Brick Garden Rooms

A Nucrete brick garden room is a steel-framed garden building with fully insulated walls and roof, clad in brick or maintenance-free composite. It's a home office, gym, bar or hobby room for around 50% less than a typical builder's quote. Take the insulated, weathertight shell to fit out yourself, or a turnkey room that's wired, plastered and ready to use.

Most garden rooms are timber, because brick has always seemed too expensive: builders tend to quote garden rooms at home-extension rates of £1,500–£2,000 per square metre. We fixed the cost problem instead of abandoning the material. Our custom roofing parts and fittings are prefabricated in the factory — similar to the offsite methods used by German house builders — so the on-site build is faster and the final price drops by around half, without any loss of quality.

Brick lasts a lifetime and needs little to no maintenance — no re-staining, no rot, no fading cladding. It's also naturally better at keeping weather out and sound in, which matters for offices, music rooms and games rooms. And because brick is the material your house is built from, a brick garden room reads as a permanent structure that adds real value to your property.

Timber's advantage has always been price. Our range removes most of that gap — in our published comparison, a finished brick room actually costs less than an equivalent-quality timber one.

As a guide, our published comparison for a typical garden room project breaks down like this. Bare-bones is the insulated, brick-finished shell, with the internal fit-out (flooring, electrics and decoration) costed separately for DIY completion; turnkey includes the lot, finished by us.

Those are illustrative figures for one example project — every garden room is priced to your size and specification, so ask for an itemised quote.

Windows and doors come in many styles, so tell us the look you're after and we'll spec the building to match — from a glazed office front to a solid, secure hobby room.

It starts with a survey, usually a virtual one. You complete a short form about the site and send a few photographs, and with the help of satellite imagery we can survey most properties accurately without a visit. It comes with a 100% money-back guarantee if for any reason we can't complete the work on budget. Once you're happy with the final quote, a £500 deposit secures the order, with three staged payments through the build.

Every garden room sits on a concrete foundation that forms the floor and the footing in one. The insulated, brick-finished structure is then erected on top by our own teams. Lead times vary with the time of year, so plan early. A garden room ordered in good time is one you'll actually use this summer.

A Nucrete brick garden room is a garden outbuilding — ideal as a home office, gym, games room, bar, summer house or jacuzzi room. It is not habitable space: we don't build extensions or sleeping accommodation, which need architects, structural engineers and traditional construction methods. That boundary is also what keeps the building within permitted development for most homes, so in most cases no planning application is needed.

If your budget won't stretch to a turnkey brick room, there are two honest alternatives. A quality timber garden room costs about the same as our turnkey brick option — more, in our published comparison — so at that end of the market brick is usually the better buy. At the value end, a concrete shed or workshop gives you a solid, secure garden building for a fraction of the price. It isn't insulated living space out of the box, but it's an excellent starting point for a workshop or hobby space.

Brick garden rooms have their own home on Nucrete Prestige, our dedicated brick buildings website, with designs, photos and price lists — plus a bespoke plan service if you have something specific in mind. Or call us free on 0800 849 9036 and talk it through with a person first.