A red-brick Victorian villa on a tree-lined Reigate road with white painted sash windows, photographed from the pavement on a bright overcast day

Reigate, Redhill and the villages under the Downs

Replacement windows in Reigate begin with one question: is your house inside the line?

On many roads in the old town, Somers Road and Wray Common, the council must approve any change from timber to uPVC or aluminium on the front of a house. On most of Reigate's other roads it has no say. That one fact decides the window, the price and the timetable.

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Two kinds of Reigate house, two different jobs

Inside a conservation area with an Article 4 direction

Planning first, then the window

Reigate and Banstead council says Article 4 directions cover most houses in most of its conservation areas. Its 2026 draft appraisals for Reigate Town Centre and Somers Road say that switching timber windows to uPVC or aluminium, or changing their style, needs planning permission wherever the window faces a road or open space.

The council's guidance on these streets is plain: repair the originals where possible, and match material and detail where they must be replaced. For a street-facing sash on Raglan Road or Somers Road, that usually means timber.

The back of the house is different. A rear bedroom window that faces a private garden is outside those controls on most houses, so the cheaper frame is often fine there.

How Article 4 works on Reigate streets

Everywhere else in Reigate

Choose the frame that suits the house

Woodhatch, the Rushetts estate, the 1930s roads off Prices Lane, the Victorian streets of South Park and most post-war houses in the town sit outside any conservation area. Replacing like for like in uPVC or aluminium there needs no application.

Here the question becomes what the house deserves. Slim aluminium suits the big post-war and modern houses on the scarp. Flush uPVC casements suit the 1930s semis. White uPVC sashes give Victorian fronts back their proportions for roughly half the cost of timber.

Aluminium windows for Reigate houses

Not sure which side you are on? The street checker lists the roads in each Reigate conservation area and asks four questions.

What a Reigate window costs

Every figure on this site is a range, supplied and fitted, including VAT. The cheapest worked example is a single small casement at the back of a conservation-area house, from £765. The dearest is a whole detached house on Reigate Hill in slim aluminium.

See all eight worked examples

Small uPVC flush casement, rear elevation: £765 to £1,085
White uPVC sliding sash, outside the line: £1,505 to £2,190
Slim aluminium casement: £1,200 to £1,950
Timber box sash, where Article 4 asks for it: £2,650 to £3,800

What is actually in Reigate's window openings

Stucco and Reigate stone villas

Reigate Hill was first built up in the 1850s with stucco villas holding classical sashes. The Gothic houses of the 1860s on Somers Road mix stone mullions, sashes and casements. Most of this sits inside the Somers Road conservation area.

Wray Park mansions and Edwardian villas

Wray Park filled in during the 1850s and 1860s with large houses in big gardens. White painted sashes still dominate around the common. Doods Road, Raglan Road and Wray Park Road all fall in the Wray Common conservation area.

Tile-hung houses of the 1880s

Tile-hanging is common enough here that the council calls it a distinctive Reigate feature. These houses were built with mullion-and-transom frames and iron casements, which flush casements copy far better than chamfered ones.

1930s semis and post-war estates

The Priory estate sale in 1921 and the Woodhatch Farm sale in the 1930s opened land south of the town for semis. The Rushetts estate followed in the 1950s. These houses have no planning controls on windows and suit flush uPVC or slim aluminium.

In the 2011 census Reigate and Woodhatch held 2,487 detached houses, 2,853 semis, 1,378 terraced houses and 2,607 flats. A flat has no permitted development rights, so replacing its windows always needs permission.

A 1980s detached brick house high on Reigate Hill with anthracite slim aluminium casement windows and a wooded slope behind

Up on the scarp

Reigate Hill reaches 235 metres and Colley Hill 220. Houses near the top of the North Downs scarp take the south-westerly weather head on, which is where painted timber goes first and where a powder-coated aluminium frame earns its higher price.

For a post-war house up here that sits outside the conservation areas, a whole-house aluminium job is a single decision with no application to wait for.

Beyond the town

RedhillRailway-era stock brick terraces round the station, Venner houses on Redstone Hill, and a lot of newer flats.
MersthamQuality Street and the old village under Article 4, the Rockshaw Road houses above, and the post-war estate below.
BetchworthListed cottages along The Street. Mole Valley district, where no Article 4 direction covers the village.
KingswoodPaxton Watson's Arts and Crafts houses in the Warren woods. A conservation area with no Article 4 direction.
EarlswoodVictorian terraces by the common, 1970s estates, and flats inside the old Royal Earlswood asylum.
BucklandA small, wealthy village round its green and pond on the Reigate Road, with nineteen listed buildings.
Woodhatch1930s semis from the Woodhatch Farm sale, the Rushetts estate, and South Park's 1860s cottages.

Send a postcode and how many windows. The installer will say whether your house sits inside a conservation area before anyone talks about frames.

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