Replacement windows
Most of Hailsham’s houses have casements, and A-rated uPVC casements are the usual replacement. The terraces near the centre were built with sliding sashes, and look far better with them than without.
Double glazing, windows and doors in Hailsham
Replacement windows, doors and conservatories for Hailsham’s terraces, bungalows and newer estates, from a family firm with its own fitters.
- Hailsham, Hellingly, Polegate and Herstmonceux
- Conservatories and warm roof conversions
- Free survey and a written, itemised quote
East Grinstead showroom · covering Sussex, Surrey and Kent
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10 year guarantee
On every product we supply and install
Family run since 2007
Our own fitters — never subcontracted out
Holtye Windows in Hailsham
An old market town that has kept on growing
Hailsham has held a market since 1251, and the streets round the church and Market Square are still recognisably a small Sussex town. Around them is a great deal of newer housing: Victorian terraces from the rope-making years, Edwardian semis, inter-war houses along the main roads, and estates in every direction since 1945.
It is twenty-two miles from our showroom, one of the furthest towns we cover. The survey, the fitters and the guarantee are the same here as they are next door to it.
What we fit
Windows, doors and conservatories for Hailsham homes
Supplied, fitted and guaranteed for 10 years by our own team. Nothing is subcontracted.
New doors
A new front door is the quickest way to smarten a house that is otherwise sound. Composite for the look and feel of timber without the painting; uPVC where budget matters most.
Conservatories and extensions
Bungalows and semis with level gardens take a conservatory or garden room easily. Where there is one already and it is too hot or too cold to sit in, a warm roof puts that right.
Home improvements
New fascias, soffits and guttering finish the job off, and stop the damp that rotten roofline lets into the wall below.
Homes in Hailsham
Rope-makers’ terraces, Edwardian semis and modern estates
Hailsham’s streets can be dated quite precisely, and so can their windows.
The oldest houses are round the church, the High Street and Market Square: brick, much of it stuccoed, under clay tile roofs, with vertical sliding sashes.
The railway arrived in 1849 and rope-making brought workers’ terraces to Station Road, Garfield Road and Bell Banks Road, with larger villas along Western Road and North Street. Edwardian terraces and semis followed in Sackville Road, Windsor Road, Ersham Road and Summerheath Road. All of these were sash-window houses.
Since 1945 the town has spread in every direction, even over its own station: the Lindfield Drive estate was built on the site in 1980, and the old line is now the Cuckoo Trail. These later houses have casements, in openings that are simple to measure and quick to replace.
Our work
The kind of work Hailsham 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 Hailsham
Wealden District Council, whose own offices are in Vicarage Lane, decides planning applications in Hailsham. The town has one conservation area, designated in 1970 and enlarged in 2017, which takes in the church, the High Street, Market Square and Market Street.
No Article 4 direction applies, so a house in the conservation area can still replace its windows without permission if the new ones are similar in appearance. The council’s draft appraisal is frank that uPVC has begun to displace timber sashes in the High Street and Market Square and that it regards this as a loss, so on a prominent front it is worth choosing a sash that does the building justice.
Hailsham is not in the South Downs National Park or the High Weald, and nor are Hellingly, Polegate, Arlington or Herstmonceux. Extensions and conservatories therefore have the standard permitted development limits.
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 Hailsham itself yet. These show the standard of work, with photos and the detail of what was done.
Georgian sash windows, doors and rooftrim
Twenty-five white woodgrain sash windows with Georgian bars, three doors, an aluminium bifold and new rooftrim on a detached home.
View project
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 project
New windows, driveway and patio
New windows and doors, a gravel driveway, and a garden rebuilt around a sandstone patio and a slate-roofed timber pergola.
View project
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
Hailsham and the places around it
We cover the whole of Hailsham, and we don’t stop at the edge of town.
- Hellingly
- Horsebridge
- Magham Down
- Upper Dicker
- Lower Dicker
- Arlington
- Polegate
- Herstmonceux
- Hankham
- Stone Cross
- Chiddingly
- Horam
Nearby areas: Eastbourne, Uckfield, Lewes. See everywhere we cover.
Questions
Hailsham: 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 Hailsham?
Not normally for a house, if the new windows look similar to the old ones. That is true inside the conservation area as well, because Hailsham has no Article 4 direction. Flats and listed buildings need consent from Wealden District Council.
Can you fit a conservatory to a bungalow?
Yes. The difficulty is the low eaves: the conservatory roof has to meet the bungalow below the gutter line. That usually means a lean-to with a shallow pitch, or a box gutter along the fascia, and we design it round the roofline you have.
Hailsham is a long way from East Grinstead. Do you really cover it?
Yes. It is about twenty-two miles, and we cover Eastbourne beyond it. The survey and written quote are free, and the job is fitted by our own team and guaranteed for 10 years, the same as anywhere else.
Which villages around Hailsham do you cover?
Hellingly, Horsebridge, Magham Down, the Dickers, Arlington, Polegate, Herstmonceux, Hankham, Stone Cross and Horam.
Free quotations
Ready for a quote in Hailsham?
Book a free, no-obligation survey at your home in Hailsham, or come and see us at the East Grinstead showroom.