5 Essenden Road, South Croydon, CR2 0BW

5 Essenden Road is a four-bedroom detached house in South Croydon (CR2 0BW). It has a recorded floor area of 201 m² (around 2164 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (June 2022) shows a D (score 61), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 69). Other recorded features include outbuildings.

Held since August 1997 — that's 29 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. Today's modelled estimate of £903,000 sits 401.8% above the 1997 sale of £179,950. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£83/sq ft) was about 72.3% below the postcode norm. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2010. Past consents include an extension and a garage conversion, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. At 201 m² it's 25.8% larger than the typical home in the postcode (160 m² median across 14 EPCs).