Ashcombe Rochford

72 addresses across 3 postcodes (SS4), about 530 m (0.3 miles) long, classed as a local road. USRN 32200038.

  • Sales: 93 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £515,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 46 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 19, D: 20, E: 5, F: 1).
  • Flood: 24 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 C; Band D in Rochford costs £2,363 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Rochford, about 1.3 km (0.8 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 430 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 12 to 13 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 72 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is The Practice Leecon Way, about 570 m (0.4 miles) away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 620 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 91% of households owned their home and 20% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 18 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
20261£515,000£515,000£515,000
20252£343,250£340,000£346,500
20241£470,000£470,000£470,000
20232£427,500£375,000£480,000
20223£360,000£345,000£370,000
20214£328,500£250,000£380,000
20204£316,250£290,000£325,000
20193£308,500£269,995£341,000
20186£291,500£240,000£425,000
20173£335,000£265,001£365,000
20161£260,500£260,500£260,500
20151£260,000£260,000£260,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 93)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
17 Mar 202675 SS4 1SLSemi-detached£515,000
22 Sep 202543 SS4 1SLTerraced£346,500
31 Mar 202553 SS4 1SLSemi-detached£340,000
30 Jul 20245 SS4 1SWSemi-detached£470,000
15 Dec 202328 SS4 1SWSemi-detached£480,000
10 Nov 20232 SS4 1SWSemi-detached£375,000
8 Sep 202269 SS4 1SLSemi-detached£345,000
25 Feb 202273 SS4 1SLSemi-detached£370,000
4 Feb 20223 SS4 1SWTerraced£360,000
19 Nov 202139 SS4 1SLSemi-detached£332,000
30 Jul 202167 SS4 1SLSemi-detached£325,000
28 Jan 202141 SS4 1SLSemi-detached£250,000
20 Jan 202161 SS4 1SLSemi-detached£380,000
14 Dec 202093 SS4 1SLSemi-detached£312,500
3 Dec 202077 SS4 1SLSemi-detached£290,000
25 Sep 202091 SS4 1SLSemi-detached£325,000
13 Aug 20209 SS4 1SWSemi-detached£320,000
23 Apr 201935 SS4 1SWSemi-detached£269,995
15 Mar 201973 SS4 1SLSemi-detached£308,500
1 Feb 201934 SS4 1SLSemi-detached£341,000
7 Dec 201875 SS4 1SLSemi-detached£425,000
19 Oct 201832 SS4 1SLSemi-detached£298,000
17 Aug 201829 SS4 1SWSemi-detached£240,000
6 Aug 201840 SS4 1SLSemi-detached£293,000
4 May 201879 SS4 1SLSemi-detached£290,000
29 Mar 201873 SS4 1SLSemi-detached£245,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
12 Feb 201865 SS4 1SLSemi-detached£252,000
8 Nov 201739 SS4 1SLSemi-detached£265,001
27 Oct 201783 SS4 1SLSemi-detached£365,000
28 Apr 201755 SS4 1SLSemi-detached£335,000
9 Dec 201649 SS4 1SLSemi-detached£260,500
16 Jul 201561 SS4 1SLSemi-detached£260,000
7 Nov 20148 SS4 1SWSemi-detached£245,000
2 May 201467 SS4 1SLSemi-detached£203,000
24 Oct 201345 SS4 1SLSemi-detached£206,000
1 Aug 201331 SS4 1SWDetached£222,500
14 Dec 201225 SS4 1SWSemi-detached£168,000
20 Apr 201242 SS4 1SLSemi-detached£194,000
2 Mar 201228 SS4 1SWSemi-detached£165,000
17 Nov 20115 SS4 1SWSemi-detached£240,500
1 Sep 201155 SS4 1SLSemi-detached£135,000
12 Aug 201130 SS4 1SLSemi-detached£169,995
14 Jun 201189 SS4 1SLSemi-detached£178,000
25 Feb 201139 SS4 1SLSemi-detached£190,000
6 Jan 201132 SS4 1SLSemi-detached£210,000
23 Dec 200975 SS4 1SLSemi-detached£190,000
24 Jul 200957 SS4 1SLSemi-detached£195,000
24 Oct 200891 SS4 1SLSemi-detached£250,000
22 May 200826 SS4 1SWDetached£212,000
25 Jan 200879 SS4 1SLSemi-detached£227,500

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 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

46 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 91 m². Most common: Bungalow, semi-detached (23); House, semi-detached (20); House, detached (3). Built: 1950-1966 (27); 1967-1975 (9); 1976-1982 (7). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (36); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (25 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Rochford in 2026-27: Band D £2,363 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,576£1,838£2,101£2,363£2,889£3,414£3,939£4,727

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band C (41% of about 1,370 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: 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, 2 addresses are in areas at high risk, 22 at medium risk and 36 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
SS4 1SLnot in 2 or 3 0 / 20 / 13 unlikely
SS4 1SWnot in 2 or 3 1 / 1 / 17 unlikely
SS4 1SAnot in 2 or 3 1 / 1 / 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 72 addresses are between 12 m and 13 m above sea level (12 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
SS4 1SA100%100%100%0%
SS4 1SL100%100%100%0%
SS4 1SW100%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 stationsRochford 671,000 journeys in 2024–251.3 km (0.8 miles)
Southend Airport 232,000 journeys in 2024–252.8 km (1.7 miles)
Hockley 818,000 journeys in 2024–252.9 km (1.8 miles)
Bus stops8 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 14 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Golden Cross Post Office Rochford90 m
Ferry terminalWallasea Island Ferry Landing Canewdon7.6 km (4.7 miles)
Car parksNational Car Parks1.2 km (0.7 miles)
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest InstaVolt Charging Station290 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Southend Airport SEN2.5 km (1.6 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Stansted Airport STN45.5 km (28 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 surgeries3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Practice Leecon Way570 m (0.4 miles)
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Golden Cross Pharmacy330 m
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest West Street (Dental Surgery)1.4 km (0.9 miles)
HospitalRochford Community Hospital1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Police stationEssex Police4.9 km (3.1 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Cooperative Food Rochford - Golden Cross Parade Cashzone350 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 garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,140 m²430 m (0.3 miles)
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 2,950 m²640 m (0.4 miles)
Play areaUnnamed 600 m²800 m (0.5 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.4 ha750 m (0.5 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 2.8 ha1.6 km (1 mile)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 0.4 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Mary the Virgin, a listed building (Grade II*), 880 m (0.5 miles) west. 3 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St Mary the VirginListed building, Grade II*880 m (0.5 miles) west
Rochford Hall (uninhabited portions)Scheduled monument1.4 km (0.9 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Shepherd's GroveWood1.2 km (0.7 miles) north-east
Wood SloppyWood1.7 km (1.1 miles) east
Potash WoodWood2.2 km (1.3 miles) south-west
Hyde WoodWood2.3 km (1.4 miles) north
Fleethall CreekTidal water2.6 km (1.6 miles) south-east
Beacon HillHill4.1 km (2.6 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)8.84010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.3205
Particles (PM10)12.04015

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

Road, rail and aircraft 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 trafficRailwaysAircraft
55 to 59200
Under 55707272

2 of the street's 72 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 Rochford: see them on the Rochford 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
Holt Farm Infant SchoolPrimary4–7250 m No published inspection
Holt Farm Junior SchoolPrimary7–11310 m Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
The King Edmund SchoolSecondary11–19450 m (0.3 miles) Good (Jan 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Teresa's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary5–11550 m (0.3 miles) Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Waterman Primary SchoolPrimary4–11790 m (0.5 miles) Report card (Jul 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: Strong standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Rochford Primary and Nursery SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met

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
Holt Farm County School SS4 1RSSchool/college/university110 m5 Very good8 Jul 2025
Cafe 206 SS4 1TBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen120 m5 Very good19 Jul 2024
Lets Dough This Pizza SS4 1UPOther catering premises270 mAwaiting inspection
Southend Foodbank - Hawkwell SS4 1UBOther catering premises350 m5 Very good11 Aug 2025
Munch Kings SS4 1UBTakeaway/sandwich shop350 m5 Very good12 Sep 2024
The Co-operative Group SS4 1UBRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets350 m5 Very good12 Sep 2024
Cottage Bakery SS4 1UBRetailers - other350 m4 Good9 Mar 2018
Lin Lam SS4 1UBTakeaway/sandwich shop350 m5 Very good30 Jan 2025
Golden Cross Pharmacy SS4 1UBRetailers - other350 mExempt
Turkish Mangal @ Rochford SS4 1UBTakeaway/sandwich shop350 m4 Good8 Sep 2026
King Edmund School SS4 1TLSchool/college/university410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good8 Sep 2026
Londis SS4 1UERetailers - other440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good14 Apr 2026
Lazy Bee SS4 1UEFarmers/growers440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good9 Jan 2020
Hawkwell Baptist Church SS4 1UEOther catering premises440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good24 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.

18 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences11
Vehicle crime3
Criminal damage and arson1
Possession of weapons1
Other crime1
Public order1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Nutcombe Crescent (6); On or near Wheatley Close (6); On or near Holt Farm Way (4); On or near Greenlands (1); On or near Marshalls (1).

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: 619 residents in 255 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 age4440
Children under 1517%17%
Aged 65 and over21%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)91%61%
Owned outright49%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented0%17%
Private rented8%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work57%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)28%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)33%32%
Travel to work by car or van57%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram5%4%
By any public transport, including bus5%8%
On foot or by bicycle4%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)66%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away14%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)20%34%
No qualifications19%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%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 6 to 7 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.

  • SS4 1SL: 39 addresses of 41 in the postcode
  • SS4 1SW: 32 addresses
  • SS4 1SA: 1 address of 16 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Wheatley Close · Larkfield Close · Ashingdon Road · Nutcombe Crescent · Marshalls · Holt Farm Way · Ashingdon Road · Silverthorn Close · Greenlands · Bittern Lane · Woodville Close · Rectory Road

All the streets in SS4 and across Rochford.

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.