Timber Windows & Doors in Great Dunmow

Timber ranges for Great Dunmow

sash windows, casements, Heritage Slimlite and timber doors.

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Historic openings are part of the street

The conservation appraisal records traditional vertically sliding sash windows and surviving door details among the town’s older buildings. It also describes nineteenth-century two-storey rendered housing with slate or tiled roofs. Roof shape, wall finish and the height of each opening work together: changing only the frame can still change the apparent balance of a facade. Where an older timber structure sits behind a later front, the outward appearance alone may not reveal the building’s full age.

Sashes, doors and planning drawings

For a sash frontage, compare rail positions, pane proportions and the depth of the frame in the wall before choosing a glazing specification. On a simpler cottage elevation, the existing casement arrangement may provide the better reference. Door panels, glazing over the entrance and the surrounding opening should be drawn as one composition. Uttlesford District Council determines local planning and listed-building applications. Use its adopted conservation appraisal as background, then ask the planning team whether the proposed replacement, alteration to an opening or new entrance requires permission and whether listed-building consent is also necessary. Repairing an existing historic frame and replacing it completely should be described as separate options, so the consent advice addresses the actual work rather than a broad request for new windows.