Metal Driveway Gates
in Reigate.

Reigate's metal-gate market runs in parallel with the wooden-gate market on the town's period stock but occupies a different register of property. Where the wooden-gate work concentrates on the Georgian and Victorian detached houses around the High Street and Bell Street, the metal-gate work appears on the Edwardian and 1930s mock-Tudor detached stock on the streets off Reigate Hill and on the Edwardian detached properties towards Reigate Heath. On those houses, a restrained wrought iron or painted mild steel gate reads correctly in a way that timber would not.

The specification on a Reigate metal gate typically prioritises restraint. Simple vertical-bar or framed patterns rather than ornate scrollwork, matt black or very dark bronze powder coat over hot-dip galvanising, and underground motors on properties where the brick-pier construction supports it. Where a property sits within the Reigate town-centre conservation area, a design conversation with the Reigate and Banstead conservation officer precedes fabrication; outside the conservation area, most residential gate replacements sit within permitted development.