Sherlock Close London, Croydon

12 addresses across 2 postcodes (SW16), about 30 m long. USRN 20503143.

  • Sales: 9 recorded sales since 1995; in 2023 the median was £610,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 6 homes have an energy certificate (B: 3, C: 3).
  • Flood: 9 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 C; 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 Norbury, about 390 m away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Norbury Hall Park, is about 170 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 17.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 9.0 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 40 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 12 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Fairview Medical Centre, about 350 m away, with 6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 340 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 52% of households owned their home and 40% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 384 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
20231£610,000£610,000£610,000
20211£550,000£550,000£550,000
20156£438,000£425,000£455,000
Most recent sales (9)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
1 Sep 20233 SW16 4BFTerraced£610,000
3 Sep 20216 SW16 4BFTerraced£550,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
1 Sep 20214 SW16 4BFTerraced£550,000
17 Jul 20153 SW16 4BFTerraced£455,000New build.
30 Apr 20155 SW16 4BFTerraced£441,000
24 Apr 20156 SW16 4BFTerraced£435,000New build.
24 Apr 20154 SW16 4BFTerraced£435,000
2 Apr 20151 SW16 4BFTerraced£445,000New build.
2 Apr 20152 SW16 4BFTerraced£425,000New build.

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 March 2014 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

6 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 113 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (5); House, end-terrace (1). Built: 2012 onwards (2); 2012-2021 (2); 2014 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (3); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (6 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 C (63% of about 960 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: 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, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 9 at medium risk and 3 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
SW16 4BFnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
SW16 4BGnot in 2 or 3 0 / 9 / 3 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 addresses are about 40 m above sea level.

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
SW16 4BF100%100%100%0%
SW16 4BG100%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 stationsNorbury 2.3 million journeys in 2024–25390 m
Streatham Common 2.8 million journeys in 2024–251.5 km (1 mile)
Thornton Heath 2.4 million journeys in 2024–251.8 km (1.1 miles)
Bus stops13 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 27 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Tylecroft Road Norbury50 m
Bus or coach stationWest Dulwich - Croxted Road4.2 km (2.6 miles)
Ferry terminalSt Mary’s Wandsworth Pier Clapham Junction7.8 km (4.8 miles)
Car parksParking space on St. Christophers Gardens, CR7860 m (0.5 miles)
EV charging points19 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest ubitricity340 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon City Airport LCY16.4 km (10 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Heathrow Airport LHR24.5 km (15 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 surgeries6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Fairview Medical Centre350 m
Pharmacies10 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Superdrug Pharmacy360 m
NHS dentists10 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest London Road (Dental Surgery)370 m
HospitalCroydon University Hospital2.3 km (1.4 miles)
Police stationMetropolitan Police Service530 m (0.3 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest ATM370 m

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 Norbury Hall Park 3.0 ha170 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Norbury Park 11 ha510 m (0.3 miles)
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3,380 m²690 m (0.4 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.6 ha710 m (0.4 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Norbury Park Allotment Gardens 2.8 ha440 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 18 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Norwood Grove, a registered park or garden (Grade II), 1.4 km (0.9 miles) north. 4 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Norwood GroveRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.4 km (0.9 miles) north
The RookeryRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.5 km (0.9 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Pollards HillHill620 m (0.4 miles) south-west
Norwood GroveWood1.2 km (0.8 miles) north-east
Biggin WoodWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) north-east
Convent WoodWood2.2 km (1.4 miles) north-east
South Norwood LakeLake or reservoir3.3 km (2.1 miles) east
Westow HillHill3.4 km (2.1 miles) north-east

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)17.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)9.0205
Particles (PM10)13.94015

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, rail and aircraft 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 trafficRailwaysAircraft
60 to 64100
Under 55111212

1 of the street's 12 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
Norbury Manor Primary SchoolPrimary3–11470 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Norbury High School for GirlsSecondary11–19600 m (0.4 miles) Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Needs attention; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Kensington Avenue Primary SchoolPrimary4–11770 m (0.5 miles) Requires improvement (Jul 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
William Morris Primary SchoolPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) Report card (Jul 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Woodmansterne SchoolAll-through3–181.1 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (Sep 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
Harris Academy MertonSecondary11–181.1 km (0.7 miles) Outstanding (Sep 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Winterbourne Junior Girls' SchoolPrimary7–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Winterbourne Nursery and Infants' SchoolPrimary3–71.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Winterbourne Boys' AcademyPrimary7–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Harris Primary Academy MertonPrimary2–111.2 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
St James the Great RC Primary and Nursery School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Outstanding (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Gonville AcademyPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 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
Domino's Pizza SW16 4BETakeaway/sandwich shop40 m5 Very good18 Oct 2025
Diyana Food And Wine SW16 4BERetailers - other40 m5 Very good2 May 2025
Sparks Food And Wine SW16 4BERetailers - other40 m2 Improvement necessary23 Feb 2026
Delight Wedlinka SW16 4BERetailers - other40 m5 Very good18 Oct 2025
Cafe Havana SW16 4BERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen40 m1 Major improvement necessary14 Sep 2026
Cafe Havana SW16 4BERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen40 m1 Major improvement necessary14 Sep 2026
Best One SW16 4BERetailers - other40 m4 Good4 Oct 2023
Fort Smokehouse SW16 4BETakeaway/sandwich shop40 m4 Good25 Mar 2026
Kebab Place SW16 4BETakeaway/sandwich shop40 m5 Very good10 Sep 2026
Grillmaster SW16 4ANRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen40 m5 Very good6 Apr 2025
Amigos Burgers And Shakes SW16 4BERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen50 m5 Very good13 Nov 2025
Ambala SW16 4DGRetailers - other60 m5 Very good10 Jan 2026
Baba Foundation SW16 4DGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen60 m4 Good8 Nov 2025
Abby's Grill Peri Peri SW16 4DGTakeaway/sandwich shop60 m4 Good17 Nov 2025
Mr Peri's SW16 4DGTakeaway/sandwich shop60 m4 Good27 Oct 2023

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.

384 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences152
Anti-social behaviour66
Vehicle crime29
Burglary24
Public order23
Other theft21
Criminal damage and arson19
Drugs16
Robbery15
Theft from the person8
Other crime6
Bicycle theft3
Shoplifting1
Possession of weapons1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Petrol Station (119); On or near Further/Higher Educational Building (39); On or near St Helen'S Crescent (35); On or near Palmers Road (28); On or near Craignish Avenue (27).

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: 344 residents in 130 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 age3940
Children under 1517%17%
Aged 65 and over10%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)52%61%
Owned outright22%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented19%17%
Private rented27%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work65%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)7%6%
Retired (of adults)11%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)30%32%
Travel to work by car or van25%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram20%4%
By any public transport, including bus36%8%
On foot or by bicycle7%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)77%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away2%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)40%34%
No qualifications18%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)76%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all9%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 4 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

  • Food hygiene ratings Amitabh Pan Video (retailers - other, SW16 4AD) newly listed: Awaiting inspection found 30 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings WiseRolls (takeaway/sandwich shop, SW16 4BT) newly listed: Awaiting inspection found 30 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Tenderlinks Day Nursery (hospitals/childcare/caring premises, SW16 4DN) now 5 Very good, was 4 Good (rated 7 October 2026) found 30 October 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.

  • SW16 4BF: 11 addresses of 12 in the postcode
  • SW16 4BG: 1 address of 14 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Palmers Road · Semley Place · Bavant Road · St Helen's Road · London Road · Scott Close · Norbury Court Road · St Helen's Crescent · Craignish Avenue · Fairview Road · Oakhill Road · Stanford Road

All the streets in SW16 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.