r/DoorsNotUsedAnymore

I sometimes call this patient zero as I just don't think you can get more ghostly than this door

Any idea what it was once used for?

Right I'm off to work darling see lateaaaaaahhhhh.

There is something missing from the frame so maybe there was. This is the remains of the 18th century Icehouse built into the hill behind Dumbleton Hall, now a hotel in Dumbleton on the edge of the Cotswolds. They must have sealed it somehow to stop the ice melting in warmer months. Incidentally, the hotel has just reopened after a £25m 2 year refurb. At one point if I recall correctly, it was owned by the Post Office as a holiday venue for staff.

The second is described as 'reset upper portion of a small Norman doorway, with a roll moulding on cushion capitals, diapered tympanum, and abaci and hoodmould with saltire crossed; renewed lancet either side' so it may not have been it original position. It is a glorious hodge-podge of architecture from various epochs

https://allsaintsturkdean.org.uk/architecture

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The north door of Rochford church, Herefordshire.

The pigeons own it now