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Modern timber Yorkshire sash windows hand crafted since 1840

Horizontal sliding sash
Perfect for Cottages
Double draught sealed

Timeless charm with modern efficiency

Introducing our exquisite range of Yorkshire Sash Windows, where traditional charm meets contemporary energy-saving technology. Yorkshire Sash Windows are a distinctive style of horizontal sliding sash window often seen in traditional North Yorkshire cottages, crafted from high-quality timber windows. These windows feature an inner sash that slides horizontally behind an outer sash, creating a unique and charming aesthetic.

Meticulously handcrafted by our skilled joiners, these windows exude the quintessential elegance of a bygone era while delivering uncompromising thermal efficiency to keep your home comfortable and your energy bills in check.

Experience the perfect harmony of timeless aesthetics and modern innovation with our bespoke Yorkshire Sash Windows.

What are Yorkshire Sash Windows?

Yorkshire sash windows, also known as horizontal sliding sash windows, are a distinctive type of window that originated in North Yorkshire. Unlike traditional vertical sash windows, these windows feature sashes that slide horizontally within the frame. This unique design not only provides excellent ventilation but also serves as a convenient fire escape. The compact nature of horizontal sliding sash windows makes them suitable for a variety of property types, from modern homes to period properties. Particularly prevalent in the North and West Yorkshire areas, these windows are a popular choice for homeowners looking to preserve the historic charm of their homes while enjoying the benefits of modern window technology.

Key Features of our Timber Yorkshire Sash Windows

Our Yorkshire sash windows combine traditional craftsmanship with modern performance, delivering both beauty and functionality. Each window is expertly crafted to enhance your home with timeless appeal and reliable durability. Key features include:

Engineered Timber Construction

Our sash windows are made from sustainably sourced, high-quality timber, ensuring both strength and long-lasting beauty for your home.

Comprehensive Manufacturer Guarantees

Enjoy peace of mind with extensive guarantees covering the performance and durability of every Yorkshire sash window we install.

Customisable Hardware

Choose from a wide selection of contemporary or traditional hardware, including stainless steel hinges, locks, and fixings as standard to complement your window style.

PAS 24 Security Hardware

Our sash windows meet PAS 24 security standards, ensuring your home is well-protected with industry-approved security features.

Authentic Timber Sections

Each window features traditionally proportioned timber sections, replicating original sash window designs, perfect for period properties and heritage projects.

Energy Efficiency

Our windows are designed to exceed building regulation requirements, offering impressive energy efficiency with low ‘U’ values, helping to reduce energy costs.

Double Glazed Units

Our double glazed units provide superior insulation, reducing draught and noise while enhancing the overall appearance of your home.

Horizontal Sliding Sashes

Designed for smooth and effortless operation, our horizontal sliding sashes offer a unique take on traditional sash windows, providing easy access and ventilation.

Benefits & features of Yorkshire sash windows

Our Yorkshire sash windows offer the perfect balance of traditional design, modern technology, and superior craftsmanship. From enhanced security and energy efficiency to fully customizable designs, our windows are built to meet the specific needs of your home while maintaining classic appeal. Below are the key benefits and corresponding features that make our windows stand out.

Quality & Craftsmanship

Experience the highest standard of design and durability with our horizontal sash windows, built to perform beautifully over time.

Engineered Timber Construction: Using high-quality, sustainably sourced timber, our windows provide exceptional strength and longevity.
Comprehensive Manufacturer Guarantees: All windows come with comprehensive guarantees, ensuring long-term performance and reliability.
Drained and Ventilated Sashes: Our sashes are designed with drainage and ventilation in mind, preventing moisture buildup and extending the lifespan of the windows.
Decorative Water Drain Detail: Efficient water management helps protect the window cill from damage, enhancing both functionality and aesthetics.
Water-Based Paint System: A weather-resistant, UV-protective paint system ensures the finish stays beautiful and durable for years to come.

Sustainability

We are committed to using eco-friendly materials and processes to minimise our environmental footprint without sacrificing quality.

Sustainably Sourced Timber: Crafted from responsibly sourced timber, our windows combine eco-consciousness with premium quality.
Eco-Friendly Paint Process: Our paint system reduces emissions while providing a durable, high-quality finish.

Customization

Tailor your Yorkshire sash windows to match your home’s style and needs with a variety of customization options.

Wide Range of Hardware: Choose from traditional or contemporary hardware, including sash lifts and locks, to complement your home’s aesthetic.
Authentic Timber Sections: Our windows feature traditionally proportioned timber sections, maintaining the historical charm of older homes.
Custom Shapes and Designs: We offer custom sash window shapes and designs to fit any architectural style or unique specifications.
Trickle Vents: Optional concealed trickle vents provide discreet ventilation while maintaining the aesthetic appeal of your windows.
Custom Paint Colors: Available in any RAL color, our windows can be customized to match your home’s interior or exterior.
Astragal Bars and Sash Horns: Optional features like astragal bars and sash horns add a traditional touch to enhance the window’s classic design.

Safety & Security

With industry-leading security features, our Yorkshire sash windows ensure your home is as safe as it is beautiful.

PAS 24 Security Hardware: Our windows meet PAS 24 standards, providing the highest level of security for your home.
Window Restrictors: Optional restrictors allow you to control the window opening range, adding an extra layer of safety for families with children.

Energy Efficiency

Designed to reduce energy consumption, our sash windows help you maintain a comfortable home year-round.

Low ‘U’ Values: With U-values below building regulation standards, our windows provide superior insulation and help lower energy costs.
Internal Beading: Enhances weatherproofing and security, ensuring long-lasting durability.
Double Draught Seals: Our windows feature double draught seals to provide exceptional thermal performance, noise reduction, and weather resistance.

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1000’s of configuration options

Accoya

This timber is the world’s leading high technology long life wood created from sustainably sourced, fast growing softwood in New Zealand. The timber has an average density of 510kg/m3.

Red Grandis

Our most commonly used hardwood timber, Red Grandis (Eucalyptus Grandis, to give it its botanical name) is a South American hardwood sourced from sustainable and carefully managed timber plantations.

Double-glazed casement window with black iron hardware

Double Glazing

Double glazing uses two panes of glass filled with insulating gas to make a window more energy-efficient. Double glazing can also reduce noise, condensation and increase security.

Heritage glazed sliding sash window in an old English terraced house

Heritage Glazing

Heritage glazing helps replicate the original look of historic houses without the need for bulky secondary glass and comes 'non-stamped'.

Leaded Glass

Gas

Spacer Bars

Thermal and Low Emissivity (Low E) Glass

Standard Glass

Toughened and Laminated Glass

Low Iron Glass

Anti – Sun Glass

Acoustic Glass

Acoustic Glass option

Obscure Glass

Decorative Glass

Cast Sash Lift

Pressed Sash Lift

Angel Lock

Round End Sash Stop

Mighton Fitch Fastener Locking

Croft Lockable Fitch Fastener

Vent Lock

From the Anvil Polished Brass Fitch Fastener

From the Anvil Fitch Fastener

From the Anvil Flush key sash stop featured

From the Anvil Key flush sash stop

From the Anvil Satin Chrome Sash Eye Lift

From the Anvil Sash Eye Lift

From the Anvil Polished Bronze sash lift

From the Anvil Sash Lift

From the Anvil Polished Chrome Square Ended Sash Pulley

From the Anvil Square Ended Sash Pulley

Using only a water-based painting system which allows timber to “breathe” and adapt to climatic changes, our finishes provide maximum protection against weathering, fungal attack and UV degradation. The water-based application significantly reduces harmful emissions and disposal issues associated with solvent based systems.

Working with our paint partner, Sikkens, we can finish in any RAL colour, stain, or match against all well known paint ranges and brands. With the ability to have different internal and external finishes, your windows and doors can be finished just as you require.

Our factory is audited quarterly to ensure that the finished product has the highest quality paint finish and performance you would expect.

Why choose Patchett for Yorkshire sash windows

Patchett has over 180 years of experience in crafting high-quality Yorkshire sash windows, blending tradition with modern innovation.

Unrivalled Craftsmanship

Our skilled joiners handcraft every window with precision, ensuring perfect fit, period details, and lasting quality.

Sustainable Practices

We use sustainably sourced timber and eco-friendly paints, offering weather protection while reducing our environmental impact.

Tailored Solutions

Every window is custom-made to suit your home’s style, with a wide range of glass, timber, and finish options.

Exceptional Customer Service

We provide expert guidance from consultation to installation, ensuring a smooth and stress-free experience.

Quality Assurance

Our windows are built to last, backed by comprehensive guarantees for your peace of mind.

Committed to Sustainability

At Patchett, sustainability is at the heart of our Yorkshire sash windows. We take eco-friendly measures in every aspect of production, from responsibly sourced materials to energy-efficient processes.

Sustainably Sourced Timber

Our windows are made from FSC®-certified timber, offering a durable, sustainable alternative to UPVC.

Recycled Timber Waste

We repurpose timber waste into briquettes that fuel our biomass boiler, ensuring zero waste in production.

Sustainable Energy Usage

Our workshop runs on renewable energy, powered by a biomass boiler and solar panels to reduce our environmental impact.

Eco-Friendly Paint Process

We use water-based paints that cut emissions, providing a greener, longer-lasting finish on every window.

Locally Manufactured in Yorkshire

All Yorkshire sash windows are crafted in our West Yorkshire workshop, minimising the carbon footprint of transportation.

Where heritage meets innovation

The history of Patchett Joinery spans nearly 200 years, starting with the establishment of a general joinery firm in Queensbury, Bradford in 1840. Today we craft timber windows and doors on the same site, using proven manufacturing techniques and the finest materials.

Skilled craftsmanship

We are proud to manufacture on site at our Yorkshire workshop using local talent and skills.

1000s of options

We have a large range of styles, paint, stain, glazing, hardware and timber options to create the best possible solution for you.

Streamlined process

Whether supply-only or supply and install, our dedicated team is here to ensure every part of the process runs smoothly.

Expert installation

Our skilled installation team have a wealth of experience and are on hand to install your newly finished products with care.

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Our extensive guarantees

At Patchett Joinery, we stand by the exceptional quality of our timber sash windows with comprehensive guarantees

Against preservative failure

50 Year manufacturer guarantee on durability (rot resistance) with Accoya timber (30 years with engineered timber)*
*subject to exposure conditions

Paint

12 years opaque and 10 years translucent with Accoya. Up to 8 years on opaque and 6 years on translucent with engineered timber.*
*subject to exposure condiions

Weather Seals

10-year* manufacturer-backed
guarantee on weather seals.
*subject to exposure conditions

Double-Glazing

10-year* manufacturer-backed guarantee on double-glazed units.
*subject to exposure conditions

Hardware

5-year* manufacturer-backed
guarantee on hardware.
*subject to exposure conditions

Our Yorkshire Sash case studies

Doorsets, Flush Casement, Listed Buildings, Sliding Sash

12th Nov 2021

St Stephens Place, Skipton

Doorsets, Flush Casement, Sliding Sash

11th Sep 2021

Sliding Sash Windows – A Period Property In Ilkley

Doorsets, Sliding Sash

18th Oct 2018

Victorian Property Renovation – Leeds

Sliding Sash

16th Feb 2017

Hardwood sliding sash windows for a victorian villa

Sliding Sash

09th Sep 2016

Accoya Sliding Sash Window Installation in Ilkley, West Yorkshire

Sliding Sash

22nd Jul 2016

Timber Sliding Sash Window installation by Patchett Joinery at Manor Farm, Shiptonthorpe, York.

Sliding Sash

28th Apr 2014

Crosshall Court, Morley, Leeds – Sliding Sash Windows

What our customers have to say

Can I take this opportunity to say for the first day of installation your team have outdone themselves. Super pleased this far. They haven’t wasted anytime and just got on. The windows themselves are brilliant.

M. Hussain

Sawley, North Yorkshire

The lads who came to install were brilliant, so professional, considerate and friendly and they are a credit to your company.

S. Koo

Harrogate

Just wanted to say again, what super service and window quality Patchett’s have given us, our new house looks amazing!

R. Jones

Todmorden

“I wanted to take a moment to express my profound appreciation for the exceptional service provided by Patchett Joinery. The installation process went extremely smoothly, and your team did a fantastic job. Both of the fitters were a pleasure to work with, demonstrating professionalism and a keen attention to detail that truly set them apart. […]

S. Taylor

Tyne & Wear

We absolutely love the windows 😊

J. Martin

Marsden

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