Bedlam Street Newtimber, Mid Sussex
50 addresses across 5 postcodes (BN6), about 1.8 km (1.1 miles) long. USRN 25602400.
- Sales: 9 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £1,240,000 across 1 sale.
- Energy: 9 homes have an energy certificate (C: 1, D: 4, E: 2, F: 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 C; Band D in Mid Sussex costs £2,474 a year in 2026-27.
- Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% to 100% of premises.
- Transport: The nearest railway station is Hassocks, about 3.1 km (2 miles) away in a straight line.
- Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 2.3 km (1.4 miles) away.
- Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
- Height: Its addresses are 43 to 69 m above sea level.
- Noise: 6 of its 50 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
- Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Mid Sussex Health Care, about 2.3 km (1.4 miles) away.
- People: About 770 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 63% of households owned their home and 49% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
Sales on this street
| Year | Sales | Median price | Lowest | Highest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 1 | £1,240,000 | £1,240,000 | £1,240,000 |
| 2020 | 1 | £1,164,250 | £1,164,250 | £1,164,250 |
| 2018 | 1 | £1,050,000 | £1,050,000 | £1,050,000 |
| 2014 | 1 | £715,000 | £715,000 | £715,000 |
| 2012 | 1 | £899,950 | £899,950 | £899,950 |
| 2007 | 1 | £239,500 | £239,500 | £239,500 |
| 2001 | 1 | £357,000 | £357,000 | £357,000 |
| 1996 | 1 | £118,500 | £118,500 | £118,500 |
| Date | Address | Type | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 Dec 2024 | 2, FOXHOLE COTTAGES BN6 9EL | Detached | £1,240,000 | |
| 26 Apr 2024 | RANDOLPHS FARMHOUSE BN6 9EL | Other | £1,900,000 | Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer). |
| 12 Feb 2020 | PARKFIELD COTTAGE BN6 9EW | Detached | £1,164,250 | |
| 22 Jun 2018 | WHITPAINS COTTAGE BN6 9EW | Detached | £1,050,000 | |
| 14 Oct 2014 | 2, FOXHOLE COTTAGES BN6 9EL | Detached | £715,000 | |
| 10 Sep 2012 | PARKFIELD COTTAGE BN6 9EW | Detached | £899,950 | |
| 28 Mar 2007 | 2, BEDLAM COTTAGES BN6 9EW | Terraced | £239,500 | |
| 18 Oct 2001 | HATCHES BN6 9EW | Detached | £357,000 | |
| 12 Dec 1996 | 3, BEDLAM COTTAGES BN6 9EW | Terraced | £118,500 |
Energy performance certificates
9 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 121 m². Most common: House, detached (6); House, semi-detached (2); Bungalow, detached (1). Built: 2012 onwards (4); before 1900 (3); 1996-2002 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (9).
Each home's certificates and sales (3 addresses)
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.
| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| £1,650 | £1,924 | £2,199 | £2,474 | £3,024 | £3,574 | £4,124 | £4,949 |
Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (21% of about 780 homes).
Planning and heritage
- Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
- 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
- RANDOLPH'S FARMHOUSE, grade II
Roadworks
No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 31 October 2026.
Flood risk
Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 0 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.
| Postcode | Planning zone | Addresses at high / medium / low risk | Groundwater |
|---|---|---|---|
| BN6 9EL | not in 2 or 3 | 0 / 0 / 0 | unlikely |
| BN6 9EW | not in 2 or 3 | 0 / 0 / 0 | unlikely |
| BN6 9BH | not in 2 or 3 | 0 / 0 / 0 | unlikely |
| BN6 9BB | not in 2 or 3 | 0 / 0 / 0 | unlikely |
| BN6 9EF | not in 2 or 3 | 1 / 0 / 1 | unlikely |
Height above sea level
The street's 50 addresses are between 43 m and 69 m above sea level (50 m on average); the ground rises about 25 m from the lowest to the highest.
Broadband
| Postcode | Superfast (30 Mbit/s+) | Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+) | Gigabit | Below 10 Mbit/s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BN6 9BB | 6% | 6% | 6% | 11% |
| BN6 9BH | 100% | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| BN6 9EF | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| BN6 9EL | 100% | 27% | 27% | 0% |
| BN6 9EW | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
Getting around
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| Railway stations | Hassocks 1.3 million journeys in 2024–25 | 3.1 km (2 miles) |
| Burgess Hill 1.7 million journeys in 2024–25 | 6.1 km (3.8 miles) | |
| Wivelsfield 467,000 journeys in 2024–25 | 7.3 km (4.5 miles) | |
| Bus stops | None within 800 m (0.5 miles) | |
| Bus or coach station | Blatchington Mill School Grounds Hove | 7.7 km (4.8 miles) |
| EV charging points | Connected Kerb Charging Stations | 2.3 km (1.5 miles) |
| Airport with scheduled flights | London Gatwick Airport LGW | 26.1 km (16 miles) |
Local services
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| GP surgeries | Mid Sussex Health Care | 2.3 km (1.4 miles) |
| Pharmacies | Hurst Pharmacy | 2.2 km (1.4 miles) |
| NHS dentists | Dental Surgery | 3.5 km (2.2 miles) |
| Hospital | Mill View Hospital | 7.9 km (4.9 miles) |
| Police station | Burgess Hill Police Station | 6 km (3.7 miles) |
| Cash machines | The Cooperative Food Hurstpierpoint, Hurstpierpoint | 2.2 km (1.4 miles) |
Parks and green space
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| Park or garden | Unnamed 820 m² | 2.3 km (1.4 miles) |
| Play area | Unnamed 4,840 m² | 1.9 km (1.2 miles) |
| Playing field | Unnamed 1.6 ha | 2 km (1.3 miles) |
| Allotments | Unnamed 4,580 m² | 2 km (1.3 miles) |
Landmarks
The nearest historic landmark is Newtimber Place, a listed building (Grade I), 850 m (0.5 miles) south-west. 6 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I.
| Name | What it is | From the middle of the street |
|---|---|---|
| Newtimber Place | Listed building, Grade I | 850 m (0.5 miles) south-west |
| Romano-British villa at Randolph's Farm | Scheduled monument | 920 m (0.6 miles) north-east |
| Wolstonbury Camp: a Ram's Hill type enclosure on Wolstonbury Hill and associated later remains | Scheduled monument | 1 km (0.6 miles) south-east |
| Romano-British farmstead, field system and trackway on Wolstonbury Hill | Scheduled monument | 1.2 km (0.8 miles) east |
| Name | What it is | From the middle of the street |
|---|---|---|
| Randolph's Copse | Wood | 350 m north |
| Foxhole Shaw | Wood | 550 m (0.3 miles) north-east |
| Stalkers Copse | Wood | 720 m (0.4 miles) north |
| Wolstonbury Hill | Hill | 1 km (0.6 miles) south-east |
| Crabtree Bottom | Valley | 1.1 km (0.7 miles) south-east |
| Sandfield Pond | Lake or reservoir | 1.6 km (1 mile) north-east |
Air quality
| Pollutant | Here | UK limit | WHO guideline |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) | 7.1 | 40 | 10 |
| Fine particles (PM2.5) | 6.5 | 20 | 5 |
| Particles (PM10) | 11.0 | 40 | 15 |
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
| Level | Road traffic | Railways |
|---|---|---|
| 65 to 69 | 1 | 0 |
| 60 to 64 | 2 | 0 |
| 55 to 59 | 3 | 0 |
| Under 55 | 44 | 50 |
6 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
No open schools within 2 km (1.2 miles).
Food hygiene ratings nearby
No rated food businesses within 500 m (0.3 miles).
Crime within 250 m
No crimes recorded at anonymised points within 250 m in this period (sussex).
People and work
Who lives here
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Median age | 50 | 40 |
| Children under 15 | 15% | 17% |
| Aged 65 and over | 24% | 18% |
Homes
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Owned (outright or with a mortgage) | 63% | 61% |
| Owned outright | 38% | 33% |
| Shared ownership | 0% | 1% |
| Social rented | 7% | 17% |
| Private rented | 30% | 21% |
Work and commuting
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Adults (16 and over) in work | 59% | 57% |
| Unemployment (of those working or looking for work) | 5% | 6% |
| Retired (of adults) | 26% | 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 van | 41% | 48% |
| By train, Underground, metro or tram | under 1% | 4% |
| By any public transport, including bus | 1% | 8% |
| On foot or by bicycle | 5% | 10% |
| Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work) | 58% | 65% |
| Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away | 8% | 8% |
Education and languages
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults) | 49% | 34% |
| No qualifications | 9% | 18% |
| Apprenticeship as highest qualification | 3% | 5% |
| Main language English (aged 3 and over) | 99% | 91% |
| Cannot speak English well or at all | 0% | 2% |
Deprivation
The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 6 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.
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.
Postcodes on this street
- BN6 9EL: 31 addresses of 34 in the postcode
- BN6 9EW: 14 addresses of 20 in the postcode
- BN6 9BH: 3 addresses of 12 in the postcode
- BN6 9BB: 1 address of 57 in the postcode
- BN6 9EF: 1 address of 58 in the postcode
Nearby streets
All the streets in BN6 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.