52 Bensham Grove, Thornton Heath, CR7 8DA

52 Bensham Grove is a detached house in Thornton Heath (CR7 8DA). It has a recorded floor area of 38 m² (around 409 sq ft), construction records dating it to 2007 onwards and council tax band B. The latest certificate (October 2012) returns a B (score 82), comfortably above the UK average. Main heating runs on electricity. The latest certificate is from October 2012, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. At 38 m² this is the 2nd smallest of 19 units on EPC record in the building, where floor areas span 29–117 m². The building's EPC ratings span G to B, with this unit at the top. On EPC score it ranks first in the building (82 versus a worst of 11).

Sale prices here have outpaced England HPI: 8% per year against 0% for the wider region. Today's modelled estimate of £211,000 is 86.7% below the 2021 sale of £1,583,000, running counter to the wider postcode trend, which makes the EPC and condition history especially worth a look. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£3,870/sq ft) was about 1347.9% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 38 m² it sits well below the postcode median (72 m² across 18 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. On energy efficiency it sits in the top 10% of properties in this postcode. 15 planning records sit against the property, 13 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include partial demolition, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Most recent transfer: March 2021 at £1,583,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.