Minutes from our base in Polegate. Extensions, conversions, kitchens, bathrooms and driveways for Willingdon homes, by a family firm with its own electricians.
Willingdon sits between Polegate and Eastbourne, with the Downs rising behind it, and it is about as close to home as our work gets. Upper Willingdon, around the church and the old village, and Lower Willingdon, the larger twentieth century part of the village along the main road, are both a few minutes from where the firm is run.
O&S carries out extensions, loft and garage conversions, kitchens, bathrooms, driveways and renovations across Willingdon. We are family run, with more than three decades of combined experience, and our own electricians handle the wiring on every job.
Upper Willingdon is the older village, with flint and brick cottages, a handful of larger period houses and the church, and it sits right against the South Downs. The work here is renovation, sympathetic extension and the occasional loft conversion on a house that has stood for a century or two, with planning to think about on some of it.
Lower Willingdon is where most of the homes are. Built largely between the 1930s and the 1970s along and behind the main road, it is a village of bungalows, chalet bungalows and semis on decent plots, exactly the stock that suits a single storey rear extension, a loft conversion into the roof space, or a garage turned into a home office. Kitchens and bathrooms of that era are often ready for a full refurbishment, and the original drives are usually due replacing.
The newer housing on the Eastbourne side of the village is more recent, and the work there is mostly improvement: kitchens, bathrooms, patios and garden room bases.
Willingdon also has a stretch of larger detached houses on the roads that climb towards the Downs, where the work runs to double storey extensions, full refurbishments and, now and again, rebuilding a garage or outbuilding to match the house.
A short drive from the workshop, so all of it, quickly. Every service
Single and double storey extensions, from the footings and the steel through to the last coat of paint.
Unused roof space turned into a proper bedroom, office or bathroom, with the stairs and the insulation done right.
Cold, half used garages made warm, dry and insulated, so you get a room you will actually live in.
Walls out, floors levelled, units fitted, and everything plumbed and wired by our own team.
Full bathroom and wet room fit outs, tanked and tiled properly so nothing moves in five years.
Block paving, sandstone and resin, laid on the right sub base with the drainage thought about first.
Willingdon is administered by Eastbourne Borough Council, and the upper village runs up to the South Downs National Park boundary. On the twentieth century housing in Lower Willingdon, permitted development usually covers a rear extension, a loft conversion or a garage conversion, with building regulations doing the rest. Nearer the old village and the Downs, a planning application is more likely. We check before we quote and handle whatever is needed.
Lower Willingdon's bungalows and semis are made for single storey rear extensions and loft conversions, and those two jobs make up most of what we do here. Garage conversions, new kitchens and bathrooms and replacement driveways fill in the rest.
In Upper Willingdon the requests lean towards renovation: period cottages that need the roof, the timbers and the services sorted, done carefully and with the planners where the National Park boundary requires it.
Willingdon sits next door to Polegate. We can look at a job the same day.
The two jobs we do most on Willingdon's twentieth century housing.
New circuits, consumer units and rewires by our own qualified team.
We will take you to a finished job close by before you commit.
The same four steps wherever you are, and the first one is free.
Call 01323 382155 or send a few details. Tell us roughly what you are thinking of and where in Willingdon you are.
We come and look at the job, measure up, and talk through what is realistic for the house and the budget.
An itemised written quotation, free of charge, so you know exactly what you are agreeing to.
Our own team throughout, building control inspections where they are needed, and the site left tidy every day.
If the answer you need is not here, call Martin on 01323 382155 and ask.
Very. The firm is run from Polegate, next door, and our workshop is at Downash near Hailsham. A Willingdon job is a few minutes away.
Yes. Single storey rear extensions and loft conversions are the two jobs we do most on Willingdon bungalows, and both usually fall within permitted development.
Yes. Block paving, stone and resin, on a proper base with the drainage sorted, because we do our own groundworks.
Yes. Renovation and sympathetic extension on the period cottages is careful work and we are used to it, including the planning that comes with being next to the National Park.
Yes. Garages on the Lower Willingdon estates make good home offices and extra bedrooms, and we insulate, wire and sign them off as one job.
Yes. Both are a few minutes from Willingdon and we are in them regularly.
Four of the towns and villages next to Willingdon that we work in just as often.
Call Martin on 01323 382155, or send a few details and we will call you back to arrange a visit. Estimates are free and there is no obligation.
