Caesars Road Wheathampstead, St Albans

72 addresses across 6 postcodes (AL4), about 490 m (0.3 miles) long, classed as a local road. USRN 37302792.

  • Sales: 52 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £472,500 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 55 homes have an energy certificate (B: 2, C: 35, D: 14, E: 4).
  • 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 D; Band D in St Albans costs £2,419 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Harpenden, about 4.5 km (2.8 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 670 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 103 to 113 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 72 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Elms Medical Practice, about 4.6 km (2.9 miles) away.
  • People: About 1,340 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 65% of households owned their home and 40% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 72 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
20242£472,500£465,000£480,000
20234£542,500£455,000£725,000
20222£667,500£650,000£685,000
20211£255,000£255,000£255,000
20193£430,000£223,500£577,500
20181£495,000£495,000£495,000
20172£505,000£410,000£600,000
20161£500,000£500,000£500,000
20151£450,000£450,000£450,000
20141£250,000£250,000£250,000
20132£222,500£195,000£250,000
20123£170,000£152,500£178,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 52)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
6 Nov 202481 AL4 8PASemi-detached£480,000
8 Jul 202479 AL4 8PASemi-detached£465,000
18 Sep 202321 AL4 8NRDetached£725,000
8 Sep 202375 AL4 8PATerraced£455,000
17 Aug 202322A AL4 8NPDetached£475,000
23 Feb 202311 AL4 8NRSemi-detached£610,000
20 Sep 202212 AL4 8NPTerraced£685,000
5 Aug 20229 AL4 8NRSemi-detached£650,000
22 Sep 202135 AL4 8NRFlat or maisonette£255,000Leasehold.
4 Feb 202122A AL4 8NPOther£183,500Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
3 Feb 202122A AL4 8NPOther£40,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
8 Nov 201985 AL4 8PATerraced£430,000
18 Oct 20198 AL4 8NPSemi-detached£577,500
27 Mar 201914 AL4 8NPTerraced£340,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
6 Mar 201953 AL4 8NRFlat or maisonette£223,500Leasehold.
1 Nov 201871 AL4 8PASemi-detached£495,000
17 Nov 20175 AL4 8NRSemi-detached£600,000
9 Jun 20178 AL4 8NPSemi-detached£410,000
3 Mar 201621 AL4 8NRDetached£500,000
9 Oct 201520 AL4 8NPSemi-detached£450,000
1 Dec 201451 AL4 8NRFlat or maisonette£250,000Leasehold.
29 Nov 201385 AL4 8PATerraced£250,000
15 Nov 201351 AL4 8NRFlat or maisonette£195,000Leasehold.
23 Oct 201322A AL4 8NPTerraced£20,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
24 Sep 201253 AL4 8NRFlat or maisonette£178,000Leasehold.
6 Jul 201235 AL4 8NRFlat or maisonette£152,500Leasehold.
26 Mar 201263 AL4 8NRFlat or maisonette£170,000Leasehold.
31 May 20111 AL4 8NRSemi-detached£312,000
12 Dec 200763 AL4 8NRFlat or maisonette£190,000Leasehold.
31 May 200716 AL4 8NPDetached£322,500
11 May 200728 AL4 8NXSemi-detached£247,500
19 Jan 200712 AL4 8NPTerraced£314,000
15 Dec 20069 AL4 8NRSemi-detached£285,500
27 Oct 200663 AL4 8NRFlat or maisonette£160,000Leasehold.
28 Jul 200624 AL4 8NPSemi-detached£289,000
10 Mar 200671 AL4 8PASemi-detached£245,000
26 Aug 200512 AL4 8NPTerraced£245,000
30 Jun 200525 AL4 8NRFlat or maisonette£156,000Leasehold.
19 Aug 200453 AL4 8NRFlat or maisonette£158,000Leasehold.
6 Feb 200411 AL4 8NRSemi-detached£240,000
6 Feb 200451 AL4 8NRFlat or maisonette£148,000Leasehold.
20 Dec 200222A AL4 8NPSemi-detached£225,000
4 Nov 200228 AL4 8NXSemi-detached£150,000
20 Sep 200225 AL4 8NRFlat or maisonette£131,500Leasehold.
24 Jun 200253 AL4 8NRFlat or maisonette£121,500Leasehold.
23 May 200216 AL4 8NPDetached£195,000
2 Apr 20021 AL4 8NRSemi-detached£240,000
30 Jan 20029 AL4 8NRSemi-detached£186,000
2 Aug 200189 AL4 8PATerraced£155,000
5 Apr 200081 AL4 8PASemi-detached£159,950

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026 (load in progress). Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from February 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

55 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 83 m². Most common: Flat (21); House, end-terrace (10); House, semi-detached (10). Built: 1950-1966 (35); 1930-1949 (8); 1967-1975 (5). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (30); owner-occupied (18).

Council tax

What each band costs in St Albans in 2026-27: Band D £2,419 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,613£1,882£2,150£2,419£2,957£3,494£4,032£4,838

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band D (30% of about 1,450 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 2 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: 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.

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, 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.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
AL4 8NRnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
AL4 8NPnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
AL4 8PAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
AL4 8PFnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
AL4 8PGnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
AL4 8NXnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely

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 72 addresses are between 103 m and 113 m above sea level (109 m on average); the ground rises about 10 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.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
AL4 8NP100%100%100%0%
AL4 8NR100%100%100%0%
AL4 8NX100%100%100%0%
AL4 8PA100%100%100%0%
AL4 8PF100%100%100%0%
AL4 8PG100%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 stationsHarpenden 2.8 million journeys in 2024–254.5 km (2.8 miles)
Welwyn Garden City 2.5 million journeys in 2024–255.8 km (3.6 miles)
Welwyn North 387,000 journeys in 2024–256.8 km (4.2 miles)
Bus stops13 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 25 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Caesars Road Wheathampstead100 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Welwyn Garden City5.7 km (3.6 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest East Lane Car Park660 m (0.4 miles)
EV charging pointsApcoa Charging Station4.6 km (2.8 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Luton Airport LTN9.3 km (5.8 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 surgeriesElms Medical Practice4.6 km (2.9 miles)
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Manor Pharmacy710 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Marford Road Dental Surgery370 m
HospitalHarpenden Memorial Hospital4.7 km (2.9 miles)
Police stationHarpenden Police Station4.7 km (2.9 miles)
Cash machinesThe Cooperative Food Harpenden - Southdown Road3.9 km (2.4 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 garden7 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 5,230 m²670 m (0.4 miles)
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 2.0 ha680 m (0.4 miles)
Play area6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 660 m²190 m
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest King George V Playing Fields 4.4 ha410 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Hitchens Allotments 3.5 ha250 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 7 parks and gardens, 3.2 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Wheathampstead earthwork incorporating Devils Dyke and the Slad, a scheduled monument, 500 m (0.3 miles) south-east. 48 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Wheathampstead earthwork incorporating Devils Dyke and the SladScheduled monument500 m (0.3 miles) south-east
Church of St HelenListed building, Grade I710 m (0.4 miles) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Rectory CopseWood790 m (0.5 miles) north-west
Pearman's SpringWood1 km (0.6 miles) south
Coleman GreenWood1.2 km (0.7 miles) south-east
David's DingleWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) east
Kents DellValley1.5 km (0.9 miles) south-east
The BroadwaterLake or reservoir3.3 km (2 miles) east

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)8.04010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.2205
Particles (PM10)12.44015

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

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 trafficRailwaysAircraft
55 to 59200
Under 55707272

2 of the street's 72 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 St Albans: see them on the St Albans page.

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
Beech Hyde Primary School and NurseryPrimary3–11200 m Good (Sep 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Helen's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–11590 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection

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 (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
The Early Bird Pre-School (Wheathampstead) AL4 8TPHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises80 m5 Very good8 Oct 2025
L'Olivo AL4 8NHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen320 m5 Very good1 Aug 2024

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.

72 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences44
Anti-social behaviour10
Criminal damage and arson6
Vehicle crime5
Other theft2
Public order2
Other crime2
Drugs1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Tudor Road (15); On or near Smallwood Close (12); On or near Housden Close (11); On or near Nurseries Road (8); On or near Battleview (7).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 4 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 1,343 residents in 520 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 age4140
Children under 1524%17%
Aged 65 and over18%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)65%61%
Owned outright32%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented28%17%
Private rented7%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work63%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)22%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)43%32%
Travel to work by car or van45%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus5%8%
On foot or by bicycle6%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)68%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away6%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)40%34%
No qualifications13%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)97%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 5 to 9 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

Nurseries Road · Tudor Road · Smallwood Close · Housden Close · Conquerors Hill · Davys Close · Wright Close · Hill Dyke Road · Loufenway Mews · Saxon Road · Offas Way · Garrard Way

All the streets in AL4 and across St Albans.

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.