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Solid Oak Ledge With Optional Braces Single Sliding Door Kit
31395
£313.95
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£348.95
Solid Oak Antique Reproduction Single Sliding Door Kit
34395
£343.95
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£383.95
Solid Oak 3 Ledge Unglazed Rustic Bead and Butt Cottage Door
30795
£307.95
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£342.95
Solid Oak Rustic Bi Fold 3 Ledge Bead and Butt Cottage Door
34995
£349.95
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£389.95
Grange 4 Ledged Internal Rustic Oak Bead and Butt Door
33995
£339.95
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£374.95
Solid Oak Rustic Bi Fold 3 Ledge V-Groove Profile Cottage Door
34995
£349.95
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£389.95
Oak Barn Doors
Barn doors are plank doors built for a plain, solid look. Upright oak boards are joined edge to edge and held by heavy horizontal ledges across the back. The face is flat and honest, with nothing hidden behind a veneer or a moulded panel, and that plain board front is what gives a barn door its character. Made in oak, they suit a barn conversion, a cottage or a period home, and a wooden barn door sits just as well in a modern room where you want a natural, textural door.
How a barn door differs from ledge and brace and framed doors
What sets a barn door apart is the ledges. A barn door uses thick horizontal ledges and no diagonal braces, which keeps the back clean and the front flat. Add slim ledges and a diagonal brace and the door becomes a ledge and brace door instead. Put a frame around the boards and it becomes a framed, ledged and braced door, and its regional form is the Suffolk door. All are plank or framed oak doors, and what changes between them is how the boards are held and how the back reads.
Board profiles
The boards carry one of a few edge profiles where they meet, and the choice is about the look rather than how the door performs:
- Bead and butt runs a rounded bead along each joint, a softer line that suits cottage and period rooms
- V-groove cuts a sharper V into each joint, a crisper face that reads a little more contemporary
- Cock bead stands a raised bead proud of the boards, a traditional detail with more shadow and depth
Each profile is worked into the same solid oak boards, so it changes the character of the door without changing how it is built.
Hung on hinges, or on a sliding track
A barn door is not only a sliding door. You can hang one in the traditional way on T-hinges, the long strap hinge that runs across the ledges and suits the plain board face. Our guide to hanging a door on T-hinges covers the fitting. Many of these doors are also offered as a sliding barn door kit, where the door comes with the track gear it needs to slide across the wall instead of swinging into the room. That saves floor space in a smaller room or on a landing. Hinges, latches, thumb turns, tracks and other ironmongery are on the door hardware pages, where you can match the finish to the look you want.
Solid Oak Barn Doors
Every door here is made in solid oak throughout, so the door you hang is the same oak all the way through rather than an oak face over a manufactured core. Because the material is consistent right through, a solid oak barn door can be sanded back and re-treated many times over its life, and trimmed a little to fit an opening. Oak is a natural material that moves slightly with the seasons, so leave a small gap for expansion when fitting. Prime grade doors are made to a 44mm thickness, and rustic grade doors to 40mm.
Prime grade or rustic grade
The grade describes the face of the oak, not the strength of the door. Prime grade is the more refined: even in colour, straight in grain, with little knotting, and a good match for a formal or painted scheme. Rustic grade keeps the knots and natural colour movement that many people picture in a rustic barn door, and it is the usual choice where the character of the wood is the point. Both prime and rustic barn doors share the same solid oak construction, and the grade changes only the look.
Finishing your doors
Every door is supplied unfinished as standard, ready to seal to suit the room. Oak needs a finish to protect it and to bring out the grain. Use a suitable hardwax oil such as Treatex, which is made for solid oak doors, or let our oiling service oil it for you before dispatch. Either way, seal all faces before hanging, including the top and bottom edges, which are the ones most often missed.
Explore other oak door styles
Barn is one of several oak door styles in the range. For other plank and rustic looks, see our ledge and brace, frame and ledge, Suffolk and cottage doors, and for period panelling our Victorian, 1930s and wider period doors.
For cleaner, more modern lines our Shaker, Mexicano and contemporary doors keep it simpler, while our traditional doors gather the classic side together. Browse every style from the internal doors by style hub, and finish the job with matching door handles and hardware.
Barn Door FAQs
A plank door built from upright oak boards held by thick horizontal ledges across the back, with no diagonal braces. It has a plain, flat face and can be hung on hinges or run on a sliding track.
Either. A barn door can hang on traditional T-hinges like any other door, or come as a sliding barn door kit with the track gear it needs to slide across the wall and save floor space.
Measure the doorway opening and the wall beside it. A sliding barn door should be a little wider than the opening so it covers it fully when closed, and you need enough clear wall beside the opening for the door to slide right back.
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