Traditional Wooden Sash Windows in Maidenhead, SL6

Installation, Replacement & Upgrade Specialists

NOT IN MAIDENHEAD? We also serve Taplow, Burnham, Holyport, Littlewick Green, Dorney & more.

What Do We Do?

• Design, manufacture, and installation of traditional timber sash windows,
• Replacement & upgrade of windows, boxes & sashes,
• Double-glazed sash, energy efficient & other glass options,
• Bespoke styling, paint colour, furniture, security & timber options (Including Accoya).

Why Use Us?

• Workshop, showroom and offices based nearby in Surrey
• Specialists in traditional wooden sash windows
• Bespoke windows and doors built to YOUR specifications
• No quibble after-sale service – 100% satisfaction guarantee
• It’s all us! Manufacturing, fitting, and support – no outsourced work.

About Our Casement & Sash Windows

Our custom sash windows and casement windows include a number of options for the customer including double-glazing, mouldings, window furniture and more. We also repair and restore sash windows in Maidenhead, Berkshire. Also serving surrounding towns and villages including Taplow, Burnham, Holyport, Littlewick Green, Dorney and beyond.

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A little about Sash Windows in Maidenhead, SL6…

A Thames-Side Town with a Rich Architectural Heritage

Maidenhead is a historic market town on the River Thames, within the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead in Berkshire. Its name derives from the medieval “Maiden Hythe”, the new wharf built on the riverbank, and there has been a settlement here since Roman times. For traditional timber window specialists, though, it is the building that followed two later turning points, the coaching era and the arrival of the railway, that fills the streets we work on today.

Georgian Prosperity and the Coaching Town

Maidenhead rose to prominence in the 18th century as the first major coaching stop on the route from London to Bath and Gloucester. The trade brought wealth, and with it the solid Georgian houses and coaching inns that still stand along the High Street and around the older parts of the town. Windows of this period were typically “six-over-six” sliding sashes: tall, finely proportioned, with slender glazing bars and the symmetry that defines the Georgian style. Several of those original inns survive, and the Georgian character they helped establish is part of what the town’s conservation areas now protect.

The Railway, the River and Maidenhead’s Victorian and Edwardian Expansion

The town’s character changed dramatically when the Great Western Railway reached Maidenhead in 1838. Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s line brought the famous Maidenhead Railway Bridge, the “Sounding Arch”, whose brick spans were the widest and flattest in the world and were immortalised by the artist J.M.W. Turner’s iconic 1844 oil painting “Rain, Steam and Speed”.

As the coaching trade declined, the railway opened the river to day-trippers and turned Maidenhead into a fashionable resort, and substantial Victorian red-brick housing spread throughout the town.

That popularity reached its height in the Edwardian era, when Boulter’s Lock became one of the most fashionable spots on the Thames, busiest of all on Ascot Sunday. The villas and terraces built during this Victorian and Edwardian boom were raised at the peak of the sliding sash window’s dominance in British domestic architecture, and the larger-paned “two-over-two” sashes of the later period are the window type we most often measure, manufacture, replace, and install across Maidenhead today.

Conservation Areas and Heritage Designations

Maidenhead has several conservation areas, including Maidenhead Town Centre, Castle Hill, Altwood Road, the Maidenhead Riverside area (which takes in Boulter’s Lock and Maidenhead Bridge), and the All Saints, Boyn Hill area, a notable Victorian estate built around G. E. Street’s All Saints’ Church. Within these zones, planning policy requires that window replacements respect the character of the surrounding streetscape, which usually means timber sash windows matching the original glazing configuration, profiles and finish. As The Specialist in Sash Windows, we regularly advise on conservation area requirements and can guide you on what is and isn’t permissible for your property.

Timber Sash and Casement Windows in Maidenhead

While the sliding sash is the dominant period window across Maidenhead, some older and more rural properties around the town and in surrounding villages such as Taplow, Burnham, Holyport, Littlewick Green and Dorney feature traditional timber casement windows. We manufacture and install both wooden sash and timber casement windows from our Surrey workshop, to the same exacting standards and with the same attention to period accuracy.

Whether your property needs replacement slim double-glazing or full bespoke replacement windows built to match and improve upon what was there before, we are happy to visit and advise with no obligation.

Get in touch with The Specialist in Sash Windows for traditional timber and modern Accoya solutions, in both windows and doors.

Call us on our freephone number 0800 389 7384