Albourne windows for The Street and the Green
The Street, Albourne Green and the lanes off the Henfield Road
Two settlements that became one
Albourne's church stands in the middle of the parish with no old village around it. The Victoria County History describes the main settlement, Albourne Street, about half a mile to the north-east, with around 13 houses in 1681, and suggests it may have been laid out on purpose. Albourne Green, some 300 yards further north, had three or four houses then. New houses along both in the later 19th and 20th centuries joined them up by the mid-20th century.
Old houses on The Street
Gallops, on the east side, is a late medieval hall house with a 17th-century cross wing; its door carries the date 1661. Goldsmiths, at Albourne Green, is a 15th-century open-hall house, later faced in brick. Woodpeckers, built in 1918, mixes half-timbering and hung tiles, and four brick cottages went up at High Cross around 1925.
Mid Sussex designated part of the village as a conservation area in 1989, centred on the southern end of The Street where most of the listed buildings are. The parish's neighbourhood plan notes that its edges open onto countryside to the south and west, and that the south-west corner of the parish lies in the South Downs National Park.
Windows for a house in Albourne?
A quarter of an hour on the phone covers the house, the options and the planning position in Albourne.
Roads
The B2116 Henfield Road runs east to west through the parish, and the B2118, the old A23, runs north to south. The London to Brighton road along the eastern boundary was a turnpike from 1808 to 1880.
What this means for your windows
Most houses outside the conservation area can take similar-looking replacements without an application. On The Street, the timber-framed and brick houses need care with proportions and bar patterns, and listed ones need consent. If your house is in the National Park corner of the parish, the National Park Authority is the one to ask.