All,
My question refers to the picture below, it's a c1900's end of terrace house in East Sussex (far left) As you can see the original windows have been ripped out of the bays at some point, being replaced with some hideous cheap UPVC units that only have openers on the right hand end sides (looking at picture), ours is the only house on the road that has this done! I have included the two neighbouring houses to show what the rest of the street looks like typically, a few houses on the opposite side of the road also have what I believe to be the orginal sashes inplace still.
http://flickr.com/photos/lloydus/262213710/
Do you think the window sizes would have been like the neighbouring properties, i.e. with the 2 pane width and brickwork/render round the rest of the bay, if so what are my options for restoring this look?
It also looks to me as though a lip has been rendered above the ground floor window with the inclusion of these UPVC units giving the appearance of a more substantial bay and to deflect rainwater as the UPVC ones protrude out.
We want to replace these windows as a matter of priority (so we can actually open more than one window on each floor) and I wanted to get some ideas as to what you guys think would have been there previously and what would suit the front of our house which at the moment is rather an ugly duckling?
A friend of mine is an experienced carpenter and joiner and has offered to fit the windows once we have decided what we want. He suggests some softwood framed windows in keeping with the rest of the road (our side at least) and the period as opposed to sashes, but my main question is what size should we look at? Stick with the existing 3 window width across the whole of the bay or build the bay back up and replace with 2 window width, possibly reducing light considerably?
Any thoughts/comments appreciated.
ll
My question refers to the picture below, it's a c1900's end of terrace house in East Sussex (far left) As you can see the original windows have been ripped out of the bays at some point, being replaced with some hideous cheap UPVC units that only have openers on the right hand end sides (looking at picture), ours is the only house on the road that has this done! I have included the two neighbouring houses to show what the rest of the street looks like typically, a few houses on the opposite side of the road also have what I believe to be the orginal sashes inplace still.
http://flickr.com/photos/lloydus/262213710/
Do you think the window sizes would have been like the neighbouring properties, i.e. with the 2 pane width and brickwork/render round the rest of the bay, if so what are my options for restoring this look?
It also looks to me as though a lip has been rendered above the ground floor window with the inclusion of these UPVC units giving the appearance of a more substantial bay and to deflect rainwater as the UPVC ones protrude out.
We want to replace these windows as a matter of priority (so we can actually open more than one window on each floor) and I wanted to get some ideas as to what you guys think would have been there previously and what would suit the front of our house which at the moment is rather an ugly duckling?
A friend of mine is an experienced carpenter and joiner and has offered to fit the windows once we have decided what we want. He suggests some softwood framed windows in keeping with the rest of the road (our side at least) and the period as opposed to sashes, but my main question is what size should we look at? Stick with the existing 3 window width across the whole of the bay or build the bay back up and replace with 2 window width, possibly reducing light considerably?
Any thoughts/comments appreciated.
ll