Replacement windows
Leaded lights, black-and-white elevations and tile-hanging are everywhere here, so plain white picture windows rarely look right. Flush casements, with leading or astragal bars where the house had them, usually do.
Double glazing, windows and doors in Oxted
Windows and doors that suit Oxted’s half-timbered streets, from a family firm nine miles to the south.
- Oxted, Old Oxted, Limpsfield and Hurst Green
- Leaded and Georgian-bar glazing made to match
- Free survey and a written, itemised quote
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Holtye Windows in Oxted
Two Oxteds, old and new
Oxted has two centres. Old Oxted, on the A25, is a steep, narrow street of timber-framed houses, many of them refronted in brick. The newer town grew up half a mile away after the railway from Croydon to East Grinstead opened in 1884, and Station Road West is lined almost entirely with early twentieth-century mock-Tudor buildings, some elaborately carved.
That black-and-white look set the style for much of the housing that followed. We are nine miles south in East Grinstead, at the other end of the same railway line.
What we fit
Windows, doors and conservatories for Oxted homes
Supplied, fitted and guaranteed for 10 years by our own team. Nothing is subcontracted.
New doors
A cottage-style or oak-effect composite door suits the Arts and Crafts houses. Real timber is there for the ones where nothing else will do.
Conservatories and extensions
Outside the built-up area almost everything is Green Belt, where an extension is judged on how much it adds to the original house. A conservatory or orangery inside the permitted development limits avoids that argument.
Home improvements
Oak-effect fascias and bargeboards keep the black-and-white look without the yearly repainting.
Homes in Oxted
Timber frames, mock Tudor and tile-hanging
Few places take the half-timbered look as seriously as Oxted.
Old Oxted’s houses are brick or half-timber, and many of the timber frames hide behind fronts renewed in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The village is a conservation area, as are Broadham Green and Spring Lane to the south, and Limpsfield next door.
Once the railway opened, villas and smaller houses spread quickly round the station, and the Arts and Crafts taste of the time gave them leaded lights, tile-hung gables and timber detailing. Hurst Green, to the south, is later.
The ground changes from chalk in the north, across the greensand, to Wealden clay in the south, and the materials change with it. What stays constant is that windows here are small-paned and sit flush in their frames, and a replacement needs to do the same.
Our work
The kind of work Oxted 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, conservation areas and the Green Belt in Oxted
Tandridge District Council, which is based in Oxted, is the planning authority until 31 March 2027. East Surrey Council replaces it on 1 April 2027.
Oxted has three conservation areas: Old Oxted, designated in 1972; Station Road West, the mock-Tudor shopping street; and Broadham Green and Spring Lane. Limpsfield Village adjoins the town and has its own. The council’s pages do not describe an Article 4 direction on windows or doors in any of them, but its register of directions is published without detail, so confirm the position for your address before relying on that.
Ninety-four per cent of Tandridge is Green Belt, the highest share of any council area in the country. That has no bearing on replacing windows. It matters a great deal for extensions, which outside the built-up area are judged on how much they add to the original house.
The Surrey Hills National Landscape covers the Downs north of the town, and Natural England has proposed extending it round Limpsfield. Inside it, conservatories and extensions have the tighter permitted development limits and cladding needs permission.
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 near Oxted
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 project9 miles from Oxted
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 project9 miles from Oxted
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 project10 miles from Oxted
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
Oxted and the places around it
We cover the whole of Oxted, and we don’t stop at the edge of town.
- Old Oxted
- Limpsfield
- Limpsfield Chart
- Hurst Green
- Tandridge
- Godstone
- South Godstone
- Crowhurst
- Titsey
- Woldingham
- Westerham
- Crockham Hill
Nearby areas: Caterham, Edenbridge, Redhill, Sevenoaks, East Grinstead. See everywhere we cover.
Questions
Oxted: 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 Oxted?
Not normally for a house, provided the new windows look similar to the old. In the conservation areas at Old Oxted, Station Road West, Broadham Green and Limpsfield, check with Tandridge District Council first, because its Article 4 directions are not described online. Listed buildings and flats need consent in any case.
Can you match leaded lights in double glazing?
Yes. Lead can be applied to both faces of a sealed unit in square or diamond patterns, to match what the house has now. On a listed building, or where the originals are worth keeping, secondary glazing behind them is the other route.
Does the Green Belt stop me building a conservatory?
Not by itself. Permitted development rights still apply to houses in the Green Belt, so a conservatory within the size limits needs no application. Larger extensions that do need permission are judged on how much they add to the original house, and that is where Green Belt policy bites.
Do you cover Limpsfield, Hurst Green and the villages?
Yes: Old Oxted, Limpsfield, Limpsfield Chart, Hurst Green, Tandridge, Godstone, Crowhurst and Woldingham, and across the Kent border to Westerham and Crockham Hill.
Free quotations
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