Market Harborough is one of the best-preserved Georgian market towns in the East Midlands. The High Street, Church Square and the streets around St Dionysius are lined with eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century frontages whose timber sash windows — often six-over-six with slender glazing bars — are part of the town-centre conservation area. The Victorian villas along Northampton Road and Leicester Road add a second generation of larger sashes.
Windows of this age are nearly always worth repairing. We cut out rot and splice in new timber, re-cord and rebalance, replace perished beads, reglaze where panes are cracked, route in brush-pile draught seals and repaint. Where sashes have been lost or crudely replaced we make new ones to the original pattern — matching the glazing-bar profile and the horns — and fit them into the surviving box frame.
We cover the whole of the Harborough district: Great Bowden, Lubenham, Foxton, Kibworth, Fleckney, Husbands Bosworth and the villages towards Northamptonshire, and we work regularly on listed properties where a conservation officer has to approve the approach.
If your property is in Market Harborough and the windows need attention, contact our team for a free, no-obligation quote, or call 0116 360 2080.
Sash window specialists in Market Harborough
Leicester Sash restores period timber windows for private homeowners, landlords and property managers in Market Harborough and across Leicestershire. The services we are asked for most often are:
- Structural sash window restoration — rot repairs, spliced timber, new sills
- Re-cording, rebalancing and easing seized sashes
- Draught-proofing with discreet brush-pile seals
- Reglazing — cracked panes, loose putty, missing glass
- Window painting and full redecoration
- Listed-building and conservation-area work
- Slim double-glazed sashes for original frames
- French door and casement repairs
- Fully insured
- Free estimates
- East Midlands based
- Heritage & listed-building experience
Structural sash window restoration
We replace rotten timber and repair damaged frames and sills. Where the decay is localised we cut it out and splice in matched new timber; where it is shallow, a two-part epoxy repair consolidates the wood. Either way the original frame stays in the wall.
Sash window redecoration in Market Harborough
A restored window needs a proper paint system to stay restored. We strip failed paint back to a sound surface, prime bare timber, fill and sand, and finish with a durable exterior system — by brush or by spray for the smoothest finish.
Draught-proofing in Market Harborough
We fit discreet brush-pile draught seals to the existing sashes — routed into the parting and staff beads and the meeting rail — so the window sits snugly, stops rattling and keeps out cold air, dust and street noise without changing how it looks.
Functional repairs
Snapped cords, dropped sashes, seized windows and rattling glass are everyday work for us. We re-cord with waxed cotton cord, rebalance the cast-iron weights, ease and adjust the sashes and re-putty loose glass so the window opens, closes and locks as it should.
Problems we can help with
- Sash windows in need of repair or restoration
- Windows that are difficult to open or close, or painted shut
- Draughts, rattles and street noise through the window
- Sashes that will not stay up, or drop shut
- Rotten or decayed timber frames and sills
- Paint that is cracking, flaking or peeling
- Missing, cracked or misted glass panes
- Loose or missing putty
A cost-effective alternative to replacement
Restoring an original sash window is nearly always a fraction of the cost of replacing it, and the repaired window — dense, slow-grown timber with a modern paint system and draught seals — will usually outlast a new one. We quote for each window individually after a survey, so you know exactly what is being done and why.
