Wooden Driveway Gates
in Gomshall.

Gomshall sits on the River Tillingbourne within the Surrey Hills AONB, in the Shere civil parish of Guildford borough. The village is on the North Downs Way between Shere and Dorking, with the Gomshall Mill as a prominent Grade II listed building and a residential character dominated by period cottages and rural detached property on the lanes running up into the Hurtwood. The proximity to Shere, half a mile to the west, means the same Guildford Borough Council conservation officer covers both villages and applies the same design expectations across the parish.

Wooden gates in Gomshall are close to universally hardwood, with oak and iroko splitting the market roughly evenly depending on the specific property and budget. The Tillingbourne running through the village raises the ambient moisture environment on properties close to the water, which favours iroko or accoya over oak on the riverside sites. Post foundations on the lanes running up into the Hurtwood need to accommodate the gradient change from flat village-core sites to sloped hillside approaches.