Langton Green sits about two miles west of Tunbridge Wells on the A264, inside Speldhurst parish but with its own church and its own identity. The village is known for its green, for All Saints Church beside it, built in 1862 to 1863 by George Gilbert Scott and listed at Grade II*, and for being the place where the table football game Subbuteo was made for many years. The village also has The Hare pub, a primary school and Holmewood House, an independent school.
Building stone
Langton Green also has a place in the town's building history. Quarries here supplied sandstone for houses in Tunbridge Wells, and the same stone turns up in walls, sills and the bases of older buildings in the village. When old windows come out of a sandstone opening, the surveyor checks the sill and reveals for weathering before anything is ordered.
Round the green
The centre of the village around the green is a conservation area, reviewed by the council in 2006. One of the best clues to how its windows looked is 1 and 2 The Green, a pair of early nineteenth-century cottages in red-brown brick, listed at Grade II. Their listing records iron-framed casements with glazing bars, and on number 1 a Gothick arcade of bars across the top of the ground-floor window. Listed buildings like these need consent for new windows, and usually a specialist maker.
For unlisted older houses in the conservation area, permitted development still allows replacement with windows of similar appearance. A flush casement with slim bars, or a steel-look aluminium window where the originals were metal, keeps the look.
The rest of the village
For twentieth-century and later houses in the village, outside the conservation area, there is no historic pattern to follow and the choice is about warmth and upkeep. The later houses page covers it, and doors covers French doors, bifolds and sliders to the garden.
More on the village: Langton Green on Wikipedia.