Gates & Fencing
Bespoke five-bar and yeoman gates, curved-braced and copper-riveted, plus estate and deer fencing. No two posts are the same, so no gate is ever standard.
We make bespoke gates and fencing across Kent and the neighbouring counties, in cleft and sawn sweet chestnut from our own coppiced woodland. A field gate is nominally four foot, but real gateposts never are — so every gate we make is built to the opening it's going into, not lifted off a shelf. We favour yeoman rough-stick gates with double-crisscross bracing that won't drop on the hinge, curved braces jointed properly into the frame, and copper rivets peened flush so the fixings never streak the chestnut black. Chestnut is naturally durable and needs no treatment, silvering gracefully over the years. Alongside gates we install estate and deer fencing built to hold its line over rough, sloping ground. And because we work wood and metal in the same workshop, the ironmongery is made to carry the gate rather than bought to fit.
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Gates & fencing
A Gate to Match the Corrugated Fence
Metalwork Simon drew and welded himself, on a milled timber base, made to match an old corrugated run.
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Gates & fencing
Copper Rivets on Chestnut
Steel streaks chestnut black, so we copper-rivet the braces and peen them flush by hand.
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Gates & fencing
Deer Fencing at Toys Hill
Tall cleft-chestnut deer fencing near National Trust land — and once it went in, the neighbours wanted it too.
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No Five-Bar Gate Is Standard
A field gate is nominally four foot, but real gateposts never are — which is why people come to us.
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