Petworth, West Sussex (GU28) is the antiques capital of West Sussex — and LAPADA-accredited handling is exactly what its fine furniture and heirlooms deserve. We collect from your door, wrap and seal it all into a wooden container that’s yours alone, then store it at our alarmed Ashington warehouse, around 15 miles west-northwest, from £21 a week for storage and insurance; collection is quoted separately, upfront.
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Weekly storage prices for Petworth — insurance included, no deposit.
We’ll show exactly how full your container is — no rounding up.
Petworth sits inland at the junction of the A272 and A283, a market town built long before anyone needed to park near Market Square or reverse a van down Lombard Street. Wolves doesn’t ask you to solve that problem yourself — whether it’s a full house move or just a few pieces going into store, our crew drives out to your GU28 door with the container, protective blankets for your furniture and the muscle already loaded, and does the whole job on your doorstep rather than handing you a set of keys to a unit somewhere else. Ashington is a genuine 15 miles west-northwest of Petworth, roughly 25 minutes by road — a real drive we make so you don’t have to, not a number rounded down to sound closer. Read more about how the collection actually runs before booking.
Once the crew’s on site, everything is wrapped, packed and built into your own sealed wooden container right there in the street or driveway, then loaded and driven inland to our alarmed Ashington warehouse — nothing left half-packed for you to finish, and nothing carried by hand to a car boot first. The container stays sealed and logged until you want it back, and storage starts from £21 a week with no deposit — collection and redelivery quoted upfront, separate from the weekly rate. Full storage pricing is published on this site, not quoted on request.
Petworth's antiques trade needs LAPADA-accredited handling, and that's what every fully managed, fully insured container gets here. The crew wraps, seals and carries your pieces from your GU28 door to our alarmed Ashington warehouse, storage from £21 a week with collection quoted upfront, separate from that rate. We also reach Pulborough and Midhurst.
One container, private to your Petworth job alone — the crew builds and seals it on your doorstep, then it goes straight into our alarmed Ashington warehouse rather than sitting half-loaded in a farm outbuilding or a shared aisle somewhere on the way.
Learn moreNeither a probate sale on a family estate nor the right buyer for a period townhouse off Market Square keeps to a calendar — so the container doesn’t either. There’s no monthly form to renew or date to hit; the weekly rate simply carries on until the day you tell us to stop.
Learn moreA renovation that overruns its schedule, or a sale that collapses at the eleventh hour, still leaves a Petworth home needing somewhere for its contents in the meantime — the container covers that stretch for however many weeks it turns out to be, and the bill simply stops the week you move back in.
Learn moreStoreroom space is scarce behind an East Street shopfront or a stand inside the Antiques Market, so dealers treat a container as the extra room the premises never had — stock and paperwork move out of the way between fairs, and back in only when a buyer needs to see them.
Learn moreClearing a Petworth home usually means bureaus, oil paintings and inherited silver rather than flat-pack furniture, and each piece goes through the same LAPADA-accredited process — individually wrapped, padded and logged by item before it ever goes near the container, to the standard a Petworth Park exhibitor would recognise as their own.
Learn moreThere’s no van to hire and no heavy lifting to arrange before a Petworth job starts — the crew arrives with the blankets and kit to wrap and load everything themselves, so a cottage off Lombard Street or a farmhouse toward Duncton gets wrapped, loaded and sealed in the same single visit, start to finish.
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Antiques Trade Gazette calls Petworth the antiques centre of the South, and it’s not a marketing line — Discover Petworth counts more than thirty arts and antiques dealers trading within a mile of Market Square, and the Petworth Antiques Market alone gathers over thirty-five dealers under one East Street roof. The Petworth Antique & Decorative Arts Association has promoted that trade since the early 1980s, and exhibitors at the Petworth Park Antiques & Fine Art Fair are drawn predominantly from LAPADA and BADA membership — the same trade body that accredits Wolves. A town this steeped in fine art and decorative objects needs a firm that already understands antiques storage inside out.
Petworth House itself, the National Trust mansion built in 1688 and given to the nation in 1947, holds twenty oil paintings by J.M.W. Turner alongside works by Van Dyck and Joshua Reynolds, wood-carvings by Grinling Gibbons, and a 700-acre Capability Brown deer park still grazed by its fallow deer herd. Living in the shadow of that kind of estate, and shopping among dealers who trade in it daily, tends to fill a home with the sort of gilt mirrors, bureaus and inherited dining suites that a general remover’s van isn’t built to store. Whether it’s dealer stock between fair seasons or a family collection cleared from a Georgian house, our fine furniture storage handles each piece to LAPADA-accredited standard — padded, wrapped and logged one item at a time, never stacked on open shelving.
Honest, simple pricing — from just £21 a week for storage and insurance, with collection and redelivery quoted separately upfront, in Petworth, fully insured, with no deposit. Need more room? We simply add another container, so you only pay for the space you use.
No deposit · collection & redelivery quoted upfront
Get Your QuoteOrganising a Petworth move usually means a list of jobs before storage even starts; with Wolves, the crew turns up, builds your container on the spot and drives it to Ashington themselves, so that list stays empty. Compare that with the self-access units dotted around Stedham and Midhurst, where a van, a free day and two return trips are all still down to you — and with the other collected-container firms covering this ground, most of whom won’t put a price in writing until you’ve rung and described the job.
| Wolves — managed storage | A self-storage unit | |
|---|---|---|
| Who drives & lifts | A Petworth job means the crew does every lift themselves, dresser to garden bench, start to finish — your part in the physical work is watching it happen. | A drive-up unit near Stedham or Midhurst hands you the whole job instead — find a van, load it, unload it at the unit, then repeat the process again to get anything back. |
| Packing & wrapping | Blankets and padding ride in with the crew as standard, so anything fragile or antique gets a proper wrap for safe transit long before the lid ever comes down — you sort your own cartons, with hands-on packing an optional charge. | A self-access job starts with a shopping trip for bubble wrap and blankets, then a second job of packing the unit yourself — none of it counts as storage yet. |
| Getting to a historic-centre door | A pinched approach on Lombard Street, or a lane running off Market Square, is the crew’s problem to work around, not yours — the van waits on the nearest open kerb and the crew brings each load in from there by hand. | Booking your own van means figuring out first whether it fits down a Petworth lane at all, and where it’s allowed to sit near Market Square — questions that need answering before a single box gets moved. |
| The price you’re actually quoted | £21 a week per container for storage is published on this page before you’ve even called, with collection and redelivery quoted separately — no bespoke quote to wait on, and the same rate whether you’re a dealer or a downsizing family. | Other collected-container operators covering Petworth only give a figure once you’ve rung and described the job — there’s nothing published to compare against in advance. |
| Getting your things back | Ask for your container back and one phone call sets it moving — it’s usually on your Petworth doorstep again inside a day. | Getting your own things home means the whole outward trip in reverse: book a van again, drive to Stedham or Midhurst, load it up a second time, then bring it all the way back. |
| Deposit | You won’t find a deposit line on a Wolves invoice — not for a Petworth booking, not for any job we take on. | A deposit changes hands before you even get a key or a gate code at most self-access sites around Midhurst — that’s the standard arrangement there. |
| Insurance while moving | Cover starts as soon as the crew crosses a Petworth threshold, long before the container gets anywhere near Ashington. | At most self-access units, the policy only switches on once the door’s locked, which leaves the loading and driving stage — often the riskiest part — with no cover at all. |
250 cu ft is fixed per container regardless of what’s going in, so a flat above the Antiques Market takes noticeably fewer of them than a farmhouse out toward Duncton would. Use the table as a rough guide; the crew will confirm the exact number on the day, once they can see what’s actually being packed.
| Your home | Containers you’ll need | From |
|---|---|---|
| A studio or a few rooms | usually one container, sometimes part-filled | from £21/week |
| A one-bedroom flat | one container | from £21/week |
| A two-bedroom home | about two containers | from £42/week |
| A three-bedroom home | about three containers | from £63/week |
| A larger house | four or more containers | from £79/week |
Floor space alone can be misleading in a Georgian townhouse near the centre — narrow stairs and low doorways slow the lift, though they don’t automatically mean an extra container’s needed. Whatever the actual count turns out to be, a Petworth invoice only ever reflects what’s genuinely sealed inside on the day, never an estimate rounded up beforehand. Table prices cover storage and insurance; collection & redelivery are quoted separately, upfront.
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Petworth’s own antiques trade — the Antiques Market’s thirty-five-plus dealers and the LAPADA and BADA exhibitors at the Petworth Park Antiques & Fine Art Fair — sets the standard for handling fine pieces properly. Wolves holds that same LAPADA accreditation, so a bureau or a longcase clock gets wrapped, padded and logged the way the trade itself expects, not the way a general remover treats a wardrobe.
Other collected-container operators covering Petworth only give a price once you’ve called and described the job. Wolves publishes it: £21 a week per container, insurance included, no deposit and no bespoke quote to wait on — the same rate whether you’re clearing a cottage off Lombard Street or a farmhouse out toward Duncton.
Cover on a Petworth job doesn’t wait for the container to reach Ashington — it starts the moment the first item leaves your hallway. From there it simply carries on: every night under alarm and CCTV at the warehouse, straight through to the afternoon your GU28 door opens again and everything comes back.
We won’t pretend Ashington is next door — it’s a genuine 15-mile, 25-minute drive west-northwest via the A283, and a search for storage right in Petworth will turn up names closer than ours. What that drive buys is a crew that still turns up at your Market Square or Tillington address, container and all, rather than a unit you’d have to find yourself.
Four kinds of Petworth job come through the yard most often, and each has its own page worth reading before you call. Antiques dealers holding stock between the Petworth Antiques Market and the Petworth Park Antiques & Fine Art Fair use business storage as the back room a period shopfront never had. A family leaving a Georgian or listed house on Lombard Street or East Street for somewhere smaller leans on long-term storage while the right smaller property turns up. A renovation running past its listed-consent deadline, or a chain gap between one moving day and the next, fits short-term storage for exactly as many weeks as it lasts. And for anyone still working out what the model even is, container storage explains why a sealed wooden container, not a steel shipping box or a drive-up unit, is what actually turns up at your door.
Collection reaches well beyond the town centre itself. Tillington, barely a mile west along the A272, Byworth, which sits inside the Petworth parish boundary, Fittleworth, around three miles south-east on the River Rother, and Duncton, roughly three miles south on the A285 into the Downs, are all covered on the same terms as a Market Square address — one crew, one container, one weekly price. Graffham, which uses Petworth as its own post town, and the wider area toward Pulborough and Midhurst, are covered too — give us the postcode and the crew does the rest.
East Street is where the Petworth Antiques Market gathers more than thirty-five dealers under one roof, and Lombard Street carries the same trade on into the town’s oldest lanes — genuinely one of the densest concentrations of antiques and decorative-arts dealing outside London, not a tourist label. Market Square itself closes to traffic on fair day, and on an ordinary weekday it’s still tight enough that the van usually parks on the nearest open street and the crew walks the final few yards to the door with each load.
Petworth House sits behind its own park wall at the edge of town, a 1688 mansion with a 700-acre Capability Brown deer park handed to the National Trust in 1947 — and the streets around it grew up long before the motor car. Georgian townhouses and estate cottages line East Street and Lombard Street on plots with barely a driveway, while the Petworth Cottage Museum on the High Street still preserves what a single estate worker’s home looked like around 1910. Out toward Tillington or Byworth the plots loosen up a little, though the housing stock across GU28 as a whole still tends older, listed and short on built-in storage.
None of that variety changes how a job gets handled. Overflow stock from an Antiques Market dealer gets exactly the same LAPADA-accredited wrapping as an inherited dining suite coming out of a Georgian townhouse, whatever staircase or doorway stands in the way of getting it out. Once it’s carried clear of the property, it goes into your own sealed container and inland to Ashington, £21 a week, no deposit required.
We had a big move with everything going into a mix of long term and short term storage. Jack was very responsive and helpful answering my many questions as we got ready for the move, and the four guys on moving day were super efficient and friendly. They have their own storage facility too, which is reassuring and just makes everything more straightforward.
We handle the heavy lifting, literally — here’s how storing with us works.
Antiques and heirlooms between fairs or a move, a downsize from a Georgian townhouse, a probate clearance, a dealer’s overflow stock — whatever a Petworth household or trade hands over, one container at £21 a week takes it, handled to LAPADA-accredited standards, collected from the door and driven inland to Ashington — that collection quoted separately.
Whether it’s a dealer’s stock heading toward the Antiques Market or a family collection on its way to auction, LAPADA-accredited handling is what the pieces need — each one wrapped and sealed individually, not stacked loose in a removals van.
A period townhouse on East Street or Lombard Street and the smaller home most people downsize into rarely have matching proportions, so something usually has to give. Rather than a skip, the surplus goes into a container of its own, held until whoever makes the call — the family, or a buyer — is ready for it to move on.
We store the contents of a Petworth property during or after a clearance — we don’t do the clearance itself — so nothing has to be decided or sold in a rush while probate runs its course.
Neither a stand at the Antiques Market nor a shopfront on East Street was built with a season’s worth of stock in mind. A container takes the surplus and the filed paperwork out of the way between fairs, leaving the space that actually sells clear.
Petworth (GU28) is a genuine 15-mile run from our Ashington base, west-northwest via the A283 — far enough that the local map pack goes to whoever sits on Petworth’s doorstep, near enough that our crew still reaches Market Square, East Street and the villages round about. LAPADA-accredited handling makes it a natural fit for the town’s antiques trade and its Georgian and listed housing stock.
The antiques capital of West Sussex, and a genuine 15-mile collection run west-northwest of our Ashington base — we come to Petworth’s Market Square and its GU28 villages, from Tillington and Byworth to Fittleworth and Duncton, so you never have to find a unit yourself.
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The questions West Sussex customers ask us most.
Storage in Petworth starts from £21 a week per 250 cu ft container — published here rather than something you have to ring and ask for — with insurance included and no deposit taken; collection and redelivery are quoted separately, upfront. Give us a rough idea of the contents and a fixed weekly figure comes back inside a day.
It’s included, never a surcharge. LAPADA accreditation is the reason: bureaus, oil paintings and fragile heirlooms out of Petworth’s dealers and period homes are wrapped, padded and logged to that standard by default, with nothing added to the bill for it.
Yes — collection is part of our managed service and reaches right into Market Square, East Street and the lanes around them, priced as its own upfront figure on top of your storage. If a street’s too tight for the van, the crew leaves it on the nearest open spot and hand-carries the load in from there — you never bring anything out to us.
No. Billing runs one week at a time, for exactly as long as the space stays in use — a fortnight over a renovation or several years, it’s the same weekly rate, with no contract to sign.
Yes — cover begins the moment the crew starts packing at your Petworth door, not once the container’s back at Ashington. It stays fully insured for as long as your things are with us.
Yes. As well as the town centre we collect across Tillington, Byworth, Fittleworth, Duncton, Graffham and the wider area toward Pulborough and Midhurst — same crew, same container, same published price.
Yes. Several of the pieces we store come straight from stock rather than a home — dealers holding overflow between the Antiques Market and the Petworth Park Antiques & Fine Art Fair use a container as the back room a shopfront doesn’t have.
Self-storage means finding a van, driving to a unit around Stedham or Midhurst, and loading it yourself. Wolves is different — we collect from your Petworth door, wrap and seal it all into a container that’s yours alone, and keep it at our alarmed Ashington warehouse. You never drive to a unit at all.
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