Sussex Bond Terrace, Lewes

When three neighbours in a Lewes terrace approached us together, the project shape was unusual — a single brief across three freeholds, managed as one site for efficiency and visual coherence. 42 sash windows, 130 linear metres of Sussex bond pointing, and a shared goal of making the three houses look like the row they had been in 1822.

Each sash was removed to our workshop, stripped of modern paint, dismantled to its component parts, and rebuilt. Where glazing bars had been replaced with thicker twentieth-century profiles, we milled new bars to the original sections from a reference house around the corner. Glazing is restored crown glass where surviving; new panes are drawn glass from a single supplier to keep the optical wobble consistent across the three houses.

All paint is linseed oil in a traditional off-white, with a Brunswick green sill edge that survived on one of the houses as a reference trace.