Removals in Teddington, from the Lock to the Bushy Park side

Teddington removals for villas, Edwardian semis and riverside flats

Richmond Council adopted new character appraisals for the two conservation areas that run through the middle of Teddington in March 2023, and between them they describe most of the homes we are asked to price here. The High Street, Teddington appraisal covers the High Street from the railway bridge to Kingston Lane and the residential streets behind it: Manor Road, Cambridge Road, Watts Lane and Waldegrave Road. The Teddington Lock appraisal picks up Ferry Road, Broom Road, Twickenham Road and the riverside. The ground is flat almost everywhere, which helps on the day. What varies is how many floors a house has, how much of its front garden is left, and what sort of door the furniture has to come through.

House removals Teddington: four kinds of house

The commonest is the Edwardian semi. On Cambridge Road and Manor Road the council describes pairs of two storeys with an attic “which is often converted”, set close together on wide plots. A converted attic is the room that decides the size of the crew, because the stair up to it is the narrowest in the house and usually turns under the roof. Beds and wardrobes in an attic room tend to have gone up in pieces, so we plan to take them down the same way.

The second is the Victorian villa, and these are taller than they look from the pavement. Numbers 17–27 Cambridge Road, 37–49 Twickenham Road and the four pairs at 141–155 High Street are all four storeys once the basement and attic are counted, and the Cambridge Road group has stone steps up to substantial porches. A move out of one of these is two jobs: the basement, which comes out at a lower level, and the three floors above it, which come down the main stair to the front steps. We price the extra floor and the front steps into the carry rather than finding them on the day.

The third is the cottage. Watts Lane is a compact row of two-storey 19th-century stock-brick cottages on narrow plots, and the appraisal notes that most of their front gardens have gone to car parking, which leaves the lane tight. Waldegrave Road has smaller groups of the same kind of house, with a terrace of Edwardian houses at 25–51 and a Victorian terrace at 55–69, and Ferry Road has a few cottages near Tide End Cottage. These are quick to load but slow to reach: a Luton rarely gets close, so the carry from the van is the thing we measure.

The fourth is the odd one out. Where Cambridge Road meets Manor Road there is a group of late-1950s houses by Eric Lyons, the architect who went on to found Span, with plain casement windows, shallow roofs and glazed porches. A post-war house is a different job from the Victorian stock around it, so say so when you call. When you ask us to price a house move out of TW11, tell us which of these four you are in and whether the attic or basement has been converted, and the quote will be close before anyone visits.

Flats: over the parades, by the river and at Teddington Riverside

Flats in Teddington come in three settings. Above the High Street, the parades are three and four storeys of red brick: 8–36 and 72–86 at three storeys, 114–162 at four with an attic, and the appraisal notes that the doorways to the flats above them are mostly original, which means narrow. Moving out of one is a street-door, stair and landing job, and the van waits in a pay-and-display bay with its own hours, which we come back to below. Our note on what to settle with the shop and the landlord before a move from a flat above a shop is worth reading if that is you.

Along the river on Twickenham Road, Regatta House, Fairmile House and Admiral House are 1990s blocks of five to seven storeys built on former boatyards and set well back from the road, and off Ferry Road the gated four-storey Quay West Court probably dates from the late 1970s or early 1980s. Further north on Broom Road, Teddington Studios was demolished in 2016 and replaced by Teddington Riverside; the council’s own figure is 238 homes, one, two and three-bedroom apartments plus six townhouses, in 4.5 acres of private grounds. In these buildings the managing agent sets the rules: which lift we can use, whether it needs booking and padding, where a van may stop inside the gates and how late we may work. We ask for those rules in writing a week before the date. Our guide to booking the lift and loading point in a London block has the questions to ask. For conversions, such as the six flats made out of Christ Church on Station Road, our flat removals team plans around the shared hall and stair.

Office removals Teddington businesses can plan round

Teddington’s shopping streets are the High Street, Broad Street and The Causeway, and the kerb outside most shops and offices there is pay and display. High Street bays in zone M4 are controlled Monday to Saturday from 09:00 to 17:00, and Broad Street and The Causeway in M5 from 08:30 to 18:30, so an evening or Sunday move usually finds more of the kerb free. For office removals in Teddington we label desks and IT to the new floor plan, move in one evening or across a weekend, and take the old furniture away if it is not going with you. We can often take a short-notice booking, but a bay still needs Richmond’s ten working days, so we fix the date first and work back from it.

Teddington price guide

Guide prices for TW11, replaced by a fixed quote once we know the house:

Indicative prices only. Teddington is outside the Congestion Charge zone and our vans meet the ULEZ standard, so neither charge is added. A four-storey villa with a basement, a converted attic, or a long carry from the van on a lane like Watts Lane moves a job up its band. Where a bay suspension is needed, Richmond’s fee for your zone is shown as its own line.

Teddington’s neighbours

Strawberry Hill and Fulwell are covered from this page. These places next door have their own: