Crittall-Style Screens for Period Cottages
In period cottages, Crittall-style screens and small glazed doors are used to bring light into low-ceilinged, small-windowed rooms while keeping beams and character.
Cottages have low ceilings, uneven walls and small windows, so every bit of borrowed light counts. A small glazed screen beside a staircase or between a kitchen and sitting room can transform a dark room.
Frames are scribed to uneven walls and beams. Georgian-bar or cottage-pane patterns sit well with the scale of the rooms.
What to plan for
- Frames scribed to uneven walls and beams
- Low ceilings suit lower, wider panes
- Small screens can transform dark rooms
- Listed cottages need consent
Products that suit period cottages
Staircase screens
Glaze the stairwell to light a dark hall below.
From £1,750 fittedLearn moreInternal doors
Single and French doors with slim glazing bars.
From £2,450 fittedLearn more
External French doors
Weather-sealed garden doors with slim bars.
From £3,800 fittedLearn more
Windows
Slim steel-look windows for period and modern homes.
From £1,250 fittedLearn moreQuestions about period cottages
My ceilings are low. Will a screen look out of place?
Not if the panes are proportioned for the room. Wider, lower panes suit low ceilings better than tall, narrow ones.
Can you fit around a beam?
Yes. We template the opening and shape the head of the frame to the beam.