Brygate Close Thorley, East Hertfordshire
7 addresses across 2 postcodes (CM23), about 70 m long. USRN 12452004.
- Energy: 6 homes have an energy certificate (A: 5, B: 1).
- Flood: No postcode centre on the street is in flood zone 2 or 3.
- Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band D; Band D in East Hertfordshire costs £2,455 a year in 2026-27.
- Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
- Transport: The nearest railway station is Bishops Stortford, about 2.2 km (1.4 miles) away in a straight line.
- Green space: The nearest park or garden, Southern Parkland Country Park, is about 100 m away.
- Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.1 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
- Height: It is about 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 South Street Surgery, about 2.1 km (1.3 miles) away.
- People: About 610 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 90% of households owned their home and 43% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
Sales on this street
No sales recorded on this street since January 1995 under this street name.
Energy performance certificates
6 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 92 m². Most common: House, end-terrace (2); House, mid-terrace (2); House, semi-detached (2). Built: 2024 (6).
Council tax
What each band costs in East Hertfordshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,455 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.
| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| £1,637 | £1,909 | £2,182 | £2,455 | £3,000 | £3,546 | £4,091 | £4,910 |
Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band D (54% of about 1,190 homes).
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)
- Thorley Place, Thorley Lane East, Bishop's Stortford, CM23 4BH, permissioned (760 m (0.5 miles))
Roadworks
No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 30 September 2026.
Flood risk
The Environment Agency's long-term flood risk figures have not been loaded for this street's postcodes yet.
Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.
Height above sea level
The street's addresses are about 73 m above sea level.
Broadband
| Postcode | Superfast (30 Mbit/s+) | Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+) | Gigabit | Below 10 Mbit/s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CM23 4TD | 100% | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| CM23 4TE | 100% | 100% | 100% | 0% |
Getting around
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| Railway stations | Bishops Stortford 3.0 million journeys in 2024–25 | 2.2 km (1.4 miles) |
| Sawbridgeworth 471,000 journeys in 2024–25 | 4 km (2.5 miles) | |
| Harlow Mill 279,000 journeys in 2024–25 | 6.7 km (4.1 miles) | |
| Bus stops | 0 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 15 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest High School Thorley Park | 460 m (0.3 miles) |
| Bus or coach station | Interchange Bishops Stortford | 2.1 km (1.3 miles) |
| Car parks | Bishops Stortford Station Surface Car Park | 2.1 km (1.3 miles) |
| EV charging points | Gridserve Charging Station | 4.1 km (2.5 miles) |
| Airport with scheduled flights | London Stansted Airport STN | 7.1 km (4.4 miles) |
Local services
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| GP surgeries | South Street Surgery | 2.1 km (1.3 miles) |
| Pharmacies | 1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Allied Pharmacy Thorley | 1.1 km (0.7 miles) |
| NHS dentists | 1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Thorley Dental Practice | 1.1 km (0.7 miles) |
| Hospital | Herts And Essex Hospital | 2.5 km (1.6 miles) |
| Police station | Rye Police Station | 2.4 km (1.5 miles) |
| Cash machines | Br Spar Gainsborough, Corringham Road | 1 km (0.6 miles) |
Parks and green space
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| Park or garden | 2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Southern Parkland Country Park 25 ha | 100 m |
| Play area | 4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 190 m² | 490 m (0.3 miles) |
| Playing field | 2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.5 ha | 500 m (0.3 miles) |
| Allotments | Unnamed 4,280 m² | 840 m (0.5 miles) |
Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 31 hectares in all.
Landmarks
The nearest historic landmark is Thorley Hall, a listed building (Grade II*), 410 m (0.3 miles) west. 20 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 2 of them Grade II*.
| Name | What it is | From the middle of the street |
|---|---|---|
| Thorley Hall | Listed building, Grade II* | 410 m (0.3 miles) west |
| Aisled Barn at Thorley Hall 60 Metres North of House | Listed building, Grade II* | 430 m (0.3 miles) west |
| Parish Church of St James the Great | Listed building, Grade I | 490 m (0.3 miles) west |
| Wallbury camp | Scheduled monument | 1.6 km (1 mile) south-east |
| RAF Sawbridgeworth World War II airfield defences | Scheduled monument | 1.9 km (1.2 miles) west |
| Moated site in Mathams Wood | Scheduled monument | 2 km (1.2 miles) south-west |
| Name | What it is | From the middle of the street |
|---|---|---|
| Thorley Wood | Wood | 490 m (0.3 miles) south-east |
| Henley Herne Spring | Wood | 1 km (0.6 miles) south-west |
| Brookfield Spring | Wood | 1 km (0.6 miles) west |
| Broom's Plantation | Wood | 1.7 km (1 mile) east |
| Hockerill Cut | Lake or reservoir | 2.3 km (1.4 miles) north-east |
| Start Hill | Hill | 4.7 km (2.9 miles) north-east |
Air quality
| Pollutant | Here | UK limit | WHO guideline |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) | 7.7 | 40 | 10 |
| Fine particles (PM2.5) | 7.1 | 20 | 5 |
| Particles (PM10) | 12.8 | 40 | 15 |
All three are within the UK legal limits; PM2.5 is above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.
Road, rail and aircraft noise
| Level | Road traffic | Railways | Aircraft |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 55 | 7 | 7 | 7 |
None of the street's 7 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, railways or aircraft.
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 East Hertfordshire: see them on the East Hertfordshire page.
Nearest schools
| School | Phase | Ages | Distance | Inspection |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Bishop's Stortford High School | Secondary | 11–18 | 350 m | No published inspection |
| Richard Whittington Primary School | Primary | 3–11 | 840 m (0.5 miles) | No published inspection |
| Thorley Hill Primary School | Primary | 3–11 | 1.2 km (0.7 miles) | No published inspection |
| Manor Fields Primary School | Primary | 3–11 | 1.3 km (0.8 miles) | Report card (Jun 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: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met |
| Spellbrook CofE Primary School Church of England | Primary | 3–11 | 1.8 km (1.1 miles) | Report card (Feb 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met |
Food hygiene ratings nearby
| Business | Type | Distance | Rating | Rated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Meadowbrook Care Home CM23 4SX | Hospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises | 350 m | 5 Very good | 19 Nov 2025 |
| Barnabas Centre CM23 4BE | Other catering premises | 420 m (0.3 miles) | Exempt |
Crime within 250 m
No crimes recorded at anonymised points within 250 m in this period (hertfordshire).
People and work
Who lives here
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Median age | 42 | 40 |
| Children under 15 | 17% | 17% |
| Aged 65 and over | 10% | 18% |
Homes
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Owned (outright or with a mortgage) | 90% | 61% |
| Owned outright | 39% | 33% |
| Shared ownership | 0% | 1% |
| Social rented | 0% | 17% |
| Private rented | 10% | 21% |
Work and commuting
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Adults (16 and over) in work | 70% | 57% |
| Unemployment (of those working or looking for work) | 5% | 6% |
| Retired (of adults) | 12% | 22% |
| Long-term sick or disabled (of adults) | 0% | 4% |
| Work mainly from home (of those in work) | 51% | 32% |
| Travel to work by car or van | 44% | 48% |
| By train, Underground, metro or tram | 2% | 4% |
| By any public transport, including bus | 2% | 8% |
| On foot or by bicycle | under 1% | 10% |
| Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work) | 61% | 65% |
| Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away | 18% | 8% |
Education and languages
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults) | 43% | 34% |
| No qualifications | 9% | 18% |
| Apprenticeship as highest qualification | 3% | 5% |
| Main language English (aged 3 and over) | 97% | 91% |
| Cannot speak English well or at all | under 1% | 2% |
Deprivation
The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 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.
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
Nearby streets
Coventry Drive · Clanford Walk · Wakefield Gardens · Gardner Drive · Colestones Way · Milsons Road · Mountbatten Way · Chalke Croft Close · Pankhurst Close · Hoppett Close · Ely Drive · Beaumont Avenue South
All the streets in CM23 and across East Hertfordshire.
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.