Any kitchen in Enfield Town comes to bathroom worktop fitting with a history, and reading that history is half of getting the measurements right. Big Victorian and Edwardian villas off Chase Side and Church Street usually have the kitchen in the old rear addition, so the kitchen is often knocked through into the dining room, giving an L-shape with a 3.2m main run and a short return under the window. The town-centre flats above the shops are the opposite: straight 2.4m single runs with an integrated fridge at one end. Whichever it is, the process below is the same, and the figure you get after templating is fixed.
A cast iron soil stack runs down the outside of the rear wall, so moving the sink means a fresh penetration through solid brick. The stone is the straightforward half of a bathroom. The order the trades come in is what actually decides when we can be there. Basin, tap holes and splash return inside a few hundred millimetres.
Ceilings are high in these, so wall unit heights and splashback heights are open choices rather than things the room has already decided. Either way the walls are thin, the floor is boards over shallow joists and nothing meets at a right angle, so the vanity is scribed at both ends and the unit is fixed back to the wall as well as standing on the floor. A rear addition bathroom is cold, narrow and full of pipework.
The building stock is Victorian villa, Edwardian bay-fronted terrace, 1930s semi and 2000s town-centre flat. Two of those can sit on the same street and quote a long way apart.
Figures cover the 2 statistical areas (MSOAs) around Enfield Town| Figure | Enfield Town | Against London |
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| homes built before 1919 | 19% | pre-1919 share lower than 54% of the 723 areas we cover |
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| households owning their home | 61% | home-ownership share higher than 75% of the 723 areas we cover |
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| households with no car or van | 29% | no-car share lower than 67% of the 723 areas we cover |
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Sources: VOA Council Tax Stock of Properties 2025 and ONS Census 2021 for MSOAs E02000285 and E02000291. Open Government Licence v3.0.