 Alongside survey work, Young moved his practice, John Young & Son, Architects to 35 King Street, Cheapside.Immediately prior to 1843 when Young built his family home in Stoke Newington, the family are known to have lived in Thomas Cubitt's Albion Road in North London.By 1845 he was architect and surveyor to the City and Camden Town (Birmingham Junction) Railway Company and continued with extensive design projects