Ditchford Close Northampton

23 addresses across 1 postcode (NN4), about 130 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 28712085.

  • Sales: 71 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £275,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 17 homes have an energy certificate (A: 1, C: 8, D: 8).
  • 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 E; Band D in West Northamptonshire costs £2,487 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Northampton, about 4.3 km (2.6 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 480 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.4 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 94 to 97 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 Wootton Medical Centre, about 760 m (0.5 miles) away.
  • People: About 380 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 71% of households owned their home and 40% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 64 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
20251£275,000£275,000£275,000
20231£390,000£390,000£390,000
20211£262,000£262,000£262,000
20201£262,500£262,500£262,500
20191£245,000£245,000£245,000
20171£315,000£315,000£315,000
20162£224,000£206,000£242,000
20152£322,500£280,000£365,000
20142£171,250£160,000£182,500
20131£225,000£225,000£225,000
20121£172,000£172,000£172,000
20111£157,500£157,500£157,500
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 71)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
17 Oct 20259 NN4 6AYSemi-detached£275,000
19 May 202321 NN4 6AYDetached£390,000
16 Feb 202112 NN4 6AYDetached£262,000
22 Jul 202019 NN4 6AYDetached£350,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
22 Jul 202019 NN4 6AYDetached£262,500Leasehold.
27 Mar 201911 NN4 6AYSemi-detached£245,000
19 Oct 201723 NN4 6AYDetached£315,000
1 Jul 20166 NN4 6AYDetached£242,000
12 Feb 201615 NN4 6AYSemi-detached£206,000
9 Dec 201518 NN4 6AYDetached£365,000
1 May 201517 NN4 6AYDetached£280,000
24 Jan 201412 NN4 6AYDetached£160,000
10 Jan 201414 NN4 6AYDetached£182,500
13 Dec 20133 NN4 6AYDetached£225,000
17 Jan 201215 NN4 6AYTerraced£172,000
4 Aug 20119 NN4 6AYSemi-detached£157,500
10 Jun 201011 NN4 6AYSemi-detached£171,000
12 Jun 20085 NN4 6AYDetached£232,500
30 May 20086 NN4 6AYDetached£199,000
28 Mar 20089 NN4 6AYSemi-detached£181,000
19 Jan 200711 NN4 6AYSemi-detached£185,000
29 Sep 200623 NN4 6AYDetached£220,000
25 Aug 20068 NN4 6AYSemi-detached£176,000
25 Aug 20068 NN4 6AYTerraced£176,000Leasehold.
21 Jul 20067 NN4 6AYTerraced£162,500
3 Jul 200612 NN4 6AYDetached£158,500
21 Dec 200516 NN4 6AYDetached£193,000
24 Nov 200522 NN4 6AYDetached£194,000
16 Sep 20044 NN4 6AYDetached£212,500
4 Aug 20048 NN4 6AYSemi-detached£165,000
11 Jun 200412 NN4 6AYDetached£144,500
27 May 20045 NN4 6AYDetached£208,850
29 Apr 200421 NN4 6AYDetached£192,000
9 May 200311 NN4 6AYDetached£141,000
27 Mar 200318 NN4 6AYDetached£230,000
28 Feb 200314 NN4 6AYSemi-detached£137,000
18 Dec 200215 NN4 6AYDetached£127,500
15 Nov 20021 NN4 6AYDetached£230,000
17 Jan 20029 NN4 6AYSemi-detached£142,000
10 Aug 20017 NN4 6AYTerraced£102,995
25 Jun 20018 NN4 6AYSemi-detached£98,000
12 Apr 200115 NN4 6AYDetached£89,995
21 Dec 200021 NN4 6AYDetached£122,000
15 Dec 20001 NN4 6AYDetached£185,000
15 Dec 200022 NN4 6AYDetached£112,500
18 Aug 20006 NN4 6AYDetached£108,500
25 Feb 200010 NN4 6AYDetached£89,950
3 Dec 19998 NN4 6AYSemi-detached£84,200
10 Nov 19992 NN4 6AYDetached£105,000
18 Jun 19997 NN4 6AYTerraced£75,000

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 June 2012 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

17 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 103 m². Most common: House, detached (10); House, semi-detached (7). Built: 1996-2002 (13); 1991-1995 (3); 1983-1990 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (13); rented (private) (3).

Each home's certificates and sales (8 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in West Northamptonshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,487 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,658£1,934£2,210£2,487£3,039£3,592£4,144£4,973

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band E (30% of about 760 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: 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.

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 31 October 2026.

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

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 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 23 addresses are between 94 m and 97 m above sea level (96 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
NN4 6AY100%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 stationNorthampton 2.8 million journeys in 2024–254.3 km (2.6 miles)
Bus stops7 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 31 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Hocknell Close Wootton Fields100 m
Bus or coach stationBus Terminus Brackmills1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Car parksBrackmills Country Park car park2.2 km (1.4 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Osprey Charging Station1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Luton Airport LTN50.6 km (31 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 Wootton Medical Centre760 m (0.5 miles)
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Tudor Pharmacy110 m
NHS dentistsRodericks Dental LTD1.8 km (1.1 miles)
HospitalNorthampton General Hospital3.6 km (2.2 miles)
Police stationNorthamptonshire Police Federation1.7 km (1 mile)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Cooperative Food Wootten Fields, Wooten Hope Drive Cashzone140 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 garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.7 ha480 m (0.3 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 400 m²530 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4.3 ha310 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 3,240 m²1.2 km (0.7 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 1.7 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St George, a listed building (Grade I), 740 m (0.5 miles) south-west. 27 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St GeorgeListed building, Grade I740 m (0.5 miles) south-west
Battle of Northampton 1460Registered battlefield2.2 km (1.4 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Little Gap SpinneyWood420 m (0.3 miles) south-east
Delapre WoodWood1.7 km (1 mile) north-west
Grange ParkWood1.9 km (1.2 miles) south
Hunsbury HillHill3.4 km (2.1 miles) north-west
Bourne BottomValley3.6 km (2.2 miles) south
Grange PondLake or reservoir4.8 km (3 miles) south-east

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)9.14010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.4205
Particles (PM10)13.24015

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
Under 552323

None of the street's 23 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 West Northamptonshire: see them on the West Northamptonshire 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
Preston Hedges Primary SchoolPrimary4–11200 m No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Caroline Chisholm SchoolAll-through4–18620 m (0.4 miles) Good (Jan 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)
Wootton Primary SchoolPrimary4–11680 m (0.4 miles) No overall grade (Jun 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Hardingstone AcademyPrimary0–11820 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Woodland View Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.7 km (1.1 miles) Outstanding (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Wootton Park SchoolAll-through4–191.9 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection
Overstone Gate Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.9 km (1.2 miles) 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
Dragon food products NN4 6BJManufacturers/packers170 mAwaiting inspection
Chi's Fish Bar NN4 6BUTakeaway/sandwich shop200 m4 Good9 Dec 2025
Naija Organic NN4 6AWOther catering premises390 mAwaiting inspection

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.

64 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences35
Anti-social behaviour14
Criminal damage and arson5
Drugs2
Other theft2
Vehicle crime2
Public order1
Shoplifting1
Bicycle theft1
Other crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Supermarket (11); On or near Ditchford Close (11); On or near Cross Waters Close (10); On or near Brownlee (10); On or near Flinters Close (3).

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: 380 residents in 124 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 age3540
Children under 1528%17%
Aged 65 and over7%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)71%61%
Owned outright23%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented2%17%
Private rented27%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work80%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)8%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)0%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)35%32%
Travel to work by car or van53%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus5%8%
On foot or by bicycle7%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)73%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away5%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)40%34%
No qualifications10%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)87%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all4%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 10 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

  • Food hygiene ratings Dragon food products (manufacturers/packers, NN4 6BJ) newly listed: Awaiting inspection 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.

  • NN4 6AY: 23 addresses of 26 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Hocknell Close · Copymoor Close · Cross Waters Close · Crossbrooks · Beddoes Close · Flinters Close · Elm Grove · Bancroft Close · Lordswood Close · Brownlee Place · Bancroft Way · Wootton Hope Drive

All the streets in NN4 and across West Northamptonshire.

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.