Founder · 1991
Peter Sherrin
Retired, officially. Still visits most sites, and still checks every coping joint with his thumb.
Heritage
Thirty-five years, one family, one yard
Everything we know about building pools, we learned here, on the edge of the New Forest.
Since 1991
Peter Sherrin dug his first pool by hand in a Lyndhurst garden in the summer of 1991. His son David joined in 2003, and today Peter’s granddaughter Ellie leads design from the same yard on the edge of the forest.
We have never franchised, never subcontracted and never grown faster than we could look after. That is why we still build fewer than twenty pools a year.
35 years in the forest
How three generations shaped the way we build
The family
Three generations, still on site
Managing director · since 2003
David Sherrin
Runs every build programme personally, and opens most of our clients’ pools himself each April.
Design director · since 2026
Ellie Sherrin
Trained as a landscape architect. Draws every new pool by hand before it goes anywhere near a computer.
What hasn’t changed since 1991
Our own people
Every one of our fourteen craftsmen is employed by us. Nobody on your site is a stranger to us.
Our own stone
Coping and paving are cut and finished in our Lyndhurst workshop, not ordered from a catalogue.
We stay
Most of our clients have been with us for a decade or more. We open their pools every spring.
Begin here
Start with a walk round the garden
A first visit is free and unhurried. We’ll look at the light, the levels and the trees, and tell you honestly what’s possible.