Replacement windows in Rudgwick

Rudgwick is on the northern edge of the district, where the parish boundary is also the county boundary with Surrey. With Tisman's Common it had 2,722 residents at the 2011 census. Holy Trinity Church, Grade I listed, has a 12th-century font of Sussex marble and a belltower from the early 13th century. Rudgwick station on the Cranleigh line opened in 1865 and closed in 1965, and the trackbed is now part of the Downs Link.

The parish's 2021 neighbourhood plan describes Rudgwick as a linear village, with houses also strung along Lynwick Street, and Bucks Green as a linear community along the A281. It records large Victorian houses built next to or in place of old farms, ribbon building between the wars towards the county boundary, and, after 1945, council estates and then private estates on roads leading off Church Street. Brick, tile-hanging and timber cladding are the commonest materials, with some timber-framed buildings. Garlands is listed Grade II* and Redhouse Farm and Naldrett House are Grade II.

The conservation area

Old Rudgwick, at the top of Church Street around Holy Trinity, is a conservation area. If your house is in it, ask Horsham District Council before changing the style or material of the windows, and expect timber to be preferred on older street-facing elevations.

What gets fitted here

The post-war estates off Church Street are the bulk of the village and the bulk of the work: plain casement openings that suit chamfered uPVC, often replacing first-generation double glazing. The Victorian houses suit uPVC sash, or timber where they are listed. Tile-hung upper floors need care where the new frames meet the tiles, which the surveyor will check.

Houses along the A281 at Bucks Green, which the neighbourhood plan notes for noise and traffic, may want acoustic glazing.

More background on Rudgwick on Wikipedia.