7 Kingston Gardens, Croydon CR0 4TX

End-Terrace flat · Built 1983-1990 · 55 m² · Owner-Occupied · Room heaters, electric

Upgrade Plan

EC for £2,000 · £1,000 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
High-retention storage heaters£1,800 – £800£5032.6 yrs+16.6 pts · reaches D
Floor insulation£1,200 – £200£2562.7 yrs+8.4 pts · reaches C

Grants verified 20 August 2026. Costs are the register’s indicative ranges. Savings are restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. Points per measure are estimated from 19.9 million certificates and rescaled to this home’s own certificate delta; the total is the register’s figure.

Running costs

£1,690
per year at grade E
£931
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £759 a year — a 38.0% annual return on £2,000.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2020, states £1,083 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

25 March 2022£250,000
27 June 2008£177,500
26 March 2004£133,000
22 September 1999£75,000
28 November 1997£54,950

Estimated today: £249,208 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Kingston Gardens: 149 sales since 1995 · £193,383 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

The schools’ own performance — Progress 8 shows value added, not just raw results.

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Beddington Park AcademyPrimary0.3 mi
High View Primary SchoolPrimary0.6 mi
Harris Primary Academy Purley WayPrimary0.7 mi
Wilson's SchoolSecondary0.8 miProgress 8 +1.27 · well above average (2023/24)
Wallington County Grammar SchoolSecondary0.9 miProgress 8 +0.95 · well above average (2023/24)
Harris Invictus Academy CroydonSecondary1.2 miProgress 8 -0.10 · average (2023/24)

Schools from the DfE register, performance from the KS4 performance tables. Progress 8 is a GCSE measure, so primaries have none. Distance is straight-line from the postcode, not a catchment: admission is decided by the school, not by us.

Area context

Police-recorded crime for the wider neighbourhood, not this address. We grade homes, never neighbourhoods — so this is reported as a count, not a rating.

16.8
crimes a month
185
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 44% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01004078, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Kingston Gardens

How this home sits against its street.

40
graded homes
70.4
average score
C
most common grade
-22.4
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.