Home additions in Wedgwood
Lots here run about 84 feet wide, so there's room. The 1960s floor plan decides where the addition joins.
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What a home addition in Wedgwood involves
An addition either disappears into the house or announces itself forever, and which one you get is settled on the drawing board rather than at the paint store. Rooflines, window proportion, brick coursing, the way the new eave meets the old one. Get those right and nobody can find the seam. Get them wrong and everybody can.
Which is the good part, because the list of things an addition can be is long: a primary suite the plan never had, a second story on a lot too small to grow sideways, a sunroom, a bigger kitchen, a real home office, an in-law suite for a family that got closer together. Our team draws it, walks the permit through the city, and builds it.
In Wedgwood
An addition in Wedgwood is a question about the house, not about the lot. The median parcel is 10,725 square feet and 84 feet wide, not one of the 2,084 we measured is under the city's 50-foot minimum, and the median house on it is 1,864 square feet — so there is room on almost every property here in a way there simply is not in pre-war Fort Worth. What decides the project is the plan you are joining: these went up between 1950 and 1975 to a handful of layouts, with the living space at the front and a kitchen closed off from it, and the addition that works is usually the one that opens the back of the house rather than the one that adds another room to the end of a hall.
Design and drafting, in house
The drawings come from the people who have to build them
Plans, elevations and selections are done here, by the team that will be on site — so the thing you approve on paper is the thing that gets built, and the number under it is real.
Level one
Living, kitchen, dining and foyer, with a covered porch running the width of the front.
The house in 3D
Massing, rooflines and the front elevation, drawn before a single material is ordered.
The selections
Held next to the floor and the trim you already have, not picked from a screen.
Building in Wedgwood
What the houses here actually ask for
1950s–1970s
Post-war ranches and traditional brick, built between about 1950 and 1975 on wide, flat lots — a consistent stock rather than a mix of eras.
Southwest Fort Worth inside 76133, on ground that is flat and generous by Fort Worth standards. The constraint here is the plan, not the parcel.
- Median lot
- 10,725 sq ft
- Built 1941–1979
- 99.6%
- Median house
- 1,864 sq ft
84 ft wide by 137 deep — and not one parcel of 2,084 is under the 50 ft minimum
990 houses in the 1950s and 1,041 in the 1960s — the neighborhood went up in twenty years
a quarter run past 2,180, and the top tenth reach 2,448
Measured from City of Fort Worth GIS and Tarrant Appraisal District parcels, tax year 2025, Wedgwood Square association boundary (2,084 single-family parcels), measured 2026-09-09
The ground rules in Wedgwood
No historic overlay anywhere in Wedgwood.
The city's zoning attribute records no historic overlay across 99.7% of the area, and the neighborhood is not one of Fort Worth's fourteen local historic districts. Nothing on the outside of the house needs a Certificate of Appropriateness — siding, windows, roofing, a new elevation on the back of the house are ordinary permit items. Deed restrictions are a separate question from city zoning and worth checking for your own block.
A-5 One-Family~76% of the land here
- Minimum lot
- 5,000 sq ft
- Minimum width
- 50 ft
- Maximum coverage
- 50%
- Front yard
- 20 ft, 15 ft limited local
Where a row shows two front-yard figures, Fort Worth is setting that minimum by street classification — the lower one applies only on a limited local street. Which classification your street carries is the city's answer rather than anything you can read off the street sign, so we pull it before we draw.
The 50-foot minimum is not the constraint here — it is nowhere near it
Zero of the 2,084 single-family parcels measured are narrower than the 50 feet A-5 requires, and the median is 84 feet. That is the opposite of the pre-war neighborhoods on the other side of town, where a third of the lots are nonconforming. In Wedgwood the binding number is usually the 50% coverage cap and the front yard, not the width — which is why an addition here is a question about the house rather than a question about the lot.
Measured from City of Fort Worth GIS and Tarrant Appraisal District parcels, tax year 2025, Wedgwood Square association boundary, measured 2026-09-09; City of Fort Worth Zoning Ordinance §4.705(c)(1) and §6.101(d), read 2026-09-25 (edition 2026 S-20)
What it runs in Wedgwood
$60,000–$420,000
a bump-out at the low end, a full second story at the top.
Ranges for a home addition in Wedgwood, not a quote. Before there are drawings, a range is the only honest number anyone can give you — the spread between a high and a low bid on the same job is routinely 20% or more. We bill cost-plus, so when there is a plan you see the actual materials, labor and subcontractor costs, plus our overhead and profit, rather than a single figure with the unknowns padded into it.
What moves it
- Which kind of addition. A bump-out borrows the roof and structure you already have; a second story needs engineering, a staircase, a new roofline and every system re-integrated.
- Whether a bathroom is in it. Plumbing into new square footage is $15,000–$35,000 on its own, and how far it sits from existing lines decides where in that band you land.
- What the existing house can carry. Whether the foundation extends, whether a bearing wall is in the way, and whether the framing can take a floor above it are answers that come from opening things up, not from the curb.
- Matching the character. In the neighborhoods with an overlay — Ryan Place and Mistletoe Heights among them — custom millwork and matched exterior materials add 10–15%.
- Per square foot
- $175–$400
- How long it takes
- 3–9 months
- Fort Worth permit fees
- $1,200–$3,500
- Carry a contingency
- 15–20% of budgetfor what the existing house turns out to be hiding
Outdoor living · Built by 6th Ave Homes
Wedgwood Family-Room Addition See the gallery →What we'd actually do here
The moves that matter in Wedgwood
Every neighborhood rewards something different. These are the three that come up on almost every home addition we take on.
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Open the back before you extend the side
These plans put the living space at the front and close the kitchen off from it. The addition that changes how the house feels is almost always at the back, joined to the kitchen — not another room added to the end of the bedroom hall.
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Keep it low and horizontal
A Wedgwood ranch reads as one long low line under the trees, and that is the thing worth keeping. An addition that carries the existing roof pitch and eave looks original; a second story or a pasted-on farmhouse front usually erases what made the house worth buying.
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Open the systems before you size the addition
Houses of this age carry the usual postwar list — cast-iron drains, older electrical panels, foundation movement on clay. An addition ties into all of it, so we check what is behind the walls first; it changes the budget more than the square footage does.
Both numbers, one conversation
Add on, or move to a house that already has the room?
A 1960s Wedgwood house on a wide lot is one of the better things you can own in southwest Fort Worth. Whether it is worth the addition depends on numbers, not on affection.
What the work would cost
Priced by the people who'd build it.
Design, drafting and construction, in house.
What it'd sell for as-is
Valued by the agents who sell this market.
6th Ave Homes is a licensed brokerage.
A remodeler can price the work. An agent can price the house. We do both.
We can price both sides, which almost nobody can. Our drafting team will tell you what your house and your lot will actually give up, our builders price the work off those drawings, and our agents can tell you what it is worth as it stands and what the same money buys elsewhere in 76133. Sometimes the honest answer is that the house you are describing is already for sale four streets over. We would rather say that than sell you an addition that never quite gets there.
How it works
A home addition in Wedgwood, in three steps
The people who draw it, price it, and build it share a hallway — which is why the plan you fall in love with is the plan that actually gets built.
Meet Up
We walk the house, listen to how you actually live in it, and talk honestly about budget before anyone draws a line.
Team Up
Our designers and drafting team put a real plan on paper — layout, selections, and a number you can build around.
Glasses Up
We build it, keep you in the loop, and hand back a home that feels like you. Pour something good.
Our work in Wedgwood
Wedgwood Family-Room Addition
Family-Room Addition
Every family needs a room that pulls everyone together. In Wedgwood, the 6th Ave Homes team added a family room built for exactly that, so see the new room in the gallery.
See the whole project
From the Wedgwood Family-Room Addition — see the full gallery
Not our first time on these streets
Another one of ours in Wedgwood
The neighborhood
Three developers, twenty years of building, and nearly every street starting with W.
Wedgwood was sold as a whole town before most of it existed. The Wedgwood Historical Association names E. L. Baker, Irwin Krauss and S. G. Payte as the principal developers, building from the 1950s into the 1970s, and an original promotional booklet made the pitch in one line: "You'll Live Happier in Wedgwood." The plan came with a country club, a shopping village, a bowling alley and schools set beside parks.
The street names are the signature, and the city itself points it out: a curving system in which nearly every street starts with W — Wonder, Winifred, Wheaton, Whitman, Wedgworth, Wimbleton, Walraven, Wrigley. Fifty-two distinct streets sit inside the Wedgwood Square boundary alone.
Wedgwood Park came first and the school followed it: the park was dedicated in 1955 and Bruce Shulkey Elementary beside it was finished in 1958. The Wedgwood branch library opened on October 7, 1962 — the first purpose-built building of Fort Worth's modern branch-library program and the oldest branch still in service. Recreation and civic buildings were in the plan from the start, which is part of why this became a neighborhood rather than a subdivision.
The houses are the main event: mostly one-story brick ranches from the fifties to the seventies, with split-levels, low mid-century roofs and 1970s sunken living rooms mixed in. Local history holds that more than a hundred builders worked here, which is why the blocks avoid tract-house sameness — and why the smartest additions keep the low, horizontal lines rather than painting the brick white and bolting on farmhouse trim.
- Trail Lake Drive
- Wedgmont Circle
- Wonder Drive
- Winifred Drive
- Wheaton Drive
- Whitman Avenue
- Wedgworth Road
- Wimbleton Way
- Wales Avenue
- Walraven Circle
- Waltham Avenue
- Wharton Drive
- Wrigley Way
- Wedgwood Drive
- Woodway Drive
What that means for your home addition
People move to Wedgwood for the lot and the schools and then run into the house. The plans that got built here were efficient and they were drawn for 1962 — a formal living room at the front, bedrooms down a hall, a kitchen closed off from everything. The land to fix that is already yours, which is why almost every conversation we have in this neighborhood is about where the addition goes rather than whether it fits.
Inside the work
The rooms, up close
Before you start
A home addition in Wedgwood: the questions worth asking first
The answers that change a Wedgwood project are usually the ones nobody asks until the drawings are done. We work through these first.
Nearby and related
- Home Additions in Arlington Heights
- Home Additions in Mistletoe Heights
- Home Additions in Ryan Place
- Home Additions in TCU / Westcliff
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Do I need historic approval to build in Wedgwood?
No. The city's zoning attribute records no historic overlay across 99.7% of the neighborhood and Wedgwood is not one of Fort Worth's fourteen local historic districts, so exterior work follows the standard residential permit path with no Certificate of Appropriateness. Private deed restrictions are a separate matter from city zoning and worth confirming for your own block.
How much room do I actually have to build?
More than most of Fort Worth. The median Wedgwood lot we measured is 10,725 square feet at about 84 by 137 feet, and A-5 zoning allows 50% coverage, with a front yard of 20 feet on a local street and 15 on a limited local one. Not one of the 2,084 single-family parcels in the Wedgwood Square boundary is narrower than the 50-foot minimum. The practical limit is usually the coverage cap and where the existing house sits on the lot, which is a drawing question we answer early.
What decides whether we go up or out?
Usually the roof, once the survey has had its say. Some houses take a second story gracefully; others spend the rest of their lives looking like two houses stacked up, and no amount of trim fixes it. Going out is kinder to the elevation and harder on the yard. We walk it and tell you which trade you are actually making.
Is the thing we want actually an ADU?
If it needs its own kitchen and its own front door, probably yes, and zoning treats that as a different animal with different limits. An addition stays attached, shares the systems and the address, and is the right answer when you want more house rather than a second one.
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Thinking about a home addition in Wedgwood?
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