What are these doors called?

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We saw some beautiful French doors in a house we viewed months ago - it had a normal French door but then a tilted bit of glass at the top to let in more light. We didn’t buy the house but the fixer upper we’re waiting to exchange on has a bay window we want to replace with doors, probably similar to these!

Does anyone know what this style is called please? All I’m getting from Google are massive modern bi-fold doors which are beautiful but not the right fit for a 1930’s house with period features and a smaller space for doors! Also happy to take other door recommendations - I’m out of my depth when it comes to door buying.

It looks like a custom design with the roof light above the window above the doors. Houses in the 60s often had glass above the internal doors to let light into rooms with no windows, and some had frosted windows between living room and kitchen, so there might have been a name for it back then.

It’s a transom.

Sorry, the horizontal pane across the top of the French doors is a transom; the angled section just looks like a standard angled roof light - it cuts into the roofline- where someone has just knocked out the joist up to the roofline, boxed it in around the bay and replaced the roof tiles with glass.

Thank you, these are really helpful replies! I have a better idea what to look for and how to explain it to the window man now.

Our house isn’t dark but with the gloomy northern weather I want to let in as much light as possible!

She's not referring to the transom, it's the glass above that!

It’s called an up and over window. There’s an example down this page www.odcglass.co.uk/products/glass-structures/ (not a recommendation as I don’t know that company at all, just struggling to find good images quickly).

If you decide to have one, choose your window company very carefully as they are complicated to design and install <speaks from bitter experience>.

You may be able to achieve a similar effect, but with thicker frames, with a transom and standard velux on top.

Pinterest has interesting examples in different styles