The Original Sash Window

Based in the heart of beautiful Dorset, The Original Sash Window Company are truly passionate about sash windows. With hundreds of windows under our belt our talented, dedicated team and support staff can help to bring the original elegance back to your sash windows. At The Original Sash Window Company: our site operatives are trained joiners, people who have made windows from scratch. Our surveyors are sash window craftsmen with hands on experience (even picking up the tools again when we get really busy!).

The origins of the vertical sliding sash window are the source of much debate, with the earliest, in a very primitive form dating back to Europe in the 13th Century as little more than a vertical timber sliding shutter. Although the word 'sash' is actually derived from the French chassis meaning a frame, there's little argument that the sash window is traditionally British and closely associated with our Georgian, Victorian and Edwardian architecture. In fact, many conservation historians believe that the design is probably derived from the simple horizontal sliding sash, more commonly known as the Yorkshire Sash.