Pembury lies east of Tunbridge Wells and was on the London to Hastings road until the A21 bypass was built in the mid-1980s. The village grew in the twentieth century as five hamlets, Upper Green, Lower Green, Hawkwell, Bo-Peep and Romford, joined up, and in the second half of the century private estates such as Woodhill Park, Ridgeway and Beagleswood were built. The older centre and the estates need quite different windows.
The green and the High Street
The village green, once called Copingcrouch Green and shown on a map of 1629, is the focal point, with the Camden Arms, a former coaching inn, on its south side. The green and the High Street together form Pembury's conservation area. The Upper Church, the District Church of St Peter, was built in 1847 on land and with sandstone given by the Marquess Camden. The Old Church, also St Peter's, stands in woods outside the village near Kent College.
The listed buildings on the High Street show what the original windows were like. The listing for 23 and 23A High Street, a mid to late nineteenth-century building in whitewashed brick with tile-hung sides, records sixteen-pane sashes on the ground floor and twelve-pane sashes above. Listed buildings like this need consent. Unlisted houses in the conservation area can have new windows of similar appearance, and in that setting a uPVC sash with the right number of panes in a heritage colour is what most owners choose.
The estates
For houses on Woodhill Park, Ridgeway, Beagleswood and the other later roads, there is no historic pattern to follow. White or coloured chamfered uPVC casements, a composite front door, and French doors or a slider to the garden cover most jobs.
More on the village: Pembury on Wikipedia.
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Illustrative example of a typical job · Pembury
French doors and two casements on a Pembury semi
A semi-detached house on one of the estates built in Pembury in the second half of the twentieth century, such as Woodhill Park, where the back room opens onto the garden.
- uPVC French doors, about 1500 by 2100 mm, replacing a sliding patio door
- Two chamfered uPVC casements beside them in a heritage colour outside, white inside
- Ground floor only, so no scaffold
Typically £4,450 to £6,450, supplied and fitted, including VAT
French doors suit a back room of this width better than a bifold, which needs more opening than these houses usually have.
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