Replacement windows, doors and conservatories for Tonbridge, from the Victorian terraces by the river to the estates on the hills.
East Grinstead showroom · covering Sussex, Surrey and Kent
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Holtye Windows in Tonbridge
Tonbridge has a narrow centre on the Medway floodplain and wide suburbs fanning out on the higher ground to north and south. The borough council calls the shape a dumb-bell. The railway arrived in 1842, the population doubled in thirty years, and the housing stock grew by four-fifths again between 1881 and 1911.
So this is a Victorian and Edwardian town first, and a town of twentieth-century estates second. We are thirteen miles to the west in East Grinstead, and cover both.
What we fit
Supplied, fitted and guaranteed for 10 years by our own team. Nothing is subcontracted.
The terraces of the Slade and the streets by the railway were built with sliding sashes. The borough council’s guidance calls uPVC casements in their place the commonest thing that detracts from its conservation areas, and a uPVC sliding sash avoids that. The estates need good, plain casements.
Composite and uPVC doors in Victorian four-panel patterns suit the terraces. Behind, a pair of French doors or a set of bifolds opens a dark back room to the garden.
Parts of central Tonbridge lie on the floodplain. An extension or conservatory that needs a planning application there must come with a flood risk assessment form, so it pays to design within the permitted development limits where you can.
Fascias, soffits and guttering in uPVC are a sensible job to pair with new windows on the inter-war and post-war houses.
Homes in Tonbridge
Where a Tonbridge house stands tells you when it was built.
The Victorians put fine houses for the middle classes on the higher, drier ground to the north and east, at Dry Hill Park and along Quarry Hill, and rows of terraced cottages on the low land either side of the railway. The Slade is the best preserved of these: a tight neighbourhood of terraces and semis that has kept many of its original features.
South Tonbridge filled in during the 1890s between Pembury Road and Quarry Hill Road. Council housing began at Barden Park in 1920, and private builders added Cornwallis Avenue, The Ridgeway and Deakin Leas in the 1930s.
After the war came the big estates, Trench, Cage Green, Higham Wood and the Poet’s Estate, then private housing across north Tonbridge in the 1960s and 1970s. Brick is the town’s material almost everywhere, with sandstone kept for the castle, the school and the parish church.
Our work
All our own installations, photographed on site across Sussex, Surrey and Kent. Select a photo to see it full size.
Local planning
Tonbridge and Malling Borough Council is the planning authority. The town has two conservation areas. Tonbridge, first designated in 1969 and extended several times since, takes in the castle, the High Street, the Slade and Dry Hill Park. Quarry Hill is a row of Victorian villas on the southern approach.
Neither appraisal mentions an Article 4 direction, and the council says replacing windows will generally come under permitted development. Its guidance is clear all the same about what it would like. It calls uPVC in place of traditional sash and casement windows the most common thing detracting from its conservation areas, and says first-generation uPVC should give way to something more suitable when it is renewed.
The Green Belt is drawn tightly round the built-up area, and a small part of the High Weald National Landscape lies just to the south, beyond Haysden. Bidborough, Southborough and Pembury are over the boundary in Tunbridge Wells borough, and Leigh and Penshurst are in Sevenoaks district.
Worth knowing locally
Old Tonbridge stood on the north bank, which flooded less. Today the town extends across the floodplain behind flood defences, and the Leigh flood storage area upstream was operated 75 times between 1981 and the summer of 2026. An enlarged scheme, opened at the end of September 2026, reduces the risk to 1,870 homes.
For a homeowner the practical consequences are two. If an extension or conservatory needs a planning application and the house is in Flood Zone 2 or 3, the council requires a flood risk assessment form with it. And at ground level it is worth thinking about the height of thresholds and what the frames are made of: uPVC and aluminium come through a wetting that would ruin softwood.
Projects
The nearest jobs we have written up in full, with photos and the detail of what was done.
A conference room at Dale Hill Golf and Country Club, converted into three hotel suites and two offices.
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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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Where we work
We cover the whole of Tonbridge, and we don’t stop at the edge of town.
Nearby areas: Tunbridge Wells, Sevenoaks, Edenbridge. See everywhere we cover.
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