Castle Street Reading

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.

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 January 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

111 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 44 m². Most common: Flat (105); Maisonette, mid-terrace (3); House, end-terrace (1). Built: before 1900 (49); 1900-1929 (19); 1996-2002 (18). Tenure at assessment: rented (private) (42); owner-occupied (27); rented (social) (27).

Council tax

What each band costs in Reading in 2026-27: Band D £2,613 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band C (40% of about 4,250 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 3 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: yes, St Mary's Butts and Castle Street, Russell Street and Castle Hill (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
• Listed buildings on or by this street: 34.
• 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

• 15 Castle Street, grade II*
• 17 Castle Street, front railings and mounting block, grade II*
• 19 Castle Street and associated front railings, grade II*
• Church of St Mary, grade II*
• CULVERT ON HOLY BROOK RUNNING SOUTH WESTWARDS FROM SU71441/73234 TO 71327/73133, grade II*
• Holybrook House, grade II*
• 10 and 12 Castle Street, grade II
• 11 Castle Street, grade II
• 13 Castle Street, grade II
• 14 and 16, Castle Street (the Sun Inn), grade II
• 2 and 4 Bridge Street, grade II
• 21 Castle Street, grade II
• 23 and 25 Castle Street, grade II
• 27 Castle Street, grade II
• 3 and 5 Castle Street, grade II
• 33-37, CASTLE STREET, grade II
• 35, 36 and 37 St Mary's Butts, grade II
• 39 Castle Street, grade II
• 43 Castle Street, grade II
• 45 Castle Street, grade II
• 47 and 49 Castle Street, grade II
• 51 Castle Street, grade II
• 59 and 61 Castle Street, grade II
• 6-10 Bridge Street, grade II
• 7 Castle Street, grade II
• 8 Castle Street, grade II
• 9 Castle Street, grade II
• Blenheim Terrace, 97-105 Castle Street, grade II
• BUILDING NOW PART OF COURAGE'S BREWERY, grade II
• Former cottage to the rear of 8 Castle Street, grade II

And 4 more.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

• 9 Castle Street, Reading: up to 5 homes, pending decision (20 m)
• Hosier Street, Reading: up to 750 homes, not permissioned (170 m)
• 87 Broad Street, Reading: up to 6 homes, permissioned (190 m)
• Broad Street Mall, Oxford Road, Reading: up to 422 homes, permissioned (200 m)
• Broad Street Mall, Oxford Road, Reading: up to 422 homes, pending decision (200 m)
• Fountain House, Queens Walk, Reading: up to 48 homes, permissioned (230 m)
• City Wall House, 26 West Street, Reading: up to 10 homes, not permissioned (240 m)
• 38 Oxford Road and 3-7 Cheapside, Reading: up to 5 homes, not permissioned (250 m)

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

Planned, as of 31 October 2026

• 9 November 2026 to 11 November 2026: VODAFONE GROUP, Utility asset works, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)
• 10 November 2026 to 11 November 2026: VODAFONE GROUP, Utility asset works, lane closure, on the footway, carriageway (minor works)

Finished in the last three months

• 1 October 2026 to 3 October 2026: SCOTTISH AND SOUTHERN POWER DISTRIBUTION (SSEPD), Utility repair and maintenance works, multi-way signals, on the footway, carriageway (immediate - urgent works)
• 9 August 2026 to 12 August 2026: THAMES WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (immediate - urgent works)

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

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 10 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 4 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.

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 200 addresses are between 40 m and 50 m above sea level (44 m on average); the ground rises about 11 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.

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.

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.

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.

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 2.5 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is 15 Castle Street, a listed building (Grade II*), 30 m. 276 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 5 of them Grade I and 15 of them Grade II*.

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.

All three are within the UK legal limits; nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 are 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).

172 of the street's 199 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 Reading: see them on the Reading 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.

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.

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.

Most of these are attached to: On or near Shopping Area (716); On or near St Mary'S Butts (177); On or near Parking Area (111); On or near Further/Higher Educational Building (85); On or near Police Station (76).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 5 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 1,587 residents in 754 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

Homes

Work and commuting

Education and languages

Deprivation

The 3 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 5 to 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.

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

• Roadworks Street works permit: VODAFONE GROUP: Utility asset works, 10 November 2026 to 11 November 2026 (lane closure) found 3 November 2026
• Roadworks Street works permit: SCOTTISH AND SOUTHERN POWER DISTRIBUTION (SSEPD): Utility repair and maintenance works, 1 October 2026 to 7 October 2026 (multi-way signals) found 3 November 2026
• Food hygiene ratings Lakhe (retailers - other, RG1 2LG) now 3 Generally satisfactory, was Awaiting inspection (rated 28 September 2026) found 3 November 2026

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.

• RG1 7SB: 43 addresses
• RG1 7SN: 36 addresses of 39 in the postcode
• RG1 7SS: 33 addresses
• RG1 7ST: 17 addresses of 18 in the postcode
• RG1 7QB: 15 addresses
• RG1 7RQ: 13 addresses of 14 in the postcode
• RG1 7RD: 10 addresses of 11 in the postcode
• RG1 7RJ: 10 addresses
• RG1 7RY: 8 addresses
• RG1 7TH: 3 addresses
• RG1 6QF: 2 addresses of 26 in the postcode
• RG1 7UE: 2 addresses of 5 in the postcode
• RG1 2LS: 1 address of 24 in the postcode
• RG1 7JR: 1 address of 47 in the postcode
• RG1 7SL: 1 address
• RG1 7SR: 1 address
• RG1 7TQ: 1 address

Nearby streets

St Mary's Butts · Bridge Street · St Mary's Butts · Gun Street · Maltings Place · Simmonds Street · Broad Street Mall · Chain Street · Clonmel Walk · Rose Walk · Swan Place · Fobney Street

All the streets in RG1 and across Reading.