Internal Porch in the Drawing Room, Broughton Castle (measured drawing, 1903)
A plate from Tanner's English Interior Woodwork showing the carved internal porch in the drawing room at Broughton Castle, Oxfordshire, a 16th-century feature.
Internal porches were small wooden enclosures built inside a room around a doorway to cut drafts, and they became showpieces of carved woodwork. Broughton Castle's example is decorated with classical pilasters, strapwork and an elaborate cresting. Few houses need one today, but the idea adapts well: an enclosed, paneled vestibule inside a front door, or a decorated frame around an important interior doorway.
Paneled oak entry enclosure or door surround with strapwork and cresting; Heirloom tier.
A custom version typically runs $3,000–$6,500 per door, shipped finished and machined for hardware.
- Style
- Tudor & Tudor Revival
- Element
- Interior Doors
- Published
- 1903
- Maker or designer
- Henry Tanner
- Source
- English Interior Woodwork of the XVI, XVII & XVIIIth Centuries (1903), via Internet Archive
More Tudor & Tudor Revival interior doors · all Tudor & Tudor Revival · all interior doors
