Alder Croft Coulsdon, Croydon

31 addresses across 2 postcodes (CR5), about 140 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 20502991.

  • Sales: 39 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £350,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 20 homes have an energy certificate (C: 3, D: 11, E: 4, F: 1, G: 1).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band E; Band D in Croydon costs £2,600 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Coulsdon Town, about 670 m (0.4 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Farthing Downs, is about 580 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 10.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 120 to 132 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 31 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Bramley Avenue Surgery, about 1.1 km (0.7 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 640 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 66% of households owned their home and 36% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 46 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.

Sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20261£350,000£350,000£350,000
20251£360,000£360,000£360,000
20241£367,500£367,500£367,500
20222£480,000£440,000£520,000
20211£337,000£337,000£337,000
20201£385,000£385,000£385,000
20191£349,000£349,000£349,000
20161£312,000£312,000£312,000
20152£297,500£285,000£310,000
20142£295,000£285,000£305,000
20122£213,750£200,000£227,500
20102£199,000£165,000£233,000
Most recent sales (39)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
29 May 20264 CR5 2SNTerraced£350,000
10 Oct 202510 CR5 2SNTerraced£360,000
5 Jul 202413 CR5 2SNTerraced£367,500
10 Nov 20239 CR5 2SNOther£370,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
26 Aug 202227 CR5 2SNTerraced£440,000
30 Jun 202229 CR5 2SNSemi-detached£520,000
14 May 20218 CR5 2SNTerraced£337,000
18 Dec 202019 CR5 2SNTerraced£385,000
4 Oct 20197 CR5 2SNTerraced£349,000
9 Jun 20167 CR5 2SNTerraced£312,000
9 Oct 201515 CR5 2SNTerraced£310,000
3 Jul 201519 CR5 2SNTerraced£285,000
1 Aug 201413 CR5 2SNTerraced£305,000
30 Jul 20143 CR5 2SNTerraced£285,000
16 Nov 201212 CR5 2SNTerraced£227,500
15 Mar 201219 CR5 2SNTerraced£200,000
2 Aug 201013 CR5 2SNTerraced£165,000
21 May 201011 CR5 2SNTerraced£233,000
21 Dec 20096 CR5 2SNTerraced£220,000
3 Nov 200912 CR5 2SNTerraced£209,000
11 Jan 200714 CR5 2SNTerraced£222,750
28 Jul 200613 CR5 2SNTerraced£175,000
14 Jul 20064 CR5 2SNTerraced£204,000
19 May 200620 CR5 2SNTerraced£250,000
1 Nov 200229 CR5 2SNSemi-detached£282,500
18 Oct 200114 CR5 2SNTerraced£155,000
15 Oct 199911 CR5 2SNTerraced£125,500
14 Oct 199917 CR5 2SNTerraced£107,500
28 May 199919 CR5 2SNTerraced£117,500
1 May 199712 CR5 2SNTerraced£85,000
30 Apr 19978 CR5 2SNTerraced£89,950
18 Apr 199717 CR5 2SNTerraced£86,500
5 Dec 19968 CR5 2SNTerraced£83,000
26 Nov 199620 CR5 2SNTerraced£80,000
31 Oct 199611 CR5 2SNTerraced£85,000
15 Jul 199628 CR5 2SNTerraced£93,000
11 Jul 199621 CR5 2SNTerraced£99,000
24 May 19965 CR5 2SNTerraced£84,000
23 May 199619 CR5 2SNTerraced£82,000

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from February 2010 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

20 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 68 m². Most common: Bungalow, mid-terrace (9); Bungalow, end-terrace (6); House, mid-terrace (3). Built: 1967-1975 (14); 1976-1982 (5); 1983-1990 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (15); rented (private) (1); rented (social) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (11 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Croydon in 2026-27: Band D £2,600 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,733£2,022£2,311£2,600£3,178£3,755£4,333£5,200

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band E (24% of about 1,260 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), for the 2 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Roadworks

Planned, as of 31 October 2026

  • 2 November 2026 to 23 November 2026: SOUTHERN GAS NETWORKS PLC, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway, carriageway (major works)
  • 16 November 2026 to 7 December 2026: SOUTHERN GAS NETWORKS PLC, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway, carriageway (major (paa) works)

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

No address in this street's postcodes is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Height above sea level

The street's 31 addresses are between 120 m and 132 m above sea level (126 m on average); the ground rises about 12 m from the lowest to the highest.

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
CR5 2RD100%100%100%0%
CR5 2SN100%100%100%0%

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 31 October 2026; Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage 2024–25 (which stations are on the National Rail network, and their journeys: entries and exits in the year to March); OurAirports (public domain, kept by volunteers); car parks and charging points from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others: not an official register, so some will be missing, private or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street, not routes, and say nothing about how often anything runs. Stations opened since the end of ORR's year appear when ORR publishes the next one, each December; heritage railways are left out.

NearestDistance
Railway stationsCoulsdon Town 98,000 journeys in 2024–25670 m (0.4 miles)
Coulsdon South 2.0 million journeys in 2024–25670 m (0.4 miles)
Reedham (London) 106,000 journeys in 2024–251.6 km (1 mile)
Bus stops10 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 42 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Blueberry Gardens Coulsdon South60 m
Bus or coach stationKenley - Kenley Hotel2.2 km (1.4 miles)
Car parksApcoa1 km (0.6 miles)
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Roam Charging Station370 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Gatwick Airport LGW19.2 km (12 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Bramley Avenue Surgery1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots790 m (0.5 miles)
NHS dentists5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest 149 Brighton Road (Dental Practice)770 m (0.5 miles)
HospitalPurley War Memorial Hospital2.8 km (1.7 miles)
Police stationKenley Police Station2.1 km (1.3 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Payzone760 m (0.5 miles)

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Farthing Downs 50 ha580 m (0.4 miles)
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Rotherwick Rise Natural Play Space 330 m²170 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Coulsdon Memorial Recreation Ground 4.1 ha350 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Hartley Down Allotments 2.9 ha740 m (0.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 50 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Surrey Iron Railway embankment, approximately 130m south west of Lion Green Road, Coulsdon, a scheduled monument, 910 m (0.6 miles) west. 6 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Surrey Iron Railway embankment, approximately 130m south west of Lion Green Road, CoulsdonScheduled monument910 m (0.6 miles) west
Regular aggregate field system, associated trackway and Anglo-Saxon barrow field on Farthing Downs, 490m east of Hooley FarmScheduled monument1.4 km (0.9 miles) south
Promenade de Verdun Memorial LandscapeRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.5 km (1.5 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Stonyfield ShawWood190 m south
Scrub ShawWood290 m west
Bleakfield ShawWood360 m south-east
Dollyper's HillHill1.3 km (0.8 miles) south-east
Happy ValleyValley2.4 km (1.5 miles) south
Elmore PondLake or reservoir3.7 km (2.3 miles) south-west

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)10.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.6205
Particles (PM10)11.74015

All three are within the UK legal limits; nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 are above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
55 to 5910
Under 553031

1 of the street's 31 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for Croydon: see them on the Croydon page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 3 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
Oasis Academy ByronPrimary2–11440 m (0.3 miles) Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
New Valley Primary SchoolPrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Coulsdon CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Requires improvement (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Smitham Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
St Aidan's Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.2 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Beaumont Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
The Hayes Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Woodcote Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.5 km (1 mile) No overall grade (May 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
Keston Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Woodcote High SchoolSecondary11–191.7 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 3 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
K Veg Wholesale CR5 2HRImporters/Exporters210 mExempt
Sodexo @ Oasis Academy Byron & The Mulberry Bush Pre-School CR5 2XESchool/college/university440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good22 Jul 2025
Oasis Academy Byron Breakfast Club CR5 2XEHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good1 Feb 2022
Coffee Plus CR5 2HRTakeaway/sandwich shop450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good21 Oct 2024
Jewson Ltd CR5 2HRRetailers - other450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good3 Jan 2018
Waitrose (Staff Canteen) CR5 2HRRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good24 Jan 2026
Roberts Fresh Green CR5 2HRDistributors/Transporters450 m (0.3 miles)Exempt
Candy Cloud Delights CR5 2HRRetailers - other450 m (0.3 miles)Awaiting inspection
MediRush CR5 2HTDistributors/Transporters480 m (0.3 miles)Exempt
Pius Vita Superfoods CR5 2HTRetailers - other480 m (0.3 miles)Awaiting inspection

Crime within 250 m

Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, September 2025 to August 2026. Police forces move every crime to the nearest of about 760,000 anonymised map points before publishing, so these are crimes near this street, not on it, and a busy point can collect crimes from a wider area. Counts are of records, not convictions.

46 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences22
Other theft5
Vehicle crime3
Burglary3
Anti-social behaviour3
Public order2
Drugs2
Possession of weapons2
Criminal damage and arson2
Robbery1
Other crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Birchfield Close (17); On or near Rutherwick Rise (14); On or near Byron Avenue (6); On or near Woodhatch Spinney (4); On or near Alder Croft (3).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 639 residents in 254 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

Around this streetEngland
Median age4240
Children under 1518%17%
Aged 65 and over21%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)66%61%
Owned outright33%33%
Shared ownership6%1%
Social rented18%17%
Private rented10%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work58%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)7%6%
Retired (of adults)24%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)39%32%
Travel to work by car or van39%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram10%4%
By any public transport, including bus15%8%
On foot or by bicycle6%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)66%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away3%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)36%34%
No qualifications16%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)92%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 4 to 8 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

What has changed

  • Energy certificates New energy certificate: band D, bungalow, end-terrace (lodged 28 October 2026) found 2 November 2026

Everything that has changed on and near this street

Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

  • CR5 2SN: 30 addresses of 34 in the postcode
  • CR5 2RD: 1 address of 7 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Blueberry Gardens · Rutherwick Rise · Woodhatch Spinney · Byron Avenue · Coulsdon Court Road · Coulsdon Road · Ashcroft Rise · Golf Side Mews · Ullswater Crescent · Breakfield · Deepfield Way · Nineacres Way

All the streets in CR5 and across Croydon.

What this page cannot tell you

  • Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
  • What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
  • How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported.
  • Whether you would get a place at a school: distances are straight lines, not catchments.
  • Who lives on the street now: census figures describe the small areas around it in March 2021, during a lockdown.
  • How long a journey takes or how often anything runs: transport distances are straight lines to the nearest stops.
  • Whether a GP practice is taking new patients, or a dentist new NHS patients.
  • How loud a home is inside, or noise from industry, neighbours or smaller airfields: noise figures are models of road, rail and air traffic outside.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.