Windows & Doors in Crewe

Crewe is unusual among Cheshire towns in that it was planned rather than grown. From the 1840s the railway company laid out housing as part of a single settlement, which is why so much of the older stock repeats the same frontage over long, uninterrupted runs.

The earliest company cottages — around Tollitt Street, Dorfold Street and Betley Street — were built from about 1848 with two-light horizontally sliding sashes, stone sills and flat chamfered arches, plus single-light casements in the porch gables. That horizontal sliding pattern is unusual and worth matching rather than quietly swapping for a standard side-hung casement.

Because the terraces are so uniform, one mismatched replacement is visible from the far end of the street. We measure against the original opening pattern and talk through what will still look right alongside the neighbours, whether that is a sculptured uPVC casement or a flush profile that sits level with the brickwork.

Outside the historic core, Crewe has a large stock of post-war and modern estate housing where standard replacements are entirely normal and the job is simply about performance and price.