Fencing in Charlton Kings
We install and repair garden fencing across Charlton Kings, from the older streets around St Mary's and Cudnall Street to the houses on the rise below Charlton Kings Common. The work is closeboard fencing, panel replacement, gates and decking. Under most gardens here sits Charmouth Mudstone, the Lower Lias clay dug for bricks at Battledown and Harp Hill, and it decides how a post hole behaves.
The houses and gardens in Charlton Kings
Charlton Kings grew out from an old village core around St Mary's, where parts of the church date to 1190 and the building was enlarged in 1877. Victorian and Edwardian streets spread outward from Cheltenham as the parish became a suburb, and 434 acres were transferred from Charlton Kings, Leckhampton, Prestbury and Up Hatherley when the municipal borough was extended in 1935. Twentieth-century suburban building came after that and accounts for most of the housing stock, with a parish population of 10,396 at the 2011 census. Older plots near the cores and on the ground rising to the common carry Cotswold stone walls. The Victorian and Edwardian streets closer to town run to brick or rendered walls with railings. Timber sits in the 20th-century gardens.
Digging in Charlton Kings: the practical bit
Dig a post hole in most of Charlton Kings and you are into grey-yellow Lias clay within a spit or two. In winter it holds water in the hole, so a concrete collar with nothing draining below it sets a post in a bucket. By August it has shrunk and cracked, and those crack lines are where a leaning post starts. Move east and uphill towards the common and limestone brash and hillwash coarsen the ground, so the auger gives way to the digging bar. Patches of Cheltenham sand and gravel sit along the scarp foot and change over short distances. On older streets around St Mary's and Cudnall Street, rear access is often through the house or a shared alley, which sets how the spoil comes out.
The boundaries you already have
Three kinds of boundary sit side by side here. Cotswold stone walls around the old cores at St Mary's, Cudnall Street and Bafford, and on the ground rising to the common. Brick and rendered walls with railings on the Victorian and Edwardian streets closer to Cheltenham. Timber closeboard and lap panels across the 20th-century estates. That gives three kinds of job: new runs and panel swaps in the suburban gardens, timber set against existing stone on the older plots, and repairs where a fence has been strapped to a wall that is itself moving. A listed property, or one inside a listed building's curtilage, loses permitted development for fences.
Everywhere we cover in Charlton Kings
St Mary's · Cudnall Street · Bafford · Holy Apostles · Charlton Kings Common · Balcarras School · Glenfall Community Primary
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Fencing services in Charlton Kings
Every service we offer is available across Charlton Kings, at the same guide prices we publish everywhere.
Closeboard fencing
Feather-edge boards built board by board onto concrete or timber posts, so the fence holds its line and single boards can be replaced.
Fence repair
Snapped posts and storm-blown panels put right across Cheltenham, with an honest read on whether repairing beats replacing.
Panel replacement
Failed panels swapped into your existing posts, matched to the height of the run, with the old panels taken away on the day.
Composite fencing
Wood-plastic composite panels on aluminium posts, fitted so your boundary needs a wash down instead of re-staining every other spring.
Garden gates
Side gates and driveway pairs, hung on oversized posts set in concrete, so the leaf keeps its swing and the latch still catches.
Decking
Timber and composite decking built on a sub-frame that drains and breathes, so the deck stays solid underfoot years after it is laid.
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