Removals in Leytonstone, from the Whipps Cross villas to the Browning Road cottages

Leytonstone removals, house type by house type

Until the railway arrived in 1856, Leytonstone was a hamlet on the High Road and a scatter of big houses on the edge of Epping Forest. The estates were sold and built over in the forty years that followed, so most of the housing here is Victorian. That does not make every job the same. Waltham Forest has two conservation areas in Leytonstone, and their appraisals describe two very different kinds of street. Between them and the ordinary terraced roads off the High Road, there are four kinds of house that come up again and again in our quotes, and each is planned differently.

Whipps Cross Road and Forest Glade: the forest-edge houses

The Leytonstone conservation area, designated in 1990, sits on the high ground where Whipps Cross Road meets the forest. Its oldest homes are the six Grade II listed Georgian houses left from Assembly Row, built in 1767: Nos 133, 135, 143, 153, 155 and 157 Whipps Cross Road, two and three storeys of brown brick with mansard roofs and sash windows. Next to them are the red brick terraces of 1881 and 1882 at 107 to 129, and round the corner on Forest Glade are three tall double-fronted houses of 1882 and a row of late Victorian houses with timber porches. These are big rooms on several floors, some with rooms in the mansard roof. For a move out of one of them we plan a full crew, protect listed stairs and doorways with boards and blankets, and agree in advance which pieces come apart. Whipps Cross Road itself is a busy A road (the A114), so we load from a side street or a suspended bay rather than from the main road.

The Fillebrook and Wallwood Park streets

West of the conservation area, two Victorian estates set the pattern for most of the roads between the forest and the railway. The Fillebrook estate was laid out from 1860, and its plots were sold with a covenant that every front garden had to be at least 30 feet deep. The Wallwood Park estate, built in the 1890s mostly by one local builder, filled the land around the site of Wallwood House, which stood where Chadwick Road meets Teesdale Road. Most of the house removals Leytonstone sends our way start on these streets: family terraces and semis with a long walk from the front door to the pavement. Thirty feet is about nine metres before anyone reaches the van, and every sofa and chest of drawers makes that trip. We measure the path at the quote and price the time it takes, so a long garden is never a surprise on the day. These are our standard house removals, usually a three-person crew and a Luton van for a three-bedroom house.

Browning Road: 1840s cottages off the High Road

The second conservation area is Browning Road, designated in 1973. It is a lane of five short terraces of cottages, probably from the 1840s, built two up and two down around the North Star pub, plus a few later houses at 53 to 58 and a warehouse of 1901 on Beacontree Road that became two homes in 1996. The council’s appraisal notes the low ceilings and low door heights, the narrow carriageway with a footpath on one side only, front gardens up to 15 metres deep and the narrow cul-de-sacs that serve 25 to 33 and 41 to 51 Browning Road. That is a move where the furniture plan matters more than the van. Large wardrobes, deep sofas and king-size headboards often will not turn on a cottage stair, so we ask for measurements first. Our guide to what happens when a sofa will not go through the door explains what we dismantle and what we decide not to try.

Conversions and flats over the shops

If you live in one of the bigger Victorian houses that has been split into flats, or in a flat above the shops on High Road Leytonstone, the move is about stairs and entrances: a shared hall, a narrow internal stair to a top-floor flat, or a side door between two shops with the van parked on the next street. We ask which floor you are on and whether the stair turns before we choose the crew. Our flat removals are priced on that, and the guide to moving a flat that sits over a shop covers the access questions to sort out with your landlord or agent.

Two stations, one High Road

Leytonstone has two stations on different lines. Leytonstone station is on the Central line; Leytonstone High Road station, further south, is on the Suffragette line, the London Overground route between Gospel Oak and Barking Riverside. The conservation area appraisal names Colworth Road, St Andrew’s Road and Poppleton Road as the roads where parking pressure from the nearby controlled zone was worst. If you live on one of those, assume the kerb outside your house will be full on a weekday morning and plan a suspension. Leytonstone is well outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside the ULEZ, like all of Greater London; our note on how ULEZ and the Congestion Charge apply to removal vans explains why neither charge appears on an E11 quote.

Moving a business in E11

For office removals Leytonstone’s High Road premises need, whether a practice, a studio or a shop moving a few doors along, we plan the job for an evening or a Sunday so the shop or surgery opens as normal the next day, and the office removals team handles the desks, files and computers together with the building’s own access rules.

Call 020 3983 5199 for a fixed price on your Leytonstone house removal.

Leytonstone removals price guide

Guide prices for E11 before we have seen the house. The written quote is fixed:

A long front garden, a cottage stair or a second day in a suspended bay can move a job up the range. The Waltham Forest suspension fee is shown separately on your quote.

Next door to Leytonstone

Cann Hall, Harrow Green, Bushwood and Whipps Cross are all part of the Leytonstone patch. The neighbouring districts have their own pages: