Which part of SW15 is hardest?

The terraced conversions off the Lower Richmond Road, for a specific reason: shared entrances, narrow communal stairs with a turn, a freeholder with an interest in the paintwork, and a residents' parking scheme on every street.

Is the hill actually a problem?

It changes where a vehicle can sensibly stand and makes the carry materially harder in one direction. It is not an obstacle — it is a thing to have looked at before the day rather than discovered on it.

What is different about Roehampton?

Nearly everything. Estate roads, block access, lift bookings and entryphone arrangements rather than kerbside parking on a residents' street. The Alton estates are planned as their own kind of job.

Do you cover Southfields, Barnes and East Sheen?

We serve and cross all three. A job beginning and ending inside one of them is often better placed with a firm from there, and we will say so rather than take it.

SW15 · and the Wandsworth edge

Across SW15

One postcode holding four quite different kinds of address, described in the terms that change a job rather than as a list of streets.

Roehampton University, the Alton estates and Wandsworth Council are geography and context only. No relationship with any of them is claimed.

Terraces, mansion blocks, a hill and a modernist estate

Very few London postcodes pack this much variety into a short distance — Victorian conversions, purpose-built mansion flats, large houses facing the green, and one of the most significant postwar housing landscapes in the country, all within SW15.

Putney and the Lower Richmond Road SW15 1 · SW15 6 Conversions and shares Victorian and Edwardian terraces divided into flats and shared houses, with controlled parking on almost every street and a very high turnover of joint tenancies.

Putney Hill and West Hill SW15 3 · SW15 6 Mansion blocks and the climb Purpose-built mansion blocks with porters, booking sheets and goods lifts, on a hill steep enough to change where a vehicle can sensibly stand.

Putney Heath and the commons edge SW15 3 Larger houses, leaseholds Substantial houses and converted villas facing the green, with longer approaches, mature planting and a high proportion of long-held leaseholds.

Roehampton and the Alton estates SW15 4 · SW15 5 Postwar estates One of the most significant postwar housing landscapes in the country, with tower and slab blocks, estate roads, lift bookings and a completely different set of constraints from the terraces half a mile away.

Roehampton village and the university SW15 5 Student and staff housing A concentration of room-only and licence arrangements, with short cycles, single-room moves and a good deal of term-bound timing.

Southfields and the Wandsworth edge SW18 Grid terraces Across the boundary into Wandsworth. Regular terraced streets, residents' parking throughout, and a job that begins and ends there is often better placed with a firm from there.

The terraces and the Lower Richmond Road

Victorian and Edwardian houses divided into flats and shared houses, which is the commonest kind of address in the postcode. Shared entrances, communal stairs with a turn in them, and a residents' parking scheme on effectively every street.

It is also where the turnover is: joint tenancies ending, one person leaving a share, rooms changing hands. Most of what this site is about happens here.

The hill and the mansion blocks

Putney Hill and West Hill carry purpose-built mansion blocks with porters, booking sheets and goods lifts — and the lifts were frequently retrofitted, so the car and the door opening are both small and both need measuring.

The gradient is a genuine variable. It decides where a vehicle can stand and makes the carry harder in one direction than the other, and it is surveyed rather than assumed.

The Heath and the larger houses

Substantial houses and converted villas facing the green, with longer approaches, mature planting and a high proportion of long-held leaseholds. Access is usually good once somebody has actually looked at the front of the property.

Roehampton, the Alton estates and the university

A completely different world half a mile away. Tower and slab blocks across one of the most significant postwar housing landscapes in the country, with estate roads, block entrances, lift bookings and entryphones rather than kerbside parking.

Around the university the picture shifts again to room-only and licence arrangements, short cycles and single-room moves, much of it timed around terms rather than around tenancies.

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Questions about where we work

01
Which part of SW15 is hardest?

The terraced conversions off the Lower Richmond Road, for a specific reason: shared entrances, narrow communal stairs with a turn, a freeholder with an interest in the paintwork, and a residents' parking scheme on every street.
02
Is the hill actually a problem?

It changes where a vehicle can sensibly stand and makes the carry materially harder in one direction. It is not an obstacle — it is a thing to have looked at before the day rather than discovered on it.
03
What is different about Roehampton?

Nearly everything. Estate roads, block access, lift bookings and entryphone arrangements rather than kerbside parking on a residents' street. The Alton estates are planned as their own kind of job.
04
Do you cover Southfields, Barnes and East Sheen?

We serve and cross all three. A job beginning and ending inside one of them is often better placed with a firm from there, and we will say so rather than take it.

What did you sign?

Both addresses, and what kind of agreement governs the one you are leaving. That second answer tells us most of what we need to know.

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