Verandas
Quick facts
A lean-to roof on oak posts, under slate. Rates at 9 October 2026.
Because it gives you a covered place along the house to sit out in the rain, and the oak posts, braces and rafters are on show every time you do.
An oak veranda is a lean-to roof on oak posts along the wall of a house or a barn. Foxtail Oak designs and builds them within 90 minutes of our workshop near Abergavenny, and supplies frames cut and numbered anywhere in the UK. A veranda 6.0 m along the house and 3.0 m deep, under slate, comes to about £18,500 to £23,000 including VAT, designed and built.
Yes. A veranda is an oak lean-to: a roof that leans against the house on one side and sits on oak posts on the other, open along the front.
The same lean-to roof turns up on other buildings, and each has its own page. Over a front door it is a porch. If you want to park under it, see garages, car ports and outbuildings. Glazed in, it becomes a room rather than a veranda: that is a garden room. With no roof at all, it is a pergola.
About £11,500 to £14,000 for a small veranda and £31,000 to £38,000 for one 12 m long, designed and built, including VAT. As a kit to put up yourself, from £5,500.
That is roughly £1,440 per m² of external footprint, before design and approvals, for the smallest and £900 for the largest, because the fixed costs spread further. The figures are for a lean-to roof under slate, on oak posts, on ordinary ground.
The per m² rates leave out design and approvals, which are one figure for the job: about £2,000 including VAT, covering the engineer and the planning drawings. The council's own fee, £585, is paid direct to the council where planning is needed. The sizes and prices listed above include design and approvals.
The roof is a large part of the cost. The length, the number of posts and any boarding move the figure, and so does how much of the work we do.
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.
Almost always. Verandas, balconies and raised platforms are excluded from permitted development on a house, in Wales and in England, so expect a planning application. A veranda on the house is an addition to the house, and the rules differ from those for a freestanding structure.
We will check what applies to yours at the design visit. On a design-and-build job the planning application, where one is needed, is in the price; the council's own fees are not.
Our veranda prices are for a slate roof. A glass roof is quoted per job. We built our first glass roof on an oak frame on the smoking shelter at Duffryn Mawr, near Gilwern.
That shelter is in a stone courtyard, and you can see it on its own page: Oak smoking shelter at Gilwern. If you want the sides glazed as well as the roof, it stops being a veranda and becomes a garden room.
Yes. Supply only is our kit: from £5,500, 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. The prices below are for a veranda 6.0 m along the house and 3.0 m deep.
About £9,500 to £11,500 for a 6 m by 3 m. The structural engineer's design and calculations, and the oak frame and its rafters, made in our workshop, cut, numbered and delivered with assembly drawings for you or your builder to put up.
About £13,000 to £16,000 for a 6 m by 3 m. We make the frame and put it up, with the oak fascia and barge boards. You or your builder do the post pads and the roof covering.
About £18,500 to £23,000 for a 6 m by 3 m. We do all of it: the design, the planning application where one is needed, the engineer, the pad footings and staddle stones under the posts, the frame, the roof covering in slate and lead with its 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
Planning application, where needed | us | extra | you (we'll advise)
Post pads or base, on ordinary ground | us | you or your builder | you or your builder
Deeper or piled foundations | you or your builder | you or your builder | you or your builder
Oak frame and rafters, 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 | not included
Roof covering, lead and gutters | us | you or your builder | you or your builder
Electrics and lighting | extra | extra | not included
Diverting services where the veranda will go | you or your builder | you or your builder | you or your builder
Managing every trade on the job | us | you | you
Planning and building control fees | you | you | you
More detail: Supply only, supply and install, or design and build: which is right for you?
The length of the wall sets it. We price four sizes, from 3.0 m to 12.0 m along the house and 2.5 m to 3.0 m deep.
Measured to the outside of the frame, width along the house first. The depth is limited by the wall: the roof has to start high enough to clear the windows and the gutter and still fall away from the house. Other sizes are drawn to suit.
The deepest veranda we build is 4 m. The length is not limited, and the posts are no more than 4 m apart.
A finished structure from the ground up, on ordinary ground: the design, the post pads, the oak frame put together at our workshop first, raising on site and the roof covering.
The veranda we built at Llanvetherine has its own page, with the photographs and the story of the job.
Oak frame porch and lean-to at Llanvetherine: Llanvetherine, Monmouthshire, 2022. An oak porch and a long open lean-to against a stone barn, designed and built. Posts on staddle stones, curved braces and oak-boarded lower panels.
More of our work: see every project.
At your home, designed and built with all the trades, a veranda up to 4.5 m wide typically takes about a week, one 6 to 7.5 m wide takes one to two weeks, and one 9 to 12 m wide takes one and a half to three weeks. How far ahead our workshop is booked changes month to month, so we tell you on the call.
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 unless you keep oiling it.
Where the oak meets the wall of the house, it shrinks away and opens a gap. A few millimetres is normal. Don't fill it in the first year or two, because it is still moving. When it has settled, use a flexible sealant, not a hard mortar.
None for the oak, if you leave it to silver. 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 kits cut and numbered to anywhere in the UK, with assembly drawings.
No. A porch covers a door; a veranda runs along a wall. At Llanvetherine the two were built together. If it is the front door you want to cover, see porches.
Not as a veranda, because a veranda leans on the building behind it. Standing on its own, it is a gazebo or a garden pavilion.
No. Oak left alone will silver and last for decades. Oiling holds the honey colour for a while, but commits you to re-oiling.
An oak veranda is a lean-to roof carried on oak posts along the wall of a house or a barn, giving you a covered walkway or somewhere dry to sit. Designed and built, a finished veranda is £900 to £1,440 per square metre of external footprint including VAT. The larger the veranda, the lower the rate per square metre.
Designed and built, a veranda costs £900 to £1,440 per square metre of external footprint including VAT, before design and approvals. That is about £1,440 per m² for a 3.0 m × 2.5 m veranda and about £1,040 for a 6.0 m × 3.0 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 roof is a large part of the cost; the length, the number of posts and any boarding move the figure, and so does how much of the work we do. Supply only, as a kit, is £530 to £800 per m² including VAT. Supplied and installed is £680 to £1,130 per m² including VAT.
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: about £2,000 including VAT, covering the engineer and the planning drawings. The council's own fee, £585, is paid direct to the council where planning is needed.
For your own size and roof, our price calculator gives the range in a minute. Rates at 9 October 2026.
When is an oak veranda the right choice?
When you want a covered way along the house or a barn, or somewhere to sit out of the rain right outside the door.
When might something else suit you better?
If you want shade rather than shelter, a pergola does that for less.
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, and the lead times are at the top of this page.
An open veranda
A lean-to roof on posts, open along its front. At Llanvetherine it runs along a stone barn, with oak boarding along the lower part.
A veranda and a porch together
Where the walkway reaches a door, the two can be one frame. Llanvetherine has both, built together.
Glazed in, or freestanding?
A glazed lean-to is a room rather than a veranda: that is a garden room. Standing on its own, it is a gazebo or a garden pavilion, and with no roof it is a pergola.
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 or tiles | 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. Measure up at a design visit, or work from your sketch and photographs.
2. Agree the length, the post spacing, the roof pitch and where the roof meets the wall.
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. Put the frame together at the workshop before it comes to you.
5. Set the post bases or pads.
6. Raise on site, then the roof covering.
Lead time from order: supply only 6–8 weeks, supply and install 8–10 weeks. On site, design and build, all trades: usually 8 working days, and 13 at the longest.
A veranda leans on the building it is built against, so the first job is the wall: what it is made of, where the windows and the gutter are, and how high the roof can start while still falling away from the wall.
At Llanvetherine we built a long open lean-to along a stone barn: posts on staddle stones, curved braces, and oak-boarded panels along the lower part.
Do I need planning permission?
It can need it. A veranda on the house is an addition to the house, and the rules differ from those for a freestanding structure. We will check at the design visit.
Is a veranda the same as a porch?
A porch covers a door; a veranda runs along a wall. At Llanvetherine the two were built together. If it is the front door you want to cover, see porches.
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.
WHAT HAPPENS NEXT
Tell us what you have in mind and where it's going. The first step is a phone or video call with Josh, using your photos. If it looks right for both of us, we come to you for a design visit, and a detailed quotation follows.
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