Plumber & Handyman in Leatherhead

About Leatherhead

Leatherhead sits right on our route down the A243, so it's an easy area for us to reach quickly, whatever the job.

Leatherhead grew up where the River Mole could be forded, and was laid out round the crossroads of Bridge Street, High Street, North Street and Church Street, probably in the 13th century. It lived mostly by farming until the 20th. The railway came in 1859, and the land south of the High Street, old common-field strips crossed by Church Road, was built on only after 1870.

So the old centre is small, and round it the houses are Victorian and Edwardian: brick and slate cottages on narrow streets and footpaths, and substantial red-brick villas on the steep hill of Park Rise. If your front door opens onto one of those footpaths, say so when you book, so we know how far the tools have to be carried.

Our technicians regularly work on the period homes around Leatherhead town centre, the riverside properties near the River Mole, and the family estates towards Fetcham and the Oxshott borders.

Mole Valley Council's design code for the town, published in November 2025, sorts the rest by age. Near the station most of the houses are from the 1930s, substantial and well built. North of the railway, older houses face Kingston Road and most of what lies behind is two large developments of the 1950s, semi-detached and terraced. Towards Epsom Road the houses and bungalows are mostly from the 1930s and the 1950s, in red brick, pale render and clay tile, with 1970s houses and flats at Levett Road and Cressall Mead. Along Reigate Road and Headley Road the houses are Edwardian and inter-war, each to its own design and set well back in its grounds.

Flint is the local material beside the red brick. The retaining walls on Gimcrack Hill are flint, and very high.

Fetcham grew most in the 1930s and the 1950s, when the estates in the north of the village were built. Its old centre is half a kilometre further south, on The Street, where the houses run from the early 17th century to the 20th.

The water in Leatherhead, Fetcham and Bookham is moderately hard: 14 Clarke degrees in SES Water's 2025 report.

Plumbing is £90 an hour and handyman work £60, with a one-hour minimum. Pick a time that suits you and pay online: a £50 deposit secures your slot and comes off the final bill.