Beeching Close Ash, Guildford

14 addresses across 1 postcode (GU12), about 90 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 16000135.

  • Sales: 14 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £342,500 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 10 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 4, D: 5).
  • Flood: 5 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 Guildford costs £2,547 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Ash, about 420 m away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 480 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.0 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 75 to 77 m above sea level.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is The Border Practice, about 2.1 km away.
  • People: About 310 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 66% of households owned their home and 25% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 46 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
20241£342,500£342,500£342,500
20231£425,000£425,000£425,000
20171£287,500£287,500£287,500
20142£186,250£106,000£266,500
20082£204,000£185,000£223,000
20071£197,500£197,500£197,500
20031£150,000£150,000£150,000
19992£87,450£79,950£94,950
19971£57,500£57,500£57,500
19951£59,000£59,000£59,000
Most recent sales (14)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
12 Aug 20243 GU12 6APSemi-detached£342,500
17 Jan 20234 GU12 6APSemi-detached£425,000
27 Sep 201712 GU12 6APOther£1,750Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
5 Jun 20178 GU12 6APTerraced£287,500
12 Nov 20145 GU12 6APTerraced£266,500
8 Aug 201412 GU12 6APTerraced£106,000
13 Jun 20088 GU12 6APTerraced£185,000
5 Mar 20085 GU12 6APTerraced£223,000
20 Jul 20074 GU12 6APSemi-detached£197,500
31 Jan 20038 GU12 6APTerraced£150,000
27 Aug 19991 GU12 6APSemi-detached£94,950
25 Jun 19994 GU12 6APSemi-detached£79,950
21 Mar 19978 GU12 6APTerraced£57,500
12 Jan 19951 GU12 6APSemi-detached£59,000

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 13 October 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from July 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 87 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (4); House, end-terrace (3); House, semi-detached (3). Built: 1950-1966 (5); 1967-1975 (4); 2018 (1). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (5); owner-occupied (3).

Council tax

What each band costs in Guildford in 2026-27: Band D £2,547 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,698£1,981£2,264£2,547£3,113£3,679£4,246£5,095

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (53% of about 790 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.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1.0 km

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, 5 at medium risk and 7 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: of the 13 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 5 medium, 7 low and 0 very low.

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: the postcode centre is in flood zone 2. Zone 2 is between 0.1% and 1% a year from rivers (0.1% and 0.5% from the sea), ignoring defences.

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.

Height above sea level

The street's 14 addresses are between 75 m and 77 m above sea level (76 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
GU12 6AP100%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 stationsAsh 259,000 journeys in 2024–25420 m
Ash Vale 358,000 journeys in 2024–252.3 km
North Camp 251,000 journeys in 2024–252.8 km
Bus stops4 stops within 400 m, 27 within 800 m; nearest Victoria Hall Ash300 m
Bus or coach stationFriary Bus Station Guildford10.0 km
Car parksApcoa2.8 km
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km; nearest InstaVolt Charging Station1.0 km
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Heathrow Airport LHR30.2 km

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 surgeriesThe Border Practice2.1 km
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km; nearest Ash Vale Pharmacy & Travel Clinic640 m
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Evans And Viggor1.0 km
HospitalFarnham Hospital5.9 km
Police stationHampshire & Isle of Wight Constabulary3.6 km
Cash machinesThe Cooperative Food Ash - Aldershot, Ash830 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; nearest Unnamed 1.4 ha480 m
Play area7 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 1,710 m²140 m
Playing field5 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 1.1 ha130 m
Allotments2 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 1.9 ha590 m

Within 800 m: 2 parks and gardens, 1.5 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Peter, a listed building (Grade II*), 360 m south. 15 listed buildings are within 1.0 km, 2 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St PeterListed building, Grade II*360 m south
Ash Manor and Old Manor CottageListed building, Grade II*860 m south-east
Military Cemetery, AldershotRegistered park or garden, Grade II*2.1 km west
Natural landmarks within 5.0 km
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Surprise HillHill710 m north-east
Gravelpit HillHill890 m north-east
Gold Valley LakesLake or reservoir1.2 km west
Stony HillHill1.2 km north-east
Bin WoodWood1.3 km south
Whitepatch BottomValley3.0 km north-east

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10.0 km, battlefields within 5.0 km, registered parks and gardens within 3.0 km, scheduled monuments within 2.0 km, and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1.0 km. 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)7.0205
Particles (PM10)10.44015

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).

Noise figures are still being loaded.

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
Ash Grange Nursery and Primary SchoolPrimary2–11330 m No published inspection
Shawfield Primary SchoolPrimary5–11500 m Good (Jul 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Walsh CofE Junior School Church of EnglandPrimary7–111.1 km Requires improvement (Jun 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Walsh CofE Infant School Church of EnglandPrimary5–71.1 km No overall grade (Jun 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Ash Manor SchoolSecondary11–161.5 km No published inspection
Alderwood SchoolAll-through4–161.9 km No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Requires improvement
St Paul's CofE Primary School & Nursery Church of EnglandPrimary2–82.0 km Good (Sep 2023, 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 of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Ash Youth Centre GU12 5DNOther catering premises300 m5 Very good14 May 2026
Funzone - Ash Grange Nursery and Primary School GU12 6LXSchool/college/university390 m5 Very good13 Mar 2025
Chips Playscheme GU12 6LXSchool/college/university390 m5 Very good11 Apr 2025
Ash Grange Nursery and Primary School GU12 6LXSchool/college/university390 m5 Very good23 Jun 2026
Shawfield Primary School GU12 6SXSchool/college/university390 m4 Good28 Jan 2026
St Peters Centre GU12 6LUHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises420 m5 Very good6 Mar 2025
Happy Garden GU12 5DWTakeaway/sandwich shop470 m5 Very good21 Sep 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.

46 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences18
Criminal damage and arson9
Anti-social behaviour7
Vehicle crime4
Burglary3
Public order2
Drugs2
Other theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Murrell Road (9); On or near Tolley Close (8); On or near Potters Crescent (7); On or near Exeter Road (5); On or near Parking Area (5).

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: 313 residents in 130 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 age3940
Children under 1520%17%
Aged 65 and over14%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)66%61%
Owned outright33%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented29%17%
Private rented5%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work65%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)16%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)6%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)28%32%
Travel to work by car or van60%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram5%4%
By any public transport, including bus6%8%
On foot or by bicycle4%10%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)62%65%
Work 30 km or more away8%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)25%34%
No qualifications21%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)95%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all2%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 4 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

Beeching Close · Ash Close · Tolley Close · Fairview Road · Elm View · Heathcote Road · Murrell Road · College Road · Exeter Road · Potters Crescent · Brook Close · Love Lane

All the streets in GU12 and across Guildford.

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.