Home Remodeling in New London, PA
Remodeling for the crossroads village and the newer homes of New London Township.
New London Township was chartered in 1723 on land the London Company had divided for immigrant farmers, Swedes from New Castle first and then Scots-Irish Presbyterians. In 1743 the Reverend Francis Alison opened the New London Academy at the Presbyterian church, and his students included Thomas McKean, born in the township, along with George Read and James Smith, three future signers of the Declaration of Independence. The village at the center was a stagecoach stop where the Baltimore and Philadelphia route crossed the Lancaster and Perryville route, with two inns, a blacksmith, a wheelwright, a tannery, an apothecary and several stores. It was called New London Crossroads until 1847. Two covered bridges in the township, the Rudolph and Arthur and the Linton Stephens, are on the National Register.
Most of today's houses are far younger than the village. The township had 576 people in 1930, 4,583 in 2000 and 5,810 in 2020, so most of its homes went up in the last fifty years, on rural lots along Routes 796, 841 and 896. Dawson's serves New London from Middletown, about forty minutes away.
What New London's permit chart asks for
New London Township issues its own permits and publishes a flow chart of what each job needs. A new or expanded use needs a zoning permit and a plot plan drawn to scale, and any structure over 200 square feet needs a building permit. New plumbing fixtures, new electrical work and new heating or cooling equipment each carry their own permit. An addition or a finished basement, anything with new windows or insulation, needs an energy compliance statement. Disturbing more than 1,000 square feet of ground calls for an erosion and sediment permit, and more than 2,000 square feet of new hard surface calls for a stormwater plan. Adding a bedroom or a kitchen may require a septic permit or a letter from the county health department, the question to settle before an addition is drawn. A new or wider driveway needs its own permit, and one that meets a state road needs a highway occupancy permit from PennDOT as well.
Crossroads houses and newer homes
Where an older house survives near the crossroads or on a farm, it gets the slow approach an old house needs: a kitchen and bath fitted into rooms that were never built for them, wiring and plumbing replaced, windows chosen to suit the front of the house. Most houses here are the newer homes on the township roads, and they call for kitchens opened to the family room, primary baths with walk-in showers, basements finished once the energy paperwork is in order, and additions or decks where the lot and the septic field leave space. Siding and windows on the oldest of them are due for replacement.
Dawson's serves New London for kitchens, bathrooms, basements, additions, windows, siding, decks and carpentry.
Nearby, Dawson's also serves Kemblesville, Lincoln University, West Grove and Oxford.
New London is part of the Chester County, PA service area.
Ready to plan a remodel in New London?
Call Dom with the address and the project, or send the details through the form. The walkthrough is free and the estimate comes in writing.