by Hugh Conway Morris | Dec 29, 2025
Re-building a medieval oak frame after a house fire Traditional techniques and materials for a thatched cottage in Oxfordshire Manifest were contacted as specialist oak framers following a devastating house fire to the existing property, a medieval thatched cottage. ...
by Hugh Conway Morris | Mar 5, 2025
Professional Course in Traditional Hand Hewing On a February weekend, the Manifest Woodland Guild ran a professional course in hand-hewing – the ancient skill of converting a felled tree to a squared beam, using only axes. Set in the context of Dragon Wood, the...
by Hugh Conway Morris | Aug 3, 2023
Historic oak-framed cottage in Oxfordshire Traditional timber repairs to decayed elements The cottage, listed at Grade II, had suffered from many inappropriate interventions over its lifetime, but perhaps the chief culprit for its degradation was a combination of...
by Hugh Conway Morris | Aug 3, 2023
Large timber-framed veranda to a new house, Oxfordshire Manifest were commissioned to construct this new timber framed veranda, which was carried out in large sections of Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii), to allow for open spans and spaces within. The house itself...
