Bespoke joinery in Fulham

Fitted storage, cabinetry and the room around it.

Start with the bespoke joinery brief

Start with what the furniture needs to hold and how you use the room. Record alcoves, ceiling heights, skirtings, sockets and radiator positions before setting cabinet depths or door swings. Keep the details worth retaining in the measured brief.

Agree internal layouts, lighting, ventilation, hardware and finish samples before manufacture. Drawings should show how new joinery meets uneven walls and existing cornices, and how access for installation will work.

The local building context

Hammersmith and Fulham’s Moore Park profile calls it the earliest estate development built in Fulham, laid out in the 1850s, with neat Victorian terraces between Fulham Road and King’s Road. Walham Grove, in its own profile, is remarkably intact: Cambridgeshire gault brick, Welsh slate, large wooden sliding sashes and a distinctive arrow-head railing. Both were among the areas changed on 13 November 2018, when some Moore Park properties moved to the separate Walham Green conservation area.

Towards the river, the Bishops Park profile describes attractive, well-maintained red-brick terraces built between 1897 and 1901, in an area bounded by Finlay Street, Fulham Palace Road and Fulham High Street, Putney Bridge Approach and the Thames. The Fulham Park Gardens profile, approved on 3 March 1999, singles out better-than-average, exuberant late-Victorian estate architecture, with detached and semi-detached villas in red brick.

The Hurlingham conservation area includes properties on Hurlingham Road, Daisy Lane and the western end of Clancarty Road: terraced and semi-detached houses on a rectilinear street pattern, with Hurlingham Court and Rivermead Court, later blocks of flats, on the riverfront. Historic England lists Hurlingham House, a substantial house of 1760, now the Hurlingham Club, at Grade II*, and the southern block of the Sir Oswald Stoll Foundation’s housing for disabled former servicemen, 446 Fulham Road, built 1917–1923, at Grade II.

Local design and consent context

Along the river, Bishops Park was designated in March 1971 and extended in May 1980, and Hurlingham was designated in 1971 and extended in 1981, on 2 July 2002 and on 13 November 2018. Putney Bridge was designated on 13 March 1991 to protect the riverside and the setting of the bridge, Fulham Reach in March 1991, and Sands End in 1991, also citing the importance of protecting the riverside. Their profiles were approved between July 1996 and July 1997.

The council’s summaries list Fulham’s directions street by street. In Bishops Park, one served in January 1978 covers any alteration to the front roof, gable or dormer at 2–56 even Stevenage Road, and another of March 1980 front roofs and gables in Cloncurry, Doneraile, Ellerby and Finlay Streets. A 1978 Hurlingham direction covers front roof gables and dormers at named Hurlingham Road numbers, and a 1985 Fulham Park Gardens direction roof coverings, cladding, rendering and painting front brickwork at listed addresses.

Walham Grove’s directions cover external appearance, porches, buildings in the curtilage, hardstandings, boundaries and painting brickwork, at the front only for Nos 27–58. Central Fulham’s cover new rear structures at ground or first floor in parts of Munster, Rosaline, Sherbrooke and Orbain Roads, and front roofs, windows and cladding in Felden Street and at 88 Munster Road. Each summary is non-technical and not part of the legal documentation, and the address list was last amended in October 2011, so read the direction itself.

Access and site planning

Work out how materials will reach the room from the kerb. The council lists TfL’s roads in the borough as the Westway, Great West Road, Hammersmith Flyover, Talgarth Road, West Cromwell Road and the A3220, and TfL licenses skips, scaffolds and materials on its red routes. On a reading of TfL’s data, Fulham Road, New King’s Road, Wandsworth Bridge Road, Fulham Palace Road and Munster Road were not TfL roads at the points checked, so confirm who manages the road at your address. On council roads, only skip companies may apply for a skip licence, a skip never stands on the footway and its bay must be suspended first; scaffolding licences run for at least a month, and building materials, plant and machinery may only be placed on the carriageway under licence.

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