Wooden Driveway Gates
in Cranleigh.

Cranleigh is often cited as one of the largest villages in England, and the wooden-gate market here reflects that scale. Rural Waverley, adjacent to the Surrey Hills AONB, with a substantial agricultural hinterland and a housing stock that ranges from period cottages in the older streets to substantial detached houses on the lanes running out towards the Smithbrook and Alfold. The brief for a wooden gate in Cranleigh is rarely about conservation-area constraint; it is about getting the proportions and the timber choice right for the specific property and its rural setting.

Iroko is the default timber for the majority of Cranleigh jobs, with oak specified where the homeowner wants the gate to match existing timber fencing or a listed barn. The common site challenge in Cranleigh is opening width: on a rural property with a farm-style entrance, the opening is frequently wider than standard residential swing gates will span comfortably, and the gate maker is choosing between a 5-bar agricultural field-gate style, a pair of substantial framed-and-braced leaves, or a single sliding cantilever. Each has implications for the post work, the ironmongery, and the automation if that is part of the brief.