Luxury, bespoke garden buildings handmade in Devon
Luxury garden rooms • Home offices • Studios • Summerhouses • Workshops • Garages • Carports • Premium sheds
Why settle for standard when your building can be truly bespoke?
Every Shields building is individually designed to suit your home, your garden and the way you want to use it.
Whether you’re creating a luxury garden room, a practical workshop, a bespoke garage or a beautiful home office, we take the time to understand exactly what you need before designing a building that’s made specifically for you.
From our workshop in Devon, our experienced team has been designing, crafting and installing premium timber buildings across the South West since 1991. Using quality materials, skilled craftsmanship and exceptional attention to detail, we create buildings that look beautiful from day one and continue to perform for decades.
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Single, double, triple, open fronted or enclosed, we will design, build and install the best car parking solution for you. There are so many vehicle and storage options waiting for you at Shields Buildings.
Discover insulated timber or composite garden rooms, beautifully made with the best materials in a range of styles to suit you. Whether you want a room to work in, relax, or fulfil your hobbies, Shields Buildings help you to get more from your garden space.
Do you need more space? Timber workshops and sheds are non-insulated buildings with a choice of a pent or low-profile apex roofs – robust everyday buildings offering the perfect solution for storage or for doing your hobbies.
Luxury, bespoke, fully insulated garden rooms designed with no expense spared, that will stand the test of time and require no ongoing maintenance.
ZERO Maintenance – ZERO Planning – ZERO Hassle
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Creating beautiful spaces for you
Since 1991, we’ve crafted hundreds of buildings from scratch, transforming garden spaces and delighting our customers.
Every building is unique
Each and every building we craft is built from the ground up by our team based at our farm on the edge of Dartmoor, with our decades of experience poured into each one.
Come and see for yourself
Our display site in North Tawton is open six days a week, so pop in and get a feel for the real thing. If you’re coming at the weekend please make an appointment if you wish to see a member of the team.
Case Studies
When Mr and Mrs D visited our display site, they already had a clear vision: a space that could balance both practicality and creativity: a combined workshop and art studio.
After chatting through ideas with our team, the plans began to take shape, and we began turning the vision into reality.
Together, we refined the design, incorporating a few bespoke touches, including a neatmatch effect internal lining to the art studio roof at Mrs Ds’ request. It was a first for us here at Shields Buildings, and a great example of how truly tailored each project can be.
As with so many Shields projects, this one began with a visit to our display site, with Mr and Mrs B keen to explore the options for a carport and store.
Initially they were drawn to the classic look of an apex-roofed combination carport and garage, but after a few thoughtful and considerate chats with the neighbours about the height, they decided to go for a lower-profile pent roof instead.
It was a sensible choice — still practical, but a little kinder on the views, and the relationship with the neighbours too!
The structure was to be built on a 20-year-old concrete pad in front of the house, which meant planning permission was required. No stress there: our team handled the whole planning process from start to finish, so the customer didn’t have to get bogged down in forms or planning jargon.
This particular project is the culmination of over two years of planning, preparation and hard work, with all sorts of delays due to property chains and a few unexpected twists along the way. But we got there in the end, and the proof is in the pudding!
Early on in the process, we were able to offer some guidance around permitted development rules, which turned out to be a crucial step, avoiding the Joneses buying a property where they wouldn’t have been able to build the garage they really wanted.
As plans evolved, Mr and Mrs Jones visited our display site several times to fine-tune the design, making sure it was perfect for their new home.
On visiting our display site Mr and Mrs D were immediately drawn to our ZERO range – zero maintenance, zero planning, zero hassle.
They zeroed in (see what we did there?!) on a 5x3m studio, and the process began, with our team heading out for a site visit.
After ironing out some access issues, our team got to work, crafting the building on-site here at Shields Buildings, and delivering and assembling the ZERO studio, ready to be enjoyed by our customers.
The project began when Mr T and his wife visited us on one of our Open Saturdays and was impressed by the quality and variety of our timber buildings. Inspired by what they saw, they approached us with a vision for a highly bespoke garden room.
We worked closely with them to bring it to life and a 4m x 3.4m building with a 1.6m canopy and composite decking was created. It had to suit both the challenge of their sloping garden and provide suitable space for their lifestyle.
Through regular communication and a flexible approach, we ensured every detail reflected their needs, resulting in a truly unique and beautifully crafted garden room.
Mr F first approached us with detailed planning permission drawings for a substantial pent garage—measuring 11.8 metres in length and 6.7 metres in width—with four bays incorporating a dedicated internal log store area.
To ensure the design met every requirement, Mr F made several visits to our display site, with these meetings proving invaluable, allowing us to:
1 – Discuss the materials
2 – Refine the layout
3 – Ensure every element aligned precisely with the approved plans.
This hands-on approach ensured complete clarity at every stage, so we could deliver a bespoke structure that fulfilled the practical needs of the client and remained fully compliant with their planning permission.
