Homes around Loughborough Junction
In the Herne Hill and Loughborough Junction ward, more than a quarter of households live in a flat made out of an older house, and many of the rest are in the council blocks put up after the war or in Victorian terraces under the railway bridges. That spread is what makes a Loughborough Junction let a particular job. Our end of tenancy clean is priced by bedrooms whatever the building: from £156 for a studio, and £243 for a two-bed flat.
Last updated October 2026.
The 2021 census counted 6,564 households in the ward, which took in the old Coldharbour and Herne Hill wards in 2022. Of those, 1,899 rented privately, 2,062 rented from the council or a housing association, and 2,505 owned their home. By building type the numbers are just as mixed: 2,439 households in purpose-built flats, 1,771 in converted or shared houses and 1,388 in terraced houses.
The converted houses are the older layer. The junction grew up around the station, which opened in 1863, and by the end of the 19th century many of the larger Victorian villas here had already been divided into flats. West of the junction, Lambeth’s Loughborough Park conservation area (first designated in 1981) keeps the detached and semi-detached houses laid out in the 1840s and 1850s on Loughborough Park, Moorland Road and Shakespeare Road. The council’s appraisal describes them as two storeys over semi-basements, many in stucco, and its boundary was redrawn in 1987 to join it up with the Brixton town centre conservation area.
For a cleaner, a flat in one of those houses means a long internal stair, tall sash windows, deep skirting and cornices, and a semi-basement where a kitchen or bathroom tends to sit below street level with little daylight. A top-floor flat means carrying the kit up two or three flights. None of that changes the price, but it does change the timing, so tell us the floor when you book.
Above it all run the railways: seven bridges cross the roads at the junction, six of them visible at once from the centre, and most date from the 19th century.
The 1950s slab blocks and the new builds
Just north-west of the junction, on Barrington Road, is the Loughborough Estate. The London County Council built it between 1954 and 1957 under its architects’ department, then led by Sir Leslie Martin: 1,031 homes over 31 acres, with nine communal laundries when it opened. It was the first estate to put maisonettes into 11-storey slab blocks, a model the LCC used again, most famously on the Alton Estate in Roehampton. A maisonette there has its own internal stair, two floors of rooms and long runs of window. Flats in the blocks that leaseholders let out privately are cleaned like any other private let.
The newest homes are at Higgs Yard, on the old Higgs industrial estate off Herne Hill Road. Peabody built 134 homes there, half of them affordable, in one-, two- and three-bed flats heated by air-source heat pumps, and the first residents moved in at the end of 2023. A new-build check-out is about finishes: integrated appliances, gloss cupboard doors that show every fingerprint, glass shower screens and the tracks of balcony doors.
A short way east, King’s College Hospital on Denmark Hill in Camberwell is a major teaching hospital and trauma centre with around 950 beds. For commuters, Thameslink trains stop four times an hour each way off-peak, towards St Albans in one direction and Sutton in the other.
Loughborough Junction prices by bedroom
| Property | Price |
|---|---|
| Studio | £156 |
| One bedroom | £207 |
| Two bedrooms | £243 |
| Three bedrooms | £339 |
| Four bedrooms | £425 |
| Five bedrooms or more | quoted from the room count |
| One room in a shared flat, or part of a home | £30 per cleaner per hour |
A maisonette on the Loughborough Estate is priced the same way as a split Victorian flat: by its bedrooms. Your exact figure is in the calculator at the top of the page. Where we have to pay to park, that cost is added at what we pay.
Two add-ons are cheaper booked with the clean than on their own. The oven is always extra: £31 for a single or a single wide oven, and £62 for a double or a 90cm range cooker (see oven cleaning). Carpets are £29 a bedroom, £36 a living room, £47 for a through lounge, £35 a flight of stairs, £20 a hallway and £8 a landing (see carpet cleaning).
Working through the checklist
Thames Water supplies Lambeth and calls all the water in its region hard, since it runs through chalk and limestone before it reaches the tap. The scale it leaves on taps, shower heads and glass is the first thing an inventory clerk notices in a bathroom, so every clean here includes descaling. The rest of our 57-point checklist, room by room:
- Kitchen: cupboards and drawers inside and out, worktops and tiles, hob, extractor hood and filter, sink and taps, fridge and freezer, washing machine drawer and seal, and the floor under anything that pulls out.
- Bathroom: limescale off screen, taps, shower head and tiles, grout scrubbed, toilet including the base, bath, basin, mirror and fan cover.
- Every room: skirting and cornices within reach, doors and frames, switches and sockets, radiators, inside built-in cupboards and wardrobes, sills, and windows cleaned from the inside, sash runners included.
- Internal stairs and landings of a maisonette or split house, then floors vacuumed and washed.
Each cleaner is interviewed in person before joining us, insured, and trained on the checklist. We have done this work since 2014; more than 300 letting agents use us and tenants have won back £1.2m in deposits. Our Google rating is 4.7. If your agent or the clerk raises something within 48 hours of the clean, we send someone back to fix it free.
Deposit rules for Lambeth tenants
Lambeth is expensive to rent in. The ONS put the borough’s average rent at £2,525 a month in August 2026, with one-beds at £1,882 and two-beds at £2,342. A deposit is capped at five weeks’ rent when the yearly rent is under £50,000, so on an average two-bed that is about £2,700.
- Protection
- Your landlord or agent must put the deposit in a government-approved scheme (Deposit Protection Service, mydeposits or the Tenancy Deposit Scheme) within 30 days of getting it.
- The standard
- Cleaning can only be charged where the home is less clean than the check-in inventory shows, allowing for fair wear and tear.
- Professional cleaning
- Under the Tenant Fees Act a landlord cannot make you pay for a professional clean as a condition of the tenancy.
- Repayment
- Once you and the landlord agree the amount, it must be returned within 10 days. If you disagree, the money stays protected in the scheme until the dispute is settled.
The practical advice is the same in every flat: get the check-in report out before you start, and keep the receipt for the clean.
Landlord licensing in this part of Lambeth
Lambeth’s selective licensing reached this area on 1 September 2025, when phase two of the scheme added 19 wards, among them Herne Hill and Loughborough Junction, Brixton North, Brixton Windrush and Myatt’s Field. Any home let privately to one household or to two sharers in those wards needs a licence; the fee has been £1,025 since 1 April 2026. Shared homes have needed one for longer: Lambeth’s additional HMO licence has covered homes let to three or more people across the borough since 9 December 2021, and the council’s public notice gave that scheme an end date of 8 December 2026. The council’s licensing page has the current position. For you, the check-out test stays the inventory. A licence is the landlord’s paperwork.
For the streets south towards the station at Herne Hill, and the rest of the borough, see our Lambeth page.
Loughborough Junction end of tenancy FAQs
I rent a two-floor maisonette on the Loughborough Estate. Is it priced as a house?
No, it is priced by bedrooms like any flat, so a two-bed maisonette is £243. The internal stairs are cleaned as part of it.
My flat is the semi-basement of a villa on Loughborough Park. Does that cost extra?
No. The price is the same for any floor. Say it is a semi-basement when you book so we know about the steps down.
Is a Higgs Yard flat quicker because it is new?
The price is the same by bedrooms. The time goes on different things: integrated appliances, glass shower screens and balcony door tracks.
We share a flat near the station and one of us leaves before the others. What do we book?
The person leaving books their room and a share of the kitchen and bathroom by the hour, at £30 per cleaner. The last one out books the whole flat at the fixed price.
When do I pay?
A 50% deposit holds your date, and the rest is due once the clean is done. Call 0333 555 2076, 8am to 7pm, seven days a week.