Fire Protection and Original Doors

A modern threat to original doors is protection against fire. Consideration should always be given to ways of retaining original doors. These may include fitting a second door to create a lobby, providing additional escape routes, or investigating a fire engineering approach. Sometimes work to original doors cannot be avoided, but there are techniques that provide the required fire ratings with only minor loss of character. It should also be noted that it is now possible to obtain a waiver for listed buildings from the requirement under fire safety legislation to raise door heights to modern standard heights.