East Grinstead showroom · covering Sussex, Surrey and Kent
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Holtye Windows in Epsom
The north-west corner of our area
Epsom was a fashionable spa in the seventeenth century, a village again by the early nineteenth, and a commuter town from the day the railway arrived in 1847. Its population doubled between 1851 and 1891, and the suburbs have been spreading ever since.
It is the north-western corner of the area we cover, eighteen miles from the showroom, where Surrey starts to become London. The housing is the kind we know well: Victorian and Edwardian roads near the centre, and inter-war semis towards Ewell and Stoneleigh.
Georgian and Victorian houses near the centre need sliding sashes, in timber where a conservation area asks for it. The inter-war semis of Ewell and Stoneleigh were built with casements in curved and square bays, and the bay is what a replacement has to get right.
The 1930s semi was built with a recessed porch and a part-glazed timber door. A composite door in a period pattern keeps that character, and bifold or patio doors replace the narrow French windows at the back.
A single-storey rear extension, orangery or conservatory is the usual way to gain a room on an inter-war plot. Epsom is not in the Surrey Hills, though the Downs, the Common and Horton Country Park are Green Belt.
Epsom has 21 conservation areas, which the council says reflects how varied its architecture is.
Church Street still has houses from the town’s years as a spa. The Victorian expansion took place mostly east of the centre, in Italianate villas and brick terraces.
Around 1900 a Surrey vernacular style took hold, inspired by Lutyens and the Arts and Crafts movement. It can be seen in Burgh Heath Road, Chalk Lane, College Road and the Ewell Downs. Older buildings across the borough are timber-framed, red brick, London stock brick or feather-edged weatherboard.
Stoneleigh is the 1930s in one piece. The former hospitals to the north-west, at Horton, Long Grove, The Manor, St Ebba’s and West Park, have become a modern suburb that keeps some of the original buildings, and are conservation areas in their own right.
Our work
The kind of work Epsom 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 and conservation areas in Epsom and Ewell
Epsom & Ewell Borough Council is the planning authority until 31 March 2027. From 1 April 2027 its work passes to the new East Surrey Council.
The borough has 21 conservation areas, and eleven of them have Article 4 directions. These remove permitted development rights for changes such as new porches, replacement windows and doors, new roof coverings and painting the outside, mostly on the parts of a building that face a street, a public footpath or an open space.
The areas with directions are Burgh Heath Road, Church Street, College Road, the Downs Road Estate, Ewell Village, Higher Green and Longdown Lane, Lintons Lane, Pikes Hill, Stamford Green, The Green and Ewell Downs Road, and Worple Road. In those, a house needs planning permission to replace windows or doors on the public side.
Adelphi Road, Chalk Lane, Epsom Town Centre, Providence Place, Woodcote and the Hospital Cluster are conservation areas without such a direction. The normal rule for houses applies there: no permission is needed if the new windows look similar to the old.
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.
Projects
Recent projects
We haven’t written up a job in Epsom itself yet. These show the standard of work, with photos and the detail of what was done.
Do I need planning permission for new windows in Epsom?
Outside the conservation areas, not normally, for a house. Inside one it depends which: eleven of the borough’s 21 have Article 4 directions, including Church Street, College Road, Stamford Green, Worple Road and Ewell Village, and there the windows and doors on the public side of a house need permission. Flats and listed buildings always need to ask.
Why does a bay window need special care when it is replaced?
On many inter-war houses the bay carries weight: the roof or the upper bay sits on the frame below. The old frame has to come out without that load dropping, so we fit structural bay poles and support the bay while the work is done. A window firm that treats a bay like a flat window is storing up cracks.
Do you cover Ewell and Stoneleigh?
Yes. We cover the whole borough, Ewell, West Ewell, Stoneleigh, Langley Vale and Horton included, and Ashtead, Banstead and Tadworth next door.
Epsom is a long way from East Grinstead. Is that a problem?
No. It is about eighteen miles, and the survey, the quote, the fitters and the 10 year guarantee are exactly the same as they are for a job next to the showroom.
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