Acorn Close Grantham, South Kesteven

18 addresses across 2 postcodes (NG31), about 90 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 35803716.

  • Sales: 20 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £300,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 7 homes have an energy certificate (C: 1, D: 6).
  • Flood: 3 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band A; Band D in South Kesteven costs £2,260 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Grantham, about 2.3 km (1.4 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Queen Elizabeth Park, is about 260 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.9 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 51 to 54 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 4 of its 18 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is The Harrowby Lane Surgery, about 1 km (0.6 miles) away.
  • People: About 580 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 80% of households owned their home and 25% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 52 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.

Sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20241£300,000£300,000£300,000
20231£260,000£260,000£260,000
20221£280,000£280,000£280,000
20201£242,000£242,000£242,000
20182£197,500£195,000£200,000
20151£245,000£245,000£245,000
20131£158,000£158,000£158,000
20091£249,950£249,950£249,950
20071£249,995£249,995£249,995
20061£257,000£257,000£257,000
20051£190,000£190,000£190,000
20021£30,630£30,630£30,630
Most recent sales (20)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
22 Mar 202418 NG31 9JNDetached£300,000
5 Jun 202312 NG31 9JNDetached£260,000
15 Aug 202218 NG31 9JNDetached£280,000
19 Jun 202016 NG31 9JNDetached£242,000
24 Oct 201811 NG31 9JNDetached£200,000
2 Oct 201816 NG31 9JNDetached£195,000
29 Apr 20154 NG31 9JNDetached£245,000
11 Apr 20136 NG31 9JNDetached£158,000
29 Oct 20099 NG31 9JNDetached£249,950
26 Oct 20074 NG31 9JNDetached£249,995
7 Aug 20061 NG31 9JNDetached£257,000
3 May 20058 NG31 9JNDetached£190,000
19 Mar 200216 NG31 9JNDetached£30,630
12 Dec 20008 NG31 9JNDetached£108,000
30 Nov 19991 NG31 9JNDetached£129,000
6 Aug 199917 NG31 9JNDetached£81,000
23 Apr 199916 NG31 9JNDetached£79,000
15 Feb 199915 NG31 9JNDetached£85,000
16 Dec 19979 NG31 9JNDetached£90,000
29 Apr 199615 NG31 9JNDetached£85,000

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from June 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

7 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 102 m². Most common: Bungalow, detached (7). Built: 1983-1990 (4); 1991-1995 (2); 1976-1982 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (5).

Each home's certificates and sales (5 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in South Kesteven in 2026-27: Band D £2,260 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,507£1,758£2,009£2,260£2,762£3,264£3,767£4,520

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (55% of about 650 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 30 September 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 30 September 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 2 at medium risk and 10 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
NG31 9JNnot in 2 or 3 1 / 2 / 4 unlikely
NG31 9PLnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 6 unlikely

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Height above sea level

The street's 18 addresses are between 51 m and 54 m above sea level (53 m on average).

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
NG31 9JN100%100%100%0%
NG31 9PL100%100%100%0%

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 31 October 2026; Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage 2024–25 (which stations are on the National Rail network, and their journeys: entries and exits in the year to March); OurAirports (public domain, kept by volunteers); car parks and charging points from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others: not an official register, so some will be missing, private or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street, not routes, and say nothing about how often anything runs. Stations opened since the end of ORR's year appear when ORR publishes the next one, each December; heritage railways are left out.

NearestDistance
Railway stationsGrantham 1.5 million journeys in 2024–252.3 km (1.4 miles)
Ancaster 5,530 journeys in 2024–259.3 km (5.8 miles)
Bottesford 57,000 journeys in 2024–2511.4 km (7.1 miles)
Bus stops14 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 40 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Acorn Close Grantham50 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Grantham1.9 km (1.2 miles)
EV charging pointsInstaVolt Charging Station2.2 km (1.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsEast Midlands Airport EMA48.3 km (30 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Harrowby Lane Surgery1 km (0.6 miles)
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Harrowby Pharmacy730 m (0.5 miles)
NHS dentistsGenesis Dental Care1.7 km (1 mile)
HospitalGrantham & District Hospital1 km (0.6 miles)
Police stationLincolnshire Police1.6 km (1 mile)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Morrisons Daily - Grantham New Beacon Road Cashzone720 m (0.4 miles)

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Queen Elizabeth Park 11 ha260 m
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,300 m²260 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.3 ha260 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.5 ha710 m (0.4 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 11 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is South Gates to Belton Park, a listed building (Grade I), 580 m (0.4 miles) north-east. 32 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
South Gates to Belton ParkListed building, Grade I580 m (0.4 miles) north-east
The MillListed building, Grade II*800 m (0.5 miles) north
Grantham market crossScheduled monument1.7 km (1.1 miles) south-west
Conduit House, Market PlaceScheduled monument1.8 km (1.1 miles) south-west
Belton HouseRegistered park or garden, Grade I2.2 km (1.4 miles) north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Villa PondLake or reservoir1.3 km (0.8 miles) north-east
Brickkiln PlantationWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) north-west
Towthorpe Hollow PondsLake or reservoir1.4 km (0.9 miles) north
Hall's HillHill1.6 km (1 mile) south-east
Old WoodWood1.8 km (1.1 miles) north-east
The WildernessWood1.9 km (1.2 miles) north

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)6.44010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.9205
Particles (PM10)11.84015

All three are within the UK legal limits; PM2.5 is above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
60 to 6410
55 to 5930
Under 551418

4 of the street's 18 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for South Kesteven: see them on the South Kesteven page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 1 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
Belton Lane Community Primary SchoolPrimary4–11150 m No overall grade (May 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
The Harrowby Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–11770 m (0.5 miles) Report card (Dec 2025): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
The Little Gonerby Church of England Primary Academy, GranthamPrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Wyndham Park Nursery SchoolNursery2–51 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Cliffedale Primary SchoolPrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
The Priory Ruskin AcademySecondary11–191 km (0.6 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Saint Mary's Catholic Voluntary Academy Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (Jun 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Belmont Community Primary SchoolPrimary5–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Requires improvement; Personal development: Requires improvement; Leadership and management: Requires improvement
The King's School, GranthamSecondary11–181.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (Dec 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Kesteven and Grantham Girls' SchoolSecondary11–181.4 km (0.9 miles) Outstanding (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Grantham College16 plus16–991.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
St Wulfram's National Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No overall grade (Jun 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Requires improvement; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 1 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Belton Lane Children's Centre NG31 9PPHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises100 m5 Very good16 Feb 2026
Taylorshaw @ Belton Lane Community Primary NG31 9PPSchool/college/university100 m5 Very good15 Sep 2026
Little Explorers Nursery NG31 9PPHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises100 m4 Good23 Jul 2026
The Royal Queen NG31 9PHPub/bar/nightclub290 m2 Improvement necessary25 Mar 2025
Manthorpe Hall and Preschool Playgroup NG31 8NQOther catering premises480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good23 Sep 2025

Crime within 250 m

Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, September 2025 to August 2026. Police forces move every crime to the nearest of about 760,000 anonymised map points before publishing, so these are crimes near this street, not on it, and a busy point can collect crimes from a wider area. Counts are of records, not convictions.

52 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences23
Anti-social behaviour16
Criminal damage and arson5
Public order2
Burglary1
Other crime1
Vehicle crime1
Robbery1
Possession of weapons1
Other theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Ash Grove (23); On or near Cornwall Close (12); On or near Willow Tree Drive (5); On or near Harrowby Mill Lane (4); On or near St Andrews (3).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 583 residents in 251 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

Around this streetEngland
Median age5040
Children under 1516%17%
Aged 65 and over27%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)80%61%
Owned outright49%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented12%17%
Private rented8%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work52%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)33%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)26%32%
Travel to work by car or van62%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus1%8%
On foot or by bicycle10%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)65%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away15%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)25%34%
No qualifications19%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification8%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)97%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 4 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

What has changed

Nothing new since the change feed started on 30 October 2026. New sales and energy certificates, and hygiene ratings, school inspections and flood figures nearby, will be listed here as the sources update.

Everything that has changed on and near this street

Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

  • NG31 9JN: 17 addresses of 18 in the postcode
  • NG31 9PL: 1 address of 15 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Braemar Close · Waterside Drive · Willow Tree Drive · Mill Close · Cornwall Close · Formby Close · Harrowby Mill Lane · Harrowby Mill Lane · Turnberry Close · Ash Grove · Elsie Davies Close · Walton Heath Close

All the streets in NG31 and across South Kesteven.

What this page cannot tell you

  • Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
  • What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
  • How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported.
  • Whether you would get a place at a school: distances are straight lines, not catchments.
  • Who lives on the street now: census figures describe the small areas around it in March 2021, during a lockdown.
  • How long a journey takes or how often anything runs: transport distances are straight lines to the nearest stops.
  • Whether a GP practice is taking new patients, or a dentist new NHS patients.
  • How loud a home is inside, or noise from industry, neighbours or smaller airfields: noise figures are models of road, rail and air traffic outside.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.