Bespoke Ironwork
LORDRANFORGE
Hand-forged metalwork based in Maidenhead
Hand-forged metalwork based in Maidenhead
If it can be shaped from steel, we can make it. From grand automated driveway gates to a strip of weathered Corten edging along a garden path — every piece is designed around your property and forged to your specification, in traditional or contemporary styles.
Driveway gates, pedestrian gates, side and garden gates, and the matching railings or piers to set them off. Designs run from traditional spear-top and scrollwork through to clean contemporary geometry — drawn to suit the property and built to last decades of daily use.
Powered swing and sliding gates, supplied automation-ready or installed complete with motors, intercoms, keypads and safety sensors. We work with proven gate-automation hardware and handle the metalwork, the electrics and the commissioning so the finished gate works first time, every time.
Wall-top and boundary railings, balcony rails and stair balustrades, internal and external handrails — including restoration and repair of heritage and listed-property ironwork. Drawn to your specification, finished by hand, and fitted on site by us.
Corten and mild-steel lawn edging, garden bed borders, pergolas, arches, trellises and plant supports — alongside larger architectural and sculptural commissions. If you’ve got a shape in mind that nobody else seems to make, that’s usually where we come in.
Decades of combined experience at the forge and welding bench. Every weld, scroll and finial is hand-finished — never mass-produced.
A selection of gates, railings and architectural metalwork delivered for clients across Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and beyond.
For RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2026 we made the towering rock formations at the heart of the Project Giving Back Garden — the charity's own feature garden, designed by James Basson of Scape Design for Project Giving Back's final year at the show.
Basson's design took its cue from the ochre mines of Roussillon in Provence: dramatic red sandstone cliffs, coloured by natural ochre pigment and set among pine woodland. Those cliffs are our work — built by hand in the workshop, then transported to London and installed on site for the garden, which was built by Mark Whyman Landscapes. Our largest commission to date, and a measure of what the forge can do at scale.
Lordran Forge is a working blacksmith's shop in Maidenhead, run by time-served blacksmiths and certified professional welders with decades of combined experience at the forge and welding bench.
Every commission begins with a conversation and a sketch. We measure on site, draw up the design with you, then build the piece by hand in the forge — nothing bought in from a catalogue, nothing assembled from off-the-shelf parts.
Whether it's a pair of estate gates for a country property, a handrail for a townhouse, or a structural commission at scale, the work is signed, dated, and built to outlast the people who commissioned it.
We visit the site, talk through what you have in mind, and measure everything that needs measuring.
You receive scaled drawings and a fixed quotation. Revisions are part of the process — there’s no charge until you’re happy.
The piece is hand-forged in the workshop. Lead times vary — typically four to ten weeks depending on scale.
Galvanised, painted or waxed to your preference. We deliver and install on site, and we stand behind the work.
Led by Aiden and Patrick, blacksmiths and certified welders working across gates, railings and architectural metalwork — including the rock formations for the Project Giving Back Garden at RHS Chelsea 2026. Designed, forged and fitted by the makers.
Every project starts with a conversation. Send a few details — even a rough sketch on the back of an envelope — and we'll be in touch to arrange a visit.