Renting in Old Coulsdon
Old Coulsdon is a village of owner-occupiers: at the 2021 census only 264 of its 3,953 households rented privately, and nearly nine in ten homes in the ward are houses. So a let here usually means a semi or a detached house with a garden, and our end of tenancy clean for one is a fixed price by bedrooms, £339 for three bedrooms and £425 for four. Smaller homes start from £156 for a studio.
Last updated October 2026.
The census figures for the ward are unusual for London. Of the 3,953 households, 3,087 owned their home, more than half of them outright. 567 rented social housing, 416 of them from the council. The private lets, 264 in all, were fewer than one household in fifteen. The population is older than the London average too: ONS estimates for mid-2024 put 2,273 of the ward’s 10,409 people at 65 or over.
Rents are what you would expect for houses on the edge of London. The ONS put Croydon’s average at £1,999 a month for a semi-detached house in August 2026 and £2,623 for a detached one, with four-bedroom homes averaging £2,667. A deposit is capped at five weeks’ rent when the yearly rent is below £50,000, so on an average Croydon semi about £2,300 is held until the check-out report is agreed, and on a detached house over £3,000.
The houses on the hill
Old Coulsdon is on the high ground south-east of Coulsdon town centre, 14.4 miles from Charing Cross, and it is the southernmost settlement in Greater London. Croydon’s Local Plan groups it with Kenley as wooded hillside suburbs, and names their two main housing types: detached houses on relatively large plots, and planned estates of semi-detached houses. The plan also describes deep green front gardens and back gardens with trees.
The census matches that. In 2021 the ward had 1,671 households in semis and 1,287 in detached houses, against 513 in terraces and 398 in purpose-built flats. Only 46 lived in flats made out of converted houses.
The old village is round Bradmore Green, where Coulsdon Road meets Marlpit Lane. Croydon made it a conservation area in July 1968; it takes in the green and its pond, Grange Park, an 18th-century farmhouse and the Grade I listed church of St John, which dates from the 13th century. Around the village the City of London Corporation has owned Farthing Downs and Coulsdon Common since 1883.
For a cleaner, those facts mean a whole house in one visit: two or three floors with stairs and landings, often more than one bathroom, and garden doors at the back. A clerk checking a family house looks at different things from a flat, starting with the glass of the patio doors and the downstairs cloakroom.
Croydon’s 2026 licensing schemes
Croydon started two landlord licensing schemes on 25 September 2026. Selective licensing, for homes let to a single household, applies in 14 wards: Addiscombe East, Addiscombe West, Bensham Manor, Broad Green, Fairfield, Norbury and Pollards Hill, Norbury Park, Selhurst, South Croydon, South Norwood, Thornton Heath, Waddon, West Thornton and Woodside. Old Coulsdon is not one of them, so a family let here needs no selective licence.
The second scheme is borough-wide. Additional HMO licensing now covers any home let to three or four people from two or more households, so a three-bed semi shared by three friends in Old Coulsdon needs a licence from the council. The details are on the council’s additional HMO licensing page. A licence is a matter for the landlord. The check-out is still a comparison with the check-in inventory, with fair wear and tear allowed.
The clean in a family house
Old Coulsdon’s water comes from SES Water, which supplies the south of the borough from Purley and Kenley down into Surrey and traces its roots to the Caterham Spring Water Company, set up in 1862 to supply Coulsdon among other villages. SES says much of its water is drawn from boreholes in chalk and limestone and is naturally hard, and that it softens some of it slightly at the treatment works. Kettles, taps and shower screens here still scale up, and our cleaners descale as part of the price.
The work follows our 57-point checklist:
- Kitchen: every cupboard and drawer inside and out, worktops, tiles, hob, extractor and filter, sink and taps, fridge and freezer, the utility room if there is one, and the floor behind anything that slides out.
- Bathrooms, en-suites and the downstairs cloakroom: screens, taps, shower heads and tiles descaled, grout scrubbed, toilets inside and out, baths, basins, mirrors and extractor covers.
- Every room: skirting, doors and frames, switches, radiators, inside wardrobes, sills, and windows cleaned from the inside, including the patio doors and conservatory glass we can reach.
- Stairs, banisters and landings, then every floor vacuumed and washed.
Each cleaner is interviewed in person before starting with us, insured, and trained on that checklist. If the agent or clerk finds a problem with the clean and tells us within 48 hours, we come back and re-clean it at no charge.
Old Coulsdon end of tenancy prices
| Property | Price |
|---|---|
| Studio | £156 |
| One bedroom | £207 |
| Two bedrooms | £243 |
| Three-bed semi | £339 |
| Four-bed house | £425 |
| Five bedrooms or more | quoted from the room count |
| Part of a home, or one room in a share | £30 per cleaner per hour |
A larger detached house of five bedrooms or more is quoted from the room count, so tell us how many bathrooms and reception rooms it has.
The oven is an add-on, never in the fixed price. With the clean it costs £31 for a single or a single wide oven, and £62 for a double or a 90cm range cooker. Our oven cleaning page covers it as a standalone job. Carpets booked with the clean cost £29 a bedroom, £36 a living room, £47 for a through lounge, £35 a flight of stairs, £20 a hallway and £8 a landing, and the carpet cleaning page explains how. Patios and paths are not part of an end of tenancy clean; outdoor cleaning is a separate service.
Booking a date
Booking takes three steps
- Your postcode and the property. The form gives the price.
- A date that suits you. Seven days a week.
- We confirm it with you by phone or WhatsApp.
0333 555 2076 · 8am to 7pm
The quickest way to a price is the calculator at the top of the page. You can also call 0333 555 2076 between 8am and 7pm, any day of the week. Old Coulsdon has no station of its own; Coulsdon South is just under a mile away and the 60, 404 and 466 buses serve the area, but our cleaners drive out with the equipment. In the rare case that we have to pay to park, that cost is added to your quote at what it costs us.
We have cleaned rented homes since 2014 across London, Liverpool and Manchester and the areas around them. More than 300 letting agents use us, tenants have won back £1.2m in deposits with our cleans, and we are rated 4.7 on Google. For the rest of the borough, see our Croydon page.
Old Coulsdon end of tenancy FAQs
We are leaving a four-bed detached house near Bradmore Green. What will it cost?
£425, fixed. A double oven adds £62, and carpets are priced per room on top.
Does the conservatory count as a room?
No, it is part of the house clean. We clean its glass from the inside, the frames, sills and floor.
My landlord says the house needs a licence because three of us share it. Is that right?
Yes, since 25 September 2026. Croydon’s additional HMO licence covers homes let to three or four people from two or more households across the whole borough, Old Coulsdon included.
Is the water hard enough here to matter?
Yes. SES Water draws much of its supply from chalk and limestone boreholes, so taps and shower screens scale up. Descaling is included in every clean.
How do I hold a date?
A 50% deposit holds your date, and the rest is due once the clean is done.
