Cromer Cromer, East Hertfordshire
1 address across 1 postcode (SG2), about 300 m long. USRN 12450213.
- Sales: 3 recorded sales since 1995; in 2011 the median was £1,050,000 across 1 sale.
- Flood: 3 addresses on its postcodes are 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 D; Band D in East Hertfordshire costs £2,455 a year in 2026-27.
- Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 88% of premises.
- Transport: The nearest railway station is Stevenage, about 7.7 km (4.8 miles) away in a straight line.
- Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.8 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
- Height: It is about 98 m above sea level.
- Noise: 1 of its 1 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
- Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Bedwell Medical Centre, about 6.2 km (3.8 miles) away.
- People: About 410 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 79% of households owned their home and 45% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
Sales on this street
| Year | Sales | Median price | Lowest | Highest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 1 | £1,050,000 | £1,050,000 | £1,050,000 |
| 2009 | 2 | £491,875 | £450,000 | £533,750 |
| Date | Address | Type | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 Apr 2011 | THE OLD BARN, LIME TREE FARM SG2 7QA | Detached | £1,050,000 | |
| 25 Nov 2009 | WHIPSIDERRY SG2 7QA | Semi-detached | £450,000 | |
| 16 Oct 2009 | OLD INN HOUSE SG2 7QA | Detached | £533,750 |
Energy performance certificates
No certificates found for addresses on this street.
Council tax
What each band costs in East Hertfordshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,455 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.
| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| £1,637 | £1,909 | £2,182 | £2,455 | £3,000 | £3,546 | £4,091 | £4,910 |
Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band D (27% of about 630 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
- CROMER HALL, grade II
Roadworks
No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 30 September 2026.
Flood risk
Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 2 at medium risk and 5 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.
Rivers and the sea alone: of the 32 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 1 medium, 0 low and 0 very low.
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 is in flood zone 2 or 3.
Height above sea level
The street's address is about 98 m above sea level.
Broadband
| Postcode | Superfast (30 Mbit/s+) | Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+) | Gigabit | Below 10 Mbit/s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SG2 7QA | 88% | 88% | 88% | 0% |
Getting around
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| Railway stations | Stevenage 4.7 million journeys in 2024–25 | 7.7 km (4.8 miles) |
| Baldock 569,000 journeys in 2024–25 | 7.7 km (4.8 miles) | |
| Letchworth Garden City 1.8 million journeys in 2024–25 | 9 km (5.6 miles) | |
| Bus stops | 4 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Council Houses Cromer | 160 m |
| Bus or coach station | Bus Station Stevenage | 7.6 km (4.7 miles) |
| EV charging points | MFG Charging Station | 6 km (3.7 miles) |
| Airport with scheduled flights | London Luton Airport LTN | 18.9 km (12 miles) |
Local services
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| GP surgeries | Bedwell Medical Centre | 6.2 km (3.8 miles) |
| Pharmacies | Great Ashby Pharmacy | 4 km (2.5 miles) |
| NHS dentists | Dental Surgery | 4.4 km (2.7 miles) |
| Hospital | The Lister Hospital | 6.9 km (4.3 miles) |
| Police station | Herfordshire Constabulary | 6.4 km (4 miles) |
Parks and green space
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| Play area | Unnamed 1,200 m² | 1.9 km (1.2 miles) |
| Playing field | Unnamed 2.4 ha | 2.6 km (1.6 miles) |
| Allotments | Unnamed 5,230 m² | 2.4 km (1.5 miles) |
Landmarks
The nearest historic landmark is Farmhouse at Cromer Farm, a listed building (Grade II*), 290 m south. 21 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade II*.
| Name | What it is | From the middle of the street |
|---|---|---|
| Farmhouse at Cromer Farm | Listed building, Grade II* | 290 m south |
| Cromer Windmill | Listed building, Grade II* | 780 m (0.5 miles) east |
| Ardeley Bury moated site and fishpond | Scheduled monument | 1.5 km (0.9 miles) south |
| The Garden House, Cottered | Registered park or garden, Grade II* | 1.9 km (1.2 miles) east |
| Name | What it is | From the middle of the street |
|---|---|---|
| Sloggar's Wood | Wood | 1.1 km (0.7 miles) south-west |
| Markham's Wood | Wood | 1.2 km (0.8 miles) south-east |
| Hick's Grove | Wood | 1.4 km (0.9 miles) west |
| Lodge Hill | Hill | 1.7 km (1.1 miles) north-east |
| Bottom | Valley | 3.2 km (2 miles) west |
| Hunters Close Pond | Lake or reservoir | 4.5 km (2.8 miles) south-west |
Air quality
| Pollutant | Here | UK limit | WHO guideline |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) | 6.1 | 40 | 10 |
| Fine particles (PM2.5) | 6.8 | 20 | 5 |
| Particles (PM10) | 12.2 | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 60 to 64 | 1 | 0 |
| Under 55 | 0 | 1 |
1 of the street's 1 addresses is 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 East Hertfordshire: see them on the East Hertfordshire page.
Nearest schools
| School | Phase | Ages | Distance | Inspection |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ardeley St Lawrence Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School | Primary | 3–11 | 1.8 km (1.1 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
No crimes recorded at anonymised points within 250 m in this period (hertfordshire).
People and work
Who lives here
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Median age | 51 | 40 |
| Children under 15 | 15% | 17% |
| Aged 65 and over | 22% | 18% |
Homes
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Owned (outright or with a mortgage) | 79% | 61% |
| Owned outright | 44% | 33% |
| Shared ownership | under 1% | 1% |
| Social rented | 10% | 17% |
| Private rented | 10% | 21% |
Work and commuting
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Adults (16 and over) in work | 63% | 57% |
| Unemployment (of those working or looking for work) | 3% | 6% |
| Retired (of adults) | 24% | 22% |
| Long-term sick or disabled (of adults) | 2% | 4% |
| Work mainly from home (of those in work) | 49% | 32% |
| Travel to work by car or van | 43% | 48% |
| By train, Underground, metro or tram | 3% | 4% |
| By any public transport, including bus | 3% | 8% |
| On foot or by bicycle | 3% | 10% |
| Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work) | 43% | 65% |
| Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away | 23% | 8% |
Education and languages
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults) | 45% | 34% |
| No qualifications | 10% | 18% |
| Apprenticeship as highest qualification | 4% | 5% |
| Main language English (aged 3 and over) | 100% | 91% |
| Cannot speak English well or at all | 0% | 2% |
Deprivation
The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 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.
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
- SG2 7QA: 1 address of 47 in the postcode
All the streets in SG2 and across East Hertfordshire.
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.