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Brick-Slip Garden Rooms: Cost, Style and Planning vs Standard Cladding

Want the permanent look of brick in the garden? A brick-slip garden room gives you masonry looks on the modular frame — from around £22,950. Here's the cost, how it compares to other cladding, and the planning.

Brick-Slip Garden Rooms: Cost, Style and Planning vs Standard Cladding
A brick-built garden room — masonry brick-slip cladding, from around £22,950

The short answer. A brick garden room from Vita Modular starts from approximately £22,950 inc. VAT — masonry brick-slip cladding is a premium finish for around a 15% uplift on the standard price (from £19,950). You get the solid, permanent look of a brick building — matched to your house — with all the speed, insulation and 10-year warranty of the modular system.

What is a brick-slip garden room?

A brick garden room uses masonry brick-slip cladding — real fired-clay brick slips bonded to the insulated structure — to give the appearance of a traditional brick building without laying a brick wall from scratch. The brick slips are applied to Vita's precision-engineered, fully insulated panels, so the room keeps the speed and warmth of the modular system while looking like permanent masonry.

It's the ideal finish where you want the room to match your house, sit comfortably in a traditional setting, or read as a genuine extension of your home rather than a timber garden building.

Garden room finished in contrasting cladding by Vita Modular
Brick slip gives the permanent look of masonry, on the same fast modular frame

What it costs

Brick-slip is a premium finish, priced at around a 15% uplift over the standard cladding. Against Vita's garden-room range:

SizeStandard fromBrick-built from (approx.)
3m × 3m (9m²)£19,950£22,950
4m × 3m (12m²)£24,950~£28,700
5m × 3m (15m²)£29,950~£34,450

All figures inclusive of VAT and fully installed. Your written quote confirms the exact figure for your size and specification, and the brick option can be selected in the instant fixed-price quotation form. For the full range and what's included, see the garden rooms page.

Brick slip vs standard cladding

Every Vita garden room comes with a choice of external finish, so it's worth knowing how brick compares to the alternatives on the same frame:

  • Brick slip — the permanent, "matches-the-house" look; a premium finish, ~15% uplift. Best for traditional settings and where the room should read as part of the home.
  • Timber (cedar, thermowood) — the classic contemporary garden-room look, warmer and more natural; a popular standard finish.
  • Composite, render, metal or fibre-cement — low-maintenance modern finishes, each with a different character.

Because the finish sits on the same insulated frame, your choice is about looks, setting and maintenance — not structure. For a direct comparison against another finish on the same frame, see the long-board garden room.

  • £22,950 — brick garden room from, inc. VAT
  • ~15% — uplift over standard
  • ~7 days — typical on-site install
  • 10 years — structural warranty

Planning: does a brick garden room need permission?

The finish doesn't change the planning position — a brick-slip garden room is treated the same as any other. Most garden rooms are built under permitted development with no application needed, provided they stay within the size and height limits (single storey, under 2.5m near a boundary, not covering more than half the garden). Conservation areas and listed properties can change this, and Vita checks your address and handles any application as part of the free quote.

Why brick, and why modular

A brick garden room gives you the two things people usually think they have to choose between: the solid, permanent, house-matching look of masonry, and the speed, warmth and fixed price of modular. It installs in around 7 days, is fully insulated for year-round use, and carries the same 10-year structural warranty as every Vita build — none of which a bricklayer building a wall from scratch can offer.

Price your brick garden room — choose your size and finish for an instant fixed price, brick included. Get an instant fixed price →

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