If you farm in Midlothian, the Borders or Fife and you type “agricultural sheds Scotland”, the useful page is supply and erect. Foundations and groundworks stay with you or your foundation designer. We interface on base loads and holding-down bolts. Start at farm buildings.
Design, drawings an agent can lodge, the hot-rolled frame, cladding and doors. Cubicles, grain dryers and a merchant catalogue of livestock kit are not the building. Foundations and groundworks stay with you or your foundation designer. We interface on base loads and holding-down bolts. A kit is available when a crew is already on the holding. It is not the main offer.
What “agricultural sheds Midlothian” actually means here
Midlothian is home ground. The shop is Unit 2B, Eastfield Industrial Estate, Penicuik, EH26 8HA. A holding on the Pentland edge, a yard at West Linton, or a machinery court outside Pathhead is a same-week conversation, not a call-centre lead. Snow and wind on those ridges are not Home Counties defaults. We size the frame for the site you photograph, not a brochure span.
From that same desk we also price steel barn frames for the Borders and livestock buildings aimed at Fife. The language changes with the holding. Kit farm sheds for Aberdeenshire or Cumbria are the same members a Central Belt crew would lift.
Two buying routes, one workshop
Kit. Columns, rafters, purlins, bolts and assembly drawings on a wagon. You or a local erector stand it. Best when you already have a telehandler and a competent crew, or when the postcode is outside our erection radius.
Supply and erect. Frame, envelope and openings, Central Belt first. Foundations and groundworks stay with you or your foundation designer. We interface on base loads and holding-down bolts. See farm buildings.
Standard bays are the ones we cut without drama: spans 12, 15, 18, 21 and 24 m; eaves 4, 5, 6 and 7 m; bay centres usually 4.5–6 m. Walk the field in feet if that is how you think — we convert. Odd sizes are fine; they cost a day in detailing, not a redesign of the company.
Use, not a catalogue
Machinery and general-purpose barns want a clear span and a roller door you can reverse a tractor through. Livestock housing wants galvanising that survives ammonia, and air — Yorkshire boarding or a vented ridge — not a sealed tin. Hay and straw want height. Grain wants a stiffer door and frame story than a straw shed. Lean-tos want a photo of the existing eaves. Those five uses sit on the form. Pick one.
Planning in Scotland is usually Class 18 prior notification on a qualifying holding, not a full application and not a free-for-all. We issue drawings for your agent. We are not planning consultants. FFIS does not fund sheds, roofs or concrete. The Crofting Agricultural Grant Scheme can fund buildings for eligible crofters. Read that twice before you put grant money in the cashflow.
How a farmer starts
Width, length, eaves, use, postcode, phone photo of the ground. That is the brief. Not a DWG. We price it in 24 hours. Guide bands are not published. Portal frames and sheds carries bay logic, farm spec and the same form. The 3D tool — design your farm shed — not an RSJ take-off.
Use the contact form if you would rather not use the form on this page. Email info@ff-steel.co.uk if that is how the holding works. Tag the message as a farm shed so it does not sit in the builder pile.