The IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance scheme for heritage services – emails members weekly ‘News and Tender Alerts’, with notices from across the development sector’s publications, and this week features Designing Buildings Wiki (DBW) – host platform for the IHBC’s Conservation Wiki– on ‘Spacesaving in US homes – the History of ‘Pocket Doors’.
image: DBW
A pocket door is a sliding door that disappears completely into a space that has been created in the adjacent wall.
Heidi Schwartz writes on DBW:
A pocket door is a sliding door that disappears completely into a space that has been created in the adjacent wall. Single or double versions are available. Unlike other types of sliding doors, most pocket doors are not made from glass, although they may feature glass windows, sometimes for decorative purposes….
Pocket doors originated in the 1850s, when they appeared both in the UK and the US. Their popularity grew in the 1880s as technological improvements were made to the installation methods. However, in the mid 1920s, their popularity began to fade and hinged doors became more fashionable. They once again sprang into favour in the 1950s, particularly in post-war housing.
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