Kent · about 12 miles from the workshop

Bespoke joinery for
Tunbridge Wells.

Royal Tunbridge Wells is built from period stock, Georgian terraces on the Pantiles, Regency villas on Mount Ephraim, Victorian townhouses across Mount Sion and Calverley. That kind of property needs joinery cut to match the original, not pulled off a rack. We make it by hand in Uckfield, a short run up the A26.

Hand-made timber sash windows on the exterior of a period property

Much of central Tunbridge Wells sits inside a conservation area, and many of its streets carry Article 4 directions that remove the usual permitted-development rights. In practice that means replacement windows and doors have to match the original timber profile, plastic is rarely an option, and a like-for-like reproduction is what keeps the planners onside. This is the work we do every week: single and double-glazed sash windows in the correct sightlines, slim-profile glazing bars, and casements drawn from the surviving originals.

The town's housing stock runs from early Georgian through Decimus Burton's Calverley estate to the big Victorian and Edwardian villas around the commons. Sash boxes rot at the cill, sash cords fail, and a century of paint buries the detail that made the window worth keeping. We repair where the timber is sound and reproduce where it has gone, working in Accoya and hardwood so the new joinery outlasts the run it replaces.

Beyond windows we make front doors, French and bifold sets, staircases, fitted wardrobes and one-off pieces for homes across Tunbridge Wells and the surrounding villages, Southborough, Rusthall, Speldhurst and Langton Green. Everything is drawn for the property, made in our own workshop, and fitted by the people who built it.

If you are restoring a listed or conservation-area property in Tunbridge Wells and want timber joinery that satisfies the conservation officer, send us the details and we will come and measure up.

What Tunbridge Wells Stock Needs

  • Conservation-area sashes

    Like-for-like timber sash windows in the original sightlines, for Article 4 streets where plastic is not permitted.

  • Listed-building joinery

    Repair-first restoration and reproduction to the original profile, documented for consent.

  • Period front doors

    Panelled and glazed entrance doors matched to Georgian, Regency and Victorian frontages.

  • Slim double glazing

    Heritage units in slim sightlines where conservation rules allow, for warmth without ruining the look.

What We Make For Tunbridge Wells

Every line of our joinery, fitted across Tunbridge Wells.

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