Luxury Handcrafted Yurts for Sale in the UK & Europe

We respect the traditional form because there are good reasons why yurts developed the way they did. Where the traditional way still works best, we use it. Where a modern material or method genuinely improves the yurt, we use that instead.

The result is not one clever feature or one special material. It is the whole thing.

We don't cut corners or sacrifice quality. We work with care, experience and a great deal of enthusiasm for what we make.

We make fine yurts.

If you are considering a yurt, have an idea you want to talk through or simply have a question, get in touch. You do not need to have everything worked out. Tell me what you are thinking about and we can take it from there.

Current Yurt Availability

We occasionally have a yurt available sooner than our usual lead time, either already made or part way through the workshop.

We keep the availability page up to date with what we have and when it will be ready.

Canvas Yurts

Our Canvas Yurt is the foundation of every Yurt Workshop yurt.

This is the yurt in its simplest and perhaps purest form: a beautiful natural chestnut frame and roof poles, a solid oak crown, canvas covers made to fit the yurt properly, and the traditional proportions that give the whole structure its character.

It has everything that makes a yurt feel like a yurt. The warmth and texture of the wood, the pattern of the roof poles, the oak crown above you and that wonderful circular space that somehow feels both open and enclosed at the same time.

We have spent more than twenty years refining these yurts. The proportions are right, the materials are right for the job, the covers fit as they should and the whole structure works together.

And that matters. A good yurt has a particular feel to it. It looks right, it works properly and there is something about being inside one that is difficult to put into words.

For many people, this is exactly the yurt they want.

And when we make an Insulated Yurt or a Glass Wall Yurt, this is where it begins.

Insulated Yurts

Felt insulation transforms a yurt into a home. It gives it a feeling of warmth, substance and security and makes the space far more versatile throughout the year.

It matters just as much in summer as it does in winter. In cold weather the wool helps keep the warmth inside. In hot weather it helps keep the heat out.

We use 100% natural sheep's wool felt, chosen specifically for the job. But when we make an insulated yurt we do not simply add some felt to one of our Canvas Yurts. The whole yurt has to work with the extra layers.

The covers are made and fitted so that they sit properly over the insulation, and can be adjusted if the amount of insulation changes. Inside, the felt is covered with a bright fire-retardant lining which gives the yurt a clean, finished interior.

We have been making insulated yurts for more than twenty years, and over that time we have refined the way all these layers work together.

For many of our customers, this is the yurt they choose when they want something substantial, comfortable and made for use throughout the year.

Glass Wall Yurts

We made our first Glass Wall Yurt in 2013, working with a pair of artists from Norway who wanted something that bit special.

The idea was to bring a vast amount of natural light into the yurt while keeping the warmth, substance and character of the insulated structure.

The effect completely transforms the space.

You still have the curves, the natural chestnut frame, the solid oak crown and that wonderful enclosed feeling of a yurt, but now the whole space opens directly onto the landscape outside.

This was what excited us about the first one, and it still does. You have this very old structure combined with great areas of glass and light. Ancient and modern somehow sit together remarkably well.

We can use a relatively small amount of glass or make a much wider glazed wall. There is no standard Glass Wall Yurt. We work out what suits the size of the yurt, the site and what you want the space to do.

Customers talk about the “wow factor”, and I know exactly what they mean. You walk into one and the whole yurt feels different.

Made Properly

A yurt is a very simple structure, which is probably why it is so easy to underestimate how much the details matter.

The height of the wall, the pitch of the roof, the size of the crown, the height of the door frame, the way the roof poles meet the wall. None of these things sounds particularly dramatic on its own, but get them wrong and the whole yurt starts to lose something.

We have spent years looking at these details, changing some, putting others back the traditional way, and finding out what actually works.

Sometimes the old way is still the best way. Sometimes a modern material gives us a better answer. We are not interested in being traditional for the sake of it, and we are not interested in changing things simply because something newer exists.

We choose our materials with the same thought. Chestnut is beautiful, but it is also strong, flexible and wonderfully suited to making a yurt frame. Oak gives the crown weight, strength and presence. The canvas, felt, ropes and fittings are chosen because they suit the job they have to do.

We are interested in making the yurt right.

That means the covers have to fit properly. The frame has to have the right proportions. The roof poles need to sit and work as they should. And all those small decisions have to come together into something that looks right, feels right and works properly.

Most of these things are easy to miss when you first look at a yurt.

Put them all together, though, and they make all the difference.

Made in Our Workshop

We make the yurts ourselves.

The chestnut for the frames and roof poles is selected, shaped and finished here in the workshop. We make the solid oak crowns ourselves, and the covers are cut and made to fit each individual yurt.

We are deliberately still a small workshop. There is a limit to how many yurts we can make because making them properly takes time.

There is also something rather satisfying about knowing exactly where your yurt came from and who made it.

If you would like to see where and how we work, have a look inside the Yurt Workshop.