Tiling cover for Coulsdon, CR5

Coulsdon's central belt has the 1930s semi-detached stock found across much of this part of Croydon, but the wider CR5 postcode district is genuinely more mixed than that suggests. Land Registry and Census-derived postcode data puts the split close to even across four dwelling types: 23.6% detached, 20.9% semi-detached, 24.5% terraced and 22.7% flats, with three-bed houses the single largest segment at 35.5%. No one house type sets the pattern for a Coulsdon job the way it might in a more uniform suburb.

What sets Coulsdon apart is its run of conservation areas built well before the 1930s wave: the Old Coulsdon village core around Bradmore Green, protected since 1968 and grouped around a 13th-century church and an 18th-century farmhouse; the c.1900 workers' cottages on Chipstead Valley Road; the Victorian railway cottages at Station Approach; and the 1930s Dutch Village garden suburb designed by Wouter Hamdorff. The pre-1920s cottages in particular start from suspended timber ground floors rather than a solid concrete slab, a different starting point for a floor tiling job to a poured floor, and one worth checking before a scope is agreed.