Bancroft Hitchin, North Hertfordshire

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.

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 October 2008 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

175 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 61 m². Most common: Flat (127); House, mid-terrace (13); Maisonette, mid-terrace (6). Built: 2003-2006 (43); 1983-1990 (26); before 1900 (23). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (93); rented (private) (59); rented (social) (3).

Council tax

What each band costs in North Hertfordshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,449 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band C (30% of about 3,480 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 3 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: yes, Hitchin (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
• Listed buildings on or by this street: 45.
• 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

• 105 AND 106, BANCROFT, grade II*
• Manor House Galleries, grade II*
• 1, WALSWORTH ROAD, grade II
• 101, BANCROFT, grade II
• 102 AND 102A, BANCROFT, grade II
• 103 AND 103B, BANCROFT, grade II
• 107, 107A AND 107B, BANCROFT, grade II
• 108 AND 109, BANCROFT, grade II
• 12-14, BANCROFT, grade II
• 121, BANCROFT, grade II
• 15 AND 16, BANCROFT, grade II
• 15, CHURCHYARD, grade II
• 17, BANCROFT, grade II
• 17, HIGH STREET, grade II
• 2-5, BANCROFT, grade II
• 21, BANCROFT, grade II
• 21A, BANCROFT, grade II
• 22, BANCROFT, grade II
• 23 AND 24, BANCROFT, grade II
• 24-28, CHURCHYARD, grade II
• 25, BANCROFT, grade II
• 27A AND 28, BANCROFT, grade II
• 30, BANCROFT, grade II
• 32 AND 33, BANCROFT, grade II
• 34, BANCROFT, grade II
• 38-40, BANCROFT, grade II
• 45, 46 AND 46A, BANCROFT, grade II
• 47, BANCROFT, grade II
• 53, BANCROFT, grade II
• 6-8, BANCROFT, grade II

And 15 more.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

• Block B, Latchmore Court, Hitchin: up to 10 homes, permissioned (150 m)
• The Exchange, Queen Street, Hitchin: up to 10 homes, pending decision (300 m)
• 2 - 8 Bucklersbury Hitchin Hertfordshire SG5 1BB: up to 7 homes, permissioned (310 m)
• Elderley Persons Home, Wratten Road West, Hitchin: up to 11 homes, permissioned (570 m (0.4 miles))
• 1a Kings Road Hitchin Hertfordshire SG5 1RD: up to 5 homes, permissioned (750 m (0.5 miles))
• Kwik -Fit Tyres, 59 -61 Walsworth Road, Hitcin: up to 10 homes, permissioned (820 m (0.5 miles))
• Hitchin Hospital, Talbot Street, permissioned (850 m (0.5 miles))
• The Nightingale, Nightingale Road, Hitchin: up to 11 homes, permissioned (870 m (0.5 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

Planned, as of 30 September 2026

• 25 January 2027 to 27 January 2027: AFFINITY WATER - C, Utility repair and maintenance works, multi-way signals, on the carriageway (minor works)

Finished in the last three months

• 29 September 2026: VIRGIN MEDIA, Utility repair and maintenance works, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)
• 28 September 2026: VIRGIN MEDIA, Utility asset works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)
• 28 August 2026 to 3 September 2026: UK POWER NETWORKS EASTERN & LONDON, Utility repair and maintenance works, give and take, 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

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 92 addresses are in areas at high risk, 117 at medium risk and 178 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.

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 498 addresses are between 59 m and 75 m above sea level (63 m on average); the ground rises about 16 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.

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.

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.

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.

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 4.5 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is 105 and 106, Bancroft, a listed building (Grade II*), 100 m north-east. 184 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade I and 12 of them Grade II*.

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.

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).

215 of the street's 498 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 North Hertfordshire: see them on the North Hertfordshire page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 3 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.

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 3 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.

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.

Most of these are attached to: On or near High Street (123); On or near Parking Area (104); On or near Hermitage Road (57); On or near Supermarket (30); On or near Bancroft (15).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 5 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 1,500 residents in 795 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

Homes

Work and commuting

Education and languages

Deprivation

The 3 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 8 to 10 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

• Energy certificates New energy certificate: band D, flat (lodged 14 October 2026) found 2 November 2026
• Energy certificates New energy certificate: band C, flat (lodged 14 October 2026) found 2 November 2026
• Food hygiene ratings The Hamm / Hammered Hitchin (restaurant/cafe/canteen, SG5 1ED) now 4 Good, was 5 Very good (rated 24 September 2026) found 30 October 2026

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.

• SG5 1LA: 75 addresses
• SG5 1NQ: 59 addresses of 63 in the postcode
• SG5 1LJ: 49 addresses
• SG5 1JW: 46 addresses of 47 in the postcode
• SG5 1JQ: 45 addresses of 51 in the postcode
• SG5 1NB: 42 addresses of 47 in the postcode
• SG5 1LL: 35 addresses of 37 in the postcode
• SG5 1LN: 32 addresses
• SG5 1LF: 28 addresses of 30 in the postcode
• SG5 1LS: 22 addresses of 25 in the postcode
• SG5 1NJ: 17 addresses of 19 in the postcode
• SG5 1GB: 13 addresses
• SG5 1FU: 11 addresses
• SG5 1BH: 9 addresses of 40 in the postcode
• SG5 1LE: 3 addresses
• SG5 1ND: 3 addresses
• SG5 1JD: 2 addresses of 21 in the postcode
• SG5 1DG: 1 address of 47 in the postcode
• SG5 1JA: 1 address of 4 in the postcode
• SG5 1LT: 1 address of 14 in the postcode
• SG5 1NG: 1 address
• SG5 1PU: 1 address of 6 in the postcode
• SG5 1RY: 1 address of 107 in the postcode
• SG5 2EF: 1 address of 23 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Brand Street · Hermitage Road · Grammar School Walk · Churchyard · High Street · Portmill Lane · William Ransom Way · West Alley · Arcade Walk · The Arcade · Churchgate · Whinbush Road

All the streets in SG5 and across North Hertfordshire.