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@Graham Hickey wrote:
Ah – seeing that up close, it is concievable that it’s original – not an expert in stained glass though!
What about your front door – please don’t say that’s gone too…No, 🙂 it’s just hidden behind that attractive grey aluminium storm door which will be coming down forthwith…
GP
Aha, also just noticed that the stained glass at the top of my dwnstairs windows contains the same pattern as the glass in the neighbours’ front door… (as per composite picture attached). I feel like a detective now!
GP
Didn’t speak to the neighbours yet – building work going on in our house 😉
This picture shows the stained glass detailing in their front door – which is similar to ours (as far as I can recall).
GP
FYI, Here are a couple of pics I took at the weekend. First one (front.jpg) is our house, showing aluminium windows currently in place, with stained glass at top. Note that the neighbours have reproduced the smaller window in a PVC style.
I have also attached a picture of an original (?) sash window from the road (albeit a house of a different style). Looks unusual – is this likely to have been the same as our house?
GP
Thanks for all the advice Graham.
Our house is semi detached – there are two (different) semi-detached pairs on the road, one detached and the rest are all terraced. Good idea to ask the neighbours – I’ll see if they can remember. The casement windows may well be the answer – however, I haven’t seen anything like this on the road – even most of the PVC/Aluminium replacements are just the simple one-over-one style.
Unfortunately the persion we bought from is either extremely old or (more likely) not even around anymore so that’s not going to be a possibility 🙂
Thanks again, GP
The houses on the road differ slightly in style (some terraced, some semi-d, some detached, some bay window, some box window, some just flat fronted), so I’m not sure that the originals that are there can be relied on… One thing that is throwing me off is that there is a small pane of stained glass (which seems to be original) built into the aluminium replacements. The aluminium windows at front are dived horizontally about a quarter of the way down, with the top quarter (which opens) in stained glass.
There is a house on the road which seems to have a sash window (which looks original) where the top sash is divided in two, with the upper half stained glass. Does this sound like a regular feature of the period?
I have been advised to check the National Archives for old photos of the road, so I might try that.
Finally, any suggestions of good joiners places to go to get the sash windows made up?
Thanks, GP
