Serving Shrivenham & Watchfield
Bricklayers and general
builders in Shrivenham,
up the road from Highworth.
Shrivenham is one of our nearest villages: a short drive from Highworth down the B4000. From the older stone-and-brick cottages on the High Street to the newer housing off Faringdon Road and Highworth Road, we've been on jobs across the village for four decades.
Free site visit. Written estimate in 3–5 working days. £5m public liability. Fast response: we're 8–12 minutes away.
We serve Shrivenham
Shrivenham is on our doorstep.
We're a straight run down the B4000, 8 to 12 minutes on a normal day. If you're in Shrivenham, Watchfield or Bourton, we're one of the closest genuine building firms you're going to find.
Response times to Shrivenham
Shrivenham enquiries answered the same working day. Urgent damage often attended the same day. Standard site visits inside the week.
Property types in Shrivenham
Shrivenham's fabric mixes older stone-and-brick cottages on the High Street and Church Street, the substantial Defence Academy estate presence, 1970s–1990s estate housing off Highworth Road, and modern developments off Faringdon Road.
Common Shrivenham jobs
Typical Shrivenham jobs: single-storey extensions on the 70s–90s estate stock, garden walls in brick or matched stone, lime re-pointing on the older stone cottages, driveway aprons in brick or block paver, pitched re-roofs and re-render.
Services available in Shrivenham
The full family-run trade list, in Shrivenham.
Every service below is handled by the same three-person family team.
Bricklaying in Shrivenham
Fair-faced brickwork, garden walls, arches and repairs: built by the family that's been doing it since 1988.
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Extensions in Shrivenham
Full home extensions handled start to finish: groundworks, brickwork, roofing, plastering.
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Plastering & Render in Shrivenham
Smooth internal plastering and clean external render by the same three-person family team.
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Pitched Roofing in Shrivenham
Tiled and slated pitched roofs: repairs and full re-roofs. (We don't take on flat roofing.)
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Patios & Hard Landscaping in Shrivenham
Patios, garden walls, turfing, decking and fencing: the outdoor build, handled in-house.
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Guttering & Fascias in Shrivenham
Replacement guttering, fascias and soffits to keep the water off the brickwork where it belongs.
Read moreWhy choose us in Shrivenham
Why Shrivenham owners keep our number.
In a village this size the reputation of a building firm gets tested constantly. Four decades on and we're still here doing it.
Genuinely local.
Eight minutes up the road. That means fast response, easy call-backs and no fuel padding on your invoice.
Three faces, one family.
Dale and his two sons on every job. The same three faces from the first morning to the final walk-round.
Right trade for the right property.
Older cottage frontage: lime and matched stone. Estate house: standard cavity-wall brick and modern render. We know which is which and don't try to force one approach onto the other.
Local building issues
Common Shrivenham property problems.
The village's mix of older cottage stock and later estate housing produces a familiar pattern of issues.
Cement pointing on older cottages.
Same story as most SN6 villages. Older stone or soft-brick frontages were re-pointed in cement at some point and are now shedding face. Lime re-point is the proper repair.
Failed render on 70s–90s estate housing.
Sand-and-cement render on the later estate stock is past its serviceable life. Hack off, re-mesh, re-render.
Tired concrete-tile roofs.
Original tiles on the 70s Shrivenham estates are due full strip-and-relay. Slipped tiles and internal damp are the usual signs.
Boundary walls without proper footings.
80s-era garden walls built on shallow strip footings on Vale clay soils are now leaning. Rebuild on a proper concrete footing.
In depth
Shrivenham in detail.
Shrivenham is a village on the border of Oxfordshire and Wiltshire, best known as the home of the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom. Its housing stock is a genuine mix: older stone-and-brick cottages in the historic core around the High Street and St Andrew's Church, some Georgian and Victorian expansion, the substantial Defence Academy estate presence, mid-20th-century estate housing built through the 70s and 80s, and more recent developments off Faringdon Road and Highworth Road.
That variety means we're routinely switching between two different modes of work depending on which end of the village we're in. On an older cottage frontage on the High Street we're using lime mortar and matched or reclaimed stone and brick, working sympathetically to the original construction. On a 1980s estate house off Highworth Road we're using standard sand-and-cement mortar, modern facing brick and standard cavity-wall detailing. Both are legitimate, but they're not interchangeable: and getting them the wrong way round damages the property either aesthetically or physically.
Practically, from Highworth we're 8–12 minutes away, which is about as close as it gets. That short travel means we can attend for a free site visit quickly, drop back if something needs a second look during the job, and respond fast if storm damage or a structural issue needs urgent attention. Standard hours Mon–Fri 8am–5pm; Saturday for smaller jobs by arrangement. Written itemised estimates inside 3–5 working days. £5m public liability. No flat roofing, no gas, no electrical, no soft landscaping.
Our process
The same four-step process, whether you're in Shrivenham or up the road.
Repeatable, honest, and identical for every job: a garden wall or a full extension.
- 01
Free site visit
We come out to your Shrivenham property, walk the job with you and answer questions in person.
- 02
Written estimate in 3–5 days
Itemised, in writing, with staged payments set out. No verbal quotes.
- 03
Booked in and started
Materials sourced, timing agreed. The same three-person team on site from day one.
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Snagged and handed over
Site cleared, snag-list walked with you, aftercare explained. We stay reachable after the job.
Recent works
Recent projects in and around Shrivenham.
Nearby areas
Also serving these Oxfordshire towns and villages.
Do you cover Shrivenham, Watchfield and Bourton?
Yes: the whole SN6 Shrivenham cluster, including Watchfield and the villages either side.
How fast can you get to Shrivenham?
8–12 minutes from Highworth on a normal day. Urgent damage often attended the same day.
Can you match older Shrivenham stone or brick?
Yes. For repair work on older frontages we source reclaimed materials and match the mortar mix to the original.
Cost of a Shrivenham extension?
Priced only after a site visit. Written, itemised estimate in 3–5 working days. Staged payments: nothing due before we start.
Do you work Saturdays in Shrivenham?
Standard hours Mon–Fri 8am–5pm. Saturday work available for smaller jobs by arrangement.
Are you insured?
£5,000,000 public liability and £10,000,000 employers' liability. Certificates on request.
Are you the same builders that have worked for others in the village?
Very likely, after four decades in and around SN6 there aren't many streets in Shrivenham we haven't worked on. Ask around.
Ready when you are
Get a free estimate for your Shrivenham job.
Free site visit at a time that suits. Written, itemised estimate in 3–5 working days. Staged payments, nothing due before we start.