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, pedestrian and garden gates, with the railings and piers to frame them. We work in everything from spear-top and scrollwork to spare contemporary lines, each design resolved around your entrance and forged to take decades of daily use without complaint.
Powered swing and sliding gates, supplied automation-ready or installed complete with motors, intercoms, keypads and safety sensors. We pair proven hardware with our own metalwork and take care of the electrics and commissioning ourselves, so the gate runs cleanly from the first day.
Boundary and wall-top railings, balcony rails, stair balustrades and handrails inside and out — alongside careful restoration of heritage and listed ironwork. Every run is drawn to your specification, finished by hand and fitted on site by us, never subcontracted.
Corten and mild-steel edging, bed borders, pergolas, arches, trellises and plant supports, through to larger architectural and sculptural commissions. When a shape exists only in your head and nobody else will attempt it, that is usually the work we take on.
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 rock formations at the heart of one of the show gardens — sculptural steel forms drawn from the ochre cliffs of Roussillon in Provence, fabricated in our workshop and finished on site. The garden was landscaped by Mark Whyman Landscapes; the formations were ours to build and install. Engineered to be craned into position and rendered to read as natural stone, they are a clear 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 and we'll be in touch to arrange a visit.