Metal gates in Diss and the Waveney valley, made in steel to suit old farmhouses, barn conversions and town houses near the Mere. Estate style gates, hoop top railings and driveway pairs, welded in Norwich and hung on both sides of the county border.
Diss, about 23 miles south of our Norwich workshop on the A140.
Estate gates and period railings
Ornate town gates look wrong at the end of a farm track, and a field gate looks wrong in front of a brick town house.
Around Diss the properties are mostly older and rural: timber framed farmhouses, converted barns, cottages beside village greens and brick houses in the town. We make metal gates for Diss customers in the plain patterns that suit them, from flat bar estate gates to vertical bar driveway pairs.
Everything we supply is steel, and everything in steel is fitted by us: gate leaves, posts, hinges, latches, drop bolts and railing panels. Brick or flint piers, garden walls, concrete and any digging are jobs for a local builder. Gate motors come from an automation installer, and if you plan to have them we stiffen the frame and weld on the plates they ask for, so it is automation-ready.
Staircases and balustrades in Diss
From a sketch to a hung gate
Country gates look simple, which is why the proportions matter. Rails, uprights and posts are made as separate pieces in the workshop and coated before the trip south.
Estate gates use flat bar rails passing through slotted uprights, often with a curved brace. Railings can have hoop, spear or plain square tops. We draw the pattern to your opening so the spacing looks even across every leaf and panel.
A gate at the end of a farm drive gets rain, mud splash and hedge cuttings, so galvanising under the colour is worth arranging. Powder coat in black, dark green or grey sits well against brick, flint and weatherboard. Primer and paint is an option too.
We bring the pieces down the A140 and fix to sound brickwork or to steel posts we have made. On a gravel or unmade drive we set the leaves to clear the crown of the track, then adjust the hinges until the pair meets level.
Quotes for Diss and nearby
Style depends on the setting, so photograph the building and the boundary along with the opening. Then give us the clear width, the height you would like, what is there to fix to, and how the track or drive rises or falls.
If an old iron gate or a run of railings survives, send pictures and a few sizes, because we can often echo the pattern in new steel. Where a house is listed or sits in a conservation area, consent is yours to obtain. Let us know if the gates will be motorised, now or later.
We keep to steel. Rebuilding a leaning pier, setting posts in concrete or laying a wall is for a builder, and openers are for an automation company. We will tell each of them the centres, heights and plate positions we need.
Farms, yards and town boundaries
In the town, railing panels are made to sit on low brick walls along the streets around the Mere and the market place, stepped or raked where the ground slopes. Each panel is sized to its length of wall and fixed by us into sound coping.
Farms across the border country need wider gates for yards and tracks, and units on Vinces Road or Sawmills Road need security gates and fence panels in heavier box section. A gate that has dropped or been bent by a trailer can be repaired by our mobile welder.
Architectural metalwork in DissDiss and the border
From Diss we cover Roydon, Scole and Harleston on the Norfolk side, and Eye, Botesdale and the Mid Suffolk villages across the river. It is all reached down the A140 from Norwich, and we come out to measure before anything is made.
Your own sizes and photographs are enough for a free estimate. Dimensions are checked on site before steel is ordered, and you agree the price before we begin.
Steel fabrication in DissDiss gate questions
A light looking steel gate with horizontal flat bar rails passing through upright bars, the pattern seen on parkland fencing. It suits farmhouses and country drives around Diss, and can be made as a single leaf, a pair or a small handgate.
Yes. Eye, Botesdale and the Mid Suffolk villages are as easy for us as Roydon or Scole. Diss is about 23 miles from Norwich, so we plan one visit to measure and another to hang.
Often, yes. Send photographs with the bar sizes and spacing of what survives, and we fabricate new panels in steel to the same lines. If the property is listed or in a conservation area, any consent is for you to arrange first.
It can if the frame was built for it. We do not supply motors, but tell us at the start and we make the leaf stiff enough, with plates placed where your installer wants them.
Gate enquiries from Diss
Phone 07495 409006, or send sizes and photographs from Diss or the villages either side of the Waveney. Estimates are free.