Six years in a 1930s four-bed detached on Beaumont Hill, a single father at the Stansted maintenance hangars with two teenagers grown through the GCSE years, an open tile-faced fireplace burning logs every winter since 2020, and a Mullucks inventory clerk booked for the Friday morning. That is a Great Dunmow hand-back.
Monster Cleaning has been doing end of tenancy work across CM6 1 since 2014, on the Tudor timber-framed cottages of Dunmow High Street, on the Beaumont Hill 1930s detached belt, and out to the Stortford Road executive new-build fringe past the Doctor’s Pond. Phone 0333 555 2076 or email office@monstercleaning.com. Two-bed cottage from £263, four-bed Beaumont Hill detached from £445, full agent-approved.
Last updated April 2026. We cover CM6 1 and CM6 2 across Great Dunmow – High Street, Stortford Road, Beaumont Hill, Newton Green, Star Lane, North Street, White Street, Causeway, Mill Lane, Helena Road, plus the lanes out to Little Dunmow and Felsted. See the Essex end of tenancy hub for the wider county and the Saffron Walden end of tenancy page for the next market town up the B184.
Why Great Dunmow deposits get clipped
Asking rents in Great Dunmow CM6 1 sit around £1,350 a month for a two-bed Tudor or Georgian cottage in the conservation core, £1,750 a month for a Newton Green Victorian terrace, and £2,400 to £2,950 for a four-bed Beaumont Hill 1930s detached or a Stortford Road executive new-build. CM6 averages around £1,580 a month across the rental stock, with the Uttlesford district median running higher than coastal Essex and lower than the Saffron Walden listed-cottage tier.
A five-week deposit on a £2,650 Beaumont Hill let is £3,058 sitting on the line at check-out. Stansted-corridor turnover is fast, so landlords lean strict on inspection – the next tenancy is usually pre-arranged through Mullucks on the High Street, Cheffins out of King Street CB10, Bartholomews on Causeway, Pottrill Holland on Stortford Road or Geoffrey Matthew Estates.
The housing stock is the second factor and it spans nearly five centuries inside the parish. Dunmow High Street and the Causeway hold a long run of timber-framed Tudor and early-Stuart buildings, with jettied first floors, exposed studwork on the gable ends, lath-and-plaster infill panels and the surviving Tudor planning grain that earned the High Street its Conservation Area designation.
Georgian shopfronts thread between the Tudor frames, particularly along the upper High Street and across the Market Place, with sash and casement windows fronting older timber carcasses behind.
Newton Green and Mill Lane carry Victorian yellow-brick terraces from the railway-era expansion, two and three-bed mid-terrace stock with original picture rails, dado rails and slate fireplaces. Beaumont Hill is a 1930s detached belt – mock-Tudor half-timbering on the gables, leaded-light front bays, parquet entrance halls, tile-faced inglenook fireplaces, the lot.
The Stortford Road fringe past the Flitch Way and the Doctor’s Pond is then the modern executive build-out from the late 1990s through to the 2026 hand-overs at the Bovis and Crest Nicholson schemes off Buttleys Lane. End of tenancy expectations differ wildly between a 1530s timber-framed cottage and a 2024 four-bed executive detached, but the clerk’s checklist is the same either way.
Hard water is the third factor. Affinity Water reads around 320 mg/l calcium carbonate across CM6, classified very hard against the UK average of 198 mg/l. Chrome shower heads, mixer taps, kettle elements, washing-machine drawer rubbers and leaded-light glazing all pick up a chalky film inside a fortnight.
Inventory clerks in CM6 1 look for the tide line on the shower screen, the bloom on the kettle base and the oxidised came on a leaded bay before they have unfolded the inventory.
The Renters’ Rights Act 2025 commenced on 1 May 2026
The Renters’ Rights Act 2025 received Royal Assent on 27 October 2025 and the bulk of its provisions commenced on 1 May 2026. Section 21 no-fault evictions are gone. Fixed-term assured shortholds convert automatically to assured periodic tenancies. The deposit-deduction rules themselves were not rewritten – wear-and-tear still applies, photographs and quoted remediation costs are still required – but the climate has tightened.
Clerks at Mullucks Great Dunmow and at Cheffins Saffron Walden have told me their inventories on CM6 lets run noticeably longer this spring because the next tenancy is often pre-let and the deposit dispute has become the main lever.
Uttlesford District Council’s licensing position in 2026
Great Dunmow sits inside Uttlesford District Council, the same authority that covers Saffron Walden, Stansted Mountfitchet, Thaxted and Elsenham. Uttlesford operates only the national mandatory HMO licensing scheme for properties with five or more occupants from two or more households, with the 2025/26 application fee at £1,343.10 per HMO and a five-year licence period.
There is no additional or selective licensing scheme across the district, and there are no Article 4 directions covering the private rented sector or change-of-use to HMO. The full position is on the Uttlesford private sector housing page. A four-bed-shared cottage on the High Street often sits outside mandatory HMO licensing yet still hands back to a clerk working off the standard agent inventory – so the cleaning bar is the same as a single-let.
What is particular about cleaning a Great Dunmow property
Three things, in the order they cost cleaners time. First, the conservation-core High Street stock – timber-framed Tudor and Stuart cottages with jettied first floors, lath-and-plaster infill, original wide-board oak floors, lime-washed plaster, narrow stair runs and ceilings often under two metres at the eaves. Second, the Beaumont Hill 1930s detached belt – leaded-light front bays, parquet entrance halls, tile-faced inglenook fireplaces, original picture rails, mock-Tudor half-timbered gables and brass door furniture that needs a different polish than chrome.
Third, the Stortford Road executive new-build fringe – glass shower screens, integrated extractors hidden behind a kitchen-unit door, induction hobs, polished chrome taps and quartz islands – hard-surface throughout where 320 mg/l water spots within a day. The cleaning bar is heritage on one street and high-spec modern on the next.
Streets and zones we cover across Great Dunmow
We work the whole CM6 1 and CM6 2 patch and the lanes out to Little Dunmow, Felsted, Barnston and the Easters. The streets and zones we book most often:
- Dunmow High Street CM6 1AT – Tudor timber-framed cottages, jettied first floors, Georgian shopfronts threaded between, the Conservation Area spine
- Stortford Road CM6 1DG running west to the bypass – mixed Georgian, Victorian terrace and the executive new-build belt past the Bovis and Crest Nicholson schemes off Buttleys Lane
- Beaumont Hill CM6 1JR – 1930s mock-Tudor detached belt, leaded-light bays, parquet halls, tile-faced inglenook fireplaces
- Newton Green CM6 2HX and Newton Hall – Victorian yellow-brick terrace and the early Edwardian semi-detached stock
- North Street CM6 1BA, White Street CM6 1AY and the Causeway CM6 1AT – the historic core spurs off the High Street, mixed Tudor and Georgian listed stock
- Star Lane CM6 1AZ and Mill Lane CM6 1BG – older terrace and former mill-cottage runs
- Helena Road CM6 1HE and Buttleys Lane CM6 1QQ – 1980s-2010s estate stock and current Persimmon and Crest Nicholson hand-overs
- Doctor’s Pond and Market Place – listed Tudor frames around the Tudor pond where the famous model lifeboat was first tested by Lionel Lukin in 1785, plus the surrounding Georgian shopfronts
- The Flitch Way fringe and the lanes out to Little Dunmow CM6 3 (home of the original Dunmow Flitch Trial since the early thirteenth century), Felsted, Barnston and the Easters
What is included in a Great Dunmow end of tenancy clean
This is the 57-point agent-approved checklist we walk every CM6 property against – the same line-by-line scope the Mullucks, Cheffins, Bartholomews, Pottrill Holland and Geoffrey Matthew Estates panels run their clerks against. The chemical choice and the kit shift between the heritage stock on Dunmow High Street and the new-build envelope on Stortford Road, but the line-by-line scope is the same.
Kitchen
Hood and integrated extractor canopies cleaned back to the baffle, filter soaked separately, ducting flap cleaned, canopy interior scraped of polymerised grease. Oven door inner glass between the panes on doors that open, fan blade, top element, racks soaked, trim and trim-rubbers cleaned.
Induction surface or gas grates and pan supports lifted, bezels off, control knobs detached and cleaned at the spindle. Cupboard interiors and exteriors, cupboard tops, plinth lifted where it lifts cleanly. Fridge and freezer fully defrosted, washed inside and out, seals scrubbed – the rubber where mould blooms gets a soft brush.
Washing-machine drawer and door rubber descaled where the 320 mg/l water has left grey mineral scale. Mixer descaled at the base, aerator unscrewed and soaked, sink rim and overflow flushed, drain stone-trap cleared. Stortford Road executive kitchens with quartz or marble islands worked stone-safe with a pH-neutral cleaner, two passes, dry buff.
Bathrooms
Bath, shower tray, screen and tiles – controlled descaler on the head, screen runner, mixer at the right dwell time, then a polish-and-rinse pass. WC bowl, rim, hinge bolts, base, behind the pan, cistern button-plate inside. Tile grout brushed where shower water hits with a soft brush, not a wire brush which scratches the polished tile.
Sealant beads inspected and replaced if blackening is beyond a clean. Mirror, cabinet, shaver socket, extractor grille – grille off, blades dust-vacced, ducting flap cleaned. Heated towel rail dropped from the wall mount where the bracket allows.
Bedrooms and living areas
Wardrobes inside and out, drawer runners, hanging rails. Skirtings, picture rails and dado rails – the long-tenancy dust traps on Newton Green Victorian terrace and Beaumont Hill 1930s stock. Original cottage window box channels hand-wiped on the High Street stock, modern double-glazed units cleaned both faces on Stortford Road.
Leaded-light front bays on Beaumont Hill worked with a controlled descaler at low concentration on the glass only, soft buff on the came, never a wet wipe on oxidised lead. Beaumont Hill parquet entrance halls hand-buffed in the direction of the laid blocks – never wet-mopped, never spray-cleaned, never machine-polished.
Original tile-faced fireplace surrounds dust-vacced through the moulding profile and the cast-iron fireback taken out of its rebate where the rebate allows, soaked separately, brushed back with a soft-bristle and a stone-safe paste. Behind sofas and freestanding furniture; carpets vacuumed in two directions, with a per-room shampoo add-on at £29 a bedroom for the agent who specifies it.
Throughout
All internal doors both sides, frames, architraves, hinges, handles, tops. Stairs, banisters, spindles, under-stair cupboards – the narrow original stairs on a Dunmow High Street Tudor cottage and the wider modern flights at Stortford Road executive new-build get different ladder kit. Inside-glass on all windows, frames, locks and handles. Switches, sockets, thermostat, doorbell, smoke and CO alarms dusted.
Loft hatch where present. Garden patio swept, bin store rinsed, recycling boxes cleaned. Photographs taken on completion against the inventory check-out schedule, any line we cannot honestly clear flagged in writing to the agent before we leave.
What it costs in Great Dunmow
Studio £176, one-bed £227, two-bed £263, three-bed £359, four-bed £445. Carpet shampoo adds £29 a bedroom, £36 a living room, £94 for the whole-flat package on a two-bed. Oven add-ons are £31 single, £62 double or a 90 cm range. The hourly rate for a part property or an unusual layout is £30 a cleaner. We invoice once the agent has signed off the check-out report. Deposit-protection figures across the page are based on five-week-deposit caps under the Tenant Fees Act 2019 against current asking rents in CM6 1.
| Property size | Price | Typical job hours |
|---|---|---|
| Studio | £176 | 3-4 |
| 1-bed flat or High Street cottage | £227 | 4-5 |
| 2-bed cottage or Newton Green terrace | £263 | 5-7 |
| 3-bed semi or Stortford Road new-build | £359 | 7-9 |
| 4-bed Beaumont Hill detached | £445 | 8-11 |
What your Great Dunmow agent will actually check
End of tenancy cleaning
from £176
For a studio, fixed by property size, agreed before we start.
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This list comes from feedback we get back from Mullucks on the High Street, Cheffins out of King Street CB10, Bartholomews on Causeway, Pottrill Holland on Stortford Road and Geoffrey Matthew Estates, plus the inventory clerks who walk most of the CM6 1 hand-backs. Top of the list is what gets failed most often.
- Integrated extractor canopy behind the kitchen-unit panel – polymerised amber-grease the spray-and-wipe never reaches
- Oven door inner glass between the panes, where grease seeps in and bakes
- Shower screen tide line, lower seal, hinge pivot, head and arm
- Hard-water mineral film on shower head, screen runner, tap base, kettle, washing-machine drawer
- Tile-faced inglenook fireplace soot bloom behind the cast-iron fireback on Beaumont Hill stock
- Parquet entrance hall wax fingerprints under directional bay light
- Leaded-light front bay glazing – chalky bloom on the panes, oxidised black on the came
- Toilet hinge bolts, rim, behind the pan, cistern button-plate inside
- Skirting tops on the long Edwardian and Victorian hallways on Newton Green
- Picture-rail dust at three metres on the cottage and Edwardian stock
- Lath-and-plaster scuff halos on the Dunmow High Street Tudor stock
- Fridge and freezer seals – the rubber where mould blooms
- Cupboard interiors, especially under-sink with historic mineral scale rings
- Door tops, the flat upper edge nobody dusts
- Bathroom extractor grille – the dust load looks brown when removed
End of tenancy versus deep clean versus regular
Three different jobs at three different price points. The summary below is the one we send to landlords and tenants who ask before booking.
| Service | When to book | Result | CM6 starting rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| End of tenancy | Hand-back day, inventory clerk booked | Inventory-level pass, deposit protected, 48-hour re-clean window | £176 studio / £445 four-bed |
| Deep clean | Moving in, post-builders, post-Christmas reset | Property reset to a fresh standard, no inventory checklist | From £206, two cleaners for at least three hours, kit included |
| Regular weekly or fortnightly | Maintenance, while you live there | Surface tidy, kitchen and bathroom touch-points, hoover and mop | From £23 per cleaner per hour |
The end of tenancy clean is the only one of the three priced against an inventory clerk’s checklist. The other two are priced against your own standard. If you are unsure which you need, phone us and we will tell you straight.
How booking works
Booking takes three steps
- Your postcode and the property. The form gives the price.
- A date that suits you. Seven days a week.
- We confirm it with you by phone or WhatsApp.
0333 555 2076 · 8am to 7pm
- Phone 0333 555 2076 or email office@monstercleaning.com with the postcode, bedroom count, check-out date and the letting agent. Mention if there is a leaded-light bay, a parquet hall, a tile-faced inglenook, a quartz island or any integrated appliance – that helps us scope the team size.
- We confirm a fixed quote on the call inside the office hour. Carpet add-on, oven type, integrated-extractor count and access quirks – the narrow stair on a High Street Tudor, parking on the Causeway, the gated entry at Buttleys Lane – get talked through then.
- You confirm the slot. We hold the date for you. After that the slot is firm.
- Team arrives between 08:00 and 09:00, usually two to three cleaners, working to the 57-point agent-approved checklist. Photographs taken on completion against the check-in inventory for your deposit file.
- Inventory clerk attends within 48 hours. If they flag any line on our checklist we come back free under the 48-hour re-clean guarantee. Anything outside it – pre-existing chips, age-yellowed curtains – is an inventory dispute, but we back you up with our photographs and check-out notes.
Related services and neighbouring areas
Most Great Dunmow hand-backs add at least a carpet shampoo to the base end-of-tenancy. The original wool-pile carpets on the cottage stock and the high-traffic synthetics in the new-builds both need different equipment than a domestic Vax, and the hard Affinity supply leaves a chalky residue on rinse-extraction without the right pre-spray.
See the carpet cleaning service for the per-room and whole-flat rates. Integrated extractor canopies, double ovens and 90 cm ranges in the Stortford Road executive kitchens usually need an oven specialist on the same visit – the oven cleaning service covers single, double and 90 cm range.
Saffron Walden end of tenancy covers the next market town up the B184. The county-wide Essex end of tenancy hub has the full coverage map. Across that book we have helped recover £1.2m in deposits working with 300+ letting agents across Essex and London.
Frequently Asked Questions
How much does end of tenancy cleaning cost in Great Dunmow?
Studio £176, one-bed £227, two-bed £263, three-bed £359, four-bed £445. Carpet shampoo is £29 a bedroom, £36 a living room and £94 for the whole-flat package on a two-bed. Oven add-ons are £31 single, £62 double or a 90 cm range.
How long does a Great Dunmow end of tenancy clean take?
A two-bed cottage on the High Street runs five to seven hours with two cleaners. A three-bed Stortford Road new-build runs seven to nine. A four-bed Beaumont Hill 1930s detached runs eight to eleven – the leaded-light bay, the parquet hall and the tile-faced inglenook each carry their own dwell time. We work to the 57-point agent-approved checklist.
Do you guarantee my deposit back?
We cannot guarantee the deposit because the inventory has many lines we do not touch – paint, age-related wear, the landlord’s furniture. What we guarantee is the cleaning side. If the inventory clerk flags any cleaning line within 48 hours of our visit we come back at no charge – the 48-hour re-clean guarantee. If you do dispute a deduction the schemes at tenancydepositscheme.com, mydeposits.co.uk and depositprotection.com handle adjudication, with plain-English guidance from Shelter.
Are you insured?
Yes. Public liability cover is in place. We are Monster Cleaning Ltd, trading since 2014, registered office 75 Shakespeare Avenue, Feltham, TW14 9HU.
Do I need to be there on the day?
No. Most of our Great Dunmow clients drop a key with the letting agent on the High Street or the Causeway, or use a key safe. We send a written check-out report by email with photographs against the inventory schedule.
Do you handle Beaumont Hill 1930s detached and Stortford Road executive new-build hand-overs?
Yes. The Beaumont Hill stock is a regular run – leaded-light bays, parquet entrance halls, tile-faced inglenook fireplaces, mock-Tudor half-timbered gables – and the Stortford Road executive new-build belt past Buttleys Lane has a different envelope of integrated extractors, quartz islands, induction hobs and en-suite chrome. We adjust the chemical choice and the kit between them but the line-by-line scope is the same.
Do you cover the Dunmow High Street Tudor and Georgian conservation core?
Yes. We hand-wipe original window box channels rather than spray-cleaning, and we do not pressure-wash original lime plaster or lath-and-plaster infill. The picture-rail dust at three metres on the period stock gets a step ladder and a soft-brush vac, never a wet wipe. The exposed studwork on the Tudor frames gets a soft-brush dry pass, not a chemical clean. The wide-board oak floors on the older High Street properties get a hand-buff with a stone-and-wood-safe finish, never a steam mop.
What about limescale on chrome shower fittings and kettle bases?
Affinity Water in CM6 reads around 320 mg/l calcium carbonate, classified as very hard against the UK average around 198 mg/l. Chrome shower heads, screen runners, mixer taps, kettle elements and washing-machine drawer rubbers all need a controlled descaler at the right dwell time, then a polish-and-rinse. Our team carries all of it. If your previous cleaner has been using a generic kitchen spray, the mineral scale will not lift – that is why hard-water inventory fails on this point so often in the Beaumont Hill and Newton Green stock.
Is Great Dunmow in Uttlesford or East Herts?
Uttlesford. The CM6 postcode sits firmly inside Uttlesford District Council in north-west Essex, the same authority covering Saffron Walden, Stansted Mountfitchet, Thaxted and Elsenham. There is no selective licensing scheme and no Article 4 direction across the district. The full position is on the Uttlesford private sector housing page.
How quickly can you get to a Great Dunmow property?
Same-day or next-day on a two-bed or three-bed at most times of the year. Stansted-corridor turnover and school-year end bring extra weekend pressure and we prioritise the agent-booked check-out slots first. Phone 0333 555 2076 for the day’s availability.
Do you handle leaded-light bay glazing on the Beaumont Hill 1930s detached stock?
Yes. Leaded-light bays get a controlled descaler at low concentration on the glass only, then a soft buff on the came. We never spray an alkaline kitchen cleaner near oxidised lead – that drives the came further black and the clerk takes off another deduction. If the lead is already heavily oxidised from a previous cleaner, we tell you in writing so you can argue the deduction down to a polish rather than a re-leading.
What about parquet entrance halls and tile-faced inglenook fireplaces?
Parquet halls get a hand-buff in the direction of the laid blocks with a wood-safe finish. We never wet-mop, never steam-clean, never machine-polish original parquet seal. Tile-faced inglenook fireplaces get a dry-vac through the moulding profile, then the cast-iron fireback comes out of its rebate where the rebate allows, soaks separately, and goes back after a soft-bristle brush-down with a stone-safe paste. The soot bloom that creeps into the front-room skirting on long log-fire tenancies gets a controlled solvent pass on the timber, not on the tile face.
What is the 48-hour re-clean guarantee?
If the inventory clerk flags any cleaning line on our 57-point agent-approved checklist within 48 hours we come back free and have the agent re-sign before we invoice. It triggers on roughly three jobs in a hundred. We have recovered £1.2m of deposits for the clients of 300+ letting agents.
How do I book?
Phone 0333 555 2076 or email office@monstercleaning.com with the property address, the check-out date, the bedroom count and the letting agent. We give you a fixed quote inside the office hour and hold the date for you.
Ready to book your Great Dunmow end of tenancy clean
Booking takes three steps
- Your postcode and the property. The form gives the price.
- A date that suits you. Seven days a week.
- We confirm it with you by phone or WhatsApp.
0333 555 2076 · 8am to 7pm
Phone 0333 555 2076 or email office@monstercleaning.com for a fixed-price agent-approved clean across Great Dunmow CM6 1 – Dunmow High Street, Stortford Road, Beaumont Hill, Newton Green, the Causeway, North Street, White Street and the Stortford Road executive fringe past the Doctor’s Pond – with the 48-hour re-clean guarantee and 57-point agent-approved checklist that have recovered £1.2m of deposits for clients of 300+ letting agents since 2014. Monster Cleaning Ltd.