| We manufactured a set of 9 doors for the National Trust. They are based on the design of the still partly original oak barn doors at Gawthorpe Hall Great Barn The doors are Harr hung, that is they are hung on a pintle above the top and below the bottom and what would be the hinge side of the door is shaped into a semi cylinder to allow it to turn. The left hand plank is 3” thick and has 4 horizontal rails 2” thick morticed into it. The other planks are 1” thick and are fixed to the rails by the decorative headed oak pegs which are driven in at different peg angles to a pattern. No glue is needed as the different angles form a sort of dovetail action which stops the planks coming loose. The frame is made of 5”x 4” oak but the pintles which hold the weight are set directly into the stone. |
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