Wooden Driveway Gates
in Peaslake.

Peaslake sits in a bowl at the heart of the Surrey Hills AONB between Holmbury Hill and Pitch Hill, with the 3,000-acre Hurtwood Forest defining the immediate landscape. The village is a designated conservation area built around the Hurtwood Inn and the Peaslake Village Stores; residential property is spread along steep lanes running up into the Hurtwood and down towards Shere and Gomshall. Almost every residential driveway in Peaslake has a meaningful gradient, which has direct implications for gate geometry, hinge loading, and automation specification.

The wooden-gate specification in Peaslake is shaped by the site geometry more than by material debate. Oak or iroko in framed-and-braced construction with substantial cross-bracing to handle the gradient, hinge posts set deeper than the standard because the slope changes the loading pattern, and underground motors on properties where the hinge-post construction supports it because ram-arms on a sloped approach rarely finish correctly. Accoya is specified on the most exposed positions towards the Hurtwood. Every installer we refer in Peaslake has worked on the village's sloped sites and the conservation-area design controls.