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Garden rooms · Chelmsford
Insulated, fully finished garden rooms for homes across Chelmsford, designed and built by one team from groundwork to handover.
NAPIT Certified electricians10-year structural guaranteeGarden offices from £22,500
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Chelmsford gardens come in every shape imaginable.
There are long, narrow strips behind the Victorian terraces of Moulsham, wide lawns behind the post-war semis of Great Baddow and Galleywood, and compact plots on the newer estates at Beaulieu and Chelmer Village. Our garden rooms in Chelmsford are designed around your property and what the room is for, not picked from three fixed sizes. Each one has an engineered timber frame, insulation in the walls, floor and roof, and a plastered, painted interior, so it feels like a room in the house rather than a shed at the end of the garden.
Design.Build quality.Accountability.
Garden room · Cedar cladding, anthracite French doors
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Chelmsford sits on the Great Eastern Main Line, with the fastest trains reaching London Liverpool Street in around 35 minutes. For years, that made it a commuter city. Now that many residents split their week between the office and home, the spare bedroom or kitchen table has started to feel like a compromise.
A garden office gives you a quiet, professional space away from the main house. We fit hard-wired data points, a WiFi access point and dedicated circuits for computers and screens, with layered LED lighting and glazing positioned for daylight without glare on your screen. At the end of the day, you close the door and walk back across the lawn. Our recent work in the city includes an office and studio, a garden gym and a bespoke studio.
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No two parts of the city are quite the same, and neither are the gardens behind them.
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Larger gardens here suit a multi-purpose room, zoned with a partition, a sliding door or a change in flooring so one end works as an office and the other as a gym or hobby space.
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Homes close to Hylands Park and around Writtle’s historic green are often older, and some sit within a conservation area. We choose the cladding, from natural timber to composite or contemporary board, so the room sits comfortably beside period brick and established trees, and any planning considerations are picked up at design stage.
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Newer estates tend to have tighter gardens and closer neighbours. Small garden rooms sized to the plot work well here, and garden offices typically start from around 3.0m by 3.0m.
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Terraced homes often have little or no side access. Tight access is a design problem we solve at survey, not a surprise on site.
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Every room is built to the same construction standard, whatever its size:
Engineered timber frame
Carries the roof and takes the fixings for everything else.
Insulation throughout
Fitted to the walls, floor and roof. This is what makes the room usable in January and July.
Weather protection
A breather membrane and a ventilated cavity behind the cladding let moisture escape, so the structure never sits wet.
Doors and windows
Anthracite aluminium doors and windows, with full-height glazing where you want the light.
Electrics
Designed at drawing stage by our own NAPIT Certified electricians, with a dedicated supply, consumer unit, sockets with USB and LED lighting inside and out.
Heating and cooling
Air conditioning for efficient heating in winter and cooling in summer, installed by F-Gas registered engineers.
Want to see what would fit your Chelmsford garden? Send us a photo on WhatsApp with the rough dimensions, or book a free design and quotation.
Garden office · Offset roof, cedar cladding, sliding doors
One company
Groundwork, frame, electrics, air conditioning and finish. One team, start to handover.
Case study · Billericay, Essex
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We cover Chelmsford and its surrounding villages, from Broomfield and Little Waltham in the north to Margaretting and Stock in the south, with the A12, A130 and A414 linking them all.
One team handles the complete build: foundations suited to the ground, the structure, the electrics, the air conditioning and the interior finish. There are no separate groundworkers, electricians or plasterers to find and chase. Build time depends on size and specification. As a guide, our bespoke garden office and gym in nearby Billericay, a 5.0m by 3.6m building, took four weeks on site.
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Whether a garden room needs planning permission depends on its size, position, height and intended use, and on your property. Many can be built under permitted development, but not all. Homes in conservation areas such as Writtle, listed buildings and some newer estates can bring extra considerations. We will not give you an answer before we have looked, and where planning or Building Regulations apply, we identify it during the design stage.
Our garden rooms
One company, properly accredited
Electrical
NAPIT Certified · No. 64714
F-Gas
REFCOM F-Gas registered · Reg. no. REF1022701
Guarantee
10-year structural guarantee
Insurance
£5m public liability insurance
Garden offices start from £22,500 and garden gyms from £24,000, fully finished, insulated, wired and decorated. The final figure depends on size, specification and site, and your quotation itemises exactly what is included.
Yes. Every room is insulated throughout as standard, and air conditioning is available as an upgrade for heating in winter and cooling in summer.
Our own NAPIT Certified electricians design the electrical layout at the drawing stage, install it and certify it, with notification where required.
Every build comes with a 10-year structural guarantee, and we carry £5m public liability insurance.
We do, including Writtle, Danbury, Boreham, Galleywood, Great Baddow and the surrounding area.
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If you live just beyond the city, our work stretches along the same routes you use every day. Head up the A12, and we build garden rooms in Witham for commuters around Chipping Hill and the newer developments. Follow the A414 east, and you will find our garden rooms in Maldon, designed for homes close to the Blackwater. To the north, we design garden rooms in Braintree for families in Great Notley and the surrounding villages.
Thinking about one of our garden rooms in Chelmsford? Book a free design and quotation, and we will come back with what is possible and a clear specification.
Send us a photograph of your garden on WhatsApp together with the approximate dimensions and tell us what you’d like to use the room for. We’ll tell you what’s realistic.
Free design & quotation
Tell us your postcode, the approximate size of your garden and what the room is for. We’ll come back with what’s possible and a clear specification.
