Bespoke Door Sets
Stable Doors
A stable door earns its place by doing something a single door cannot: opening top and bottom independently. On a cottage or farmhouse kitchen that is a genuinely useful door, not a stylistic one.
How a stable door works
A stable door is split horizontally into two leaves that open independently and can be bolted together to work as one. The detail that makes it weathertight is the meeting between the leaves: a rebated and weathered joint that throws off water when the door is closed, with a bolt or latch that locks the two halves together. Construction is usually ledged or framed-and-ledged, in oak or a stable painted softwood, detailed to the property — the same vernacular register as a farmhouse door, divided.
Where it suits
The stable door belongs on cottage and farmhouse kitchens, utility and garden entrances, and rural side doors — anywhere the ability to open the top for light and air while keeping the bottom closed is useful. It is specified with ironmongery to the period and the building, and, on a listed or rural property, detailed to suit the character of the existing joinery rather than dropped in as a feature.
Stable Doors start from £5,000 as a single element.
- Suits
- Cottage & farmhouse kitchens · utility & garden entrances
- Construction
- Two independent leaves; ledged or framed-and-ledged
- Weather detail
- Rebated, weathered meeting joint between the leaves
- Timber
- Oak or stable painted softwood, to the property
- Ironmongery
- Bolt to join leaves, latches & hinges to the period
- From
- £5,000 (single element)
Common Questions
How does a stable door stay weathertight?
The meeting between the two leaves is rebated and weathered so it throws off water when the door is closed, and a bolt or latch locks the halves together to work as a single door.
Can the two halves of a stable door open separately?
Yes — that is the point of the door. The top and bottom leaves open independently, so the top can be open for light and air while the bottom stays closed, and a bolt joins them to operate as one.
What is a stable door made from?
Usually ledged or framed-and-ledged construction in oak or a stable painted softwood, detailed to the property — the farmhouse-door register, split into two leaves.
Where do stable doors suit best?
Cottage and farmhouse kitchens, utility and garden entrances, and rural side doors — anywhere opening the top independently of the bottom is useful.
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