32 Heritage Windows and 4 Doors, Stone Self Build

This was our largest single self-build package of 2025: a newly constructed stone house in West Yorkshire, glazed from ground floor to gable in aluminium Heritage windows and doors. The client had built the property from foundation upwards and wanted glazing that read as traditional steel — narrow frames, fine glazing bars, black throughout — while performing to modern new-build standards.

Thirty-two windows and four doors were specified across four elevations. Because the house was being built around the openings rather than the other way around, we were involved early, agreeing sizes and structural openings with the builder before the stonework rose.

Georgian bar layouts were set out window by window so that the bar spacing stayed visually consistent whether the opening was a tall stairwell light, a paired casement or one of the triangular gable windows. That consistency is what makes a self build read as though it has always been there.

The triangular gable glazing to both gables and the tall, narrow full-height light beside the rear entrance are the two details that lift the elevation. Both are fixed units, sized to the stone rather than to a standard, and both were surveyed on site once the stone had been dressed.

Externally the black frames sit against warm honey-coloured gritstone; internally the same slim sightlines keep the rooms bright and the views to the trees uninterrupted.