Listed building and windows

artyboy

twopenny said:

I've only just seen this
It's not just the plastic, it's the glass doesn't reflect as single glaze does.

A village in the natiional park near me is all listed in the centre and 5 houses put in double glazing windows. As nothing happened with the first the others followed.
All we're told to replace them and they were furious - having to pay again even though they knew they were wrong.

Same village has a house for sale by the national park. A man knocked out the whole interior himself with no experience, to make it open plan including the chimney making it unsafe. It was reclaimed by the park.
Now that's going to be expensive to put right 😮

Now admittedly this was 20 years ago, but when we bought our last place - a 400 year old listed cottage - the windows needed doing. We got the planning chap from the council round and had that exact same discussion about difference in reflection. But because we were intending to do it as sympathetically as possible, using wood frames obviously, and using a well respected window company that specialised in older houses, we got the permission through...

youth_leader

My listed II was a railway station on the live line.  We had single sash windows and the house was only twelve foot away from the trains.  One morning something flew off a train, and broke a pane at the top of the window.  In 1999 we had to pay over £100 for 'original glass' to replace it, it did make us sit up!