Granite worktops in Southwark

29th of 33 London boroughs, highest first

25th of 33 London boroughs, highest first

Built since 2010 / 17.7%

Services in a recent kitchen are boxed and documented, so the cut-out positions are settled at survey and cut into the slab with some confidence. The slab itself is the sample, so granite is chosen by the piece.

Lived in by their owners / 28.9%

The denser granites absorb very little and are the sensible end of the range wherever nobody is going to maintain anything. That gets settled in front of the slab, not at the door.

The middle half of our granite range runs from £148 to £250 per square metre, across 45 colours. In Southwark, 8.9% of homes sit in council tax band F or above, below the London middle. Price follows the pieces, not the room: each join, cut-out and edge is a line on the quote, and the slab count comes from how the template nests.

Dulwich Village has the highest owner-occupation of the 21 Southwark neighbourhoods we list, at 69%, ahead of East Dulwich (58%) and Nunhead (40%); Old Kent Road has the lowest, at 16%. 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.

East Dulwich has the highest pre-1919 share of the 21 Southwark neighbourhoods we list, at 89%, ahead of Dulwich Village (69%) and Peckham Rye (62%); Rotherhithe 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.