Wooden Doors In Nottingham | Bespoke Timber Doors & Windows | Old English Doors
Nottingham is where we work. Our workshop is at 5 Daleside Road, NG2 — less than a mile from some of the finest Victorian and Edwardian streets in the East Midlands. Every door, window, gate, and porch we make is designed, crafted, and installed from that workshop, by hand, in solid hardwood.
We are not a national catalogue company with a Nottingham phone number. We are a Nottingham joinery workshop that happens to have a website. When you call us, you speak to the people who will make your door.
Why Nottingham Homes Need a Different Kind of Door
Nottingham has one of the highest concentrations of Victorian and Edwardian period housing in the East Midlands. Sherwood, Lenton, Mapperley, West Bridgford, Wollaton, Beeston — street after street of terraces, semis, and detached villas built between 1860 and 1939, each with its own architectural language, its own proportions, its own door.
The problem with off-the-shelf doors is simple: they are designed for an average opening that doesn't exist. A standard catalogue door is too wide or too narrow, too short or too tall, and its panel configuration belongs to no particular era. Fitted to a Victorian terrace in Lenton or an Edwardian villa in West Bridgford, it looks exactly like what it is — a compromise that doesn't belong there.
A bespoke wooden door made to your property's actual dimensions, in the correct panel configuration for its era, in solid hardwood with the weight and presence the original would have had, looks completely different. It looks right. And because it is made correctly, it performs correctly — sealing, weathering, and lasting in ways that hollow-core and composite alternatives simply do not.
What We Make
Bespoke Wooden Front Doors
Every front door we make starts from scratch. We draw from your property's era, your opening's exact dimensions, and your brief — then design, machine, mortise, tenon, and assemble a door that exists nowhere else.
We work across every period of British domestic architecture:
- Georgian doors — six-panel classics, fanlight frames, and pilastered door cases for the city's Lace Market and Park Estate properties
- Victorian doors — four and two-panel designs with bolection mouldings, stained glass top lights, and brass furniture, for the terraces of Sherwood, Lenton, and Radford
- Edwardian doors — lighter in proportion, with leaded glass panels and Art Nouveau influences, for the bay-fronted semis of Mapperley, West Bridgford, and Beeston
- 1920s doors — taller, with decorative glazing and fielded panels, for the interwar housing of NG3 and NG5
- 1930s doors — geometric glazing, sunrise patterns, and bold proportions, for the Wollaton and NG8 interwar stock
- Arts and Crafts doors and Art Nouveau doors — for the distinctive late Victorian and Edwardian villas where period character is everything
- Heritage doors — for listed buildings, conservation areas, and properties requiring documented period reproduction
- Traditional doors and contemporary doors — for properties where the brief calls for something that references the past or departs from it entirely
- Barn doors and French doors — for openings that require a different configuration
No catalogues. No standard sizes. No compromises.
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Bespoke Internal Wooden Doors
The character of a period home doesn't stop at the front door. Hollow-core internal doors — the standard replacement fitted in most renovations — undermine everything the exterior achieves. They sound hollow, look hollow, and feel hollow, because they are.
Our bespoke internal wooden doors are made to measure in solid hardwood, with the correct panel configuration, moulding profile, and proportions for the property they serve. Our Victorian internal doors use authentic raised and fielded panels with ovolo mouldings — the same joinery method used in the 1880s, without compromise.
Wooden Windows
Timber is the only material truly authentic to Nottingham's period housing stock. UPVC windows in a Victorian terrace are a permanent alteration that cannot be undone — and one that affects both character and value.
Our bespoke wooden windows are made to measure for each opening, with modern draught sealing and the option of double-glazed units that meet current thermal standards without altering the proportions a period window requires. Available as casement windows, sliding sash windows, and heritage windows for listed buildings and conservation areas across Nottingham.
Stained Glass Doors and Windows
Stained and leaded glass is woven into Nottingham's domestic architecture — from the coloured top lights of Victorian terrace doors to the sunrise fanlights of 1930s semis in Wollaton. When original glass is damaged or missing, replacing it with plain glass removes something irreplaceable.
Our stained glass doors and stained glass windows are handcrafted using traditional leading techniques and period-appropriate glass types, designed specifically to match surviving examples or historical photographs of the property.
Wooden Gates and Porches
A period front elevation is only complete when every element — door, porch, and gate — belongs to the same design language. Our bespoke wooden gates include garden gates and driveway gates, and our bespoke wooden porches span Victorian porches, Georgian porches, heritage porches, and traditional porches — each designed to integrate with the architecture of the property it serves.
Timber: What We Use and Why It Matters
Not all hardwood is the same, and the species we recommend depends on the application, the property's exposure, and the finish you want.
Idigbo is our most commonly specified timber for front doors. It is a West African hardwood with excellent dimensional stability, good natural resistance to weather, and a consistent grain that takes paint well. It is lighter than oak, which matters for large doors, and it is the timber used in most of our period door reproductions.
Sapele is a denser, more figured hardwood with a distinctive interlocked grain. It finishes exceptionally well with oil or stain and gives a richer appearance than idigbo. Well-suited to doors where natural or lightly stained finishes are preferred.
European oak is the premium choice for doors and gates where longevity, character, and natural finish are priorities. Heavier and harder than idigbo, it requires a robust frame and quality ironmongery to match.
Accoya is a modified softwood — acetylated radiata pine — with outstanding dimensional stability and rot resistance. It is an excellent choice for windows and exposed openings where movement is a concern, and it carries a 50-year guarantee against rot.
All timber we use is sourced from FSC-certified suppliers.
Conservation Areas and Listed Buildings in Nottingham
Nottingham has a significant number of designated conservation areas and listed buildings, concentrated particularly in the city centre, the Lace Market, the Park Estate, and parts of West Bridgford and Mapperley.
If your property falls within a conservation area or is listed, replacement doors and windows require either permitted development compliance or listed building consent — and the materials, proportions, and design must be appropriate to the character of the area.
We have extensive experience working within these constraints. We liaise with conservation officers, provide documentation for consent applications where needed, and our heritage door range is designed specifically for this type of work. If you are uncertain about what your property requires, we will advise from the first consultation.
The Process: From First Call to Installed Door
1. Consultation and survey We visit your property, take precise measurements, discuss the brief, assess the existing frame and threshold, and photograph surviving period details where relevant. This is free and carries no obligation.
2. Design and specification We produce a detailed drawing of the proposed door, confirming panel configuration, moulding profiles, glazing, timber species, and finish. You approve before anything is made.
3. Manufacture Your door is made in our NG2 workshop. Lead times vary with design complexity and current workshop demand — most front doors are ready for installation within four to six weeks of design sign-off. We give you an accurate timeline at the consultation stage.
4. Installation Our team handles the full installation, including removal of the existing door, making good the frame if needed, fitting the door, and installing hardware. We leave the opening weather-tight and secure on the day.
5. Aftercare We are local. If anything needs attention after installation, we are five minutes away.
Areas We Serve Across Nottingham and Nottinghamshire
We cover the entire city and county. The sections below outline the housing character of each postcode district — which determines what we typically make for properties in each area.
NG1 — City Centre, Lace Market, Park Estate
Nottingham's most architecturally significant housing. The Georgian townhouses of the Park Estate and the Victorian commercial conversions of the Lace Market frequently fall within conservation areas or carry listed status. We offer full heritage capability for NG1 properties — documented reproduction, conservation officer liaison, and materials appropriate for consent applications.
NG2 — West Bridgford, Sneinton, The Meadows
Our home postcode. West Bridgford's Edwardian avenues and Victorian semis are among the most sought-after period streets in Nottingham — Musters Road, Melton Road, and the streets around Bridgford Park carry exceptional original joinery worth preserving. Sneinton and The Meadows carry Victorian workers' terraces with door proportions very different from the detached stock further south.
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NG3 — Mapperley, Carlton, St Ann's
Mapperley's elevated streets mix Edwardian semis with 1920s bay-fronted housing. The original doors on these properties — fielded panels, coloured top lights, brass knockers — are increasingly replaced with composites that belong nowhere near them. Carlton adds Victorian terrace stock. We produce period-specific bespoke timber doors for every property type in NG3.
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NG4 — Carlton, Gedling, Netherfield
Gedling Village and the NG4 district carry solid Victorian and Edwardian domestic housing on the city's eastern edge — increasingly restored, increasingly valued. We serve this area with the same standard as the city's premium suburbs.
NG5 — Sherwood, Arnold, Bestwood, Carrington
Sherwood is one of Nottingham's most architecturally layered inner suburbs — Victorian terraces, Edwardian bays, and 1920s housing within a few streets of each other. Arnold adds substantial Edwardian stock. We produce era-matched bespoke designs for NG5 drawn from surviving examples on these streets.
View Victorian doors → · Wooden doors in Sherwood →
NG6 — Bulwell, Old Basford
Old Basford's Victorian working terraces are increasingly valued by homeowners who understand that authentic restoration adds more than it costs. We bring proper craft standards to NG6.
NG7 — Lenton, Radford, Forest Fields, Hyson Green
Lenton and Radford contain an exceptional concentration of Victorian and Edwardian bay-fronted terraces, many with surviving stained glass top lights and fanlights that define the character of the street. We offer period-specific bespoke doors and stained glass reproduction for NG7.
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NG8 — Wollaton, Aspley, Bilborough
Wollaton's interwar and Edwardian detached houses are among the city's finest. The characteristic bay windows, decorative fanlights, and bold geometric front doors of NG8 reward the closest period attention. We offer 1930s and interwar bespoke designs that understand what these homes require.
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NG9 — Beeston, Stapleford, Chilwell
Beeston's older residential streets carry Victorian and Edwardian housing worth preserving with authentic timber joinery. We serve NG9 with our full bespoke range.
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NG10 — Long Eaton, Sawley, Sandiacre
Long Eaton's Victorian and Edwardian streets sit at Nottinghamshire's southern border. We extend the full bespoke service to NG10.
NG11 — Clifton, Ruddington, Gotham
Ruddington is one of the most intact Victorian and Edwardian villages in the Nottingham hinterland — a village centre with well-preserved original joinery that rewards sympathetic replacement. We serve NG11 with genuine period expertise.
NG12 — Radcliffe on Trent, Keyworth, Cotgrave
The attractive villages of the NG12 district carry Victorian and Edwardian housing alongside older rural properties. We offer the same quality and period accuracy for NG12 as for any city centre commission.
NG14 — Calverton, Lowdham, Burton Joyce
Victorian cottages, Edwardian semis, and rural character properties define NG14. Our workshop serves this area with the full bespoke range.
NG15 — Hucknall, Ravenshead
Hucknall's Victorian terrace stock contains original door proportions and details worth preserving correctly. We offer period timber joinery made specifically for NG15 homes.
NG16 — Kimberley, Eastwood, Nuthall
Kimberley and Eastwood carry the character of Nottinghamshire's Victorian coalfield communities — solid housing that deserves solid, well-crafted joinery.
Nottingham Postcode Quick Reference
| Postcode | Key Areas | Era | Typical door type |
|---|---|---|---|
| NG1 | City Centre, Lace Market, Park Estate | Georgian, Victorian | Heritage, Georgian |
| NG2 | West Bridgford, Sneinton, The Meadows | Victorian, Edwardian | Edwardian, Victorian |
| NG3 | Mapperley, Carlton, St Ann's | Victorian, Edwardian, 1920s | 1920s, Edwardian |
| NG4 | Carlton, Gedling, Netherfield | Victorian, Edwardian | Victorian, Heritage |
| NG5 | Sherwood, Arnold, Bestwood | Victorian, Edwardian, 1920–30s | Victorian, 1920s |
| NG6 | Bulwell, Basford | Victorian, Edwardian | Traditional, Victorian |
| NG7 | Lenton, Radford, Forest Fields | Victorian, Edwardian | Victorian + stained glass |
| NG8 | Wollaton, Aspley, Bilborough | Edwardian, 1920–30s | 1930s, Edwardian |
| NG9 | Beeston, Stapleford, Chilwell | Victorian, Edwardian, interwar | Edwardian, Traditional |
| NG10 | Long Eaton, Sawley | Victorian, Edwardian | Victorian, Traditional |
| NG11 | Clifton, Ruddington, Gotham | Victorian, Edwardian village | Heritage, Victorian |
| NG12 | Radcliffe on Trent, Keyworth | Victorian, Edwardian village | Heritage, Traditional |
| NG14 | Calverton, Lowdham, Burton Joyce | Victorian, rural | Traditional, Heritage |
| NG15 | Hucknall, Ravenshead | Victorian | Victorian |
| NG16 | Kimberley, Eastwood, Nuthall | Victorian, Edwardian | Traditional, Victorian |
Frequently Asked Questions
How much does a bespoke wooden door cost in Nottingham? A bespoke hardwood front door from our workshop — designed, made, and installed — typically starts from around £1,500 and rises depending on size, timber species, glazing complexity, and ironmongery. We give you a fixed price before any work begins. There are no hidden costs.
How long does a bespoke wooden door take to make? Most front doors are completed and installed within four to six weeks of design sign-off. More complex commissions — doors with bespoke stained glass or unusual proportions — may take a little longer. We give you an accurate lead time at consultation.
Can you match my existing or original door exactly? Yes. We regularly work from photographs, measurements of the existing door, surviving sections of original joinery, or historical records. Exact reproduction is one of our core strengths, particularly for heritage and conservation work.
Are timber doors thermally efficient? Yes — with modern draught sealing, quality rebated frames, and double-glazed units, our timber doors and windows perform to current thermal standards. Wood is a natural insulator with far better thermal properties than aluminium, and comparable to well-specified UPVC.
Do timber doors require a lot of maintenance? Less than most people expect. A well-made hardwood door in idigbo, sapele, or oak, with a quality factory-applied finish, typically needs repainting or re-oiling every five to seven years depending on exposure. We advise on the appropriate maintenance schedule for your door at installation.
Do you work in conservation areas and with listed buildings? Yes. We have extensive experience with Nottingham's conservation areas and listed building consent requirements, including the Park Estate, the Lace Market, and parts of West Bridgford. We can advise from first contact whether your project is likely to require consent and what materials will satisfy a conservation officer.
Can I visit your workshop? Yes, and we encourage it. Our workshop at 5 Daleside Road, Nottingham, NG2 4DH is open to clients by appointment. Seeing a door being made in person — the timber, the joinery, the hardware — is the most effective way to understand what separates our work from the catalogue alternatives.
What areas do you cover beyond Nottingham? We cover the full Nottinghamshire county and the wider East Midlands. See our full locations page for every area we serve.
Start Your Project
Whether you need a single bespoke front door for a Victorian terrace in Sherwood, or a full set of doors, windows, stained glass, gates, and a porch for an Edwardian villa in West Bridgford — we are ready to begin.
Call 0115 958 8755 or request a free quote online — we respond to all enquiries within one working day.
You can also view our portfolio to see completed projects, or read our blog for guides on period home restoration and door design.
Old English Doors · 5 Daleside Road · Nottingham · NG2 4DH Workshop open by appointment · Serving Nottingham and the East Midlands
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