Downs Road Coulsdon, Croydon

100 addresses across 5 postcodes (CR5), about 1.2 km (0.8 miles) long, classed as a local road. USRN 20500224.

  • Sales: 121 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £795,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 60 homes have an energy certificate (B: 5, C: 9, D: 27, E: 16, F: 3).
  • Flood: 5 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 F; Band D in Croydon costs £2,600 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 92% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Coulsdon South, about 690 m (0.4 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Farthing Downs, is about 170 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.4 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 88 to 122 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 28 of its 100 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Bramley Avenue Surgery, about 1.5 km (0.9 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 630 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 91% of households owned their home and 53% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 3 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often vehicle crime.

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£795,000£795,000£795,000
20242£457,500£250,000£665,000
20234£685,000£570,000£840,000
20223£825,000£573,000£850,000
20219£790,000£565,000£975,000
20207£595,000£245,000£732,500
20194£750,000£230,000£1,185,000
20186£680,000£410,000£1,035,000
20173£462,000£410,000£825,000
20167£399,950£230,000£925,000
20153£745,000£454,500£937,500
20143£530,000£449,500£685,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 121)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
30 Jul 202672 CR5 1AFDetached£795,000
19 Dec 2025THE UPPER FLAT AT, 30 CR5 1AAFlat or maisonette£172,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
8 Nov 202410 CR5 1AADetached£665,000
19 Mar 2024FLAT 2, 60 CR5 1ABFlat or maisonette£250,000Leasehold.
18 Dec 2023MARHILL COTTAGE, 86 CR5 1AFDetached£840,000
4 Aug 2023115 CR5 1ADDetached£570,000
2 Aug 202312 CR5 1AADetached£615,000
6 Jul 202378 CR5 1AFDetached£755,000
24 Aug 202249 CR5 1AASemi-detached£573,000
18 May 202298 CR5 1AFDetached£850,000
8 Mar 202240 CR5 1AATerraced£825,000
9 Dec 202194 CR5 1AFDetached£848,000
29 Oct 202150 CR5 1AASemi-detached£565,000
25 Jun 202168A CR5 1AFDetached£790,000
14 May 202182 CR5 1AFDetached£975,000
10 May 202126A CR5 1AATerraced£675,000
14 Apr 2021123 CR5 1ADDetached£824,000
19 Mar 202190 CR5 1AFDetached£715,000
19 Feb 2021100 CR5 1AFDetached£805,000
21 Jan 202184 CR5 1AFDetached£750,000
15 Dec 2020119 CR5 1ADDetached£665,000
26 Nov 202092 CR5 1AFDetached£732,500
9 Oct 2020FLAT 4, 60 CR5 1ABFlat or maisonette£245,000Leasehold.
9 Sep 2020110 CR5 1AEDetached£675,500
24 Aug 2020111 CR5 1ADSemi-detached£550,000
19 Jun 2020107 CR5 1ADDetached£595,000
6 Jan 2020UPPER FLAT, 44 CR5 1AAFlat or maisonette£299,950Leasehold.
18 Dec 2019THE FARTHINGS, 66 CR5 1ABDetached£1,185,000
3 Oct 201996 CR5 1AFDetached£800,000
7 May 2019123 CR5 1ADDetached£700,000
2 May 2019FLAT 2, 60 CR5 1ABFlat or maisonette£230,000Leasehold.
29 Nov 201832 CR5 1AADetached£635,000
31 Aug 2018131 CR5 1ADSemi-detached£595,000
1 Aug 2018FLAT 1, 60 CR5 1ABFlat or maisonette£410,000Leasehold.
27 Jul 2018100 CR5 1AFDetached£725,000
1 Jun 201883 CR5 1AFDetached£1,035,000
18 Apr 201860A CR5 1ABDetached£842,000
15 Dec 2017109 CR5 1ADDetached£825,000
23 Jun 20172 CR5 1AASemi-detached£462,000
31 May 2017124 CR5 1AESemi-detached£410,000
2 Sep 201690 CR5 1AFDetached£650,000
2 Sep 201626A CR5 1AATerraced£590,000
25 Aug 2016FLAT 1, 60 CR5 1ABFlat or maisonette£399,950Leasehold.
31 Mar 2016FLAT 3, 60 CR5 1ABFlat or maisonette£227,500Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
30 Mar 2016FLAT 2, 60 CR5 1ABFlat or maisonette£230,000Leasehold.
11 Mar 2016FLAT 5, 60 CR5 1ABFlat or maisonette£275,000Leasehold.
3 Mar 201664 CR5 1ABDetached£925,000
16 Feb 2016FLAT 4, 60 CR5 1ABFlat or maisonette£250,000Leasehold.
9 Sep 201560A CR5 1ABOther£350,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
24 Apr 2015THE FARTHINGS, 66 CR5 1ABDetached£937,500

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026 (load in progress). Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from February 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

60 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 126 m². Most common: House, detached (30); House, semi-detached (15); Flat (8). Built: 1930-1949 (24); 1900-1929 (12); 1950-1966 (8). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (47); rented (private) (1).

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 F (33% of about 690 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), 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: 1.
  • 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.

Listed buildings

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

Finished in the last three months

  • 7 September 2026 to 14 September 2026: LONDON BOROUGH OF CROYDON, Highway repair and maintenance works, road closure, on the carriageway (major works)
  • 3 September 2026 to 8 September 2026: UK POWER NETWORKS SOUTH EASTERN, Utility repair and maintenance works, two-way signals, on the footway, carriageway (immediate - urgent works)
  • 25 August 2026 to 1 September 2026: SOUTHERN GAS NETWORKS PLC, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway, carriageway (immediate - emergency works)

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 30 September 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, 5 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 1 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 on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
CR5 1AAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
CR5 1ADnot in 2 or 3 5 / 0 / 1 unlikely
CR5 1AFnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
CR5 1ABnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
CR5 1AEnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely

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 100 addresses are between 88 m and 122 m above sea level (106 m on average); the ground rises about 33 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 1AA100%100%100%0%
CR5 1AB100%92%92%0%
CR5 1AD100%100%100%0%
CR5 1AE100%100%100%0%
CR5 1AF100%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 South 2.0 million journeys in 2024–25690 m (0.4 miles)
Coulsdon Town 98,000 journeys in 2024–251.4 km (0.9 miles)
Woodmansterne 127,000 journeys in 2024–251.5 km (0.9 miles)
Bus stops2 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 29 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Harwoods Garage Coulsdon360 m
Bus or coach stationKenley - Kenley Hotel3.3 km (2 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Apcoa200 m
EV charging points5 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Apcoa Charging Station590 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Gatwick Airport LGW18.2 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 surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Bramley Avenue Surgery1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Valley Pharmacy1.2 km (0.8 miles)
NHS dentists4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest 149 Brighton Road (Dental Practice)1.1 km (0.7 miles)
HospitalPurley War Memorial Hospital3.9 km (2.4 miles)
Police stationKenley Police Station3.3 km (2 miles)
Cash machinesPayzone1.1 km (0.7 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 garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Farthing Downs 50 ha170 m
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 500 m²630 m (0.4 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Coulsdon Memorial Recreation Ground 4.1 ha560 m (0.3 miles)
AllotmentsSmitham Allotments 7,310 m²1.3 km (0.8 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 54 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Regular aggregate field system, associated trackway and Anglo-Saxon barrow field on Farthing Downs, 490m east of Hooley Farm, a scheduled monument, 510 m (0.3 miles) south-east. 3 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Regular aggregate field system, associated trackway and Anglo-Saxon barrow field on Farthing Downs, 490m east of Hooley FarmScheduled monument510 m (0.3 miles) south-east
Surrey Iron Railway embankment, approximately 130m south west of Lion Green Road, CoulsdonScheduled monument1 km (0.6 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
The ShawWood590 m (0.4 miles) west
Dunstan's WoodWood660 m (0.4 miles) north-west
Twiners ShawWood810 m (0.5 miles) north-west
Happy ValleyValley1.8 km (1.1 miles) south-east
Dollyper's HillHill2 km (1.2 miles) east
Elmore PondLake or reservoir2.6 km (1.6 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)9.84010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.4205
Particles (PM10)11.74015

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
65 to 6910
60 to 6430
55 to 59247
Under 557293

28 of the street's 100 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, and 7 from railways, 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), 1 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 ByronPrimary2–11920 m (0.6 miles) Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Aidan's Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Smitham Primary SchoolPrimary3–111 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)
Keston Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Chipstead Valley Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.6 km (1 mile) Outstanding (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
New Valley Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.9 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 1 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
The White House CR5 1ALHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises230 m5 Very good16 May 2026
The Full Monty Cafe CR5 3EARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen330 m5 Very good27 Sep 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.

3 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Vehicle crime1
Violence and sexual offences1
Anti-social behaviour1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Westwood Road (2); On or near Downs Road (1).

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: 629 residents in 240 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 age4440
Children under 1519%17%
Aged 65 and over21%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)91%61%
Owned outright42%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented2%17%
Private rented7%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work65%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)23%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)under 1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)54%32%
Travel to work by car or van28%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram10%4%
By any public transport, including bus12%8%
On foot or by bicycle4%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)57%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)53%34%
No qualifications8%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%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 10 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.

Nearby streets

Fairdene Road · Westwood Road · Moorsom Way · Reddown Road · Mead Way · Cuthered Mews · Dunstan Road · Ashbourne Close · Brighton Road · Charlton 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.