Addiscombe Chase Reading, West Berkshire

31 addresses across 1 postcode (RG31), about 120 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 26900008.

  • Sales: 45 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £577,500 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 12 homes have an energy certificate (C: 3, D: 9).
  • 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 D; Band D in West Berkshire costs £2,505 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Tilehurst, about 1.7 km (1 mile) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Arthur Newbery Park, is about 1.3 km (0.8 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 80 to 83 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 3 of its 31 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Tilehurst Village Surgery, about 1.5 km (0.9 miles) away.
  • People: About 290 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 91% of households owned their home and 29% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 25 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
20252£577,500£515,000£640,000
20242£576,500£483,000£670,000
20221£350,000£350,000£350,000
20202£461,000£332,000£590,000
20191£355,000£355,000£355,000
20183£335,000£301,000£590,000
20171£660,000£660,000£660,000
20151£269,950£269,950£269,950
20133£285,000£219,950£369,000
20121£165,000£165,000£165,000
20091£347,000£347,000£347,000
20071£227,000£227,000£227,000
Most recent sales (45)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
26 Nov 202534 RG31 6FHDetached£515,000
8 Jul 202530 RG31 6FHDetached£640,000
3 Oct 202410 RG31 6FHDetached£483,000
12 Apr 20247 RG31 6FHDetached£670,000
29 Nov 202214 RG31 6FHTerraced£350,000
16 Dec 20206 RG31 6FHTerraced£332,000
21 Feb 202030 RG31 6FHDetached£590,000
18 Dec 201926 RG31 6FHSemi-detached£355,000
8 Jun 201814 RG31 6FHTerraced£301,000
2 Feb 201838 RG31 6FHDetached£590,000
18 Jan 201818 RG31 6FHDetached£335,000
28 Feb 20177 RG31 6FHDetached£660,000
12 Feb 201512 RG31 6FHTerraced£269,950
23 Oct 201324 RG31 6FHTerraced£285,000
8 Aug 201314 RG31 6FHTerraced£219,950
8 Jul 201340 RG31 6FHDetached£369,000
14 Dec 20129 RG31 6FHTerraced£165,000
5 Nov 200938 RG31 6FHDetached£347,000
31 Jan 200718 RG31 6FHDetached£227,000
24 Nov 20061 RG31 6FHTerraced£279,950
31 May 200632 RG31 6FHDetached£322,500
1 Apr 200518A RG31 6FHDetached£200,000New build.
3 Dec 200418 RG31 6FHDetached£233,500New build.
11 Jun 200424 RG31 6FHDetached£229,950
27 Jun 20031 RG31 6FHTerraced£235,000
3 Sep 200222 RG31 6FHDetached£212,000
14 Jun 200226 RG31 6FHSemi-detached£178,000
21 Dec 200132 RG31 6FHDetached£205,000
20 Dec 200142 RG31 6FHDetached£285,000
25 Oct 200111 RG31 6FHDetached£249,950
4 May 200124 RG31 6FHDetached£176,700
16 Mar 200112 RG31 6FHSemi-detached£124,950
25 Aug 200011 RG31 6FHDetached£215,000
26 May 20006 RG31 6FHTerraced£139,950
5 Feb 19996 RG31 6FHTerraced£101,950
11 Dec 19984 RG31 6FHTerraced£20,000
30 Oct 199810 RG31 6FHDetached£138,000
23 Oct 199818A RG31 6FHSemi-detached£124,000
23 Oct 199826 RG31 6FHSemi-detached£95,950
11 Sep 199828 RG31 6FHSemi-detached£119,950
5 Aug 199814 RG31 6FHSemi-detached£91,000
3 Jul 199832 RG31 6FHDetached£132,000
31 Mar 199516 RG31 6FHSemi-detached£70,000
24 Mar 19957 RG31 6FHDetached£152,500
27 Jan 199526 RG31 6FHSemi-detached£76,500

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 February 2013 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

12 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 99 m². Most common: House, detached (6); House, semi-detached (3); House, mid-terrace (2). Built: 1976-1982 (7); 1983-1990 (4); 1967-1975 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (11); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (7 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in West Berkshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,505 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,670£1,949£2,227£2,505£3,062£3,619£4,176£5,011

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band D (22% of about 820 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), 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: 2 protected trees on or by this street.
  • 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

Planned, as of 30 September 2026

  • 17 November 2026 to 19 November 2026: THAMES WATER, Utility asset works, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)

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, 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 is in flood zone 2 or 3.

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 31 addresses are between 80 m and 83 m above sea level (82 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
RG31 6FH100%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 stationsTilehurst 385,000 journeys in 2024–251.7 km (1 mile)
Pangbourne 374,000 journeys in 2024–252.9 km (1.8 miles)
Theale 391,000 journeys in 2024–254.6 km (2.9 miles)
Bus stops10 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 29 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Addiscombe Chase Purley on Thames40 m
Bus or coach stationPurley Social Club Purley on Thames880 m (0.5 miles)
Car parksNational Car Parks Limited1.8 km (1.1 miles)
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest ubitricity1 km (0.6 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Heathrow Airport LHR41.3 km (26 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 Tilehurst Village Surgery1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Overdown Pharmacy730 m (0.5 miles)
NHS dentistsChapel Hill (Dental Surgery)1.7 km (1.1 miles)
HospitalProspect Park Hospital3.8 km (2.4 miles)
Police stationThames Valley Police2.3 km (1.4 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Midcounties Co-Op Reading, Tilehurst Cashzone730 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 gardenArthur Newbery Park 10 ha1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 470 m²350 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Cotswold Recreation Ground 3.8 ha230 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 1.9 ha1.1 km (0.7 miles)

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Purley Park, a listed building (Grade II*), 910 m (0.6 miles) north-east. 5 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Purley ParkListed building, Grade II*910 m (0.6 miles) north-east
Purley HallRegistered park or garden, Grade II*1.2 km (0.7 miles) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Pike ShawWood540 m (0.3 miles) north-east
Harry Jaw's WoodWood860 m (0.5 miles) west
Vicarage WoodWood870 m (0.5 miles) south-west
The CanalLake or reservoir1.5 km (0.9 miles) north-west
Poplar IslandIsland2.2 km (1.4 miles) east
Sandy HillHill2.7 km (1.7 miles) north-east

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)6.74010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.6205
Particles (PM10)10.64015

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 5930
Under 552831

3 of the street's 31 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 West Berkshire: see them on the West Berkshire 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
Denefield SchoolSecondary11–18200 m Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Downsway Primary SchoolPrimary4–11270 m No published inspection
Long Lane Primary SchoolPrimary4–11550 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Westwood Farm Junior SchoolPrimary7–11720 m (0.4 miles) Report card (Jul 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Westwood Farm Infant SchoolPrimary3–7720 m (0.4 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Purley CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Birch Copse Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.7 km (1.1 miles) Outstanding (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Park Lane Primary SchoolPrimary5–111.9 km (1.2 miles) Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Pangbourne Primary SchoolPrimary4–112 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection
Blagrave Nursery SchoolNursery2–42 km (1.2 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Little Heath SchoolSecondary11–182 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection

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
Harrison Catering Services Limited at Denefield School RG31 6XYSchool/college/university200 m5 Very good18 Dec 2024
Welly Boot Lodge Day Nursery Limited at Denefield School RG31 6XYHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises200 m5 Very good10 Feb 2026
Tesco RG31 6FARetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets310 m5 Very good26 Feb 2013
Dolce Ltd at Downsway Primary School RG31 6FESchool/college/university320 m5 Very good10 Jun 2026
Mighty Allstars at Downsway Primary School RG31 6FEHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises320 m5 Very good10 Mar 2026
Westwood Farm Pre-School RG31 6SLHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good2 Dec 2024

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.

25 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences7
Anti-social behaviour7
Other crime3
Bicycle theft2
Criminal damage and arson2
Possession of weapons1
Other theft1
Drugs1
Burglary1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Long Lane (10); On or near Cornwall Close (5); On or near Laytom Rise (3); On or near Marten Place (3); On or near Lucey Close (2).

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: 289 residents in 127 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 age5440
Children under 1513%17%
Aged 65 and over35%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)91%61%
Owned outright59%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented2%17%
Private rented6%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work50%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)under 1%6%
Retired (of adults)37%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)37%32%
Travel to work by car or van52%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle6%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)61%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away5%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)29%34%
No qualifications13%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification11%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)96%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%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.

  • RG31 6FH: 31 addresses of 32 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Knowsley Road · Rosemead Avenue · White Lodge Close · Lytham End · Warbreck Drive · Marten Place · Cranmer Close · Lucey Close · Laytom Rise · Longleat Drive · Devonshire Gardens · Carew Close

All the streets in RG31 and across West Berkshire.

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.