Loughborough Junction worktops
The kitchens we meet in Loughborough Junction
If you are weighing up stone worktop supply and fitting in Loughborough Junction, the first thing worth knowing is that the building decides more than the brochure does. Terraces hemmed in by the railway viaducts have short rear gardens, so extensions are shallow and kitchens end up wide but not deep, a long run against the flank with a table rather than an island. The interwar estate blocks have separate kitchens with a fixed layout and a larder cupboard. Nothing gets cut from a description. It gets cut from a template taken off the units once they are in.
These kitchens were service rooms once, so they are long, narrow and further from the entrance than the floor plan suggests. The surface is where the money actually moves: across the 185 surfaces we list the median is £224 per square metre, and half of them sit between £165 and £300. Batch before colour name, because names outlive the batch they came from.
Balcony access and long communal corridors are often the carry route, and both are narrower than they look with a piece on edge. The joinery around them is deep and period, so a thicker edge with a simple profile sits beside it far better than a slim modern one. A kitchen with no window of its own needs tone rather than colour.
The kitchens here sit in Victorian terrace, 1930s estate block, Postwar low-rise and Converted industrial building. Each of those puts the services somewhere else, and the cut-outs follow.
