Replacement windows in Golden Green for cottages and larger village houses
Golden Green is a small village in Hadlow parish, about a mile from Hadlow and four miles from Tonbridge. It sits on a ridge with the River Medway to the south and the River Bourne to the north, among orchards and arable fields.
The village and its houses
The village has no shops or school. It has the Bell Inn at its centre and the Golden Green Mission Church, a listed tin tabernacle of around 1914 that serves as a chapel of ease to St Mary's in Hadlow. Barnes Street, a hamlet, runs straight on from it along the same minor road. Goldhill Mill on the Bourne is the only watermill on that river still holding its original machinery.
The village is popular with commuters, and many of its houses are large and well kept. The older ones are brick, often with tile-hanging upstairs, and were built with casements. The Bell is also remembered for the inquest held there after the Hartlake bridge disaster of 1853, when thirty hop pickers drowned in the flooded Medway. Their memorial stands in Hadlow churchyard.
Planning
Golden Green does not appear on Tonbridge and Malling's list of conservation areas, and we found no Article 4 direction here. For an unlisted house, replacing windows with ones of similar appearance does not usually need permission. That leaves the choice to you, which is why the example below is priced two ways.
A typical Golden Green job, priced in uPVC and in timber
Illustrative example of a typical job
A five-window brick and tile-hung cottage near Golden Green, in uPVC flush casement
A detached brick cottage with a tile-hung upper floor on the lane between Golden Green and Barnes Street, outside any conservation area.
Five uPVC flush casements, about 1000 by 1200 mm, two down and three up
Cream two-light casements, one opening sash and one fixed pane in each, copying the cottage's old layout
Scaffold for the upper windows, about £500 of the total
Typically £6,000 to £10,250, supplied and fitted, including VAT
A similar cottage in painted timber costs more for four windows than this one does for five, and the paint wants renewing around its third year, then on a regular cycle after that. Unless the house is listed, uPVC flush casement is what we would suggest.
