Where Haddenham's sashes are found
Historic England lists 16 buildings in the parish, among them 57 High Street and 68 Hill Row, and conservation areas cover parts of Haddenham and Hill Row. On a listed house, check with East Cambridgeshire District Council before changing a window colour or replacing original glass or timber.
Plenty of older houses lost their sashes long ago, so Graham checks what you actually have and prices each window separately.
Our part and our carpenter's part
We do the decorative side: scraping back loose paint, sanding with Mirka dust-free sanders so old paint dust stays out of the room, filling open joints, priming bare wood and repainting in eggshell or satin. Broken cords, rotten bottom rails and replacement timber go to our carpenter before we paint, so you still deal with one company.
Paint build-up in the runners is what makes sashes stick, so we keep coats thin on sliding faces and move each sash as it dries. Bare pine gets a Zinsser primer, as the frames did in our Farrow & Ball redecoration in Cambridge.
Haddenham at a glance
- 10 milesby road from our Landbeach base, about 16 minutesOSRM routing
- 16%of properties were built before 1919VOA Council Tax stock
- 16listed buildingsHistoric England
- 2conservation areaslocal council
- 11%are terracedCensus 2021
- 7%date from 1919 to 1939VOA Council Tax stock
How we approach sash window restoration
Each Haddenham window is checked for flaking paint, loose putty, open joints and soft timber. After our carpenter's repairs, we scrape and dust-free sand, fill cracks in sills and rails, prime bare timber, then undercoat and top coat. Paint is taken just onto the glass to seal the putty edge, and every sash is eased before we leave. The full method, products and FAQs are on our sash window restoration page.