Doors of Doom

A former Victorian(?) granary with a lot of ivy growing over parts of it, and several external doors at heights where you really hope they don't open.

The gloomy winter months has meant that things have been sparse on the DoD-spotting front. A nice day and a site visit turned up this fine specimen of multiple doomery in Gloucester Road, Malmesbury.

The side of Poole Museum, Dorset. A former harbour warehouse, the old, five-storey, redbrick building is dotted the eggshell blue shuttered windows, and a lovely door on every floor that once opened to receive and dispatch goods.

Been a bit fallow in DODland, then came across this. Poole Museum, we salute your commitment to preserving these beauties.

House on the left, industrial-style building on the right. Between them a flat-roofed carport. In the wall of the industrial building, approx 18 inches above the carport is a doorway serving absolutely no purpose whatsoever.

Fairly modern DoD out Bremhill way. Looks kind of neglected; treat these egregious entrances with respect!

A door above what was once an arched entrance to a workshop, now being used as a garage. The door above looks for all the world like it could be used daily but for the fact it is around eight feet off the ground.

Same as previous photo but from slightly different angle.

A quality DoD spotted in Cheddar during a recent jaunt over the Mendips. Fortunately the other half was able to capture it in all its glory as I did a slow drive-by.

Behind a mini-roundabout stands a tallish stone building (1800s?)with a public house to its right. Every window in the tallish building has been bricked up, yet in the middle of all these, around 12ft off the floor, a black wooden door stands defiant.

The windows may have been bricked up but the door stands proud. Stay strong, you pointless portal.
The Railway Inn, Station Road, Westbury.

An old shop under conversion to flats. It appears to be a very compact three storeys, with a DoD on the third storey and drop of around 12 feet if it opens; which you have to really hope it doesn't.

Another DoD classic in North Street, Wilton. Under development so will it stay or will it go?

The ends of what appears to be a fisheries office / warehouse. Around eight feet off the floor is a set of double doors, one of which is open. Building seems to be occupied, with external light on and van parked to side. Which begs the question; who leaves access to an eight foot drop wide open and unguarded?

A DoD caught in the act! Must be H&S Officer's weeks off.
Greencastle, Ireland.

I think the left-hand house has ambitions to be like the right-hand house, but things have ground to a halt.

An end of terrace, two storey house with loft rooms. Work is either taking place or ground to a halt. The ground and first floor have a sort of bay window thing going on. The front-facing gable has a set of full-length glass doors opening onto the top of the bays below. There are no guard rails. Above the front door is a flat porch roof type thing. Above that another door opens out onto it. Again, nothing to stop someone walking straight off the edge.

A couple of semi-DoDs on the same building. Not sure H&S is high on the agenda.
Portrush, N.I.

A nicely kept garden behind which is an old agricultural building with the inevitable door at just below roof level.

Another Irish DoD.

A house in Ireland. Modern bungalow style but with rooms in the roof space. The front door and living room area also appear to have a room above in the gable end. We can tell this because there is a set of full-length glass double doors that would open out into thin air. There isn't even a balcony!

Close-up of said double-doors. Why are there handles on the outside? They are eight to ten feet off the ground.

Absolutely no idea what the builder was thinking here. Why are there handles on the outside? Classic Irish DoD photographed by my better half.

A road-side agricultural building with a small, red door almost to roof level.

An old, faded, whitewashed stone building. There is a standard door at ground level. There is another door immediately above it for those in a hurry to get downstairs.

Another double dose of DoDs from Malin. Ireland; we love you.

Two farm buildings with an access to the yard behind between them. The stone building on the left has a red door immediately above the main barn door. The whitewashed building on the right has a white door approximately six feet higher than any door has a right to be.

A double dollop of doomery. Ireland never fails to deliver.

A long, whitewashed stone building, probably ex-agricultural. Various openings at various heights along its length, including at least two doors that are six feet off the floor.

Ireland; the natural home of the DoD.

A brick warehouse building of some vintage. There appears to be five door-sized openings on the first floor, and another six on the second floor. Even when it was a functioning quayside warehouse, surely a couple would have done? You can overdo these things, you know... It's just showing off.

This is just taking the p*ss...
How many doors of doom can you fit on one building?
Levels (nightclub?), Caernarfon.

View of Queens Gate, Caernarfon Castle. Unfinished because Edward I spaffed the country's cash away...building castles. This has resulted in several openings in the walls where corridors continue into thin air, some distance from ground level. It's one way to deal with intruders I guess...

Caernarfon Castle, you make it too easy...

What was, presumably, a former stable that has been converted. There's a room in the roof and very prominent door to the outside...only a foot or so above the front door on the ground floor. It is safe to say that access / egress would be an interesting experience.

It's a way of deterring unwanted visitors.
A spot on last night's perambulations.

A church interior with a large open arch on the left and, mounted in the wall on the right, a small set of double doors...five foot off the ground.

A leap of faith?

A barn conversion into a very nice property with a door where a door really has no right to be any more.

A room in the roof and an external rapid descent. A local spot on my walk last night.

Weymouth Harbour Masters office in an old redbrick building. For some reason there is a door in the wall at second storey height that could prove to be an unpleasant experience if opened.

A bright blue old building with 'Chandlers Marine Engineering' painted on the outside. A door on the third floor leads to a rapid descent onto some outdoor furniture below.

A double dollop of doom in Weymouth.

Seeing double trouble, Back Street, Trowbridge.

Multiple ways to meet one's maker, Clarks Mill, Trowbridge.

Step through this one and you'll join St Michael & All Angels, in Coombe Bissett.

A large, arched, barred, and presumably disused entrance on what I believe is the north transept. Immediately above the centre of the arch, approximately 15 - 20 feet off the ground, is a regular, dilapidated-looking door, also presumably disused.

One step closer to heaven.
Truro Cathedral, Cornwall, England.

The side of a house-like building. It is littered with bland architectural features such as windows, doors, soil vent pipe, satellite dish. And a uPVC front door approximately nine feet off the ground with no visible means of access. It has a letter box; a challenge for any postie without stilts or a trampoline.

We don't go out much any more...
Redlynch, nr Salisbury, England.

A small wooden door set into some sort column-like structure on the outside of a Grade 1 listed church of considerable vintage. The door is at least four feet from ground level with no means of access without a stepladder or trampoline. To the right of the door is a buttress. To the left, a rather elegant stained- glass window.

God moves in mysterious ways.
St Bartholomew's Church, Corsham, England.

An old building with a front door. Immediately above and slightly to the left is another door which would open out into thin air and an immediate plunge into the street below.

Standing on the shoulders of giants?
Church Street, Corsham, England.