32 Heritage Windows and 4 Doors, Stone Self Build

A newly constructed stone self build, glazed from ground floor to gable in aluminium Heritage windows and doors that read as traditional steel — narrow frames, fine glazing bars, black throughout — while performing to modern new-build standards.

Newly built stone house in West Yorkshire.

A live self-build programme with 36 openings across four elevations, all in newly dressed stone, several of them non-standard shapes — triangular gables and a full-height narrow light — with no tolerance for cumulative setting-out error across the elevation.

Early involvement with the builder to agree structural opening sizes, then a full measured survey of every opening after the stonework was complete and before manufacture. Georgian bar layouts were drawn as a set rather than window by window, so bar spacing aligns horizontally across each elevation, and the non-standard gable and side-light units were manufactured to survey.

• Thirty-two windows and four doors specified across four elevations, with sizes agreed before the stonework rose
• Georgian bar spacing kept visually consistent across stairwell lights, paired casements and gable windows
• Fixed triangular gable glazing to both gables, sized to the stone and surveyed once dressed
• A tall, narrow full-height light beside the rear entrance
• Black frames against warm honey-coloured gritstone, with slim sightlines keeping rooms bright

The largest single self-build package of 2025: a new stone house that reads as though it has always been there, with uninterrupted views to the trees from inside.

No planning or conservation requirements are recorded for this project.