Outdoor buildings for campsites, glampsites and schools

Timber accommodation, shelters, tree decks and outdoor classrooms, made by carpenters in our workshop near Chailey and installed on your site. We work with campsite and glamping operators, schools and landowners across Sussex and the South East, and further afield for the right project.

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The finished ten-sided fire-pit hut from above, its timber roof rising to a point beside a boarded store, in a woodland clearing.

What we build

The ten-sided fire-pit hut during the build, its pointed roof boarded in timber, with a scaffold tower beside it in the woodland.

Glamping and campsite accommodation

Timber domes and roundhouses, shepherd’s huts, cabins and pods, and permanent timber replacements for yurts and bell tents. We also build the smaller buildings a site needs around them, such as stores, shelters and reception huts.

Inside the fire-pit hut during the build, looking up: timber rafters radiating to a ring at the apex of the roof.

Forest school and outdoor learning

Forest school shelters and fire-pit huts, outdoor classrooms, stores, tree decks and walkways, built for children to use through the school year. Our most recent is a tree deck, rope bridge and ten-sided fire-pit hut for a Dorset prep school.

The tree deck during the build: hardwood joists radiating out from the trunk of an old tree.

Treehouses and raised decks

Decks built around trees and across sloping, overgrown ground, on posts set to the fall of the land, with bridges, stairs and slides to connect them back to the path.

Recent project

The finished tree deck from above: a curved deck around an old tree trunk, a rope bridge running back to the path, and a stainless steel slide.
Dorset · 2026

Tree deck and fire-pit hut for a school woodland

A 98 m² deck built around an old tree trunk on sloping woodland, reached by a rope bridge, with a spiral stair and a slide back down. Nearby, a ten-sided fire-pit hut that we designed from the concept sketch and then built.

A builder with a workshop

Inside the Tidal Drift workshop near Chailey: a long workbench under the arched roof of a large timber barn.

Made in our workshop

We have a large workshop near Chailey in East Sussex. Where it suits the job, we cut, frame and finish parts under cover there, so less of the work happens on your pitches or playing fields.

Carpentry is our core trade

Radial roofs, curved decks and ten-sided huts are geometry that many builders avoid. Structural carpentry and joinery are what we do, so this is the work we want.

From sketch to something buildable

Bring us a designer’s scheme, a concept or just a sketch. We work it up with a structural engineer into details that can be built, and design smaller buildings ourselves.

Installed around your season or term

We plan installation around your trading season, or around term dates for schools, and keep the work area separate and safe while guests or pupils are nearby.

Replacing canvas with timber

Moving a site from canvas to timber is usually a programme rather than a single order. We can plan it with you over several seasons: a batch of units each winter, installed before you open, so the site keeps trading while it changes.

It pays to talk to us early, while the layout, drainage and services can still change. Planning and your site licence stay with you or your consultant. We give clear answers on what is buildable, how units reach each pitch, and what a realistic programme costs.

Planning new accommodation or an outdoor learning space?

Tell us about your site and what you have in mind, and we’ll tell you what’s buildable.

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