Replacement windows
Sliding sashes and timber for the period streets, flush casements for cottages, and uPVC or aluminium for the post-war houses of Woodhatch and South Park.
Double glazing, sash and timber windows in Reigate
Windows and doors for Reigate’s period houses and its modern ones, with straight advice on what the conservation areas will allow.
- Sash, timber and flush casement windows
- Advice on conservation areas before you order
- Our own fitters and a 10 year guarantee
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Holtye Windows in Reigate
A town that minds what its windows look like
Reigate was laid out as a planned town before 1170, and it has kept its shape: a castle mound, a High Street below it and, since the station opened in 1849, hillsides of houses built for people who worked in London. Large parts of it are conservation areas.
That is why sash and timber windows matter more here than in most towns, and why it pays to take advice before ordering. We are eleven miles away in East Grinstead and glad to give it.
What we fit
Windows, doors and conservatories for Reigate homes
Supplied, fitted and guaranteed for 10 years by our own team. Nothing is subcontracted.
New doors
Timber or composite front doors in proportions that suit a Victorian or Edwardian front, and slim aluminium bifolds where a house has been extended at the back.
Conservatories and extensions
An orangery, with its solid corners and lantern roof, sits more comfortably against a period house than a fully glazed conservatory, and is often easier to get past the planners.
Home improvements
Porches, roofline and full refurbishment are available from the same group, built to match what is already there.
Homes in Reigate
Reigate stone, red brick and Victorian mansions
The geology changes every mile here, and the buildings change with it.
Reigate stone, quarried from a narrow band below the chalk, is the best known building stone in Surrey, and it turns up in the town’s oldest walls. The everyday materials are red brick, red clay tiles and tile-hung upper storeys, with yellow brick from the gault clay.
The grand houses are Victorian: mansions on Reigate Hill and round Wray Common, and villas along the roads laid out after the railway came. They were built with timber sliding sashes, and most now stand in conservation areas.
South of the centre, Woodhatch, South Park and Meadvale are later and plainer, with far fewer restrictions. There uPVC and aluminium are normal choices.
Our work
The kind of work Reigate 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
Conservation areas and planning permission in Reigate
Reigate & Banstead Borough Council, whose Town Hall is in Castlefield Road, is the planning authority until 31 March 2027. East Surrey Council takes over the following day.
The conservation areas in the town are Reigate Town Centre, Reigate Hill, Wray Common, Chart Lane, Somers Road, and Flanchford Road with Colley Lane. The borough has been reviewing its boundaries, so use the council’s map to check a particular address.
The council states that planning permission is generally required for replacement windows in its conservation areas. Article 4 directions have been served on most of them, and flats and commercial buildings have no permitted development rights at all. It asks for original windows and doors to be repaired where possible, or replaced to match the originals in material and design. In Reigate that points to timber.
Reigate Hill and Colley Hill are in the Surrey Hills National Landscape. The council notes that some work which needs no application elsewhere does need one 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.
Projects
Recent projects near Reigate
The nearest jobs we have written up in full, with photos and the detail of what was done.
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 Reigate
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 project12 miles from Reigate
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 project12 miles from Reigate
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
Reigate and the places around it
We cover the whole of Reigate, and we don’t stop at the edge of town.
- Reigate Hill
- Reigate Heath
- Wray Common
- South Park
- Woodhatch
- Meadvale
- Betchworth
- Buckland
- Leigh
- Sidlow
- Lower Kingswood
- Kingswood
- Walton on the Hill
- Tadworth
Nearby areas: Redhill, Dorking, Horley, Leatherhead, Epsom. See everywhere we cover.
Questions
Reigate: your questions
Can’t see what you need? Call 01342 410079 and we’ll answer it properly.
Can I replace timber sash windows with uPVC in Reigate?
In a conservation area, probably not on the front. The borough says permission is generally needed to replace windows in its conservation areas, and asks for replacements to match the originals in material as well as design. Outside them, on a house, a uPVC sliding sash is normally permitted development, and a far better match than a casement.
Do you make timber windows to match existing ones?
Yes. Timber windows are always made to measure, so the glazing bars, mouldings and proportions can follow what is there now. Engineered timber, factory-finished on every face, resists the warping that gave older frames a bad name.
Are slim double glazed units an option for a period house?
Often. Where the look of the original glazing matters, a slim sealed unit in a timber sash keeps the glazing bars fine while still improving on single glazing. Where the original windows must stay, secondary glazing behind them is the alternative.
Which areas around Reigate do you cover?
Reigate Hill, Reigate Heath, South Park, Woodhatch and Meadvale, and the villages of Betchworth, Buckland, Leigh, Sidlow, Kingswood and Walton on the Hill.
Free quotations
Ready for a quote in Reigate?
Book a free, no-obligation survey at your home in Reigate, or come and see us at the East Grinstead showroom.