Outdoor Classrooms
Versatile. Fun. Spacious.
Outdoor classrooms are a great space-saving solution for pre-schools and schools. They provide versatile teaching spaces to keep students engaged, happy, and, most importantly, learning by having a modern alternative to traditional classrooms.
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Benefits Of An Outdoor Classroom
Improved Pupil Engagement
Our outdoor classroom spaces of up to 30m² allow for smaller class sizes, which enhances the learning environment through improved engagement as well as supporting independent learning.
Elevated Learning
Enhance learning and opportunities for students by creating dedicated spaces for many uses – cooking classes, quiet library, SEN learning – our garden rooms are perfect for them all.
Budget-Friendly Solution
Our garden rooms are a cost-effective way to expand your school’s capacity with transparent pricing that includes the base, installation, VAT and all the essentials you need to get started, just add electrical connection and you are good to go!
Premium insulated for year-round use
Make the most of your investment by being able to use your building in all seasons. This ensures that your investment is utilised to its fullest potential, providing a comfortable learning environment in all weather.
Minimal Disruption Installation
Our installation process is quieter, cleaner, and requires no large or noisy construction equipment compared to other building methods, meaning less disruption to your learning facility.
Long-Lasting Investment
Our garden rooms are built to last 30 years and come with a 12-year guarantee, giving you peace of mind that you’re making a long-lasting investment. Maintenance-free as standard, ensuring you have a reliable and durable solution for decades.
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G Range
Our core garden room range, manufactured using only the highest-quality materials from sustainable sources
A Range
Reach new heights with our apex roof garden rooms, where style and space soar.
Basebox
Our most cost-effective garden room range, designed and built with form and function in mind.
X1
The X1 garden room by Green Retreats has been infused with luxury from inception and embedded in every detail.
The Annex
Our collection of tiny homes, designed for full-time living; including building regulations approval, kitchen and bathroom.
About Our Outdoor Classrooms
Designed and built in the UK
Every element of our outdoor classrooms is designed and manufactured in-house at our own start-of-the-art manufacturing facilities in the UK.
Planning permission rarely required
Planning permission is rarely required as our buildings fall within permitted development rights. Our friendly team are on hand to help if planning is required though.
12-year guarantee
All of our outdoor classrooms come with a comprehensive 12-year guarantee, giving you that extra peace of mind in case you have any issues.
Engineered For Year-Round Use
All of our garden rooms are built with double-glazed windows & doors and premium-grade insulation, allowing the directional flow of air and moisture out of the building.
Environmentally Friendly and Sustainable
At Green Retreats, we’re landfill-free, solar-powered, carbon neutral and use recycled & sustainable materials only with every building we manufacture.
Fits close to any solid obstacle
We can build as close as 400mm to any solid boundary obstacle, giving you full flexibility in the position of your outdoor classroom.
Cost-Effective vs Alternatives
Compared to the conventional single-storey extension, conservatory or loft conversion, our garden rooms are much more cost-effective.
Installed In Just 2-5 Days
We install all of our outdoor classrooms on-site in just 2-5 days, making them convenient and a hassle-free addition to your education facility.
Why Choose Us
5* Rated by our customers
The leading luxury garden rooms, independently rated 5* on Trustpilot
Backed by Kevin McCloud
Our eco policy & approach to design have the architectural guru’s seal of approval
Proud to have worked with…
Grand Designs, National Trust, BBC & Channel 4
Carbon Neutral Company
Committed to ensure our buildings have zero adverse effects on the environment
Outdoor Classroom Gallery
Browse through our outdoor classroom gallery and discover how schools have used outdoor classrooms to embrace nature while enriching their learning experiences.
WE ARE PROUD TO HAVE WORKED WITH
As the UK’s leading garden room company, Green Retreats are proud to have been featured in many national publications.
Our Showrooms
See the quality of our garden room buildings for yourself by visiting one of our showrooms! Choose from our flagship showroom in Buckinghamshire with 21 garden rooms to see, or our hub showroom in Twickenham with 4 garden rooms on display.
A lookbook of our building designs to inspire your project
What our customers say
We are so pleased to be top rated on Trustpilot
by our customers.
by Louisa (Louisa Tudor)
Fantastic Room in a little London garden!
We now have an amazing room at the bottom of our garden that fits in beautifully and feels as though it has been there for ever. All the staff were incredibly helpful and friendly and the entire process was very straightforward.
by E Fisher (Diva Fitness)
Excellent choice of supplier for my Garden Studio! So pleased
Green Retreats deserve every single one of my star ratings! They have been very professional right from the start, from welcoming me to their warehouse to helping me make the right choice through to a fabulous installation. The finished studio is amazing, a top quality build and the installation teams were timely, polite and very hard-working.
Thanks to you all…what a fab company!!
by Alexa Garthwaite
Fantastic product and service to match
We had a 3.5m by 5m garden room installed last month and we are delighted with the result. We are using it as a home gym and love the extra space it has given us! The building also looks fantastic at the bottom of our garden. Green retreats have been an absolute pleasure to deal with. In summary I have been very impressed by both the product and the service provided by green retreats and highly recommend!
Outdoor Classrooms FAQs
Yes, you can. We will liaise with a plumber to ensure that any necessary openings are in place, ready for the plumber to connect the required services.
Yes, we can install partition walls in any of our larger sized garden rooms. Please enquire for more details.
Whilst our garden rooms are temporary structures and are moveable. It is worth considering that the costs to move a building is chargeable to you and can equate to an amount that does not make moving the building viable.
We don’t offer a completely soundproof solution for your garden room. We do, however, offer an acoustic pack which reduces the transfer of sound to approximately -45db – however, this is not ‘soundproof’.
Although we use industry-leading acoustically laminated glass, this is the least effective component of our acoustic pack. Please bear in mind that the more glass you opt for in your garden room, the lesser the effect the acoustic pack will have.
Planning permission is not normally required as our buildings fall under permitted development (built under 2.5m high externally).
Most houses, even in conservation areas and areas of outstanding natural beauty (AONB), have permitted development rights.
Flats and listed buildings have no permitted development rights, so will always need planning permission.
Don’t worry though, as planning is a relatively simple process for our garden rooms and we are on-hand to help with this process.
We offer a complete electrical connection from your house to the garden room at an additional cost, which will be confirmed at your design consultation. However, you are more than welcome to use your own preferred electrician for this.
Yes, all of our buildings come as standard with a free-standing oil-filled radiator. We also offer a variety of heating options including wall-mounted radiators, underfloor heating and air conditioning.
Our construction methods mean that we can build as close as 400mm to any solid boundary or obstacle.
We offer two solutions for internet connectivity.
The first is called ‘Home Plug’: Simply insert one of the plugs into a wall socket and connect the included patch cable into your home router, then insert the other plug into a wall socket in your garden room.
This method sends your internet signal through the power network of your home and replicates your home Wi-Fi in your building.
The second solution is to run a full armoured CAT 6 network cable from the router in your house to the garden building. This will usually follow the same route as your main power cable and we can quote for this at your free design consultation.
Our windows and doors are double-glazed to BS7412 specification and feature tough Pilkington K double-glazing which is both safe and thermally efficient. All windows and doors are fitted with high security (insurance grade) multi-point locks and bolts with a 5-lever locking system.
