Rustic green oak field gate
Tag Archives: Driveway Gates
Cleft chestnut paddock gate and fence
Oak Driveway Gates
Here’s a recently completed pair of oak driveway gates made for a client that we met at the Stock Gaylard Oak Fair back in the summer. They feature curved rails and braces with asymmetric opening.
The gates are made from air dried oak to minimise movement as the timbers acclimatise and weather. All structural joints are mortice and tennon with oak draw dowels. The hinges and latches were forged at the Dorset Forge specifically to fit the curve of the rails. The gates have a sanded finish and have been treated to an undercoat and two top coats of OSMO UV Protection Oil.
Curved slat pedestrian oak gate, design accepted
Just had this design for an oak gate accepted by the client, which is nice. Will be made in air dried oak in the coming weeks. That’ll be us busy for pretty much the rest of the year.
Curved slat oak pedestrian gate
Oak Driveway Gates
This design for Oak Driveway Gates has just been accepted by the client, we’re rather excited about making these we is..! Going to be made in seasoned oak over the coming weeks.
The client is keen to direct visitors up the left side of the drive hence the asymmetric design. The curved top rail, centre rail and bracings add to the balance in the asymmetry and should be fun to make!
Design for asymmetric, curved top, oak driveway gates.
Manor Gates
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- Oak Manor Gates
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- Fine Formal Fencing & Gates
Oak gate progress
Emma’s fences and gates. Frame is up.
Curved cross oak garden gate
I made this gate as a speculative piece to show a the Stock Gaylard Oak Fair – where it received quite a few complimentary comments and has inspired my to put a stand together for next year.
The gate itself is a conflaburation of the design for the manor-house gates (for which I am awaiting the final go-ahead) and earlier split oak fencing and gates (Plumber Manor and Studland). All right angle joints are blind mortice and tenon. The gate was made in a bit of a hurry so the joints aren’t quite as fraction-of-a-millimetre perfect as I might like them but they’re not far off and I’m pretty happy with the final result.
Driveway gate designs
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- Front view, straight crossings
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- At an angle
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- From the back with straight diagonal bracing
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- From the back with a curvey bracing
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- From the front with curvey crossings
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- …and from the back
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- Pedestrian gate to front door
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- And with curvey crossings