Wapping prices, the short answer
Wapping lets are mostly flats: in Victorian tea and spice warehouses along the river, in the new towers at London Dock, and in the brick houses and low blocks built over the filled-in docks in the 1980s. Our end of tenancy clean for any of them is a fixed price by bedrooms, from £156 for a studio to £425 for four bedrooms, and the table below shows where each kind of Wapping home lands.
Last updated October 2026.
Wapping homes compared
The price follows the bedroom count. What changes from one Wapping home to the next is where the cleaner spends the hours.
| Home | Example | Price | What slows the clean |
|---|---|---|---|
| Studio or one-bed warehouse flat | Oliver’s Wharf, Wapping High Street | £156 or £207 | Exposed brick and timber that hold dust, iron columns, deep window reveals |
| Two-bed warehouse flat | New Crane Wharf, Wapping Wall | £243 | Tall windows in the old loading bays, long wooden floors, older bathrooms |
| One- or two-bed new-build flat | London Dock | £207 or £243 | Floor-to-ceiling glass, balcony doors, integrated kitchen, glass shower screen |
| Three-bed house | 1980s Docklands streets on the old dock land | £339 | Stairs, two bathrooms, carpets, a garden door |
| Four-bed house or penthouse | Riverside blocks and larger houses | £425 | Terraces, several bathrooms, more glass |
| Five bedrooms or more | Anywhere | quoted from the room count | Room count and bathrooms |
| A room in a shared flat | Anywhere | £30 per cleaner per hour | Your room plus a share of the kitchen and bathroom |
The money riding on it is not small. ONS puts the average Tower Hamlets flat rent at £2,284 a month in August 2026. A deposit can be up to five weeks’ rent when the yearly rent is under £50,000, which at that rent is about £2,635.
Warehouses on the High Street and Wapping Wall
On Wapping High Street the warehouses are tall enough to put the road in deep shadow on a sunny day. Oliver’s Wharf, at number 64, was built in 1870 to store tea and converted into flats in 1972, the first warehouse in Wapping and one of the first in Docklands to be turned into homes. It is Grade II listed. Conversions picked up in the 1980s, after the area passed to the London Docklands Development Corporation.
Wapping Wall carries on east towards Shadwell, a row of converted warehouses as far as the Prospect of Whitby pub. New Crane Wharf, built in 1873 and partly rebuilt after a fire in 1885, was converted for Heron Homes in 1989 and 1990 and now has 146 flats. Metropolitan Wharf, four buildings put up between 1862 and 1898, was refurbished in 2008.
These flats are lovely to live in and slow to clean. Bare brick and old beams catch dust that a cloth just pushes around, so the cleaner uses a soft brush and a vacuum on them first.
Big windows sit in deep reveals where the loading doors were, and wooden floors show every smear in low winter light. A clerk who knows the building checks the window sills, the tops of the beams and the iron columns.
Bare brick and old beams catch dust that a cloth just pushes around.
London Dock, Tobacco Dock and the 1980s streets
After News International moved its printing works to Wapping in 1986, its site became known as Fortress Wapping. In January 2014 Tower Hamlets Council approved St George’s plan for London Dock on that 15-acre site: up to 1,800 homes in eight buildings, 30% of them affordable, with a secondary school and the Grade II listed Pennington Street warehouse kept for cafes and offices.
Some of its blocks rise to 22 storeys, and they are a different job from a warehouse flat, with more glass and gloss and fewer ledges.
Tobacco Dock, the Grade I listed warehouse of about 1811 beside The Highway, stands next to the scheme. The rest of the old London Docks were mostly filled in during the Docklands years and built over with a mix of homes and business units, which is where many of Wapping’s 1980s houses and low-rise blocks come from. A house there has stairs, carpets and often a garden, so it takes longer than a flat of the same bedroom count.
Licensing, parking and the Overground
Tower Hamlets has run additional HMO licensing across the whole borough since 1 April 2024, and St Katharine and Wapping ward is on its list. A flat or house with three or more people from two or more households who share a kitchen or bathroom needs a licence.
The council’s selective licensing scheme never covered Wapping; it applied to Weavers, Whitechapel and Spitalfields & Banglatown, and it closed on 30 September 2026. Details are on the council’s additional licensing page. Licensing is the landlord’s duty and does not change the standard the clean is checked against: the check-in inventory, with fair wear and tear allowed.
Council parking controls apply only on public roads, and the hours are on the sign at each bay. Many wharf buildings have private courtyards or gated forecourts where council permits are no use, so tell us how deliveries reach your block. Any parking we pay for is added at what it costs us.
Wapping station opened in 1869 and is now on the Overground’s Windrush line. Our cleaners can arrive that way for a small flat, though a full clean usually comes by van.
The water is Thames Water’s, and the company says all the water in its region is hard. In riverside bathrooms that means scale on the taps, shower heads and glass, which we descale as part of the clean.
What the clean covers
Every clean follows our 57-point checklist. In a Wapping flat, the main points are:
- Kitchen: inside and outside every cupboard and drawer, worktops, splashback, hob and extractor, the fridge and freezer, and the sink and taps descaled.
- Bathrooms: screen, bath or tray, tiles and grout, toilet, basin, mirror and the fan cover, all descaled.
- Living rooms and bedrooms: skirting, doors, switches, radiators, wardrobes, sills and the inside of every window, plus exposed brick and beams brushed down.
- Floors vacuumed and washed, wooden floors with a damp mop that suits the finish.
The oven is an add-on, never part of the fixed price: £31 for a single or a single wide oven, and £62 for a double or a 90cm range cooker. Our oven cleaning page explains the process. Carpets booked with the clean are £29 a bedroom, £36 a living room, £47 a through lounge, £35 a flight of stairs, £20 a hallway and £8 a landing; see carpet cleaning for the standalone service.
The cleaners are vetted with an in-person interview, insured and trained on the checklist. We have worked since 2014, more than 300 letting agents use us, tenants have won back £1.2m in deposits after our cleans, and our Google rating is 4.7.
If the agent or clerk raises anything within 48 hours, we come back and clean it again at no charge. Call 0333 555 2076, 8am to 7pm, seven days a week. We also work in St Katharine Docks next door, Shadwell at the end of Wapping Wall, and the rest of Tower Hamlets.
Wapping end of tenancy FAQs
How much is a clean for a two-bed warehouse flat on Wapping High Street?
£243, fixed. Exposed brick, beams and the big windows are part of that price, and an oven adds from £31.
Can your van get into a wharf courtyard on a weekday?
Often, if the building manager knows we are coming. Give us the gate or concierge details when you book; if we have to use paid parking nearby, the cost is added at what we pay.
I rent a flat at London Dock. Do you clean the balcony?
Yes, the balcony floor is swept and washed and the glass is cleaned from the inside and the balcony side.
Three of us share a flat near Tobacco Dock. Does our landlord need a licence?
Yes, under Tower Hamlets’ borough-wide additional licensing, if you are three or more people from two or more households sharing a kitchen or bathroom. Your agent can confirm it.
Does a warehouse flat cost more than a new-build with the same bedrooms?
No. Both are priced by bedrooms. In the warehouse the extra time goes on brick, beams and deep window sills; in the new-build it goes on glass.