Cray Lane Horsham
9 addresses across 2 postcodes (RH20), about 370 m long, classed as a minor road. USRN 17600284.
- Sales: 6 recorded sales since 1995; in 2020 the median was £732,000 across 1 sale.
- Energy: 5 homes have an energy certificate (C: 1, D: 2, E: 1, G: 1).
- 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 G; Band D in Horsham costs £2,441 a year in 2026-27.
- Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
- Transport: The nearest railway station is Pulborough, about 2.3 km (1.4 miles) away in a straight line.
- Green space: The nearest park or garden, Marehill Common, is about 1.8 km (1.1 miles) away.
- Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 5.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
- Height: Its addresses are 36 to 45 m above sea level.
- Noise: 7 of its 9 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
- Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Pulborough Medical Group, about 1.6 km (1 mile) away.
- People: About 250 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 84% of households owned their home and 37% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
- Crime: 2 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often criminal damage and arson.
Sales on this street
| Year | Sales | Median price | Lowest | Highest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 1 | £732,000 | £732,000 | £732,000 |
| 2014 | 1 | £480,000 | £480,000 | £480,000 |
| 2005 | 1 | £271,501 | £271,501 | £271,501 |
| 2002 | 1 | £360,000 | £360,000 | £360,000 |
| 1998 | 1 | £306,000 | £306,000 | £306,000 |
| 1996 | 1 | £152,500 | £152,500 | £152,500 |
| Date | Address | Type | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 Oct 2020 | MYRTLE COTTAGE RH20 2HX | Detached | £732,000 | |
| 22 Sep 2014 | APPLETREE COTTAGE RH20 2HX | Detached | £480,000 | |
| 27 Jan 2005 | CRAYMORE RH20 2HX | Detached | £271,501 | |
| 26 Nov 2002 | MYRTLE COTTAGE RH20 2HX | Detached | £360,000 | |
| 22 Apr 1998 | CRAY LANE HOUSE RH20 2HX | Detached | £306,000 | |
| 10 Jul 1996 | MYRTLE COTTAGE RH20 2HX | Detached | £152,500 | New build. |
Energy performance certificates
5 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 160 m². Most common: House, detached (4); Bungalow, detached (1). Built: before 1900 (2); 2010 (1); 1900-1929 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (3).
Each home's certificates and sales (5 addresses)
Council tax
What each band costs in Horsham in 2026-27: Band D £2,441 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.
| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| £1,627 | £1,899 | £2,170 | £2,441 | £2,983 | £3,526 | £4,068 | £4,882 |
Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band G (41% of about 750 homes).
Planning and heritage
- Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
- Listed buildings on or by this street: 1.
- 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
- FORGE COTTAGE THE OLD FORGE, grade II
Roadworks
No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 31 October 2026.
Flood risk
No address in this street's postcodes is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.
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.
Height above sea level
The street's 9 addresses are between 36 m and 45 m above sea level (40 m on average); the ground rises about 10 m from the lowest to the highest.
Broadband
| Postcode | Superfast (30 Mbit/s+) | Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+) | Gigabit | Below 10 Mbit/s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RH20 1BN | 100% | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| RH20 2HX | 100% | 100% | 100% | 0% |
Getting around
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| Railway stations | Pulborough 320,000 journeys in 2024–25 | 2.3 km (1.4 miles) |
| Billingshurst 447,000 journeys in 2024–25 | 5.7 km (3.5 miles) | |
| Amberley 89,000 journeys in 2024–25 | 9 km (5.6 miles) | |
| Bus stops | 2 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 7 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Cray Lane Codmore Hill | 210 m |
| Car parks | Lower Street Car Park | 1.8 km (1.1 miles) |
| EV charging points | 1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest BP | 1.5 km (0.9 miles) |
| Airport with scheduled flights | London Gatwick Airport LGW | 29.2 km (18 miles) |
Local services
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| GP surgeries | Pulborough Medical Group | 1.6 km (1 mile) |
| Pharmacies | Kamsons Pharmacy | 1.6 km (1 mile) |
| NHS dentists | Dental Surgery | 1.7 km (1.1 miles) |
| Hospital | Arundel And District Hospital | 14 km (8.7 miles) |
| Police station | Pulborough Police Station | 1.7 km (1 mile) |
Parks and green space
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| Park or garden | Marehill Common 1,590 m² | 1.8 km (1.1 miles) |
| Play area | 1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 170 m² | 390 m |
| Playing field | Unnamed 4.6 ha | 1.4 km (0.9 miles) |
| Allotments | Unnamed 5,620 m² | 1.2 km (0.8 miles) |
Landmarks
The nearest historic landmark is Romano-British villa at Borough Farm, a scheduled monument, 1 km (0.6 miles) east. 14 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).
| Name | What it is | From the middle of the street |
|---|---|---|
| Romano-British villa at Borough Farm | Scheduled monument | 1 km (0.6 miles) east |
| Medieval moated site off Moat Lane | Scheduled monument | 1.4 km (0.9 miles) south |
| Roman barrow at Broomershill, 200m south east of Brocks Rew Farm | Scheduled monument | 1.4 km (0.9 miles) south-east |
| Name | What it is | From the middle of the street |
|---|---|---|
| Gerrard's Rough | Wood | 580 m (0.4 miles) north-west |
| Hill Copse | Wood | 600 m (0.4 miles) west |
| Toat Plantation | Wood | 1.1 km (0.7 miles) north-west |
| Braziers Bottom | Valley | 2.9 km (1.8 miles) west |
| Woods Hill | Hill | 3.2 km (2 miles) east |
| Wassel Pond | Lake or reservoir | 4.3 km (2.7 miles) south |
Air quality
| Pollutant | Here | UK limit | WHO guideline |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) | 5.1 | 40 | 10 |
| Fine particles (PM2.5) | 6.3 | 20 | 5 |
| Particles (PM10) | 10.3 | 40 | 15 |
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
| Level | Road traffic | Railways |
|---|---|---|
| 70 to 74 | 1 | 0 |
| 60 to 64 | 1 | 0 |
| 55 to 59 | 5 | 2 |
| Under 55 | 2 | 7 |
7 of the street's 9 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, and 2 from railways, 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 Horsham: see them on the Horsham page.
Nearest schools
| School | Phase | Ages | Distance | Inspection |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| St Mary's Church of England Primary School | Primary | 4–11 | 1.4 km (0.8 miles) | Good (Sep 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) |
Food hygiene ratings nearby
No rated food businesses within 500 m (0.3 miles).
Crime within 250 m
| Category | Crimes |
|---|---|
| Criminal damage and arson | 1 |
| Violence and sexual offences | 1 |
Most of these are attached to: On or near Stane Street (1); On or near Cray Lane (1).
People and work
Who lives here
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Median age | 59 | 40 |
| Children under 15 | 11% | 17% |
| Aged 65 and over | 34% | 18% |
Homes
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Owned (outright or with a mortgage) | 84% | 61% |
| Owned outright | 57% | 33% |
| Shared ownership | 0% | 1% |
| Social rented | 5% | 17% |
| Private rented | 11% | 21% |
Work and commuting
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Adults (16 and over) in work | 52% | 57% |
| Unemployment (of those working or looking for work) | 5% | 6% |
| Retired (of adults) | 37% | 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 van | 51% | 48% |
| By train, Underground, metro or tram | 2% | 4% |
| By any public transport, including bus | 2% | 8% |
| On foot or by bicycle | 2% | 10% |
| Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work) | 28% | 65% |
| Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away | 22% | 8% |
Education and languages
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults) | 37% | 34% |
| No qualifications | 17% | 18% |
| Apprenticeship as highest qualification | 4% | 5% |
| Main language English (aged 3 and over) | 99% | 91% |
| Cannot speak English well or at all | 0% | 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.
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
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.