Window and siding replacement in Kennebunkport

Kennebunkport at a glance

People

3,684

Homes

2,907

Size

20.6 square miles

From downtown

About 22 miles southwest

ZIP codes

04046, 04014

Founded or incorporated

1653

Kennebunkport began as a shipbuilding and fishing town on the Kennebunk River and has been a summer colony since the 1870s; the Cape Arundel Summer Colony Historic District along Ocean Avenue holds many well-preserved shingle-style cottages from the early 1900s. Its shore from Cape Arundel to Cape Porpoise and Goose Rocks Beach faces the open Atlantic, and much of the housing near Goose Rocks Beach was rebuilt after the Great Fires of 1947.

The houses in Kennebunkport

47% of the homes in Kennebunkport are older than 1980 and 13% older than 1940; the median one dates from 1982; 90% are detached houses and 81% of occupied homes are owner-occupied. A sizable share of homes here date from before 1980, the era the federal lead rule covers (homes built before 1978). What the lead rule requires of a contractor.

Owners here put the median home's value at about $740,500, and 72% of homes have three bedrooms or more — each bedroom needs an emergency escape opening under the egress rule.

Half the homes in Kennebunkport were built before 1982, which makes its housing about the same age as across York County as a whole (median 1980). Set against York County as a whole, owners live in 81% of occupied homes here against 77% county-wide, the median owner-estimated value is $740,500 here and $395,700 across the county and detached houses are 90% of the homes, above the county's 70%.

Rooms in the median home

6.2

Heated with gas / electricity

0% / 20%

Townhouses and other attached homes

3%

Homes in buildings of 2 to 4 units

4%

Homes in buildings of 5 or more units

3%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020–2024 5-year estimates (tables B25034, B25035, B25024, B25003, B25077, B25041, B25018 and B25040), read through Census Reporter. These are survey estimates, not a count of every house.

The Ocean Avenue summer colony is known for well-preserved early-20th-century shingle-style cottages.

What that vintage turns up

The largest group of homes in Kennebunkport, 27% of them, was built in the 1980s and 1990s, so that is the house described here.

Double-glazed vinyl or clad wood windows with a nailing fin, many now thirty or forty years old. The common failure is the seal between the panes: once it lets go the glass fogs between the layers and the gas fill is gone. When the frames are still square and dry, new sealed glass in the old frame is the cheaper repair; when the frames are cracked or the sills are soft, it is time for the whole unit.

The capes, colonials and raised ranches of the subdivisions that spread across the commuter towns, sided in vinyl or cedar clapboard over plywood or particle-board sheathing, with felt paper or an early house wrap behind it. The siding itself usually holds up; what to look at is what water has done at the corners, around the windows and under any deck ledger fastened through the siding.

Neighborhoods

We work across Dock Square, Cape Porpoise, Goose Rocks Beach, Cape Arundel, Walker's Point, Turbats Creek, Wildes District, Burbank Hill, Town House Corners and Goat Island.

Historic districts

Kennebunkport has 2 listed: Kennebunkport Historic District and Cape Arundel Summer Colony Historic District. A National Register listing on its own does not limit what you fit; a local district or landmark designation can, and in several towns here a change of siding material or window sash needs a certificate before the permit. Which towns' rules bind, and how.

Next door

Kennebunkport shares a boundary with Biddeford, Arundel, Kennebunk, Kennebunk River and Atlantic Ocean.

The rules in Kennebunkport

What the permit costs

Residential renovation permits cost $14 per $1,000 of estimated project cost, with a $40 minimum, doubled when work starts first; since October 1, 2026 every application is filed online through GovWell.

Who to call

Building dept

207-967-1605

Official

Mike Demers, Code Enforcement Officer

Permits

Department page

How Kennebunkport compares with its neighbors

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Work we have done in Kennebunkport

Not yet — Kennebunkport is on our list rather than in our records. We will say so until that changes.

Common questions about Kennebunkport

Where these facts came from

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