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Kitchen Extensions in Epping
One bright room for cooking, eating and family life, opening onto the garden. Designed, approved and built by one team.
Kitchens in Epping houses
Period cottages around Epping High Street often have a small kitchen in a lean-to at the back, while larger houses on the edge of town have space to extend but a dated layout.
What works here
A garden-room kitchen extension or orangery suits the larger houses. For period cottages, a smaller extension in matching materials keeps the character while giving a proper kitchen.
Planning a kitchen extension in Epping
Most land around Epping is green belt, so extensions are limited to a proportion of the original house. Listed cottages need listed building consent for any extension, and the High Street conservation area has its own rules. Applications go to Epping Forest District Council. We handle them for you.
How it works
Visit
We look at the house, the garden and how you use the kitchen now.
Design
Layout, glazing, roof and kitchen designed together, with drawings you can follow.
Permissions
Planning or permitted development, building control and party wall notices handled for you.
Enjoy
One team builds it and fits the kitchen. You enjoy the new room.
Roads we work on
Kitchen extensions that suit Epping
Full-width flat-roof rear extension
Epping’s older houses, on and behind the High Street and in Theydon Bois, tend to have the garden as the best thing about them. A flat-roofed, largely glazed room across the back keeps the cottage or villa above it intact. Much of the town centre is a conservation area and the countryside around it is green belt, so the size of the extension is set by what Epping Forest District Council will allow on that plot.
Pitched-roof wraparound
For detached houses on larger plots along Theydon Road and Lindsey Street, a wraparound with a pitched roof looks more at home in a country setting than a flat-roofed box, and gives a higher ceiling inside.
Questions
Can I extend a listed cottage in Epping?
Often a small extension is acceptable, especially one that replaces a later lean-to. It needs listed building consent, so we agree the design with the conservation officer first.
Do you design the kitchen as well as build the extension?
Yes. Our interior designers plan the kitchen, lighting and finishes alongside the architecture, and our own workshop can make bespoke cabinetry.
Do I need planning permission for a kitchen extension in Epping?
Not always. Many single-storey rear extensions are permitted development, up to 3 metres deep on a terraced or semi-detached house and 4 metres on a detached house. Wraparound extensions, listed buildings, flats and houses under an Article 4 direction need planning permission.
Do I need a party wall agreement for a kitchen extension?
Usually, if you build on or beside the boundary or dig foundations within three metres of the neighbouring house. We serve the notices for you.
From our completed projects
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We take a limited number of houses each year. A director reviews every enquiry.