Reciprocal-Framed Log Store

by Hugh Conway Morris | Aug 3, 2023

Reciprocal-Framed Log Store Small structure with innovative roof. We were commissioned by the owners of a fine listed house in Oxfordshire to provide them with a log store which was architecturally innovative, beautiful, and suitable for its sensitive context....

Oak-Framed Extension

by Hugh Conway Morris | Jul 20, 2023

An oak-framed extension to a listed cottage in OxfordshireA traditional structure, carefully specified to work with adjoining historic fabric, incorporating natural building principles.Manifest were commissioned to design and construct a new oak-framed garden room to...

Oak-Framed Bicycle Shelter

by Hugh Conway Morris | Nov 19, 2020

Bicycle shelter A new oak-framed structure for an Oxford house. The household are keen cyclists, and needed an open-sided structure where bicycle storage would be easily arranged.  Manifest conceived a new frame scribed in green oak, partially supported by the house...

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...

Lecture on Woodsmanship

by admin | Feb 15, 2019

Lecture on Woodsmanship & Timber Framing The history of timber in woods and buildings in England. Manifest were invited by the Clanfield & Bampton Historical Society to give a talk on the history of woods and woodsmanship in England, from earliest times to the...