Replacement windows
On the High Street and in the villages, white-painted timber sashes and simple casements are the norm, and flush casements or timber are the right replacement. On the estates, A-rated uPVC casements do the job without fuss.
Double glazing, windows and doors in Edenbridge
Edenbridge is six miles from our showroom, the first town across the Kent border, and we cover it and the villages of the Eden valley.
- Six miles from the East Grinstead showroom
- Edenbridge, Hever, Chiddingstone and Marsh Green
- Free survey and a written, itemised quote
East Grinstead showroom · covering Sussex, Surrey and Kent
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Holtye Windows in Edenbridge
Just over the county line
Edenbridge is the first town into Kent from East Grinstead, six miles to the north-east. Its High Street runs dead straight, because it follows the Roman road from London to Lewes across the River Eden, and it is still lined with timber-framed buildings from the town’s Tudor heyday.
Either side of that street the housing runs from Victorian railway terraces to the large estates built for Londoners after the war. We work in all of it, and in the villages round about.
What we fit
Windows, doors and conservatories for Edenbridge homes
Supplied, fitted and guaranteed for 10 years by our own team. Nothing is subcontracted.
New doors
Stable doors and cottage-pattern composite doors suit the tile-hung and weatherboarded houses of the valley. On the estates a plainer design, with multi-point locking, is the usual upgrade.
Conservatories and extensions
Most of the land round the town is Green Belt, and parts of the valley flood. Both affect where and how far a house can be extended, so we look at the site before drawing anything.
Home improvements
White weatherboarding and clay tile-hanging are the local finishes. Cladding and roofline can be renewed to match, with far less upkeep.
Homes in Edenbridge
Tudor frames, railway terraces and London’s estates
Edenbridge has been built three times over: by the Tudors, by the railways and by London.
The conservation area covers the High Street and more than 50 listed buildings. Many are timber frames given a new face later, with tile-hanging to the upper floor and white-painted weatherboarding. The church and the old school are sandstone.
Two railways arrived, in 1842 and 1888, and brought brick and tile-hung terraces and villas at Stangrove, Mill Hill and round both stations. Inter-war semis followed in Westways, Skeynes Road and Church Street.
In 1955 the London County Council was given permission for more than 800 houses here, and the Spitals Cross and Stangrove estates are the result. Later estates have filled in round them, and at Marlpit Hill to the north. These are casement houses, and many are due their second set of windows.
Our work
The kind of work Edenbridge asks us for
All our own installations, photographed on site across Sussex, Surrey and Kent. Select a photo to see it full size.
Local planning
Planning permission in Edenbridge
Edenbridge is in the south-west corner of Sevenoaks District, and Sevenoaks District Council decides planning applications. The Edenbridge conservation area, designated in 2001, covers 19 hectares along the High Street, with parts of Lingfield Road, Hever Road and the river frontage.
The council’s appraisal raised an Article 4 direction for it as a possibility, and its pages do not show that one was made. A house in the conservation area can therefore normally still replace its windows with ones of similar appearance, although the council asks to be contacted before doors and windows are altered there. Its guidance is simple: if a window has to be replaced, match the original in style, opening pattern and detailing. Many High Street buildings are listed, and for those listed building consent is always required.
The town sits in the valley between two protected landscapes: the Kent Downs on the greensand ridge to the north and the wooded slopes of the High Weald to the south. If you live in one of the villages on those slopes, check whether you are inside the designation, because extensions and conservatories have tighter limits there.
The national rules, briefly
- Replacing the windows and doors of a house does not normally need planning permission, as long as the new ones look similar to the old.
- Flats and maisonettes do not have that right, and a listed building needs listed building consent. Check with the council before changing either.
- Every replacement window and external door has to meet Building Regulations. We’re Certass registered, so we certify the work ourselves and you receive the certificate within eight weeks.
- A conservatory or single-storey rear extension is often permitted development too, within size limits that tighten in conservation areas and protected landscapes.
Worth knowing locally
The river, and the aircraft
The River Eden floods. The council’s own assessment records regular flooding through the town, where the channel, bridges and culverts cannot carry the flow, and surface water in the High Street, Lingfield Road and Marsh Green Road. Houses on Hever Road stand behind a flood bank. If you are planning doors at ground level, or an extension, in an affected street, say so at survey: thresholds and floor levels need settling first.
Aircraft are the other local fact. Sevenoaks District Council has said that residents from Leigh and Chiddingstone through to Hever and Edenbridge could be affected by more aircraft noise if Gatwick expands. Acoustic laminated glass, triple glazing and secondary glazing all cut noise more than standard double glazing does.
Projects
Recent projects near Edenbridge
The nearest jobs we have written up in full, with photos and the detail of what was done.
Summer house windows and doors
Tired timber windows and double doors on a garden summer house, replaced with white PVCu frames and Georgian bars.
View project6 miles from Edenbridge
Whole-house renovation
Windows, doors, a Supalite warm roof extension, kitchen, cloakroom, flooring and decorating — all handled by one team from start to finish.
View project6 miles from Edenbridge
White aluminium bifold doors
A five-pane white aluminium bifold across the full width of a garden-facing room, with blinds sealed inside the glass.
View project8 miles from Edenbridge
Customer reviews
What our customers say
Rated 10/10 from 149 reviews on Checkatrade, where we’ve been a vetted member since 2014.
Where we work
Edenbridge and the places around it
We cover the whole of Edenbridge, and we don’t stop at the edge of town.
- Marlpit Hill
- Marsh Green
- Haxted
- Hever
- Four Elms
- Bough Beech
- Crockham Hill
- Markbeech
- Chiddingstone
- Chiddingstone Hoath
- Cowden
- Dormansland
- Lingfield
- Toys Hill
Nearby areas: East Grinstead, Oxted, Sevenoaks, Tonbridge, Tunbridge Wells. See everywhere we cover.
Questions
Edenbridge: your questions
Can’t see what you need? Call 01342 410079 and we’ll answer it properly.
Do I need planning permission for new windows in Edenbridge?
Not normally for a house, provided the new windows look similar to the old. In the High Street conservation area the council asks you to contact its planning team before altering doors and windows, and the many listed buildings there always need listed building consent. Sevenoaks District Council is the authority.
Can you fit windows that suit a timber-framed or weatherboarded house?
Yes. Flush casements, where the sash sits level with the frame as old joinery did, are made for exactly this, in timber or in uPVC with a woodgrain finish. For a listed building it will need to be timber, made to measure, with consent in place first.
My home is near the river. Does that change anything?
It can. If an extension or conservatory needs a planning application and the site is in a flood zone, the council will want flood risk dealt with. For doors and windows the practical points are the height of the threshold and the floor level behind it, which we look at during the survey.
Do you cover Hever, Chiddingstone and the villages?
Yes: Marlpit Hill, Marsh Green, Hever, Four Elms, Bough Beech, Crockham Hill, Markbeech, Chiddingstone and Cowden, and over the Surrey border to Lingfield and Dormansland.
Free quotations
Ready for a quote in Edenbridge?
Book a free, no-obligation survey at your home in Edenbridge, or come and see us at the East Grinstead showroom.