English Garden Shed

"This picture makes me want to be pruning, planting and enjoying my garden,
or maybe building a new shed..."

This beautiful English garden shed adds character to the property where it lives. Notice the many fine details that make this more than a simple garden tool shed. This special shed is a garden focal point.

So, where is THIS shed located? Since the photo contributor, Jaymass (James Maskrey, a photographer who lives in the United Kingdom) lives in the UK, our assumption is that this unique garden shed is located there, too! Thanks to Jaymass for this great photo.

What's so special about this English garden shed?

For starters, take note of the timber frame construction style. Notice the wood frame around the door that extends up into the gable end above the door and down to the foundation? It appears to be timber framing, or half-timbering, as it is also known.

For those who don’t know, timber framing is a construction style that joins heavy timbers together using mortise and tenon joints (for the analytical types like me, look up the German building style called Fachwerk). Basically, there are slots cut in the wood so the wood joins together and is attached using pegs (traditional) or bolts (modern adaptation – sorry to the purists). Anyway, it is beautiful, it shows evidence of a craftsman, and I just like it.

What else? Notice the climbing plants on either side of the door and the raw, natural looking wood siding. Anything else? How about the vented gable end above the door that provides ventilation for moisture control. This is no ordinary wooden storage shed.

Enough? No. Look at the doors. More evidence of a craftsman who, it appears, used mortise and tenon joinery to construct the doors. This is much like a cabinet maker would do with kitchen cabinet doors, but without the bottom rail.

And on and on it goes. The round ridge cap on the roof, the half round rain gutters, the stone or block foundation (which you can barely see behind the plants on either side of the door), evidence of a field stone floor (am I reaching here? Wish I could see inside!), etc. The more I look at this picture, the more I want to go straight outside and build my own English garden shed (Honey, where is the check book?).

If you live in the UK (or anywhere for that matter) and you have a special garden shed of your own (or a picture of one), please send me a picture and a little story. I would love to share it with the world. If you have yet to build your own shed, please send me a picture when you do.

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