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Tywardreath: A Coastal-Grade Doorset Near Par Sands

By Cornwall Composite Doors · 1 November 1969 · 4 min read

PL24's village housing close to Par Sands and Fowey benefits from a properly sealed, coastal-specified composite door.

A historic village overlooking the estuary

Tywardreath is one of the older settlements in this part of Cornwall, its name meaning 'house on the strand' in Cornish — a fitting description given how close the village sits to Par Sands and the mouth of the Fowey estuary. That closeness brings genuine coastal exposure even though Tywardreath itself sits slightly inland of the beach front, on rising ground above the flatter land around Par.

The thermal difference felt from the first night

A lot of Tywardreath's housing is older village stock — cottages and terraces around the church and the historic core — and customers here consistently tell us the thermal improvement from a new composite doorset is felt immediately, from the very first night after installation, particularly in hallways that had been quietly losing heat through a worn or ill-fitting old door for years.

Coastal specification without full clifftop exposure

Tywardreath doesn't face the open sea directly the way a clifftop property further along the coast does, but its proximity to Par Sands means salt-laden air still reaches the village on a westerly, so we specify stainless fixings and a drained threshold here as a sensible precaution rather than treating it as a fully sheltered inland location.

A quiet, well-kept village setting

Tywardreath retains a strong sense of village identity separate from neighbouring Par and St Blazey, and a well-chosen composite door — whether a heritage panel style on an older cottage or a contemporary flush design on a newer property — tends to be noticed and appreciated within a village of this size.

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