Austin Close Irchester, North Northamptonshire

29 addresses across 2 postcodes (NN29), about 170 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 42900952.

  • Sales: 42 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £290,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 14 homes have an energy certificate (C: 2, D: 10, E: 2).
  • Flood: 1 address on its postcodes is 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 B; Band D in North Northamptonshire costs £2,424 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Wellingborough, about 3.9 km (2.4 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Irchester Country Park, is about 1.5 km (0.9 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.1 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 68 to 73 m above sea level.
  • Noise: None of its addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Dr Pasquali, about 780 m (0.5 miles) away.
  • People: About 280 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 80% of households owned their home and 19% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 20 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
20251£290,000£290,000£290,000
20223£250,000£225,000£320,000
20212£229,000£200,000£258,000
20191£190,000£190,000£190,000
20172£157,500£155,000£160,000
20161£187,500£187,500£187,500
20152£152,498£119,995£185,000
20131£116,000£116,000£116,000
20112£94,000£76,000£112,000
20101£164,000£164,000£164,000
20063£147,000£113,000£159,995
20044£116,498£108,000£118,995
Most recent sales (42)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
30 Jan 202519 NN29 7AXDetached£290,000
19 Aug 202217 NN29 7AXDetached£320,000
29 Jun 20224 NN29 7AXSemi-detached£250,000
27 May 20225 NN29 7AXTerraced£225,000
29 Sep 202117 NN29 7AXDetached£200,000
26 Feb 202113 NN29 7AXDetached£258,000
21 Mar 201916 NN29 7AXSemi-detached£190,000
20 Sep 20173 NN29 7AXTerraced£155,000
7 Jul 20175 NN29 7AXTerraced£160,000
27 May 201623 NN29 7AXSemi-detached£187,500
21 Sep 201522 NN29 7AXDetached£185,000
25 Feb 20152 NN29 7AXSemi-detached£119,995
1 Nov 201314 NN29 7AXSemi-detached£116,000
5 Apr 20113 NN29 7AXTerraced£76,000
1 Apr 201116 NN29 7AXSemi-detached£112,000
22 Dec 201074 NN29 7AXDetached£164,000
12 Oct 20065 NN29 7AXTerraced£113,000
11 Sep 200621 NN29 7AXSemi-detached£147,000
5 May 200623 NN29 7AXSemi-detached£159,995
12 Nov 20047 NN29 7AXTerraced£108,000
14 Jun 200414 NN29 7AXSemi-detached£118,995
10 Feb 200418 NN29 7AXSemi-detached£115,995
23 Jan 200416 NN29 7AXSemi-detached£117,000
6 Feb 200374 NN29 7AXDetached£175,000
17 Jun 200214 NN29 7AXSemi-detached£68,000
1 May 200222 NN29 7AXDetached£108,000
27 Jul 200118 NN29 7AXSemi-detached£64,500
8 Dec 200018 NN29 7AXSemi-detached£58,000
28 Nov 200023 NN29 7AXSemi-detached£73,500
9 Oct 200022 NN29 7AXDetached£84,995
29 Sep 20009 NN29 7AXSemi-detached£53,000
21 Jul 200013 NN29 7AXDetached£33,750
9 Mar 20008 NN29 7AXSemi-detached£53,950
3 Mar 20008 NN29 7AXSemi-detached£49,500
24 Sep 19994 NN29 7AXSemi-detached£54,000
28 May 19997 NN29 7AXTerraced£34,500
25 Sep 19984 NN29 7AXSemi-detached£38,000
30 Jun 199874 NN29 7AXDetached£80,000
18 Dec 199711 NN29 7AXSemi-detached£36,000
14 Oct 199716 NN29 7AXSemi-detached£45,000
24 May 19965 NN29 7AXTerraced£34,500
18 Jan 199621 NN29 7AXSemi-detached£53,500

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 June 2010 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

14 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 79 m². Most common: House, detached (6); House, semi-detached (5); House, mid-terrace (2). Built: 1967-1975 (12); 1976-1982 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (12); rented (private) (1).

Council tax

What each band costs in North Northamptonshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,424 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,616£1,885£2,155£2,424£2,963£3,501£4,040£4,848

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (55% of about 830 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

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, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 1 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
NN29 7AXnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 1 unlikely
NN29 7ATnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 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 29 addresses are between 68 m and 73 m above sea level (72 m on average); the ground rises about 6 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
NN29 7AT100%100%100%0%
NN29 7AX100%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 stationsWellingborough 981,000 journeys in 2024–253.9 km (2.4 miles)
Kettering 1.1 million journeys in 2024–2514.2 km (8.8 miles)
Bus stops4 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 9 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Biscay Close Irchester310 m
Car parksEuro Car Parks2.7 km (1.7 miles)
EV charging pointsbp pulse Charging Station3.6 km (2.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Luton Airport LTN48.7 km (30 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 Dr Pasquali780 m (0.5 miles)
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Jardines Pharmacy750 m (0.5 miles)
NHS dentistsBrookfield Dental Care2.3 km (1.4 miles)
HospitalRushden Hospital2.7 km (1.7 miles)
Police stationWellingborough Police Station4.4 km (2.7 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Cooperative Food Irchester, Irchester Cashzone710 m (0.4 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 gardenIrchester Country Park 79 ha1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 190 m²80 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.1 ha30 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 1.9 ha1 km (0.6 miles)

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Katherine, a listed building (Grade I), 810 m (0.5 miles) north-west. 18 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St KatherineListed building, Grade I810 m (0.5 miles) north-west
Roman town of Irchester and preceding Iron Age settlement; including remains of the medieval hamlet of Chester on the WaterScheduled monument1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Home SpinneyWood920 m (0.6 miles) north-east
Knuston SpinneyWood1.2 km (0.7 miles) north-east
Wymington SpinneyWood1.5 km (0.9 miles) east
Skew Bridge Ski LakeLake or reservoir2.7 km (1.7 miles) north
Beacon HillHill3.6 km (2.2 miles) south-west
Darnell's DeneValley3.9 km (2.4 miles) south-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)7.14010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.1205
Particles (PM10)12.44015

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

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
Under 552929

None of the street's 29 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic or railways.

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 North Northamptonshire: see them on the North Northamptonshire 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
Irchester Community Primary SchoolPrimary4–11840 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Whitefriars Primary SchoolPrimary5–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Good (Feb 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)

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
Alderwood LLA Limited NN29 7EWHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises180 m5 Very good22 Jul 2025
Alderwood LLA NN29 7EWHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises190 m5 Very good16 Oct 2025
Irchester Convenience Store NN29 7EERetailers - other260 m5 Very good8 May 2018

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.

20 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences8
Criminal damage and arson6
Public order2
Vehicle crime2
Burglary1
Anti-social behaviour1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Saxon Rise (10); On or near Norman Way (4); On or near Evelyn Way (3); On or near Austin Close (2); On or near Arkwright Road (1).

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: 279 residents in 131 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 1513%17%
Aged 65 and over24%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)80%61%
Owned outright54%33%
Shared ownership3%1%
Social rented2%17%
Private rented15%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work60%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)26%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)6%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)15%32%
Travel to work by car or van74%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%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)57%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)19%34%
No qualifications26%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification9%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 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.

Nearby streets

Evelyn Way · Saxon Rise · Norman Way · Warren Close · Manor Close · Denton Close · Parsons Road · Biscay Close

All the streets in NN29 and across North Northamptonshire.

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.