Granite worktops in Tower Hamlets

33rd of 33 London boroughs, highest first

31st of 33 London boroughs, highest first

Built since 2010 / 28.6%

Developer specifications assume a material that repeats. Granite does not: two slabs of the same stone are not the same stone, and a later replacement will not match. Sealed on the day it is fitted, and we tell you when it is due again.

Lived in by their owners / 23.1%

Void periods are short, template to fit cannot be compressed, and on natural stone the slab has to be chosen before either. We say so at the enquiry rather than later. 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 Tower Hamlets, 13.7% of homes sit in council tax band F or above, above 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.

Owner-occupation is not even across Tower Hamlets: of the 23 neighbourhoods we list, it is highest in Old Ford at 34%, then Wapping (31%) and Fish Island (28%), and lowest in Stepney at 18%. 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.

The share of housing standing before 1919 is not even across Tower Hamlets: of the 23 neighbourhoods we list, it is highest in Old Ford at 47%, then Stepney Green (24%) and Brick Lane (23%), and lowest in Blackwall 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.