Removals in Kentish Town, from the Leighton Road terraces to the Regis Road units

House removals Kentish Town: reading the streets before the van arrives

Camden Council’s 2011 appraisal of the Kentish Town conservation area is the most useful thing we have read about moving here, even though it was written for planners. It describes three groups of streets tied together by Leighton Road, with Kentish Town Road as the busy commercial edge: brick buildings of about three storeys with narrow forecourts or none at all, and shops and pubs that open straight onto the pavement. Off Leighton Road the streets are quieter and more regular. The practical result is that two flats a few hundred metres apart can be completely different jobs, one a straight carry from a front garden gate, the other three flights up a converted house with a turn on every landing.

Leighton Road, Lady Margaret Road and Leverton Street

Leighton Road began as a footpath and was built up plot by plot, so its two- and three-storey terraces do not match each other: late Georgian brick, stucco villas and mid-Victorian houses sit side by side, with taller houses and artists’ studios at the east end near Torriano Avenue. Lady Margaret Road and Leverton Street were different. Developers laid them out at right angles to Leighton Road and built them quickly, and by 1894 the fields had gone. The houses are uniform, which helps us: once we know one, we know the stair, the hall width and the likely conversion layout of its neighbours. Many have since been split into flats, and some have gained a mansard, which means a top-floor flat with a steep final flight and a low ceiling at the head of the stairs. A tall wardrobe or a three-seat sofa is the usual casualty, so we ask for measurements and decide what comes apart before the day. Our guide to measuring furniture against doors and stairs before a flat move shows the four numbers we need.

Falkland Place, Leverton Place and Torriano Cottages

The smallest houses in the conservation area are on Falkland Place, where part of the terrace was cleared long ago for the public gardens and play area, just off Leverton Place, the short link between Kentish Town Road and Leverton Street. Halls and rooms are small, so big pieces often come apart in the house and the crew works in short, careful carries rather than with a long trolley run. Torriano Cottages are another matter. They sit behind Leighton Road and Torriano Avenue on a winding private lane that is not even surfaced, and we do not take a removal van down it. We load from the nearest legal space on the public road and carry along the lane, and we walk it with you, or look at photos, before we put a price on the job, because the length of that carry decides the size of the crew.

Flats in the council blocks and the end-of-tenancy rush

Between the two halves of the conservation area, the London County Council put up large brick blocks on both sides of Leighton Road in place of the Victorian houses that once stood there. Blocks like these usually sit on estate land, and Camden is clear that housing estate land inside a controlled parking zone runs its own restrictions, separate from the street. We check with the estate office where a van may stand and whether any lift can be used for furniture. A large share of what we move in NW5 is rented flats, and the dates are often tight: keys back at noon, new keys at two. Our notes on timing a move around the end of a tenancy cover how to set that day up, and where there is no lift at either end, our flat removals crews plan the stairs into the price.

Office removals Kentish Town: studios, workshops and the Regis Road units

Kentish Town still has a working economy behind the shops. Camden’s Kentish Town Planning Framework, adopted on 17 July 2020, describes the Regis Road area as 7.5 hectares of low-density industrial sheds from the 1980s with large yards and surface car parking, reached only from Regis Road off Kentish Town Road and almost invisible from the street. The same document picks out the creative and media businesses in the studio buildings on Highgate Road and the light industrial units on Wilkin Street Mews by Kentish Town West. For a business move that variety matters. A unit on Regis Road has a yard, so the van can back up to the door and load at ground level; a studio on an upper floor of a converted building needs the goods lift booked or a stair carry planned. Our office removals crews work evenings and weekends so you are open again on Monday, and IT relocation covers the workstations, screens and network kit. If you are still budgeting, our breakdown of what an office move in London costs lists what goes into the price.

Call 020 3983 5199 for a fixed price on your Kentish Town house, flat or business move.

Kentish Town removals price guide

Typical NW5 prices before we have seen the property. The written quote is fixed:

A top-floor flat with no lift, a long carry along a private lane or a suspension on both days moves a job up the range. NW5 is outside the Congestion Charge zone; this is how ULEZ applies to removal vans across Greater London.

Around Kentish Town

West Kentish Town, Dartmouth Park and the streets around Torriano Avenue are covered from this page. The neighbouring parts of Camden have their own pages: