Wooden Driveway Gates
in Haslemere.

Haslemere is the highest-elevation town in Surrey, sitting on the ridge where the county meets West Sussex and Hampshire. The entire town is within the Surrey Hills AONB, and the Devil's Punch Bowl lies immediately to the north. The residential stock reflects the late-nineteenth-century arts community that settled here: substantial Victorian and Arts and Crafts houses on the hills around the town centre, many of them timber-framed, half-timbered, or with prominent timber gable treatments that set the material reference for any new boundary work. Modern estates to the south and east are more conventional in specification but sit on the same exposed ridge.

Accoya is specified on Haslemere wooden gates more often than anywhere else in the county, because the elevation and the prevailing south-westerly weather make the 50-year manufacturer durability certificate the cleanest way to resolve the maintenance question on an exposed approach. European oak is specified where the house is a genuine Arts and Crafts original and the grain character is part of the architectural brief; the installer designs the leaves to accommodate the seasonal movement. Iroko handles the wider openings and the more modern properties on the outer estates. Every installer covering Haslemere knows the Waverley conservation-area framework and designs accordingly.