Summerhouse Bookshelves

by Hugh Conway Morris | Sep 10, 2019

Summerhouse Bookshelves A bespoke set of free-standing shelves, in Douglas fir to match their building context. Our clients commissioned us to design and make a new set of bookshelves, to be placed in a low corner of their garden summerhouse (designed by us back in...

Lecture on Great Coxwell Barn

by admin | Aug 8, 2019

Lecture on Great Coxwell Barn Grand-scale timber framing and the Cistercian legacy. Manifest gave a presentation to the Clanfield & Bampton Historical Society on Great Coxwell Barn, one of the most impressive (not to say staggeringly beautiful) medieval barns in...

Cob Barn Repairs

by admin | Aug 8, 2019

Repairs to a Cob Barn in Warwickshire Emergency works and fabric inspections. Working through a contact with a mud-builder in Cumbria, we were asked to visit a beautiful old farmyard in Warwickshire, and to inspect a small and rather curious open-fronted cob barn,...

New Classically Detailed Shelves

by admin | Aug 8, 2019

New classically-detailed bookshelves for a private dwelling, Oxfordshire A station for books and entertainment centre.   Our oak-framing skills have enabled us to take on a range of projects in the old houses of Oxford, designing and building in-built furniture...

Historic Aisled Barn

by admin | Aug 8, 2019

Timber-Framed Aisled Barn A conservation management plan. A local, family-owned company came into possession of this listed, timber-framed aisled barn as part of their purchases in south Oxfordshire, and commissioned Manifest to carry out a detailed fabric...