Dore Close Northampton

88 addresses across 2 postcodes (NN3), about 370 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 28701017.

  • Sales: 221 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £181,000 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 64 homes have an energy certificate (B: 3, C: 29, D: 25, E: 7).
  • 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 A; 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 7.1 km (4.4 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Rectory Farm Pocket Park, is about 700 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 102 to 106 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 25 of its 88 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Mayfield Surgery, about 1.7 km (1 mile) away.
  • People: About 360 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 36% of households owned their home and 19% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 172 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
20252£181,000£170,000£192,000
20241£192,000£192,000£192,000
20236£191,250£174,000£235,000
20229£196,000£157,000£221,000
20213£181,500£176,000£185,000
20205£156,000£150,000£169,000
20192£153,500£153,000£154,000
20181£194,000£194,000£194,000
20172£151,750£138,500£165,000
20165£120,000£113,000£145,000
20158£115,000£109,525£129,500
20144£108,500£97,000£114,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 221)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
18 Nov 202515 NN3 8PZTerraced£117,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
13 Nov 202556 NN3 8NJSemi-detached£170,000
4 Sep 202581 NN3 8NJTerraced£192,000
10 Jan 202439 NN3 8PZTerraced£192,000
27 Nov 202346 NN3 8NJTerraced£197,000
17 Nov 202330 NN3 8PZTerraced£192,500
7 Nov 202361 NN3 8NJSemi-detached£235,000
28 Jun 202343 NN3 8PZTerraced£180,000
5 Apr 202371 NN3 8NJSemi-detached£190,000
17 Feb 202376 NN3 8NJSemi-detached£174,000
1 Dec 202241 NN3 8PZTerraced£196,000
28 Nov 202253 NN3 8NJSemi-detached£195,000
30 Sep 202264 NN3 8NJSemi-detached£207,000
13 May 202220 NN3 8PZTerraced£200,000
19 Apr 202219 NN3 8PZSemi-detached£168,500
31 Mar 202223 NN3 8PZTerraced£221,000
25 Mar 202252 NN3 8NJTerraced£200,000
15 Mar 202278 NN3 8NJTerraced£157,000
11 Feb 202249 NN3 8NJTerraced£188,000
28 Jan 202269 NN3 8NJSemi-detached£158,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
23 Dec 202132 NN3 8PZTerraced£147,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
1 Nov 202147 NN3 8NJTerraced£185,000
30 Sep 202183 NN3 8NJTerraced£176,000
21 Apr 202133 NN3 8PZTerraced£181,500
22 Dec 202075 NN3 8NJSemi-detached£165,000
16 Dec 202035 NN3 8PZTerraced£150,000
11 Sep 202068 NN3 8NJSemi-detached£169,000
24 Jul 20201 NN3 8PZTerraced£152,000
14 May 202056 NN3 8NJSemi-detached£156,000
12 Nov 201946 NN3 8NJTerraced£153,000
9 Sep 201957 NN3 8NJSemi-detached£154,000
1 Oct 201848 NN3 8NJTerraced£210,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
9 Jul 20184 NN3 8PZSemi-detached£194,000
13 Sep 201723 NN3 8PZTerraced£165,000
30 Aug 201757 NN3 8NJSemi-detached£138,500
9 Dec 201636 NN3 8PZTerraced£120,000
29 Sep 201631 NN3 8PZSemi-detached£97,500Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
22 Jul 201684 NN3 8NJTerraced£145,000
27 May 201635 NN3 8PZTerraced£118,500
31 Mar 20169 NN3 8PZFlat or maisonette£40,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
24 Mar 201649 NN3 8NJTerraced£125,000
29 Feb 20163 NN3 8PZTerraced£113,000
4 Dec 20151 NN3 8PZTerraced£109,525
2 Oct 201542 NN3 8PZTerraced£125,000
30 Sep 201521 NN3 8PZTerraced£115,000
27 Aug 201543 NN3 8PZTerraced£115,000
13 Aug 201521 NN3 8PZTerraced£90,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
25 Jun 201568 NN3 8NJSemi-detached£129,500
10 Apr 201528 NN3 8PZTerraced£110,000
6 Mar 201542 NN3 8PZTerraced£114,000

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

64 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 54 m². Most common: House, end-terrace (20); House, semi-detached (17); House, mid-terrace (12). Built: 1983-1990 (40); 1976-1982 (14); 1991-1995 (4). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (30); rented (private) (28).

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 A (64% of about 590 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, 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
NN3 8PZnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
NN3 8NJnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 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 88 addresses are between 102 m and 106 m above sea level (104 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
NN3 8NJ100%100%100%0%
NN3 8PZ100%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 stationsNorthampton 2.8 million journeys in 2024–257.1 km (4.4 miles)
Wellingborough 981,000 journeys in 2024–2510.3 km (6.4 miles)
Kettering 1.1 million journeys in 2024–2515 km (9.3 miles)
Bus stops7 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 27 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Shire Place Overstone Lodge130 m
Bus or coach stationNorthampton Bus Interchange6.5 km (4 miles)
EV charging pointsevyve Charging Station2.4 km (1.5 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Luton Airport LTN53.6 km (33 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 surgeriesMayfield Surgery1.7 km (1 mile)
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Blackthorn Pharmacy490 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentistsWeston Favell Primary Care1.7 km (1 mile)
HospitalSt Edmund's Hospital4.7 km (3 miles)
Police stationWeston Favell Police Station1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Cash machines3 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest ATM490 m (0.3 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 garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Rectory Farm Pocket Park 13 ha700 m (0.4 miles)
Play area11 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 280 m²240 m
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4.6 ha510 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3.3 ha610 m (0.4 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 13 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Romano-British settlement and pottery kilns W of Ecton North Lodge, a scheduled monument, 1.8 km (1.1 miles) north-east.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Romano-British settlement and pottery kilns W of Ecton North LodgeScheduled monument1.8 km (1.1 miles) north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Fox CovertWood450 m (0.3 miles) north
Lings WoodWood520 m (0.3 miles) west
Goldenash SpinneyWood620 m (0.4 miles) north
Blackthorn WoodWood870 m (0.5 miles) north-east
Pike PondLake or reservoir1.4 km (0.9 miles) north-east
Sywell BottomValley3.6 km (2.2 miles) north-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)9.44010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.5205
Particles (PM10)12.74015

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
60 to 6450
55 to 59200
Under 556388

25 of the street's 88 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 West Northamptonshire: see them on the West Northamptonshire 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
Blackthorn Primary SchoolPrimary4–11300 m Good (Sep 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Rectory Farm Primary SchoolPrimary4–11530 m (0.3 miles) Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Woodvale Primary AcademyPrimary3–11940 m (0.6 miles) Good (Dec 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Lings Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Lumbertubs Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Good (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Thorplands Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.6 km (1 mile) Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Northampton Academy ChristianSecondary11–181.7 km (1.1 miles) Outstanding (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Andrew's Ceva Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.7 km (1.1 miles) Good (Nov 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)
Ecton Village Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.9 km (1.2 miles) Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Ecton Brook Primary SchoolPrimary4–112 km (1.2 miles) No overall grade (Apr 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding

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
Blackthorn Tandoori NN3 4PTTakeaway/sandwich shop240 m5 Very good10 Feb 2020
Rays Kebabs NN3 8PTTakeaway/sandwich shop260 m5 Very good3 Jul 2026
Otis Kitchen NN3 8SFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen340 m3 Generally satisfactory1 Jun 2026
One Stop Blackthorn NN3 8QHRetailers - other470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good18 Mar 2013
Hong Kong Takeaway NN3 8QHTakeaway/sandwich shop470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good11 Aug 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.

172 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences73
Anti-social behaviour44
Vehicle crime11
Other theft11
Criminal damage and arson7
Burglary7
Public order6
Robbery4
Possession of weapons3
Theft from the person3
Other crime2
Drugs1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Leyside Court (31); On or near Paddock Mill Court (22); On or near Shire Place (18); On or near Blackthorn Road (15); On or near Kirton Close (14).

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: 355 residents in 136 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 age3440
Children under 1521%17%
Aged 65 and over6%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)36%61%
Owned outright10%33%
Shared ownership2%1%
Social rented20%17%
Private rented42%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work72%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)7%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)5%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)17%32%
Travel to work by car or van61%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus13%8%
On foot or by bicycle4%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)66%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away6%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)19%34%
No qualifications22%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)74%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all3%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 3 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.

  • NN3 8PZ: 48 addresses of 49 in the postcode
  • NN3 8NJ: 40 addresses of 42 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Overstone Lane · Marshleys Court · Harefield Road · Elton Close · Kirton Close · Farmyard Close · Seagrave Court · Prestwold Way · Leyside Court · Overleys Court · Waingrove · Paddock Mill Court

All the streets in NN3 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.