Darcy Close Coulsdon, Croydon

25 addresses across 1 postcode (CR5), about 120 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 20500216.

  • Sales: 42 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £500,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 17 homes have an energy certificate (C: 1, D: 12, E: 3, F: 1).
  • Flood: 13 addresses on its postcodes are in areas 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 Whyteleafe, about 2.2 km (1.4 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Lacy Green, is about 510 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.4 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 151 to 159 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 25 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Old Coulsdon Medical Practice, about 690 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • People: About 370 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 97% of households owned their home and 38% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 11 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
20251£500,000£500,000£500,000
20241£566,500£566,500£566,500
20221£650,000£650,000£650,000
20212£533,500£515,000£552,000
20201£482,500£482,500£482,500
20182£481,000£460,000£502,000
20162£433,250£417,500£449,000
20152£365,000£365,000£365,000
20132£382,475£339,950£425,000
20121£277,000£277,000£277,000
20111£319,950£319,950£319,950
20091£155,000£155,000£155,000
Most recent sales (42)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
21 Nov 20259 CR5 1QTSemi-detached£500,000
28 Nov 20248 CR5 1QTSemi-detached£566,500
1 Aug 202219 CR5 1QTSemi-detached£650,000
22 Jun 20213 CR5 1QTDetached£552,000
29 Jan 20214 CR5 1QTSemi-detached£515,000
23 Mar 202012 CR5 1QTSemi-detached£482,500
7 Dec 201823 CR5 1QTDetached£460,000
26 Jan 201814 CR5 1QTSemi-detached£502,000
20 May 20166 CR5 1QTSemi-detached£449,000
18 Jan 201620 CR5 1QTSemi-detached£417,500
5 Aug 201518 CR5 1QTDetached£365,000
13 Mar 201517 CR5 1QTSemi-detached£365,000
5 Sep 201313 CR5 1QTSemi-detached£339,950
6 Aug 201325 CR5 1QTDetached£425,000
9 May 20123 CR5 1QTDetached£277,000
6 May 20114 CR5 1QTSemi-detached£319,950
27 Nov 20098 CR5 1QTSemi-detached£155,000
19 Dec 200819 CR5 1QTSemi-detached£350,000
16 Oct 20086 CR5 1QTDetached£345,000
7 Mar 200818 CR5 1QTDetached£305,000
22 Feb 20085 CR5 1QTSemi-detached£305,000
7 Feb 20086 CR5 1QTDetached£367,950
7 Dec 200719 CR5 1QTSemi-detached£295,000
21 Sep 200621 CR5 1QTDetached£250,000
25 Aug 200410 CR5 1QTSemi-detached£322,000
30 Jul 200423 CR5 1QTSemi-detached£288,000
21 May 200420 CR5 1QTDetached£249,999
16 Apr 200411 CR5 1QTSemi-detached£275,000
22 Dec 200323 CR5 1QTDetached£216,000
5 Dec 200323 CR5 1QTDetached£170,000
5 Nov 20035 CR5 1QTSemi-detached£245,000
14 Nov 200215 CR5 1QTSemi-detached£247,500
19 Aug 20027 CR5 1QTSemi-detached£199,950
27 Apr 20016 CR5 1QTDetached£190,000
26 Jan 20014 CR5 1QTSemi-detached£165,000
1 Oct 19993 CR5 1QTDetached£164,500
30 Mar 199816 CR5 1QTTerraced£140,000
6 Mar 199810 CR5 1QTSemi-detached£171,000
4 Aug 19978 CR5 1QTSemi-detached£137,000
20 Dec 199618 CR5 1QTDetached£105,500
30 Jan 199611 CR5 1QTSemi-detached£80,000
1 Dec 199517 CR5 1QTSemi-detached£90,000

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 April 2011 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

17 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 92 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (12); Bungalow, detached (3); House, detached (2). Built: 1930-1949 (10); 1950-1966 (7). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (16).

Each home's certificates and sales (9 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 neighbourhood around this street: most are in band E (54% of about 650 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) 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

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 31 October 2026.

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

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 12 addresses are in areas at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 0 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

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 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 25 addresses are between 151 m and 159 m above sea level (156 m on average); the ground rises about 8 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 1QT100%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 stationsWhyteleafe 228,000 journeys in 2024–252.2 km (1.4 miles)
Whyteleafe South 115,000 journeys in 2024–252.4 km (1.5 miles)
Upper Warlingham 851,000 journeys in 2024–252.4 km (1.5 miles)
Bus stops15 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 37 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Shirley Avenue Old Coulsdon60 m
Bus or coach stationWhyteleafe South - Main Road2.4 km (1.5 miles)
Car parksApcoa1.7 km (1.1 miles)
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest bp pulse Charging Station830 m (0.5 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Gatwick Airport LGW17.9 km (11 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 surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Old Coulsdon Medical Practice690 m (0.4 miles)
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Old Coulsdon Pharmacy480 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Taunton Lane Dental Practice430 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalCaterham Dene Hospital2.7 km (1.7 miles)
Police stationCaterham Police Station3.3 km (2 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Old Coulsdon Village Store Cashzone650 m (0.4 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 Lacy Green 1,850 m²510 m (0.3 miles)
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 40 ha520 m (0.3 miles)
Play areaUnnamed 330 m²830 m (0.5 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4.6 ha560 m (0.3 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 9,750 m²2 km (1.2 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 40 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St John the Evangelist, a listed building (Grade I), 790 m (0.5 miles) north-west. 10 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St John the EvangelistListed building, Grade I790 m (0.5 miles) north-west
Group of four World War II fighter pens at the former airfield of RAF KenleyScheduled monument910 m (0.6 miles) north-east
Group of seven World War II fighter pens at the former airfield of RAF KenleyScheduled monument1.3 km (0.8 miles) north-east
Spigot Mortar Emplacement at RAF KenleyScheduled monument1.5 km (0.9 miles) east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Shepherd's ShawWood650 m (0.4 miles) east
Rydon's WoodWood710 m (0.4 miles) south-east
Coulsdon CommonWood720 m (0.4 miles) south-east
Dollyper's HillHill1.1 km (0.7 miles) north
Happy ValleyValley1.3 km (0.8 miles) south-west
Elmore PondLake or reservoir4.1 km (2.6 miles) 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)9.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.4205
Particles (PM10)11.54015

All three are within the UK legal limits; PM2.5 is 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 552425

1 of the street's 25 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 CoulsdonSecondary11–16320 m No published inspection
Keston Primary SchoolPrimary3–11550 m (0.3 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)
New Valley Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
The Hayes Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.6 km (1 mile) Good (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Oasis Academy ByronPrimary2–111.7 km (1.1 miles) Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Audley Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.9 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection
St Francis Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.9 km (1.2 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
Breakfast & AfterSchool Clubs At Keston Primary School CR5 1HPHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises290 m5 Very good24 Sep 2025
Olive Dining Ltd At Keston Primary School CR5 1HPSchool/college/university290 m5 Very good26 Feb 2025
Sodexo @ Oasis Academy Coulsdon CR5 1ESSchool/college/university320 m5 Very good4 Dec 2024
Glade Fisheries CR5 1SJTakeaway/sandwich shop360 m4 Good28 May 2025
Mary Convenience Store CR5 1SGRetailers - other430 m (0.3 miles)4 Good14 May 2026
Man Lee Chinese Takeaway CR5 1SGTakeaway/sandwich shop430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good22 Dec 2024
Kebab Time CR5 1SGTakeaway/sandwich shop430 m (0.3 miles)4 Good7 Aug 2026
Brightsparks Day Nursery @ Oasis Academy Coulsdon CR5 1ESHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good17 Apr 2026
Londis CR5 1ENRetailers - other480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good7 Jul 2012
Shell Old Coulsdon CR5 1ENRetailers - other480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good28 Mar 2022
Cafe Shack CR5 1ENRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen480 m (0.3 miles)4 Good2 May 2026
Hooks Food And Wine CR5 1ENRetailers - other480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good15 Nov 2025

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.

11 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences3
Other theft3
Anti-social behaviour2
Criminal damage and arson1
Other crime1
Drugs1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Darcy Close (6); On or near Tilgate Gardens (2); On or near Waddington Close (1); On or near Lawrences Close (1); On or near Shirley Avenue (1).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this street's postcodes are in: 372 residents in 143 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 age4540
Children under 1518%17%
Aged 65 and over22%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)97%61%
Owned outright47%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented0%17%
Private rented2%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work61%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)26%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)0%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)40%32%
Travel to work by car or van47%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram5%4%
By any public transport, including bus8%8%
On foot or by bicycle4%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)58%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away6%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)38%34%
No qualifications18%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)97%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 9 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

Nothing new since the change feed started on 30 October 2026. New sales and energy certificates, and hygiene ratings, school inspections and flood figures nearby, will be listed here as the sources update.

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 1QT: 25 addresses of 26 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Lingfield Gardens · Shirley Avenue · Waddington Close · Carew Close · Winchester Close · Taunton Lane · Lawrences Close · Tilgate Gardens · Barnfield Close · Keston Avenue · Waddington Avenue · Reed Gardens

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.