Adams Close Brighton

15 addresses across 2 postcodes (BN1), about 110 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 4400864.

  • Sales: 24 recorded sales since 1995; in 2022 the median was £650,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 10 homes have an energy certificate (C: 3, D: 5, E: 2).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area 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 C; Band D in Brighton and Hove costs £2,581 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 93% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is London Road (Brighton), about 820 m (0.5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Blakers Park, is about 380 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.9 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 58 to 68 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 15 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is School House Surgery, about 310 m away, with 8 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 450 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 71% of households owned their home and 47% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 156 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
20221£650,000£650,000£650,000
20181£412,500£412,500£412,500
20151£330,000£330,000£330,000
20141£292,000£292,000£292,000
20131£290,000£290,000£290,000
20122£268,125£263,750£272,500
20112£279,750£262,500£297,000
20082£281,250£275,000£287,500
20071£235,000£235,000£235,000
20051£160,000£160,000£160,000
20041£195,000£195,000£195,000
20031£204,000£204,000£204,000
Most recent sales (24)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
30 Aug 202211 BN1 7HUTerraced£650,000
11 Oct 201811 BN1 7HUTerraced£412,500
15 May 20189 BN1 7HUTerraced£385,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
24 Jul 201510 BN1 7HUTerraced£330,000
22 Apr 20149 BN1 7HUTerraced£292,000
29 Aug 201311 BN1 7HUTerraced£290,000
24 Aug 20126 BN1 7HUTerraced£263,750
20 Jul 20127 BN1 7HUTerraced£272,500
23 Sep 201114 BN1 7HUSemi-detached£297,000
10 Feb 20113 BN1 7HUSemi-detached£262,500
1 Feb 20082 BN1 7HUTerraced£287,500
18 Jan 200810 BN1 7HUTerraced£275,000
9 Mar 20072 BN1 7HUTerraced£235,000
20 Apr 200510 BN1 7HUTerraced£160,000
20 Feb 20042 BN1 7HUTerraced£195,000
27 Jun 200314 BN1 7HUSemi-detached£204,000
28 Mar 200210 BN1 7HUTerraced£158,000
10 Aug 19983 BN1 7HUSemi-detached£105,000
17 Jun 199811 BN1 7HUTerraced£92,500
1 Apr 19982 BN1 7HUTerraced£90,500
9 Mar 19988 BN1 7HUSemi-detached£92,500
3 Oct 19979 BN1 7HUTerraced£82,000
16 Jan 19975 BN1 7HUTerraced£69,000
31 May 19957 BN1 7HUSemi-detached£73,000

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 December 2008 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

10 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 113 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (5); House, end-terrace (5). Built: 1976-1982 (6); 1967-1975 (2); 1950-1966 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (4); rented (private) (3).

Each home's certificates and sales (9 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Brighton and Hove in 2026-27: Band D £2,581 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,720£2,007£2,294£2,581£3,154£3,727£4,301£5,161

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (69% of about 620 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.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

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 31 October 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 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, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 1 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
BN1 7HUnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
BN1 7HDnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 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 15 addresses are between 58 m and 68 m above sea level (62 m on average); the ground rises about 10 m from the lowest to the highest.

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
BN1 7HD100%100%100%0%
BN1 7HU100%93%93%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 stationsLondon Road (Brighton) 392,000 journeys in 2024–25820 m (0.5 miles)
Moulsecoomb 445,000 journeys in 2024–251 km (0.6 miles)
Preston Park 1.1 million journeys in 2024–251.6 km (1 mile)
Bus stops15 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 44 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Hollingbury Crescent Brighton60 m
Bus or coach stationLondon Road Brighton - Ditchling Rise870 m (0.5 miles)
Ferry terminalNewhaven Harbour Ferry Terminal14.4 km (9 miles)
Car parksTrafalgar Street Car Park1.7 km (1.1 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Apcoa Charging Station1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Gatwick Airport LGW34.2 km (21 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 surgeries8 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest School House Surgery310 m
Pharmacies10 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Harper's Pharmacy150 m
NHS dentists7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Fiveways Dencare180 m
HospitalBrighton General Hospital1.9 km (1.2 miles)
Police stationBrighton Police Station2.2 km (1.4 miles)
Cash machinesBp - Orsett North Sf Connect, Orsett800 m (0.5 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 Blakers Park 1.8 ha380 m
Play area6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,070 m²420 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Hollingbury Park 6.1 ha490 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Thompson Road Allotments 8,460 m²540 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 1.8 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Preston Manor and Preston Park, a registered park or garden (Grade II), 1.1 km (0.7 miles) west. 12 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Preston Manor and Preston ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.1 km (0.7 miles) west
Woodvale CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.5 km (0.9 miles) south-east
Hillfort, the possible remains of a Romano-Celtic temple and a group of three bowl barrows at HollingburyScheduled monument1.5 km (0.9 miles) north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Bear HillHill1.3 km (0.8 miles) south-east
The RookeryWood1.4 km (0.9 miles) west
Hollingbury CastleHill1.5 km (0.9 miles) north
The LakeLake or reservoir2.2 km (1.4 miles) south
Racehill ValleyValley2.3 km (1.5 miles) east
Brighton BeachBeach2.8 km (1.7 miles) south

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)9.34010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.9205
Particles (PM10)10.44015

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
55 to 5910
Under 551415

1 of the street's 15 addresses is 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 Brighton and Hove: see them on the Brighton and Hove page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 3 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
Downs Junior SchoolPrimary7–11500 m (0.3 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Downs Infant SchoolPrimary5–7630 m (0.4 miles) No overall grade (Sep 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Balfour Primary SchoolPrimary4–11700 m (0.4 miles) Good (Dec 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Hertford Primary SchoolPrimary4–11730 m (0.5 miles) No overall grade (Mar 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Varndean SchoolSecondary11–16830 m (0.5 miles) Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Dorothy Stringer SchoolSecondary11–161 km (0.6 miles) Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Martin's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Fairlight Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Coombe Road Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Varndean College16 plus16–991.2 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
St Bernadette's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Stanford Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Good (Mar 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 3 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
Mulberrys BN1 7GERetailers - other110 m5 Very good2 Apr 2026
Harpers Pharmacy BN1 7GERetailers - other150 mExempt
J & E Fish Bar BN1 7GETakeaway/sandwich shop150 m3 Generally satisfactory18 May 2025
Kums Chinese Takeaway BN1 7GETakeaway/sandwich shop150 m5 Very good5 May 2023
Blakes Newsagents And Post Office BN1 7GERetailers - other150 m2 Improvement necessary24 Jan 2026
Lost+Found Taproom BN1 6JGPub/bar/nightclub160 m5 Very good29 Sep 2023
Fiveways Convenience Store BN1 6JGRetailers - other170 m5 Very good16 Nov 2023
Hollingdean Wholefoods @ Coachwerks BN1 7HBRetailers - other170 m5 Very good9 Mar 2026
Melissa's BN1 6JGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen180 m5 Very good23 Sep 2025
Carambada Cantina BN1 6JDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen190 m5 Very good8 Sep 2026
Store BN1 6JDRetailers - other190 m4 Good19 Aug 2025
Fiveways Fruits BN1 6JGRetailers - other210 m5 Very good24 Jan 2026
Fiveways BN1 6JGPub/bar/nightclub210 m5 Very good22 Jan 2025
Rustico BN1 6JGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen210 m5 Very good19 Aug 2025
Chalk Hair BN1 6FLRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen210 m5 Very good18 Mar 2026

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.

156 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences55
Anti-social behaviour39
Criminal damage and arson12
Other theft8
Shoplifting7
Public order7
Burglary6
Drugs5
Other crime5
Vehicle crime4
Possession of weapons4
Theft from the person2
Robbery2

Most of these are attached to: On or near Ditchling Gardens (27); On or near Supermarket (18); On or near Hollingdean Terrace (18); On or near Ditchling Place (13); On or near Roedale Road (13).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this street's postcodes are in: 451 residents in 161 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 age3540
Children under 1519%17%
Aged 65 and over10%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)71%61%
Owned outright28%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented2%17%
Private rented26%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work68%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)7%6%
Retired (of adults)11%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)under 1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)48%32%
Travel to work by car or van24%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus7%8%
On foot or by bicycle19%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)73%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away12%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)47%34%
No qualifications11%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)89%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all3%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 9 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.

Nearby streets

Hollingbury Crescent · Stanmer Villas · Ditchling Place · Stanmer Park Road · Hollingbury Place · Hollingbury Terrace · Payne Terrace · Hollingdean Terrace · Hollingbury Park Avenue · Hollingdean Street · Hollingbury Road · Ditchling Gardens

All the streets in BN1 and across Brighton and Hove.

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.