The Ruffetts Croydon

73 addresses across 4 postcodes (CR2), about 460 m (0.3 miles) long, classed as a local road. USRN 20502378.

  • Sales: 103 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £545,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 46 homes have an energy certificate (C: 8, D: 27, E: 9, F: 2).
  • Flood: 3 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 Sanderstead, about 2.2 km (1.4 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 390 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 11.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.8 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 108 to 122 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 73 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Farley Road Medical Practice, about 1 km (0.6 miles) away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 630 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 90% of households owned their home and 40% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 41 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£545,000£545,000£545,000
20257£675,000£492,500£790,000
20246£630,000£585,000£770,000
20233£550,000£550,000£570,000
20222£613,500£577,000£650,000
20212£581,250£515,000£647,500
20203£617,500£540,000£625,000
20191£430,000£430,000£430,000
20182£533,750£527,500£540,000
20172£446,500£410,000£483,000
20161£630,000£630,000£630,000
20155£462,500£405,000£520,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 103)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
30 Apr 202614 CR2 7LQSemi-detached£545,000
21 Nov 202548 CR2 7LRDetached£675,000
16 Oct 202524 CR2 7LQSemi-detached£750,000
20 Jun 202551 CR2 7LTSemi-detached£515,000
22 May 202571 CR2 7LTDetached£790,000
13 Mar 202540 CR2 7LRDetached£590,000
6 Mar 202520 CR2 7LQSemi-detached£699,000
28 Feb 202511 CR2 7LSSemi-detached£492,500
16 Dec 20244 CR2 7LQSemi-detached£770,000
6 Dec 202442 CR2 7LRDetached£620,000
28 Nov 202440 CR2 7LRDetached£594,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
19 Sep 202412 CR2 7LQSemi-detached£595,000
22 Aug 202439 CR2 7LSSemi-detached£675,000
20 Aug 20248 CR2 7LQSemi-detached£585,000
2 Apr 202438 CR2 7LRDetached£640,000
18 Aug 20231 CR2 7LSDetached£570,000
28 Jul 202343 CR2 7LSSemi-detached£550,000
4 Apr 20231 CR2 7LSDetached£850,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
20 Mar 202361 CR2 7LTSemi-detached£550,000
22 Aug 202210 CR2 7LQSemi-detached£650,000
26 Apr 202223 CR2 7LSSemi-detached£577,000
31 Mar 202157 CR2 7LTSemi-detached£515,000
19 Mar 202139 CR2 7LSSemi-detached£647,500
12 Jan 202175 CR2 7LTDetached£576,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
25 Aug 20202 CR2 7LQSemi-detached£540,000
27 Mar 202059 CR2 7LTSemi-detached£625,000
31 Jan 202062 CR2 7LRDetached£617,500
28 Jun 201917 CR2 7LSSemi-detached£430,000
5 Jul 20182 CR2 7LQSemi-detached£527,500
9 Mar 201877 CR2 7LTDetached£540,000
28 Sep 201763 CR2 7LTSemi-detached£483,000
10 Mar 20177 CR2 7LSSemi-detached£410,000
2 Dec 20166 CR2 7LQSemi-detached£630,000
10 Apr 201538 CR2 7LRDetached£462,500
27 Feb 20158 CR2 7LQSemi-detached£405,000
5 Feb 201532 CR2 7LRDetached£517,235
29 Jan 201521 CR2 7LSSemi-detached£410,000
5 Jan 201532 CR2 7LRDetached£520,000
22 Oct 201424 CR2 7LQSemi-detached£532,500
26 Sep 201456 CR2 7LRDetached£495,000
29 Nov 201354 CR2 7LRDetached£450,000
31 Oct 20139 CR2 7LSSemi-detached£270,000
6 Jun 20132 CR2 7LQSemi-detached£329,500
14 Mar 201369 CR2 7LTDetached£475,000
24 Aug 201210 CR2 7LQSemi-detached£355,000
21 Aug 201242 CR2 7LRDetached£390,000
15 Sep 20118 CR2 7LQSemi-detached£265,000
28 Jul 201175 CR2 7LTDetached£363,000
22 Oct 20107 CR2 7LSSemi-detached£290,000
9 Sep 200952 CR2 7LRDetached£355,000

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 December 2008 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

46 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 112 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (22); House, detached (19); Bungalow, semi-detached (5). Built: 1950-1966 (34); 1930-1949 (11); 1967-1975 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (43).

Each home's certificates and sales (23 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 (56% of about 640 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

Finished in the last three months

  • 10 September 2026 to 17 September 2026: SOUTHERN GAS NETWORKS PLC, Utility repair and maintenance works, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (immediate - emergency works)
  • 4 September 2026: LONDON BOROUGH OF CROYDON, Highway repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (immediate - urgent 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, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 2 at medium risk and 2 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
CR2 7LSnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
CR2 7LTnot in 2 or 3 1 / 2 / 1 unlikely
CR2 7LQnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
CR2 7LRnot 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 73 addresses are between 108 m and 122 m above sea level (114 m on average); the ground rises about 14 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
CR2 7LQ100%100%100%0%
CR2 7LR100%100%100%0%
CR2 7LS100%100%100%0%
CR2 7LT100%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 stationsSanderstead 844,000 journeys in 2024–252.2 km (1.4 miles)
South Croydon 1.1 million journeys in 2024–252.2 km (1.4 miles)
Purley Oaks 481,000 journeys in 2024–252.6 km (1.6 miles)
Underground, metro or tramCoombe Lane Tram Stop650 m (0.4 miles)
Gravel Hill Tram Stop1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Lloyd Park Tram Stop1.6 km (1 mile)
Bus stops0 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 14 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Farley Road / Croham Valley Rd Selsdon/South Croydon440 m (0.3 miles)
Bus or coach stationKenley - Kenley Hotel4.1 km (2.5 miles)
Ferry terminalGreenwich Pier14.8 km (9.2 miles)
EV charging pointsubitricity2 km (1.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon City Airport LCY18.7 km (12 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Gatwick Airport LGW24.4 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 surgeries3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Farley Road Medical Practice1 km (0.6 miles)
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Day Lewis Pharmacy1.2 km (0.8 miles)
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Selsdon Dental Surgery1.3 km (0.8 miles)
HospitalShirley Oaks Hospital3.1 km (1.9 miles)
Police stationSurrey Police - New Addington Police Station2.4 km (1.5 miles)
Cash machinesRontec - Forestdale1.7 km (1.1 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 Unnamed 26 ha390 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 47 ha620 m (0.4 miles)
Play areaUnnamed 4,800 m²810 m (0.5 miles)
Playing fieldUnnamed 5.2 ha1.3 km (0.8 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 1.3 ha1.9 km (1.2 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 78 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Croham Hurst round barrow, a scheduled monument, 1.1 km (0.7 miles) west. 2 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Croham Hurst round barrowScheduled monument1.1 km (0.7 miles) west
Addington PalaceRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.7 km (1.1 miles) north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Littleheath WoodsWood680 m (0.4 miles) south-east
Coombe WoodWood800 m (0.5 miles) north-west
Ballards PlantationWood810 m (0.5 miles) north-west
Breakneck HillHill1.1 km (0.7 miles) west
Whitgift PondLake or reservoir1.9 km (1.2 miles) north
Addington ValeValley3.9 km (2.4 miles) 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)11.44010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.8205
Particles (PM10)11.84015

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 557273

1 of the street's 73 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), 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
Selsdon Primary and Nursery SchoolPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) No overall grade (Mar 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
The Quest AcademySecondary11–181.1 km (0.7 miles) Requires improvement (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Coombe Wood SchoolSecondary11–181.2 km (0.8 miles) Good (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Quest Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Ridgeway Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
Forestdale Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
St Peter's Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
Coloma Convent Girls' School Roman CatholicSecondary11–181.8 km (1.1 miles) Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Greenvale Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.9 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection
Shirley High School Performing Arts CollegeSecondary11–191.9 km (1.2 miles) Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)

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
Heathfield Newsagent CR2 7LFRetailers - other340 m4 Good9 Dec 2021

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.

41 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences26
Anti-social behaviour5
Vehicle crime4
Public order2
Other theft2
Burglary2

Most of these are attached to: On or near Hollingsworth Road (19); On or near The Ruffetts (7); On or near Crest Road (6); On or near Ballards Way (6); On or near Chestnut Grove (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: 627 residents in 234 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 age4640
Children under 1517%17%
Aged 65 and over21%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)90%61%
Owned outright45%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented2%17%
Private rented8%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work62%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)25%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)47%32%
Travel to work by car or van37%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram9%4%
By any public transport, including bus12%8%
On foot or by bicycle2%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)58%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)40%34%
No qualifications13%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)93%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

Chestnut Grove · Polo Mews · Chapel View · Crest Road · The Gallop · Hollingsworth Road · Ruffetts Close · Hoffmann Gardens · Croham Valley Road · Riesco Drive · Ballards Way

All the streets in CR2 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.