Windows for the heart of old Brighton
North Laine, Regency Square, Montpelier and West Hill
Terraces, squares and converted flats, nearly all built for timber sashes, and most of them inside a conservation area.
Homes in Central Brighton
Central Brighton packs two centuries of building into a few hundred acres. North Laine is a tight grid of late eighteenth and early nineteenth century houses, its streets laid along the old field strips, or laines, that the town grew over. West of the centre, Regency Square and the streets around it were the first push along the seafront, and the hillside of Montpelier and Clifton Hill filled with Regency and Italianate villas between the 1820s and the 1860s.
Up the slope, West Hill was built in the 1840s and 1850s once the railway arrived, and Round Hill to the north-east followed with its stepped terraces. Most houses here are terraced, many are now flats, and the sash window is the norm almost everywhere.
Planning at a glance
North Laine (1977), Regency Square (1973), Montpelier and Clifton Hill (1973), West Hill (1977) and Round Hill (1977) are all conservation areas, and each has at least one Article 4 direction.
Flats need permission for any change in the look of their windows, wherever they are.
What usually suits these houses
Sash windows
Timber or heritage uPVC sashes, with six-over-six panes on the earlier fronts and two-over-two on the later ones.
Conservation area windows
Help with permission where an Article 4 direction or a listing applies.
Bay windows
Canted bays on the Victorian streets of West Hill and Round Hill.
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. Window prices in Brighton.
Conservation and permission
North Laine (1977), Regency Square (1973), Montpelier and Clifton Hill (1973), West Hill (1977) and Round Hill (1977) are all conservation areas, and each has at least one Article 4 direction. The council’s list includes North Laine, Regency Square, Montpelier Crescent, Montpelier Villas, Clifton Terrace, West Hill and Round Hill by name.
Those directions usually apply to single houses, on the elevations facing the street. A flat needs planning permission for any change to the look of its windows wherever it is, plus the freeholder’s agreement, so in central Brighton most window jobs involve the council in some way.