Bracken, Bishops Walk, Croydon, CR0 5BA

Bracken is a detached house in Croydon (CR0 5BA). It has a recorded floor area of 440 m² (around 4736 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band H. The latest certificate (March 2013) shows an E (score 50), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would push it to D (score 64). The latest certificate is from March 2013, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

8 planning records sit against the property, 7 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include an extension and tree works, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 77% of similar EPCs). Across 1998–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 4.2% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £2,341,000 is 30.4% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£379/sq ft) was about 41.3% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: January 2021 at £1,795,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.