House Refurbishment Kentish Town

House refurbishment in Kentish Town is the smaller half of the refurbishment work here, and it is worth being plain about that. The VOA count puts houses at 13% of homes, with 11% of homes terraced houses and 2% semi-detached or detached. With 44% of all homes built before 1919, a house job here is often a Victorian terrace in NW5 that has been let, inherited or left dated, and now needs its wiring, pipes, plaster and joinery renewed without the plan changing.

For Kentish Town, published UK figures put a three-bed house refurbishment at £43,530 to £110,350, and London houses usually cost more, with a London architect allowing £1,800 to £2,200 per square metre before VAT (Checkatrade and Bradley Van Der Straeten Architects, 2026). GS Renovation Ltd, a building contractor based in Potters Bar, does the work in Kentish Town: we renew the wiring, pipework, heating, plaster, floors and joinery of the whole house under one contract, and a registered electrician certifies the rewire.

What a Victorian terrace in Kentish Town needs renewed

A pre-1919 terrace in Kentish Town needs its services, plaster and joinery looked at together, because they have aged together. The VOA puts 44% of homes here before 1919, and the terraces among them were built with solid brick walls, lime mortar, timber floors on joists and lath and plaster ceilings. A full rewire, a replumb and a new heating system all run through that fabric, so we plan the cable and pipe routes before anything is chased or lifted.

A registered electrician carries out and certifies the rewire, and an engineer on the Gas Safe Register does any gas work on the boiler and supply. Where lath and plaster ceilings are sound we repair them in lime rather than rip them out, and where they have failed we take them down and replaster. Joists notched by earlier plumbers are checked and repaired while the floors are up, and the stairs, skirtings and doors are eased, repaired or matched in timber before decoration.

Housing in Kentish Town

Count the homes in Kentish Town and you get about 8,940: 52% built since 1945, 4% between the wars and 44% before 1919, with flats at 87% and houses at 13%. A whole house in Kentish Town is refurbished as one building, roof down, which matters here because most homes are flats.

Living in a Kentish Town house while it is refurbished

You can stay in a Kentish Town house during a refurbishment, but the programme then runs floor by floor rather than as one strip out. We keep one bathroom and a working kitchen live until the last phase, and seal each finished room behind dust screens. An empty house is quicker, because the strip out, first fix, plastering, second fix and finishes can each run through the whole building in one pass.

The loud stages follow Camden's hours whichever route you take, lived-in or empty. Camden allows noisy building work without authorisation from 8am to 6pm on weekdays and from 8am to 1pm on Saturdays. Noisy work outside those hours needs a Section 61 prior consent application at least 28 days before the work, so on a house we fit chasing, lifting boards and breaking out old hearths into the permitted weekday hours instead.

Skips, scaffold and parking outside a Kentish Town terrace

A terrace refurbishment in Kentish Town has to fit its waste and deliveries into a residential street. In Camden only a skip company can apply for a skip licence, at least 5 working days before the skip is needed, and skips are not allowed on the pavement. Where a terraced street is parked on both sides, we price for bagged waste or wait and load collections where a skip bay is not realistic.

Roof, gutter and chimney-stack repairs on a house need scaffold, and a scaffold on the highway needs a Camden building licence. That licence lasts a maximum of 6 months, so we group every job that needs the scaffold, from slates to pointing and the sash boxes at the front, into one spell. A chimney stack shared with next door is a party structure, so repairing or rebuilding it needs a party wall notice under the Party Wall Act, and you as building owner serve the notice. Parking bay suspensions for the scaffold lorry and bulk deliveries are booked with Camden at least 17 days ahead.

Refurbishing a house in a Kentish Town conservation area

Some Kentish Town houses sit in a conservation area, and that changes what can be renewed without asking first. Camden has 40 conservation areas covering about half of the borough, and the Kentish Town Conservation Area was designated in three stages, beginning with Torriano Cottages on 18 June 1985. Before front sashes, a front door or a roof covering are replaced with something different, the owner should check the address with Camden planning.

Where a planning application is needed for alterations in a Camden conservation area, it must include a heritage statement describing the significance of what is affected. A listed house goes further: any change to a listed building in Camden needs listed building consent, separate from planning permission. We repair sashes and joinery like for like wherever we can, and when walls, floors or roofs are renewed we add insulation as Part L requires.

• Panelled doors eased and rehung, skirtings and architraves pieced in to match
• Whole-house rewires, certified at completion by a registered electrician
• New boiler, cylinder and radiators sized to every room, fitted by a Gas Safe registered engineer

VOA Council Tax stock of properties, March 2025, for Kentish Town West and Kentish Town East. Counts rounded by the VOA.

If this is your first project in Kentish Town, these are worth a look: home renovation in Kentish Town, house refurbishment across Camden, builders in London for house refurbishment, a snagging list before a refurbished house is handed back, house refurbishment anywhere in London and Living In During the Work.

Trusted House Refurbishment in Kentish Town

A house refurbishment goes wrong in the gaps between trades, so one site manager runs the whole house from strip out to the last coat of paint. We visit, then give a written quotation and a written programme that shows the order of works floor by floor. Anything found once plaster or boards come off is photographed and priced as a variation before it is done. The electrical and gas certificates are collected as each trade finishes and handed to you with the keys.

• Every wall of the house tapped and every circuit tested before the refurbishment is priced
• Rated 4.9 from 31 reviews on MyBuilder
• A top-floor-first programme when your family stays in the house

Checked by Abdelaaziz Saaid, founder and director of GS Renovation Ltd (Companies House no. 14611254).