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Modern UK agriculture relies more than ever on high-quality buildings—structures that protect machinery, store valuable crops, house livestock safely, and support increasingly complex on-farm processes. Whether it’s a steel-framed barn, a timber machinery shed, a potato store, an equestrian arena, or an industrial-strength workshop, the right building has a direct impact on efficiency, welfare, profitability, and long-term adaptability.
Alongside agricultural buildings themselves, farmers also require groundworks, drainage, concrete pads, utilities, insulation, automated ventilation systems, doors, cladding, and welfare facilities. These are significant capital investments—and that’s where Gable Business Finance plays a central role.
Gable provides specialist finance packages for:
With decades of experience, Gable supports farms, estates, smallholdings, equestrian enterprises, and agricultural contractors across the UK.
UK agriculture has a wide range of building systems available—each suited to different operations, budgets, and long-term objectives. Below is a comprehensive overview of modern farm building solutions.
Steel-framed buildings remain the most popular option for modern farms due to their durability, speed of installation, and cost-effectiveness.
Steel frame buildings can be used for:
Timber remains a highly valued building material in rural Britain.
Timber buildings remain popular for:
A great option for farms with in-house labour or contractor connections.
These buildings are commonly steel or timber framed and are popular for:
Used widely in calf rearing and youngstock housing for disease control.
Ideal for horses, sheep, goats and beef cattle.
Rapid-deployment covers for machinery, livestock, feed and outdoor workspaces.
Cost-effective temporary housing often used in seasonal systems.
Livestock buildings must support welfare standards, ventilation, cleaning efficiency, and biosecurity. Housing options include:
Buildings designed for machinery storage often include:
Purpose-built storage buildings for:
Used for engineering, fabrication, vehicle maintenance and food-grade processing.
Including stables, hay barns, tack rooms, indoor arenas and outdoor arena canopies.
Farms can specify building height, span, cladding, ventilation, layout, insulation, doors and more.
Cost-effective structures for farms wanting to self-build.
Including gates, yokes, handling systems, fans, barriers and troughs.
Gable Business Finance provides tailored finance packages for all specialist agricultural buildings and construction projects. This includes:
Expand or develop your farm, improve animal welfare, and optimise productivity with custom-designed steel frame buildings.
Gable provides finance for buildings designed for:
Whatever the scale of your commercial project, Gable can finance a custom-designed steel frame structure.
Our personalised service includes:
Gable also finances high-quality steel frame equestrian buildings, including:
We work closely with clients to meet design, welfare and performance needs.
Robust and adaptable, steel frame buildings can be used effectively in a wide range of industries. Gable finances:
Challenge: A root crop farm required a temperature-controlled potato store.
Solution: Steel-framed insulated building with ventilation.
Finance: 7-year hire purchase covering the entire build.
Challenge: The farm needed a specialist workshop with reinforced floors and extraction.
Solution: Custom steel workshop with roller shutters.
Finance: Lease finance over 5 years.
Challenge: Riding school required all-weather capability.
Solution: Steel-framed indoor arena with lighting and viewing areas.
Finance: Stage-payment construction finance.
Can Gable finance both the building and the groundworks? Yes, including foundations, concrete, drainage and utilities.
Do I need planning permission? You can apply early, but funding is released after permission is granted.
Can I finance self-build kits? Yes, kit-form steel and timber buildings are eligible.
Do you finance commercial and industrial structures? Yes—Gable supports agricultural, commercial and industrial projects.
Are seasonal payments available? Yes, ideal for farming cash flow cycles.
How quickly can I get approved? Many approvals are completed within 24–48 hours.
Gable Business Finance supports UK farms, estates, equestrian centres, contractors and industrial businesses with flexible, competitive finance for specialist buildings.
Your farm deserves buildings made for the future. Gable makes it possible.