Cognito's wins Pub Shed of the Year competition

Wolverhampton Wanderers fan Glen Gandy from Willenhall has won the fifth Pub Shed of the Year competition run by Two Fat Blokes Bar Signs and and Ngage Radio.

His pubshed Cognito's cost him around £20,000 to build and took him two years. Features include a DJ booth, hot tub, jukebox and Space Invaders machine, Wolves tops around the walls, a large television, and fridge stocked with beer, as well as a beer garden with barbecue seating area and shower room. The name is a tribute to his late friend and comedian Ian Cognito.
 
The other finalists were The Cattle Shed in Walsall, pictured below and created by West Bromich Albion fan Kev Cattell (coincidentally a friend of Glen's), and the BrennInn in Burnley by Chris Brennan.
 
Glen wins a range of personalised items for his pub shed, including beer mats and a bar sign.

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Friday Finery: Catherine Clarke's beach hut

Historian and friend of Shedworking Catherine Clarke often posts about her Dorset beach hut on Instagram and BlueSky, a much loved long term lease from the council. She also works in it from time to time, including on her excellent new book A History of England in 25 Poems which is out next week.

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Garden office case study virtual tour

We obviously like to feature case studies of garden office builds on Shedworking but this is something new to us, a case study virtual tour. In this case it's of a shed and office space (shoffice) from Cosy Garden Rooms in Melbourne, Derbyshire, for the Findon family, a multipurpose space replacing a summerhouse which was getting a bit long in the tooth.

The build itself is a 6m x 3m garden room on a concrete base with an internal partition wall to create a storage area, clad with composite slat cedar cladding and Hardie board composite, with s Anthracite UPVC doors and windows, 3m-wide double sliding patio doors, a full-height corner window, and a 300mm overhang along the front and right-hand side of the building.

Click the link to have a play with the virtual tour thingy.

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David Gilmour loses shed planning battle

Pink Floyed guitarist David Gilmour has been ordered by Camden Council in London to take down a newly-built shed after a planning row with neighbours.
 
Pictured above are the summerhouse and sheds that previously stood on the footprint before the musician had them removed and replaced with a new shed build 2.5m x 1.9m x 2.9m. However, Hampstead Hill Gardens Residents’ Association called for his retrospective planning application to be refused with neighbours complaining that it was “overbearing” and “intrusive” and not built on the original shed footprint.

The council has now demanded that the existing structure be moved and rebuilt further away from the back fence.

Back in 2011, Gilmour was told by the council to pull down a yellow beach hut at his £3m seafront mansion in East Sussex which he used to house his bicycles as it was an "eyesore" in the Hove conservation area (though it looked fine to the Shedworking staff).

Photo credit: Whiteacre Planning Ltd/Camden council 

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Aerial view of Dylan Thomas' writing shed (video)

You don't often see aerial shots of garden offices and this is a particularly interesting one to focus on, Dylan Thomas' writing shed in Wales which has famously fabulous views.

 

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Friday Finery: Curved garden office

Today's Finery is this beautifully rounded build from the appropriately named Curve Garden Rooms. incorporating its curved fibreglass insulated roof design.

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Garden office construction timeline guide

There's a brief but useful guide for those considering going down the shedworking route about how long it takes to get your garden office set up on the Smart Modular Buildings blog. Here's a snippet:

• Design & Consultation: one to two weeks for layout, approvals, and finalising options
• Groundworks: one to three days depending on site conditions
• Construction: one to two weeks for prefabs, up to three to four weeks for bespoke builds
• Final Touches: two to five days for electrics, painting, flooring, etc
  

You can read the rest of it here.

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