Painters & Decorators in Hitchin

Hitchin grew up around its market place and St Mary's Church, and the streets around them, Bancroft and Tilehouse Street among them, still have Georgian frontages and older timber-framed buildings. Out from the centre, the roads toward the station and Walsworth are lined with Victorian and Edwardian terraces, and Westmill, Purwell, Oughton and Highover are mainly post-war and newer housing.

The terraces make up a lot of the decorating here, and they follow a pattern. High ceilings, original cornices and picture rails, plaster that's been patched over the years, and hallways and stairs that are taller than they look. Getting a good finish means filling and lining where the walls need it, cutting in carefully around the original details, and giving the hallway and stairs the extra time and access they take.

In the town centre, many of the older buildings sit in the conservation area. Decorating inside is normally straightforward, but for anything unusual on a listed building, any consent needed is the owner's to arrange. We match our materials and finishes to the age of the property rather than treating it like a new house.

Hitchin is about eighteen miles from our Broxbourne base, alongside Stevenage and Letchworth, and we plan jobs here as full working days. As well as homes, we decorate shops, offices and other business premises in and around the town.