Joiners in Bolsover

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# Joiners in Bolsover

New Bolsover is listed, which changes the question

Most heritage streets round here sit inside a conservation area and no more. New Bolsover goes further. The model village terraces are individually listed at Grade II in their own right.

Numbers 83 to 97 odd, Old Bolsover, together with the attached and associated back yard walls, were listed on 23 March 1989. Other terraces in the village hold their own entries, among them numbers 136 to 150, numbers 159 to 173, and the former Co operative Village Stores with numbers 1 to 5. The village was listed in two tranches, in 1989 and in 2004.

Listed building consent is not planning permission, and it is the stronger requirement of the two. Planning permission concerns development. Listed building consent concerns the historic fabric of the building itself. On a listed frontage the consent question arrives whatever the size of the job, and it does not go away because the change looks small from the pavement.

The list entry says what the windows were

There is a rare advantage to working here. For these terraces the joinery is written into the statutory list description, so nobody has to guess at the original.

The entry for that terrace of eight colliery workers' cottages, dated to about 1891 to 1894, records each pair as having two three light casement windows in ashlar surrounds, flanked by doorways with ashlar lintels, panelled doors and overlights. Above sit two two light cross casements under chamfered ashlar lintels. The casements are recorded with small pane glazing. The terrace is red brick with ashlar dressings under Welsh slate with decorative ridge cresting, two storeys with attics, a decorative first floor band and a saw tooth eaves cornice, in symmetrical pairs.

That is a specification, not a hint. We work from the opening, the ashlar surround and any surviving original section, and set the glazing bars to what is there rather than to a catalogue.

Two hundred houses to one pattern

The village was begun in 1891 by the Bolsover Mining Company and completed in 1896 by the Bolsover Colliery Company, to designs by Arthur Brewill and Basil Baily of Nottingham. Two hundred houses for miners and colliery officials, laid out in a double horseshoe around a central green, in terraces of eight, two storeys with attics, red brick under Welsh slate, gabled dormers with two light casements, each house with an enclosed back yard. A school, a co operative store, allotments and a recreation ground came with it, built on Garden Suburb principles.

The repetition is the character. Hundreds of near identical openings in one planned composition means a badly matched frame does not stop at the house it is in. It reads down the whole terrace.

Elsewhere in the district it is less clear

Bolsover District has 27 or 28 conservation areas depending which council document you open. The Historic Environment supplementary planning document, consultation draft of February 2026, lists 27, Bolsover among them, alongside Creswell Village and Model Village, Pleasley Village, Palterton, Scarcliffe, Stony Houghton and Whitwell. The council's own conservation areas page says 28.

The district also publishes Article 4 Directions: one for Bolsover (Castle Fields), and others for Bolsover town centre, Belph, Creswell, Creswell Model Village, Hardstoft, and Hardwick and Rowthorne. The council's dataset description says directions of that type can restrict work such as window and door alterations, roof modifications, exterior painting or rendering, and boundary wall changes.

We have not been able to open the schedules of the Bolsover directions, so we do not know which rights each one withdraws, and we will not pretend otherwise.

Who confirms it, and when

Three positions exist inside one small town. A listed New Bolsover terrace is a listed building consent question. A house in the town conservation area but not listed is an Article 4 question, with a schedule we cannot yet vouch for. A house outside both is a third case. Which one applies is decided address by address, and two neighbours in the same row are not guaranteed to fall the same way.

Bolsover District Council's conservation team settles that, not us and not an installer. Ask them to confirm your specific address in writing, and get the reply before anything is ordered, finally priced or cut. It is a short conversation weighed against unauthorised work on a listed building.

What we make, and the run over

Timber windows in casement and box sash, front and internal doors, French doors, kitchens, staircases, wardrobes and bars all come off our own benches at 43 Bleak Hill Way in Mansfield. See bespoke timber windows, handmade kitchens and staircases and balustrades. Awkward one offs are what we get called for.

Bolsover sits around 10 to 11 miles from the yard, north west, roughly 25 minutes on the A617 towards Chesterfield and M1 junction 29, then the A632 or up Bolsover Hill. Treat the timing as rough. The castle on the ridge is Grade I listed and a Scheduled Monument, its Little Castle begun in 1612 for Sir Charles Cavendish and largely finished by his death in 1617, the upper floor windows set for the panoramic views across the landscape.

Tez started the firm in 2004 and every piece is City and Guilds work made here, not bought in and badged. Call 01623 530838 and tell us the address. If the frontage is listed we will say plainly that the council speaks first.