Oak gates & estate joinery
An entrance the house deserves.
Arched and braced oak gates, driveway pairs, side gates and field gates — made square, hung on ironmongery that will outlast the timber, and ready for automation whenever you are.
Why gates drop
A gate sags because the brace is running the wrong way.
A gate is a cantilever. Everything hanging off the hinge stile is trying to rotate down and away. The diagonal brace has to run from the bottom hinge corner up to the top of the closing stile, so it works in compression and pushes the far corner up.
Put that brace in the other way and it works in tension, the joints open, and within two winters the gate is dragging on the drive. It is the single most common thing wrong with gates we're asked to replace.
- Brace in compression, from the bottom hinge corner
- Mortise and tenon frame, wedged and pegged
- Bowtie keys let in across any shake, so it can't run as the oak dries
- Posts set deep and plumb, or bolted to existing piers
- Stainless or hot-dip galvanised ironmongery only
What we make
Single gates to matched driveway pairs.
- Driveway pairs
- Arched, flat-topped or convex, up to full driveway width, with matched posts.
- Side and garden gates
- The one that gets used forty times a day, so it gets the same joints as the big ones.
- Field and estate gates
- Five-bar and braced, hung on gudgeons, for tracks and paddocks.
- Posts and piers
- Oak posts set and plumbed, or hanging ironmongery fitted to existing stone and brick piers.
- Automation-ready
- Ducting, hinge choice and gate weight worked out up front so an installer can automate it later without rebuilding anything.
- Matching joinery
- Fencing, bin stores, planters and screens in the same timber and detail.
Guide prices
What a gate costs.
Prices are for the gate made, finished and hung, including ironmongery. Send us the opening width, the height you want and a photograph, and we'll price it without needing to visit.
Measure the opening. We'll do the rest.
Width between the posts or piers, the height you want, and a photograph from the road. That's enough for a price.