight above
The kitchen units being fitted, with levels and tools on siteDuring

Kitchen Cotswolds

Shaker kitchen, fitted

A handmade shaker kitchen installed in a cottage we renovated. Old English white with a blue island, quartz worktops, a Belfast sink, and tumbled limestone with underfloor heating.

Joists and a stone parapet on a flat roof under construction, scaffolding overhead
Inside the same job, with timber stud walls, ceiling joists and underfloor heating pipesInside

Roofs Flat roof

Warm-deck flat roof

Timber joists on joist hangers, with hand-cut diminishing strips, then plywood, vapour barrier and insulation. Tall stud walls and a suspended ceiling were part of the same job.

There's more on Instagram @ryandan_construction.

What we do

Jobs often combine several of these.

  • Roofs and structural timber

    Cut roofs, oak trusses and ridge beams, dormers, warm-deck flat roofs, loft conversions and timber frame extensions.

  • Oak joinery

    Oak doors, bi-fold doors and glazed screens fitted to old openings. Barn doors repaired and working again. Staircases designed and built.

  • Renovations and extensions

    Whole-house work on cottages and period homes: structure, floors and underfloor heating, lime pointing and plaster, and stonework matched to the existing.

  • Fitted and bespoke work

    Wardrobes, bead and butt panelling, rustic cladding and kitchens, built or fitted to suit the room.

  • Garden structures

    Green oak frames, cedar shingle roofs and decking, including a Swedish-style BBQ hut.

What clients have written

If anyone is looking for a builder and/or carpenter around Oxfordshire, contact these guys. They saved me after my house flooded and were just incredible.

Instagram Oxford Babysitters

Every single corner, old, new, inside, outside, has been carefully and skilfully repaired and rebuilt by you.

Card A client's handwritten thank-you, August 2026

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