Beddington Corner worktops
The kitchens we meet in Beddington Corner
If stone worktop supply and fitting in Beddington Corner is on your list this year, the useful starting point is not the colour but the shape of the room. A small pocket of older cottage terraces close to the Wandle and the industrial edge, with very compact kitchens of 2.2-2.6m and low ceilings. Some converted industrial buildings nearby have open-plan kitchens with exposed services above the run. You can leave that to us. What we need from you is a rough idea of the size and a date that suits.
Chimney breasts are often taken out at ground level and left standing above, so the middle of the run is newer wall than the two ends of it. Every slab in a yard began either as a block sawn off a quarry face or as a pressed powder fired in a kiln, and almost everything that follows from the choice comes out of that single difference. Priced by the square metre, lived with by the square inch.
That rear wall carries the back door and the only window, which leaves very little uninterrupted length for a sink run. The kitchen in one of these sits in the back addition and takes its daylight from one end, so the working half of the run is the darker half and a pale stone with a honed or matt face does more there than any colour with depth in it. Movement needs length, and length is what these rooms have.
What turns up behind the front walls here is Victorian cottage terrace, inter-war terrace, post-war infill and converted industrial building. The age of the shell tells us more than the age of the kitchen does.
