Replacement windows your Brighton home deserves
Brighton, Hove and the villages from Patcham to Rottingdean
Sashes for Regency stucco, bays for Victorian brick, slim casements for interwar houses. Tell us about your home and we will put you in touch with a local installer who knows the city’s planning rules.
- FENSA-registered installer
- Local showroom you can visit
- Free home consultation
- We quote for one window
Three kinds of Brighton house, three kinds of window
The city was built in waves, and each wave had its own window. Knowing which one your house belongs to settles most of the choices before price comes into it.
Regency and early VictorianStucco, bow fronts and tall sashes
The seafront squares, the crescents and the cottage streets behind them were built for slim timber sashes, often six-over-six, with iron balconies on the first floor. Many are now flats, and many sit under an Article 4 direction.
Late Victorian and EdwardianRed brick, bays and two-over-two sashes
Preston Park, Fiveways and the Hove avenues are streets of canted bays, gables and painted sashes, with casements on the later Edwardian houses. Most owners here choose between timber and a heritage uPVC sash.
Interwar and downlandRender, curved bays and casements
Withdean, Hove Park and the estates around Patcham were built between the wars, with rounded bays and side-hung casements. Out on the Downs, the flint cottages of Rottingdean and Ovingdean have small painted casements of their own.
The windows we fit across the city
Sash windows
Box sashes that slide on cords and weights, or heritage uPVC with the same proportions.
Sash windows
Flush casements
The opening casement closes flush with the frame, as the original timber ones did.
Flush casements
Slimline aluminium
Thin frames and more glass, for interwar houses and the backs of older ones.
Slimline aluminium
Bay windows
Canted, square and curved bays, with the structure checked before anything is ordered.
Bay windows
Conservation area windows
For listed buildings and Article 4 streets, where the council has a say on every detail.
Conservation area windows
What new windows cost in Brighton
Every job is priced on its own: the figure depends on the sizes of your windows, how many there are and where they sit, the access, and the materials, colours and hardware you pick. A free home visit gives you the exact price for yours.
The prices page gives typical totals for six common Brighton jobs, from one kitchen window to a whole 1930s house. Prices are given before any survey, once the home visit has confirmed what is needed. Windows that have to be made specially for an unusual opening cost more than standard ones.
From your first call to a fitted window
Book a call or send your details
A twenty-minute call is enough to cover the house, the windows and any planning questions. Pick a time that suits you.
A free consultation at home
A FENSA-registered installer with a showroom near Brighton visits, looks at every window and explains the options. There is no charge and no obligation.
Your quotation, then the survey
You get a written quotation. If you go ahead, a full survey measures each opening before the windows are made.
Brighton, Hove and eleven neighbourhoods we know well
Each page covers the houses, the conservation rules and the local sources worth reading.
Asked most often
Do I need planning permission to replace windows in Brighton?
For a house outside a conservation area, new windows that look much like the old ones are normally permitted development. Inside many of the city’s conservation areas an Article 4 direction removes that right for windows facing the street, so a change of material or pattern needs permission. A listed building needs listed building consent even for like-for-like work. Flats are covered in the next answer.
My home is a flat. What applies?
Flats and maisonettes have no permitted development rights for windows, so changing how a flat’s windows look (the material, the style or the way they open) usually needs planning permission. A replacement that matches the old windows exactly may fall outside planning control altogether. Ask the council to confirm, and have the freeholder’s written consent in hand before anything is ordered.
Will you quote for just one window?
Yes. We quote for a single window. Three or more windows make a day’s work at the normal rate, and a single window carries a call-out charge on top.
Is aluminium cheaper than timber?
Yes, aluminium is cheaper than timber. Real timber windows cost noticeably more than timber-look uPVC as well, and painted timber needs repainting every few years, which aluminium never does.
What happens after I get in touch?
When you send an enquiry or book a call, you will hear from a FENSA-registered window and door company that supplies and fits the windows itself, with a local showroom you are welcome to visit. They arrange a free consultation at your home, give you a quotation, and carry out the survey if you decide to go ahead.
