Reducing heat loss through front door?

[marzipancustard]

Hello hoping for some tips on how to reduce the heat lost through our front door. We live in a 250 yr old terraced cottage with the front door straight into the main living area & no door to stairs - so any draught can suck air out of the whole house. It's an old wooden door with 9 single glazed window panels. We use a draught excluder but wonder if anyone has any experience making it a little less draughty (without breaking the bank)? We have double glazed wooden windows that need replacing & hope to replace the door at the same time in a few years' time but wonder if there's anything we can do in the meantime?

Hang a heavy curtain in front of the door?

is it possible to add secondary glazing, or maybe even a piece of transparent plastic? One up on the student double glazing trick with cling film but may work.

and definitely a thick curtain.

Heavy curtain, or that cling film type stuff you stick over the windows? That stuff you stick all around the door to keep draught out and brush on letterbox?

I'd really like to avoid a curtain if possible - I hate them & it would be difficult to hang it without it getting in the way. Plus we have cats so it would be laddered within minutes of hanging. Does that draught excluder stuff actually work? Can I apply it myself?

You need one of these.
www.jim-lawrence.co.uk/filtered-products/17952/portieres-dormer-rods
Then the curtain won't get in the way. If you choose the right fabric it will be impossible to ladder.

Yes that cling film stuff works and it's easy to use- just double sided tape on the sides, apply and then a hairdryer to make it tight and neat. Though our windows at uni were so draughty that it would sometimes blow right off with a strong gust!

Fleece blanket that you Velcro up as required. Still fugly but more temporary than a curtain.

Curtain (sorry!) - definitely the best. Put cheap fleece throws in between the lining and the curtain to make them warmer - I've done this in my sitting room and it worked brilliantly. IKEA do some very cheap ones for about £2 each.
Draft excluder tape (it's foam tape, applied around the doorframe so that when the door is shut, it rests on the tape and forms a good seal). You can apply yourself (it's cheap as chips in any DIY shop) but a bit thick, so if your door fits tightly, it may make it harder to shut.
Draft excluder sausage at the bottom of the door.
Letterbox draughtproofing - again a few options available in any DIY shop.

We lived in a house with a single skin porch and single glazed door into the living room. We had a door curtain on a portiere rod and a curtain hold back fixed into the hinge side door frame. This meant you could hook the curtain out of the way to let light in when you wanted - the portiere lifted it out of the way when you opened the door. You can also fit draught excluder strip all around the door and a brush type excluder along the bottom edge too.

Thanks very much for all your suggestions!

I had the same in my old house. Thermal lined curtain over the door. I just had a regular curtain pole above the door.

Went in Lidl today and noticed that there is going to be that draught excluder tape in next week.