Air conditioning in Bexley
Old Bexley is a conserved village with a High Street of listed buildings; the streets around it are 1930s semis and later estates. We fit and service air conditioning across all of it, and in the village we start by checking which rules apply to the wall before we talk about the room.
Price a job in Bexley
Three details and we call you back with the next step.
- Postcodes DA5
- Bexley Council
Why is Old Bexley different from the rest of the borough?
Because its centre has been protected since 1972. The Old Bexley conservation area takes in the village by the River Cray and holds 18 listed buildings, one at Grade II* and 17 at Grade II, among them the King's Head, the Railway Tavern, Cray House, High Street House and the Manor House. Redevelopment in 1966 took a run of 18th-century buildings from the south side of the High Street, and the Old Mill burned down the same year and was rebuilt as a replica. In 1982 the Secretary of State confirmed Article 4 directions on 99 and 107 to 115 Bexley High Street, and further directions cover 4 to 14 North Cray Road and the Manor Farm House group on Manor Road. Inside the conservation area an outdoor unit cannot sit on a wall or roof facing the road, and a listed building needs listed building consent before anything is fixed to it at all. Sources: Hidden London; HeritageCheck; The Gazette; Kirby; Planning Portal; Listed Buildings Act, section 7.
What does Hall Place mean for its neighbours?
A Grade I house on the edge of the village, with grounds that are on the national register of parks and gardens at Grade II. Hall Place was built from 1537 for Sir John Champneys, a former Lord Mayor of London, and listed at Grade I on 1 October 1953; its garden walls, gatepiers and gates are Grade I in their own right. A home that looks onto a registered park has no extra permitted development restriction of its own, but the council weighs the setting of a listed building when an application is needed, so a unit visible from the park is better placed out of its sight line. Sources: Wikipedia on Hall Place; Wikipedia on Bexley's listed buildings; Bexley Council.
What is the housing like once you leave the village?
Mostly semi-detached and mostly interwar. Bexley is the borough of the semi, with 42,154 of its 95,298 households in one at the 2021 Census, and the streets of Bexley Park and Albany Park are typical: three-bedroom houses with a side gate and a rear garden, which is where the outdoor unit goes. North Cray Village, on the road between Old Bexley and Foots Cray, has its own conservation area, designated on 19 February 1992, and Parkhurst is another of the borough's 23. Everywhere else, the only wall rule is that the unit stays below first-floor level on a road-facing wall. Sources: Census 2021; North Cray appraisal; Bexley Council; Planning Portal.
What applies to a rented house in Bexley?
Bexley's Article 4 direction on small shared houses, in force across the borough since 24 September 2017, which means planning permission to turn a family house into a house in multiple occupation for up to six people. Selective licensing applies only in Belvedere ward until January 2030, so a DA5 landlord does not need a licence for an ordinary tenancy. A tenant still needs the landlord's agreement in writing before we fit anything, and a leaseholder in one of the village's converted buildings needs the freeholder's. Sources: Bexley Council; London Property Licensing; Bexley Council on licensing; LEASE.
What we fit and look after in Bexley
The whole of our service list reaches Bexley. Pick one for the detail.
Air conditioning installation in Bexley
The whole job from the first measurement to the handover of the remote, with every consent checked on the way.
Home air conditioning in Bexley
The back bedroom, the new flat with the glass wall, the loft nobody can sleep in: cooled in summer, warmed in winter.
Air-to-air heat pumps in Bexley
The same wall unit, run the other way: a room heated for pence an hour, with the summer cooling thrown in.
Multi-split air conditioning in Bexley
Several rooms, one box in the garden. The design that fits inside a semi's single permitted outdoor unit.
Conservatory air conditioning in Bexley
For the glass room that is a greenhouse in July and a fridge in January, and the garden office beside it.
Office air conditioning in Bexley
Offices from a room above a shop to a floor on a business park, with the heat rules and the landlord dealt with.
Commercial air conditioning in Bexley
Retail and hospitality premises, sized with the door open and the bedroom over the shop remembered.
Server room cooling in Bexley
Dedicated cooling for the rack, calculated from the wattage on the plugs and running when the office is dark.
Air conditioning servicing in Bexley
An annual visit for any system by any installer, with the legal leak check where the charge demands one.
Air conditioning repairs in Bexley
Warm air, a puddle under the indoor unit, ice on the pipes or a blinking code: the cause found before anything is ordered.
From first call to first cool night
Tell us about the room
A call to 01322 952910 or the form with your postcode in it. Which room overheats, what the building is, and whether the outside wall is yours to drill.
Survey, then a figure in writing
We measure the room, choose a position for the outdoor unit, calculate the sound at the neighbour's window, look inside the consumer unit and ask about leases, landlords and covenants. The price arrives in writing with the electrics itemised.
Consents settled first
If a freeholder, landlord, management company or council has a say, we wait for it, and we supply the drawings and sound figures they will ask for.
Installed, tested, shown to you
Units, pipes and the new circuit are fitted; the pipework is pressure tested and evacuated before charging; the system runs in both modes while we measure it; the certificates are yours and so is a tour of the remote. After that, a service once a year.
Bexley questions
Do you cover Albany Park and Blendon?
Yes. Bexley village, Bexley Park, Albany Park, Blendon and Coldblow are all on our round, with Joydens Wood and Wilmington next door on the Dartford side.
My cottage on the High Street is listed. Is air conditioning out?
Not necessarily, but listed building consent is needed for anything that affects the building's character, and a unit through a listed wall usually does. We prepare the application drawings; the council decides.
Is the weather here the same as in Dartford?
Yes. The figures from Greenwich Observatory on our Dartford air conditioning page cover Bexley too.
Sources we checked
- Hidden London: Old Bexley
- HeritageCheck: listed buildings in the Old Bexley conservation area
- The Gazette: Article 4 directions on Bexley High Street confirmed (1982)
- Kirby: the Old Bexley conservation area Article 4 directions
- Planning Portal: when an air source heat pump on a house or flats is permitted development
- legislation.gov.uk: section 7 of the Listed Buildings Act 1990
- Wikipedia: Hall Place
- Wikipedia: Grade I and II* listed buildings in the London Borough of Bexley
- Bexley Council: conservation areas, listed buildings and historic parks
- Census 2021: accommodation type, Bexley
- Bexley Council: North Cray Village conservation area appraisal (December 2008)
- Bexley Council: Article 4 directions in force
- London Property Licensing: the Bexley HMO Article 4 direction and licensing guide
- Bexley Council: property licensing schemes
- LEASE: whether a leaseholder needs the landlord's permission to alter a flat
Worth knowing before you ring
With these we can usually tell you on the first call whether the job is simple.
- The postcode
- Whether it is a house, a flat or business premises, and roughly its age
- If you rent or lease, who owns the external wall
- Which room, how big, and the direction its window faces
- Any management company, conservation area or listing that applies
Price a job in Bexley
A name, a number and a postcode is enough. Say which room if you can. Or ring 01322 952910.