Chelsea’s conservation streets and listed stock call for the careful, heritage-aware approach we bring to period work. From the first drawing to handover, Convert Extend designs and builds lofts, extensions and renovations across Chelsea and the surrounding SW3 streets.
Nearby: Fulham · Kensington · City of Westminster
Chelsea is tightly conservation-controlled, with period townhouses and mansion blocks throughout. In practice most enquiries here are for high-specification refurbishments, with renovation and design work near the Kings Road as well.
A loft conversion is the most cost-effective way to add a proper bedroom, en-suite or home office to a West London house without losing a foot of garden.
Single-storey, double-storey, rear, side-return or wrap-around.
The kitchen extension is the project that changes how a family actually lives in the house.
West London is built of Victorian and Edwardian houses, and they reward being renovated properly.
When a house needs everything, the worst thing you can do is hire trades piecemeal and try to project-manage them yourself.
Most builders start where the drawings end.
Across Chelsea (SW3) we mostly handle high-specification refurbishments, basement-adjacent works and period restoration. Chelsea is tightly conservation-controlled, with period townhouses and mansion blocks throughout. The work we take on is shaped accordingly.
No. Chelsea sits around 10 km from our Ealing office, well within the area we cover as standard. Travel is included for any project in West London or our Buckinghamshire patch.
Yes. Chelsea’s conservation streets and listed stock call for the careful, heritage-aware approach we bring to period work. References from completed projects in or near the Kings Road are available on request.
Chelsea is heavily conservation-controlled, so most extension and loft work needs full planning rather than permitted development. We design schemes to fit local policy from the start and manage the application, the planning officer and any conditions on your behalf.
We are a design and build firm, so we are best suited to lofts, extensions and full renovations rather than odd-job work. For Chelsea clients we are happy to start with a feasibility visit and drawings before any building begins.
Tell us about your project in Chelsea. The more you can share at the start, a few photos and your postcode, the more useful the first conversation will be.