On 18 June, 16:08, Andy Dingley wrote:
On 18 June, 15:46, Arthur 51 wrote:

Does anyone know of the timber for these old doors is
of a type good enough to become a front door that would
withstand everything the elements could throw at it?

Probably a good quality pitch pine.

It would need to be painted, but yes it would work. It's better than
many doors you'll get these days.

Also, 1 or 2 of the other houses on the street still have the
original
ancient doors and have the same design.
And as its going to be painted I want to alter the framing layout to
something like

+---------------+-----------------+---------------+
| | | |
| | glazed | |
| | | |
| glazed +-----------------+ glazed |
| | | |
| | | |
| | | |
+---------------+ solid | +---------------+
| | panel | |
| | | |
| | | |
| solid | | solid |
| panel | | panel |
| | | |
| | | |
/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\

I would do it by building the above framing complete
with outsides. Then size the depth to stand proud of the existing
door
surfrace.
Sorry...am I going on here?

Arthur