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Bungalows, 1930s joists and flats
14.4% of Worthing dwellings are bungalows, 3rd highest of 141 towns. What that, the inter-war streets and the town's flats mean for a new floor.
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14.4%
bungalows
3rd highest of 141 towns
VOA, 2025-03-31 · all local facts →Bungalows account for 14.4% of Worthing's dwellings, the 3rd highest share of 141 towns and well above the 9.2% recorded for England and Wales.
In a bungalow there is no upper storey where a lighter-duty floor would do: bedroom, hall, kitchen and bathroom all rest on the ground, so the question that normally concerns one level of a house concerns the whole home. On a solid ground floor that question is the damp-proof membrane, whether one exists and what condition it is in, because the answer decides what may be laid at all.
On a ground floor of boards and joists it is the air moving underneath. This page follows the town's housing in the order you are likely to meet it: inter-war streets, older villas, flats, and finally the weather that arrives at the door.
Read the 7 chapters on Worthing homes See all 19 local facts
At a glance
Worthing at a glance
Homes in Worthing
7 chapters on Worthing homes and what they ask of a floor · about 5 min read
01/ 07
- 20.8%built 1930 to 1939
- 43.6%built before 1940
Between the wars: two-storey streets on timber joists
Homes built from 1930 to 1939 make up 20.8% of the town's dwellings, 5th highest of 141 towns, where England and Wales stand at 9.9%. The adopted local plan describes the same thing in words: growth between the First and Second World Wars left large areas of mainly two-storey housing, and those streets now reach the foot of the South Downs. Add the older stock and 43.6% of Worthing dwellings were built before 1940, 27th of 141 towns, against 35.4% for England and Wales.
A house from that decade has more in common underfoot with a Victorian or Edwardian one than with anything built recently. Its ground floor is typically timber boards on joists, with a ventilated void beneath them. That void is deliberate. Air moving through it keeps the joists and boards dry, and the floor stays sound for as long as the airbricks stay clear. So before you choose anything for the front room of a 1930s house, walk round the outside and make sure no raised bed, path or later extension has blocked them. A new floor laid over the old boards does nothing for the structure below; it takes on whatever condition the joists are in.
02/ 07
- 10.1%built 1900 to 1918
Heene from 1884, Shakespeare Road from 1890: the older districts
The older districts come with dates of their own, and the council's conservation area appraisals supply them. In Heene, a programme of development started in 1884 continued into the twentieth century and produced substantial detached and semi-detached houses. Around Shakespeare Road, building began circa 1890, most of the stock there dates from 1890 to 1910, and the later infill is mostly of the 1920s and 1930s. Across the whole built-up area, dwellings from 1900 to 1918 hold a 10.1% share, 9th highest of 141 towns, compared with 5.2% for England and Wales.
For a floor, the date matters more than the style of the front. Which rooms sit above which, and what the joists are made of, follow from when a house went up, so a villa of the 1890s and a semi of the 1930s can need the same first check even though they look nothing alike. Where a villa has since been divided, the floor you want to replace may also be the ceiling of another household, and that changes the order of decisions.
03/ 07
- 35.3%live in a flat
- 9.9%in a converted flat
35.3% of households in flats, 9.9% in converted buildings
Flats, maisonettes and apartments house 35.3% of Worthing households, 21st of 151 towns, compared with 21.7% across England and Wales. Purpose-built blocks account for 23.9% of households (England and Wales: 16.7%). A further 9.9% live in a flat in a converted or shared house or another converted building, 11th highest of 151 towns and well above the 4.2% for England and Wales. The council's guide to residential development explains where many of those conversions came from: a significant proportion of the town's flats are in converted buildings, often the result of subdividing larger Victorian and Edwardian properties.
The two kinds of flat differ in the structure between you and your neighbours. In a divided villa the separating floor may be the original timber joists or a concrete slab put in later, and one covering behaves differently on each. Purpose-built flats are held to stricter airborne and impact sound figures than conversions. In both, a hard floor passes footsteps to the ceiling below more readily than the carpet it replaces, so in a Worthing flat the underlay, with its stated impact figure, is decided before the finish.
Purpose-built does not have to mean recent. In the Marine Gardens conservation area on the West Worthing seafront, the council's 2024 appraisal records three blocks of flats around the gardens, designed by one architect and built between 1931 and 1937. A flat in a block of that age is a different starting point from one finished last year, and the first question is the same as anywhere else: what is the floor beneath your floor made of?
04/ 07
- 67.5%own their home
- 22.1%rent privately
Buying or letting a flat: the lease before the carpet comes up
Flats and maisonettes made up 34.8% of Worthing's residential sales in 2025, 9th highest of 133 towns, against 16.3% for England and Wales. Leases of flats commonly contain a covenant about floor coverings, and it often requires carpet or the freeholder's consent before a hard floor goes down. With flats this prominent in the sales figures, finding that clause belongs at the start of the project: read it, and if consent is needed, get it in writing before the old carpet is lifted.
Owner-occupation is high in the town. 67.5% of households own their home outright or with a mortgage, 8th highest of 151 towns, compared with 61.6% for England and Wales, which means floors chosen by the people who will walk on them for years. Private renting stands at 22.1%, a little above the 20.3% for England and Wales. A landlord choosing a floor is working through a different calculation from an owner, because a choice that suits the first tenant can fail under the third, and that only becomes visible years after it was made.
05/ 07
- 20.4days with 10 mm of rain or more
- 0.69dogs per household
Rain, sand and 0.69 dogs per household at the threshold
Where a house stands decides what reaches its floor, and Worthing stands on the coast. The town centre averages 20.4 days a year with ten millimetres of rain or more (1991 to 2020), above the median of 17.8 for the 151 towns. Grit, sand and wet shoes meet the floor first at the front door, so the hall, or whichever room the door opens into, deserves the hardest-wearing surface in the home and a mat large enough to catch what comes in before it is ground into the finish.
Dogs add to that traffic. A modelled estimate for 2015 puts the town at 0.69 dogs per household, the median of its 3 postcode districts and 5th highest of 150 towns, against a median of 0.41 across 2,737 postcode districts in Great Britain. For a dog owner, scratches are only part of the question. Water carried in on paws, and whether the dog can walk on the surface at all, cause more of the everyday trouble, so weigh both before choosing for a hall or kitchen the dog crosses.
06/ 07
- 24.7air frost days a year
Frost on 24.7 days a year, and the glazed room's own climate
Frost is comparatively rare here: the town centre records 24.7 days a year with air frost, 134th of 151 towns, where the median is 38.1. That is the cold half of a conservatory's year, and a mild coast shortens it without removing it. The glass still heats the room hard on a bright afternoon and lets it cool quickly after dark, so the floor of a glazed room is chosen for how it copes with that daily swing, not for what the room is used for.
07/ 07
27 conservation areas and the floor behind the front door
Adur & Worthing Councils count 27 designated conservation areas within Worthing, Heene, Shakespeare Road and Marine Gardens among them. Conservation-area rules are concerned with the outside of a building and the character of the street. A new floor inside a house or a flat in one of these areas is not what they address, so the decision indoors rests on the same things as everywhere else in the town: the age of the structure, what lies beneath the old covering and who lives below.
Floor by floor
Worthing bungalows, villas and flats: what each floor must handle
19 floors, rooms and needs, each with a note written for Worthing homes. Pick one to read it.
Floor types
Floor typeWorthing
Engineered Wood
Over the boards of a 1930s Worthing house, an engineered floor can float once you know the void below is dry and its airbricks are open.
Floor typeWorthing
Solid Wood
In a home built before 1940, find out whether the original boards on their joists can be kept before ordering solid wood to replace them.
Floor typeWorthing
Parquet
In a Heene villa from the programme begun in 1884, establish what the joists and boards are like before planning any parquet pattern over them.
Floor typeWorthing
Laminate
Laminate laid where carpet used to be, in a flat carved from a larger house, sends more footstep noise to the household below unless the underlay is chosen for it.
Floor typeWorthing
LVT Vinyl
For a landlord letting one of the town's flats, LVT listed as waterproof is the kind of floor that turns a leak nobody reported into a drying job rather than a replacement.
Floor typeWorthing
SPC Rigid Vinyl
Every room of a bungalow sits at ground level, so an SPC floor there is laid over the same membrane question from the front door to the back bedroom.
Rooms
RoomWorthing
Hallway
Sand and grit come in on 20.4 days a year with ten millimetres of rain or more, and the hall takes them first, so it should get the toughest finish you lay anywhere in the house.
RoomWorthing
Kitchen
In a flat inside a divided Victorian or Edwardian house, the kitchen floor may lie over a neighbour's ceiling, so the underlay matters as much as the surface.
RoomWorthing
Living Room
Living rooms in purpose-built blocks, home to 23.9% of households here, sit over other people's rooms, so check the underlay's impact figure first.
RoomWorthing
Bedroom
In a bungalow the bedrooms are on the ground floor too, so the damp-proof membrane check applies to them as much as to the kitchen.
RoomWorthing
Bathroom
A bathroom in a converted flat has another household's ceiling beneath it, which makes an unnoticed leak more than a private problem.
RoomWorthing
Utility Room
In a let, a leaking washing machine may go unreported until the damage shows, so a utility floor that takes on no water protects the room and the ceiling below it.
RoomWorthing
Conservatory
With 24.7 frost days a year against a median of 38.1, a Worthing conservatory freezes less often than the median town, yet its glass still drives a daily swing.
Patterns & needs
Pattern or needWorthing
Herringbone
A herringbone hall in a Shakespeare Road house of 1890 to 1910 rests on the same suspended ground floor as the rooms beside it, so the void's ventilation matters to it too.
Pattern or needWorthing
Chevron
Before a chevron floor goes into a Worthing flat, look for a covenant on floor coverings in the lease, since flats were 34.8% of sales in 2025.
Pattern or needWorthing
Waterproof
A plank listed as waterproof still lets water reach the subfloor through its joints and edges, and in a Worthing house of the 1930s that subfloor may be timber.
Pattern or needWorthing
Underfloor Heating
Underfloor heating in a bungalow warms rooms that all sit on the ground, so check what lies beneath each one, membrane included, before choosing the floor above.
Pattern or needWorthing
Pet-Friendly
With a modelled median of 0.69 dogs per household across its postcode districts, plan for wet paws and for whether the dog can walk on the floor, not for scratches alone.
Pattern or needWorthing
Grey
Where owners choose their own floors, as in 67.5% of Worthing households, judge a grey in the room's own light, morning and evening, before you commit.
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Questions
Questions about flooring in Worthing
Does a Worthing bungalow need different flooring from an upstairs room?
It needs ground-floor checks in every room. 14.4% of Worthing dwellings are bungalows, and on a solid ground floor the presence and condition of the damp-proof membrane decide what may be laid.
Can I lay a hard floor in a Worthing flat without asking anyone?
Read the lease first. Flats were 34.8% of the town's residential sales in 2025, and flat leases commonly carry a covenant requiring carpet or the freeholder's consent for a hard floor.
What is commonly under the carpet in a 1930s house here?
Timber boards on joists over a ventilated void. 20.8% of Worthing dwellings were built from 1930 to 1939; keep the airbricks clear, because the moving air is what keeps that timber dry.
Is a converted flat different from a flat in a purpose-built block?
Yes, in what lies beneath. 9.9% of households live in a flat in a converted or shared house or another converted building, where the separating floor may be timber joists or a later slab; purpose-built blocks, home to 23.9%, must meet stricter sound figures.
Do the town's conservation areas restrict the floor I choose?
No. The council lists 27 conservation areas within Worthing, and their rules concern the outside of buildings rather than the floor inside a house or flat.
Local facts
Local facts: Worthing
19 facts from the census, the Met Office, the council and other public records, each with what it means for a floor in Worthing and where it comes from.
When they were built
20.8%
built 1930 to 1939
Worthing20.8%England and Wales9.9%5th highest of 141 towns
For your floorWorthing's large stock from the 1930s commonly has the suspended timber ground floor it shares with Victorian and Edwardian houses, not the slab of a new build.
Source
Dwellings built 1930 to 1939. Area: Worthing built-up area (ONS Built-up Areas 2024). VOA, Council Tax: stock of properties 2025, table CTSOP4.1 (build period). Data: 2025-03-31 · retrieved 2026-09-22.
When they were built
43.6%
built before 1940
Worthing43.6%England and Wales35.4%27th highest of 141 towns
For your floorIn the town's pre-war homes the void under the boards keeps the timber dry only while the airbricks stay open, so they are checked before a new floor goes in.
Source
Dwellings built before 1940. Area: Worthing built-up area (ONS Built-up Areas 2024). VOA, Council Tax: stock of properties 2025, table CTSOP4.1 (build period). Data: 2025-03-31 · retrieved 2026-09-22.
When they were built
10.1%
built 1900 to 1918
Worthing10.1%England and Wales5.2%9th highest of 141 towns
For your floorEdwardian houses, a larger share of the stock here than in England and Wales, sit on boards and joists over a ventilated void rather than on concrete.
Source
Dwellings built 1900 to 1918. Area: Worthing built-up area (ONS Built-up Areas 2024). VOA, Council Tax: stock of properties 2025, table CTSOP4.1 (build period). Data: 2025-03-31 · retrieved 2026-09-22.
When they were built
Building period
The adopted local plan records significant growth between the First and Second World Wars, which left large areas of mainly two-storey housing that now reach the foot of the South Downs.
For your floorThe inter-war date the local plan gives for Worthing's large two-storey suburbs tells you what kind of joists and ground floor to expect there.
Source
Area: Worthing (Worthing Borough Council area). Worthing Local Plan 2020-2036 (adopted), Chapter 1 – Introduction. Data: adopted at Full Council on 28 March 2023 (current adopted local plan) · retrieved 2026-10-21.
When they were built
Building period
The council's appraisal of the Heene conservation area records that a programme of development begun in 1884 continued into the twentieth century and produced substantial detached and semi-detached houses.
For your floorThe development begun in Heene in 1884 dates its villas, and that date, not the facade, says how their floors are built.
Source
Area: Heene Conservation Area, Worthing. Conservation Area Appraisal VI: Heene. Data: undated appraisal, published as a scanned copy of the original (PDF created January 2007); conservation area designated 29 April 1997 (original 1985) · retrieved 2026-10-21.
When they were built
Building period
The council's appraisal of the Shakespeare Road conservation area records that development began circa 1890, that most of the building stock dates from 1890 to 1910, and that later infill is mostly of the 1920s and 1930s.
For your floorDating most of the Shakespeare Road stock to 1890 to 1910 places its floors among the late Victorian and Edwardian kind, with which rooms sit over which following from that age.
Source
Area: Shakespeare Road Conservation Area, Worthing. Conservation Area Appraisal X: Shakespeare Road. Data: undated appraisal, published as a scanned copy of the original (PDF created January 2007, map dated 2009); conservation area designated 29 April 1997 (original 1985) · retrieved 2026-10-21.
Homes
Housing type
The council's residential design guide notes that most of Worthing's flats are in purpose-built blocks, but that a significant proportion are in converted buildings, often from the subdivision of larger Victorian and Edwardian properties.
For your floorBecause Worthing conversions are often divided Victorian and Edwardian houses, wet rooms and entrances now sit over other households in buildings never planned for that.
Source
Area: Worthing (Worthing Borough Council area). Guide for Residential Development SPD – November 2013. Data: Supplementary Planning Document, adopted November 2013 (adoption statement on the council's SPD page); the housing figures it quotes are from the SHMA and the 2001 Census · retrieved 2026-10-21.
When they were built
Building period
The council's 2024 appraisal of the Marine Gardens conservation area, on the West Worthing seafront, records that the three blocks of flats around the gardens were designed by one architect and built between 1931 and 1937.
For your floorThe inter-war date of the Marine Gardens blocks is a reminder that a purpose-built flat in Worthing can sit on a structure of the 1930s rather than a recent one.
Source
Area: Marine Gardens Conservation Area, West Worthing. Marine Gardens Conservation Area Appraisal 2024. Data: adopted July 2024 (conservation area designated 25 July 2024) · retrieved 2026-10-21.
Who lives here
67.5%
own their home
Worthing67.5%England and Wales61.6%8th highest of 151 towns
For your floorHigh owner-occupation in Worthing means a floor here is more often specified by the people who will live on it than for a tenancy.
Source
Households owning their home outright or with a mortgage. Area: Worthing built-up area (ONS Built-up Areas 2024). ONS, Census 2021, TS054 Tenure (households). Data: 2021-03-21 · retrieved 2026-09-22.
Who lives here
22.1%
rent privately
Worthing22.1%England and Wales20.3%65th highest of 151 towns
For your floorFor Worthing's private landlords, a floor is judged over several tenancies, where a poor choice only shows up years later.
Source
Households renting privately. Area: Worthing built-up area (ONS Built-up Areas 2024). ONS, Census 2021, TS054 Tenure (households). Data: 2021-03-21 · retrieved 2026-09-22.
Weather & ground
20.4
days with 10 mm of rain or more
Worthing20.4Median, 151 towns17.8joint 56th highest of 151 towns
For your floorA coastal town with more days of ten millimetres of rain or more than the median brings sand, grit and water to the front door, which is where the floor takes them first.
Source
Days with at least 10 mm of rain per year (1991–2020 average, town centre). Area: Worthing town centre (Met Office HadUK-Grid 2 km cell). Met Office, HadUK-Grid (v1.1.0.0) climate averages 1991-2020, Met Office Climate Data Portal: Monthly Temperature Observations 1991-2020 (2 km grid), Monthly Min Temperature Observations 1991-2020 12km (12 km grid), Annual Count of 10mm Rainfall Days 1991-2020 (2 km grid). Data: 1991-2020 · retrieved 2026-09-22.
Who lives here
0.69
dogs per household
Worthing0.69Median of 2,737 postcode districts in Great Britain0.415th highest of 150 towns
For your floorWith an estimated 5th highest dog count of 150 towns, Worthing floors have to deal with wet paws and with whether a dog can walk on them, not only with scratches.
Source
Dogs per household, estimate (median of the postcode districts named under Area). Area: median of 3 postcode districts (BN11, BN13, BN14). Animal and Plant Health Agency, dogs per household per postcode district (modelled). Data: 2015-01-01 · retrieved 2026-09-22.
Weather & ground
24.7
air frost days a year
Worthing24.7Median, 151 towns38.1134th highest of 151 towns
For your floorFew frost days on Worthing's coast shorten the cold end of a conservatory's year, but the room's daily swing remains what its floor has to survive.
Source
Days with air frost per year (1991-2020 average, town centre). Area: Worthing town centre (Met Office HadUK-Grid 2 km cell). Met Office, HadUK-Grid climate averages 1991-2020 (climate data portal). Data: 1991-2020 · retrieved 2026-09-22.
Heritage & plans
Conservation areas
Adur & Worthing Councils state that there are 27 designated conservation areas within Worthing, covering areas of special architectural or historic interest.
For your floorWorthing's 27 conservation areas govern the outside of buildings, so a floor indoors in one of them is decided by the structure, not by the designation.
Source
Area: Worthing (Worthing Borough Council area). Worthing conservation areas (web page). Data: web page, last updated 16 January 2026 (content as retrieved 2026-10-21) · retrieved 2026-10-21.
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