Transom

Above our front door and not at all unusually is a beam known as a transom. In fact it is part of the door frame. Above that beam is a small sealed window that through history has become known as a fanlight, transom window or simply a transom like the beam below it.

A few years ago, we had a new door fitted and at the time we decided that the glass of our transom should have the house number in it - created via computer assisted sand blasting. This left the number itself defined in clear glass while the surrounding glass  remains evenly opaque.

Such numbers have become quite common in Great Britain in recent years, helping drive-by delivery personnel to better locate houses as they do their rounds. I think it is also a nice design touch and not all that expensive to achieve.

When the window was installed I had no idea that I might be endlessly fascinated by the sunlit image of our house number finding slightly different positions each sunny morning and throughout the year. Of course on cloudy mornings it does not appear.

Sometimes the number curls over steps on our carpeted staircase . Sometimes it's in the kitchen and sometimes, as in the image above, it is sliding over the panelling in our hallway. I have also seen it in bright moonlight.

It's like our very own slow-moving light show. I snapped the image at the top just last week. A little bit of magic that one could so easily overlook.

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