Miniature Manors
Miniature Manors has been crafting bespoke garden offices since 2008, serving Surrey and Sussex. Their team blends contemporary and traditional design, offering versatile rooflines, personalised layouts, and a comprehensive turnkey service.
Miniature Manors
Miniature Manors has been crafting bespoke garden offices since 2008, serving Surrey and Sussex. Their team blends contemporary and traditional design, offering versatile rooflines, personalised layouts, and a comprehensive turnkey service.
Miniature Manors
Miniature Manors has been crafting bespoke garden offices since 2008, serving Surrey and Sussex. Their team blends contemporary and traditional design, offering versatile rooflines, personalised layouts, and a comprehensive turnkey service.
Introducing Miniature Manors
Established in 2008, Miniature Manors specialises in bespoke garden offices, focusing their work in Surrey, East Sussex, and West Sussex. This regional approach allows the team to devote detailed attention to each project, ensuring every building is carefully crafted to suit its setting and use.
They design workspaces that adapt to the client’s profession and working style, whether a compact home office, a spacious multi-room layout, or a bespoke salon for hairdressers and therapists. Their versatility extends beyond workspaces, with options for additional living space, storage, cloakrooms, or fully fitted shower rooms and kitchens. Soundproofing measures can also be incorporated for those who need a quieter working environment.
Connections to mains services and compliance with Building Control are handled as part of their turnkey service, creating a seamless process from design to completion.
Miniature Manors also offers pre-designed office ranges, providing a streamlined option for those who want a well-appointed garden building with a quicker decision process. To appreciate how each project is tailored, explore their gallery of past builds, which highlights the breadth of styles and uses.
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Design
Each design is developed in collaboration with the client, with flexibility across layouts, glazing, and finishes. Soundproofing layers can be specified where needed, enhancing usability for music, therapy, or focused working. Exterior cladding options range from durable timbers such as Western Red Cedar to composite profiles, Hardie Plank, and corrugated metal. Traditional detailing is available alongside sleek, modern finishes, while interiors can be plastered and painted or specified in Birch plywood for a more minimalist aesthetic. A choice of laminate or engineered wood flooring is available.
Size & Layouts
Buildings are available in small, medium, large, and extra-large footprints. As bespoke designers, Miniature Manors tailors dimensions to suit both garden size and client needs. Partition walls can create multiple rooms, with popular choices including additional living areas, dedicated storage, or integrated shower rooms and kitchens. Designs are created to comply with Permitted Development, with planning approval handled when required.
ROOFLINES
Clients can choose from mono-pitched, dual-pitched, or more complex hipped rooflines, crafted by the company’s skilled carpenters. Mono-pitched designs can incorporate a living roof covering, while pitched roof options can be finished with a variety of tiling choices. Designs under 2.5m comply with Permitted Development, while taller designs are achievable with planning approval.
APPROVAL PROCESS
Where planning consent is required, the in-house team prepares and submits applications on behalf of clients. They are also experienced in working with Listed Buildings, where a sensitive approach is essential. For projects that fall under Building Regulations, Miniature Manors manages compliance and organises sign-off.
SERVICE
Miniature Manors provides a comprehensive turnkey service, covering all stages of a project from initial design to foundations, construction, and final connections. This includes electrical installation with hardwired mains connections, interior and exterior lighting, and data cabling for reliable internet access. Plumbing connections for shower rooms or kitchens are also managed.
STRUCTURE
Buildings are constructed around a traditional insulated timber frame system, ensuring strength and durability. The walls, roof, and floor are all highly insulated, with external finishes chosen to suit the client’s aesthetic. Roofing varies by design, with EPDM or tiled options available. Interiors are finished to a high standard, with heating and cooling solutions available to ensure year-round comfort.
SITE CHALLENGES
Miniature Manors has experience overcoming sloping ground with appropriate foundations, designing to maximise irregularly shaped plots, and working sensitively around existing trees. Their flexible approach ensures buildings integrate well into challenging garden settings.
