Renting in Windlesham now
Windlesham is a Green Belt village of about 4,400 people, and the homes that come up to let are mostly family houses: Victorian villas and cottages on Updown Hill and Church Road, 1970s and 1980s estate houses off Snows Ride and Heathpark Drive, and the new Charles Church homes at Crownfield Court. We clean them at the end of a tenancy for a fixed price by bedrooms, from £176 for a studio up to £445 for four bedrooms.
Last updated October 2026.
Very little new housing gets built here. The Windlesham Neighbourhood Plan records that 89% of its area is Green Belt and that the village population barely moved between the 2001 and 2011 censuses (4,377, then 4,392). Social housing is a small share: around 78 homes, 4.4% of the total, were social rented in 2011. Almost everything to rent is therefore a privately owned house.
The village sits on the A30 London Road. Junction 3 of the M3 is about a mile away at Lightwater, and trains to London Waterloo go from Sunningdale. Children start at Windlesham Village Infant School or Valley End C of E, then to junior and secondary schools in Bagshot, Lightwater or near Camberley.
Rents follow the size of the house. The ONS figures for Surrey Heath in August 2026 were £1,613 a month for a three-bedroom home, £2,411 for four bedrooms or more and £2,243 for a detached house. A deposit can be at most five weeks’ rent when the yearly rent is under £50,000; on a four-bedroom house at that average, that is about £2,780 waiting on the check-out.
Village houses, old and new
The neighbourhood plan describes two kinds of village. Before 1970, houses went up along the main roads and lanes: smaller terraced and semi-detached homes, often with long, narrow back gardens, and double-fronted Victorian villas with large gardens behind. Many of these sit in one of the two conservation areas, at Updown Hill and around Church Road. There are 42 listed buildings and structures in the village.
Between about 1970 and 1990 three larger estates were built, at Snows Ride, Heathpark Drive and Windmill Field, with smaller ones off Kings Lane and Coopers Road. Together they came close to doubling the size of the village. These houses have smaller gardens and open-plan front gardens.
The newest homes are at Crownfield Court, off Heathpark Drive and Woodlands Lane. Planning permission for up to 140 homes on the Heathpark Wood site was granted on appeal in July 2017, to Charles Church and Sentinel Housing Association, and the development offers two- to five-bedroom houses.
Each type takes the cleaning time in a different place. In a Victorian villa it goes on tall sash windows, picture rails, deep skirting and fireplaces. In the 1970s and 1980s houses it is usually the kitchen, which may have been refitted once or twice, and the bathrooms. A new-build at Crownfield Court has integrated appliances, glossy cupboard doors, large glass shower screens and en-suites, and the check-in inventory will have been written when everything was brand new.
Licensing in Surrey Heath
Windlesham is in Surrey Heath, and the borough council’s housing team licenses houses in multiple occupation that hold five or more people from two or more households. The council’s published HMO guidance covers that national mandatory scheme. A family renting a house here needs no licence.
Licensing makes no difference to the clean. The standard is the check-in inventory, less fair wear and tear. Under the Tenant Fees Act a landlord also cannot make a professional clean a condition of the tenancy; what they can do is claim from the deposit for cleaning that leaves the home short of how it was at check-in.
The checklist on a village house
Every clean follows our 57-point checklist. In a Windlesham house it covers:
- the kitchen: cupboards and drawers inside and out, worktops, tiles, hob and extractor, fridge and freezer, sink and taps, and behind the cooker and washing machine where they slide out
- every bathroom and en-suite: shower screens, taps and tiles descaled, grout, bath, basin, toilet, mirrors and extractor fan covers
- bedrooms and reception rooms: skirting, doors, frames, switches, radiators, inside wardrobes, sills and window glass from the inside, sash runners included
- a utility room or boot room where there is one, and conservatory glass from the inside
- floors vacuumed and washed throughout, stairs included
Limescale is a real factor. Affinity Water supplies Windlesham, and its 2025 report for the Bagshot/Sunninghill supply zone, which takes in samples from the village, gives an average hardness of 288 mg/l (as calcium carbonate), between 268 and 305. That is hard water, and it leaves scale on shower screens, taps and the base of the toilet. Descaler, left to work for a few minutes, shifts it without marking the taps.
Prices by size of home
| 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 |
With 231 homes of five bedrooms or more at the last count, larger houses are common here. We price those from the number of bedrooms, bathrooms and reception rooms, so give us the full list when you ask.
The oven is always an add-on: £31 for a single or a single wide oven, and £62 for a double or a 90cm range cooker. Details are on our oven cleaning page.
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. The standalone service is on our carpet cleaning page.
Booking a Windlesham clean
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
Use the price calculator at the top of the page, or call 0333 555 2076 between 8am and 7pm, seven days a week. Book once you know your check-out date; the clean works best on an empty house, after the removal van has gone and before the inventory clerk arrives.
Parking can be the awkward part. The neighbourhood plan notes that there is very little legal short-term parking in the village, which is why cars end up on the pavements. Tell us whether the house has a drive we can use. If we have to pay to park, it goes on the quote at what it costs us.
Our cleaners are vetted with an in-person interview, insured and trained on the checklist. We have been cleaning since 2014 across London, Liverpool, Manchester and the areas around them, more than 300 letting agents work with us, and tenants have won back £1.2m in deposits. We hold a 4.7 rating on Google. Should the agent or clerk flag anything within 48 hours, we return and clean it again for free.
We also clean in Lightwater, another village in the same parish, and across Surrey.
Windlesham end of tenancy questions
We are leaving a five-bedroom house off Church Road. How do you price it?
It is quoted from the room count. Tell us the bedrooms, bathrooms and reception rooms, and whether there is a utility room or conservatory, and we will give you a fixed figure.
Our Crownfield Court house is only a year or two old. Does it still need a full clean?
The inventory was written when the house was new, so the clerk compares against that. A three-bedroom house is £359.
Where will your van park on Updown Hill?
Tell us if the house has a drive. If not, we look for legal parking nearby, and any charge is added to the quote at cost.
Does our landlord need a licence from Surrey Heath?
Only if the house is an HMO with five or more people from two or more households. A family let does not need one.
The house has a 90cm range cooker. What does that add?
£62, booked with the clean. A single oven is £31 and a double is £62.
