Baldwin Reserve Elizabeth Single Cylinder Keyed Entry Handleset with Interior Trim and Emergency Egress Function

The Elizabeth handleset is set up for either a 2-3/8 or 2-3/4 inch backset, which covers both of the standard residential bore locations, and the edge bore is 1 inch. If your door already has a bored prep with a 1 inch edge bore at either of those backsets, it drops onto the existing holes. Measure from the door edge to the center of the cross bore to confirm which backset you have before you order.

Emergency egress means the interior lever or knob is interconnected with the deadbolt. One motion from the inside pulls the deadbolt and the latch at the same time, so nobody has to find a thumbturn in the dark or in smoke. From the outside it stays a normal keyed entry: key operates the cylinder, and the thumbturn on the inside throws or retracts the deadbolt on its own when you want it locked. It is the reason people specify this over a plain handleset plus separate deadbolt.

Handing matters only if you pick a lever. The Curve, Decorative, and Federal levers are each ordered as left hand or right hand, so you need to know which way the door swings and which side the hinges are on. The knob options (Ellipse, Round, Traditional) are not handed and work either way. Stand outside the door facing it: if the hinges are on your left it is a left hand door.

The Schlage Residential F60 Addison single cylinder keyed entry handleset with Accent lever is the nearest cross-brand match. It is an F Series entrance-function handleset rated Grade 2, and it fits doors 1-3/8 inch to 1-3/4 inch thick. The Baldwin Reserve Elizabeth is likewise a single cylinder keyed entry handleset tested to exceed ANSI/BHMA Grade 2 security, and it ships with interior trim so the inside knob or lever comes in the box. The Elizabeth adds the emergency egress function, an interconnected lock that retracts the deadbolt and the latch together in one motion; the F60 Addison is a conventional keyed entry handleset without that interconnection.

Several brass entrance handlesets in the same visual family are dummy function and have no cylinder or latch at all. The Emtek 3002 Memphis, 3004 Hamilton, 3005 Melrose, and 3006 Manhattan brass mortise entrance handlesets are all dummy function, as are the Weslock 6695 Belmont with Impresa knob for 1-3/8 inch to 2 inch doors and the Weslock 2815 Hillcrest with New Heaven lever for the same range. They are surface-mounted pulls for an inactive leaf of a double door. The Baldwin Reserve Elizabeth is a keyed entry handleset with a keyed exterior cylinder and interior thumbturn, so it is the active-leaf part; a dummy is what goes on the leaf beside it to match.

The Schlage Residential JI18/19 interconnected passage lock with keyed deadbolt and Torino lever in satin stainless steel is the interconnected peer. It is a JI Series Grade 2 unit for 1-3/8 inch to 1-3/4 inch doors with a passage lever below a keyed deadbolt, tying the two together on one trim. The Baldwin Reserve Elizabeth carries the emergency egress function, an interconnected lock that retracts the deadbolt and door latch simultaneously, and presents it as a handleset with a gripped exterior rather than a lever.

On a 1-3/8 inch door, the Weslock 2810 Hillcrest single cylinder handleset with Hudson knob covers 1-3/8 inch to 2 inch in the Premiere Essentials series, and the Pamex FS7P31 Lexington single cylinder handleset in satin nickel covers 1-3/8 inch to 1-3/4 inch as an entry function. The Baldwin Reserve Elizabeth starts at the standard 1-3/4 inch to 2 inch door and goes up from there with the thick door kit.

The Elizabeth is a residential handleset, tested to exceed ANSI/BHMA Grade 2 security. That is right for a house, a townhome, or a single-family rental front door. For a commercial opening with high traffic and code-driven hardware, this is not the part, and property managers standardizing across a commercial building should be looking at commercial mortise or cylindrical hardware instead.

Interior trim is included. You are buying a complete entrance set: the exterior handleset with the keyed cylinder plus the inside knob or lever, its rose, and the thumbturn. You choose the inside style (Curve, Decorative or Federal lever, or Ellipse, Round or Traditional knob) and the rose shape (Elizabeth, Square Bevel, or Traditional Arched) as part of the order.

Yes, split finish is available. By default the interior comes in the same finish as the exterior, so if you want, say, Satin Black outside to suit the facade and Polished Nickel inside to match the interior hardware, you enter both finishes in the split finish field when ordering. The finish range is Polished Brass PVD, Satin Brass PVD, Polished Nickel PVD, Venetian Bronze, Satin Nickel, Matte Antique Nickel, Satin Black, and Polished Chrome.

No, the Elizabeth is sold as a complete set with both interior and exterior. If you genuinely only need the outside half, the Kwikset 687AMD Amador and 687BW Belleview single cylinder handlesets are supplied exterior only, both Grade 3 for 1-3/4 inch doors, with SmartKey. The Amador is offered on the SC1 keyway as the 687AMD SMC if you need it to match existing Schlage-keyed cylinders.

The Elizabeth is single cylinder: key on the outside, thumbturn on the inside. A double cylinder needs a key on both sides, which is what people reach for when there is glass next to the door that someone could break to reach the thumbturn. The tradeoff is egress, and this set goes the other way on purpose, interconnecting the interior lever with the deadbolt so one pull retracts both and gets people out fast.

Yale Real Living offers the Ridgefield handleset paired with an Assure touchscreen deadbolt in several connectivity builds: the BYRD226CBARX Assure Lock with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth and the BYRD226NRRX standalone, both for 1-3/4 inch to 2-1/4 inch doors, and the BYRD410BLERX Assure Lock 2 key-free touchscreen deadbolt with Wi-Fi and Ridgefield handleset for 1-3/8 inch to 2-1/4 inch. The Kwikset 815SCEHFL San Clemente handleset with Halifax lever interior trim uses a contemporary SmartCode keypad electronic deadbolt with RCAL latch and RCS strike on a 1-3/4 inch door. The Baldwin Reserve Elizabeth is fully mechanical, keyed on a C-keyway with an interior thumbturn, and adds the emergency egress interconnection those keypad units do not carry.

The Kwikset 687AMD Amador single cylinder keyed entry handleset is a lighter-duty option, rated Grade 3 with an entrance function for 1-3/4 inch doors. It comes in two keyway builds: the 687AMD SMT with SmartKey and the 687AMD SMC with the SC1 keyway and SmartKey. Both are exterior only, so an interior knob or lever has to be ordered separately. The Kwikset 815SCEHFL San Clemente handleset pairs Halifax lever interior trim with a contemporary SmartCode keypad electronic deadbolt on a 1-3/4 inch door, for openings where codes replace keys. The Baldwin Reserve Elizabeth is keyed on a Baldwin 5-pin C-keyway and includes the interior trim.

The Schlage Residential JE285 Barcelona style handleset with Seville lever is a non-keyed entry function J Series handleset, Grade 2, for 1-3/8 inch to 1-3/4 inch doors, which suits an unkeyed passage opening that still needs handleset styling. The Yale Real Living BYRD256 CBARX Assure key free touchscreen deadbolt with Ridgefield passage handleset and trim connected by August is a key free Wi-Fi option for 1-3/4 inch to 2-1/4 inch doors. The Baldwin Reserve Elizabeth is a keyed single cylinder entry handleset, so it is the choice only when a key cylinder is wanted on the exterior.

Deltana offers four entry handlesets in solid brass: the 803871B Hanover, the 815871 St. Ann, and the 825871 Kingston are all entry function solid brass handlesets in their own series, and the 810871 Montego handleset covers 1-3/8 inch to 2 inch doors. They are a traditional design in a fixed series style. The Baldwin Reserve Elizabeth is also a traditional design entry handleset and is configured across eight finishes from polished brass PVD to satin black, three rose styles including Elizabeth, Square Bevel, and Traditional Arched, and nine interior knob and lever choices, so the trim can be matched to existing hardware.

The Master Lock HDLBA0615/4D is a Grade 2 single cylinder deadbolt handleset in the HDLB series with an entrance function, so it matches the Baldwin Reserve Elizabeth on the keyed single cylinder deadbolt and on the Grade 2 level the Elizabeth is tested to exceed. The Elizabeth differs in the emergency egress interconnection that retracts the deadbolt and latch together, in the Baldwin 5-pin C-keyway cylinder, and in being orderable keyed alike across a set of doors or keyed different.

The Elizabeth is a traditional design in Baldwin's Reserve Series, and you pick the rose shape to suit the rest of the openings: Elizabeth, Square Bevel, or Traditional Arched. Pair that with the inside knob or lever style and one of eight finishes, so a landlord or homeowner standardizing several doors can hold the same finish and rose across them while varying whether an opening gets a knob or a lever.