About Albany Sheds

Established in 1984, for over 40 years Albany Sheds has been manufacturing sheds and timber garden buildings for the trade and public in Desborough, Northants. We now operate from three modern production facilities using the latest methods and machinery. Employing around 70 people, we produce thousands of sheds per year. We supply over 100 trade customers – spanning the length and breadth of the country – with the comprehensive selection of buildings shown on this website. We provide regular bulk deliveries mostly using our own fleet of vehicles.

Our garden buildings can now be purchased online through this website and will either be supplied via a trusted local retailer or we will arrange delivery directly to you. All of the products ordered on this website will be manufactured to order at our Desborough factories.

Here’s what an average work week might look like for us:

• Hours worked: 3000
• Sheds made and delivered: 400
• Truck loads of sheds: 50+
• Miles covered: 10,000
• Nails and screws used: 1,000,000
• Timber used: 200 cubic metres
• Panes of glass: 1000
• Timber treatment: 2000L
• Cups of tea and coffee: 1500

We are proud to have a huge display site where our vast range of sheds, workshops, summerhouses, log cabins and more can be viewed, with knowledgeable staff happy to discuss your requirements either in person or over the phone. Or if you can’t make it to our display site, we may have a retailer near you that has our buildings on show.

History: 1984 – Present

Albany Sheds were originally part of a fencing manufacturer called Leicester Fencing, based in Kibworth, Leicestershire, who started to make weatherboard sheds (The Cottage – we still make it today!) to supply their local trade customers. As the shed side of the business developed, it became necessary to find new, larger premises to accommodate the growing order book. A site was found at a former ice cream depot in Desborough, Northants.

When the owner of Leicester Fencing retired, the business was divided up and sold; the manager of the shed division was able to purchase his part of the business, which he still runs to this day. The name was changed to Albany Shed Co Ltd (as the factory was on Stoke Albany Road) and over the years, as our range of products and customer base expanded, we outgrew our original factory. We acquired an additional site – the old Station Yard in the centre of Desborough (ironically, Leicester Fencing was also based in an old station yard).

We have gradually developed the site, adding manufacturing facilites and storage as well as a purpose built office building and display area featuring a 30m long indoor showroom and a 45m long bespoke canopy cover, so visiting customers can stay dry in all weathers!

In recent years we were one of the first UK shed manufacturers to introduce a 3D configurator for designing a garden building to a customer’s requirements. The 3D Shed Designer is now an integral part of our processes from sales to manufacturing.