Old Oxted, New Oxted and Hurst Green are three different glazing jobs
Old Oxted's cottages carry leaded lights and small-pane casements, plenty of them listed, while the sealed units across the Hurst Green estates are reaching the end of their life together. Both are work for a glazier in Oxted. JM Glass & Glazing cover RH8 from 24 Waddon Close in Waddon, Croydon CR0 4JT, fourteen miles down the A22 and A25, re-leading panels, remaking misted units and cutting glass for the Station Road frontages.
Oxted is three towns sitting on top of each other, and the glass in each one is a different problem. Old Oxted is the medieval core: timber-framed cottages from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century climbing a narrow hill under weathered pantiles. The openings there are small, often leaded, and frequently in a listed building. New Oxted only exists because the railway arrived in 1884, and what went up afterwards was built in Tudor style on purpose, much of it stucco-fronted. Hurst Green is post-war and 1960s to 70s estate housing, and it fails in an entirely different way.
Leaded lights, small-pane casements and the mock-Tudor frontage
Station Road West is a continuous mock-Tudor run and has been a conservation area since 1990. Behind those frontages, and through the older streets of Limpsfield, the glazing is leaded lights, small-pane casements and oriel windows. Those we repair rather than replace. A cracked quarry gets cut out and re-leaded, a bowed panel comes out to be flattened and re-cemented, and a putty-glazed timber casement is reglazed in the frame it has always had. On a listed cottage in Old Oxted, secondary glazing usually beats a replacement window: the original glass stays and there is no new frame to argue about.
Hurst Green, where the sealed units have gone together
The estate housing at Hurst Green, and the Edwardian and interwar semis on the roads climbing towards the Downs, are where misted double glazing in Oxted comes from. Units fitted through the eighties and nineties have reached the end of their life at much the same time, so one grey pane in a bay is hardly ever the only one. We measure the failed unit, have a new one made and swap the glass over. Frame, hinges and handles stay exactly where they are.
Out at Limpsfield Chart, Holland and Tandridge the houses are large and detached on wooded plots (roughly 28 per cent of homes in the parish are detached), and all of it sits inside the Surrey Hills AONB. The work there is new glass more often than repairs: roof lanterns, orangery glazing, bi-fold and structural panes, stair and terrace balustrades. Edge Building Products made us their Installation of the Month for July 2025 after a roof light refurbishment, 44 shaped double-glazed units set into Edge 50mm capped aluminium glazing bars. That is the sort of job the Chart throws up.
- Misted double glazing. The failed unit measured, remade and swapped into the frame you already have. Sealed unit replacement is most of what we do in Hurst Green and New Oxted.
- Glass replacement in Oxted. Cracked and broken panes in timber, aluminium and uPVC: float, toughened and laminated glass, cut to the opening.
- Window repairs across RH8. Hinges, handles, locks, beading and putty on windows that are not ready to be thrown away yet.
- Leaded lights and heritage panels. Re-leaded where they can be saved, remade to match where they cannot, with secondary glazing behind them in listed buildings.
- Glass cut to size in Oxted. Toughened, laminated, obscure, low-iron and mirror: shelves, table tops, cabinet fronts, greenhouse and shed panes, door panels.
- Showers, splashbacks and mirrors. Frameless shower screens, toughened splashbacks and made-to-measure mirrors for the kitchen and bathroom refits out here.
- Broken glass. Boarded up first, measured glass after, see emergency glazier.
Oxted's trade sits either side of the railway. Station Road East and Station Road West are joined under the line by the station subway, with the supermarket and the leisure centre on that side. Station Road West is the heritage pitch: the mock-Tudor parade, the Everyman Cinema with its 1920s fittings still in the bar, and a run of independents and restaurants. Old Oxted High Street adds pubs and shops in listed buildings. Hurst Green and Limpsfield have their own smaller parades, and Tandridge District Council's offices and the town's professional occupiers account for most of the larger commercial glass.
A shop front on Station Road West is not an off-the-shelf job. The pane is usually toughened and often large, the frontage sits inside a conservation area, and the shop has to be trading again in the morning. We board up the same evening where we can, measure once the shutters are down, and come back to fit the new glass. The same goes for door panels, internal screens and office partitions off Station Road East.
Four conservation areas, and what they mean for your windows
There are more here than most people realise. The Oxted Conservation Area covers the historic centre on its steep narrow road and was designated in 1972. Limpsfield Village went the same year, with its boundaries amended in 2022. Station Road West followed in 1990, and so did Broadham Green and Spring Lane, which runs to about 31 hectares. Inside any of them, and on any listed building, you cannot simply swap timber for uPVC. The glazing has to match what is already there. That is exactly why glass work beats frame replacement in these streets.
A straight word on certification, because plenty of firms are vague about it. We are not on a self-certification scheme, so we cannot sign off a replacement window or door under Building Regulations ourselves. Where a job needs it, that goes through Tandridge District Council building control and we fit to what they specify. Almost none of our Oxted work goes near it: new glass into an existing frame, a replacement sealed unit, glass cut to size, a mirror, a shower screen, a balustrade.
Getting to Oxted from Waddon, and when we are the wrong call
We work out of 24 Waddon Close in Croydon, about fourteen miles off. The run is Purley Way to Purley, the A22 Godstone Road through Whyteleafe and Caterham, then east on the A25 from Godstone, three-quarters of an hour when the M25 junction behaves. For Limpsfield and the Chart we drop down Titsey Hill instead. If you are up a long wooded drive, tell us about the access before the glass is cut.
We will be straight about the distance, because it matters. Oxted has glaziers of its own, and at two in the morning for one small broken pane they will reach you before we do. What we take on out here is work that justifies the run: a whole house of misted units, leaded panels that need remaking, a shop front, a balustrade, an extension's worth of glass. We do still come out to a break-in (emergency glazier work in RH8 means boarding up first and fitting measured glass after), and we aim to make a property safe the same day where we can. Jason has spent his working life in the glazing trade, we are rated 5.0 on Google, and we will tell you on the phone whether we are the right people for the job.
Glazing services we provide in Oxted
Give us the sizes and we will price the glass on the phone. If you would rather we measured, we will come out to RH8 and do it, and the measure costs nothing.
Areas near Oxted
We also cover Caterham, Woldingham, Reigate, Redhill, Godstone. See every area on our areas covered page.
Frequently Asked Questions
About fourteen miles. We come down the A22 Godstone Road through Whyteleafe and Caterham, then east on the A25 from Godstone, which is roughly three-quarters of an hour. We are not going to pretend we are round the corner. We cover RH8 properly for work that justifies the trip, and we will say on the phone if a job is too small to be worth your while.
Yes, and that is usually the right answer there. A misted pane means the sealed unit has failed, not the window. We measure the unit, have a new one made and fit it into the frame you already have, with the hinges and handles untouched. It looks the same afterwards and costs a fraction of new windows. If the frame itself has gone, we will say so.
Less than you might hope, so check before ordering anything. Station Road West has been a conservation area since 1990 and the mock-Tudor frontages are the reason for it. Replacement glazing there normally has to match what is already in the opening: pane sizes, leading, the lot. Tandridge District Council are the people to ask, and we will fit to whatever they agree.
Usually. The cottages on Old Oxted's High Street run from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century and many are listed, so the aim is to keep the original panel. A cracked quarry can be cut out and re-leaded; a bowed panel can come out, be flattened and re-cemented. Where a panel is past saving we remake it to match. Listed building consent may still apply.
Yes. Toughened, laminated, obscure, low-iron and mirror, cut to your measurements: shelves, table tops, cabinet fronts, greenhouse and shed panes, door panels. Give us the size and the thickness over the phone and we can price it there and then, which saves a twenty-eight mile round trip just to measure. If you would rather we measured it, we will.
We do come out, but be realistic about the distance. Oxted has local glaziers who will beat us to a single broken pane in the small hours. Ring 07956 138 582, tell us what has happened, and we will say honestly whether we are the quickest option. Where we can, we make the property safe the same day and fit the measured glass after.
Both. We cut float, toughened, laminated, obscure, low-iron and mirror to size, and we also match leaded quarries in the small-pane casements around Old Oxted and Limpsfield. Toughened is what goes into the Station Road frontages, shower screens and balustrades; low-iron suits the roof lanterns and bi-folds on the big detached houses at Limpsfield Chart and Holland, where the panes are larger and often shaped. Anything going into a listed opening is made to match the original.
We do not fit new windows or frames. We are a glazier, and the glass is the part that usually fails. On the Hurst Green estates and the interwar semis climbing towards the Downs, the timber or uPVC is generally sound and a new pane or sealed unit puts it right for far less money and disruption. In the listed cottages up Old Oxted's hill, secondary glazing normally beats a new window. Where the frame itself has gone, you want a firm that fits frames; we do not.