Welcome to Timber Roof Lanterns

Specialists in all forms of Roof Lanterns for the DIY, Trade and retail market.

Timber Roof Lanterns UK is the number 1 company in the UK for timber roof lanterns. Our hardwood roof lanterns are for the true traditionalist, blending wonderfully with a listed property, providing a timeless addition to your home.

Crafted by our skilled craftsman every lantern is as unique with architecture adding charachter to your property. We provide hand crafted rafters with detail placed along the twin edges of the timbers; the centre boss are also hand crafted, with detail placed to add character to the roof space.

Every purchase with Timber Roof Lanterns will ensure the highest quality and attention to detail, with every roof lantern individually designed using the latest CAD technology; allowing for precision accuracy within the joinery process.

So take the headache away from your roof lantern project, and make the designers and architects choice - by having a roof lantern from Timber Roof Lanterns UK.

Roof Lantern sales for September

Timber roof lantern sales in September are up 35% on last year, with more and more architects specifying a roof lantern from The Timber Roof Lantern company.

We are experience high numbers of people looking to extend there property and take advantage of the benefits of a timber roof lantern.

Our hardwood roof lanterns are full of hand crafted detail in the roof space, and will add character and charm to any property.

Roof Lantern

When you purchase your roof lantern from Timber Roof Lanterns , your hardwood roof lantern will provide you with many years of light and style added to any room.  Your timber roof lantern purchase can be manufactured in the following shapes, edwardian roof lantern, vicotiran roof lantern, hipped roof lantern, octagoanl roof lantern, P-shape roof lantern, L-shape roof lantern and wooden roof lantern.  So for all your archtectural roof lantern needs please contact us today.

Roof lantern or Cupola

In architecture, a cupola, roof lantern or roof light is a radially symmetrical structure (often dome-shaped, quadrilateral or equilateral) positioned on top of a flat roof or domed roof, usually utilised as a lookout or to allow light and ventilation. The word originally derives, from Italian, from the Latin cupula (classical Latin cupella from the Greek kupellon) small cup (lat. cupa) - denoting a vault appearing as a upside down bowl.

Occasionally, the whole roof of a tower or large spire can form a single cupola, or roof lantern. More often, the cupola or roof lantern makes a much smaller structure which is positioned on top of the main roof on an up-stand. If the cupola, or roof lantern can be reached by climbing a stairwell within the main building, it is called a belvedere or widows walk. Some cupolas , called roof lanterns, have small windows beneath which allow additional illumination on the areas below.

In Victorian architecture roof lanterns are often seen in older homes of Upstate New York and New Jersey, especially in the down state regions, where cupolas or roof lanterns are often seen as a small room that extends over the main roof line. They may be triangular, square, rectangular, octagonal or circular. In local folklore, they are known as Indian lookout outposts, but they may have also been built only to offer a view to plan a route; which fits with the other name, belvedere, an Italian term denoting a fiat view.

Whatever the original use of roof lantern, in architecture today, they are now used to create a room full of light; and with a Timber Roof Lanterns roof lantern, provide a stunning overhead visual of timber rafters, trusses and light.  Roof lanterns fitted into modern properties create an Orangery.

 Please visit our contact us page to discuss your roof lantern designs today.

 

Roof lanterns for developers

Roof lantern sales to developers are increasing month on month, with architects selecting Timber Roof Lanterns as there company of choice.

Roof lanterns in new-build properties and as part of an extension are proving as popular as ever, with banks reporting that borrowing to extend homes is up on last year.

With a purchase from Timber Roof Lanterns you can be sure that you will receive the most sophisticated roof lantern that is available today - combining technology with character and charm.

The roof lantern

The traditional term for roof lantern denotes an area within a roof space, that provides additional light and space within the room. 

In years gone by it provided a vantage point within a property, where guards could keep watch and protect a dwelling or fortress.

Now days the roof lantern is used to enhance architecture, and create a wonderful living space within the property.  All roof lantern designs and shapes are designed to create an individual feel.  Our designers will work with you if you are in the early stages of a project to create your roof lantern dream, or if planning is received and you have your design they will help turn your dreams in to reality.

All our roof lantern timber materials are from sustainable sources, making wood the most environmentally sound choice available today.

Every roof lantern is hand finished at every stage making sure your purchase ensures the highest quality at every stage.  With our use of CAD we blend modern technology with time honoured tradition of joinery.

If you wish to speak with regards to your roof lantern requirements, please do not hesitate to contact us today.

 

 

Timber Roof Lantern

We have taken an order this week from a private client who has purchased 5 roof lanterns from our Edwardian roof lantern range.  The roof lantern layout will provide a roof lantern in his hallway, two in the living room, 1 in the kitchen / dinning area and 1 in the master bedroom.

The client wished to create rooms with style and elegance, maximising the light into each room.  Photos will follow on the website showing each roof lantern example of the rooms created.

Hardwood Roof Lanterns

The Timber Roof Lantern company is currently working closely with 2 developers, who are working back to back in Leicestershire, to provide 10 luxury new homes.

The brief was to add light and space to a small entrance hall and to flood light into a kitchen space.  The properties are all luxury, elegant homes and the Timber Roof Lantern company won the order based on the grand yet elegant detailing on our rafters and roof components.  We also provided a Farrow and Ball colour match, marrying our lantern roof colours, with that of the colour scheme within the properties.

 

Roof Lantern

The traditional roof lantern has always been manufactured in hardwood.  The reasons for this is that unlike other roof lantern materials,  timber has character and charm, with the timbers capable of being etched with detail; carved into all the roof lantern components.

This provides a stunning internally splayed structure, bursting with design and characteristics which other materials cannot provide.

Every hardwood roof lantern from the Timber Roof Lantern company, comes with its own unique style and elegance, with every roof lantern hand made at our factory.  Even the paint finish is applicated by hand in our spray shop, ensuring traditional methods of joinery are in use at every stage.

So personalise and add character to your property today, with the craftsman's and architects choice - a hardwood roof lantern from the Timber Roof Lantern company. 

Hardwood roof lanterns and timber roof lanterns

Sales of hardwood roof lanterns have doubled in the last two months, with customers finding our prices very competitive; and our designs and product to be the most advanced on the market.  Our timber roof lantern system uses the latest CAD technology, allowing us to use a clip together fast fit system.

Our spray facility using micro-porous paint, provides a glass finish to our solid roof lantern colour range, and when staining the timber, the colours of the grain shine through.

The detail on the roof lantern rafters provide a slender sculpted effect, creating character and charm to any roof space.

Hardwood Orangries

We at the Timber Roof Lantern company work with many architects and builders, who need to supply there customer an Orangery.  They often have sourced the windows and doors for there projects, but cannot find a specialist roof lantern company to provide the glazed roof area.

We as a company can provide full drawings and specify up stands to work with our products.  We can make any bespoke size, shape and colour; the only constraint is the clients imagination, and the laws of pyhsics!

Our timber roof lanterns use the latest technology for production, but provide the tradional apperance that clients want in there roof space, adding elegance and light.

Unlike upvc which can be bulky and can lack detail or aluminium which can cause glass units to break down and be inflexible within a design - hardwood provides both flexibility and detail, making it the architects choice to build with.

Timber Roof Lanterns

Timber Roof Lanterns today has lanced it's new RSS Feed, bringing information on the latest timber roof lantern news within the industry.  The Timber Roof Lanterns company has been manufacturing timber roof lanterns for the last 7 years.  We pride ourselves on quality and service, with each roof lantern purchase undertaken by your personal point of contact - ensuring delivery dates and service levels are met.