diff --git a/docs/guide/pages-routing/loaders.md b/docs/guide/pages-routing/loaders.md
index a3eb14044..05fca4214 100644
--- a/docs/guide/pages-routing/loaders.md
+++ b/docs/guide/pages-routing/loaders.md
@@ -29,6 +29,23 @@ export const loader = defineHandler(async (c) => {
 
 Void preserves `Date`, `Map`, `Set`, `bigint`, `RegExp`, `URL`, `undefined`, and repeated or cyclic references in page props and shared data. These values keep their types during server rendering, hydration, navigation, and deferred loading. Return data directly from your loader; explicitly returning `Response.json()` uses ordinary JSON conversion instead. Functions and custom class instances cannot be sent as page data.
 
+## Response Status
+
+Use `c.status()` to render the current page with an HTTP error status, such as `403` or `503`. Return the page's props as usual:
+
+```ts
+// pages/maintenance.server.ts
+import { defineHandler } from 'void/handler';
+
+export const loader = defineHandler((c) => {
+  c.status(503);
+  c.header('Retry-After', '120');
+  return { message: 'Down for maintenance' };
+});
+```
+
+The status and headers apply to both the HTML document and client-side navigation responses. Client visits still display the page with its props and layouts. Middleware can also set the status before `await next()`. For pages with deferred props, set the status in the loader before streaming starts.
+
 ## Using the Data in Page Components
 
 The page component receives the loader's result as props. Export the inferred type from the server file so the component stays in sync:
diff --git a/packages/void/src/pages/protocol.ts b/packages/void/src/pages/protocol.ts
index 912df0681..aaf153536 100644
--- a/packages/void/src/pages/protocol.ts
+++ b/packages/void/src/pages/protocol.ts
@@ -289,6 +289,11 @@ async function renderPageHtml(
 
 function pageJsonResponse(c: CloudContext, pageObj: PageObject): Response {
   return new Response(serializePageData(pageObj), {
+    // Hono's lazy c.res getter ignores the private status set by c.status().
+    // Use its response factory to read that status without changing our header merging.
+    // https://github.com/honojs/hono/blob/v4.13.17/src/context.ts#L403-L407
+    // https://github.com/honojs/hono/blob/v4.13.17/src/context.ts#L652-L659
+    status: c.newResponse(null).status,
     headers: pageResponseHeaders(c, {
       'X-VoidPages': 'true',
       'X-VoidPages-Version': PAGES_PROTOCOL_VERSION,
@@ -581,6 +586,11 @@ function renderedResponse(
   assetTags?: AssetTags,
 ): Response {
   return new Response(result, {
+    // Hono's lazy c.res getter ignores the private status set by c.status().
+    // Use its response factory to read that status without changing our header merging.
+    // https://github.com/honojs/hono/blob/v4.13.17/src/context.ts#L403-L407
+    // https://github.com/honojs/hono/blob/v4.13.17/src/context.ts#L652-L659
+    status: c.newResponse(null).status,
     headers: adjustDevCssCsp(
       pageResponseHeaders(c, {
         'content-type': contentType,
diff --git a/packages/void/test/integration/page-errors.test.ts b/packages/void/test/integration/page-errors.test.ts
index 5e93e8403..ebb549838 100644
--- a/packages/void/test/integration/page-errors.test.ts
+++ b/packages/void/test/integration/page-errors.test.ts
@@ -82,6 +82,21 @@ describe.each(frameworks)('Pages errors with %s', (framework) => {
       `import { defineMiddleware } from 'void/handler'; export default defineMiddleware(async (c,next)=>{c.set('shared',{viewer:'alice',...(c.req.header('X-Test-No-Root') ? { noRoot: true } : {})}); c.header('X-Security','retained'); const guard=c.req.header('X-Test-Guard'); if(guard==='not-found') return c.notFound(); if(guard==='explicit') return c.text('Hidden by guard',404); await next(); if(guard==='after-not-found') c.res=await c.notFound();});`,
     );
     write('pages/style.css', 'nav { color: rgb(20, 80, 100); }');
+    write(
+      'middleware/status.ts',
+      `import { defineMiddleware } from 'void/handler';
+import { HTTPException } from 'hono/http-exception';
+export default defineMiddleware(async (c, next) => {
+  const status = c.req.header('X-Test-Error-Status');
+  if (status === '403' || status === '503') {
+    c.header('Retry-After', '120');
+    throw new HTTPException(status === '403' ? 403 : 503, {
+      message: status === '403' ? 'Your account is banned' : 'Down for maintenance',
+    });
+  }
+  await next();
+});`,
+    );
     const nav =
       '<nav data-layout="root"><Link href="/">Home</Link><Link href="/items/returned">Returned</Link><Link href="/items/thrown">Thrown</Link><Link href="/items/unexpected">Unexpected</Link><Link href="/crash">Crash</Link><Link href="/nested/crash">Nested</Link><Link href="/nested/deep/crash">Deep</Link><Link href="/nested/layout">Layout</Link><Link href="/client-only">Client only</Link></nav>';
     let rootLayout = component(nav, '', true);
@@ -119,6 +134,16 @@ describe.each(frameworks)('Pages errors with %s', (framework) => {
       write(`pages/_error.${extension}`, component('<h1>Error page</h1><p>{{error.message}}</p>'));
     }
     write(`pages/items/[id].${extension}`, component('<h1>Item</h1>'));
+    write(`pages/status/[code].${extension}`, component('<h1>Status page</h1>'));
+    write(
+      'pages/status/[code].server.ts',
+      `import { defineHandler } from 'void/handler';
+export const loader = defineHandler(c => {
+  c.status(c.req.param('code') === '403' ? 403 : 503);
+  c.header('Retry-After', '120');
+  return {};
+});`,
+    );
     for (const name of ['falsy', 'island-falsy.island']) {
       write(`pages/${name}.${extension}`, component('<h1>Broken view</h1>', 'throw undefined;'));
     }
@@ -295,6 +320,46 @@ describe.each(frameworks)('Pages errors with %s', (framework) => {
     expect(await response.text()).toContain('Missing island page');
   });
 
+  it.each(
+    ([403, 503] as const).flatMap((status) =>
+      (['HTML', 'Pages JSON'] as const).map((format) => ({ status, format })),
+    ),
+  )(
+    'renders middleware errors through the root page boundary with HTTP $status ($format)',
+    async ({ status, format }) => {
+      const message = status === 403 ? 'Your account is banned' : 'Down for maintenance';
+      // This route throws a different error if its loader is reached.
+      const response = await fetch(base + '/items/unexpected', {
+        headers: {
+          'X-Test-Error-Status': String(status),
+          ...(format === 'Pages JSON'
+            ? { 'X-VoidPages': 'true', 'X-VoidPages-Version': PAGES_PROTOCOL_VERSION }
+            : { Accept: 'text/html' }),
+        },
+      });
+      const body = await response.text();
+      expect(response.status).toBe(status);
+      expect(body).not.toContain('SECRET_');
+      if (format === 'Pages JSON') {
+        expect(response.headers.get('X-VoidPages')).toBe('true');
+        expect(deserializePageData(body)).toMatchObject({
+          props: { error: { status, message } },
+          shared: { viewer: 'alice' },
+          url: '/items/unexpected',
+        });
+      } else {
+        expect(response.headers.get('Content-Type')).toContain('text/html');
+        expect(body).toContain('Error page');
+        expect(body).toContain(message);
+        expect(body).toContain('data-layout="root"');
+        expect(body).toContain('stylesheet');
+      }
+      expect(response.headers.get('Retry-After')).toBe('120');
+      expect(response.headers.get('X-Security')).toBe('retained');
+      expect(response.headers.get('Cache-Control')).toBe('no-store');
+    },
+  );
+
   it('returns status-correct documents and marked error payloads without exposing secrets', async () => {
     for (const [path, status] of [
       ['/unknown', 404],
@@ -344,6 +409,39 @@ describe.each(frameworks)('Pages errors with %s', (framework) => {
     expect(response.status).toBe(404);
     expect(await response.text()).toBe('API missing');
   });
+  it('renders application-defined error statuses on document loads and client visits', async () => {
+    const page = await browser.newPage();
+    page.setDefaultTimeout(8_000);
+    try {
+      for (const status of [403, 503]) {
+        const path = `/status/${status}`;
+        const documentResponse = await fetch(base + path);
+        expect(documentResponse.status).toBe(status);
+        expect(documentResponse.headers.get('Retry-After')).toBe('120');
+        expect(await documentResponse.text()).toContain('Status page');
+
+        await page.goto(base);
+        await page.waitForSelector('#app[data-hydrated="true"]');
+        await page.evaluate(() =>
+          document.querySelector('nav')!.setAttribute('data-retained', 'yes'),
+        );
+        const navigation = page.waitForResponse(
+          (response) =>
+            response.url() === base + path &&
+            response.request().headers()['x-voidpages'] === 'true',
+        );
+        await page.evaluate(`window.testRouter.visit(${JSON.stringify(path)})`);
+        const response = await navigation;
+        expect(response.status()).toBe(status);
+        expect(response.headers()['x-voidpages']).toBe('true');
+        await expect.poll(() => page.locator('h1').textContent()).toBe('Status page');
+        expect(await page.locator('nav').getAttribute('data-retained')).toBe('yes');
+      }
+    } finally {
+      await page.close();
+    }
+  });
+
   it('keeps the app and outer layout mounted across 404s and client errors', async () => {
     const page = await browser.newPage();
     const errors: Array<string> = [];
diff --git a/packages/void/test/unit/page-boundaries.test.ts b/packages/void/test/unit/page-boundaries.test.ts
index 3609bad53..28b549767 100644
--- a/packages/void/test/unit/page-boundaries.test.ts
+++ b/packages/void/test/unit/page-boundaries.test.ts
@@ -167,6 +167,106 @@ describe('boundary render plans', () => {
 });
 
 describe('Pages loader boundary protocol', () => {
+  describe.each(['HTML', 'Pages JSON'] as const)(
+    'HTTP exception recovery through page boundaries (%s)',
+    (format) => {
+      it.each([
+        [401, 'Please sign in'],
+        [403, 'Your account is banned'],
+        [410, 'This item was deleted'],
+        [429, 'Too many requests'],
+        [503, 'Down for maintenance'],
+      ] as const)('renders HTTP %s through the nearest error boundary', async (status, message) => {
+        const app = new Hono();
+        app.onError(createErrorRenderer({ projectRoot: '/project', homeDir: '/home' }).onError);
+        let loaderCalls = 0;
+        app.get(
+          '/items/1',
+          createPageGetHandler({
+            componentId: 'items/item',
+            load: async () => ({
+              loader: defineHandler((c) => {
+                loaderCalls++;
+                c.header('Retry-After', '120');
+                throw new HTTPException(status, { message });
+              }),
+            }),
+            render: async (page) =>
+              `<main data-component="${page.component}">${JSON.stringify(page.props)}</main>`,
+            assets: async () => ({ css: '', body: '', preloads: '' }),
+            headConfig: null,
+            renderOptions: {
+              boundaries: { notFound: 'not-found-plan', errors: ['items-error', 'root-error'] },
+            },
+          }),
+        );
+        const response = await app.request('https://app.test/items/1', {
+          headers:
+            format === 'Pages JSON'
+              ? { 'X-VoidPages': 'true', 'X-VoidPages-Version': PAGES_PROTOCOL_VERSION }
+              : { Accept: 'text/html' },
+        });
+        const body = await response.text();
+        expect(loaderCalls).toBe(1);
+        expect(response.status).toBe(status);
+        if (format === 'Pages JSON') {
+          expect(response.headers.get('X-VoidPages')).toBe('true');
+          expect(deserializePageData(body)).toMatchObject({
+            component: 'items-error',
+            props: { error: { status, message } },
+            url: '/items/1',
+          });
+        } else {
+          expect(response.headers.get('Content-Type')).toContain('text/html');
+          expect(body).toContain('data-component="items-error"');
+          expect(body).toContain(JSON.stringify({ error: { status, message } }));
+        }
+        expect(response.headers.get('Retry-After')).toBe('120');
+        expect(response.headers.get('Cache-Control')).toBe('no-store');
+      });
+
+      it.each([302, 503] as const)(
+        'passes through HTTP %s with an explicit response',
+        async (status) => {
+          const app = new Hono();
+          app.onError(createErrorRenderer({ projectRoot: '/project', homeDir: '/home' }).onError);
+          app.get(
+            '/',
+            createPageGetHandler({
+              componentId: 'index',
+              load: async () => ({
+                loader: () => {
+                  throw new HTTPException(status, {
+                    res: new Response('Explicit response', {
+                      status,
+                      headers: status === 302 ? { Location: '/login' } : { 'Retry-After': '120' },
+                    }),
+                  });
+                },
+              }),
+              render: async () => '<main>Error boundary</main>',
+              assets: async () => ({ css: '', body: '', preloads: '' }),
+              headConfig: null,
+              renderOptions: { boundaries: { errors: ['root-error'] } },
+            }),
+          );
+          const response = await app.request('https://app.test/', {
+            headers:
+              format === 'Pages JSON'
+                ? { 'X-VoidPages': 'true', 'X-VoidPages-Version': PAGES_PROTOCOL_VERSION }
+                : { Accept: 'text/html' },
+          });
+          expect(response.status).toBe(status);
+          expect(response.headers.has('X-VoidPages')).toBe(false);
+          expect(response.headers.get(status === 302 ? 'Location' : 'Retry-After')).toBe(
+            status === 302 ? '/login' : '120',
+          );
+          expect(await response.text()).toBe('Explicit response');
+        },
+      );
+    },
+  );
+
   it.each(['returned', 'thrown', 'empty-message', 'unexpected'])(
     'renders %s failures as marked, uncached Pages data',
     async (kind) => {
diff --git a/packages/void/test/unit/routing-runtime.test.ts b/packages/void/test/unit/routing-runtime.test.ts
index 9c3c2c169..457b1042f 100644
--- a/packages/void/test/unit/routing-runtime.test.ts
+++ b/packages/void/test/unit/routing-runtime.test.ts
@@ -1702,6 +1702,112 @@ describe('page loaders and actions composed with defineHandler middleware', () =
     expect(await html.text()).toContain('{"notes":["a"]}');
   });
 
+  describe.each(['HTML', 'Pages JSON'] as const)(
+    'Application-defined page status codes (%s)',
+    (format) => {
+      it.each(
+        ([403, 503] as const).flatMap((status) =>
+          (['loader', 'validated loader', 'app middleware', 'handler middleware'] as const).map(
+            (source) => ({
+              status,
+              source,
+            }),
+          ),
+        ),
+      )('renders the page with HTTP $status set by $source', async ({ status, source }) => {
+        const message = status === 403 ? 'Your account is banned' : 'Down for maintenance';
+        const setStatus = defineMiddleware(async (c, next) => {
+          c.status(status);
+          c.header('Retry-After', '120');
+          await next();
+        });
+        const loader = vi.fn((c: CloudContext) => {
+          if (source === 'loader' || source === 'validated loader') {
+            c.status(status);
+            c.header('Retry-After', '120');
+          }
+          return { message };
+        });
+        const app = createPageApp(
+          {
+            loader:
+              source === 'handler middleware'
+                ? defineHandler(setStatus, loader)
+                : source === 'validated loader'
+                  ? defineHandler.withValidator({})(loader)
+                  : defineHandler(loader),
+          },
+          async (c, next) => {
+            c.header('Set-Cookie', 'session=renewed; HttpOnly', { append: true });
+            c.header('Set-Cookie', 'locale=en', { append: true });
+            if (source === 'app middleware') {
+              return setStatus(c, next);
+            }
+            await next();
+          },
+        );
+        const response = await get(app, format === 'HTML' ? {} : undefined);
+        const body = await response.text();
+
+        expect(loader).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+        expect(response.headers.get('Retry-After')).toBe('120');
+        expect(response.headers.getSetCookie()).toEqual(['session=renewed; HttpOnly', 'locale=en']);
+        if (format === 'Pages JSON') {
+          expect(response.headers.get('X-VoidPages')).toBe('true');
+          expect(decodePageData(JSON.parse(body))).toMatchObject({
+            component: 'page',
+            props: { message },
+          });
+        } else {
+          expect(response.headers.get('Content-Type')).toContain('text/html');
+          expect(body).toContain(message);
+        }
+        expect(response.status).toBe(status);
+      });
+
+      it('preserves the loader status while streaming deferred props', async () => {
+        const app = createPageApp({
+          loader: defineHandler((c) => {
+            c.status(429);
+            return { slow: defer(async () => 'Try again later') };
+          }),
+        });
+        const response = await get(app, format === 'HTML' ? {} : undefined);
+        const body = await response.text();
+        expect(response.status).toBe(429);
+        if (format === 'Pages JSON') {
+          expect(response.headers.get('Content-Type')).toBe('application/x-ndjson');
+          expect(response.headers.get('X-VoidPages')).toBe('true');
+          expect(body).toContain(
+            serializePageData({ __deferred: 'slow', data: 'Try again later' }),
+          );
+        } else {
+          expect(body).toContain('__resolveDeferred');
+          expect(body).toContain('Try again later');
+        }
+      });
+    },
+  );
+
+  it('preserves the loader status when prefetching deferred page data', async () => {
+    const app = createPageApp({
+      loader: defineHandler((c) => {
+        c.status(503);
+        return { slow: defer(async () => 'Try again later') };
+      }),
+    });
+    const response = await get(app, {
+      'X-VoidPages': 'true',
+      'X-VoidPages-Version': PAGES_PROTOCOL_VERSION,
+      Purpose: 'prefetch',
+    });
+    expect(response.status).toBe(503);
+    expect(response.headers.get('Content-Type')).toBe('application/json');
+    expect(decodePageData(await response.json())).toMatchObject({
+      props: { slow: 'Try again later' },
+    });
+  });
+
   it('re-renders the page after an action with middleware, or shows its field errors', async () => {
     const action = (message?: string) =>
       defineHandler(