Removals in Thakeham, West Sussex (RH20)

The Removal Company Based in the Next Village to Thakeham

For Thakeham, Wolves Removals is quite literally the firm next door. We are a family-run mover, fully insured, working out of Ashington — the neighbouring village, a couple of miles east across the fields by Warminghurst. That closeness shapes how we work: a quick survey, a short run on the day, and a crew that has driven the B2139 lanes before. Thakeham is a varied parish, from the flint cottages of The Street to the new houses at Abingworth, so we plan every job to the property actually in front of us rather than to a line on the map.

Our comprehensive range of services includes:

• Full house and furniture removals for every kind of Thakeham home — a flint cottage on The Street, a country house down a lane, a new place at Abingworth.
• As much or as little packing and unpacking as you want: the whole house, or only the breakables.
• specialist antiques and fine-art handling for the pictures, clocks and inherited furniture the older houses here tend to hold.
• Pianos and heavy items lifted and routed around gated plots, single-track lanes and low cottage doorways.
• A lighter smaller-moves option for one room, a part-load or a downsize — same insured crew, right-sized van.
• Clean, dry storage to bridge a gap between selling and buying, or an Abingworth completion that slips.

About Thakeham

Thakeham is a village and civil parish in the Horsham District of West Sussex, on the gentle wealden farmland just north of the South Downs — close to the National Park rather than inside it, the boundary beginning a mile or two south around Storrington and Washington. Its postcode is RH20 and, despite sitting nearer Storrington, its post town is Pulborough, so village addresses read “Thakeham, Pulborough”. No main road runs through it: the B2139 threads the village, with the A283 down at Storrington and the A24 further east at Washington. The 2011 census put the civil parish at 1,816 people, a number that has grown since with the new houses at Abingworth. House removals are the bulk of what we do here.

There are really two Thakehams, and we move families in and out of both. One is the old village along The Street, a conservation area of flint-and-brick cottages gathered around the Grade I listed twelfth-century church of St Mary and the sixteenth-century White Lion, the village’s one pub. The other is newer: the Abingworth estates off the Storrington road, built on the old nursery and mushroom grounds, where a fresh community has grown up around a cricket pitch, a village hall and a small shop. A move out of a period cottage and a move into a new Abingworth house are very different days, and knowing which is which before we arrive is half the job.

Local knowledge still counts on a move here, and being the next village over is where ours comes from. We know the lanes off the B2139, the country plots where the lorry stops at the gate and the last stretch is a barrow job, and the tight interiors of the older cottages where a sofa goes in on its end or not at all. All of it is settled at the survey, so the vehicle and the plan already fit the house before the day, instead of being worked out cold on the doorstep.

What a Thakeham House Move Costs

A Thakeham move is priced from what we find at the survey, not from a tariff, because two houses in the same village can ask very different things of a crew. A new Abingworth house with a drive and wide doors loads quickly; a period cottage down a single-track lane, full of heavy and delicate furniture, is a longer, more careful day. What sets the figure is the volume, the reach at each end, anything that needs specialist care, and how much of the packing you would rather hand over. Because the village is on our doorstep, next to none of the price is travel. Our removals cost calculator gives a first estimate from the bedroom count; a free survey, by video or in person, turns it into a written price that holds.

Period Homes and Fine Furniture in Thakeham

The old part of Thakeham runs to houses that hold good furniture: flint cottages along The Street, larger houses in their own grounds, and, most famously, Little Thakeham, the country house Edwin Lutyens designed in 1902. Homes like these tend to be full of pictures, clocks, a piano, the inherited piece that has not moved in decades — and they were built with narrow doors and turning stairs that never expected modern furniture. That combination, precious contents in unaccommodating rooms, is where our fine-art expertise earns its keep: the delicate things boxed to their own dimensions, the unwieldy ones measured and route-planned rather than shoved and hoped.

Moving to Thakeham

People move to Thakeham for the obvious reasons: a genuine village on the edge of the Downs, a well-liked primary school, a cricket pitch and a proper pub, within reach of the coast and London without being on top of either. A few practicalities are worth knowing. There is no railway station in the village — the nearest mainline is at Pulborough, a few miles west, with trains up to London; Storrington, three miles south, has the larger shops. By road it is about eleven miles north of Worthing and a dozen south of Horsham, with Brighton and Chichester both an easy drive. Thakeham’s Church of England primary school is over on Rock Road towards Storrington, and the White Lion on The Street is the social heart of the old village.

Thakeham sits in the middle of the patch we work from Ashington, so wherever in the parish you are moving — The Street, Abingworth, out towards Goose Green or Warminghurst — it is a short hop for us. We also cover the towns the village leans on: Storrington just south and Pulborough to the west, with West Chiltington next door and our own Ashington base a couple of fields away. If your dates leave a gap, our containerised storage can hold the entire move for as long as the chain takes, and the antiques and fine pieces stay under Specialist cover from the first lift to the last.

Preparing for Your Thakeham Move

Being in the next village, we can nearly always get a surveyor round quickly, and that visit is where a Thakeham move is really made or lost. The detail to raise first is how a lorry reaches you — a narrow lane, a gated drive, a conservation-area frontage with nowhere to pull in — because that sets the whole shape of the day. Dismantling is ours to worry about, not yours: beds, wardrobes and flat-pack come down and go back up with the crew, so nothing needs taking apart before we arrive.

Packing splits whichever way suits you: leave the lot to our packing team, or box the everyday things yourself and let us take on the fragile ones. When buying and selling fall on different days, storage carries the move across the gap, and a one-room or part-load job is better matched to the lighter smaller-moves service. If the completion date is still up in the air — as Abingworth new-build dates often are — the earlier you tell us, the more easily the flex goes into the plan.