Historic Rooflights & Timber Lanterns
Specialist restoration and bespoke replication of traditional pitched skylights and architectural lanterns across Edinburgh’s historic skyline.
Preserving Architectural Integrity
A historic roof requires more than off-the-shelf weatherproofing. Installing modern, synthetic skylights into a listed Georgian or Victorian property often results in structural incompatibility and compromised heritage compliance.
Our approach ensures every rooflight or lantern is an exact architectural match, engineered to manage modern thermal requirements while adhering strictly to conservation standards.
- Conservation-Grade Timber: Utilising premium, rot-resistant species to prevent structural fatigue and ensure decades of performance.
- Traditional Leadwork: Milled lead flashing dressed by hand to accommodate thermal expansion and guarantee watertight junctions.
- Heritage Glazing Profiles: Slim timber glazing bars that honour original proportions without sacrificing modern condensation management.
Avenues of Intervention
Depending on the severity of material fatigue, we offer two distinct pathways for historic rooflights and timber lanterns. Both guarantee structural integrity and complete heritage compliance.
Structural Restoration
For original structures where the core framework remains viable. We carefully execute selective timber splicing, renew the milled lead flashings, and reinstate traditional glazing putty. This process saves the historic fabric while eliminating moisture penetration.
- Selective conservation-grade timber splicing
- Renewal of lead weatherproofing
- Glazing stabilisation and putty replacement
Bespoke Replication
When existing frames have succumbed to advanced decay, we manufacture exact architectural replicas. Hand-crafted in our workshop using high-performance, treated timbers, these units mirror the original Georgian or Victorian profiles while upgrading thermal efficiency.
- Exact historical profile matching
- Crafted from premium, rot-resistant timber
- Upgraded thermal performance integrations
Discuss Your Glazing Project
Whether you require the careful restoration of an original Georgian rooflight or the bespoke fabrication of a new timber lantern, our specialists provide certainty. Contact us today to arrange a detailed condition survey.