Devon
Adam Milton
Founder and Project Consultant
- Joined
1987
Adam is a founding member of Carpenter Oak. His interest in aesthetically beautiful things was established with a foundation in Art & Design and a degree in Furniture Design, which led to training as a cabinet maker, where he learnt skilled joinery.
He joined Carpenter Oak and Woodland in Chippenham 1987, focusing on the restoration of timber-framed buildings throughout southern England, including the 14th century Charlton Court barn, and the kitchen roof at Windsor Castle, following the fire in 1992.
Adam formed the Devon yard, creating beautiful contemporary new oak framed buildings using traditional skills. The success of the yard Devon grew from a team of 6 to 40 or so skilled carpenters with a small support team. Many of the buildings were featured on the first few series of Grand Designs and in national press.
In 2004 Adam, along with 3 other directors, took over the Devon branch of Carpenter Oak, becoming Managing Director and overseeing many more incredible builds throughout the UK and abroad. These include the boundary pushing Bedales School theatre, the award winning curved Cranham Lodge, the humbling Normandy Memorial Pergola and more recently two very different but equally special converted barns in Devon – Willowplatt and Redhill.
In 2017 Adam and the other owners enabled Carpenter Oak along the path to becoming employee owned and the succession of the younger generation. He now works three days a week sharing his remarkable knowledge and experience internally and externally, regularly giving CPD presentations to designers and engineers across the UK. Adam is passionate about the use of timber in construction, and enabling clients and their design teams to fully harness the potential of timber in their project.
Adam can usually be found sailing his boat on the River Dart or walking along the beautiful South Devon coast with his wife, and spending time with his three children and grandchildren.