Brocade Close Northampton

15 addresses across 1 postcode (NN4), about 50 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 28700459.

  • Sales: 18 recorded sales since 1995; in 2023 the median was £145,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 5 homes have an energy certificate (C: 1, D: 2, 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 B; Band D in West Northamptonshire costs £2,487 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Northampton, about 1.8 km (1.1 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 80 m away, and Hunsbury Hill Country Park (35 hectares) is about 250 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.4 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 91 to 93 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 13 of its 15 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Eleanor Cross Healthcare, about 1.4 km (0.9 miles) away.
  • People: About 260 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 76% of households owned their home and 40% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 108 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
20231£145,000£145,000£145,000
20181£125,000£125,000£125,000
20171£117,000£117,000£117,000
20152£85,000£85,000£85,000
20141£87,000£87,000£87,000
20051£90,000£90,000£90,000
20033£75,000£74,000£91,000
20012£47,500£46,000£49,000
20003£58,000£43,000£58,500
19982£31,500£28,000£35,000
19961£25,750£25,750£25,750
Most recent sales (18)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
9 May 20236 NN4 8QPTerraced£145,000
23 Feb 20183 NN4 8QPTerraced£125,000
6 Jul 20176 NN4 8QPTerraced£117,000
20 Feb 20153 NN4 8QPTerraced£85,000
23 Jan 20156 NN4 8QPTerraced£85,000
3 Nov 20148 NN4 8QPTerraced£87,000
25 Nov 20058 NN4 8QPSemi-detached£90,000
1 Aug 20031 NN4 8QPSemi-detached£91,000
4 Jul 20038 NN4 8QPSemi-detached£75,000
11 Apr 20034 NN4 8QPTerraced£74,000
14 Dec 200110 NN4 8QPSemi-detached£46,000
23 Jul 20018 NN4 8QPSemi-detached£49,000
2 Aug 200011 NN4 8QPSemi-detached£58,000
24 Jul 20001 NN4 8QPSemi-detached£58,500
19 May 20006 NN4 8QPTerraced£43,000
23 Oct 19986 NN4 8QPTerraced£35,000
22 May 19988 NN4 8QPSemi-detached£28,000
1 Nov 19969 NN4 8QPTerraced£25,750

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 July 2011 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

5 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 34 m². Most common: House, enclosed end-terrace (3); House, semi-detached (1); House, mid-terrace (1). Built: 1983-1990 (3); 1976-1982 (2). Tenure at assessment: rented (private) (3); owner-occupied (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (3 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in West Northamptonshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,487 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,658£1,934£2,210£2,487£3,039£3,592£4,144£4,973

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (42% of about 710 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 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

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 31 October 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 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 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 15 addresses are between 91 m and 93 m above sea level (92 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
NN4 8QP100%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 stationsNorthampton 2.8 million journeys in 2024–251.8 km (1.1 miles)
Long Buckby 330,000 journeys in 2024–2513.7 km (8.5 miles)
Bus stops10 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 28 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Briar Hill School230 m
Bus or coach stationNorthampton Bus Interchange2.3 km (1.4 miles)
Car parksSaints Car Park D1.4 km (0.8 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Superior Green Energy Solutions620 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Luton Airport LTN54.3 km (34 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 Eleanor Cross Healthcare1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Unidrugs Pharmacy450 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery450 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalNorthampton General Hospital2.9 km (1.8 miles)
Police stationUnison Northants Police and Fire Branch2 km (1.3 miles)
Cash machinesThe Cooperative Food Rothersthorpe Road1 km (0.6 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 garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3.4 ha80 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Hunsbury Hill Country Park 35 ha250 m
Play area10 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 90 m²140 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3.5 ha580 m (0.4 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.7 ha320 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 40 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Multivallate hillfort at Hunsbury Hill, a scheduled monument, 600 m (0.4 miles) south. 2 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Multivallate hillfort at Hunsbury HillScheduled monument600 m (0.4 miles) south
Upton bowl barrowScheduled monument1.4 km (0.9 miles) west
Eleanor Cross 1km south west of Delapre AbbeyScheduled monument1.8 km (1.1 miles) south-east
Battle of Northampton 1460Registered battlefield2.5 km (1.5 miles) east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Hunsbury HillHill570 m (0.4 miles) south
Hunsbury Hill SpinneyWood700 m (0.4 miles) west
Storton's PitsLake or reservoir1.2 km (0.7 miles) north-west
Hazel WoodWood1.4 km (0.9 miles) south
Grange WoodWood1.5 km (0.9 miles) south
Bottom SpinneyWood2.3 km (1.4 miles) 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)9.44010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.4205
Particles (PM10)13.74015

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
65 to 6930
60 to 6430
55 to 5970
Under 55215

13 of the street's 15 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 West Northamptonshire: see them on the West Northamptonshire 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.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
Briar Hill Primary School & NurseryPrimary3–11290 m Outstanding (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Hunsbury Park Primary SchoolPrimary4–11300 m Good (Sep 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Delapre Primary SchoolPrimary4–11910 m (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Gloucester Nursery SchoolNursery2–51 km (0.6 miles) 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
Queen Eleanor Primary AcademyPrimary3–111.2 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Abbeyfield SchoolSecondary11–181.5 km (0.9 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Needs attention; Inclusion: Needs attention; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Post-16 provision: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
Simon de Senlis Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Outstanding (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
The Abbey Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.6 km (1 mile) Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Upton Meadows Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
Wootton Park SchoolAll-through4–192 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection
Overstone Gate Primary SchoolPrimary4–112 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection
Pineham Barns Primary SchoolPrimary4–112 km (1.2 miles) Report card (Feb 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Exceptional; Safeguarding standards: Met

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.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
The Curiosity Corner Preschool NN4 9RRHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises230 m5 Very good17 Jun 2025
Drey's Cakery NN4 9RTRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen290 m5 Very good5 May 2026
Kingswood Education Catering Ltd NN4 9RRSchool/college/university300 m5 Very good13 Nov 2023
Hunsbury Park Pop Up Pantry NN4 9RRRetailers - other300 mAwaiting inspection
Briar Hill Community Centre NN4 8SXOther catering premises380 mAwaiting inspection
Premier Convenience Store NN4 8SXRetailers - other430 m (0.3 miles)3 Generally satisfactory30 Oct 2019

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.

108 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences38
Anti-social behaviour24
Criminal damage and arson11
Vehicle crime7
Public order6
Other theft6
Drugs4
Possession of weapons4
Burglary4
Other crime3
Robbery1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Stoneyhurst (29); On or near Joshua Square (12); On or near Yarwell Square (12); On or near Haselrig Square (10); On or near Plantagenet Square (7).

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: 257 residents in 117 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 age4340
Children under 1517%17%
Aged 65 and over22%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)76%61%
Owned outright33%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented2%17%
Private rented21%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work61%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)2%6%
Retired (of adults)26%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)23%32%
Travel to work by car or van67%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including busunder 1%8%
On foot or by bicycle4%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)67%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away11%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)40%34%
No qualifications22%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)75%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all2%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 7 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

Floribunda Drive · Rosenella Close · Frensham Close · Plantagenet Square · Joshua Square · Yarwell Square · Dickson Close · Peace Close · Dimock Square · Benjamin Square · Piccadilly Close · Jubilee Close

All the streets in NN4 and across West 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.