The heaviest single gate we build. A solid steel panel, one honest cross brace, and a weight in the hand that tells a visitor what kind of house this is long before the front door opens.
Set across the solid lower panel sits the signature Winslow move — a single, honest 75 × 25 RHS cross brace, welded corner to corner. It's not ornament. It's the language of barn doors, stable gates and the working entrances of properties built to last more than one generation. Carried here in heavy galvanised steel, set into the kind of leaf you actually have to lift to swing. A welcome that announces itself in one diagonal line.
Behind the cross, a full steel backing sheet — not slats, not gaps, not a peek through to the front lawn. Real privacy. A real edge between the path and the home. Above the rail, the upper section opens up with vertical uprights to let air and light in. Closed where it should be closed. Open where it should be open. The way a serious front gate has always been drawn.
Welded at every joint in our Tamworth workshop from premium Australian steel — 75 × 75 RHS gate sides, hefty 75 × 50 RHS top, mid and bottom rails, 75 × 25 RHS cross brace, solid steel backing panel. Finished with our Four-Stage Bonded Powder Coat. No bolts. No flat-pack. A statement gate, made the way a statement gate should be made — once, properly, by people who care that it'll still be standing when the trees behind it are full grown.
Hardware is where an expensive-looking gate gives itself away, usually inside the first year — and the Winslow is the heaviest single leaf we build, so there is nowhere for a weak hinge to hide. The hinge side of the gate is finished level, full height, specifically to carry a pair of heavy-duty ball bearing hinges. Sealed 180° bearings take the load instead of grinding against it, rated well beyond the weight of the gate, so it swings smooth and effortless and never drops or drags. Each hinge is fully adjustable on a threaded stem, so the installer can dial the leaf square on the post and fine-tune the latch gap on site — then leave it set. Zinc plated for the weather. Included in the price, not an upsell.
Tell us which side you want it to hinge from and we'll build it to suit. The Winslow isn't symmetrical — the hinge side is the level one, and the latch side runs proud above the top rail — so the direction it swings genuinely changes how the gate sits against your fence line, your path and your front door. Nothing is reversed on site or made to fit afterwards. Choose left or right when you order and the leaf is drawn, welded and finished that way from the start.
Most front gates apologise. The Winslow doesn't. Heavy 75 × 50 rails. A 75 × 25 cross brace welded corner to corner across a solid steel panel. Gate sides you can rest a hand on and feel the metal answer back. There is no flex in it, no rattle, no hollow note — it swings as one piece and closes with intent, and it stays exactly where you put it through wind, weather and decades of daily use. You do not have to know anything about steel to feel the difference. You feel it the first time you push it open.
It's also a gate with a clear point of view about who it's for. The Hamptons-styled home that's taken years to get right. The heritage cottage thoughtfully extended. The architect-drawn rebuild. The character home finally finished. The Winslow is the gate for the front of the home you've spent years getting right — and the one your kids will know by sight before they know its name.
It isn't the cheapest way to close a front path, and it was never meant to be. An aluminium gate is a purchase — replaced when it sags, fades or dents, and the second one costs what the first one did. A Winslow is fitted once. Australian galvanised steel in the heaviest sections in our range, welded at every joint by hand, four-stage bonded powder coat, heavy-duty ball bearing hinges in the box, backed for ten years. Spread across the years it will stand there, it is one of the least expensive things you will do to the front of the house — and one of the very few your children could still be closing behind them.
There's a long stretch between moving in and feeling moved in. The lawn comes in. The hedges fill out. The cars stop looking new. And one day the gate goes on at the top of the path — and the place finally reads, from the road, as the home you've been picturing the whole way through.
It costs more than the gate beside it. It also looks like it grew there. That trade is the entire point.
A timber farm gate fades. A pressed aluminium leaf rattles. Here's why the Winslow reads — and ages — completely differently.
| Winslow Steel Single Gate | Aluminium / Timber Gate | |
|---|---|---|
| Welcome under the hand | Heavy, substantial, honest steel — the leaf closes with intent. Reads as estate, not entry-level. | Hollow, light, tinny under the hand — feels like a kit, not an arrival. |
| Signature structural detail | 75 × 25 cross brace welded across a solid steel backing panel — barn-door honesty, estate-grade execution. | Flat, generic panels — no language, no point of view, nothing for the property to recognise. |
| Privacy at the path | Solid lower panel — a real boundary, not a peek-through. Open above the rail for air and light. | Either all open (no privacy) or all closed (heavy and unwelcoming) — no middle ground. |
| Hinges in the box | Heavy-duty adjustable ball bearing hinges included, on a level hinge side built to carry them — rated well beyond the leaf. | Basic butt hinges, or hardware sold separately — the first thing to sag or seize on a heavy leaf. |
| Made to your opening | Built to your size, and to the hinge side you choose — drawn and welded that way from the start. | Stock sizes off a shelf, with hardware reversed or forced to fit on site. |
| Closes cleanly for decades | Welded steel leaf, precision-engineered — stays square, latch lines up, gate closes true. | Timber drops; lighter gates sag, rattle and lose their alignment with the post. |
| Ages the right way | Heavy welded steel holds its line through wind, sun and twenty Australian summers — looks better as the property grows in around it. | Timber greys off and warps; aluminium fades and chalks; both look worse the longer the property has been there. |
| Finish & colour | Four-Stage Bonded Powder Coat in 26 premium colours — holds colour and lustre for decades. | Standard powder coat or paint — chalks, fades and chips with time. |
| Construction | Welded at every joint in our Australian workshop. No bolts. No kits. No flat-pack. | Typically bolted, riveted or pressed together — failure points show themselves over time. |
| Origin | 100% Australian made in Tamworth, NSW — designed, welded and finished under one roof. | Most are mass-imported and built to a generic spec. |
| Lifespan | Designed to outlive the home it stands in front of. Backed by our 10-Year Structural Warranty. | A replacement cycle, not a lifetime purchase. |
The Winslow single gate is also matched by Winslow fence panels and a Winslow double gate — same heavy proportions, same signature cross-brace language, same finish — so the boundary, the side entrance and the front path of the property all read as one designed home, not a collection of gates picked from different catalogues.
The rear face of a Winslow is deliberately different to the front. The cross brace is a front-face structural feature only — it is never repeated on the back. Instead the rear reads as a clean, uninterrupted steel plane, with the backing sheet set into the frame opening and the pop rivets that fix it to the hidden brace arranged in the pattern the brace dictates. It's the face you look at every day walking down the path from the house, and it is finished to exactly the same standard as the one the street sees.
Rear elevation — recessed backing sheet, flush pop rivets and the hinge stile mirrored, shown in Pearl White satin. Indicative render only — not to scale.
No cross brace on the rear face. The 75 × 25 RHS cross sits on the front of the leaf and is concealed behind the backing sheet from the rear.
Backing sheet set into the frame. The 2 mm sheet is fitted inside the frame opening and sits slightly recessed behind the rear faces of the gate sides and rails — never folded, wrapped or standing proud.
Fine shadow line at every junction. A crisp reveal reads where the sheet meets the mid rail and the gate sides, giving the rear its flush, panelled appearance.
The hinge side mirrors. Viewed from the rear the gate reads the other way round — the level hinge side, carrying its pair of adjustable ball bearing hinges top and bottom, sits opposite to where it appears from the front, and the latch side runs proud above the top rail on the other hand.
Fully coated both faces. Powder coat is applied over the rivet heads and the full rear plane, so the back finishes to the same standard as the front.
| Fastener | Pop rivet, flush flat-flanged head |
| Head diameter | Approx. 10 mm, sits near flush |
| Finish | Powder coated in product colour |
| Fixed to | Concealed brace and frame |
| Count | Varies with gate size |
| Setting out | Set by brace layout and leaf size |
Rivet numbers are not fixed — a wider leaf carries more. Always set at the four sheet corners, with additional rivets running along the brace diagonal arms and centred rivets on the top and bottom sheet edges. There is no even grid — the spacing always follows the brace.
The Winslow is a substantial leaf — heavier than any other single gate in the range. The heavy-duty ball bearing hinges come with it, on a hinge side built level to carry them, so the hardware is already sorted. What it still needs from you is a post that can hold all that weight: for a clean swing and a latch that lines up properly we recommend a minimum 100 × 100 mm heavy-duty steel post, and we supply the full range of posts, latches and hardware to suit.
Speak to our team before you order. We'll walk you through opening width, hinge side, latch hardware and post selection — so the Winslow hangs straight, swings clean and closes true from day one.
Every Winslow is made to your opening and to the hinge side you choose, so it's worth a conversation before you commit. Welded — never a flat-pack kit — supplied with heavy-duty ball bearing hinges, finished in your choice of 26 premium powder-coat colours and delivered ready to hang. Backed by our 10-Year structural warranty. Speak to our team about sizing, posts, hardware and automation if you need it.