Ardingly Road Cuckfield, Mid Sussex

50 addresses across 6 postcodes (RH17), about 640 m (0.4 miles) long, classed as a minor road. USRN 25600661.

  • Sales: 40 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £470,000 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 28 homes have an energy certificate (B: 2, C: 5, D: 11, E: 10).
  • 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 E; Band D in Mid Sussex costs £2,474 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 14% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Haywards Heath, about 2.4 km (1.5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 60 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 5.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 100 to 118 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 44 of its 50 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Cuckfield Medical Centre, about 420 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • People: About 1,000 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 76% of households owned their home and 49% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 22 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
20262£470,000£360,000£580,000
20252£529,000£350,000£708,000
20231£380,000£380,000£380,000
20211£532,500£532,500£532,500
20201£502,500£502,500£502,500
20191£650,000£650,000£650,000
20181£322,500£322,500£322,500
20171£824,950£824,950£824,950
20142£394,975£390,000£399,950
20131£395,000£395,000£395,000
20091£350,000£350,000£350,000
20072£320,000£295,000£345,000
Most recent sales (40)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
26 Jun 202625 RH17 5HDDetached£580,000
26 May 20264, MYRTLE COTTAGES RH17 5HDSemi-detached£360,000
3 Sep 2025OLD WINCHESTER COTTAGE RH17 5HFDetached£708,000
15 Jul 2025WAYSIDE RH17 5HFSemi-detached£350,000
31 Mar 2023LERINDA RH17 5HFSemi-detached£380,000
24 Sep 202125 RH17 5HDDetached£532,500
30 Oct 202029 RH17 5HFDetached£502,500
13 Aug 2019MONKTON COTTAGE RH17 5HDDetached£650,000
21 Jun 2018LERINDA RH17 5HFSemi-detached£322,500
26 May 2017LONGACRE FARM RH17 5HFDetached£824,950
20 Nov 201427 RH17 5HFDetached£399,950
25 Feb 201421 RH17 5HDDetached£390,000
20 Sep 2013LITTLE RUTHVEN RH17 5HDDetached£395,000
30 Oct 2009OLD WINCHESTER COTTAGE RH17 5HFDetached£350,000
31 Jul 20072, CHRISTINA COTTAGES RH17 5HFSemi-detached£295,000
4 Jun 200727 RH17 5HFDetached£345,000
4 Aug 2006ARDINGLY HOUSE RH17 5HFDetached£385,000
18 Jul 200625 RH17 5HDDetached£268,000
28 Apr 200627 RH17 5HFDetached£270,000
30 Sep 20052, CHRISTINA COTTAGES RH17 5HFSemi-detached£235,000
18 Aug 200529 RH17 5HFDetached£260,000
15 Jul 2005OLD WINCHESTER COTTAGE RH17 5HFDetached£369,950
2 Nov 200423 RH17 5HDDetached£285,000
11 Dec 20032, CHRISTINA COTTAGES RH17 5HFSemi-detached£250,000
25 Nov 200329 RH17 5HFDetached£282,000
18 Jun 200227 RH17 5HFDetached£230,000
28 Mar 2001MELBURY RH17 5HDDetached£250,000
8 Dec 2000LITTLE RUTHVEN RH17 5HDDetached£220,000
6 Jan 200029 RH17 5HFDetached£174,950
5 Jan 200023 RH17 5HDDetached£190,000
9 Dec 19994, MYRTLE COTTAGES RH17 5HDSemi-detached£117,500
27 Aug 199927 RH17 5HFDetached£128,500
11 Aug 1999MERLINS RH17 5HFTerraced£194,500
24 May 1999WAYSIDE RH17 5HFSemi-detached£97,000
16 Apr 199823 RH17 5HDDetached£128,500
27 May 199723 RH17 5HDDetached£107,500
11 Jan 199625 RH17 5HDDetached£86,000
27 Oct 199529 RH17 5HFDetached£93,000
30 Aug 199527 RH17 5HFDetached£85,000
14 Jun 1995MONKTON COTTAGE RH17 5HDDetached£150,000

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026 (load in progress). Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from April 2010 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

28 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 108 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (11); House, detached (8); Bungalow, semi-detached (3). Built: before 1900 (9); 1967-1975 (5); 1950-1966 (4). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (19); rented (private) (3); rented (social) (2).

Council tax

What each band costs in Mid Sussex in 2026-27: Band D £2,474 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,650£1,924£2,199£2,474£3,024£3,574£4,124£4,949

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band E (21% of about 1,450 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 2 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) 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: 2.
  • 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.

Listed buildings

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

Finished in the last three months

  • 17 September 2026: WEST SUSSEX COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, two-way signals, on the footway, carriageway (minor works)
  • 24 August 2026 to 28 August 2026: SOUTH EAST WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, road closure, on the carriageway (immediate - urgent 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

No address in this street's postcodes is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

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.

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 50 addresses are between 100 m and 118 m above sea level (115 m on average); the ground rises about 18 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
RH17 5BT100%69%69%0%
RH17 5GS100%100%100%0%
RH17 5HD100%100%100%0%
RH17 5HE100%100%100%0%
RH17 5HF100%96%96%0%
RH17 5JR100%14%14%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 stationsHaywards Heath 4.0 million journeys in 2024–252.4 km (1.5 miles)
Balcombe 213,000 journeys in 2024–254.7 km (2.9 miles)
Wivelsfield 467,000 journeys in 2024–255.6 km (3.5 miles)
Bus stops7 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 13 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Ardingly Road Middle Cuckfield40 m
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Roam Charging Station870 m (0.5 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Gatwick Airport LGW15.5 km (9.6 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 Cuckfield Medical Centre420 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Cuckfield Chemist880 m (0.5 miles)
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Cuckfield Dental Practice690 m (0.4 miles)
HospitalAshdown Nuffield Hospital2.3 km (1.4 miles)
Police stationHaywards Heath Police Station2.3 km (1.4 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Cooperative Food Cuckfield, Cuckfield Cashzone380 m

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 Unnamed 1.3 ha60 m
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 460 m²330 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Worsley Memorial Recreation Ground 2.4 ha730 m (0.5 miles)
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,640 m²340 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 1.3 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Marshalls, a listed building (Grade II*), 780 m (0.5 miles) south-west. 65 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 3 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
MarshallsListed building, Grade II*780 m (0.5 miles) south-west
The SanctuaryListed building, Grade II*890 m (0.6 miles) south-west
Ockenden ManorListed building, Grade II*900 m (0.6 miles) south-west
Borde HillRegistered park or garden, Grade II*1.7 km (1 mile) north-east
HeaselandsRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.6 km (1.6 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Gore's WoodWood680 m (0.4 miles) north-east
Cedar PlantationWood940 m (0.6 miles) east
New England WoodWood1 km (0.6 miles) south-west
Newbury PondLake or reservoir1.1 km (0.7 miles) south
Beechy BottomValley1.7 km (1.1 miles) west
Ragget's HillHill2.9 km (1.8 miles) south-west

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)5.94010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.5205
Particles (PM10)10.04015

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
65 to 6990
60 to 64270
55 to 5980
Under 55650

44 of the street's 50 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 Mid Sussex: see them on the Mid Sussex 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
Holy Trinity Church of England Primary School, CuckfieldPrimary4–11480 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Warden Park Secondary AcademySecondary11–161 km (0.6 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Harlands Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.9 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.

No rated food businesses within 500 m (0.3 miles).

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.

22 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences11
Criminal damage and arson2
Public order2
Vehicle crime2
Drugs2
Other crime1
Other theft1
Possession of weapons1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Goreside Lane (12); On or near Buttinghill Drive (4); On or near Brainsmead (2); On or near Bylanes Crescent (1); On or near Woodhall Close (1).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 3 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 999 residents in 405 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 age4740
Children under 1519%17%
Aged 65 and over24%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)76%61%
Owned outright40%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented9%17%
Private rented15%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work56%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)27%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)50%32%
Travel to work by car or van42%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram3%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle5%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)54%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away10%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)49%34%
No qualifications9%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 7 to 8 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.

  • RH17 5HF: 32 addresses of 38 in the postcode
  • RH17 5HD: 11 addresses
  • RH17 5JR: 3 addresses of 57 in the postcode
  • RH17 5GS: 2 addresses of 17 in the postcode
  • RH17 5BT: 1 address of 21 in the postcode
  • RH17 5HE: 1 address of 17 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Woodhall Close · Ruthven Close · Bylanes Crescent · Bylanes Close · Horsefield Green · Longacre Crescent · Brainsmead · Goreside Lane · Whitemans Green · Buttinghill Drive · Longacre Crescent · London Road

All the streets in RH17 and across Mid Sussex.

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.