Stable door
Category
Fixtures and fittings
Date
Unknown
Materials
Wood and cast iron
Measurements
2110 x 1350 x 165 mm
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Tyntesfield, North Somerset
NT 23515.2.1
Summary
Main stable - type arched door to engine room of saw mill. From outside, top left-hand door. Consists of nine vertical jointed planks fixed to horizontal planks on the inside. Joints outside and in made by long rectangular dowels. Two cast iron hinges fixed with bolts through both skins of the door. Top hinge branches into two arms with the top one mirroring the shape of the arch. Top hinge fixed with thirteen bolts. Bottom hinge is straight and fixed with seven bolts. All hinges end in two leaf clover shape. Along bottom edge is a worn wooden drip bar. A cast iron securing bar (1070 mm long ) is bolted through door, used with angle bar to padlock doors. Inside on the leading edge is a cast iron bolt (1550 mm long ) secured into a hole in the arch stonework. Also an iron rose and drop handle in bottom right corner.
Provenance
Purchased from the estate of the late Lord Wraxall with the assistance of the NHMF and donations from members and supporters.