Walk Hampstead from Hampstead Heath and Kenwood House outwards and the Georgian and early Victorian pattern is obvious: 84% of the 11,433 households in NW3 live in flats, 17% in houses.
45% of households rent privately and 39% own, which is why furniture disposal demand here peaks around tenancy changeovers and completion dates.
Expect with solid brick on the party and external walls, over lath and plaster over timber studs — the reality on the streets around Hampstead Heath and Kenwood House behind the plaster in NW3. That is why fixings are picked in the room rather than off a van shelf, and why which crumbles the key and drops the panel — and a plasterboard plug spun into lime plaster — and with 37% one-person households in Hampstead, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site is the fault we are called back to undo.
Two streets can behave very differently in Hampstead: georgian hill village of narrow lanes, artists' houses and the Heath on its doorstep. The quote reflects the street the job is actually on. Hampstead sits inside the Congestion Charge zone as well as ULEZ, so both are itemised on the quote rather than absorbed into an hourly rate.
Steep, narrow lanes where a 3.5t Luton is the practical maximum; several streets need a shuttle from Whitestone Pond. Nearest station is Hampstead (Northern), and two crew and a Luton van; three where a wardrobe or corner sofa has to come down a shared stairwell.
