Doors · Front · French · Reproduction

Bespoke wooden doors, made in Uckfield to outlast the house.

The kind of door you walk past on a Sussex lane and stop to look at, and the one that's still hanging straight thirty years from now. Front doors, French sets, bifolds, garage doors and listed-building reproductions, built in our Uckfield workshop and hung on site.

Hand-built oak front door with Gothic-arched glazed sidelights, set in a brick porch

Oak front door with arched sidelights

All our doors are mortice-and-tenoned, glued and wedged the old way. No dowel joints, no MDF cores. Where the brief calls for something out of the ordinary, Gothic-arched porch doors, panelled fronts with sidelights and fanlights, double-leaf carriage doors, round oak barrel doors, we'll draw it from scratch with you.

External doors are built in Accoya as standard for a paint finish, or in oak and sapele where the timber is meant to be seen. Listed-building reproductions are profile-matched to the original, pegged, beaded, drag-fronted, whatever the house needs.

We hang the doors ourselves. Frame, threshold, weatherboard, ironmongery, supplied, fitted, signed off. One conversation, one invoice, one team responsible.

We make and hang doors from our East Sussex joinery workshop, covering the county and up into Tunbridge Wells and the Kent border.

What We Make

  • Front doors, panelled, glazed, framed-ledged-and-braced
  • French doors and bifold sets
  • Listed-building reproduction doors
  • Internal doors, panelled, cottage, Gothic
  • Carriage doors, garage doors, large entrance gates
  • Stable doors and porch doors
  • Bespoke ironmongery sourcing and fitting
  • One-off round oak barrel door with a small viewing window, built in the Forest Joinery workshop

    One-off round oak barrel door, drawn around a curved opening and framed with a flush hardwood threshold.

  • White painted French doors and matching casement window set into a flint-and-brick cottage wall

    French doors and matching casements for a flint cottage, built to suit the opening and hung on site.

  • White painted French doors with leaded glazing and flanking windows on a brick orangery

    French doors with leaded lights and flanking casements, a full set for an orangery in the South East.

  • White painted timber entrance canopy on curved gallows brackets, fitted over a doorway in a brick wall

    We make the surround as well as the door, here a painted timber entrance canopy on curved gallows brackets, fitted to match.

  • White painted half-glazed front door with brass furniture, under a timber porch canopy in a brick surround

    And the door beneath it, a painted half-glazed front door with brass furniture, hung in the same opening.

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Common Questions

Do you fit the doors as well as make them?

Yes. Frame, threshold, weatherboard and ironmongery are supplied, fitted and signed off by the same team that built the door. One conversation, one invoice, one team responsible.

Can you reproduce a door for a listed building?

Yes. Listed-building reproductions are profile-matched to the original, pegged, beaded and drag-fronted as the house needs, with the drawings and profiles a conservation officer needs to approve them.

How are your doors made?

Every door is mortice-and-tenoned, glued and wedged the traditional way. No dowel joints, no MDF cores, which is why they're still hanging straight decades on.

What timber do you use for external doors?

Accoya as standard for a painted finish, for its stability and long paint life, or oak and sapele where the timber is meant to be seen.

Which areas do you cover?

We build in our Uckfield workshop and hang doors on site across East and West Sussex and Kent, roughly a 30-mile radius of the workshop.

Start a Conversation

Drawings, listed-building advice, or a single window, we'd like to hear from you.

The quickest answers come by phone. For drawings or photos, send them through the contact page and Simon will come back the same day.