Oak framed car ports

What is an oak car port?

An oak frame and roof that's open on at least two sides, and often on all four.

Open on every side, it stands on a pad footing under each post, with your drive as the floor, so it's the cheapest oak building that keeps a car dry: from about £29,000 including VAT for two bays, designed and built within 90 minutes of Abergavenny.

How much does an oak car port cost?

From about £19,700 for one bay, open on every side. Designed and built, including VAT, with the design and our engineer in the price, for 3 m bays 6 m deep with a tile roof.

Open on every side, on pads

• One bay, 3 × 6 m: about £19,700
• Two bays, 6 × 6 m: about £29,300
• Three bays, 9 × 6 m: about £36,500
• Four bays, 12 × 6 m: about £44,400

Back boarded, on a slab

• One bay, 3 × 6 m: about £25,500
• Two bays, 6 × 6 m: about £38,000
• Three bays, 9 × 6 m: about £50,400
• Four bays, 12 × 6 m: about £62,600

Open on every side, each post stands on a staddle stone over a concrete pad, and the floor is the drive or gravel you already have. With the back boarded, the building needs a slab and a brick plinth under the boarding, which is most of the difference. Correct at October 2026.

What's in the price

• Design, planning drawings and our engineer
• A pad footing and staddle stone under each post, or a slab where the back is boarded
• The oak frame on 150 mm posts, made and raised by us
• A tile roof with oak fascias and barge boards
• Gutters, and downpipes to the ground

Quoted on top

• Slate, an oak roof inside, doors
• A slab or paving under an open car port
• A soakaway
• The council's fees

What's the difference between a car port, a cart lodge and a garage?

A car port is open on at least two sides. A cart lodge is a garage without doors. A garage is the same building with doors.

A car port can be open on all four sides. A cart lodge is open at the front and boarded at the back and ends, on a slab. If you want a cart lodge, it's priced on our garage page, from £45,000 including VAT for two bays.

Do you need planning permission for a car port?

In Wales, a single-storey garage or car port behind the front of the house usually doesn't need planning permission if it's no more than 4 m to the ridge (2.5 m within 2 m of a boundary) and, with any other outbuildings, covers no more than half the garden. You do need it in front of the house, beside a listed building, and often in a conservation area, national park or AONB. England's limits are similar. We tell you which side of the line you're on at the first visit.

Can I add doors or board it in later?

Yes. Our 150 mm posts take doors, so any bay can be closed in later.

Boarded sides need a slab or a plinth to sit on, which a car port on pads doesn't have. Tell us at the design stage if you might board it in, and we'll set the footings so the car port can become a garage later without taking anything down.

Can I buy a car port as a kit?

Yes. A two-bay car port kit, open at the front and ends with the back boarded, is about £10,800 + VAT, ready in six weeks. All five kit designs are on our garage kits page.

Which oak car ports have we built?

A few of the car ports we have built.

Oak frame car port at Tintern: Tintern, Monmouthshire, 2024. Designed and built beside a stream: a car bay on the lower level, a shed and a covered outdoor area above, under Spanish slate.

Mamhilad, Monmouthshire, 2022. A two-bay car port open on every side, with glass in both gables and each post on a pad set into the existing drive.

Also built: a car port under a green roof at Caerleon.

More of our work: see every project.

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