Kitchen Extensions in Spitalfields & Wapping

One bright room for cooking, eating and family life, opening onto the garden. Designed, approved and built by one team.

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Painted blue kitchen opening onto a dining area and oak staircase, kitchen extension in Spitalfields and Wapping

Kitchens in Spitalfields & Wapping houses

Georgian houses in Spitalfields have small, deep plots and narrow rear yards, so kitchens sit on the lower ground or ground floor and space is tight.

What works here

In Georgian houses a kitchen extension is small and careful: a modest rear addition or a reworked lower ground floor. In warehouse apartments the kitchen is replanned within the building, with the freeholder’s consent in place first.

Planning

Planning a kitchen extension in Spitalfields & Wapping

With so many listed houses, a kitchen extension here usually needs both planning permission and listed building consent. In Wapping warehouse apartments the kitchen is replanned inside the building, with the freeholder’s licence. Applications go to the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. 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

Fournier Street Elder Street Princelet Street Wilkes Street Wapping High Street Tredegar Square

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Kitchen extensions that suit Spitalfields & Wapping

Glass box extension

In Spitalfields the houses on Fournier Street, Elder Street and Princelet Street are listed, and the rear yards are small. Any addition has to be light and clearly of its own time: a glazed link or a small glass room in the yard, fixed to the old brickwork as lightly as possible. Listed building consent is needed as well as planning permission, and we agree the approach with the conservation officer at Tower Hamlets before applying.

Glazed garden room with a dark metal roof between brick walls, with a dining table inside — A glazed room with a thin metal roof, set between old brick walls. It is the scale of addition a Spitalfields yard can take.

Glazed corner of a kitchen extension set into dark brickwork — Frameless glass set straight into dark brickwork, with no visible frame. The original wall carries on past it untouched.

Rear extension with a lean-to roof

Away from the listed streets, the Victorian terraces around Victoria Park and in Bow suit a plain rear extension with a mono-pitched roof and one rooflight. In Wapping’s converted warehouses there is nothing to extend, so the work is a new kitchen within the existing room, planned around the tall windows.

Model of a terraced house with a full-width rear extension under a lean-to roof

Dark shaker kitchen in a period room with an arched alcove and a tall sash window — A kitchen fitted into an original room: dark cabinets under an arched alcove, with the tall sash window and old floorboards kept.

Questions

Can I extend a listed Spitalfields house?

Sometimes, with a small, carefully designed addition at the rear. Tower Hamlets looks closely at what would be lost, so the design is agreed in principle before anything is submitted.

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 Spitalfields & Wapping?

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

Painted blue kitchen opening onto a dining area and staircase

Blue kitchen under a rooflight with an exposed concrete beam

Green panelled bedroom with a four-poster bed

Join the waiting list.

We take a limited number of houses each year. A director reviews every enquiry.

Request a place on the waiting list 020 7731 6841