Windows and doors for Sevenoaks’ villas, Arts and Crafts houses and post-war estates, from a family firm with its own fitters.
East Grinstead showroom · covering Sussex, Surrey and Kent
10/10 on Checkatrade
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On every product we supply and install
Family run since 2007
Our own fitters — never subcontracted out
Holtye Windows in Sevenoaks
Sevenoaks was once ringed by country estates: Knole, Kippington, Bradbourne, Montreal, Wildernesse and others. As each was sold it became a neighbourhood, and the town that resulted is a patchwork of well-built houses on generous plots, with Knole’s parkland still along its eastern edge.
Rapid growth stopped in 1960, when the Green Belt was drawn round it, so Sevenoaks has few of the big modern estates found on the edge of other Kent towns. What it has instead is quality, and eight conservation areas to protect it. We are thirteen miles to the south-west in East Grinstead.
What we fit
Supplied, fitted and guaranteed for 10 years by our own team. Nothing is subcontracted.
Victorian villas round The Vine and Granville Road need sliding sashes. The Arts and Crafts houses of Wildernesse and Kippington need timber or carefully detailed flush casements, often leaded. The post-war houses of Montreal Park and Bradbourne take uPVC or aluminium.
A front door here is usually part of a composed front, with a porch, side lights or a fanlight. We replace the whole in timber or composite, to the same proportions.
Almost everything outside the built-up area is Green Belt, and the Kent Downs run along the greensand ridge, so the plot decides what can be built. On the older estates check the deeds as well: plots in Kippington and Oakhill Road were often sold with covenants.
Ragstone, red brick and tile-hanging are the local palette. Roofline and cladding in a quiet colour sit better against them than white.
Homes in Sevenoaks
Each of Sevenoaks’ neighbourhoods was laid out at one time, and it shows.
The oldest planned housing is at Hartslands, a working-class district of the 1840s, with two-storey terraces on narrow plots. The railway came in the 1860s and villas followed: round Granville, Eardley and Argyle Roads by 1898, and at Vine Court, laid out in 1885 in Kentish ragstone and red brick.
After the Wildernesse estate was sold in 1924, large houses went up there to individual designs by Baillie Scott and other Arts and Crafts architects. Kippington has more of his work, white-painted and rendered with areas of red brick, alongside Victorian and Edwardian houses.
Montreal Park was built from the 1950s on the old Montreal estate, and Bradbourne on a grid of roads laid out after the hall came down in 1937. The council estates are at Greatness, Hillingdon and Solefields. These are casement houses, with none of the constraints of the older streets.
Our work
All our own installations, photographed on site across Sussex, Surrey and Kent. Select a photo to see it full size.
Local planning
Sevenoaks District Council is the planning authority. The town has eight conservation areas: the High Street, The Vine, Vine Court, Granville and Eardley Road, Kippington and Oakhill Road, Wildernesse, Hartslands and Brittains Farm.
None of the council’s appraisals for them mentions an Article 4 direction on windows or doors. The council does hold 88 Article 4 areas across the district, though, and publishes them by reference number without saying what each restricts, so it is worth checking your own address. It asks to be contacted before doors and windows are altered in any conservation area.
Its design guidance says that if a window has to be replaced it should match the original in style, opening pattern and detailing, and notes that slim double-glazed units can sometimes be fitted into the historic frame. Where that is not possible, new timber windows made to the same pattern are the usual answer.
The town itself is outside the Kent Downs National Landscape, but the designation runs along the greensand ridge on either side and takes in the countryside south and east of Wildernesse. Ninety-three per cent of the district is Green Belt. Neither affects new windows. Both limit extensions.
Projects
We haven’t written up a job in Sevenoaks itself yet. These show the standard of work, with photos and the detail of what was done.
Twenty-five white woodgrain sash windows with Georgian bars, three doors, an aluminium bifold and new rooftrim on a detached home.
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Windows, doors, a Supalite warm roof extension, kitchen, cloakroom, flooring and decorating — all handled by one team from start to finish.
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New windows and doors, a gravel driveway, and a garden rebuilt around a sandstone patio and a slate-roofed timber pergola.
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Rated 10/10 from 149 reviews on Checkatrade, where we’ve been a vetted member since 2014.
Where we work
We cover the whole of Sevenoaks, and we don’t stop at the edge of town.
Nearby areas: Tonbridge, Edenbridge, Oxted, Tunbridge Wells. See everywhere we cover.
Questions
Can’t see what you need? Call 01342 410079 and we’ll answer it properly.
Free quotations
Book a free, no-obligation survey at your home in Sevenoaks, or come and see us at the East Grinstead showroom.
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