Replacement windows in Buckland
Buckland is a small village west of Reigate on the Reigate Road, in Mole Valley district. Its registered green, with the pond, the war memorial and the flagpole, is what most people picture.
- Size
- 236 households in 2011: 118 detached, 76 semi-detached, 13 terraced and 25 flats; nearly 40 per cent owned outright
- Ground
- Lower Greensand, with the Gault clay and the North Downs scarp to the north; Shag Brook rises here
- Listed buildings
- Nineteen, all Grade II, including Buckland Court, St Mary the Virgin, the Towered Barn, Street Farmhouse and Dungates Farm
- Article 4
- None found; Mole Valley's directions do not reach Buckland. The national dataset records a Buckland conservation area from 1970
The houses
Buckland Court at 1 to 5 Reigate Road, of about 1835, is whitewashed stucco with 12-pane sashes. St Mary the Virgin was rebuilt by Henry Woodyer in 1860 in Bargate stone and ironstone rubble. Around them are farmhouses, barns and detached houses in large gardens. Half of all homes in the parish are detached.
What gets fitted
With nineteen listed buildings in a village this size, the first check is the list. Listed houses need consent, and a timber box sash at £2,650 to £3,800 is the usual approved replacement.
Unlisted houses keep their normal rights, as Mole Valley has no Article 4 direction here. For the larger detached houses the common choices are slim aluminium casements at £1,200 to £1,950 or aluminium flush casements at £1,485 to £2,395. A house fronting the A25 may be worth fitting with acoustic glass, which the surveyor can specify within the same frames.
Because the Mole Valley conservation area record does not give its boundary in plain terms, it is worth asking the council at Pippbrook, Dorking, before changing the street side of a house near the green.
More background: Wikipedia, Buckland. To check a conservation area boundary, use the council's own map before relying on any summary.
Live in Buckland? Send your postcode and the number of windows.