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Engineered Oak Wide Plank, LVT Vinyl Click-Lock and Laminate Flooring: the floors we recommend for Winchester homes, delivered across Hampshire with samples at £1.99.
Delivered to Winchester: 4 postcode districts
Start here · Winchester in one figure
13.0%
live in a purpose-built block of flats
ONS, Census 2021, 2021-03-21 · all local facts →Purpose-built flats take a smaller share of the Winchester district than of any Hampshire town on our list, so an order in SO22 or SO23 is almost invariably a whole house: one front door, one household, and nobody else with a say in what goes down.
No lease, no communal stair, no neighbour's ceiling.
Read the 4 chapters on Winchester homes See all 8 local facts
At a glance
Delivery
We deliver across Winchester and Hampshire (SO postcodes) from our UK warehouse. Most in-stock orders arrive within a timeframe that depends on the delivery postcode. Delivery times and options depend on the delivery postcode. See Delivery & Returns for the applicable estimate.
Our Hampshire delivery covers: Weeke, Stanmore and Badger Farm and the SO postcode area
Also nearby: Eastleigh, Southampton, Basingstoke, Portsmouth
Speak to our team 020 3858 0353Homes in Winchester
4 chapters on Winchester homes and what they ask of a floor · about 1 min read
01/ 04
In Winchester the first flooring question is often legal rather than technical: the historic core is exceptionally large, and in a listed building or conservation area original boards cannot be lifted without consent.
Detached houses outnumber semis and terraces, ownership is high, and the subfloor beneath is usually suspended timber.
02/ 04
Once the designation is settled and a new floor is allowed, Engineered Oak Wide Plank sits comfortably in the detached and semi-detached houses at Badger Farm and Oliver’s Battery, though suspended timber wants levelling first and clearance under the doors is worth checking.
03/ 04
A Winchester house has one heating system and one household deciding when it runs, so the building cools and warms as a single object.
That makes the first heating season the test: bring an SO22 or SO23 house back up gradually rather than in one go.
04/ 04
Winchester covers SO21, SO22 and SO23 — St Barnabas, St Bartholomew, Harewood, Badger Farm and Oliver's Battery, Alresford and Itchen Valley, and Oakley and the Candovers.
It is a district of Hampshire. Ownership was 65.6% at the 2021 census and private renting 17.6%. Winchester is the one place on this list where the first flooring question is almost always a legal one rather than a technical one: the city has an exceptionally large historic core, and in a listed building or a conservation area original boards cannot be lifted without consent. Establish the designation before you plan the floor. Where consent is not an issue, the subfloor beneath is usually suspended timber and wants levelling.
At the 2021 census, 16.7% of households in Winchester lived in a flat, maisonette or apartment and 82.0% in a house or bungalow — 20.1% of all households in a terraced house.
Our picks for Winchester
Oak over suspended timber is the traditional answer in SO22 and SO23 houses, once you have established that no listing or conservation designation applies to the building.
LVT is easy to keep clean and takes heavy family traffic, useful in a house at Colden Common, though it reads modern beside a period interior.
Laminate suits a rented home or a back room rather than a historic one, and its build-up over timber can foul a door.
Floor by floor
Every floor, room and need we deliver to Winchester, 4 of them with a note on Winchester homes. Pick one to read it.
Floor typeWinchester
Where consent comes before specification: Winchester has an exceptionally large historic core, so the opening question about a floor here is far more often legal than technical. Find out whether the address is listed or sits inside a conservation area, because that decides whether original boards may be lifted for engineered oak at all.
Floor type
Floor type
Floor typeWinchester
What the added height does to a door: Laying over an existing floor raises the finished level, and in an older SO23 house the doors, the thresholds and the bottom stair were all set to the height that is there now. Add up underlay and laminate together before ordering, not on delivery day.
Floor type
Floor typeRoom
RoomWinchester
Village kitchens at Alresford and Twyford: Out towards Colden Common, Itchen Valley and the Candovers no designation stands in the way and the job is purely technical. A kitchen there takes porcelain tiles where the base is solid, or SPC where the ground floor is still timber and wants levelling.
RoomWinchester
Living rooms once that is settled: With the designation known, what remains is ordinary work: the ground floor under most of the old city is suspended timber and it has moved over the years. Bring the boards true, or a new engineered oak floor will telegraph every dip in the old.
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Room
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Room
Pattern or need
Pattern or need
Pattern or need
Pattern or need
Pattern or need
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SO21, SO22 and SO23 are all covered — St Bartholomew and St Luke in the city, and a long way out to The Worthys, Upper Meon Valley and the Candovers. A park home address usually needs the site name as well as the plot.
Park and mobile homes are a real part of this district, out at The Worthys and in the Upper Meon Valley. Weight and build-up height decide there: stone and tile ask more of that floor than it was built to carry, so thin click LVT answers better.
Yes, to a St Barnabas or Harewood address. Ask for the finish you would actually order rather than the range: oiled and lacquered oak photograph alike and behave nothing alike underfoot, and in a house kept for years that difference is the maintenance.
Local facts
8 figures for Winchester from the 2021 census, each with its source, and for the homes what they mean for a floor.
Homes
16.7%
live in a flat or maisonette
For your floorUsually a concrete slab. The lease may name an acoustic underlay; read it before you order.
Households living in a flat, maisonette or apartment in Winchester, Census 2021. Area: Winchester, local authority. ONS, Census 2021, TS044 Accommodation type (households). Data: 2021-03-21.
Homes
13.0%
live in a purpose-built block of flats
Households living in a purpose-built block of flats in Winchester, Census 2021. Area: Winchester, local authority. ONS, Census 2021, TS044 Accommodation type (households). Data: 2021-03-21.
Homes
62.0%
live in a detached or semi-detached house
For your floorTimber or slab, depending on age. On a slab, check the damp proof membrane first.
Households living in a detached or semi-detached house in Winchester, Census 2021. Area: Winchester, local authority. ONS, Census 2021, TS044 Accommodation type (households). Data: 2021-03-21.
Homes
20.1%
live in a terraced house
For your floorOften suspended timber on the ground floor: level and ventilate it before a floor goes down.
Households living in a terraced house in Winchester, Census 2021. Area: Winchester, local authority. ONS, Census 2021, TS044 Accommodation type (households). Data: 2021-03-21.
Homes
51,715
households in Winchester
Households in Winchester, Census 2021. Area: Winchester, local authority. ONS, Census 2021, TS044 Accommodation type (households). Data: 2021-03-21.
Who lives here
17.6%
of households rent privately
For your floorWhere a home is let, the landlord chooses the floor and the tenant lives on it, so it has to take wear and be quick to put right between tenancies.
Households renting privately in Winchester, Census 2021. Area: Winchester (E07000094), local authority. ONS, Census 2021, TS054 Tenure (households). Data: 2021-03-21. The 2011 figure: ONS, Census area changes, the same local authority in the 2011 census.
Who lives here
65.6%
own their home
Households that own their home, outright or with a mortgage in Winchester, Census 2021. Area: Winchester (E07000094), local authority. ONS, Census 2021, TS054 Tenure (households). Data: 2021-03-21. The 2011 figure: ONS, Census area changes, the same local authority in the 2011 census.
Who lives here
15.3%
rent from a council or housing association
Households renting from a council or housing association in Winchester, Census 2021. Area: Winchester (E07000094), local authority. ONS, Census 2021, TS054 Tenure (households). Data: 2021-03-21. The 2011 figure: ONS, Census area changes, the same local authority in the 2011 census.
Local guides
For these towns we have written a local guide from the census and other official records there: what the homes are built on and what that asks of each floor. Much of it applies to homes in Winchester of the same age and type.
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