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Glass Extensions in Yorkshire
We built a glass link joining two buildings in the Yorkshire Dales, and that is the work we are known for here — glazed connections between farmhouses, barns and outbuildings, and full-height glazing into stone openings. Designed for Dales weather and for National Park planning.
Joining Old Stone Buildings With Glass
The classic Yorkshire problem is a farmhouse and a barn, or a house and an outbuilding, standing a few metres apart and needing to become one home. Building between them in stone almost always looks wrong and rarely gets through planning, because it pretends the two structures were always joined.
A glazed link solves it properly. It connects the two buildings while making it completely obvious that they were separate, it touches the historic fabric minimally, and it is reversible. That is exactly the argument conservation officers and National Park planners respond to — and it is why glass links are one of the few genuinely modern interventions that get approved in protected landscapes.
We built one in the Yorkshire Dales, and several more across Lancashire and the North West. It is the detail we are asked for most on rural work, and the one we have refined most.
The Dales and the Lancashire uplands share the same building stock — stone farmhouses, field barns, slate and stone-flag roofs, thick walls with openings that have settled over two hundred years. We survey and measure every one on site.
Why Yorkshire clients work with us
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Completed glass link joining two buildings in the Yorkshire Dales
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Glazed links between farmhouses and barns are our most refined detail
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Experienced with National Park and National Landscape planning
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Familiar with the 2023 North Yorkshire Council reorganisation
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High thermal and wind-load specification for exposed Dales sites
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Over 45 years designing and fitting bespoke structural glazing
What We Design and Install
Every project is made to measure. These are the systems best suited to Yorkshire properties:
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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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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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Our Yorkshire and Comparable Work
In the Yorkshire Dales we designed and installed a glass link joining two separate buildings — the detail that defines this page. Alongside it, our closest comparable work is the rural portfolio just over the Pennines: a glass link corridor at Popes Farm, a glass link and office extension, and a full glazing package at Lower Hud Farm, all in Lancashire, plus glass room extensions in the Peak District.
Yorkshire is a large and varied county. The Dales and the North York Moors are stone-and-slate upland country. Harrogate, Ilkley and the spa towns run to substantial Victorian villas. Leeds, Bradford and the West Yorkshire towns are millstone grit terraces and warehouse conversions where slim steel glazing sits naturally. York itself has a listed building density comparable to Chester.
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Areas We Cover Across Yorkshire
We work across the county, with the Dales closest to us:
- Settle, Skipton, Grassington, Malham and the Yorkshire Dales
- Harrogate, Ilkley, Otley and Wetherby
- Ripon, Knaresborough, Nidderdale and Pateley Bridge
- Leeds, Bradford, Halifax and the West Yorkshire towns
- York, Thirsk, Northallerton and the North York Moors
National Parks and the North Yorkshire Reorganisation
Two things are worth knowing before you start. First, in April 2023 North Yorkshire Council became a single unitary authority, replacing North Yorkshire County Council and the seven district councils including Craven, Harrogate and Richmondshire. Advice referring you to those districts is out of date. York remains separate under City of York Council, and West Yorkshire's authorities — Leeds, Bradford, Kirklees, Calderdale and Wakefield — are separate again.
Second, the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority and the North York Moors National Park Authority are the planning authorities within their own boundaries. Their policies on landscape character, materials and visual impact are markedly more restrictive than the surrounding councils', and permitted development rights are more limited. The Dales boundary was extended westwards in 2016, so more properties fall inside it than many owners realise.
There are also National Landscapes at Nidderdale and the Howardian Hills, and a great many listed farmhouses and field barns across the Dales, frequently with curtilage listing that catches out owners planning work on an adjacent outbuilding.
In all of these, the reversible, obviously modern glazed link is one of the more approvable ways to connect or extend a protected stone building. We will give you an honest read at survey stage.
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.
- Working into stone. Forming and making good openings in thick rubble walls is frequently a bigger job than the glazing, and settled buildings need bespoke measurement throughout.
- Thermal and wind-load specification. Exposed Dales sites justify a higher specification than a sheltered plot, and it is not the place to economise.
- Planning route. A National Park application takes longer and needs more design work than a standard application to North Yorkshire Council.
- Access. Single-track lanes, field gates and soft ground can make a crane lift the most awkward part of a Dales project.
Send us your drawings, or even a photo of the buildings, and we will give you a realistic budget range before you spend anything.
Glass Extensions in Yorkshire — Common Questions
Yes — it is the detail we are asked for most on rural work and we completed exactly that in the Yorkshire Dales. A glazed link connects the two buildings while keeping it obvious they were always separate, touches the historic fabric minimally and is reversible, which is usually what makes it approvable in a National Park or conservation setting.
Start Your Yorkshire Project
Whether it is a glass link joining a farmhouse and barn near Grassington, full-height glazing into a field barn conversion, or a glass box extension in Harrogate, 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.