Granite worktops in Bromley

Built in the three decades after the war / 34.7%

The plans repeat but the slabs do not. A repeat order on granite is a different piece of stone, so we show you the actual slab rather than a sample of the type. You see the slab before it is cut.

Carrying full lengths through a house means the run can be one piece of stone, and one piece of stone has one pattern rather than two that must agree. Better weighed while the slabs are still in front of you.

The middle half of our granite range runs from £148 to £250 per square metre, across 45 colours. In Bromley, 24% of homes sit in council tax band F or above, above the London middle. The figure comes from the cut list: how many joins, how many cut-outs, and how cleanly the pieces nest into a slab, not from the floor area.

Owner-occupation is not even across Bromley: of the 29 neighbourhoods we list, it is highest in Petts Wood at 90%, then Hayes (88%) and Keston (86%), and lowest in Crystal Palace at 41%. Granite is sealed on installation and topped up over time, a schedule that is easiest to keep where people own the kitchen they cook in.

Penge has the highest pre-1919 share of the 29 Bromley neighbourhoods we list, at 46%, ahead of Crystal Palace (44%) and Anerley (40%); Eden Park has the lowest, at 1%. Walls of that age are rarely straight, so a granite top is scribed to the template rather than to a straight line.

We cannot post granite offcuts, so samples are the Worktop Worx quartz collection only.