1b Hillcroft Avenue, Woodcote CR8 3DJ: sold prices, EPC rating and value estimate
A detached house of 191 m², rated EPC D. It last sold for £1,250,000 in Sept 2022. The Resi IQ estimate today is £1,240,000, an automated estimate and not a valuation.
Last sold for £1,250,000 in 2022; our estimate today is £1,240,000, down 1% (-0.2% a year), behind the 3.4% a year typical on Hillcroft Avenue.
- What we found
- Last sold £1,250,000 in Sept 2022.
- Estimate today £1,240,000.
- 191 m² against a street median of 270 m²; estimated £6,492/m².
- EPC D; 33% of homes on the street are C or better.
- 1210 m to Reedham station (about 20 min walk).
1b Hillcroft Avenue, Woodcote CR8 3DJ: a detached
1b Hillcroft Avenue is a detached house in Woodcote, London Borough of Croydon. It has an internal floor area of 191 m² and 9 habitable rooms according to its energy certificate, smaller than the typical 270 m² home on Hillcroft Avenue. The postcode is CR8 3DJ, in Purley & Woodcote ward and the Croydon South constituency.
The sales record goes back to 2022, when the home changed hands for £1,250,000. Resi IQ's automated estimate of £1,240,000 implies a -1% change since the last sale. Treat it as a figure to test against comparable sales rather than a price.
The energy certificate rates the home EPC band D and was lodged 28 Sept 2018. Across Hillcroft Avenue, 33% of rated homes reach band C or better. Reedham station is 1.2 km from the home, and the quickest weekday journey to London Blackfriars is 62 minutes.
1b Hillcroft Avenue value: estimated at £1,240,000
This home against every recorded sale on Hillcroft Avenue.
Sale history
| 30 Sept 2022 | Detached house | £1,250,000 |
Estimate range
The shaded band is the model's estimate range (£1,021,000 to £1,460,000). The last recorded sale is shown for scale. Automated estimate, not a valuation.
Where 1b Hillcroft Avenue sits on the street
Every home on the street, with this one outlined.
Running costs, EPC upgrades and solar for 1b Hillcroft Avenue
What it would take to reach EPC C, and what solar could do for this roof.
Typical routes to EPC C
This home is rated EPC D. These are the measures that usually close the gap for a typical home.
| Improvement | Typical cost | Saves a year |
|---|---|---|
| Loft insulation to 270 mm | £900–£1,500 | £110–£170 |
| Cavity wall insulation | £1,500–£3,500 | £190–£300 |
| Low-energy lighting throughout | £100–£250 | £30–£60 |
| Air-source heat pump | £7,000–£13,000 | £0–£250 |
| Solar panels (4 kWp) | £5,000–£7,000 | £300–£600 |
Indicative UK ranges from Energy Saving Trust guidance; get quotes before you commit. The certificate for this address lists its own recommended measures on the government EPC register.
Residential rates in England from April 2025. Check gov.uk before relying on this.
Repayment mortgage, illustrative. The rate is an example; check a lender’s current rate before relying on it.
1013 kWh per kWp a year from PVGIS at this location (35° pitch, south-facing, 14% losses). Costs and prices are typical assumptions you can edit.
The building at 1b Hillcroft Avenue: size, age and energy rating
- Type
- Detached house
- Floor area
- 191 m² (street median 270 m²)
- Habitable rooms
- 9
- EPC rating
- D
- UPRN
- 100020666850
Who lives near 1b Hillcroft Avenue: 92% of homes are owner-occupied and 53% of workers work from home
Census 2021 for Croydon 038A: 1,656 residents in 538 households around 1b Hillcroft Avenue. The figures describe a small neighbourhood, not any individual.
Who lives here
Age of residents
- Under 1516%
- 15 to 2410%
- 25 to 4422%
- 45 to 6426%
- 65 and over25%
Household type
- One person13%
- Couple, no children13%
- Family with children34%
- Other40%
Homes and cars
Tenure
- Owned outright43%
- Mortgage or shared49%
- Private rented7%
- Social rented1%
Cars and vans per household
- No car6%
- 1 car29%
- 2 cars39%
- 3 or more26%
How people get to work
Main way of travelling (785 workers aged 16+)
Health and learning
General health
- Good or very good86%
- Fair10%
- Bad or very bad4%
Highest qualification (16+)
- Degree level or above52%
- A level or equivalent13%
- GCSE level18%
- None11%
Schools near 1b Hillcroft Avenue: 11 within 1.8 km, 4 primary, with their latest Ofsted grades
Distances from the Department for Education register, with the latest Ofsted outcome for each school.
| School | Phase | Latest Ofsted | Distance | Records |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Woodcote High School Academy converter · ages 11-19 | Secondary | Good Confirmed at ungraded visit, Mar 2024 | 260 m 4 min walk | DfE · Ofsted report |
| Woodcote Primary School Academy converter · ages 3-11 | Primary | No overall grade Quality of education: Good (Jul 2025) | 420 m 7 min walk | DfE · Ofsted report |
| Cumnor House School Other independent school · ages 4-11 | Other | No Ofsted grade on file (independent, special or new school) | 710 m 11 min walk | DfE · Ofsted report |
| Laleham Lea School Other independent school · ages 3-11 | Other | No Ofsted grade on file (independent, special or new school) | 1.4 km 23 min walk | DfE · Ofsted report |
| St David's School Other independent school · ages 3-11 | Other | No Ofsted grade on file (independent, special or new school) | 1.5 km 24 min walk | DfE · Ofsted report |
| The John Fisher School Voluntary aided school · ages 11-18 | Secondary | Good Confirmed at ungraded visit, Sept 2023 | 1.5 km 25 min walk | DfE · Ofsted report |
| Smitham Primary School Community school · ages 3-11 | Primary | Good Confirmed at ungraded visit, Jun 2023 | 1.6 km 25 min walk | DfE · Ofsted report |
| Beaumont Primary School Community school · ages 4-11 | Primary | Standards maintained Ungraded visit, Mar 2025 | 1.6 km 26 min walk | DfE · Ofsted report |
| St Nicholas School Community special school · ages 4-11 | Special | Requires improvement Graded inspection, Jun 2024 | 1.6 km 26 min walk | DfE · Ofsted report |
| St Aidan's Catholic Primary School Academy converter · ages 4-11 | Primary | Good Confirmed at ungraded visit, Sept 2024 | 1.7 km 28 min walk | DfE · Ofsted report |
| Wallington High School for Girls Academy converter · ages 11-18 | Secondary | Good Confirmed at ungraded visit, Nov 2019 | 1.8 km 29 min walk | DfE · Ofsted report |
Ofsted replaced its single-word judgements with report cards for inspections from November 2025, so each school shows its most recent grade on the older scale until it is re-inspected. Distances are straight-line and are not catchment areas; check the council for admissions rules.
Commuting from 1b Hillcroft Avenue: 62 minutes to Blackfriars by train
Fastest door-to-door journey arriving by 08:30 on a weekday, from the TfL journey planner, including the walk to the station.
1b Hillcroft Avenue to central London
| Blackfriars | 62 min | walk 35 min → train 27 min |
| Victoria | 64 min | walk 39 min → train 25 min |
Stations near 1b Hillcroft Avenue
| Reedham | 1210 m | about 20 min walk |
| Coulsdon Town | 1360 m | about 22 min walk |
| Woodmansterne | 1880 m | about 31 min walk |
Walking times estimated from straight-line distance.
Bus routes near 1b Hillcroft Avenue
6 bus stops within 450 m, served by routes 434 463 633. Nearest stop: Upper Woodcote Village, 242 m away.
Shops, doctors and services near 1b Hillcroft Avenue: supermarket, GP, pharmacy, library, and 6 EV charging sites within 6 km
Nearest of each kind, from OpenStreetMap, measured in a straight line from the postcode.
| Service | Nearest | Distance | Within 2 km |
|---|---|---|---|
| GP surgery | Bramley Avenue Surgery | 1.0 km | 11 |
| Pharmacy | Boots | 1.3 km | 19 |
| Dentist | Ivory Dental | 1.1 km | 18 |
| Supermarket | Waitrose | 1.2 km | 6 |
| Library | Coulsdon Library | 1.4 km | 6 |
| Post office | The Mount Post Office | 1.1 km | 7 |
| Park or green space | Woodcote Village Green | 410 m | 31 |
| Hospital | Purley War Memorial Hospital | 2.1 km | 1 |
Electric vehicle charging near 1b Hillcroft Avenue
627 public charging devices in Croydon (140 rapid, 50 kW or more), or 153 per 100,000 people. That ranks 129 of 318 local authorities in Great Britain (median 137), as at 1 July 2026.
6 mapped sites within 6 km, nearest first
| Public charge point | 1.3 km | |
| BP Pulse | 6 bays | 1.4 km |
| Parkable | 10 bays | 1.5 km |
| Public charge point | 2.0 km | |
| Public charge point | 2.0 km |
Show 1 more sites
| ESB Energy | 3 bays | 2.6 km |
Authority counts: Department for Transport, public charging device statistics. Site locations are community-mapped in OpenStreetMap, so newer sites can be missing.
Who represents 1b Hillcroft Avenue: MP and councillors
Air quality and noise near 1b Hillcroft Avenue: NO₂ 10.5 µg/m³, inside the UK legal limit and above the WHO guideline
Modelled annual averages for the 1 km square around this location, from Defra's 2023 background maps. Readings beside busy roads are higher.
| Pollutant | This square | WHO guideline | UK legal limit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nitrogen dioxide (NO₂) | 10.5 | 10 | 40 |
| Fine particles (PM2.5) | 7.2 | 5 | 20 |
| Coarse particles (PM10) | 11.5 | 15 | 40 |
µg/m³, annual mean. The area sits inside the Croydon air quality management area.
- Height above sea level
- 126 m
- Air quality management area
- Yes
Defra noise maps cover major roads and railways only (above 55 dB), so "no contour" does not mean silent. Height from the Copernicus 90 m elevation model via Open-Meteo.
Crime and policing near 1b Hillcroft Avenue
Crime and policing near 1b Hillcroft Avenue
1,276 police reports in 12 months within about a mile of 1b Hillcroft Avenue
What was reported
Latest 6 months: 669, earlier 6 months: 607.
Police-recorded incidents mapped to the nearest street within roughly a mile, so a road near the town centre shows more shoplifting and anti-social behaviour than a quiet cul-de-sac nearby. Counts show what was reported, not how safe any home is.
Food and drink near 1b Hillcroft Avenue
58 food businesses with a published rating within 500 m, 42 rated 5 (very good). Nearest: Brightsparks Day Nursery (109 m, rated 5); Beth Ezra (207 m, rated 5); Lord Roberts On The Green (330 m, rated 5); Gate Lodge (393 m, rated 5).
Planning designations around 1b Hillcroft Avenue
- Conservation area
- No
- Green belt
- No
- Listed building on plot
- No
- Air quality management area
- Yes (Croydon AQMA)
- Ward
- Purley & Woodcote
- Planning authority
- Croydon LPA
The Croydon market: average price £393,714, down 2.2% in a year
HM Land Registry UK House Price Index for Croydon, 2026-06. A mix-adjusted average, so it can differ from the median sale price of one road.
| Type | Authority average |
|---|---|
| Detached | £844,553 |
| Semi-detached | £540,526 |
| Terraced | £399,833 |
| Flat or maisonette | £256,496 |
Photos of 1b Hillcroft Avenue and the streets around it
Openly licensed photos taken close to this location on Wikimedia Commons. They show the surroundings, not necessarily this exact address.
Council tax at 1b Hillcroft Avenue: Band D is £2,600 a year in Croydon, up 4.8% on last year
Charge for 2026 to 2027, Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government.
The average Band D council tax in Croydon is £2,600 for 2026 to 2027, £208 above the England average of £2,392. That ranks Croydon 36th highest of 296 billing authorities, and the charge rose from £2,480 last year. Next door in Reigate and Banstead, Band D is £2,567, £33 less than in Croydon, so which side of a council boundary a home sits on changes the bill by about £33 a year at Band D.
Your own bill depends on your property's band. In England bands are set from the home's estimated value on 1 April 1991, so a Band C home pays eight ninths of the Band D charge and a Band F home thirteen ninths. The figures below are the charge for each band in Croydon, before any discount or reduction, and they include the county or borough, police, fire and any parish or GLA precepts averaged across the authority.
| Band | Per year | Per month (12 payments) |
|---|---|---|
| Band A | £1,733 | £144 |
| Band B | £2,022 | £169 |
| Band C | £2,311 | £193 |
| Band D | £2,600 | £217 |
| Band E | £3,178 | £265 |
| Band F | £3,755 | £313 |
| Band G | £4,333 | £361 |
| Band H | £5,200 | £433 |
You can check or challenge a home's band on the GOV.UK "Find your Council Tax band" service.
1b Hillcroft Avenue, Woodcote: questions people ask
What is the EPC rating of 1b Hillcroft Avenue?
1b Hillcroft Avenue has an EPC rating of band D, with a recorded internal floor area of 191 square metres. Certificates last ten years, so check the lodgement date before marketing the home.
How much did 1b Hillcroft Avenue last sell for?
1b Hillcroft Avenue last sold for £1,250,000 on 30 Sept 2022.
What is the estimated value of 1b Hillcroft Avenue?
An automated estimate puts 1b Hillcroft Avenue at £1,240,000, in a range of £1,021,000 to £1,460,000. It is a model estimate from Resi IQ, not a valuation, so compare it with recent sales on the street.
What council tax band is 1b Hillcroft Avenue?
The band is held by the Valuation Office Agency, which you can look up on GOV.UK. For reference, Band D council tax in Croydon is £2,600 for 2026 to 2027, against an England average of £2,392.
Answers use data checked monthly. Sources are named in each answer.