Pergolas & Garden Rooms in Abingdon

Yes — they are two of the most common rooms we build. A garden office gets insulation in the walls, floor and roof, a full electrical package with sockets, lighting and data, and good glazing. A garden gym adds rubber flooring, ventilation and power for equipment, with a shower as an option.

Garden rooms start from around £5,000 for a compact 4 m² room. As a guide from our calculator: a 10 m² insulated room is around £11,000–12,500, 20 m² around £15,500–18,000 and 30 m² around £21,000–24,000 in our Standard finish, fully insulated with doors, windows, electrics and cladding. The Comfort finish adds roughly 20–30%. Plumbing, a bathroom or unusual groundworks are priced on top after the site visit.

Often not — most garden rooms in a rear garden fall under permitted development if they are single storey, under 2.5 m high within 2 m of a boundary, not used as a bedroom, and cover no more than half the garden. Abingdon’s historic town centre is a conservation area, though, and listed buildings always need checking. It is a general guide: confirm with Vale of White Horse District Council. We look at this during the free consultation.

A timber pergola works out around £110–280 per m² installed — roughly £1,800–4,100 for a typical 3×4 m frame in softwood, and £3,500–8,000 for a large oak or hardwood structure. An aluminium louvered pergola, where motorised blades open and close for sun and rain, is a different order of thing: about £9,500–17,000 for 3×4 m, and £16,000–28,000 at 4×6 m. Add roughly £200–1,000 for integrated LED lighting and £500–2,500 per side for privacy screens or blinds.