Sash windows around Sevenoaks: the town and nine villages

Sevenoaks itself is the main patch: Hartslands, Granville Road, the Vine Court Road houses, Kippington and the High Street. The town grew around the market founded in 1207 and then northward after Bat and Ball station opened in 1862, which is why so much of it is Victorian and Edwardian brick with sashes. After the Wildernesse estate was sold in 1924, Arts and Crafts houses went up there, and these usually have casements rather than sashes.

Around the town, the villages each have their own conservation area and their own mix of materials: ragstone and tile-hanging in Chipstead and Seal, red brick and Kent peg tiles in Otford and Brasted, a market square of sashes in Westerham. Each page below sets out what the council's appraisal says and what tends to suit.