Removals in Arundel (BN18), West Sussex
House removals in Arundel take in everything from listed cottages on the High Street below the Castle to riverside homes near Swan Corner and quieter streets clear of the visitor traffic. Wolves Removals is a family-run West Sussex firm reached from our base near Ashington and Pulborough along the A29 and A284 — one of the closest towns on our patch, backed by full packing, secure storage and office removals alongside every house move. House removals come first: a listed cottage on the steep High Street below the Castle, a riverside terrace near the town’s low-lying eastern streets, a family home in one of the villages just outside town, all handled as full house and furniture removals across Arundel, alongside full packing, secure storage and office removals for the town’s own High Street businesses.
- Professional, fully insured removals in Arundel
- Trained, experienced movers — 100+ years' combined experience
- Upfront, transparent pricing with no hidden surprises
- Local knowledge for a smooth, personalised move
- Containerised storage, long and short-term
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Professional Removals in Arundel
Most of what we do is house moves — families getting from one home into the next — and that’s still the core of the business. But it isn’t only homes: we move offices and small businesses in Arundel too, and we plan the move around how you work so you lose as little trading time as possible while the desks, files and stock come across to the new place. Nobody wants to lose a day’s trade to a van, so we build the timing around your business rather than the other way round.
We’re a family-run firm based near Pulborough in West Sussex, moving homes and businesses since 2016. We’re LAPADA members, Checkatrade-verified and fully insured, and we cover Arundel and the wider West Sussex area. Ring us and tell us what you’re shifting — house or business — and we’ll put a plan together that actually fits how you work.
West Sussex combines coastal towns, busy market centres and rural villages, so no two moves are the same. From seafront flats to large countryside homes, our team knows the access, parking and route challenges across the county and plans every Arundel move accordingly.
Our comprehensive range of services includes:
- Local, long-distance and international moving within the UK & EU
- Expert packing and unpacking services
- Antique and valuable item transportation
- Heavy and speciality item removal and transportation
- Convenient local man and van hire
- Short and long-term secure storage facilities
About Arundel
Wolves Removals is a family-run removals and storage company for West Sussex, based near Ashington and Pulborough, and Arundel is genuinely one of the closest towns we cover, reached along the A29 and A284 — a small hillside town where the High Street climbs steeply from the River Arun up to the Castle gates. It’s a genuinely different kind of access challenge to anywhere flatter: Arundel has 210 listed buildings — four Grade I, eight Grade II* and 198 Grade II, per Historic England’s National Heritage List — inside a conservation area, and a good number of them sit on or just off a High Street that’s narrow, sloping and lined with the antiques shops the town is known for. On the town’s eastern side, the ground drops away towards the River Arun — historically the lowest road bridge on the river until the Littlehampton swing bridge opened in 1908, and still a genuine bridging point today — where a handful of streets sit low enough that ground-floor access and timing matter as much as the climb up to the Castle does on the other side of town. House removals come first here, whatever the address: a listed cottage on the High Street, a riverside terrace near Queen Street, a family home in one of the villages just outside town, all planned with the same fully insured house removal service.
Our full packing service sends a trained crew in the day before a move, dismantling beds and wardrobes for transit and rebuilding them at the new address, with mirrors and pictures wrapped properly for the journey. That earns its keep in Arundel more than in most towns we cover: a listed cottage on a narrow High Street staircase needs the same careful handling as a Georgian townhouse near the Castle, while a modern house on the edge of town or in one of the surrounding villages needs none of the fuss. We work out which applies — and what the access actually looks like on the day, not on a map — at a free video or in-home survey before moving day, not on it. A single item or a first flat rarely needs a full lorry, and our own trained, insured crews take on these smaller moves too, from £80.
Local knowledge still counts once we’re off the main roads and into the town itself. The A27 narrowly avoids Arundel town centre on a short, congested single-carriageway bypass — a genuine pinch-point rather than a long bottleneck, and one whose long-proposed upgrade scheme has since been cancelled, in 2025, so it’s a road we plan around rather than assume will be clear. The A284 carries most of our own traffic into town from the A29 and the Pulborough direction, past London Road and down towards the river and the historic core. Arundel also has its own station on the Arun Valley Line, with services running one way towards Pulborough and Horsham and the other towards Barnham, Ford, the coast and London Victoria (via Gatwick) — though on any given moving day, it’s the road route that brings our crew to your door, not the railway. Whichever direction a move comes from, we plan around Arundel’s own roads and streets before we plan around anything else.
We also make the same regular run out to the Pulborough area and Storrington, our own home patch on the northern edge of the Downs, and further afield to Midhurst, Petworth, Chichester and Worthing.
Why Arundel Chooses Wolves Removals
At home on the High Street climb
The old core rises steeply from the river to the Castle gates, so our crew parks on the nearest level ground and hand-carries the load up or down to your door.
Alert to the low riverside streets
For a Lower Street, Queen Street or Swan Corner address on the town’s eastern side, we settle ground-floor access and load timing around the River Arun before the day.
LAPADA-accredited for period homes
With 210 listed buildings inside the conservation area, narrow Georgian staircases and protected doorframes are everyday work for our crews, not a rare exception.
One of the closest towns we cover
Arundel sits a short run from our Ashington and Pulborough base along the A29 and A284, so a free survey and the move itself can often fall in the same week.
What a House Move in Arundel Costs
Every Arundel property is a different job, so we price it from a survey rather than a guess.
- Fixed written quoteusually within 24 hours of a free video or in-home survey — itemised, no hidden fees
- Crew of 2–4 trained moverswith a vehicle sized to your Arundel home, from a flat to a five-bedroom house
- Goods-in-transit & liability coverincluded on every move — optional full damage insurance adds 10%
- Full packing servicecrews arrive the day before — beds and wardrobes dismantled and reassembled
When you compare removal companies in Arundel, ask for a fixed-price quote in writing rather than a phone estimate — it is the only way to know the real cost before moving day, especially on a street where access alone can change the size of vehicle and crew a move needs. Packing your own boxes, avoiding Fridays and month-ends, and booking early all help keep the price down. Prices were last reviewed in 2026 — see the removals pricing guide or the moving cost calculator for an instant estimate.
Hill, River or Bypass: What Your Arundel Address Means for the Van
| Closest of our towns | Why that’s good news |
|---|---|
| Listed or period home on the High Street, below the Castle | The old core sits on a hill, with protected listed frontages right on the street — access here comes down to gradient and doorway width, not kerb space. The van parks on the nearest level ground and the crew carries the load by hand up or down to the door. |
| Riverside address near Queen Street or Swan Corner | These streets sit at Arundel’s one crossing point of the tidal River Arun and appear on the Environment Agency’s flood list for the town, so ground-floor storage and box placement are checked at survey with that in mind. |
| Edge-of-town home off the A27, towards Tortington or Ford | The A27 slips past Arundel on a short single-carriageway bypass that’s known to tighten at peak times, so the crew times arrival to miss the pinch-point rather than sitting a loaded van in the middle of it. |
| Quieter house on the residential streets away from the Castle | Clear of the one-way squeeze and Castle-visitor traffic that clogs the old town, these streets usually take a full-size van straight to the door — the more straightforward end of an Arundel move. |
Office & Business Removals in Arundel
Arundel’s High Street firms — antiques dealers, galleries, independent shops and the professional practices tucked in among them — keep our office and business removals team busy alongside our house moves: desks, files and IT equipment labelled, packed and reconnected ready for the next working day, and stock, cabinets and display fittings moved with the same care we bring to any period property. The same access planning that goes into a listed cottage move applies just as much to a High Street shopfront or a first-floor office above it — parking, carrying distance and timing are worked out at survey stage, not guessed at. Evening and weekend moves mean a business closes on Friday afternoon and reopens on Monday morning without losing trading time, one coordinator sees the job through from survey to sign-off, and every commercial move carries the same full insurance as a house move. House removals remain the bigger share of our work in Arundel, but office and shop moves get exactly the same standard.
Moving to Arundel and its Villages
Arundel sits at the centre of a tight cluster of small villages, most of them within around two miles of the town and none of them large enough to need their own page on this site — but all of them places we cover as part of the same regular Arundel run.
Villages Around Arundel
Warningcamp sits around a mile east of Arundel, on the far bank of the River Arun directly across from the town. Tortington lies around 1.6 miles south-west, between the Arundel–Ford and Arundel–Chichester roads, and was folded into Arundel’s own civil parish back in 1985. Wepham, a hamlet within Burpham’s parish, sits around 1.7 miles north-east on the road linking Burpham and Warningcamp, with Burpham itself just under two miles north-east, on an arm of the river. Poling lies around two miles south-east, Ford around two miles south-by-south-west — with its own West Coastway line station, a genuine interchange point for rail passengers heading further along the coast — and South Stoke around two miles north, on the river’s west bank, with Crossbush just south-east of the town off the A27. Further out, Lyminster sits within the same Arun district, closer to Littlehampton than to Arundel itself, and the WWT Arundel Wetland Centre, a 60-acre wildfowl reserve at the foot of Offham Hangar near the village of Amberley, is a well-known local landmark rather than a moving job in itself. None of these villages has its own page on this site yet, but our Arundel crews cover all of them as a matter of course.
Beneath the Castle and the Cathedral
Arundel grew up on the slope below its Castle, founded around 1067 by Roger de Montgomery and seat of the Earls of Arundel and Dukes of Norfolk for close to a thousand years — the Howard family’s stewardship dates back to 1555, and the Castle itself, restored and rebuilt across the late eighteenth and late nineteenth centuries, is Grade I listed and still a working home and visitor attraction today. A short walk below it stands Arundel Cathedral, a French Gothic Revival building designed by Joseph Hansom, begun in 1868 and dedicated in 1873, commissioned by the 15th Duke of Norfolk specifically as a suitable counterpart to the Castle above — two great buildings from two very different centuries, sharing the same hillside skyline. It became a cathedral in 1965, at the foundation of the Diocese of Arundel and Brighton. For a removals crew, that history means one practical thing above all: a historic core built for horses and handcarts, not lorries, where careful planning matters as much as heavy lifting.
Period & Listed-Home Care in Arundel
With 210 listed buildings inside a conservation area, a lot of Arundel removals involve exactly the kind of property our LAPADA accreditation was earned handling: narrow Georgian and Victorian staircases, protected doorframes and fanlights that won’t take a modern sofa through square-on, and walls we won’t drill or lean a trolley against without checking first. None of that is guesswork on the day — we check what a specific listed or period property actually allows at a free survey, work out whether a piece needs partial dismantling to clear a stairwell or doorway, and bring dust sheets and corner protection as standard on every period job, not just the ones we know in advance are tricky. Arundel’s own antiques trade — among the longest-established in West Sussex — means our crews are used to handling fine furniture and fragile pieces alongside an ordinary house move, though most Arundel jobs are simply a family home, not an antiques job. It’s the same careful, insured approach whether the property is a listed cottage on the High Street or a Georgian townhouse near the Castle walls.
The River Arun & Flood-Aware Moving
The River Arun — once known as the Tarrant, and said to have earned the nickname “the trespasser” for the way it spills over its banks — is tidal at Arundel, with tidal water reaching more than 25 miles further upstream than this, and the town has long been a working bridging point on it, so a handful of streets on the lower, eastern side of town sit closer to the water than most. The Environment Agency records the Arun here as a Main River with a long tidal tail, and December 2013 set record river levels through the valley; the streets named in the flood-warning information for Arundel include the A29, Lower Street, Swan Corner, Queen Street and the Mill Road car park, with the warning area itself stretching out to cover Warningcamp and Burpham too. None of that is meant to alarm anyone moving here — it’s simply a practical, ground-floor consideration we build into the plan for a Lower Street or riverside address the same way we’d plan around a steep staircase near the Castle: checking access, timing the load around the day’s conditions, and knowing which streets need a little extra care before we ever arrive.
- Listed High Street cottage
- Riverside terrace
- Village family home
A gap between exchange and completion, a chain that falls through, or simply too much furniture for a smaller High Street cottage rarely runs to a single date, and our secure containerised storage holds a full household — or just the overflow — for as long as an Arundel move needs.
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Local Moving in Arundel
On a Arundel moving day, our crew tends to arrive with you first thing, having already walked the job on the survey, so the van gets loaded in a sensible order rather than worked out on the doorstep. Before a single box moves we check the practical stuff at your current place – where the van can pull up, whether it’s a narrow lane, a first-floor flat or a shared stairwell, how tight the doorways and turns are. That same look happens again at the far end, because access at the new home shapes the day just as much as access at the old one, and it’s the sort of thing that’s far better sorted the week before than discovered at 8am.
How the morning runs depends on getting the van and crew sized to the actual house, not a guess off the phone. A three-bed with a loft and a garage is a different day from a top-floor flat, and we bring enough hands so nobody is wrestling a wardrobe down the stairs alone. Floors get covered, doorframes and banisters get padded, and the fragile things are wrapped properly rather than tucked in loose and hoped for. If you own pieces that need more than a blanket – a bureau, a longcase clock or an upright in the front room – our specialised antiques moving and piano moving crews deal with those separately, with the right straps, boards and skates.
Two things trip up more moves than anything else: chains that don’t complete on the same day, and packing that isn’t finished when the van turns up. If your completion dates don’t quite line up, we can hold everything in storage for a few nights or a few weeks and deliver once the keys are genuinely yours, so you’re not paying two crews to camp on the pavement. And if the thought of wrapping the whole kitchen fills you with dread, our full packing service lets you hand that over – we box, label and inventory the lot the day before, and you wake up on moving day with the hard part already done.
All of it starts with a free survey – a quick video walk-round on your phone, or an in-person visit if you’d rather, whichever suits you – which we turn into a fixed price and a named coordinator who stays with your job from booking through to the last box unloaded. One honest note: we work from a West Sussex base, so a Arundel move can mean a bit of a drive at our end, and we’d sooner tell you that plainly than pretend we’re round the corner. When you’re ready to talk dates, get a quote and we’ll walk you through what your day would actually look like.
Preparing for Your Arundel Move
A house move in Arundel rewards a little early planning, because so much depends on the address. In the old core the High Street climbs steeply from the river to the Castle, parking is limited along much of it, and there isn’t a loading bay outside every door — so we settle the vehicle size, crew and any hand-carry distance at a free video or in-home survey rather than guess at them on the day. Edge-of-town homes off the A27 bring their own quirk: the bypass tightens to a single-carriageway pinch-point at peak times, so we time arrival to miss it rather than sit a loaded van in the queue. The quieter residential streets away from the Castle usually take a full-size van straight to the door — the more straightforward end of a move here.
Packing is where most of the effort goes. You can pack yourself with our boxes and materials, or hand the lot to our full packing service, whose crew arrives the day before to dismantle beds and wardrobes and wrap mirrors and pictures for the journey. In a town with Arundel’s long antiques trade, plenty of homes hold fine or fragile pieces, and we strongly recommend professional fragile packing for glassware, artwork and anything sentimental. Label every box by room, and keep a separate first-night box of essentials so your first evening isn’t spent hunting through cartons.
If your new home sits on the lower, eastern side of town — Lower Street, Queen Street or the streets near Swan Corner — ground-floor placement and load timing are worth agreeing in advance, and we’ll already have noted them at your survey. Completion dates rarely line up to the day, and when there’s a gap, or simply more furniture than a smaller High Street cottage will hold, our secure containerised storage holds a full household or just the overflow for as long as the move needs.
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Arundel Removals — Your Questions Answered
Yes — it’s one of the access challenges we plan for as standard in Arundel. The High Street climbs steeply from the river up towards the Castle, parking is limited along much of it, and there isn’t a loading bay outside every address, so we check the real access at a free video or in-home survey and plan the vehicle, crew size and any hand-carry distance around it before moving day, not on it.
Yes. Arundel has 210 listed buildings inside its conservation area, and our LAPADA-accredited crews are used to narrow period staircases, protected doorframes and fanlights, and walls we won’t drill or lean equipment against without checking first. We assess exactly what a specific listed or period property needs at a free survey, not on the day.
Yes. The River Arun is tidal at Arundel and designated a Main River by the Environment Agency, and a handful of streets on the town’s eastern, lower side — including the A29, Lower Street, Swan Corner, Queen Street and the Mill Road car park — sit close enough to the water that ground-floor access and timing matter. December 2013 set record river levels through the valley, and the flood-warning area for Arundel reaches out to cover Warningcamp and Burpham too. None of that is anything to be alarmed about: for a riverside or Lower Street address we simply check access at survey stage and build it into the plan — timing the load around the day and knowing which streets need a little extra care before we arrive — the same way we’d plan around a steep staircase near the Castle.
Yes. We cover Tortington, Warningcamp, Wepham, Burpham, Poling, Ford and South Stoke as a matter of course — all within around two miles of Arundel and all part of our regular Arundel run, even though none of them is large enough to need its own page on this site yet.
Yes. We cover the whole of Arundel and the BN18 postcode area — the historic core around the High Street and the Castle, the streets nearer the river, and the newer parts of town on the edges — plus the villages just outside it. If your address isn’t named elsewhere on this page, ask us; it’s very likely we already cover it.
No, and we won’t pretend otherwise — our base is near Ashington and Pulborough, reached from Arundel along the A29 and A284. It’s genuinely one of the closest towns we cover, and we make the run regularly, but there’s no Wolves Removals depot or office in Arundel itself.
Yes. Arundel has one of the longest-established antiques trades in West Sussex, and our crews’ LAPADA accreditation reflects the same careful handling we bring to fine furniture and fragile pieces on any move here — though most Arundel jobs we do are simply a family home, not an antiques job.
Every house move is priced from a free video or in-home survey, so your fixed, written quote — usually with you within 24 hours — reflects your actual property, access and any packing or storage you need, with no hidden fees. Smaller moves start from £80. See the removals pricing guide, try the moving cost calculator for an instant estimate, or request a free quote.
As soon as you have a likely date. Fridays, school holidays and month-ends fill first, and even though Arundel is genuinely one of the closer towns we cover from our base near Ashington and Pulborough, booking a few weeks ahead still gives us the best chance of fitting your preferred date.
Yes. Whether there’s a gap between exchange and completion, a chain that falls through, or simply too much furniture for a smaller High Street or village home, our clean, dry, ultra-secure containerised storage holds a full household — or just the overflow — for as long as you need, on a short-term or long-term basis, and we redeliver once you’re ready.
Sometimes, if a crew and vehicle happen to be free — but we won’t promise a same-day slot we can’t honestly deliver. Our best availability, and usually our best price, comes with a few weeks’ notice, especially around Fridays and month-ends. Call us with your date and we’ll tell you straight away whether we can fit it in.
Yes. We already run evening and weekend moves for Arundel’s business and shop clients so trading time isn’t lost, and the same weekend and evening flexibility is available for house moves too. Weekend dates book up faster than weekdays, so it’s worth asking early. Bank holiday availability depends on the date — just ask when you enquire.
Yes. Alongside house moves we run office and business removals for firms across Arundel, including businesses on and around the High Street — desks, files, stock and display fittings labelled, moved and reconnected ready for the next working day. Evening and weekend moves are available, and every commercial move is carried out by our trained, fully insured team.
Yes. Our moving cost calculator gives you an instant estimate based on your property size and the services you need, no phone call required — it’s a starting point rather than a final price, which is confirmed at your free video or in-home survey.
Yes — 210 of them, according to Historic England’s own National Heritage List: four Grade I, eight Grade II* and 198 Grade II, inside a designated conservation area. It’s the second-highest number of listed buildings of any town in West Sussex, behind only the much larger city of Chichester — a genuine reason careful, experienced handling matters more here than in most towns we cover.
Yes, and it’s run by the same trained, fully insured crews as our full house removals — not a stranger with a hired van. Our man and van service starts from £80 and suits single items, small flats and first-time-buyer moves that don’t need a full lorry.
Arundel is one of the closest towns on our patch — reached from our base near Ashington and Pulborough along the A29 and A284, a route our crews already know rather than one plotted for the first time off a "removals near me" search from across the county. Being this close means a free survey and the move itself can often be arranged within the same week.
Absolutely. Every Arundel move is fully insured and carried out by our trained team. We are also a LAPADA member for antiques and fine art and Checkatrade-verified for added peace of mind.
As well as Arundel, we cover the whole of West Sussex and the wider South East, plus nationwide and European moves. See our areas we cover for your town.
Yes. You can buy sturdy boxes, tape, bubble wrap and specialist cartons for your Arundel move, or let our team take care of it all with our full packing and fragile packing services. We can also collect used boxes afterwards when one of our vans is next in the area.
We can. Just let us know at the quote stage which items need taking apart and rebuilding for your Arundel move — beds, wardrobes and flat-pack units are all part of the service — and our team will handle it safely at both ends so you don’t have to.
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