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Best wooden garden chairs for the job you actually have

Updated: 22 October 2026

You want the best wooden garden chairs, and the highest star line in this set is a beech pair the listing tells you to store indoors. That is a useful chair for guests. It is a poor answer if the chair must stay on the patio through a wet winter. Best, here, means best for a stated job among the three amazon.co.uk listings we kept. Prices and scores are on the [wooden garden chair comparison](/hub/garden-furniture/garden-chair-wood). This page says who each chair is for and who should skip it. Scores are the star rating times 20, not a lab test. A qualifying purchase can earn us a commission at no extra cost to you.

You want the best wooden garden chairs, and the highest star line in this set is a beech pair the listing tells you to store indoors. That is a useful chair for guests.

Our top picks

Harbour Housewares Harbour Housewares beech folding chairs

Best overall

Harbour Housewares Harbour Housewares beech folding chairs
8.8/10about £49.99
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Relaxdays Relaxdays wood and cast iron garden chair

Best value

Relaxdays Relaxdays wood and cast iron garden chair
7.8/10about £100.78
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BrackenStyle BrackenStyle Melton wooden bar chair

Rank 3

BrackenStyle BrackenStyle Melton wooden bar chair
4.0/10about £95.00
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On this page
  1. 1.Best for extra seats you bring in
  2. 2.A low mixed chair, not solid wood
  3. 3.A bar chair with one review
  4. 4.If you need leave-out timber

Best for extra seats you bring in

The Harbour Housewares beech folding chairs are the top pick. They have the highest rating and the lowest price per chair. You get two lacquered beech chairs for £49.99. Folded, the bullets give about 42.5 × 6.5 × 86 cm, so they stand in a cupboard. Assembly is not required. Across 116 amazon.co.uk ratings the line is 4.4, a score of 88. UK reviewers praise the fold and a firm seat, and they also report rough edges, splinters, patchy lacquer and two chairs in different shades. The bullets say store the chairs indoors when they are not in use, and the attribute says Indoor. Buy this pair for Sunday lunch, then take them in. The folding wooden garden chair page stays with that storage job. Skip it if you need a chair that lives outside.

A low mixed chair, not solid wood

The Relaxdays chair is the low lounge option, and it is not a solid wooden chair. At £100.78 you get a hardwood seat, cast iron sides and a PVC back. Seat height is about 41 cm, lounge height rather than the 45 to 47 cm dining band. The stated load is 100 kg. The star line is 3.9 from 93 ratings, a score of 78, but only two review blocks in our file are from the United Kingdom. Nothing on the page says whether you can leave it in the rain. Once the beech pair is the top pick, this chair is the best value in the set: a score of 78 at £100.78, against 40 at £95. Skip it if you wanted dining height, a fold-flat pair, or timber all the way through.
Harbour Housewares Harbour Housewares beech folding chairs

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Harbour Housewares Harbour Housewares beech folding chairs
8.8/10about £49.99
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A bar chair with one review

The BrackenStyle Melton is a hardwood bar chair at £95, not a dining chair you can quietly reassign. Overall height is 120 cm. The attribute seat height is 73 cm, and the bullets also print 36 cm. We leave that clash unresolved. There is one amazon.co.uk review, scored 2.0 on 29 August 2026, a score of 40. The review says the size suits a breakfast bar, then says the supplied Allen key could not drive the screws, which stripped on both chairs. No load is stated. Weather resistant is a feature claim with no standard named. Buy it only if you already have a bar-height table and you will assemble it with a proper hex key. Skip it for a 75 cm dining table, and skip it if you want more than a single review behind the stars.

If you need leave-out timber

None of the three kept chairs is a Grade A teak dining chair you can leave out and forget. The top pick is beech you store. The lounge chair is a hardwood seat on iron and PVC, with no leave-out instruction. The bar chair is one review and a height conflict. If the chair must survive a British winter in the open, you are in a different search. Kingsley Smythe treats teak as the stay-out hardwood and acacia as the one that wants a cover. The RHS puts oily hardwoods, teak among them, on the leave-out list. We do not fold those into this ranking. Read teak or acacia before you pay a teak premium.

Common questions

Which chair in this comparison is the best buy?
For two extra seats you will bring indoors, the Harbour beech pair at £49.99 is the best buy in this set. It has the highest amazon.co.uk rating, 4.4 from 116, and the lowest price per chair, so it is the top pick. It is not the best chair to leave outside. If that is the job, this set does not contain the chair.
Is the Harbour pair the best because it has the most stars?
The stars are why it leads this table, and they are not a weather test. The score is 4.4 times 20, which is 88. Reviewers praise the fold and a firm seat, and they also report splinters, mismatched colour, and a hard back. The bullets still say store the chairs indoors.
Who should skip the Relaxdays chair?
Skip it if you need a dining seat near 45 cm, a second chair for a crowd, or a frame that is wood rather than cast iron and PVC. The seat is about 41 cm, the load line is 100 kg, and the price is £100.78 for one. Also skip it if you only trust UK reviews: only two review blocks in our file are headed as reviewed in the United Kingdom.
Are the Relaxdays reviews British?
Most of them are not. The rating is 3.9 from 93, and the saved listing shows review blocks from Italy, France, Spain, Germany, Belgium, and the United States as well as the United Kingdom. Only two blocks are headed as reviewed in the United Kingdom. Those two mention sturdy iron, a wide seat, and a back that is not that high.
What should I buy if the chair has to stay out?
Not one of these three, if you mean an uncovered winter. The beech pair says store indoors. Relaxdays does not state outdoor storage. The Melton says weather resistant without a standard, and it has one poor assembly review. For leave-out timber, shortlist teak or a properly pressure-treated softwood.

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Sources

Public UK sources used for this comparison, last checked on 22 October 2026. Listing prices, stars and review counts are the amazon.co.uk lines saved for this set. There is no laboratory test. Retailer lifespan lines are seller judgements, not a test.

  1. RHS, maintaining garden seats and tables (retrieved 22 October 2026)
  2. BS EN 581-2:2026 outdoor seating tests (retrieved 22 October 2026)
  3. BS EN 581 series, seating and tables (retrieved 22 October 2026)
  4. Consumer Rights Act 2015, section 9 (retrieved 22 October 2026)
  5. General Product Safety Regulations 2005 (retrieved 22 October 2026)
  6. JYSK UK, wooden garden table and chairs care (retrieved 22 October 2026)
  7. Harbour Lifestyle, care for wooden garden furniture (retrieved 22 October 2026)
  8. Kingsley Smythe, teak versus acacia (seller guide) (retrieved 22 October 2026)