A good quote for bathroom worktop fitting in Coombe (Kingston) reads like a description of your kitchen rather than a price list, and that is deliberate. Some of the largest domestic kitchens in the borough: big open-plan family rooms with an island of 3m or more, a second sink, integrated coffee stations and boiling taps, plus back kitchens or prep pantries with their own worktops and splashbacks. Send through a photograph or two and the rough run length. We will tell you what you are probably dealing with.
The side return was an outside toilet and a coal store before it was ever a kitchen, and the walls left over from that are half a brick thick. What that does to a vanity is push the whole job into a narrow depth, because a bathroom takes the same stone as a kitchen in about two thirds of the width. Most vanity tops begin life as an offcut from another room.
Deep original skirting is often left in behind the units, standing them off the wall, so the back edge of the stone is plotted where the carcasses actually sit. Where a bedroom has been divided to make a bathroom the window sits off centre to the new room and the vanity ends up under it, which puts the window board in the order rather than outside it. Boarded floors give, and a vanity shows it at the tile line.
The kitchens here sit in Edwardian mansion house, 1930s detached, 1960s architect-designed house and modern replacement house. Each of those puts the services somewhere else, and the cut-outs follow.
Figures cover postcode district KT2| Figure | Coombe (Kingston) | Against London |
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| homes built 1919 to 1939 | 22% | inter-war share higher than 58% of the 723 areas we cover |
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| homes built since 2010 | 12% | post-2010 share higher than 69% of the 723 areas we cover |
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| households with no car or van | 31% | no-car share lower than 63% of the 723 areas we cover |
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Sources: VOA Council Tax Stock of Properties 2025 and ONS Census 2021 for 7 MSOAs (E02000601, E02000600 and 5 more). Open Government Licence v3.0.
