A good deal of what decides bathroom worktop fitting in Scrattons Farm could be settled by a tape measure and ten minutes in the room in question. A small inter-war and post-war estate east of Thames View with modest semis and terraces, where the kitchen sits at the rear with a back lobby and pantry that most owners have absorbed into the room. Layouts end up as a squared L with the fridge in the old pantry recess and about 3m of usable run. You can leave that to us. What we need from you is a rough idea of the size and a date that suits.
Units are often only 500mm deep, so a standard 600mm stone top overhangs at the front and the doors need checking against it. The fittings come from four suppliers and arrive in no particular order, so the surface is drawn last and asked to reconcile all of them. The same stone as the kitchen, in a narrower cut.
Post-war terraces have a short straight hall to the kitchen, which is a good deal kinder than the houses they replaced. The bathroom is the small room over the kitchen, and the waste already runs where it needs to, so the basin position is more or less settled before anyone draws it. Stud partitions want noggins before a wall-hung unit goes up.
The mix here is 1930s estate house, post-war semi and post-war terrace. Knowing which one it is before we arrive is half the survey done.
Figures cover the statistical area (MSOA) Scrattons Farm shares with its neighbours| Figure | Scrattons Farm | Against London | What it means for the job |
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| homes built before 1919 | 0% | pre-1919 share lower than 98% of the 723 areas we cover | Corners tend to come in close to square. |
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| homes built 1919 to 1939 | 50% | inter-war share higher than 84% of the 723 areas we cover | The inter-war kitchen repeats street to street. |
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| households in a converted or shared house | 1% | converted-house share lower than 96% of the 723 areas we cover | |
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Sources: VOA Council Tax Stock of Properties 2025 and ONS Census 2021 for MSOA E02000019. Open Government Licence v3.0.
