Serving Charlton Kings & surrounding areas
Sash Window Repair & Restoration in Charlton Kings
Charlton Kings is largely Victorian and Edwardian family housing on the rising ground east of Cheltenham, with a Cotswold-stone village core around the church. The windows here work harder than those in the town centre: higher, more exposed, and often facing straight into weather coming off the escarpment.
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Tell us about your windows and we will arrange a no-obligation survey, usually within five working days.
Period windows in Charlton Kings
The dominant type is the Victorian horned sash — two-over-two, sometimes one-over-one, set into brick or stone bays on the front elevation. Edwardian houses along the Cirencester Road and London Road add wider bays with margin lights and, occasionally, stained upper sashes. Around the old village near St Mary's you find earlier stone cottages with smaller multi-pane sashes and thicker walls.
Bay windows are the recurring problem. A bay puts three or four sills at the most exposed point of the house, with mitred corners where water sits and works into the end grain. By the time paint is flaking at the corner, the sill and cill horns underneath are usually soft even though the sash itself is fine.
Being higher up the slope, Charlton Kings also gets more wind exposure than central Cheltenham. That shows as rattling upper sashes and cold rooms in houses where the glass and joinery are otherwise in good order — a draught proofing job rather than a joinery one.
Rotten bay sills and mitres
Water sits at the mitred corners of a bay and rots the end grain. We cut out and splice new sill sections and reform the mitre.
Decayed cill horns
The projecting horns on Victorian sashes decay first. Repaired with matched timber rather than filler, so the profile survives.
Rattling upper sashes
Exposure to escarpment wind makes loose sashes rattle. Routed brush seals stop it and cut heat loss at the same time.
Filler and mastic repairs failing
Previous cosmetic patching traps moisture. We strip it back to sound timber and splice properly.
What we do for Charlton Kings homeowners
Timber rot & sill replacement
Spliced repairs, new sills, cords, weights and pulleys — keeping the original sash wherever the timber allows.
Learn moreDraught proofing
Full perimeter brush seals routed into the sash and frame to stop draughts, rattles and heat loss.
Learn moreHeritage slimline glazing
Slim double-glazed units in restored or new sashes, sized for narrow Regency and Victorian rebates.
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Charlton Kings areas we cover
Charlton Kings village & St Mary's
Cotswold stone cottages with small-pane sashes and thick reveals.
London Road & Cirencester Road
Edwardian villas with wide bays, margin lights and traffic noise.
Balcarras & Sixways
Victorian terraces and semis where bay sills take the weather.
Ryeworth & Glenfall
Family houses on rising ground with exposed rear elevations.
Battledown
Large Victorian villas with tall sashes and substantial joinery.
Ham & Cudnall
Older cottages and converted properties handled with the same repair-first approach.
How a Charlton Kings job runs
Step 1
Free survey
We probe every sill and bay corner, identify what is cosmetic and what is structural, and quote window by window.
Step 2
Workshop joinery
Sashes removed for splicing and new sills; bay frames repaired in situ where the sill is part of the structure.
Step 3
Seals and balance
Brush pile fitted, beads renewed, cords replaced and sashes rebalanced for smooth operation.
Step 4
Refit and finish
Full repaint of repaired sections in a heritage paint system, with all access from your own driveway wherever possible.
Conservation in Charlton Kings
Charlton Kings has its own conservation areas around the old village and Battledown, administered by Cheltenham Borough Council, plus scattered listed cottages. Much of the later Victorian and Edwardian housing is outside designated areas.
Outside a conservation area you have far more freedom on glazing upgrades; inside one, we confirm the designation at survey and prepare drawings and specification for consent where a replacement sash or slimline unit is proposed.
Why Charlton Kings homeowners choose us
- Repair-first approach — we replace only the timber that has gone
- Matched slow-grown timber and traditional linseed oil putty
- Original crown and cylinder glass retained wherever it can be safely reused
- Sashes rebalanced so they open with one hand
- Fully insured, tidy working and dust-sheeted interiors
- Guaranteed repairs and a 10-year guarantee on the draught seal system
The same workshop and joiners carry out our sash window repairs in Cheltenham.
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