Front doors in Sevenoaks, fitted with the sashes

A frontage is the windows and the door. On a Hartslands terrace or a Granville Road villa, a new set of sashes next to a 1980s door with a half-moon window still looks unfinished. Doors are quoted here as part of a frontage job, so the colour, glass and proportions are chosen alongside the windows.

Couple talking at a new dark blue composite front door with two decorative glazed panels and a fanlight on a Victorian brick house

What suits the town's houses

Late Victorian terraces and cottages. A four-panel door, often with the top two panels glazed, and a plain or glazed fanlight above if the opening has one.
Italianate villas. A taller door with deeper panels and a heavier knocker and letter plate, in black, dark green or deep blue.
Edwardian houses in Kippington. Doors with leaded or coloured glass in the upper panel, which the Westerham appraisal also notes is typical of Victorian and Edwardian doors in the district.

Composite rather than timber

A composite door has a solid core with a moulded skin, so it holds its shape and its colour without repainting. Timber doors are available and are the right choice on a listed building, but on an unlisted house a composite door costs less and needs far less upkeep.

The Hartslands cottage example and the Granville Road villa example both include a composite front door in the total.

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