Wooden Orangeries
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Wooden orangeries represent a high-value extension solution for architects, developers, and trade installers seeking premium results with predictable delivery. Country Hardwood engineers and manufactures bespoke wooden orangeries that integrate seamlessly with project specifications, providing light-filled, durable spaces that elevate client outcomes.
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What is a Wooden Orangery?
Orangeries, sun rooms & orangery extensions designed, manufactured and supplied
Wooden orangeries are precision-built garden rooms that differ fundamentally from conservatories. Unlike conservatories with pitched glass roofs running directly from window frames, our bespoke wooden orangeries utilise a flat roof construction with a separate central lantern roof. Originally designed for overwintering citrus trees, today’s wooden orangeries deliver robust, permanent spaces ideal for high-use kitchen, dining, and living areas—specified by professionals for longevity, comfort, and aesthetics.
The defining characteristic of our timber orangeries is the flat perimeter roof section combined with the glazed lantern roof in the middle. This approach produces a space that reads as a true extension, not a bolt-on. Brick walls or piers can be integrated for structural performance, thermal mass, and architectural presence. The flat roof provides a serviceable ceiling void for downlighting and concealed services, supporting year-round usability and clean finishes demanded by specification-led projects.
Why Choose Wooden Orangeries?
For trade partners, wooden orangeries offer measurable value: consistent manufacturing tolerances, clear technical documentation, and streamlined installation sequences. Country Hardwood uses engineered timber and proven joinery methods to deliver strength, stability, and premium surface quality. Our finishes schedule includes RAL colours and translucent stains, enabling accurate design coordination across façades and interiors.
Energy efficiency is a core advantage. Orangery roofs provide superior insulation levels compared with typical conservatories, enabling reduced heating loads without sacrificing daylight. Our insulated flat roof build-ups, high-performance glazing, and airtight detailing support comfortable year-round use—ideal where SAP, Part L, or client energy targets apply.
Design versatility sets wooden orangeries apart. We collaborate with architects and structural engineers to resolve complex geometries—from period properties requiring raised and fielded panels and pilasters to contemporary schemes with slim sightlines and large glazed spans. We accommodate challenging sites, unsquare walls, and expansive footprints (including multiple lanterns), providing CAD/BIM support, structural calculations where required, and coordinated setting-out for rapid on-site progress.
Design Features & Premium Materials
Country Hardwood’s bespoke wooden orangeries incorporate project-ready features that maximise light and function. Roof lanterns deliver exceptional daylight and focal presence. Our bifolding door systems enable generous openings—specified up to 10 metres—to connect interiors with gardens or terraces and support modern entertaining briefs. Feature windows with customisable glazing bars can reference period detail or align with contemporary minimalism.
Premium hardwood construction underpins longevity and aesthetic consistency. Factory finishing ensures controlled curing and uniformity. Dual-colour options allow separate interior/exterior palettes for precise scheme coordination. Hardware, seals, and coatings are selected for performance, lifecycle, and maintenance efficiency, with warranties and service guidance available for trade partners.
Design Styles
Our bespoke wooden orangeries are available in Victorian, Edwardian, P-shaped, and contemporary styles, enabling straightforward alignment with planning context and client brief. Profiles, mouldings, and glazing patterns can be tailored to conservation requirements or modern design language, ensuring seamless integration with the property.
Explore Country Hardwood’s bespoke wooden orangery solutions. Request a trade pack—technical drawings, specifications, lead times, and a project-specific quotation—and book a free design consultation.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do you need planning permission for an orangery?
Potentially, depending on local guidelines; consultation with your local council is recommended.
Is an orangery cheaper than an extension?
Generally, orangeries are more cost-effective than full extensions, yet still provide rich character.
Finest Hardwood Materials
Crafted using only the finest hardwoods, we can tackle any style of building, from traditional or highly decorative buildings including raised and fielded panels, decorative pilasters, and glazing bars or window leads of any design, to ultra-modern buildings with thin, plain frame sections and large expanses of glass. Whatever the design, all of Country Hardwood’s products add a feeling of quality and luxury. With our stylish feature windows, stunning timber lanterns and sleek bifolding doors, our orangeries capture the natural light with dramatic effect, turning the additional space into a warm and inviting area to relax and entertain.
All of our joinery can be finished in an array of colours, including translucent stains to show off the natural grain of the timbers below. There is also the possibility to have different colours on the inside and outside of your building, allowing you to achieve the perfect balance for both your internal and external spaces. No matter the style, at Country Hardwood we are confident that we can help you to come up with a design which will complement your home and be an enduring and impressive feature for many years to come.
Planning Permission & Options
The criteria for requesting planning permission for an orangery or conservatory has changed in recent years so is often not required. The Government introduced legislation in October 2008 and put in place a new permitted development regime for householders. This has since reduced the requirement for many householders to apply for planning permission to extend their homes, but there are still rules that must be adhered to in order to remain exempt from planning permission.
ROOF OPTIONS
Country Hardwood offer a number of glass roof options. If you would like to discuss your roof requirements for a project please get in contact with us.
You can learn more at www.orangeries-uk.co.uk
ORANGERY & CONSERVATORY TYPES
Common styles of structure include:
- P Shaped Victorian
- P Shaped Victorian Hip
- Victorian Five Sided
- Victorian Conservatories
- Victorian Back Hip
- Raked Lean To
- Lean To
- Hip Roof Lean To
- Gull Wing
- Edwardian
- Edwardian Gable Front
- Edwardian Back Hip
Bespoke Orangeries
blend beautifully with the existing style of the property
Luxury Orangeries
High Quality, Luxury Materials
Trade Orangeries
Trade Friendly Services
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