Cotmore Close Thame, South Oxfordshire

43 addresses across 2 postcodes (OX9), about 240 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 36200402.

  • Sales: 40 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £327,500 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 23 homes have an energy certificate (C: 13, D: 8, E: 2).
  • Flood: 1 address on its postcodes is in areas 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 South Oxfordshire costs £2,598 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Haddenham and Thame Parkway, about 3.6 km (2.2 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 540 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.0 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 75 to 77 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 6 of its 43 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is The Rycote Group, about 490 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • People: About 300 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 72% of households owned their home and 46% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 19 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
20262£327,500£285,000£370,000
20251£260,000£260,000£260,000
20231£290,000£290,000£290,000
20211£375,000£375,000£375,000
20201£215,000£215,000£215,000
20192£272,750£257,500£288,000
20181£316,000£316,000£316,000
20171£350,000£350,000£350,000
20161£345,000£345,000£345,000
20152£287,500£280,000£295,000
20131£210,000£210,000£210,000
20123£235,000£155,000£250,000
Most recent sales (40)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
3 Aug 202682 OX9 3NESemi-detached£370,000
1 May 202672 OX9 3NEFlat or maisonette£285,000Leasehold.
29 Jan 202581 OX9 3NDFlat or maisonette£260,000Leasehold.
20 Jul 202383 OX9 3NDFlat or maisonette£290,000Leasehold.
9 Apr 2021100 OX9 3NETerraced£375,000
7 Aug 202072 OX9 3NEFlat or maisonette£215,000Leasehold.
6 Dec 201974 OX9 3NEFlat or maisonette£257,500Leasehold.
26 Nov 201996 OX9 3NETerraced£257,500Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
12 Apr 201982 OX9 3NESemi-detached£288,000
18 Apr 201898 OX9 3NETerraced£316,000
1 Sep 2017100 OX9 3NETerraced£350,000
26 Aug 201656 OX9 3NDTerraced£345,000
19 Oct 201552 OX9 3NDTerraced£295,000
11 Sep 201589 OX9 3NDFlat or maisonette£280,000
18 Feb 201356 OX9 3NDTerraced£210,000
30 Jul 201274 OX9 3NEFlat or maisonette£155,000Leasehold.
10 May 201286 OX9 3NETerraced£250,000
4 May 201252 OX9 3NDTerraced£235,000
18 Mar 2011101 OX9 3NESemi-detached£190,000
14 Dec 201082 OX9 3NESemi-detached£225,000
23 Jul 201081 OX9 3NDFlat or maisonette£177,950Leasehold.
23 Nov 200997 OX9 3NDFlat or maisonette£153,000Leasehold.
7 Jul 200870 OX9 3NEFlat or maisonette£156,000Leasehold.
19 Dec 2006102 OX9 3NESemi-detached£225,000
3 Jul 200695 OX9 3NDFlat or maisonette£130,000Leasehold.
12 Jun 200698 OX9 3NETerraced£199,000
26 Apr 200685 OX9 3NDTerraced£195,000
19 Sep 2005102 OX9 3NESemi-detached£184,000
17 Jun 200572 OX9 3NEFlat or maisonette£142,500Leasehold.
28 Apr 200581 OX9 3NDFlat or maisonette£139,950Leasehold.
9 Jul 200372 OX9 3NEFlat or maisonette£128,500Leasehold.
30 Aug 200281 OX9 3NDFlat or maisonette£122,950Leasehold.
31 Jul 200282 OX9 3NESemi-detached£158,000
29 Oct 199970 OX9 3NEFlat or maisonette£68,000Leasehold.
4 Dec 199898 OX9 3NETerraced£83,000
30 Sep 199870 OX9 3NEFlat or maisonette£53,500Leasehold.
18 Sep 199897 OX9 3NDTerraced£56,000Leasehold.
12 Dec 1997102 OX9 3NESemi-detached£78,950
27 Jun 199770 OX9 3NEFlat or maisonette£48,500Leasehold.
19 Jan 199672 OX9 3NEFlat or maisonette£45,000Leasehold.

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

23 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 61 m². Most common: Flat (9); House, mid-terrace (8); House, end-terrace (3). Built: 1967-1975 (15); 1950-1966 (4); 1976-1982 (4). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (12); rented (social) (5); rented (private) (1).

Council tax

What each band costs in South Oxfordshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,598 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,732£2,020£2,309£2,598£3,175£3,752£4,329£5,195

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (40% of about 970 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 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, 1 at medium risk and 6 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
OX9 3NEnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 6 unlikely
OX9 3NDnot 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 43 addresses are between 75 m and 77 m above sea level (76 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
OX9 3ND100%100%100%0%
OX9 3NE100%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 stationsHaddenham and Thame Parkway 889,000 journeys in 2024–253.6 km (2.2 miles)
Princes Risborough 513,000 journeys in 2024–258.7 km (5.4 miles)
Monks Risborough 21,000 journeys in 2024–259.3 km (5.8 miles)
Bus stops15 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 35 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Cotmore Gardens Thame80 m
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Thame Community Hospital Staff Car Park540 m (0.3 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Shell Recharge Charging Station1.2 km (0.8 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Luton Airport LTN43.7 km (27 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 The Rycote Group490 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Thame Pharmacy580 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Park Street Dental Clinic560 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalThame Community Hospital580 m (0.4 miles)
Police stationThames Valley Police Station13.4 km (8.3 miles)
Cash machinesMorrisons Daily - Haddenham Banks Parade Cashzone4.4 km (2.7 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 garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.8 ha540 m (0.3 miles)
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 6.3 ha590 m (0.4 miles)
Play area8 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,530 m²280 m
Playing field4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.4 ha420 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3,280 m²630 m (0.4 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 8.1 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Gallup Poll Garfield, a listed building (Grade II*), 930 m (0.6 miles) north-west. 22 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Gallup Poll GarfieldListed building, Grade II*930 m (0.6 miles) north-west
16 and 16A, Upper High StreetListed building, Grade II*930 m (0.6 miles) north-west
Moated site E of Moorend LaneScheduled monument1.1 km (0.7 miles) north-west
Thame ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II*1.7 km (1.1 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Sydenham HurstWood1.6 km (1 mile) south
The BeltWood2.4 km (1.5 miles) south-east
Musgrave's CovertWood2.5 km (1.5 miles) south-west
Hollier's CovertWood2.5 km (1.5 miles) south
Prospect HillHill3.3 km (2.1 miles) south
Lenton's PondLake or reservoir4.3 km (2.7 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)6.94010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.0205
Particles (PM10)11.84015

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
55 to 5960
Under 553743

6 of the street's 43 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 South Oxfordshire: see them on the South Oxfordshire 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
John Hampden Primary SchoolPrimary3–11600 m (0.4 miles) Good (Jun 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Barley Hill Primary SchoolPrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Thame Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No overall grade (Jan 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good

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
Potted Thame Ltd OX9 3UHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen310 m5 Very good6 Oct 2026
Queensdown Nursery School OX9 3NQHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises350 m5 Very good5 Jun 2023
Thame Foodbank Store OX9 3UHDistributors/Transporters380 m5 Very good28 Aug 2020
Cuttlebrook Hall Care Home OX9 3SPHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good14 Apr 2025
The Falcon OX9 3JAPub/bar/nightclub430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good3 Sep 2026
BP Thame SF Connect OX9 3HSRetailers - other460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good25 Jun 2025
Meadowcroft OX9 3NQHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good18 Mar 2025

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.

19 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences12
Other crime2
Other theft2
Public order1
Anti-social behaviour1
Vehicle crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Towersey Drive (12); On or near Cotmore Close (3); On or near Newbarn Close (2); On or near Horton Avenue (1); On or near Chinnor Road (1).

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: 299 residents in 133 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 age4540
Children under 1516%17%
Aged 65 and over20%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)72%61%
Owned outright40%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented10%17%
Private rented18%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work64%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)25%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)46%32%
Travel to work by car or van39%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle11%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)34%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)46%34%
No qualifications17%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 8 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

Essex Road · Cotmore Gardens · Bridge Terrace · Horton Avenue · Cotmore Gardens · Horton Avenue · Towersey Drive · Towersey Drive · Chiltern Grove · Newbarn Close · Pearce Way · Garden City

All the streets in OX9 and across South Oxfordshire.

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.