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.
We designed and fabricated the structural steel armatures behind one of the feature gardens at RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2026 — large-scale welded sub-frames engineered to be transported, craned into position and rendered on site. A working demonstration of what our workshop 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.
Lordran Forge is just the two of us — Patrick and Aiden — and that's the way we like it. From the first site visit and sketch to the final coat of paint, every commission is drawn, forged, welded, finished and fitted by the same two pairs of hands. No subcontractors, no production lines, no anonymous workshop.
Between us we've spent years learning the craft the proper way — at the anvil, at the welding bench, and on site with structural commissions where the work has to be right the first time. We take on a small number of jobs at any given time so each one gets the attention it deserves.
If you commission a piece from us, you'll meet us, talk to us, and watch us fit the finished work. That's the deal.
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.