Newton Abbot Racecourse
Jump racing has been held on the north bank of the Teign since 1866. The left-handed course has seven fences to a circuit.
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Gothic casements or Italianate sashes: which kind of Newton Abbot villa do you own?
Casements under bargeboards, glazed timber porches, front doors and sashes for the Courtenay estate villas and the streets around them
When the Earl of Devon's surveyors laid out Newton Abbot's railway suburbs from the 1850s, they gave the villas two distinct looks. The Italianate houses on Wolborough Hill and around Courtenay Park have sashes with a single horizontal bar. The Tudor Gothic ones use casements under fretted bargeboards, and that is a different window entirely, hinged rather than sliding, often in groups, with heavier mullions. Plenty of these houses also went up with glazed timber porches or conservatories, and the front doors throughout were painted timber. We make all of these at our Barton workshop, up the A380. Teignbridge District Council is the planning authority, and many of the villas are listed, so we draw the work for consent where it is needed.
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Tell us roughly what you have in mind and we will arrange a time to come and measure. A photo of the space on your phone is usually enough to start with.
The Joiner Behind It
Two looks for the Courtenay villas
Newton Abbot's railway suburbs were given two distinct styles: Italianate villas with simple sashes, and Tudor Gothic ones with casements under bargeboards. A new window has to suit the right one.
Luke began doing joinery as a child, in a family that knows the trade. Telling one pattern from the other at a glance is what experience gives you. Luke and the team make each window to its house.
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Newton Abbot
Two villa styles and a lot of painted timber
Between 1851 and 1891 the town's population went from just over 4,000 to almost 11,000. Devon Square came first in 1853, Courtenay Park a year later, then Forde Park and Wolborough Hill, where Joseph Rowell set the villas into the contours with the main rooms looking downhill. Walls are limestone rubble under smooth render, and almost everything around the openings was painted timber: windows, doors, fascias, porches and conservatories. Because Rowell's villas went up quickly to a few patterns, a surviving original on one house is often a good guide for the next.
The Tudor Gothic villas need particular care, because their casements and bargeboards are what set them apart, and a sash or a plastic casement in their place changes the whole house. Further out, in Highweek, Milber and the newer streets, windows are simpler and storage is usually the bigger job, which our page on fitted wardrobes in Newton Abbot deals with.
The Case For It
Window and door work for Newton Abbot villas
Gothic casements made properly
Side-hung casements with the right mullions, transoms and glazing pattern, copied from the house rather than drawn from a catalogue.
Italianate sashes to match
Single-bar sashes made to the original sections and horns, balanced on weights.
Porches rebuilt
Glazed timber porches redrawn from what survives and remade in durable hardwood or modified timber, painted as before.
Conservatories restored
Rotten cills, posts and glazing bars on a period conservatory replaced in matching sections.
Front doors for every style
Four-panel doors for Italianate houses, and boarded or Gothic-panelled doors where the house calls for them.
Consent drawings ready
Measured elevations and sections for a listed building application to Teignbridge.
Before You Choose
Before replacing windows on a Newton Abbot villa
Ask the maker whether your house is Italianate or Tudor Gothic in style, and what that means for the windows. If they offer sashes for a casement house, or a single-bar sash where yours has a different pattern, the result will look wrong to anyone who knows the street.
If the house has a porch or conservatory, ask whether it can be repaired or must be remade, and how they will record it first. These structures have a lot of small joints, and copying them accurately takes a careful survey.
Ask about the consent position before you order. Many villas around Courtenay Park are listed, and the town's three conservation areas each have their own appraisal. The maker should help you read yours.
Compared
Windows by villa style in Newton Abbot
Rowell's villas came in recognisable types. This table sets out the window and door work each usually needs.
| Italianate villa | Tudor Gothic villa | Terraced house near the station | Newer house in Milber or Highweek | |
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| Typical window | Sash, one horizontal bar | Casements in groups | Small sashes | Casements |
| Typical front door | Four-panel | Boarded or Gothic panelled | Four-panel | Plain |
| Extra joinery | Porch or conservatory | Bargeboards, porch | Little | Little |
| Listed or conservation area | Often | Often | Sometimes | Rarely |
| Timber we suggest | Accoya or engineered softwood | Accoya or oak | Engineered softwood | Engineered softwood |
| Relative cost | Upper | Upper | Lower middle | Lower |
Our Process
Window and door work in Newton Abbot
Newton Abbot jobs follow these seven steps. On a villa, recording the original detail takes the most time.
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Survey and style
We identify the villa type, inspect each window, door and porch, and check for rot at cills and posts.
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Recording
Sections are taken off sashes, casements, mullions and door mouldings and drawn full size.
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Consent
We check whether the house is listed or in a conservation area and prepare drawings for Teignbridge.
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Specification
Timber, glass and ironmongery agreed for each opening and written into the quote.
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Making
Frames, casements and doors made at Barton from conditioned timber and test-assembled.
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Painting
Every part primed and painted in the workshop, including porch posts and glazing bars.
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Fitting
Installed one opening at a time, with garden steps protected on Wolborough Hill. We come back after a winter to check.
Reassurance
What We Stand Behind
- Timber moved before it was cut
- Boards come into the workshop and sit there before anything is machined. Cutting a wide oak panel on the day it arrives is how you end up with a door that has cupped by Easter. In a bay where spring humidity runs high, that waiting period is not optional.
- Scribed to your walls, not shimmed to them
- Older Torquay walls are rarely square and almost never plumb. Every fitted piece is scribed to the actual surface on site. If you can see daylight behind a filler strip, the job was measured once and hoped over.
- Ironmongery rated for the job it is doing
- A drawer in a holiday flat gets pulled open forty times a week in August. We fit runners and hinges specified for that, and we tell you which ones we used, so in eight years you can buy the same part rather than replacing a whole unit.
- If it moves, we come back
- Solid timber is a material that responds to the room it lives in, and occasionally something needs easing in its first year. That visit is part of the job, not a callout. Say so and we will book it.
Budget
Window and door prices in Newton Abbot
£1,400 – £9,000
per opening, made and fitted
Terrace sashes sit in the lower half of our per-opening range. Villa sashes and Gothic casement groups sit higher, and porches and conservatories are priced as separate pieces. Consent drawings are itemised. Timber and glazing options are explained on our windows and doors page.
Guide range only, VAT included. Your figure comes from the measured visit and the drawing you sign off.
What moves the priceGarden steps on Wolborough Hill
Villas set above long flights of garden steps on Wolborough Hill take longer to deliver and scaffold.
Porches and conservatories
These have many joints and glazing bars, so they cost more than their size suggests.
Listed status
Exact copies and drawings for listed villas around Courtenay Park add design time before making.
Questions
Newton Abbot window and door questions
- Do I need consent for new windows in Newton Abbot?
- Possibly. Teignbridge District Council is the planning authority for the town's three conservation areas, Town Centre, Forde Park and Wolborough Hill. Many villas around Courtenay Park are listed and need listed building consent for new windows or doors. An unlisted single house in a conservation area may be able to replace like for like, while flats have no householder rights. Teignbridge publishes appraisals for each of its conservation areas.
- Can you make casements for a Tudor Gothic villa in Newton Abbot?
- Yes. We copy the mullions, transoms and glazing layout of your existing casements and make them in accoya or oak, painted as the originals were.
- Can a rotten timber porch be saved?
- Often in part. We replace rotten posts, cills and bottom rails and keep sound sections. If it has gone too far, we redraw it and make a new one to match.
- Do limestone rubble walls affect window fitting?
- Yes. Openings in rubble walls are uneven and fixings need to find solid stone. We plan fixing points at the survey and bed frames so the wall can still breathe.
- What door suits a Devon Square or Courtenay Park house?
- Usually a painted four-panel door to the original proportions, with a frame and any fanlight made to match.
- Do you work on newer houses in Milber and Highweek?
- Yes. Simple timber casements and doors suit those houses well, and the planning is usually straightforward.
Feedback
What Customers Say
Rated 5 out of 5
“Our bedroom is in one of the old Warberries villas and the back wall bows by about an inch and a half across four metres. Two national firms measured it, quoted, then went quiet. These came, measured, and said it needed scribing rather than filling. The wardrobes go right into the corner and there is no gap anywhere. My husband keeps running his hand down the join.”
Rated 5 out of 5
“We run a bar on the harbourside and needed the counter and back fittings replaced without losing a summer weekend. They built the lot off site, came in on a Sunday night and had us trading by Tuesday lunchtime. Knowing the whole thing was made before they ever shut our doors is what sold it.”
Rated 5 out of 5
“Sash windows on the front elevation, and we are in a conservation area so it had to be timber and it had to match. They took a profile off the original, made new boxes in accoya, and the planning side went through without a query. From the pavement you genuinely cannot tell which is which.”
Rated 5 out of 5
“Two alcoves either side of the chimney, and they turned out to be 40mm different in width, which explains why the flat-pack ones we tried first never sat right. Made as a pair but to two different sets of measurements. Small thing, but it is the difference between looking fitted and looking bought.”
Rated 5 out of 5
“We let our place out over the season so everything gets hammered. I asked them to over-specify the drawer runners and they did, and told me exactly which ones so I can order spares. Three summers in, nothing has sagged. The last kitchen we had did not last two.”
Local
What To Do In Newton Abbot
Newton Abbot has more to see than its station. Three places to visit:
Bradley
Bradley's detached chapel was consecrated in 1428. The National Trust has owned the house since 1938, and tours are pre-booked.
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Decoy Country Park
Decoy's old clay pit is now a lake for sailing and canoeing, with woodland paths and a BMX track.
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Coverage
Areas We Cover
Newton Abbot is a regular stop for us. All the places we cover are listed here.
Across Torquay
- Wellswood
- The Warberries
- The Lincombes
- Chelston
- Babbacombe
- St Marychurch
- Cockington
- Shiphay
- Torre
- Ellacombe
- Livermead
- Maidencombe
And across South Devon
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Tell us which kind of villa you have
Send photos of the front, including any porch. We will identify the style, survey the joinery and price each piece.