A Dartmouth Park check-out, room by room
Many rented homes in Dartmouth Park are flats inside Victorian houses on the slope between Highgate Road and Dartmouth Park Hill, or in the mansion blocks of Lissenden Gardens, and a check-out clerk walks them in roughly the same order every time. Our end of tenancy clean follows that walk and is priced by bedrooms: £207 for a one-bed flat, £243 for a two-bed, £339 for a three-bed maisonette or house.
Last updated October 2026.
The clerk starts at the front door with the check-in report, which usually has a photograph of every room. Here is what that walk looks like in a typical Dartmouth Park conversion, and what our cleaners do at each stop.
Front steps, hall and stairs. Many houses on Dartmouth Park Road and Laurier Road have a raised ground floor over a semi-basement, so a flat starts with a flight of stone steps and a shared hall. Your own front door, its letterbox and the stair rail inside your flat are on the report. We wash them, along with the skirting all the way up.
Front room. Tall sash windows, often in a two-storey bay on Laurier Road, with wide sills and a run of glass. We clean the sashes from the inside, the sills, the runners and the frames. In a high-ceilinged room the clerk also looks up: picture rails, the tops of door frames and the cornice above the curtain rail hold dust that a quick clean misses.
Kitchen. In a semi-basement flat the kitchen sits below street level, often with little through-draught. Grease settles on the extractor, the cupboard tops and the tiles behind the hob. Every cupboard and drawer is emptied and wiped inside and out, the hob and hood are degreased, the fridge and freezer cleaned, and the floor washed under any appliance that pulls out.
Bathroom. Often small, fitted into a room that was never built as a bathroom. Scale on the taps, shower screen and tiles is the commonest note in an NW5 bathroom, for reasons covered below. We descale, scrub the grout, clean the toilet, basin, bath and mirror, and wipe the fan cover.
Bedrooms and storage. Wardrobes inside and out, radiators front and back as far as they can be reached, switches and sockets, and the floor under the bed.
Balcony or terrace. The Lissenden Gardens blocks have small balconies and French doors; the Whittington Estate flats each have a private south-facing terrace or courtyard. We clean the door glass, the frame and the threshold, and sweep the balcony or terrace.
The housing on the slope
Dartmouth Park takes its name from the Earls of Dartmouth, who owned much of the land. Camden’s conservation area appraisal, adopted in January 2009, splits the area into ten sub-areas, and the homes change sharply from one to the next.
Grove Terrace, facing a strip of green on Highgate Road, is the oldest: 27 houses built between 1777 and 1824, with basements and attics under slate mansard roofs.
Behind it, building began on the western end of Dartmouth Park Road in the late 1850s, with three-storey semi-detached villas in stock brick over semi-basements, most with their original sash windows. Laurier Road followed in the 1870s, and Croftdown Road was built on the gardens behind. Some of these big houses are now divided into flats.
West of Highgate Road, facing Parliament Hill Fields, the Lissenden Gardens estate was built between 1900 and 1906: three red-brick mansion blocks of five storeys, Parliament Hill Mansions, Clevedon Mansions and Lissenden Mansions. The flats are large, with bay windows, balconies and communal stair halls.
The rest is social housing, which the appraisal counts as a large part of the area’s character. The Brookfield Estate dates from the 1920s and was laid out after Hampstead Garden Suburb.
The York Rise Estate, five blocks named after railway engineers (Brunel, Faraday, Newcomen, Stephenson and Trevithick Houses), was finished in 1938 to rehouse families moved out by the enlargement of Euston station. In the 1970s Camden’s architects built the Whittington Estate, the first stage of Highgate New Town, as six concrete terraces climbing the ridge north of Raydon Street towards Highgate Cemetery.
On Winscombe Street, Neave Brown’s modernist terrace of the 1960s sits among the Victorian houses. Ex-council flats on these estates come up as private lets too, and they clean quite differently from a period conversion: smaller rooms, more painted woodwork, and big windows facing south.
End of tenancy prices in Dartmouth Park
The price depends on bedrooms only. A third-floor flat in Lissenden Gardens costs the same as a garden flat on Chetwynd Road with the same number of bedrooms.
| Property | Price |
|---|---|
| Studio | £156 |
| One-bedroom flat | £207 |
| Two-bedroom flat | £243 |
| Three-bedroom flat, maisonette or house | £339 |
| Four-bedroom house | £425 |
| Five bedrooms or more | quoted from the room count |
| A room in a flat share, or part of a property | £30 per cleaner per hour |
The oven is not part of the fixed price. Add it if the inventory lists it: £31 for a single or a single wide oven, and £62 for a double or a 90cm range cooker. See oven cleaning for what that covers.
Carpets booked with the clean cost £29 a bedroom, £36 a living room, £47 for a through lounge, £35 a flight of stairs, £20 a hallway and £8 a landing. Many conversions have carpeted internal stairs between the raised ground floor and the bedrooms, so count those. Our carpet cleaning page has the standalone service.
Rents explain why it is worth getting right. The ONS put the average Camden rent at £2,407 a month for a flat and £3,430 for a terraced house in August 2026. With a deposit capped at five weeks’ rent, a flat at that average carries about £2,780, all of it judged against the check-in report.
Camden licensing for flat shares
Camden renewed its additional HMO licensing scheme from 8 December 2025 to 8 December 2030, across the whole borough. It covers shared homes of three or four people who are not one household, flats in purpose-built blocks that are shared in the same way, and most older buildings converted into flats that do not meet current building standards. The national mandatory licence still covers shares of five or more. Camden has no selective licensing for single-household lets.
Licensing is the landlord’s job, and it does not change how your clean is judged. If you are in a flat share in one of the big conversions, though, it is worth knowing the landlord should hold a licence, and that the council added conditions on waste in the 2025 renewal. Leave the bins and the bin store as you found them at check-in.
Thames Water scale on old fittings
Dartmouth Park is supplied by Thames Water, and the company says all the water in its region is hard. On older fittings that shows fast: the base of the taps, the shower head, the grout lines in the shower, and the inside of the kettle and toilet bowl.
A clerk who photographed a clean chrome tap at check-in will compare it with what they see on the day. Descaling every tap, screen and shower head is part of our clean.
Period details add their own work. Cast-iron radiators, panelled doors, ceiling roses and fireplace surrounds all hold dust in their mouldings, and we clean each one by hand.
Booking a clean in NW5
Choose your date in the calculator at the top of the page or call 0333 555 2076 between 8am and 7pm, seven days a week. Tell us the floor and whether there is a lift, which helps us plan the van. If we have to pay for a parking bay to reach you, the cost is added at what we pay.
Our cleaners are vetted at an interview in person, insured and trained on our 57-point checklist. We have been working in London since 2014, more than 300 letting agents use us, tenants have won back £1.2m in deposits, and our Google rating is 4.7. If the agent or clerk raises anything about the clean within 48 hours, we come back and redo that part free.
We work on all sides of the hill: in Highgate above the cemetery, in Tufnell Park round the Northern line station at the foot of the hill, and across the rest of Camden.
Dartmouth Park end of tenancy FAQs
I rent a two-bed flat in Lissenden Gardens. What does the clean cost?
£243, fixed. Add £31 for a single oven or £62 for a double if the inventory includes it.
Our flat in a Dartmouth Park Road villa has twelve-foot ceilings. Is that extra?
No. The price is set by bedrooms. Cornices, picture rails and the tops of the tall sash windows are part of the clean.
I am leaving a flat on the Whittington Estate with a private terrace. Do you clean outside?
We sweep the terrace and clean the door glass, frame and threshold. Plant pots and furniture you leave behind are yours to clear.
Three of us share a flat and I am moving out first. What should I book?
Your room and your share of the kitchen and bathroom, at £30 per cleaner per hour. The last to leave can book the whole flat at the fixed price.
Does Camden’s licensing affect my deposit?
No. Licensing is between the landlord and the council. Your deposit depends on the check-out report compared with the check-in inventory, with fair wear and tear allowed.