Red-brick Lion House on the Peterborough Estate, Parsons Green
SW6 · Hammersmith & Fulham

Renovation builders in Parsons Green

Parsons Green is the part of Fulham where the housing stock is most consistent, and that consistency is genuinely useful — we have built the same extension on the same house type enough times to know what is behind the wall before we open it. The Peterborough Estate in particular is one of the most uniform Victorian developments in south west London, which makes both planning outcomes and costs unusually predictable.

The housing stock in Parsons Green

The Peterborough Estate — the grid south of New King's Road — is 1890s red-brick terraces known locally as the Lion Houses for the stone lions on their gables. They are large, generously proportioned, and almost identical to one another: the same back addition, the same side return, the same roof pitch. Towards Hurlingham the houses get bigger and detached; towards Sands End the stock shifts to smaller workers' cottages and, along the river, new-build apartment blocks. The Lion Houses are a conservation area, which shapes everything.

Planning in Hammersmith & Fulham

The Peterborough Estate is a designated conservation area, so front elevations, roofs visible from the street and boundary treatments are all controlled, and the lions themselves are protected features. Rear alterations are generally more achievable. Hammersmith and Fulham is the same authority as the rest of Fulham, so the process is familiar to us, but the conservation designation here means permitted development cannot be assumed the way it can a few streets north.

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