End of tenancy cleaning in and around Hanbury Street

Hanbury Street is a half-mile run east-west between Commercial Street and Brick Lane, and the two halves clean differently. The western section past Hanbury Hall and up to Wilkes Street is the 1718-1730 Huguenot silk-weavers’ terrace, almost all of it Grade II listed with a few houses at Grade II*. The eastern section towards Brick Lane and the Old Truman Brewery is mostly 19th-century shop-with-flat conversions, a row of warehouse loft schemes from the 1990s, and a small handful of new-build infill plots on the corner of Wilkes. We have cleaned both halves since 2014. Phone 0333 555 2076 or email [email protected]. A 4-bed Grade II listed 1720s terrace clean on the western half starts at £435.

Last updated April 2026. We cover the E1 5 postcode in full plus the E1 6 bleed across into the Christ Church Spitalfields side, and the EC2A edge towards Shoreditch High Street. Same-week turnaround on most jobs and a fortnight’s notice for the larger 4-bed listed houses on the western half. The full Tower Hamlets end of tenancy hub lists every E-postcode patch and every neighbouring ward we book.

Answer in one line: end of tenancy cleaning on Hanbury Street starts at £165 for a studio above a Brick Lane shopfront and rises to £435 for a full 4-bed Grade II listed 1720s terrace on the western half, fixed price, listed-building care included.

We are a small London firm. Two to four cleaners on a job, kit carried in by hand because the original front doors on the western half are narrow and van loading on Hanbury Street is difficult on Brick Lane market days. Fixed quote, not hourly. Work checked against the 57-point agent-approved checklist before we leave. We have handled handovers for 300+ letting agents over the years and helped recover £1.2m deposits for clients we cleaned for; our first-time pass rate sits at 97%, with the 48-hour re-clean guarantee covering the rest.

Why Hanbury Street deposits get deducted

Tower Hamlets private rents averaged £2,396 a month in March 2026, up 1.8% on the year before, with the Spitalfields end of the borough running well above the headline figure (ONS Private Rent and House Prices, March 2026). The rents on Hanbury split sharply by postcode. On the E1 6 western half between Commercial Street and the Wilkes Street junction, a full Grade II listed 4-bed terrace lets at £5,800 to £8,500 a month and a 3-bed at £4,200 to £5,800; on the E1 5 eastern half towards Brick Lane, a 1-bed flat above a curry-house or bagel-shop frontage sits at £1,950 to £2,650, a 2-bed warehouse loft conversion at £2,800 to £3,800, and a studio carved out of a Truman Brewery-edge upper floor at £1,650 to £2,200. Deposits scale with the rent. The five-week cap under the Tenant Fees Act puts the deduction risk on a 4-bed listed terrace at roughly £6,700 to £9,800. That is the figure the agent has the room to hold over a missed cleaning step on a listed-building feature, and that is what we are working to protect when we send a crew in.

The fabric on the western half of Hanbury is unusually intact for a London rental street. The houses were built by master silk weavers and their landlord-developer Jeffrey Browne in the 1718-1730 window, originally as Browne’s Lane, and most surviving houses still have the panelled entrance hall with bolection-moulded door surrounds, the original quarter-turn staircase with column-on-vase balusters, the original raised-and-fielded panelled rooms on the front and first floor, and the original wide-board oak floors on the principal storeys. A handful retain their original lath-and-plaster ceilings on the first-floor parlour. Several still carry their original 1720s glazing on the front elevation, with the early-Georgian putty work that has been there since the houses were built. None of these features can be cleaned with anything aggressive.

The water in E1 is hard. Thames Water supplies the postcode from a chalk-fed source, classified as hard at around 293 to 302 milligrams of calcium carbonate per litre across central and east London (Thames Water hardness data). At handover that means every chrome shower head, every kettle and every mixer base carries a chalky bloom inside a fortnight. We use a measured weak-acid descaler with proper dwell time, then buff out, then dry-wipe.

Renters’ Rights Act 2025 and the deposit lever

Section 21 is gone.

The Renters’ Rights Act 2025 received Royal Assent on 27 October 2025 and the headline reforms commenced on 1 May 2026. Rolling periodic tenancies replace the old fixed-term assured shorthold, no-fault eviction has been abolished, and any Section 21 notice served before 28 April 2026 has to be acted on with a possession claim by 1 August or it is deemed invalid. For a Hanbury Street tenant the practical knock-on is that the deposit-return route is now the cleanest exit from a tenancy. Eviction routes have narrowed, inventory walks have got longer, and clients of ours on the western half of Hanbury and around Hanbury Hall have reported handovers running close to two hours where they used to be inside the hour.

Tower Hamlets selective and additional licensing

Tower Hamlets runs the most active landlord-licensing regime in central London. The borough’s selective licensing designation covers the Spitalfields and Banglatown ward (your ward, including the whole of Hanbury Street) and runs to 30 September 2026, with new fees adopted by Full Council on 25 February 2026 applying to applications from 1 April 2026 (Tower Hamlets selective licensing). On top of that, the borough-wide additional licensing scheme runs to 31 March 2029. Most landlords on Hanbury carry a council licence; the licence imposes a fit-for-letting condition at handback, and a failed cleaning hand-back can land back on the licence record.

The Brick Lane edge and the western-half split

This is the line item that defines Hanbury Street more than any other category. The street works as two cleaning briefs sitting in one road. On the Commercial Street end you are inside a Grade II listed Huguenot terrace and the rules are listed-building rules. On the Brick Lane end you are inside a converted shopfront flat or a 1990s warehouse loft and the rules are sealant, modern paint, glazed-tile splashbacks and a stripped pine subfloor. We arrive with the right kit for the right end of the street. On the western half: long-haired natural-bristle brush for any surviving lath-and-plaster, soft brush for original cornicing, distilled water on the early-Georgian glazing, dry buff on the wide-board oak. On the eastern half: regrout-rinse on the splashback tiles, oven kit for the modern induction-and-oven combos, sealant-friendly anti-mould wipe on the bathroom silicone. Neither half wants the other half’s protocol on it. The clerks who walk the road know which side of the Wilkes Street junction they are on the moment they step over the threshold; we work to that.

“We had a five-year let on a 3-bed Grade II listed 1720s terrace on the western half of Hanbury Street, the original panelled hall with the bolection moulding still on the door surrounds, the original wide-board oak in the front parlour, and the front elevation still carried its original 1720s glazing. We are a fashion-and-curating couple, both work in the industry, both at home a lot in the front room, so the front-elevation putty had taken five years of London soot and was the line item the clerk at Hurford Salvi Carr Aldgate flagged at the mid-tenancy walk. She told us straight: clean the original putty wrong and the deduction lands on the listed-fabric line of the inventory. Monster came on a Tuesday morning. Three cleaners, two days, distilled water on the glass with a microfibre cloth, no water near the original putty, soft natural-bristle brush along the bolection moulding in the hall, dry buff on the wide-board oak in the parlour. Clerk passed it first time. £7,400 deposit back the following Monday.” — Hannah and Theo, fashion buyer and gallery curator, 3-bed Hanbury Street E1 6, February 2026.

Coverage – streets and zones around Hanbury Street

We work the whole E1 5 patch, the bleed onto E1 6 across the Commercial Street and Wilkes Street junctions, and the streets sitting inside the Brick Lane and Fournier Street Conservation Area. Below is the working coverage list. Most western-half streets share the same listed-building protocols at handover; the property mix shifts as you walk east towards the Old Truman Brewery.

• Hanbury Street (western half) – the run from Commercial Street past Hanbury Hall to the Wilkes Street junction, almost all Grade II listed early-Georgian terraces with panelled halls, original wide-board oak and surviving 1720s glazing.
• Hanbury Street (eastern half) – from Wilkes Street to Brick Lane, mostly 19th-century shop-with-flat conversions, the 1990s warehouse loft schemes and a small handful of new-build corner infill plots.
• Hanbury Hall – the 1719 former Huguenot meeting house standing back from the road behind a courtyard with a pump; the surrounding tenanted flats sit in converted school-and-mission stock.
• Old Truman Brewery flats – the residential conversions at the Brick Lane end, mostly 1990s warehouse loft format with exposed brick, modern glazed-tile bathrooms and stripped pine subfloors.
• Wilkes Street – 1720s Huguenot weavers’ houses on the corner with Hanbury, mostly Grade II listed, often let as upper-floor apartments.
• Princelet Street – Grade II listed weavers’ houses including 13 Princelet Street; the same listed-building protocol applies as the Hanbury western half.
• Fournier Street – the Grade II* run between Brick Lane and Christ Church Spitalfields, the most heavily listed street on the patch.
• Brick Lane corner – converted upper-floor studios and 1-beds above the curry-house and bagel-shop frontages on the western pavement.
• Spital Square edge – the Bishops Square frontage between Hanbury and Bishopsgate, modern Foster + Partners apartment stock with private courtyard access.
• E1 5 in full, plus a short bleed onto Brick Lane south of Hanbury and onto the Commercial Street frontage at the Wilkes Street junction.

What’s included in our Hanbury Street end of tenancy clean

The full agent-approved 57-point list is split across the four functional zones below. It is the same scope on a Hanbury 4-bed listed terrace as on a converted Brick Lane upper-floor flat or a Truman Brewery loft; the time billed varies, but the checklist does not.

Kitchen

Behind the cooker, behind the fridge, behind the washing machine where the plumbing allows. Hood filter degreased separately and dried before refit. Inside, outside and behind the integrated oven, including the inner glass of the door, the part the clerk lifts the seal on – one of the most common single-line deductions on the patch. Hob, splashback and surrounding tile grout. Cupboards inside and out, top of the cupboard line dusted. Sink and tap descaled with the weak-acid soak; chrome dried and buffed. Bin emptied, washed, deodorised. Floor mopped under all moveable units. On the western-half listed stock, the kitchen is usually a later insertion at the back of the house and we treat any surviving original feature – a remaining bread oven door, an original cast-iron range surround in the cellar – as listed and clean it dry only.

Bathrooms

Tile grout scrubbed back, including the inside corner of the shower enclosure. Shower head removed, descaled and refitted. Glass screens treated and rinsed clear so the chalky bloom is gone, with no smeared residue left behind. Toilet bowl, tank exterior, base and the floor under the cistern. Mirrored cabinets cleaned inside and out. Extractor grille cleaned. Floor finished. We do not retile and we do not silicone-replace; if your sealant is shot, that is a maintenance job for the landlord, not a cleaning deduction.

Bedrooms and living areas

Skirting wiped. Picture rails dusted – the dust line is a slow accumulator a clerk’s torch finds in late-afternoon light. Original lath-and-plaster ceilings on the western half dry-pass cleaned, no water contact. Original cornice runs cleaned with a soft natural-bristle brush, no chemical contact. Original raised-and-fielded panelling in the front-room parlours wiped with a barely-damp microfibre, then dried immediately, no detergent. Wide-board oak floors dry-buffed only – we do not wet-mop original timber. All windows cleaned inside, including the original early-Georgian glazing where present, with distilled water and a microfibre cloth. Internal frames and reveals wiped. Carpets vacuumed where present.

Throughout

Doors and door frames wiped front and back. Original door furniture (HL hinges, early-Georgian rim locks, brass escutcheons) cleaned dry only with a soft cloth. Light switches, sockets, thermostat, video-entry handset where fitted. Radiators dusted. Original quarter-turn staircase column-on-vase balusters and mahogany handrail cleaned to handover standard. The original panelled hall with bolection-moulded door surrounds wiped with a barely-damp microfibre and dried. Bins emptied. The 57 points are itemised on the receipt that lands in your inbox the same evening.

What it costs along Hanbury Street

We hold premium-tier pricing for the western half because every job is a listed-building job and the principal-storey rooms each take a slow dry-pass before any normal cleaning can begin. Eastern-half pricing is the same on paper because the warehouse loft conversions and shop-flat upper floors take the same scope, just without the listed-fabric care. Pricing is the full agent-approved service, fixed quote not hourly, with the 57-point agent-approved checklist and 48-hour re-clean guarantee included. No VAT add-on, no listed-building surcharge.

Add £36 per bedroom for carpet shampoo where carpet is fitted (most western-half 4-beds are wide-board oak throughout the principal storeys with carpet only in the rear bedrooms; eastern-half lofts are usually stripped pine), £43 for the living-room carpet, £114 for a 90cm range cooker, hourly bookings at £30 per cleaner. Listed-building work and the dry-pass on lath-and-plaster ceilings on the western half is included in the headline price; we do not run a separate listed-building line because charging twice for working slowly would be a bit much.

What your Hanbury Street letting agent will actually check

This list is built from feedback we get back from Hurford Salvi Carr Aldgate, Currell Clerkenwell, Foxtons City and the inventory clerks who do most of the Hanbury and wider Huguenot terrace walks. Order matters. Top of the list is what gets failed most often.

1. Original 1720s window putty on the front elevation – the Hanbury western-half signature failure
2. Bolection-moulded door surround dust in the panelled entrance hall
3. Wide-board oak edge dust along the skirting return where freestanding furniture has stood
4. Original raised-and-fielded panelling in the front parlour – dust caught along the field-edge moulding
5. Quarter-turn staircase column-on-vase balusters – finger-mark gloss along the upper edge
6. Original lath-and-plaster ceiling cornice run on the first-floor parlour where it survives
7. Original door furniture – HL hinges, brass escutcheons, early-Georgian rim locks
8. Cellar bread oven door and any surviving cast-iron range surround
9. Limescale on chrome in the kitchen and bathroom (the 293-302 ppm Thames Water failure mode)
10. Eastern-half warehouse-loft exposed-brick dust in the rake light from the south-facing windows
11. Eastern-half stripped-pine subfloor edge dust along the loft skirtings
12. Oven inner-glass grease between the panes
13. Light fittings – inside the pendant dome as well as the outer shade

End of tenancy versus deep clean versus regular

End of tenancy is the hand-back clean: agent checklist, photographic evidence, deposit-return target. Deep clean is what you book when you are staying and want the kitchen and bathroom returned to first-let condition. Regular is what you book weekly or fortnightly to keep the place tidy. The work below is the first one. Listed-building work on the lath-and-plaster ceilings, the original panelling and the wide-board oak is included in the end-of-tenancy headline price.

How booking works

1. You phone or email with the property address, the bedroom count, the listed grade if you know it (we will look it up if not), which side of the Wilkes Street junction the property sits on, and your handover date and time.
2. We hold the slot and email a written quote with the 57-point checklist itemised. Listed western-half terraces get a quick photo callback so we know which fabric features we are working around.
3. We arrive ninety minutes before the agent’s check-out window where access permits, or open of business on the morning of the walk for a 4-bed-plus listed where we have split the job over two days.
4. We send you a same-evening receipt with photographs of the finished kitchen, bathroom and listed features. You forward those to your agent.
5. If the clerk flags anything in the next 48 hours, we come back free of charge under the re-clean guarantee.

Related services and neighbouring areas

For deep oven work on a Brick Lane shopfront flat or on the cellar kitchen of a Grade II listed terrace on the western half, see our oven cleaning service. For carpet shampoo on the rear bedrooms of a 4-bed listed terrace where carpet is fitted, see our carpet cleaning service. Neighbouring areas in the same booking pattern: Fournier Street for the Grade II* run between Brick Lane and Christ Church Spitalfields, and the wider Tower Hamlets end of tenancy hub for every E-postcode patch we cover.

Frequently asked questions

How much does end of tenancy cleaning cost on Hanbury Street?

A studio above a Brick Lane shopfront starts at £165, a 1-bed flat above ground-floor commercial is £195, a 2-bed warehouse loft conversion is £235, a 3-bed Grade II listed terrace is £305, a 4-bed Grade II listed 1720s terrace is £435 and a 5-bed listed terrace is £585. Listed-building care, the dry-pass on lath-and-plaster ceilings on principal storeys, and the soft-brush work on original cornicing and panelling on the western half are all included in the headline price.

How long does the clean take?

A converted 1-bed Brick Lane upper floor on the eastern half is typically a five- to six-hour job for two cleaners. A 3-bed listed terrace on the western half runs nine to eleven hours for two. A 4-bed Grade II listed 1720s terrace on the western half itself is fourteen to eighteen hours, which we usually split across two days, mostly because the listed-fabric care on the panelled hall, the original wide-board oak in the front parlour and any surviving lath-and-plaster on the principal storeys takes around three hours per floor before any standard kitchen or bathroom work can start.

Do you guarantee my deposit back?

We do not guarantee deposit return, because the deposit is between you, your landlord and the deposit scheme, and the clerk has the final call. What we do is a clean to the 57-point agent-approved checklist with a 48-hour re-clean guarantee: if the clerk flags a cleaning issue inside that window, we come back free. Our first-time pass rate sits at 97% on this patch. Across the firm we have helped recover £1.2m in deposits.

Are you insured?

Yes. Public liability cover sits at £5m and we hold employer’s liability and treatment-risk cover. We will email the certificate before the booking on request. Listed-building work on Grade II and Grade II* properties is included on our policy.

Do I need to be there?

No. Most of our Hanbury and Brick Lane jobs run on key collection from the letting agent the night before. For a 4-bed listed terrace on the western half we usually start at eight on the first morning and finish on the second so you are not living through the dust pass. Tell us if your agent has a different handover preference.

Do you bring all the cleaning products?

Yes. Cloths, ladders, the long-haired natural-bristle brush for any surviving lath-and-plaster ceilings, the soft natural-bristle brush for original cornicing and panelling, the dry-buff kit for the wide-board oak, the distilled water for original early-Georgian glazing, the weak-acid descaler for the chrome, oven kit and carpet shampoo gear if booked. Nothing of yours in the cupboard is touched. We carry it all in.

Will the original 1720s window putty on the front elevation get damaged?

No. We use distilled water and a microfibre cloth on the original glass and we do not let any water near the original putty. The early-Georgian putty on a Hanbury Street house has been there in places for two-and-a-half centuries; we are not the cleaner that scrapes it.

Will the wide-board oak floor in the front parlour be wet-mopped?

No. Original wide-board oak is dry-buffed only. A wet mop on early-Georgian boards lifts the patina, opens up the joints and pushes water down through the under-boards into the cellar ceiling. We dry-buff the boards, hand-wipe the edges where furniture has stood, and finish with a soft cloth. The agent walks the boards in afternoon torchlight; the buff has to look right under that.

What about the panelled entrance hall and the bolection-moulded door surrounds?

Hanbury Street’s panelled halls are one of the genuine differentiators of the western half. We wipe them with a barely-damp microfibre then dry immediately, no detergent. The bolection moulding on the door surrounds is cleaned with a soft natural-bristle brush along the field-edge to clear the dust line that builds up in the deeper part of the moulding. No chemical contact on listed timber.

What if my landlord uses a specific inventory company?

We have worked with most of them on this patch and we adjust the kitchen, bathroom and principal-storey focus to that clerk’s known preferences. Tell us at booking which firm your agent uses and we will work to that firm’s check-out template.

Can you clean a property while it’s still partly furnished?

Yes, although it slows us. Tell us at booking that the sofa, the wardrobes and the bed are still in. We will move what is moveable on the principal storeys (carefully, given the wide-board oak), clean around what isn’t, and the agent’s checklist still gets ticked.

Do you cover the Truman Brewery flats and the Brick Lane corner as well as the listed western half?

Yes. The eastern half of Hanbury Street between Wilkes and Brick Lane is mostly 19th-century shop-with-flat conversions, 1990s warehouse loft schemes around the Old Truman Brewery, and small new-build infill plots on the corner of Wilkes. The protocol on those is sealant-friendly anti-mould wipes on bathroom silicone, regrout-rinse on the splashback tiles, oven kit on the modern induction-and-oven combos, vacuum-and-edge-dust on stripped pine subfloors. Different protocol than the western half; same checklist.

What about hard water on chrome shower fittings and kettles?

Thames Water in E1 runs at the harder end of the central-London range, around 293 to 302 milligrams of calcium carbonate per litre. We use a measured weak-acid descaler with proper dwell, then a buff and a dry wipe. Chrome ends up as it would on a new install. The kettle outside, the kettle inside, the mixer base and the washing-machine drawer all get the same treatment.

What’s the 48-hour re-clean guarantee?

If the inventory clerk flags a cleaning issue in the 48 hours after we leave, we come back and put it right at no extra cost. The window starts when we hand back to you. We also leave you photographic evidence the same evening so any disagreement runs through the deposit-scheme dispute process – Tenancy Deposit Scheme, mydeposits or DPS – with our checklist on the record. Shelter publish free guidance on disputing a cleaning deduction.

How quickly can you book me in?

Same-week is normal across the converted-flat stock and the smaller eastern-half loft conversions. For a 4-bed Grade II listed terrace on the western half of Hanbury we ask for a fortnight’s notice because we split the job over two days and the team needs to be a known crew, not a fill-in. End-of-month Saturdays are the busiest dates of the year here, so a Hanbury or Wilkes handover dated 31 March or 30 June fills early; book three weeks ahead if your handover is on a quarter-day.

Do you handle properties under Tower Hamlets selective licensing?

Yes. The Spitalfields and Banglatown ward (which covers the whole of Hanbury Street) sits inside the council’s selective licensing scheme until 30 September 2026, with the new fees adopted on 25 February 2026 applying from 1 April 2026, and the borough-wide additional licensing scheme runs to 31 March 2029. The licence imposes a fit-for-letting condition at handback and that is exactly what our checklist clean is designed to clear.

Ready to book?

Phone 0333 555 2076 or email [email protected]. Tell us the address, the bedroom count, which side of the Wilkes Street junction you are on, the handover date and time, and which letting agent. We hold the slot, send a written quote, and crew the job from a London depot ninety minutes before your check-out window – or open of business on the first morning if it is a 4-bed-plus split-day job.

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