The Den
The Den was once a sand dune with a windmill. At its southern end stands the small limestone lighthouse of 1845.
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Is your Teignmouth house on the port side of town or facing the Den?
Sashes, dormer windows and panelled front doors for the Georgian streets near the estuary and the listed terraces along the seafront
After the French burned much of Teignmouth in 1690, the town rebuilt itself in two directions. The port grew up on the estuary side, and its Georgian houses still stand on narrow plots along Teign Street and French Street. A century later, the fashionable resort took shape facing the sea, with Den Crescent in 1826 and the more elaborate Powderham Terrace some forty years after. The windows tell you which side you are on. Small-paned sashes and modest panelled doors in the old port streets; tall, stacked sashes and, on Powderham, a roofline of dormers along the front. Teignbridge District Council looks after both, through the Town Centre and St James conservation areas. We make timber windows and doors for each.
Arrange A Teignmouth Survey
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
Georgian streets and seafront terraces
Teignmouth rebuilt itself in two directions: Georgian houses on narrow plots by the estuary, and later the listed terraces along the seafront. Their sashes and doors differ.
Luke has been doing joinery since childhood, in a family where the trade runs. Knowing which details belong to which street is learned over a long time. He and the team make sashes, dormers and panelled doors to suit.
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Teignmouth
Port streets and resort terraces
Teign Street and French Street are older and quieter than the seafront, and their Georgian houses are smaller, with sashes in proportion to their narrow fronts and modest panelled doors. These houses are often overlooked next to the grand terraces, but a run of original sashes and doors along Teign Street is as much part of the conservation area as the Den. Northumberland Place, close by, has some of the best old shopfronts in town.
On the seafront, Powderham Terrace is Italianate and busy, and its dormers are as much a part of its design as the sashes below them. A dormer window that does not match is easy to spot from the Den. Inside these divided terraces, the upper and lower flats have their own storage problems, which our page about fitted wardrobes in Teignmouth covers.
The Case For It
Timber window and door work for Teignmouth
Georgian sashes for the port streets
Small-paned sashes copied for the narrow houses of Teign Street and French Street, at the right scale for their fronts.
Dormers along Powderham
Dormer casements and sashes made to the pattern of the terrace, so the roofline reads as one again.
Street doors that last
Panelled front doors for the old port streets, with durable bottom rails and drained sills.
Made for an east-facing front
Seafront joinery in accoya, sealed on every face, with stainless or bronze ironmongery.
Ready for listed building consent
Drawings and profiles for the listed terraces, including Den Crescent and Powderham Terrace.
Fitted from where we can reach
Upper floors and dormers planned for tower or scaffold access before the frames are made.
Before You Choose
Questions for a window maker in Teignmouth
Ask whether they know which conservation area your street is in. Teignmouth Town Centre and Teignmouth St James are both managed by Teignbridge, and each has its own appraisal worth reading before you design anything.
For a dormer on Powderham Terrace or a similar roofline, ask how the new window will be drawn against its neighbours. Dormers are seen from a long way off, and small differences show.
For a house on Teign Street, ask about scale. The sashes there are smaller than the seafront ones, and a maker who works mostly on big villas may draw bars and rails too heavy for a narrow Georgian front.
Compared
Teignmouth windows: port side versus seafront
The two halves of Teignmouth need different window work. This table shows how we usually approach each.
| Teign Street and French Street | Den Crescent | Powderham Terrace | Newer streets outside the centre | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Typical windows | Small-paned Georgian sashes | Tall, plain sashes | Sashes and dormers | Casements |
| Exposure | More sheltered | High, facing the sea | High, facing the sea | Varies |
| Listed | Some | Yes | Yes | Rarely |
| Timber we suggest | Engineered softwood | Accoya | Accoya | Engineered softwood |
| Access | Ladder or tower | Scaffold for upper floors | Scaffold for dormers | Usually easy |
| Relative cost | Middle | Upper | Upper | Lower |
Our Process
Window and door work in Teignmouth
Every Teignmouth window or door goes through these seven steps. Listed buildings add a consent stage before making.
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Survey
We inspect each window and door, inside and out, and check the cills and bottom rails for rot.
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Pattern recorded
Glazing bars, rails and mouldings are taken off your windows or a matching neighbour and drawn full size.
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Consent
We tell you which conservation area applies and prepare drawings for Teignbridge if consent is needed.
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Specification
Timber and fittings chosen by exposure, with accoya on the sea-facing fronts.
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Making
Windows and doors made at Barton from conditioned timber and test-fitted.
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Finishing
Primed and painted in the workshop, in a colour that suits the terrace.
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Fitting
Fitted from tower or scaffold as planned, sealed and adjusted. We come back after the winter easterlies 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 Teignmouth
£1,400 – £9,000
per opening, made and fitted
Small Georgian sashes on Teign Street sit in the middle of our per-opening range. Tall seafront sashes in accoya and dormers on Powderham Terrace sit near the top, mostly because of access. Front doors fall in between. For timber and glazing options, visit our timber 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 priceScaffold on the Den
Upper floors and dormers on Den Crescent and Powderham Terrace usually need scaffold, which can cost as much as the window repair.
Parking near Teign Street
The old port streets are narrow, so deliveries are planned for quieter times.
Listed terraces
Exact copies and consent drawings add design time before making.
Questions
Teignmouth window and door questions
- Who decides on new windows in Teignmouth's old town?
- Teignbridge District Council, which manages the Teignmouth Town Centre and Teignmouth St James conservation areas. Listed terraces such as Den Crescent and Powderham Terrace need listed building consent for almost any change to windows or doors. Flats have no householder permitted development rights. Read the conservation area appraisals on Teignbridge's website before ordering.
- Can you make dormer windows for a Teignmouth terrace?
- Yes. We copy the pattern of the original dormers on the terrace and make the new ones to sit in line with their neighbours.
- Are the Georgian houses on Teign Street protected too?
- Many sit inside a conservation area, and some are listed. Their sashes and doors matter to the character of the street as much as the seafront terraces do.
- Does the east-facing seafront change the timber you use?
- Yes. Windows facing the Den take wind and spray off the sea, so we use accoya, seal every joint and fit stainless or bronze fittings.
- Can you make a front door that copes with Teignmouth weather?
- Yes. We make the bottom rail in durable timber, add a weatherboard and slope the sill so rain runs away from the door.
- Do you also repair shopfronts on Northumberland Place?
- We do, as part of our commercial joinery, repairing old fronts and remaking missing parts to match.
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 Teignmouth
Teignmouth's seafront and river side are both worth a walk. Three places to stop:
Teign Heritage Centre
Opposite the station on French Street, the Teign Heritage Centre shows finds from the Church Rocks wreck, a Venetian ship found in 1975.
Learn more about Teign Heritage Centre on Google Maps
Back Beach And The Shaldon Ferry
The Shaldon ferry leaves from the Back Beach, a crossing traced to 1296. Its boats still carry painted mock gunports.
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Coverage
Areas We Cover
Teignmouth is one of the Teignbridge towns we cover. You will find all our areas below.
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 side of town you are on
Send photos of the front, including any dormers. We will survey, record the pattern and price each window and door.