Ashdown Road Brighton

21 addresses across 2 postcodes (BN2), about 80 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 4400807.

  • Sales: 31 recorded sales since 1995; in 2022 the median was £600,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 10 homes have an energy certificate (B: 2, C: 3, D: 3, 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 A; Band D in Brighton and Hove costs £2,581 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 97% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is London Road (Brighton), about 590 m (0.4 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 380 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 10.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.0 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 36 to 45 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 21 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Park Crescent Health Centre, about 490 m (0.3 miles) away, with 11 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 580 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 49% of households owned their home and 56% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 395 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often shoplifting.

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£600,000£600,000£600,000
20214£494,700£445,000£510,000
20201£475,000£475,000£475,000
20142£306,000£275,000£337,000
20134£183,750£166,000£323,000
20101£272,500£272,500£272,500
20092£226,500£208,000£245,000
20081£500,000£500,000£500,000
20072£273,500£265,000£282,000
20063£245,000£210,000£247,000
20041£249,950£249,950£249,950
20033£206,000£204,950£220,000
Most recent sales (31)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
17 Jun 202212 BN2 3FSTerraced£600,000
30 Jun 20212A BN2 3FSDetached£445,000
29 Jun 202113 BN2 3FSTerraced£510,000
6 Apr 20216 BN2 3FSTerraced£499,400
17 Mar 20214 BN2 3FSTerraced£490,000
10 Jul 20202B BN2 3FSDetached£475,000
12 Aug 201413 BN2 3FSTerraced£337,000
15 Jan 20144 BN2 3FSTerraced£275,000
28 Oct 20131 BN2 3FSTerraced£323,000
19 Jun 2013FLAT 2, 2 BN2 3FSFlat or maisonette£167,500Leasehold.
22 Feb 2013FLAT 1, 2 BN2 3FSFlat or maisonette£200,000New build. Leasehold.
14 Feb 2013FLAT 3, 2 BN2 3FSFlat or maisonette£166,000Leasehold.
29 Jan 20101 BN2 3FSTerraced£272,500
21 Aug 200913 BN2 3FSTerraced£208,000
7 Apr 200910 BN2 3FSSemi-detached£245,000
30 Jul 20082A BN2 3FSTerraced£500,000
28 Sep 20073 BN2 3FSTerraced£282,000
19 Jan 20073 BN2 3FSTerraced£265,000
18 Oct 20064 BN2 3FSTerraced£247,000
19 Apr 200610 BN2 3FSSemi-detached£245,000
1 Feb 20064 BN2 3FSTerraced£210,000
7 Jul 20048 BN2 3FSTerraced£249,950
28 Nov 200311 BN2 3FSTerraced£220,000
14 Nov 20033 BN2 3FSTerraced£204,950
24 Jun 20035 BN2 3FSTerraced£206,000
2 Aug 200210 BN2 3FSSemi-detached£179,950
11 Jun 20023 BN2 3FSTerraced£164,950
1 Nov 20008 BN2 3FSTerraced£147,000
5 Jul 20008 BN2 3FSTerraced£95,000
11 Dec 19985 BN2 3FSTerraced£76,000
10 Nov 19964 BN2 3FSTerraced£56,000

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 August 2012 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 76 m². Most common: House, end-terrace (3); House, mid-terrace (2); Flat (2). Built: before 1900 (6); 1900-1929 (2); 2007-2011 (2). Tenure at assessment: rented (private) (5); owner-occupied (4).

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 A (42% of about 900 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: yes, Round Hill (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 1.
  • 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

  • 11 September 2026 to 12 September 2026: VIRGIN MEDIA, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (standard works)
  • 8 September 2026 to 9 September 2026: VIRGIN MEDIA, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (standard works)
  • 5 August 2026 to 2 September 2026: BRIGHTON & HOVE CITY COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (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 21 addresses are between 36 m and 45 m above sea level (42 m on average); the ground rises about 9 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
BN2 3FR100%97%97%0%
BN2 3FS100%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 stationsLondon Road (Brighton) 392,000 journeys in 2024–25590 m (0.4 miles)
Moulsecoomb 445,000 journeys in 2024–251.3 km (0.8 miles)
Brighton 15 million journeys in 2024–251.3 km (0.8 miles)
Bus stops15 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 55 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Freehold Terrace Brighton160 m
Bus or coach stationLondon Road Brighton - Ditchling Rise580 m (0.4 miles)
Ferry terminalNewhaven Harbour Ferry Terminal13.9 km (8.6 miles)
Car parksTrafalgar Street Car Park1.2 km (0.7 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Apcoa Charging Station1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Gatwick Airport LGW34.9 km (22 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 surgeries11 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Park Crescent Health Centre490 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies14 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Kamsons Pharmacy490 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists16 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery350 m
HospitalBrighton General Hospital1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Police stationBrighton Police Station1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Cash machines5 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Cooperative Food Brighton - Lewes Road120 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 8,220 m²380 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 1.5 ha600 m (0.4 miles)
Play area5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 100 m²320 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Saunders Recreation Ground 1.7 ha220 m
Allotments4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Old Water Works Allotments 6,750 m²330 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 2.3 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Martin and St Wilfrid, a listed building (Grade II*), 410 m (0.3 miles) south. 57 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 5 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St Martin and St WilfridListed building, Grade II*410 m (0.3 miles) south
Numbers 17-24 and 26-32 Park CrescentListed building, Grade II*490 m (0.3 miles) south-west
Numbers 33-48 and Attached RailingsListed building, Grade II*530 m (0.3 miles) south
Church of St Joseph and Attached Steps and WallsListed building, Grade II*540 m (0.3 miles) south
Woodvale CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II870 m (0.5 miles) east
Queen's Park, BrightonRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.4 km (0.9 miles) south
Whitehawk Camp causewayed enclosureScheduled monument1.5 km (1 mile) south-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Bear HillHill880 m (0.5 miles) east
The LakeLake or reservoir1.4 km (0.9 miles) south
The RookeryWood1.6 km (1 mile) west
Whitehawk HillHill1.7 km (1 mile) south-east
Whitehawk BottomValley1.8 km (1.1 miles) south-east
Brighton BeachBeach2.2 km (1.4 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)10.94010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.0205
Particles (PM10)10.94015

All three are within the UK legal limits; nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 are 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 552021

1 of the street's 21 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), 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
Fairlight Primary SchoolPrimary3–11300 m No published inspection
St Martin's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–11330 m Good (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Downs Infant SchoolPrimary5–7390 m 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
Downs Junior SchoolPrimary7–11510 m (0.3 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Elm Grove Primary SchoolPrimary4–11760 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Coombe Road Primary SchoolPrimary4–11810 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Hertford Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.2 km (0.7 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
St Luke's Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.2 km (0.7 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: Good
Tarnerland Nursery SchoolNursery2–51.4 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Carlton Hill Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Balfour Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Good (Dec 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Royal Spa Nursery SchoolNursery2–51.5 km (0.9 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
Sushi Gourmet @ Sainsbury's BN2 3QARetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets170 m5 Very good8 Jul 2025
Martha Gunn BN2 3FEPub/bar/nightclub170 m5 Very good13 Sep 2025
Lizzies Cafe BN2 3FERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen170 m5 Very good11 Mar 2025
The Booze Corner BN2 3HZRetailers - other190 m3 Generally satisfactory17 Jan 2026
Subway BN2 3HZTakeaway/sandwich shop190 m5 Very good5 Aug 2025
Bocana BN2 3HZRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen190 m5 Very good3 May 2023
Loro's Cafe BN2 3HZRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen190 m3 Generally satisfactory20 Nov 2025
Archipelagos Gyros BN2 3HZRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen190 m5 Very good5 Nov 2024
Brighton Mini Mart BN2 3HZRetailers - other190 m5 Very good5 Apr 2024
Oriental Takeaway BN2 3HZRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen190 m2 Improvement necessary23 Feb 2026
Masalla Kitchen BN2 3HZRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen190 m5 Very good18 Nov 2025
Love Noodle BN2 3HZRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen190 m4 Good18 Sep 2026
VD\&Son's BN2 3HZRetailers - other200 mAwaiting inspection
Albion Vape And Beverage BN2 3HZRetailers - other200 m5 Very good5 Apr 2024
Dragon BN2 3LGRetailers - other230 m5 Very good5 Feb 2016

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.

395 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Shoplifting108
Violence and sexual offences93
Anti-social behaviour86
Other theft23
Criminal damage and arson23
Public order20
Drugs16
Burglary7
Bicycle theft6
Possession of weapons5
Other crime3
Vehicle crime3
Robbery1
Theft from the person1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Petrol Station (125); On or near Inverness Road (68); On or near Supermarket (50); On or near Southmount (33); On or near Freehold Terrace (25).

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: 576 residents in 256 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 age3340
Children under 159%17%
Aged 65 and over4%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)49%61%
Owned outright17%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented2%17%
Private rented49%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work64%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)10%6%
Retired (of adults)4%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)42%32%
Travel to work by car or van22%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram4%4%
By any public transport, including bus11%8%
On foot or by bicycle22%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)81%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away8%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)56%34%
No qualifications5%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification1%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)89%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all2%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 5 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

Mayo Road · D'aubigny Road · Hughes Road · Roundhill Crescent · Richmond Road · Hollingdean Road · Inverness Road · Aberdeen Road · Freehold Terrace · Edinburgh Road · Freehold Terrace · Caledonian Road

All the streets in BN2 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.