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It just means that there is no admittance except on party business
I thought that door was green.
„Damn the boy“ https://www.reddit.com/r/lotrmemes/s/5TQrpM3IQ3
They've got knobs behind the doors too.
Kinky
Damn I thought this was a rare Downing Street covid party reference.
Bad hobbit
I guess i have more in common with a door than I realised
Everyone gets a turn?
No it’s small and round and bronze
Doesn’t get polished as much as he’d like
You’re supposed to give it a twist and a push
🎵 HEY BRONZEMEMBER 🎵
Nope, it doesn't have the same ring to it, sorry
My vinky was a d o o r k n o b !
Need to knock before coming inside?
Na, just give it a twist and you can come inside.
Can you handle being slammed?
Got it. So knock hard and right on the knob?
This is the type of comment I stay on Reddit for
You're on Hinge?
Small, chubby and no one touches it?
Just go easy on the door Knockers.
Cuz some doors in London have knobs behind them, too?
TIL there are knobs in the centre of London
Lots of them in the Whitehall, Westminster and Downing Street areas
Don't forget Tufton Street
And Glasgow is full of speccy BAMs
A number of doors in London even have knobs behind the door as well.
Me here thinking "holy shit really?" In a genuine way
Fun fact: Downing Street doesn’t have a knob on the outside. It has plenty inside.
They also don't like it if you knock to hard to get in.
That's not a knob in the sense turning it won't open the door, it's more of a handle for pulling the door closed behind you.
The knob is there for the servant to open and close without getting in the way if the guest/employer.
I think it's more simply to be more comfortable to pull the door with your left hand while you use your keys in the locks on the right side of the door (you got to visualize that one).
Some doors you have to pull pretty hard for the deadbolt to engage (maybe because of the legendary humidity of London and its impact on wood), and this setup makes it easier.
Much less leverage from the middle, doesn't make sense if it's for that purpose
Less leverage, but a more comfortable position to pull.
Probably comes down to habit mostly: I bet you ask someone who used that setup all their life, they'll find the other one with the knob on the right awkward.
Most sources I can see point to it being decorative only. I don't think there's a hidden reason or logic to it this time!
I find it hard to believe there's a person out there that finds this more comfortable even out of habit, if every other door inside their house and in London/UK/Rest of World have the knobs or handles situated to the side - but we'll probably find someone on Reddit who does!
Sure ?
https://scienceblogs.com/principles/2012/11/16/hobbits-and-prime-ministers-the-physics-of-doors
/S - because it wasn't clear
I think you've replied to the wrong person - I was saying it's less leverage from the middle.
Your link also sums it up nicely: 'So, having established that putting the knob in the middle is kind of dumb from a physics perspective'
I don’t see how this setup would help with a sticking door at all. You get less leverage from the centre.
Nah I had a door like this and the knob still turned and opened the door
Ive seen loads and yours is the first time it has ever unlocked the door. Could you imagine the length of chisel youd need to make the path from the edge to the middle of the door.
Idk what the stupid thing was made of but I hated it because I found it hard to open, had to wrench it and then there’s less leverage when you’re opening it from the middle so it was often awkward for me. I definitely remember struggling with the stupid thing so I’m not going to doubt that it did have a working (ish) mechanism
Morticing jig.
Long drill bit, and an extended latch bolt for the knob
Ive just notice now the knob is in line with the panels, ya this knob is decoration only. Maybe if it was in the middle horizontal board it would work
More likely the door has 3 layers of wood to it. Before the outer layers are placed, the channel and hardware are placed for the knob.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the original home owner made it himself. He did as much as he could by himself and he was a mechanic as well as dipping his toes in painting, carpentry, and probably a few other trades just like every other good country man. idk which would have given the skills to apparently custom-make the worlds most annoying door though. Didn’t realise my old front door was quite that weird but a google search doesn’t give me functional centre knob doors so it can’t be common huh
What is opening the door then? It has to have a latch somewhere. Do you have to lock/unlock the door every time you use it?
The locks on the right side one is a dead blot bottom one and the other is like a yale lock
Are you making terms up or is this how brits talk
Dead bolt*
But commenter you’re replying to is right, you can dead bolt the door using the bottom lock, the top lock (Yale) is more like a latch.
To open this door, you’d put your key into the top lock, turn it and the latch lets you push the door open, probably using the centre knob to push it.
Oh that makes way more sense, I was sitting here like “what the hell is a dead blot bottom”
We didn’t have a key for the door, the previous owners had lost it so for the 5+ years before my dad bothered to replace it we just kept it locked from the inside when we did bother to lock it (a normal push-button door handle lock but we were rural Australians so didn’t bother mostly), I think there may have been a deadbolt but again no key so it was never used even if it did exist. The door when unlocked could be opened using the handle the same as a normal door just weirder
Yes. It can't be opened from outside unless you have the key. That's the whole idea of it.
Yeah my sister's door has the knob in the middle and it functions like any other doorknob. She lives in Ohio for reference.
I call BS
It was honestly a pain because the damn thing was always half jammed. And it felt like you had to turn it further than a normal doorknob, every other time I had to try twice to get the right angle with enough twist. I hated that door. 80’s Australian DIY house.
Which makes perfect sense as this is a better position for a door-closing-knob. Thanks!
It was the style in Georgian times and is still the fashion in Victorian/ Georgian/Edwardian era buildings.
The knob is fixed and you can see a lip on the lock face so you can pull or push the door. some of these doors are solid Oak or Mahogany and are very heavy.
Wouldn't having the knob in the center give you less leverage on the hinge?
Heavy, but not that heavy.
The knob is used more to pull the door closed. To open it you just push where you insert your key at the regular spot on the side.
Common all over Europe too ???
No thank you! We don’t want any more visitors, well-wishers or distant relations!
It’s not just London. It’s not even just the UK.
It’s possibly not even just the Earth.
There are some in California, USA as well. Older homes. It was a matter of mid-century style, part of the “atomic” look.
Yep my grandparents apartment in sf had a center knob
I’m guessing this is not common where you’re from, but although this may be the first time you have realised this, it’s much more common than you think. Where I live it is more common to have a doorknob or handle in the middle.
The knob here doesn’t open the door it’s just to make closing it easier.
I thought that the door was for making sure lefties lives aren't harder than they have to be
What an odd thing to say.
Typical right handed propaganda!
Some have knobs within too
Wait, how is this weird? Plenty of doors in other countries are like that.
“Mildly interesting”, not weird.
For me it’s full-on interesting because I’m not a world traveler and have never seen this.
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I just got back from Italy and there were plenty of doors like this including the place we were staying at.
It was a thing in Australia in the 1970s. Lots of friends houses growing up had it. It was quite bougie, but not uncommon.
They were everywhere in Ireland. In fact may have been more common than the type I'm used to. They also had their hinges arranged differently
Right? This is completely mundane in a lot of countries
Well, this is r/mildlyinteresting, after all.
It other countries, door knobs are attached to the locking mechanism, so when you turn them, the door opens. In these types of doors, the knobs are for pushing/pulling only, and turning the key is what activates the locking mechanism.
Here in The Netherlands front doors have stationary knobs on the outside above the lock. Have to use the key to open the door.
All doors in Italy have knobs in the centre.
10 Downing Street is probably the most famous example.
Has at least one knob inside too
My front door is centre knob pull. Live nowhere near London.
Some houses in England also have knobs on the inside
Look up the doors of Dublin. They are awesome.
I misread this "Look up the Knobs of Dublin. They are awesome."
... now I've got to clear my Google search history.
🤣 nothing a few pints of Guinness can’t help you forget.
That's where I first saw this sort of thing. All over Ireland
Central door knobs are a classic Georgian architectural feature often seen in London, designed to symbolize symmetry and balance in the facade.
Some doors in London have knobs behind them.
This is very common in europe.
Very Bag End style!
Must need one hellavu long drill bit and a steady hand.
probably the knob doesn't turn only the lock does on the side
Knobs with integral locks are very uncommon in the UK.
The knob is just fixed like a drawer pull. The actual Locking mechanism where the keys are inserted is on the side in the conventional place.
Uncle Bill's door on Family Affair also had the knob in the center.
I've never seen this in London
I wish i was like that door. With a knob in the centre of me
Edit: spelling
There are most likely knobs inside too it is London
It's common on Georgian and Edwardian doors. Across the land, so not uncommon.
Most houses in London also have a knob at the center!
Alot of doors in London have knobs behind them aswell.
Some have knobs behind them too.
So do some Londoners.
Many doors in London have knobs inside of them
You win reddit today with that comment.
A lot of them also have knobs inside too.
Some doors in London have a knob waiting behind them after they open
Sokka-Haiku by WelsyCZ:
Some doors in London
Have a knob waiting behind
Them after they open
Remember that one time Sokka accidentally used an extra syllable in that Haiku Battle in Ba Sing Se? That was a Sokka Haiku and you just made one.
A lot of them have knobs living behind them too
This isn't interesting. It's incredibly common.
The OP had never left their parent's basement...
In 10 Downing Street, all the knobs are on the inside.....
Some houses in London are filled with knobs
I’ve seen 1 in the United States. But I work for a door and window replacement company and see probably around 1,500 doors a year for the past 8 years.
Most doors in London also have knobs on the other side of the door lol
Bunch of knobs, you know. Just a bunch of knobs.
“Those aren’t knobs baby, yeah…” -Austin Powers
So good for this sub
The vast majority have knobs behind them as well!
That’s just Downing Street
Is this not the case in other countries? Being English I thought this was normal.
I wonder if that would need replaced/serviced more often than a knob that is right by the trim & kickplate
I think this is a old British thing as I have seen doors like this here in Australia on some older places.
watch yourself never getting your sleeve caught on it when going through when you’re at your wits end
Some have knobs behind them
Does the door open like normal?
Ya know what, Fuck you! Bullpups your door*.
That is just wrong
No need to call me that
Filthy Hobbitses!
Some knobs in London post about knockers. We'll get'em next time.
JRRT's door?
All doors in London have knobs behind them.
Well that explains where Tolkien got it from
They also have knobs living inside, but that is another story
I'm more worried about the dark secret behind the murder of the person that experienced that bloodstained pole on the left.
Pray that you always remember your keys before you close the door behind you
And some have the knob BEHIND the door
When I was watching an Australian show on Netflix I noticed they also have them in the center. I know that Australia used to be a British penal colony so that’s probably why.
how does the lock work then?
My knob is in the center too. 😏
Classic Bri'ish L
I grew up with one of these in the US! Never saw another in my life though.
Gives me vibes of: you don’t need to raise your hands to knock
I always think of this old scene from The Simpsons any time I see a door like this.
Erm. This is 100% not just London.
Thai is not just in London (or England).
This is not even vaguely interesting. It is, just what it is.
How does the mechanism work?
I too have a knob in my lower center
Some men do too, eeeeeeeyyyyyyyyyyy!
I’ve seen some houses from the 50’s with center knobs that also take the key and lock/open the door. Not in London though.
I’m not in London and see them all the time. This isn’t a London exclusive thing.
I'm not touching my doors dick
This happens sll over. Not just London. I have s friend with s door like this in Arkansas.
in spain also
boy you would LOVE Venice then
No one is going to mention the keyhole at leprechaun level?
Even more have them inside the house.
Forget the knob look at that bloody knob
One of my friends did this at his very custom home. He was a licensed Architect, Structural Engineer, and Civil Engineer.
Lot of work and I guess it looks cool, but I could never remember if a door was to swing right or left.
Just like ur mum lol
I too have a knob in center
This post just unlocked a memory in my head of the movie Dunston Checks In! They are in a hotel and the knobs are in the middle of the door
I love this architecture
That's just for pulling, and it's also quite common in countries like Spain
In Spain this is the norm of every door actually
The physics done on this door.
That shade of yellow looks nice, gonna consider that palette when we repaint
Its so the TV Police have something to shove up there when you turn them away.
This kind of placement doesnt make sense because it reduces leverage
It's for people that are neither left nor right-handed. London is way ahead of its time.
Some doors and almost all men.
Centrist knobs everywhere.
No admittance except on party business.
I had a front door like this, in Bristol. A real heavy beast of a front door too with a giant knocker. House was 1800s, whether it dated from then I don't know. But it was for closing the door rather than turning.
And some have knobs behind them also…
And some have knobs behind them too
Sometimes there are knobs behind the doors. In your case the knob is in front of the door.
Why....
Shouldn't knobs/handles always be at the farthest from the hinges ?
That’s a Liberal Democrat door.
You mean... They drill holes in the middle of their doors to put their knobs in?
And some have them on the inside
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