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Apparently these are called casement latches, because that's the name given to a window that has vertical hinges and goes inside a frame like this.

The short answer is that they're old and ugly, and the wife wants them replaced with something newer and nicer when I paint the window frames. So I'm going to do everything to match all in one go.

I'm looking for surface mounted lockable window latches\handles that can be screwed in place on the surface of painted timber window frames, without the need to do anything that would involve cutting chunks out of the windows (screw holes are OK, but I can't chisel out anything, I'm under orders...