Full house renovation in Hammersmith
Whole-house refurbishment of Victorian and Edwardian homes, managed end to end.
A Brackenbury cottage is a small house that behaves like a difficult one. Solid walls with no cavity, suspended floors with very little void, and lath-and-plaster ceilings mean there is no easy route for new services, so a full renovation involves more chasing and making good than the floor area suggests. We price these by difficulty rather than by square metre, and we say so up front — a surprisingly low quote for a Brackenbury renovation usually means surface-mounted services.
The properties we see in Hammersmith
Brackenbury Village is 1870s–1880s two-storey artisan cottages, small, solid-walled and with minimal floor void, which makes every services run a chase and every extension a tight site. Around Ravenscourt Park the houses are substantially larger Victorian villas, many subdivided into flats. The mansion blocks along the riverside and around Barons Court are 1900s–1930s, with shared risers, communal roofs and — critically — leases that govern what a leaseholder may alter.
Planning in Hammersmith & Fulham
Hammersmith and Fulham is our home authority, so the process and the officers are familiar. Brackenbury Village and parts of Ravenscourt Park are conservation areas. The distinctive constraint here is leasehold: mansion block alterations need landlord's consent under the lease as well as any statutory permission, and a licence to alter is a separate legal process that runs alongside planning and building control. We flag that at the outset because it is the thing that most often delays a flat project.
What house renovations involves
A full renovation of a Fulham terrace runs £1,500–£3,500 per square metre depending on specification, so a typical three-bedroom house is £150,000–£350,000 and takes five to nine months. The single biggest variable is not finish level — it is how much structural and services work hides behind the plaster.
Consider this if
- You have just bought and want everything done before moving in
- The house has not been touched since the 1980s
- Wiring, plumbing and heating all need replacing at once
- You are combining a renovation with an extension or loft conversion
- Damp, settlement or failed structural work needs resolving properly
- You want to open up the ground floor of a Victorian terrace
What's included
- Full survey and a costed schedule of works before anything starts
- Structural engineer and party wall surveyor coordinated for you
- Complete first fix — rewire, replumb, heating, drainage
- Plastering, joinery, decoration and floor finishes
- Kitchen and bathroom installation to your chosen specification
- Building control sign-off and all certification on completion
The standard we build to
All work to current Building Regulations, with electrical work certified under Part P and gas work by a Gas Safe registered engineer.
For the full write-up on house renovations — costs, timescales, certification and the questions people ask most — see our full house renovation page. The prices and standards are the same wherever we work.
| Guide range | £1,500/m² |
| Typical duration | 5–9 months for a typical terrace |
| Planning | London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham |
Guide ranges for budgeting, excluding VAT and professional fees. We quote a fixed price after a site visit.
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