House
refurbishment
in Paddington, W2
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RICS surveying support for party walls, licence to alter, conservation-area works & neighbour mattersWe've completed house refurbishments across Sussex Gardens, Porchester Terrace, Gloucester Square, Hyde Park Square - Italianate Stucco Terraces, Canal-Side Houses, Mansion Flats where listed-building consent, conservation detailing and structural sequencing need handling properly with Westminster.
House Refurbishment in Paddington: What You Need to Know
Many Paddington houses sit within the Bayswater Conservation Area, and a proportion are Grade II or Grade II* listed. Our in-house RIBA Chartered Architects handle Listed Building Consent applications with Westminster directly, specify heritage-appropriate materials (lime plaster, timber sash repair, period-correct paint schemes), and coordinate the build so protected features survive the project intact. Projects typically run 16–32 weeks depending on structural scope and approvals.
Mix of grand Victorian terraces near Hyde Park and characterful streets around Little Venice. Westminster conservation area protections. Paddington Basin regeneration area. A full refurbishment in Paddington typically involves stripping the property back to its structural shell, upgrading mechanical and electrical services, reconfiguring layouts, and finishing to the highest standard — all while preserving and restoring original period features.
Our Paddington refurbishment projects are managed through a single point of contact, coordinating architects, structural engineers, M&E specialists, and specialist subcontractors. We work within Westminster's planning and building control requirements to deliver on time and on budget.
Paddington's refurbishment stock reads in three registers: stucco terraces, canal-side houses and mansion flats. Gloucester Square and Hyde Park Square carry handsome white-fronted terraces and garden-square houses, Sussex Gardens runs broad and stuccoed, and Porchester Terrace with the streets towards Little Venice adds villas and houses that face the water. Each register asks different things of a refurbishment, so the first job is deciding which one a scheme belongs to.
What the registers share is double governance. Much of this stock is of group value and much of it is leasehold, so a refurbishment answers to Westminster — whose conservation areas protect both the stuccoed streets and the canal basin at Little Venice's edge — and to the freeholders at the same time. The terraces and squares reward whole-house refurbishment with conservation-led stucco restoration; in the mansion flats, structure, acoustics and freeholder consents run alongside the finish itself.
The setting does the rest: W2 holds residential quiet and central-London access in balance, so logistics are planned as deliberately as the design. On budget, the Westminster headline for a house renovation is £90,000–£475,000 excluding VAT — a wide band, resolved for a particular house by survey rather than by assumption.
What a Full House Refurbishment Involves
A full house refurbishment takes a property back to its bones and rebuilds every layer — fabric, services and finishes — in one continuous programme. Rather than patching rooms in isolation, the whole building is brought up to a single standard, so the wiring behind a new kitchen is as sound as the cabinetry in front of it. Most projects we price cover the scope below.
- Strip-out — soft strip back to the structural shell, with condition checks as each layer comes off
- Structural alterations — steels, openings and floor strengthening, engineered and approved before services go in
- Full rewire — new consumer unit, circuits, lighting and data throughout
- Plumbing & heating — replacement pipework, boiler or heat pump, and underfloor heating where specified
- Plastering — walls and ceilings returned to a true, decoration-ready surface
- Kitchens & bathrooms — design, supply and installation, including waterproofing and tiling
- Joinery — doors, skirting, architraves and fitted storage matched to the property’s period
- Decoration — full paint system and final finishes, protected through to handover
How We Run Your Project
Six stages, each closed out before the next begins, so decisions are made on paper rather than mid-build.
- Survey & brief — we measure the building, investigate what is hidden and agree what the finished house must do for you.
- Design & planning — our architects develop the drawings and manage any consents your borough requires.
- Fixed-price contract — a fully itemised specification, priced before work starts rather than estimated during it.
- Strip-out & first fix — demolition, structural work, cabling and pipework, run in the correct order.
- Second fix & finishes — kitchens, bathrooms, joinery, flooring and decoration.
- Snagging & handover — a joint inspection and certification pack, with defects put right before we leave site.
Read the full house refurbishment guide for stage-by-stage detail, specification tiers and cost anatomy.
Building Regulations touch almost every element of a refurbishment — structure, electrics, heating, ventilation and fire safety all need formal sign-off, and we manage building control from submission through to the completion certificate. Where work affects a shared wall, the Party Wall etc. Act 1996 may require notice to your neighbours before structural work begins, and conservation-area or listed status can add consent steps. Our planning guide library explains the rules borough by borough.
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Transparent Pricing
As a guide, budget £650–£1,250 per square metre for a cosmetic refurbishment that keeps the existing layout, and £2,250–£3,250 per square metre for a back-to-brick renovation, depending on how deep the work goes. A typical whole-house programme runs 16–32 weeks on site, and every project is priced line by line before you commit.
What does a house refurbishment cost in Paddington?
Cost in Paddington depends on depth of work. A cosmetic refurbishment that keeps the existing layout runs £650–£1,250/sqm (typically £90,000–£180,000), while a back-to-brick renovation runs £2,250–£3,250/sqm (typically £275,000–£475,000), excluding VAT. A written scope and site assessment are needed before any project price can be fixed.
| Scope of work | Guide rate | Typical total |
|---|---|---|
| Cosmetic — existing layout retained | £650–£1,250/sqm | £90,000–£180,000 |
| Back-to-brick renovation | £2,250–£3,250/sqm | £275,000–£475,000 |
| Typical programme | 16–32 weeks on site | |
Guide rates exclude VAT and are set by depth of work, not by property type. Compare scopes in our London refurbishment cost-per-square-metre guide.
Planning your refurbishment budget?
Use our 2026 London refurbishment cost-per-square-metre guide to compare the owner-confirmed Essential, Premium and Heritage/Luxury guide bands. A written scope and site assessment are still needed before any project price can be fixed.
House Refurbishment in Paddington: Questions
Who governs a house refurbishment in Paddington?
In practice, two parties at once. Paddington's stucco terraces, canal-side houses and mansion flats are largely of group value and much of the area is leasehold, so refurbishment here is governed by Westminster and by the freeholders together. Knowing the council's conservation position from day one is what saves redesign later, so we settle it before anything is priced.
Which Paddington houses are candidates for whole-house refurbishment?
The terraces and squares are the natural whole-house projects, paired with conservation-led restoration of the stucco; the canal-side houses ask for careful detailing towards the water. Gloucester Square, Hyde Park Square, Sussex Gardens and Porchester Terrace are the characteristic addresses for this scale of work.
How much does a house refurbishment cost in Paddington?
We price W2 house renovation against the Westminster headline of £90,000–£475,000 excluding VAT — deliberately wide, because a cosmetic scheme on a three-to-four-bedroom house (a London-wide £90,000–£180,000 excluding VAT) is a different undertaking from taking the same house back to brick (£275,000–£475,000 excluding VAT). The survey tells us which project yours actually is.
My Paddington home is a flat in a mansion block — can you still refurbish it?
Yes. The mansion flats are leasehold projects where structure, acoustics and freeholder consents are handled together under Westminster conservation control — so before pricing we split the scope three ways: what the lease controls, what the council controls, and what is purely internal. Each part then runs on its own consent track without holding up the others.
How is the stucco handled in a Paddington refurbishment?
As the defining element of the job. The white-fronted period houses of Gloucester Square and Hyde Park Square are restored with authentic stucco and joinery, and Westminster protects the long stucco runs as part of the streetscape — so facade repair is specified to conservation standard and programmed alongside the interior works rather than left to the end.
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