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Owl Head
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Owl Head

£99.00

An additional interchangeable head for customers who already own a Yorkshire Foundry Complete Kit.

Keeps watch. Doesn’t blink.
A new face for your door without a whole new knocker. Swap the head onto the base you already own and the entrance gets a bit of nocturnal authority.

Tall tufts. Forward stare. Modelled after the long-eared owl, with a defined facial disk, raised ear tufts, and layered feather detail. A bit more edge than most bird knockers.

Every one starts as a wax pattern, 3D-printed for detail no hand tool can reach, then investment cast one at a time. That’s why every layered feather survives the casting. Mass production presses from a worn die and softens with each copy. Ours doesn’t.

It attaches to the base you already own in seconds. No new holes, no drilling. You’ll need at least one complete kit to begin with, but every head in the range fits the same base.
Learn more about our interchangeable system

Cast in Yorkshire from a marine-grade bronze alloy with the warm golden tone most people call brass, to outlast the door it hangs on. It arrives bright and will darken with time and touch. A quick polish brings it back.

Backed by a 30-year guarantee. If it’s not right, we’ll make it right: 90 days for a full refund, no faff. We’ve had three returns in five years, most of them house sales that fell through.

Sits well on a panelled door, dark paint, a composite door, or any front door that likes a little nocturnal authority. The quiet upgrade that makes a door you’re proud of look the part.

Designed & Made in Yorkshire, UK

Family-Run Foundry

Made by artisans

  • Details

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Material. Solid marine-grade bronze. The copper alloy used on yacht propellers, offshore fittings, and marine hardware. Handles salt spray, rain, frost, and decades outdoors. Warm brassy colour that deepens with age. No plating, no lacquer, nothing to chip off. Weathers so much better than brass. Technically an aluminium bronze (AB2, CuAl10Ni5Fe4), but bronze covers it.

Casting. Investment cast from 3D-printed wax patterns. Capturing whiskers, feather, and fur captured in beautiful detail. Printed, cast, fettled, and finished in our Yorkshire foundry.

Fixings. Front-screw fix to the door face. Fits composite doors, solid wood doors, and metal doors. No through-bolts, no drilling all the way through.

System. The head separates from the base. Fit the base once, swap the head as often as you like. Fifty-plus heads available, plus a wreath holder.

Head only. Just the head. It attaches to the starter kit from a Complete Set already fitted to your door. If this is your first Yorkshire Foundry knocker, you need the Complete Set.

Guarantee. 30 years.
Additional Head Only
Designed for customers who already own a Yorkshire Foundry Starter Kit.

Ring, base plate, fixings and installation guide are not included.
Specification Value
Head Height 11.2 cm
Head Width 8.5 cm
Head Weight 338 g

Bronze looks after itself. No polish, no cloth, no weekly routine. It will darken where it sits out of the rain and brighten where rain runs off it. That patina is the finish doing its job.

If you want it to look freshly cast again, a quick buff with a soft cloth and a little brass polish will bring the warm brassy colour back up. It will not come up to a full mirror shine, and that is deliberate. We do not lacquer the bronze, and every whisker, feather, and detail line on the head gets in the way of a perfect reflection. We would rather keep the character than the gloss.

Left alone, it will still be bright and yellowy. Just not mirror shine.

Interchangeable 
Door Knocker System

Investment 
Cast

30-year 
guarantee

Made in 
Yorkshire, UK

Fits all 
doors

Marine Grade
Bronze

50+ heads
plus wreath holder

not all door knockers are made the same

the quiet difference between yorkshire foundry work and an imported knocker.

Yorkshire Foundry

Mass Produced Knocker

Material

Solid marine-grade bronze. Same copper alloy used on yachts. Warm brassy colour.

Plated zinc alloy or thin brass over pot metal.

Detail

Investment cast from printed wax. Whiskers, feathers, undercuts all held.

Mould cast. Fine detail softened or lost.

 

System

Interchangeable head. One base, 50-plus heads, swap when you like.

Locked in. Fit once, keep forever. No swap, no seasonal change.

Where

Designed, cast, and finished in one Yorkshire foundry, by a team we know by first name.

Designed in one country, cast in another, boxed in a third.

Fit

Front-screw fix. Composite, solid wood, or metal doors.

Through-bolt fix. Needs a drilled-through door.

Guarantee

30 years. No small print.

12 months, if any.

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30

Years guarantee.

No small print

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Discount seasons.
Fair price first time.

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Foundry.
Design > Cast > Dispatch.

Frequently asked

Do you offer other finishes, like silver, chrome or antique brass?

We don't plate. Every head is solid cast and left as the metal: a warm golden tone most people call brass, which deepens as it ages. If you want a different colour, we can hand-finish a head in Cerakote, a hard-wearing ceramic coating, in almost any shade, made to order. Email us and we'll sort it.

How big is it?

Every product page lists the exact head and full-set dimensions. As a guide, a full knocker stands around 21cm tall and 9cm wide, with the depth changing a little from design to design.

Do you ship to the US or worldwide?

Yes. We ship from Yorkshire to the USA, Canada, the EU, Central and South America, Australia, New Zealand and most places in between. Postage is calculated at checkout. Any import duty or tax is set by your own country and charged on arrival.

Is it really guaranteed for 30 years?

Yes. Every knocker is solid cast, not plated or hollow, and backed by our 30-year guarantee. If something isn't right, we'll put it right.