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Aluminium Bifold Doors
Designed to complement any style of property our range of bespoke aluminium bi-folding doors will completely transform the look of your home.
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Architectural Glazing in Chester
Chester is one of the most heavily protected historic cities in Britain, and that shapes everything about glazing here. We design and install structural glass extensions, glazed links and slim steel windows that sit honestly alongside historic fabric rather than imitating it. Nineteen miles from our workshop in Aintree.
Modern Glass in a Historic City
Chester has the most complete Roman and medieval city walls in Britain, the Rows, and a listed building density that few English cities come close to. Add a conservation area covering much of the centre and a great deal of the surrounding villages, and almost nothing here is a straightforward permitted development job.
That sounds like an argument against glass. In practice it is often the opposite. Conservation officers are generally more receptive to a clearly modern, lightweight, reversible glass addition than to a brick or timber extension imitating a period the building never belonged to. Glass makes the distinction between old and new completely legible, touches the historic fabric minimally, and can usually be removed without leaving a trace. That is the language planning and conservation officers actually use, and it is the argument we help you make.
Slim steel windows work for the opposite reason: on a Georgian or Victorian Chester property, fine steel sections often restore proportions that heavier modern replacements destroyed.
Why Chester clients work with us
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Experienced with listed buildings and conservation area constraints
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Slim-sightline steel windows suited to Georgian and Victorian properties
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Frameless glazing that reads as an honest, reversible modern addition
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Over 45 years designing and fitting bespoke structural glazing
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Our own workshop and installation teams — no subcontractors
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Nineteen miles from our Aintree workshop
What We Design and Install
Every project is made to measure. These are the systems most relevant to Chester properties:
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Panoramic Sliding Doors
The minimal frame utilised in this range has a mere 20mm interlock between sashes, allowing virtually uncluttered views from within the property.
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Cortizo Sliding Doors - Cor Vison -
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Glass Box Extensions
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Internal Steel Screens
Steel screens & doors can create a contemporary or authentic historic style. Your steel windows can be as bespoke as your property.
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Aluminium Windows
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Our Work Near Chester
We have not yet completed a project inside Chester itself, and we would rather say so than dress up somebody else's work as ours. What we have done is the directly relevant work close by: bespoke glazing across Cheshire including a structural glass entrance at Marple and a glass box extension at Wilmslow, slimline sliding doors and a glass balustrade on a Welsh property a short distance over the border, and extensive work on listed and period rural buildings throughout Lancashire and the North West.
Chester's housing stock runs from Georgian and Victorian townhouses in the centre and Curzon Park, through the black-and-white revival architecture the city is known for, to substantial detached houses out at Upton, Christleton, Tarvin and Tarporley, and converted farm buildings across the surrounding countryside. The rural work in particular is very close to what we do most often.
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Steel Look Alike Doors
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Project Overview — Custom Cortizo Doors & Balustrade, Lancashire
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Lower Hud Farm
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Glass Link & Office
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Glulam Frame Glass Box Extension
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Glass Link
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Areas We Cover In and Around Chester
We work across the city and the surrounding area, including:
- Chester city centre, Curzon Park, Handbridge and Boughton
- Upton, Newton, Vicars Cross and Christleton
- Tarvin, Tarporley, Kelsall and Waverton
- Frodsham, Helsby, Northwich and Winsford
- Ellesmere Port, Neston and the Welsh border villages
Listed Buildings, the Conservation Area and Planning in Chester
Cheshire West and Chester Council is the planning authority. Chester itself has an unusually large number of listed buildings, and the central conservation area covers a substantial part of the historic core, including the walls and the Rows.
If your property is listed, you will need listed building consent as well as planning permission, and that consent is concerned with the impact on the building's special interest — not just how it looks from the street. This is where the reversibility of a glass structure genuinely helps: an addition that can be removed without damaging historic fabric is a fundamentally easier case to argue than one that cannot.
Within the conservation area but not listed, permitted development rights are usually restricted and full planning permission will normally be required. Outside the city, there are conservation areas across the surrounding villages, and Green Belt land covers much of the land between Chester and the Merseyside boundary.
We will give you an honest read at survey stage on whether we think a design will get through, and what would need to change if not.
What Affects the Cost?
Every project is priced individually, but the things that move the number most are consistent:
- Pane size. Cost per square metre rises sharply once panels exceed what two people can lift, because you are then into crane hire.
- City centre access. A crane lift in central Chester means traffic management and often a road closure. On a Rows-adjacent property this can be the single biggest variable.
- Steel versus aluminium. True steel sections give the slimmest sightlines and suit a period property best, but cost more than steel-look aluminium.
- Listed building work. Bespoke detailing to satisfy conservation requirements takes more design time, and the consent process takes longer.
- Structure below the glass. Steels, foundations and groundworks are frequently a bigger share of the budget than the glazing itself.
Send us your drawings, or even a photo of the elevation, and we will give you a realistic budget range before you spend anything.
Architectural Glazing in Chester — Common Questions
Often, yes. You will need listed building consent as well as planning permission, and the case rests on minimal intervention into historic fabric and reversibility — both of which a well-detailed glass structure does better than a masonry extension. We will give you an honest assessment before you commit to drawings.
Start Your Chester Project
Whether it is a glazed link on a listed property near the walls, steel windows for a Georgian townhouse in Curzon Park, or a glass box extension out at Christleton, we would like to see it. Call us on 0151 523 3131, or send over your plans and we will come back with honest advice and a realistic budget.