The Bredon is built on Endurance's 48mm solid engineered-timber core, so it stays rigid in Cornish wind and driving rain rather than flexing like a foam-filled slab. It carries no glazing at all, which makes it the warmest and most private door in the range and a sensible choice for exposed or roadside entrances. Supplied and installed across Cornwall by our own CERTASS-registered fitters, finished in any of the 20 Endurance colours shown on this page.
Among Endurance's solid doors, the Bredon earns its place. There is no glazing at all on the Bredon — the whole face is one continuous insulated panel across the full 48mm engineered timber core, which is what gives it the warmest U-value and the most private outlook of any door we fit. On an exposed Cornish frontage, or a rear or side door that never needs natural light, that unbroken panel is doing real work rather than just looking tidy.
The name nods to a lone Worcestershire hill, and — whether or not that heritage was intentional in the naming — the Bredon has the presence to carry it: it reads as a considered, slightly more architectural design than Endurance's plainer numbered panels. We fit it across Cornwall on exposed coastal plots and it has become one of our better-liked solid styles for exactly that reason.
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Choose a colour
On-screen colours are rendered from our own studio photography of each door and will vary slightly with your screen. Ask us for a physical colour sample before ordering.
10-year Endurance manufacturer guarantee, colour included
Fitted from
£1,850 supplied and installed in Cornwall
Best suited to
Exposed coastal plots
Rear and side doors
Maximum privacy
This is a solid panel design. Anthracite Grey delivers architectural impact and reads sharp against brickwork, render, granite and slate across Cornwall.
Fitted by our own CERTASS-registered installers right across Cornwall — Truro, Falmouth, Newquay, Penzance, St Austell, Bodmin, Camborne, Redruth and every village between.
Where the Bredon earns its keep
Choose the Bredon for a property where the door itself is doing a job — holding heat in, keeping wind-driven Cornish rain out, and giving nothing away to the street — rather than for kerb glamour. It is the door we specify most for rear utility entrances, side gates that lead straight into a boot room, and any front elevation on a working farm or smallholding where a glazed panel would just be one more thing to replace after a stray football or a startled dog. On listed or sensitive frontages it is also the safest starting point, since a plain panel rarely triggers a conservation query the way a large glazed aperture can. We would always recommend seeing the Bredon against a working sample of your chosen colour before ordering, since the panel's proportions change how a colour reads compared with a plainer design.
Getting the colour right on the Bredon
Because the Bredon has no glazing to break up the face, colour is doing all the visual work, so it is worth taking seriously. White reads confidently against limewashed render and gives the door real presence without any glass detail to lean on; Irish Oak is the softer alternative for a period frontage where you want the door to sit quietly rather than announce itself. If the door faces full sun for most of the day, Anthracite Grey is a sensible middle ground — dark enough to look deliberate, light enough not to run especially hot. Woodgrain finishes such as Golden Oak and Irish Oak are available on the Bredon as well as the flat colours, and tend to suit this panel shape particularly well on older properties.
Hardware and glass options for the Bredon
There is no glass to specify on the Bredon, which simplifies the decision to hardware and colour only. A long bar handle in chrome or black suits the plainer, more contemporary reading of this panel; a traditional centre knob, letterplate and knocker in pewter or aged brass pulls it towards a period look instead. Because the panel is solid, kick plates and lower-rail scuffing are less of a concern than on glazed designs, so budget can go towards a heavier-duty multi-point lock handle or a smart lock upgrade instead. Lead time on the Bredon is the same as the rest of the range — typically four to six weeks from survey to fit, whatever glass and hardware combination you choose.
From Bude to Land's End, Padstow to the Lizard — our Cornwall-based surveyors and installers fit composite doors across every town, village and coastal parish in the county. Same standard, same 10-year guarantee, wherever you are.
