Chapel Street Guildford

51 addresses across 4 postcodes (GU1), about 100 m long, classed as a local access road. USRN 16000311.

  • Sales: 15 recorded sales since 1995; in 2014 the median was £215,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 13 homes have an energy certificate (C: 3, D: 7, E: 3).
  • 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 C; Band D in Guildford costs £2,547 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% to 38% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Guildford, about 530 m (0.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Castle Grounds, is about 70 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 11.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.1 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 43 to 47 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 Dapdune House Surgery, about 830 m (0.5 miles) away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 430 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 35% of households owned their home and 57% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 611 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often shoplifting.

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
20141£215,000£215,000£215,000
20091£60,000£60,000£60,000
20071£385,000£385,000£385,000
20042£291,000£197,000£385,000
20032£115,000£115,000£115,000
20022£197,500£145,000£250,000
19971£240,000£240,000£240,000
Most recent sales (15)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
30 May 2024FLAT 1, WOOLPACK HOUSE GU1 3ULFlat or maisonette£850,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
8 Nov 2019SECOND FLOOR OFFICE, 1 - 3 GU1 3UHOther£351,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
7 Feb 20183 GU1 3UHOther£450,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
19 Dec 201621 GU1 3ULOther£490,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
28 Nov 20143 GU1 3UHOther£425,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
17 Nov 20143 GU1 3UHFlat or maisonette£215,000Leasehold.
18 Feb 200920 GU1 3ULTerraced£60,000Leasehold.
22 Jan 200720 GU1 3ULTerraced£385,000
9 Dec 200420 GU1 3ULTerraced£385,000
27 Jul 200420 GU1 3ULTerraced£197,000
30 May 20038 - 9 GU1 3UHTerraced£115,000Leasehold.
30 May 20039 GU1 3UHTerraced£115,000Leasehold.
17 Sep 200215 GU1 3ULTerraced£250,000
24 May 200215A GU1 3ULTerraced£145,000Leasehold.
8 Aug 19974 - 5 GU1 3UHTerraced£240,000

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 2015 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

13 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 44 m². Most common: Flat (9); Maisonette, mid-terrace (3); House, detached (1). Built: 1900-1929 (5); 2003-2006 (5); 2015 (2). Tenure at assessment: rented (private) (8); owner-occupied (5).

Each home's certificates and sales (4 addresses)

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 (36% of about 1,160 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), 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: yes, Guildford Town Centre (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 18.
  • 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

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

Planned, as of 31 October 2026

  • 24 November 2026 to 30 November 2026: UK POWER NETWORKS SOUTH EASTERN, Disconnection or alteration of supply, road closure, on the carriageway (major (paa) works)
  • 24 November 2026 to 30 November 2026: UK POWER NETWORKS SOUTH EASTERN, Disconnection or alteration of supply, road closure, on the carriageway (major works)

Finished in the last three months

  • 19 October 2026 to 22 October 2026: THAMES WATER, New service connection, road closure, on the footway, carriageway (major works)
  • 4 October 2026 to 6 October 2026: THAMES WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (immediate - urgent works)
  • 2 September 2026: VIRGIN MEDIA, Utility asset works, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor 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, 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
GU1 3UHnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
GU1 3ULnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
GU1 3DSnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
GU1 3EXnot 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 51 addresses are between 43 m and 47 m above sea level (46 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
GU1 3DS100%0%0%0%
GU1 3EX100%38%38%0%
GU1 3UH100%17%17%0%
GU1 3UL100%23%23%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 stationsGuildford 6.4 million journeys in 2024–25530 m (0.3 miles)
London Road (Guildford) 869,000 journeys in 2024–25860 m (0.5 miles)
Shalford (Surrey) 95,000 journeys in 2024–252.3 km (1.5 miles)
Bus stops11 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 41 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Millbrook Guildford160 m
Bus or coach stationFriary Bus Station Guildford240 m
Car parks12 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Millmead Car Park260 m
EV charging points26 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Quarry Street70 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Heathrow Airport LHR27.4 km (17 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 surgeries3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dapdune House Surgery830 m (0.5 miles)
Pharmacies5 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots70 m
NHS dentists11 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest 21D Guildford60 m
HospitalMount Alvernia Hospital660 m (0.4 miles)
Police stationSurrey Police490 m (0.3 miles)
Cash machines4 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest M&S ATM100 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 garden5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Castle Grounds 1.3 ha70 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Castle Cliffe Gardens 1.5 ha150 m
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,160 m²610 m (0.4 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Shalford Park 8.5 ha770 m (0.5 miles)
AllotmentsPewley Hill Allotments 1.9 ha920 m (0.6 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 5 parks and gardens, 4.3 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Medieval undercroft at 72/74 High Street, a scheduled monument, 40 m. 223 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 11 of them Grade I and 11 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Medieval undercroft at 72/74 High StreetScheduled monument40 m
72, 74, 76 and 78, High StreetListed building, Grade II*50 m
55, Quarry StreetListed building, Grade II*70 m south-west
Medieval undercroft remains at Nos 50-52 High Street, GuildfordScheduled monument70 m west
The Angel HotelListed building, Grade II*70 m north
Church of St MaryListed building, Grade I80 m south-west
The Jellicoe Roof Garden, GuildfordRegistered park or garden, Grade II120 m north
Guildford CastleScheduled monument130 m south-east
Merrow GrangeRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.7 km (1.7 miles) north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
St Catherine's HillHill1.2 km (0.8 miles) south
Stag HillHill1.3 km (0.8 miles) north-west
Henley GroveWood1.4 km (0.9 miles) west
Peas MarshWetland3.1 km (1.9 miles) south
Dean BottomValley3.2 km (2 miles) west
Britten's PondLake or reservoir3.8 km (2.3 miles) north

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)11.34010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.1205
Particles (PM10)11.14015

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).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
Under 555151

None of the street's 51 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic or railways.

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 Guildford: see them on the Guildford 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
Sandfield Primary SchoolPrimary4–11520 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Pewley Down Infant School Church of EnglandPrimary4–7550 m (0.3 miles) Outstanding (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Nicolas' Church of England Infant SchoolPrimary5–7560 m (0.3 miles) No overall grade (Apr 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Surrey Maths School16 plus16–19680 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Guildford County SchoolSecondary11–18840 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Holy Trinity, Guildford, CofE Aided Junior School Church of EnglandPrimary7–111.2 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Queen Eleanor's Church of England SchoolPrimary7–111.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection

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
La Casita GU1 3UHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen10 m4 Good23 Sep 2026
Giggling Squid GU1 3UHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen10 m5 Very good20 Aug 2026
Theion GU1 3UHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen10 m5 Very good14 Aug 2025
Pizza Gogo Guildford GU1 3UHTakeaway/sandwich shop10 m4 Good7 Aug 2025
Pews Bar & Courtyard GU1 3ULPub/bar/nightclub10 m5 Very good20 Mar 2025
Red Planet Pizza / Joy Eat GU1 3ULTakeaway/sandwich shop10 m3 Generally satisfactory15 Aug 2026
Street Cups GU1 3ULTakeaway/sandwich shop10 m4 Good2 Oct 2025
MEAT THE GREEK GU1 3ULRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen10 m5 Very good24 Aug 2026
Forno Volante GU1 3ULRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen10 mAwaiting inspection
The boring burger GU1 3ULRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen10 mAwaiting inspection
REEVAS Persian food GU1 3ULTakeaway/sandwich shop10 mAwaiting inspection
Jasmine Garden GU1 3ULTakeaway/sandwich shop10 m3 Generally satisfactory15 Aug 2026
Piattini Kitchen & Cocktails GU1 3EXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen20 m5 Very good22 Aug 2025
Sicool Food GU1 3EXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen30 m4 Good24 Aug 2026
Bite & Bliss GU1 3ULRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen40 m3 Generally satisfactory6 Mar 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.

611 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Shoplifting212
Violence and sexual offences118
Anti-social behaviour87
Public order72
Other theft35
Criminal damage and arson27
Burglary16
Drugs11
Other crime8
Vehicle crime6
Theft from the person6
Robbery6
Bicycle theft4
Possession of weapons3

Most of these are attached to: On or near The Shambles (183); On or near Supermarket (135); On or near Chapel Street (77); On or near Tunsgate (68); On or near Mill Lane (54).

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: 432 residents in 243 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 age3340
Children under 156%17%
Aged 65 and over13%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)35%61%
Owned outright17%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented9%17%
Private rented56%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work66%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)13%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)under 1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)56%32%
Travel to work by car or van16%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus5%8%
On foot or by bicycle22%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)78%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away8%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)57%34%
No qualifications6%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)80%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all3%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

  • Roadworks Street works permit: THAMES WATER: Utility repair and maintenance works, 4 October 2026 to 7 October 2026 (some carriageway incursion) 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.

Nearby streets

The Shambles · Castle Street · Tunsgate Quarter · Sydenham Road · St Marys Terrace · Mill Lane · Swan Lane · Tunsgate · Castle Hill · Millbrook · White Lion Walk · Angel Gate

All the streets in GU1 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.