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About Dunster House

Built on Family Values. Engineered for Long-Term Performance

For over 30 years, we’ve done one thing differently: we design and manufacture garden buildings that are genuinely built to last.

What started as a small family operation has grown into one of the UK’s leading garden building manufacturer, serving hundreds of thousands of customers nationwide. Despite this growth, the company remains family-run, with the same founding principles at its core: quality engineering, honest pricing, and complete control over the manufacturing process.

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Responsibly Sourced Timber. We Care

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UK Company, Family Run Business

Est. 1994. Millions of DIY Products Sold

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“Our product is always the best specified in the market, yet amongst the lowest priced. It’s this simple philosophy that has allowed us to become the biggest in our industry.

As our buying power is very strong, our product-to-price ratio is, by far, the best. Unlike the vast majority of our competitors, we are the designers, manufacturers and suppliers, so you’re buying direct and not paying extra for a middleman...”

Alexander Murphy
Owner of Dunster House Ltd

UK COMPANY Family business

Family Run Means Long-Term Thinking

Because we’re privately owned, we make decisions differently from corporate retailers.

We focus on:

Lifetime customer relationships, not short-term sales
Product durability over cost-cutting
Continuous reinvestment in manufacturing capabilities

We have been designing and supplying business and leisure garden products for over three decades since its formation by Christopher Murphy MBE and Pamela Murphy in 1994. What started out as a humble company in a 1000sq/ft factory has developed into the business empire it is today.

Nowadays, Chris and Pam’s sons, Alexander and Andrew, have long since joined them in helming our good ship, Dunster House, and the company goes from strength to strength, continuing to strive to meet our customers’ high expectations.

Supporting British Jobs

Dunster House are unique within the marketplace as all its design concepts are created in the UK before being manufactured in one of our factories across the UK and delivered by one of our distribution centres. All of the prototyping and testing is conducted in the UK to make sure products withstand practical use, even if the wood comes from our sister companies in Europe.

Our greatest achievement is in employing staff, now over 1,050 throughout the UK and Europe!

This mindset is why customers trust us for high-value purchases like log cabins, garden offices, and garages.

Products expected to last decades, not years.

Nationwide Distribution Depots

All our business is via our company website or by phone. Across the UK, we currently have, 10 branches and 7 Manufacturing sites with 5 manufacturing sites across Europe managed by our sister companies. Both UK and European sites have multiple factories on each site to make sure our production meets the needs of our customers. With the ability to demonstrate that we never compromise on quality, our attention to detail and affordability, our highly trained staff are courteous, knowledgeable and happy to discuss your requirements, from initial contact to aftercare. Dunster House are a customer-focused and driven company and has built a reputation for its high standards and competitive prices.

Our goal is 100% customer satisfaction!

Please note that we do not have physical show sites where our products can be viewed.

Bedford HQ
Bedford Factory
Warminster Branch
Faversham Branch
Basingstoke Branch
Liverpool Branch
Flixborough Branch
Witham Branch
Gosberton Factory
Huntly Factory
Cumbernauld Factory
Dudley Branch
Spalding Branch
Stockton on Tees Branch
Newcastle Hebburn

Dunster House Newcastle Factory and Distribution Centre

Giant Manufacturing Facilities

These factories are also owned by members of the same Murphy family and are spread across 5 giant manufacturing sites in Europe. This enables complete control over every process, from purchasing the timber to final distribution to you. All our raw materials are sourced from sustainable sources and are of the highest quality.

These manufacturing factories use the latest technology to produce the best quality items, at an affordable price, with a highly trained work force.

Innovation and Creation

We craft our products with care, driven by innovation and a close attention to detail to provide refined and high-quality buildings for your garden. This means we are constantly improving our workmanship and embracing new technologies and equipment to enhance our delivery.

At our factory in Huntly, for instance, we recently installed a new RCS (Rigid Composite Sheet) machine. This investment in delivers excellent mixing quality and allows for a greater level of material production that is used to construct our Garden Offices range and Conservatory Alternatives range.

Our continued investment in cutting-edge equipment throughout our factories and supply chain means we can streamline our operations. Therefore, at the heart of our service promise to you, we can continue to provide:

Unmatched quality control, so that every product you receive is built to last.
The best possible value is provided by a more efficient and streamlined process.
Reduced equipment downtime and quicker deliveries, getting your new garden building to you sooner.

We believe our relationship with you is a partnership built on trust. You can count on us to deliver valuable service and long-lasting products, created with the same care we’ve had for over three decades.

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Products That are Engineered to Outperform the Market

We don’t compete on “cheap sheds.” We compete on structural integrity.

Typical industry shortcuts we refuse to use:

Thin, fast-grown timber
Styrene glazing
Finger-jointed or mixed-grade wood
Minimal locking systems

Instead, our buildings feature:

Slow-grown spruce timber for superior strength
Toughened, double-glazed safety glass as standard
Heavy-duty structural components
Multi-point locking security
Pressure treated bearers

Responsibly Sourced Timber

We want to do our part for the environment by using responsibly sourced timber for our garden buildings. This means that by choosing one of our garden sheds, you are increasing the use of sustainable timber and therefore helping to lower carbon emissions and combat climate change. Thanks to their natural material properties, our garden sheds will blend nicely into their surroundings, bringing a natural beauty to your garden. We really do care about the environment. That is why we are part of the Timber Development UK.

Continuous Improvement
Dunster House commit to continuously improving the sustainability level of our sourcing by favouring stricter, more credible certification and verification standards, and sourcing requirements. We are committed to avoiding sourcing from unknown or unsustainable sources.

Certification
Where possible, Dunster House is committed to procuring wood products that have been certified by credible, internationally recognised standards for good forest management, to ensure that the material originates from well-managed forests.

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Unmatched Customer Feedback

With 65.000+ genuine reviews in total across multiple review platforms and more than most of our comparable competitors, you can trust us to offer the best possible products and customer service. We continuously gather feedback from our customers so that we can look for areas of improvement and to always offer the best possible service to our customers.