Thorpe Bay prices at a glance
Thorpe Bay has the lowest housing density in Southend, about 12.8 homes per hectare, so most homes here are whole houses on wide plots: Edwardian and interwar detached houses on the Burges Estate grid, post-war bungalows, and the Bournes Green semis north of the railway. We clean them at the end of a tenancy for a fixed price set by bedrooms, starting at £176 for a studio and going up to £445 for a four-bed house.
Last updated October 2026.
| Property | Price |
|---|---|
| Studio | £176 |
| One bedroom | £227 |
| Two bedrooms | £263 |
| Three bedrooms | £359 |
| Four bedrooms | £445 |
| Five bedrooms or more | quoted from the room count |
| Part of a home, or an unusual layout | £30 per cleaner per hour |
Those prices cover the whole clean except the oven and carpets, which you add if you need them. The calculator at the top of the page gives your total. For a house with five bedrooms or more, tell us the bedrooms, bathrooms and reception rooms and we work out a price from them.
Detached houses, bungalows and the Burges Estate
At the 2021 census Thorpe ward had 3,956 households. 1,337 lived in semi-detached houses and 1,285 in detached houses, against 381 in terraces, 535 in purpose-built flats and 337 in converted flats. Half the households owned their home outright, and 636 rented privately.
Southend Council’s local plan describes a strong grid of generous plots with large, mainly detached Edwardian and interwar houses, a big phase of post-war bungalows and houses, and tree-lined streets, most of all on the Burges Estate. The estate was started shortly before 1900 by the family of Colonel John Burges, who came from Northern Ireland, and it grew over the next sixty years. The family’s origins are in the road names: Tyrone Road, Fermoy Road, Dungannon Drive and Parkanaur Avenue. Its boundaries run roughly from Thorpe Hall Avenue in the west to Maplin Way in the east, with Thorpe Bay Gardens and the sea along the bottom.
The covenants on the Burges Estate allow one family house per plot and need the freeholder’s consent for alterations. Residents formed the Burges Estate Residents Association in 1990 to stop a house in Gloucester Terrace being turned into flats, and it is still a house. So on the estate you are usually handing back a whole house, with a hall, a staircase and several bedrooms, and the clean is priced by those bedrooms.
West of the estate, past the golf course, the housing is smaller and post-war, and the plan notes that part of it lies in the flood risk zone. North of the railway is Bournes Green, a planned interwar estate in garden-city style that was finished after the Second World War, with a large area of 1980s housing beyond it. Thorpe Broadway is the local shopping centre.
Rents follow the size of the homes. The ONS put the Southend average at £1,306 a month in August 2026, with detached houses at £1,665 and semis at £1,420. A deposit can be up to five weeks’ rent, so on an average detached house about £1,920 depends on the check-out.
Licensing in Thorpe ward
Southend runs a selective licensing scheme, but Thorpe ward is outside it. The council’s designation covers some neighbourhoods in Milton, Kursaal, Victoria and Chalkwell wards; it came into force on 1 December 2021 and ends on 30 November 2026. The council has consulted on what comes next, including possible additional licensing for shared houses, and that consultation is now closed and under review. You can check the latest on Southend Council’s selective licensing page.
A shared house with five or more people from two or more households needs the national mandatory licence anywhere in Southend. None of this changes the clean. The check-out compares the home with the check-in inventory, allowing for fair wear and tear, and that is the standard our cleaners work to.
The clean, room by room
Every Thorpe Bay clean follows our 57-point checklist:
- Kitchen: cupboards and drawers inside and out, worktops, splashbacks, the hob, the extractor hood and filter, the sink and taps, the fridge and freezer, and the floor under appliances that pull out.
- Bathrooms and en suites: shower screens and heads descaled, taps, tiles and grout, the bath, basin and toilet, mirrors and the fan cover.
- Bedrooms and reception rooms: skirting, doors and frames, switches and sockets, radiators, inside wardrobes and fitted cupboards, window sills, and the windows cleaned from inside, patio and garden doors included.
- Halls, landings and stairs dusted and vacuumed, and every hard floor mopped.
The water here is hard. Essex and Suffolk Water’s 2026 reports for its two Southend supply zones give average hardness of 263 and 278 milligrams of calcium carbonate per litre, and both are graded hard. That shows up as white scale on shower glass, taps, the kettle and around plugholes. Descaling them is part of the clean.
On the Burges Estate the covenants allow one family house per plot, so most lets there are whole houses.
Ovens and carpets on top
The oven sits outside the fixed price. Added to an end of tenancy clean it costs £31 for a single or a single wide oven, and £62 for a double or a 90cm range cooker. The oven cleaning page covers the service on its own.
Carpets booked with the clean cost £29 a bedroom, £36 a living room, £47 a through lounge, £35 a flight of stairs, £20 a hallway and £8 a landing. Read the carpet clause in the tenancy agreement before you add them; our carpet cleaning page has more.
Booking around the seafront and the c2c
End of tenancy cleaning
from £176
For a studio, fixed by property size, agreed before we start.
Get your price0333 555 2076 · 8am to 7pm
Thorpe Bay station opened on 1 July 1910 as Southchurch-on-Sea and took its present name a few weeks later. It is the last stop but one on c2c’s line from London Fenchurch Street, which is one reason the area suits people who work in the City. If your check-out falls on a Friday or at the end of a month, book a few days ahead.
Parking on Thorpe Esplanade is on-street pay and display, 8am to 9pm. If your home is on the front and the van has to use a paid bay, that cost goes on the quote at what it costs us.
Our cleaners are vetted by interview in person, insured, and trained on the checklist. We have been trading since 2014, over 300 letting agents use us, tenants have won back £1.2m in deposits, and we are rated 4.7 on Google. If your agent or inventory clerk flags something within 48 hours, we come back and clean it again free. Ring 0333 555 2076, 8am to 7pm, any day of the week.
We also clean one stop further east in Shoeburyness, where housing has gone up on the old garrison land since 2000, and across the rest of Southend-on-Sea. Thorpe Bay sits in our Essex area.
Thorpe Bay end of tenancy FAQs
Is my Thorpe Bay house covered by Southend’s selective licensing scheme?
No. The scheme covers parts of Milton, Kursaal, Victoria and Chalkwell wards and runs until 30 November 2026. Thorpe ward is not in it. Large shared houses still need the national HMO licence.
We are leaving a four-bed detached house on the Burges Estate. What will the clean cost?
£445 for the clean. A double oven adds £62 and carpets are priced by the room.
How much is a two-bed bungalow in Thorpe Bay?
£263, the same as any two-bedroom home. The price goes by bedrooms, not by the number of floors.
Our seafront flat has no parking. Is that a problem?
No. We use the pay and display bays on Thorpe Esplanade or the nearest street, and the cost is shown on your quote before you book.
The house has six bedrooms. Can you still give a fixed price?
Yes. Homes above four bedrooms are quoted from the room count. Tell us the bedrooms, bathrooms and reception rooms and we price it before the day.
