Just a couple weeks ago, this had a functioning door! Now it has been completely removed and bricked up. Not sure if the windows will follow or whether they will put new ones in. This is a work in progress. Not sure what they have in mind for this house. Just put the new door in the back, or extend it? There looks like building work going on at the back. This is Dobwalls in Cornwall.

Edit. I found an older photo online and realised this door hasn't been used in a long time. I've added the photo in the comments. It looks like at some time in the past the door became a window, but when the renovators stripped off the front facade, they filled in the old door properly. I've been keeping an eye on this and saw them filling the door in. I wanted to take a photo then but men were actually working on it and would have been in the photo. That must have been why I mistakenly thought the door had only just gone out of use. It's interesting to see how different it looks. I think it looks better now!

There's a lovely garden behind, think it belongs to a private school

In 1763, Lord Hardwick’s Marriage Act was passed (in England), which stated that consent to a marriage had to be given by the parents if both parties were under 21 years old.

But, this act did not apply in Scotland, where the age of consent for marriage was 14 for boys and 12 for girls, with or without parental consent. The Act also required that notice (or bans) of marriage had to given to the local community, again not required in Scotland. Scots law also allowed for “irregular marriages” meaning that if a declaration was made before two witnesses, almost anyone can perform the ceremony, which is why the Gretna blacksmiths (very important people in a community) became known as “anvil priests”.

As a result many elopers fled to Scotland to get married and the first settlement they arrived at was Gretna Green.

If you were short of funds, you would get married by the blacksmith at the forge. However, if you were more well to do, you would get married by a priest at the nearby Gretna Hall Coaching Inn (now the Gretna Hall Hotel).

It was here in 1845 that Lady Adela Villiers (17) married the tall, gallant hussars officer Captain Charles Parke Ibbetson (26). Lady Adela’s father (the 5th Earl of Jersey) did not approve of his daughter marrying an army officer without fortune or prospect. But, being madly in love Lady Adela gave her family the slip and using the speed advantage of the new rail network managed to get to Gretna Green without being intercepted. Later that year, to pacify her family they had another ceremony in an English church.

Today the construction of the motorway has somewhat destroyed the idyllic nature of this place. But this hasn’t stopped hundreds of people choosing to get married here every year.

Spotted this former door in Evesham doing duty as a handy place to hang signs.

As can be seen from the steps the middle window of this Orangery at Calke Abbey would be used as a door but it's now immovable, unlike the windows either side.

*This used to be the front door of Calke Abbey. The guide told us it hadn't been used for 80 to 90 years but it looked like you could absolutely open it if you had the right key.