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coppice-craft.com
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coppice craft, oak framed, traditonal & sustainable
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Welcome to - www.coppice-craft.com - Oak framed buildings, hazel hurdles, oak framed wattle panels, garden and house hedge-row furniture, tree planting, hedge laying, woodland conservation projects, and other traditional coppice-crafts from a sustainable source. All product materials are harvested from Hampshire hazel coppice woodland which has been brought back into cycle from derelict. The Web home of 'Out Of The Woods' oak framed buildings and conservation services (see 'services'). All work is undertaken to high environmental standards. Buying our coppice products promotes an investment in our shared environmental heritage, encourages new growth / regeneration of wild plants / hazel and supports the overall wonderful wildlife habitat of Hampshire woodlands. |
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Day one: 26.03.02 - We are going to construct a traditional timber-framed building from Hampshire oak sourced from well managed sustainable woodland. We aim to have the building ready for display at the Hampshire Wood Fair (18th May, Sparsholt College, Nr Winchester). The Sustainability Centre ( see links ) have kindly allowed us the loan of space within their grounds.
Eachweek we will update this section to show the progress and illustrate some of the tradtional methods we will employ.
(For commisioned projects, please enquire via email.)
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Article in 'The News' - 5th May, 2002.
'OLD-STYLE SKILLS GO INTO NEW TIMBER BUILDING'
By Pam Lish
"Traditional crafts are being used to construct a medieval
timber-framed building at The Sustainability Centre, just
outside Clanfield (Hants).
A small company is hoping to have the building ready for
display at the Hampshire Wood Fair on May 18th at Sparsholt
College,near Winchester.
Darren Hammerton, Brendan Burton and helper Ruth Borthwick
started putting the frame together on March 26. It is being
built to a medieval box-frame design used in Saxon times.
It stands above ground and measures twelve and a half by eight
and a half feet. Most of the work is done using traditional
methods. Huge oak beams have to be cut and fixed in place.
Nearly 150 joints and pegs are to be made by hand. Heavy
timbers are put into place to take the weight of the roof.
After careful construction the building will be taken away
in kit form to be re-assembled elsewhere. The work is
skilled and painstaking. Darren said: "It should take about
eight weeks to frame up and assemble at the Wood Fair and
we hope to finish it with a thatched roof".
The group are keen to emphasize their support for the environment.
Wood used for this project is Hampshire oak from a well-managed
sustainable woodland source.
In the future they hope to obtain a Rural Development Grant
to help them build a larger timber-framed building in the
grounds of the Sustainability Centre. In tune with the aims
of the environmental cente, this would house a variety of
traditional woodland crafts.
Anyone interested in following the building's construction
can find photographs of work in progress and week by week
information about the traditional methods used by looking
at the company's website at www.coppice craft.com.
The timber framed building will be up for sale after it has
been displayed at the Wood Fair. It doesn't need planning
permission and so could end up in someone's garden."
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