Replacement windows in East Peckham for cottages, hamlets and later estates
East Peckham is hop country on the River Medway, where the Bourne joins it. The village began on the hill at Old Peckham around St Michael's Church, which the Churches Conservation Trust now cares for. Over the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries hop and orchard farming drew people down to the valley, and the parish broke into scattered hamlets.
How the village is laid out
In the mid-nineteenth century the centre moved to The Pound, now the village core along Pound Road, with rows of cottages built after a freehold building boom of 1852. Hale Street lies to the east, and the parish also takes in Branbridges and Beltring, home of the Hop Farm and its oast houses. Estates of the 1950s to 1980s followed, then infill from the 1990s. Green Belt designation in 1967 largely froze the hamlets as they were.
Four conservation areas
Tonbridge and Malling has four conservation areas in the parish: Roydon, Little Mill, Snoll Hatch and Bullen Corner. At Bullen Corner, on the western edge, the appraisal describes brick, clay peg and hanging tiles and white-painted weatherboard, mostly on first floors. Most of its cottages have nineteenth-century casements, while the larger Victorian and Edwardian houses have sashes. It notes that many originals have been replaced and asks that new windows closely match the old design. At Snoll Hatch, the listed cottages at 119 to 125 Snoll Hatch Road have a red brick ground floor, a tile-hung first floor and a mix of nineteenth- and twentieth-century casements.
What usually goes in
For the cottages, a flush casement in white or cream. For the Victorian houses, a sash. For the post-war estates, whatever matches the street, usually a chamfered or flush casement.
Illustrative example of a typical job
Two small casements at the back of a Bullen Corner-style cottage
A nineteenth-century brick cottage of the kind found around Bullen Corner and Snoll Hatch in East Peckham, with orange tile-hanging on the first floor and a lean-to at the back.
Two small uPVC flush casements, about 600 by 900 mm, for the scullery and back lobby
White frames, one opening sash each, ground floor only
Old frames taken away and the reveals made good inside and out
Typically £1,550 to £2,150, supplied and fitted, including VAT
