Renting in Foots Cray now
Foots Cray is a village core of Georgian and Tudor buildings on the old London to Maidstone road, wrapped in the suburbs of Sidcup, and the homes to let here range from flats over the High Street shops to family houses near the meadows. Our end of tenancy clean is priced by bedrooms, from £156 for a studio to £425 for a four-bed house, with the oven and carpets as optional add-ons.
Last updated October 2026.
Bexley is an owner-occupier borough. At the 2021 census only 15.3% of its households rented privately, the lowest share of any London borough, though that was up from 11.4% in 2011. Rents are lower too.
The ONS put the Bexley average at £1,537 a month in August 2026, up 1.6% on a year earlier, while London rents rose 3.5%; a one-bed averaged £1,229. A home lived in for several years needs more work at the end than one let for twelve months, and the oven and the carpets are where that shows.
For a figure, enter your postcode and bedrooms in the price calculator at the top of the page. Or ring 0333 555 2076, 8am to 7pm, seven days a week.
Bexley’s licensing rules for Foots Cray landlords
Bexley runs one selective licensing scheme, and it is in Belvedere ward, at the other end of the borough, from 13 January 2025 to 12 January 2030. Foots Cray is outside it. There is no additional HMO licensing in Bexley, so in Foots Cray only the national mandatory scheme applies, to shared houses with five or more people from more than one household. The council’s property licensing page has the details.
So most lets here carry no council licence at all, and the check-out rests on two documents: the check-in inventory and the tenancy agreement. The deposit must be protected in a government scheme, and if you dispute a deduction, the scheme decides it on those reports.
A landlord cannot make a professional clean a condition of the tenancy (the Tenant Fees Act 2019 bans it); what you owe is a home as clean as the inventory shows at the start, allowing for fair wear and tear.
The homes: Rectory Lane, the High Street and Sidcup Hill
The old village has been the Foots Cray conservation area since 29 April 1998. It centres on Rectory Lane and the High Street, and the council’s appraisal calls Rectory Lane home to some of the best Georgian houses in the borough. Belgrave Place, numbers 180 to 188 Rectory Lane, is a Grade II listed terrace of tall red brick houses built in 1737, with sash windows and tall roofs with dormers; some of the ground floors were once shops.
Tudor Cottages, also in the conservation area, is a timber-framed Wealden hall house from the late 15th or early 16th century. A clean in a house like that takes longer than the bedroom count suggests: sashes, panelled doors, deep window reveals and uneven old floors all need hand work.
Along the High Street and up Sidcup Hill, the homes are mostly flats over shops. Hollytree Parade on the south side of Sidcup Hill is a row of small Victorian shop buildings and a group of interwar shops with flats above, and further west the street changes to larger blocks of flats.
A flat above a shop usually has its own street door and a flight of stairs straight up, and the kitchen at the back, so tell us about the stairs when you book.
The village used to be busy with through traffic; the council’s appraisal records that the Sidcup bypass was built to take traffic out of Sidcup and Foots Cray, and that industry grew up beside it.
Away from the main roads it keeps much of its village character, with the River Cray and Foots Cray Meadows, a park listed Grade II, reached from Rectory Lane. A house with a garden door near the meadows usually has mud on the kitchen floor by moving day, which we deal with as part of the clean.
Next door, Sidcup has the station and the high street, and Sidcup East has a page of its own.
A clean in a house like that takes longer than the bedroom count suggests.
The clean, room by room
Every clean follows our 57-point checklist, carried out by cleaners who are vetted (interviewed in person), insured and trained on it:
- Kitchen: cupboards and drawers inside and out, worktops, tiles, hob, extractor and filter, sink and taps descaled, fridge and freezer, washing machine drawer and door seal.
- Bathroom: taps, shower head, screen and tiles descaled, grout scrubbed, bath, basin, toilet and fan cover cleaned.
- Living rooms and bedrooms: skirting boards, doors, frames, radiators, switches, sills and the inside of the windows, wardrobes inside, floors vacuumed and mopped.
Foots Cray’s water comes from Thames Water, and Thames Water says all the water in its region is hard, from passing through chalk and limestone. That means scale on taps and screens, which a clerk will mark as dirt. Descaling is in the fixed price.
We have been working since 2014, in London, Liverpool, Manchester and the areas around them. Over 300 letting agents use us, tenants have recovered £1.2m in deposits after our cleans, and we are rated 4.7 on Google. If the agent or inventory clerk raises anything within 48 hours, we come back and clean it again at no charge.
Foots Cray prices
| Property | Price |
|---|---|
| Studio | £156 |
| One-bedroom flat | £207 |
| Two-bedroom flat or house | £243 |
| Three-bedroom house | £339 |
| Four-bedroom house | £425 |
| Part job or unusual property | £30 per cleaner per hour |
Five bedrooms or more are quoted from the room count. Prices are for an empty home in ordinary end-of-tenancy condition.
The oven is an extra, never part of the fixed price: £31 for a single or a single wide oven, and £62 for a double or a 90cm range cooker when booked with the clean. Carpets booked with the clean are £29 a bedroom, £36 a living room, £47 a through lounge, £35 a flight of stairs, £20 a hallway and £8 a landing. The standalone services are on our oven cleaning and carpet cleaning pages.
If you are staying and want a deep clean instead, it is £26 per cleaner per hour, with two cleaners for at least three hours, from £186.
Booking, buses and the A20
The A20 Sidcup bypass runs along the edge of Foots Cray, and five bus routes serve it (51, 233, 321, 492 and R11). The nearest stations are Sidcup, on the Southeastern line to Charing Cross in fare zone 5, and St Mary Cray. Our cleaners come by van with their own equipment. If a job needs paid parking, it is added to the quote at what it costs us.
To book, give us the postcode, bedrooms, any oven or carpets, and the date the keys go back. The home should be empty with the electricity and water on, and the fridge switched off and emptied the night before.
All the other areas in the borough are listed on our end of tenancy cleaning Bexley page.
Questions about end of tenancy cleaning in Foots Cray
Do you clean the listed houses on Rectory Lane?
Yes. They are priced by bedrooms like any other home. Old sash windows and panelled doors are cleaned by hand.
I rent a flat above a shop on Foots Cray High Street. Is it the normal flat price?
Yes, a one-bed is £207 and a two-bed £243. Tell us about the street door and stairs so the cleaners know how to get in.
Does my Foots Cray rental need a council licence?
Only if it is a shared house with five or more people from more than one household; that needs a mandatory HMO licence. Bexley’s selective licensing applies in Belvedere ward only. Either way, licensing is the landlord’s job and does not change the check-out.
We have lived here six years. Will a standard clean be enough?
Usually, yes. The fixed price covers the full checklist. Long lets often need the oven and carpets too, so add those if the inventory shows them clean at the start.
How do I pay?
A 50% deposit holds your date, and the rest is due once the clean is done.