Garden pavilions
Quick facts
Open-sided, with a gable roof under slate. Rates at 9 October 2026.
Because the frame is the building. A garden pavilion is an open-sided building under a gable roof, for sitting, eating and cooking outside, and in oak every joint is on show.
Foxtail Oak designs and builds oak garden pavilions within 90 minutes of our workshop near Abergavenny, supplies and installs them within two and a half hours, and supplies frames cut and numbered anywhere in the UK. A pavilion 6.0 m by 3.0 m, open-sided under slate, comes to about £18,000 to £22,000 including VAT, designed and built.
Yes. An outdoor kitchen, a barbecue, a wood burner, a fire or a pizza oven can all go under an oak roof, with a chimney, a flue or an extractor.
What matters is that the smoke and heat have a proper way out. We design that in from the start, so tell us at the design visit what you want to cook on and where it will sit.
At Ferndale there is a log burner under the pavilion. At Woods Farmstead, Raglan, an oak kitchen unit sits in the closed bay, and at Devauden a separate oak kitchen unit holds a barbecue. Both kitchen units were second jobs, after the pavilions were finished. A kitchen unit or other fittings are priced separately from the pavilion.
About £14,000 to £17,000 for a small pavilion and £46,000 to £57,000 for a large one, designed and built, including VAT. As a kit to put up yourself, the small one is about £7,500 to £9,500.
That is roughly £1,230 per m² of external footprint, before design and approvals, for the small pavilion and £850 for the large one, because the fixed costs spread further. Before VAT, the medium pavilion is £15,000 to £18,500.
The per m² rates leave out design and approvals, which are one figure for the job. For a pavilion under 4 m high that is the engineer's design, £750 including VAT. A pavilion with a roof over 4 m high, such as the 6.0 m × 6.0 m, also needs planning drawings, and design and approvals come to about £2,000. The council's own fee, where one applies, is paid direct to the council: £283 in Wales. The sizes and prices listed above include design and approvals.
The figures are for an open-sided pavilion with a gable roof under slate, on pad footings and staddle stones. The span, the roof covering and any boarded bays move the figure. Curved crucks, like the pair at Devauden, cost more to cut and raise than a post and beam frame. What each option adds is under What size garden pavilion do you need?
Every figure includes VAT at 20%, because that is what you will pay. Some firms quote without it, so it is worth checking before you compare.
Rates at 9 October 2026.
The roof. A garden pavilion has a gable roof, a gazebo has a hipped roof that slopes down on every side, and a pergola has no roof covering at all.
See our oak gazebos and our oak pergolas.
Sometimes. Height, how close it is to a boundary, and listed status or designated land, such as the National Park, all change the answer.
We will tell you plainly what applies to yours at the design visit. Even where a pavilion is permitted development, we advise getting a Lawful Development Certificate, so the question is settled when you sell. On a design-and-build job the planning application, where one is needed, is in the price; the council's own fees are not.
Yes. Supply only is our kit: about £7,500 to £9,500 for a small pavilion, cut, numbered and delivered anywhere in the UK with assembly drawings.
There are three ways to buy, and the frame is the same in each.
About £7,500 to £9,500 for a small pavilion. The oak frame and its rafters, made in our workshop, put together there first, then numbered and delivered. The fascia and barge boards come loose and over length. Our structural engineer's design and calculations are included. You or your builder put it up.
About £10,500 to £13,000 for a small pavilion. We make the frame and put it up, fitting the oak fascia and barge boards as it goes. You or your builder do the footings or base and the roof covering.
About £14,000 to £17,000 for a small pavilion. We do all of it: the design, the planning application where one is needed, the engineer, the pad footings and staddle stones, the frame, the roof covering with its battens, lead and gutters, and managing every trade on the job.
| Designed and built | Supplied and installed | Supply only
The design visit and the design | us | us | us
The engineer's design and calculations | us | us | us
Planning application, where needed | us | extra | you (we'll advise)
Pad footings and staddle stones, or the base | us | you or your builder | you or your builder
Deeper or piled foundations, where the ground needs them | you or your builder | you or your builder | you or your builder
Oak frame, made from our own files and pegged at our workshop | us | us | us
Putting the frame together at the workshop first | us | us | us
Cutting, numbering and assembly drawings for a kit | not needed | not needed | us
Raising on site | us | us | you or your builder
Oak fascia and barge boards | us | us | supplied loose, over length
Roof covering, lead and gutters | us | you or your builder | you or your builder
Electrics and lighting | extra | extra | not included
Diverting existing services where the pavilion will go | you or your builder | you or your builder | you or your builder
Planning and building control fees, where they apply | you | you | you
More detail: Supply only, supply and install, or design and build: which is right for you?
Glazed and insulated, a pavilion becomes a garden room, and it is priced as one. A garden pavilion itself stays open to the air.
A garden room is a room for everyday living or working: glazed, insulated and heated. Ours are on the extensions and garden rooms page.
Somewhere to sleep is a bigger step. A building used as separate living accommodation needs planning permission whatever its size, and sleeping in it brings building regulations.
We design and build garden annexes for sleeping in; they are quoted per job.
Big enough for what goes under it. We price four sizes, from 4.0 m by 3.0 m to 12.0 m by 5.0 m, and the ones we have built were drawn to their sites.
Measured to the outside of the frame. At Woods Farmstead, Raglan, the pavilion is 3.5 m by 6 m, and at Devauden it is 9 m by 3.8 m, big enough for a dining table, seating and a hot tub under one roof.
If the building is for an activity, such as a pool, a gym, a games room or a court, it is a pool house or leisure building.
Including VAT. Rates at 9 October 2026. Cedar shingle takes longer to lay and costs more as a material than slate or tile.
A finished structure from the ground up: the design, the footings, the oak frame and the roof. On a pavilion the frame is what you see from underneath, so there is nowhere for a bad joint to hide.
Supply only:
Supplied and installed:
Designed and built:
Not in the price: planning and building control fees, electrics and lighting, a kitchen unit or other fittings, deeper or piled foundations, and diverting existing services.
A few of the garden pavilions we have built. Each one has its own page, with the photographs and the story of the job.
Oak frame garden pavilion at Devauden: Devauden, Monmouthshire, 2021. 9 m by 3.8 m, designed and built, around a pair of curved oak crucks under an exposed slate roof.
Oak frame garden pavilion at Raglan: Raglan, Monmouthshire, 2022. 3.5 m by 6 m, for family gatherings, under a cedar shingle roof. We took it from the foundations through the patio and the roof to the electrics.
Oak frame garden pavilion at Ferndale: Ferndale, Rhondda Cynon Taf, 2020. On the end of a stone barn, with a shallow roof pitch to clear the window above. We supplied and installed the frame and roof structure.
More of our work: see every project.
Usually 12 working days on site, designed and built with all trades, and 21 at the longest. How far ahead our workshop is booked changes month to month, so we tell you on the call.
Devauden took about two weeks on site: a day or so of preparation, two days to fit the frame, and the best part of a week for the roof. At Woods Farmstead the frame went up in two days.
For generations, if it is detailed to shed water. Exposed oak that is well detailed lasts about 50 years or more, and oak inside a weather envelope lasts centuries.
It cracks along the grain and twists a little as it dries, which the pegged joints are designed for. It bleeds tannin onto paving below it in its first year or so, and it weathers to silver-grey within a couple of years unless you keep oiling it.
Very little. Oak left alone will silver and needs no treating. Oiling holds the honey colour for a while, but commits you to oiling again every year. The roof and the gutters need looking after like any building's.
We design and build within 90 minutes of Abergavenny. We supply and install within two and a half hours of Abergavenny, and elsewhere in the UK case by case. We supply frames cut and numbered to anywhere in the UK, with assembly drawings.
No. Electrics and lighting are an extra on every way of buying. At Woods Farmstead we took the job all the way to the electrics.
Yes. At Devauden one pavilion covers a dining table, seating and a hot tub, which was planned in from the start and went in after we left.
Green oak for most garden work. It costs less, it moves and splits as it dries, and it weathers to silver-grey. Air-dried is available where movement matters.
An oak garden pavilion is an open building with a gable roof, big enough to sit, eat or cook under, on a terrace or at the end of a garden. It is open-sided and unglazed: glazed in and heated, it becomes a garden room. Designed and built, a finished garden pavilion is £850 to £1,230 per square metre of external footprint including VAT, before design and approvals. The larger the garden pavilion, the lower the rate per square metre.
Designed and built, a garden pavilion costs £850 to £1,230 per square metre of external footprint including VAT, before design and approvals. That is about £1,230 per m² for a 4.0 m × 3.0 m garden pavilion and about £850 for a 12.0 m × 5.0 m one, because the fixed costs spread further. External footprint is the overall width times the overall depth, measured to the outside of the frame, and the rate is for the finished structure, from the ground up.
The span, the roof covering and any boarded bays move the figure, curved crucks cost more to cut and raise than a post and beam frame, and how much of the work we do changes it too. A tiled roof instead of slate saves about £1,500 on a 6.0 m × 3.0 m pavilion. Supply only, as a kit, is £500 to £710 per m² including VAT. Supplied and installed is £630 to £980 per m² including VAT.
One garden pavilion is recorded on its project page: Devauden, nine metres by three point eight on a patio.
These prices include VAT at 20%, because that is what you will pay. Some firms quote without it, so it is worth checking before you compare.
The per m² rates leave out design and approvals, which are one figure for the job. For a pavilion under 4 m high that is the engineer's design, £750 including VAT. A pavilion with a roof over 4 m high, such as the 6.0 m × 6.0 m, also needs planning drawings, and design and approvals come to about £2,000. The council's own fee, where one applies, is paid direct to the council: £283 in Wales.
For your own size and roof, our price calculator gives the range in a minute. Rates at 9 October 2026.
When is an oak garden pavilion the right choice?
When you want a covered place for sitting, eating or cooking outside that is big enough for a table and a group, and you want the frame to be seen.
When might something else suit you better?
A gazebo or a pergola does a smaller job for less. A garden room is a room for everyday living or working, glazed, insulated and heated; a garden pavilion is open to the air.
How we work, so you can judge whether we suit you
We design and build within 90 minutes of Abergavenny. We supply and install within two and a half hours of Abergavenny, and elsewhere in the UK case by case. We supply kits cut and numbered to anywhere in the UK, with assembly drawings. There is a wait before anything starts; ask, and we will tell you where it stands.
A freestanding garden pavilion
On a patio or at the end of the garden, open on its sides. Devauden, 9 m by 3.8 m, is built around a pair of curved crucks.
A garden pavilion with a closed bay
One end boarded in, for a kitchen or storage. At Woods Farmstead, Raglan, the outdoor kitchen sits in the enclosed bay.
Against a wall or a barn
At Ferndale the pavilion stands on the end of a stone barn, with its roof kept shallow to clear the window above.
Something bigger, or a different roof?
If the building is for an activity, such as a pool, a gym, a games room or a court, it is a pool house or leisure building. A hipped roof makes it a gazebo.
How much of it do you want us to do?
We can design and build it, supply and install the frame, or supply it as a kit: cut, numbered and delivered with assembly drawings, for you or your builder to put up.
Swipe to see Supply and install and Supply only →
| Design and build | Supply and install | Supply only
The design visit and the design | us | us | us
Planning application, where needed | us | extra | you (we'll advise)
Standard groundworks and the base, or the post pads | us | you or your builder | you or your builder
Deeper or piled foundations, where the ground needs them | you or your builder | you or your builder | you or your builder
Oak frame, made from our own files and pegged at our workshop | us | us | us
Putting the frame together at the workshop before it comes to you | us | us | us
Cutting, numbering and assembly drawings for a kit | — | — | us
Raising on site | us | us | you or your builder
Roof covering: slate, tiles or cedar shingles | us | you or your builder | you or your builder
Electrics and lighting | extra | extra | —
Diverting existing services that run where the structure will go | you or your builder | you or your builder | you or your builder
Planning and building control fees, where they apply | you | you | you
1. A design visit: where it sits, which way it faces and how it relates to the house.
2. Frame design, with the roof covering chosen at the same time.
3. Machining and cutting: the routine cuts machined at our sawmill from our own files, the complex joints cut by our carpenters at our workshop near Abergavenny.
4. Putting the frame together at the workshop before it comes to you.
5. Raising on site, then the roof.
On site, design and build, all trades: usually 12 working days, and 21 at the longest. Lead time is agreed when you order.
A garden pavilion is a bigger frame than a gazebo, and the gable lets the structure show. At Devauden the pavilion is built around a pair of curved oak crucks, 9 m by 3.8 m on the patio. At Woods Farmstead, Raglan, it is 3.5 m by 6 m, with open bays, curved braces and a cedar shingle roof.
A garden pavilion can stand against a wall as well as on its own. At Ferndale it stands on the end of a stone barn, with a shallow roof pitch so that it clears the window above.
Do I need planning permission?
Sometimes. Height, how close it is to a boundary, and listed status or designated land all change the answer. We will say so at the design visit.
Can I cook under it, or have a fire?
Yes. An outdoor kitchen, a barbecue, a wood burner or a pizza oven can all go under an oak roof, as long as the smoke and heat have a proper way out: a chimney, a flue or an extractor. We design that in from the start, so tell us at the design visit. At Woods Farmstead the owners came back afterwards for the oak kitchen unit that now sits in the closed bay, and at Ferndale there is a log burner.
Can it be glazed in later?
Glazed and insulated, it becomes a garden room, and it is priced as one.
Green oak or air-dried?
Green oak for most garden work. It costs less, it moves and splits as it dries, and it weathers to silver-grey within a couple of years. Air-dried is available where movement matters.
Will it need treating?
No. Oak left alone will silver and last for decades. Oiling holds the honey colour for a while, but commits you to re-oiling.
Can I have one delivered as a kit?
Yes. Cut, numbered and delivered anywhere in the UK, with assembly drawings.
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