Wandsworth Common worktops
The kitchens we meet in Wandsworth Common
If you are weighing up stone worktop supply and fitting in Wandsworth Common, the first thing worth knowing is that the building decides more than the brochure does. The larger houses on the streets bordering the common support full basement or lower-ground kitchens with a big island, a separate pantry run and often a second sink. Ceiling heights are generous, so tall stone splashback panels behind the range are common. Whichever of those your kitchen turns out to be, the job in Wandsworth Common runs the same way: survey, template, fit.
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. Stone grows and shrinks a little with warmth, which is the reason joints are gapped, upstands are never wedged tight, and nothing is pinned as though it will sit still forever. Pick the surface for the cooking rather than for the photograph.
The closet wing is a narrow projection at the back with windows on two sides, which leaves very little continuous wall for a run. Ceilings are tall and the joinery is usually painted, which is the setting where a thirty millimetre edge looks right and a slim one reads as a saving somebody made. A galley nests efficiently and frees money for better stone.
What we find behind the front doors here is Large Victorian villa, Edwardian detached and semi and Mansion flat. What is behind the plaster is different in each, and it matters at fixing.
