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Create an entrance that really welcomes Let your entrance door say something about you - let it show the colours that you like and the designs that suit you while at the same time have confidence that your door will help create a warm and secure home without the hassle of time-consuming maintenance. In the same way that we feel that your front door can tell a story about you, we have chosen names for our styles of doors that also have a story to tell. Each is the name of a town or village that is located within 15 miles of Buntingford - the Hertfordshire town where we make the doors. You can discover the Hertfordshire village that began in a field of clover or the one that was home to a 23 foot giant! We hope this will help you to create your individual story and choose your favourite door. The Welglaze range is an outstanding collection of solid laminate timber composite doors that combine classic or modern styling with high security locking, providing you with a stunning, high quality and secure entrance to your home. Timber is a strong, natural material and a good insulator making it the perfect choice as the core of the Welglaze composite door. This core is completely encapsulated within highly durable plastic edge banding and two thermo plastic door skins so you will never have to worry about painting or varnishing your door. These exclusive doors are available in a wide range of styles and colours. The various low threshold options, in PVC-U or aluminium, allow comfortable solutions for wheel-chair and push-chair access. A comprehensive range of matching side-panel frames is also available allowing the Welglaze composite door to be part of a larger entrance or porch.
Although we mainly show front doors, we have not forgotten about the back of the house - all our door styles can be manufactured as a stable door, bringing your garden into the kitchen at the same time as preventing small children or animals from wandering outside on their own!
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Gallery The Classic Collection
Hunsdon
Sandon
Orwell
Meldreth
Westmill
Aspenden
Hertford
Anstey
Anstey Georgian
The Contemporary Collection
Foxton
Meesden
Clavering
Pelham
Barley
The Cottage Collection
Cromer
Barkway
Hormead
Braughing
Walkern
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Stortford
Datchworth
Albury
Bramfield
Ware
Watton
Elmdon
Wyddial
Barley
Abstract
Crystal Star
English Rose
Elegance (zinc)
Crystal Harmony
Venetia
Fleur
Elba
Clarity (brass)
Mackintosh Rose
Crystal Bohemia
Murano
Barley village acquired its name in Saxon times, not from the crop widely grown in the area, but corrupted over the years from Beora's Ley, describing a Saxon Lord's clearing in woodland.
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Anstey
English Rose
Murano
Elba
Mackintosh Rose
Elegance (zinc)
Crystal Bohemia
Crystal Star
Venetia
Clarity (brass)
Abstract
Fleur
Crystal Harmony
Crystal Edwardian
Crystal Elizabethan
Crystal Flower
Crystal George
Crystal Number
Crystal Rhapsody
Crystal Sienna
Crystal Victorian
Folklore claims that there is a mile-long cave which runs from the west to Cave Gate. Locals say that the passage, rediscovered in 1904, is inhabited by a dragon. Although the cave is now grassed over it is possible that it was an entrance to a prehistoric flint mine. The last person to have ventured into the passage was a local fiddler called Blind George who accepted a wager to explore it. He set off with his dog when suddenly the sound of his fiddle stopped, followed by a scream and then silence. His dog emerged without a tail and his coat singed off. Blind George was never seen again. The Public House in Anstey has been renamed as The Blind Fiddler in memory of George.
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Meesden and Clavering
English Rose
Fleur
Mackintosh Rose
Abstract
Crystal Harmony
Crystal Star
Crystal Bohemia
Elegance (zinc)
Elba
Clarity (brass)
Venetia
Murano
The above glass designs apply to the Meesden door - the Clavering door is available only with obscure glass designs as shown on page 13.
There is much confusion about the derivation of the village name of Clavering. However, it is thought that the name means 'place where clover grows' as the Saxons started the settlement in this place where they found plenty of clover.
Meesden The village of Meesden has moved over the centuries from its original position beside the church. St Mary’s church with its twelfth-century nave and mosaic tile pavement is hidden in a wood.
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Pelham
English Rose
Design shown with obsured glass (see page 17 for options).
Fleur
Crystal Bohemia
Piers Shonks was a twenty-three-foot-tall giant who lived on an island in Shonks' Moat, Peppsall Field, Brent, Pelham. One day, whilst out hunting, he encountered a ferocious dragon and with an arrow killed it. This beast was in fact the devil's favourite and in outrage the evil one swore that he would have Piers' soul whether the giant was buried inside or outside the church. When Piers was finally on his deathbed, he fired an arrow to determine where he would be buried. The arrow sailed through a window into the church of St Mary the Virgin at Brent Pelham and embedded itself in the wall. Thus Piers was buried in the wall of the church and cheated the devil as he was neither inside nor outside the church. Piers' tomb remains to this day. 8
Mackintosh Rose
Crystal Harmony
Crystal Star
Elba
Venetia
Murano
Abstract
Elegance (zinc)
Clarity (brass)
Orwell and Sandon
Drop diamond glass design.
English Rose
Fleur
Crystal Bohemia
Mackintosh Rose
Crystal Harmony
Crystal Star
Elba
Venetia
Murano
Abstract
Elegance (zinc)
Clarity (brass)
The Clunch Pit is an environmental treasure in the heart of the village of Orwell. It is an old quarry site of about four acres which was designated by English Nature in 1985 as a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) in recognition of its valuable chalk grassland flora and fauna, which are rare in this part of the country.
Orwell Sandon is a scattered village with cottages and farmhouses set around a large area of common land. The foundations of England’s earliest known windmill (fourteenth-century) were found nearby.
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Westmill, Hertford and Aspenden
English Rose
Fleur
Mackintosh Rose
Crystal Harmony
Crystal Star
Crystal Bohemia
Elba
Venetia
Murano
Clarity (brass)
Abstract
Elegance (zinc)
Tulip
Crystal Twist
Crystal Blue Brooch
Double Tulip
Amber
Crystal Blue Pendant
Anemone
Sandblast Art Deco
Sandblast Heraldic
Hertford
The church of St Mary’s in Aspenden has a tomb which is one of only five in the country to have coloured brasses.
Westmill Westmill has a traditional village green and thatched cottages overlooked by the spire of the Anglo-Saxon St Mary's church. It is a peaceful backwater in the Rib Valley with many ancient trees.
Hertford is the county town of Hertfordshire. Its name is Anglo-Saxon and means the ford frequented by harts or stags.
Sandblast Victorian
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Cottage Style Cromer is home to Hertfordshire's last surviving seventeenthcentury mill. Now fixed in one position, the sails used to run on a rail and would rotate out over the road.
Matthew Wall was a farmer who lived in Braughing in the sixteenth-century. At his funeral his coffin was dropped on the way to the church yard. The jolt awoke him and he lived for several more years. In his will he asked that the church bells be rung on October 2nd, the anniversary of his escape. This requer is still carried out each year. Braughing is also famous for its local sausages.
Cromer
Braughing
The parish of Hormead consists of Great Hormead, Little Hormead and Hare Street. St Mary the Virgin, at Little Hormead, is a small Saxon church containing an important ironwork door that dates from the twelfthcentury. Hormead
Barkway
Barkway is a large village which has an elegant high street lined with attractive buildings, which reflect the prosperity during the seventeenth and eighteenthcentury coaching age. The church of St Mary Magdalene has unusual stone figures, and the tomb of Admiral Sir John Jennings, who helped capture Gibraltar in 1704. 11
Hunsdon, Meldreth, Foxton and Walkern
Foxton is a small village in South Cambridgeshire which has a number of perfectly preserved fifteenth and sixteenth-century houses, and a thirteenth century church dedicated to St Lawrence. Meldreth
Foxton
Walkern was the home of the last person in England to be sentenced to death for witchcraft. Jane Wenham was condemned by a Hertford court in 1711 but was given a reprieve from the death sentence and later granted a Royal pardon by Queen Anne.
Hunsdon In the heart of the village of Hunsdon stands an eighteenth-century village hall and an early nineteenth-century pump.
The village stocks in Meldreth are at the base of a magnificent horse chestnut tree next to the whipping post. They are located on a triangular area known as Marvell's Green, which is at the junction of three roads, the High Street, Fenny Lane and North End. 12
Walkern
Contemporary Designs
Archaeological finds have led to speculation that Queen Boadicea used to camp in the area around Brickendon.
Elmdon
Sawbridgeworth
Elmdon means ‘hill of elms’ and this village is home to the only 3 elm trees in Essex.
At the time of the Norman Conquest, Sawbridgeworth was one of the most valuable estates in the country. Owned by Asgar the Staller, who was in charge of King Harold’s stables. Sawbridgeworth was home to one of the oldest nurseries in the country, first established in 1725 where many new fruit varieties were raised, including 30 kinds of plum.
Stortford The Market town of Bishop’s Stortford has many old buildings including sixteenth and seventeenth-century inns. The George Hotel is said to date from the fourteenth-century. William the Conqueror built Waytemore Castle but all that remains today is a massive castle mound.
Brickendon
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Contemporary Designs
Stapleford is one of East Hertfordshire’s newer villages, consisting mainly of houses built after the first World War for returning soldiers.
Thorley
Wyddial
Layston The medieval village of Layston is home to the ruined church of St Bartholomew. Although the church was abandoned, it is said that bells continued to be heard. One night when the villagers went to investigate, they found the church empty but lit.
The three times Lord Mayor of London, Dick Whittington, was Lord of the manor of Thorley. Thorley has archaeological finds dating back 3000 years.
Wyddial is situated 500 ft above sealevel and is one of the smallest villages in Hertfordshire. The only public building is its medieval church.
Stapleford
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Contemporary Designs
Datchworth has a museum housed in an old village blacksmith’s shop on the green. Rectory Lane runs from the green towards the churchyard and is reputed to be haunted by a horseless cart.
Ardeley
Bramfield
Albury Folklore says that Albury hasx been touched by the devil’s hand. In 1880 one of the church bells fell to the foot of the tower but before it could be repaired or replaced, it disappeared. Some say that it was stolen by the Devil.
Ardeley has an attractive green with a well surrounded by thatched cottages, a thatched village hall and the Norman church of St Lawrence.
Bramfield was the first parish for martyr Thomas Becket. It was also home to a witch and provided a hiding place for Dick Turpin.
Datchworth
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Contemporary Designs
Aston Aston has traditional village housing including a thatched seventeenth-century cottage and a jocobean house at Aston Bury, which used to be a monastery until Henry VIII intervened. The village can boast of having a highwayman. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Colonel Jack Whitney waylaid farmers on their way back from Hertford market.
Ware
Watton
Ware once had a prosperous brewing industry and was an important caoching stop. The 10ft 10in long great bed of Ware could sleep a dozen at any one time and has been on display in the Victoria & Albert Museum since 1931. 16
The full name of this village is Watton-atStone. The ‘Stone’ of Watton-at-Stone is presumed to refer to a prehistoric or Roman mark stone of Hertfordshire puddingstone, which can be found at the right of the door of the Waggon and Horses.
Obscured Glass Options
ArcticTM
DigitalTM
OakTM
Oriel BrocadeTM
Oriel LaurelTM
AutumnTM
EvergladeTM
PelerineTM
Oriel Texture BrocadeTM
Oriel Texture LaurelTM
ChantillyTM
FlemishTM
StippolyteTM
Oriel CanterburyTM
Charcoal SticksTM
FlorielleTM
SycamoreTM
Oriel Texture CanterburyTM
ContoraTM
MayflowerTM
TaffetaTM
Oriel CoppiceTM
CotswoldTM
MinsterTM
WarwickTM
Oriel Texture CoppiceTM
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Glass pattern names are the trademark of Pilkington plc. The images are copyright of Pilkington plc and are reproduced with the permission of Pilkington plc.
Frame Colour Options
cherrywood (rosewood) woodgrain
mahogany woodgrain
light oak woodgrain
*AnTEAK woodgrain
*Antique oak woodgrain
*Irish oak woodgrain
*Rustic cherry woodgrain
white woodgrain
black woodgrain
*blue woodgrain
*green woodgrain
*grey woodgrain
*red woodgrain
*cream woodgrain
* Special order, please check current delivery times
Door Colour Options (All colours available internally and externally)
cherrywood (rosewood) woodgrain
light oak woodgrain
white woodgrain
black woodgrain
cream woodgrain
black
white
blue
red
green
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grey woodgrain
Handles & Knockers Handle variations
swan neck
lever
pad
extended lever
lion’s head knocker
urn knocker
satin chrome
black
white
satin bronze
bright bronze
Colour variations
hardex gold
bright chrome
Lever handle for use with multipoint locking systems
slim knocker
urn knocker with spyhole
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satin chrome
black
white
satin bronze
bright bronze
hardex gold
Colour variations
bright chrome
Knocker variations
Numerals, Letters, Door Chains and Letterplates Numerals and Letters
Door Chains
numerals and letters are available in all colours to match door furniture (80mm).
Door chains are available in gold, bright chrome and black.
Letterplates
Colour variations
bright chrome
Fully spring-loaded with 180 degree flap. Fully weathersealed to produce a draught-free environment. Dimensions: 310mm x 76mm.
satin chrome
gold
bright bronze
satin bronze
white
black
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Locking Systems Multi Point door lock with cylinder
Cylinder-free Multi Point door lock The latest crime prevention solution for homeowners! The new Vectis is a revolutionary multi-point door locking system free from euro cylinder operation. No euro cylinder, so… - no bumping - no breaking / snapping - no plug extraction Patented 5 lever operation (traditional lever technology that has been used in mortice locks for centuries). Designed to meet the requirements of PAS 023 / 024 and Secured By Design.
Exclusively tested and certified, the cylinder multi-point locking system exceeds the latest industry standards and is fully compliant with PAS023/024 and the policebacked initiative ‘Secured by Design.’ 10 year performance guarantee Optional security cylinder
3 robust deadlocking security hooks together with 2 pre-compression rollers for weathersealing.
Traditional Rim Locks
Chrome Finish
Gold Finish
Snib facility as standard. Bi-directional throw of locking features (enhanced anti-jemmy). Supplied with 3 x brass keys.
Unique patented door lock which combines modern multi point locking with traditional key entry 10 year performance guarantee rim pull
Optional security cylinder
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Thresholds, weatherseals and core details Threshold PVC-U
50mm PVC-U Threshold
Weatherseals
60mm PVC-U Threshold
Welglaze composite doors are dual-sealed using advanced foam products. The high-performance foam products ensure that the maximum weatherseal is always obtained. The exceptional performance is maintained over a wide temperature range; the products do not shrink or stretch even in extreme climatic conditions. The weatherseals actively absorb sound pollution and can increase the door's acoustic properties by up to 35%. They are immune to the side effects of U.V light and ozone. The environmentally friendly CFC-free foam products are water-repellent and have an impervious surface that is not affected by mould or mildew.
70mm PVC-U Threshold
for colour options see page 14
Core Welglaze composite doors are made with a solid timber core which is completely encapsulated within highly durable plastic edge banding all round and two thermoplastic door skins.
Threshold Aluminium
* Trimline aluminium threshold:for use with a PVC-U external sill
AM3 Threshold for use without a PVC-U external sill *optional internal ramp
Aluminium threshold available in gold & silver
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In harmony with the environment Welglaze is strongly dedicated to good environmental practice. We believe that taking action on waste is essential since natural resources are being consumed at an unsustainable rate and climate change is being contributed to unnecessarily. We minimise our waste and run an extensive recycling programme that is continually looking for improvement. Wood is a natural resource and the timbers used in our doors are harvested from carefully managed fast-growing forests. 57% of the basic PVC molecule used in the manufacture of our door frames is derived from salt, an element in plentiful supply with an estimated 50 quadrillion (one thousand million million) tonnes of dissolved salt in the world’s seas alone, with the remainder of the molecule derives from oil. The PVCU used in our door frames is 100% recyclable and may be recycled 10 times and more without significant loss of integrity and structure. Aluminium and steel reinforcing sections are also recycled. Our commitment to helping the environment does not begin and end with what happens at our premises. Welglaze actively seeks suppliers with a similar responsible attitude towards the environment and actively encourages our customers to do the same. We also optimise our delivery routes to minimise our carbon footprint and the pollution on the roads. Our high performance PVC-U doors can deliver significant energy savings and as such they can play a positive role in making homes more sustainable by cutting carbon emissions, not to mention heating bills. We believe that the future of our planet is important not only for ourselves but for future generations.
Please note that due to our policy of continuous development, we reserve the right to change specifications without notice. Whilst every effort has been made to represent colours and products accurately, we cannot guarantee an exact match to our finished product due to the limitations of the printing process. 23
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