Dover Close Northampton

13 addresses across 2 postcodes (NN5), about 210 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 28712848.

  • Sales: 25 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £128,250 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 12 homes have an energy certificate (B: 11, C: 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 C; 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 2.9 km (1.8 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 140 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.1 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 101 to 103 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 13 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is St Lukes Primary Care Centre, about 750 m (0.5 miles) away.
  • People: About 900 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 64% of households owned their home and 40% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 122 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often shoplifting.

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£128,250£128,250£128,250
20221£93,800£93,800£93,800
20204£234,750£225,000£322,500
20191£230,000£230,000£230,000
20181£278,500£278,500£278,500
20171£110,250£110,250£110,250
201514£204,950£199,950£254,950
Most recent sales (25)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
25 Jul 20251 NN5 4WJSemi-detached£128,250Leasehold.
18 Aug 20223 NN5 4WJSemi-detached£93,800Leasehold.
21 Dec 202014 NN5 4WJSemi-detached£237,000
15 Dec 20204 NN5 4WJSemi-detached£225,000
30 Oct 20206 NN5 4WJSemi-detached£232,500
6 Feb 202024 NN5 4WJDetached£322,500
28 Feb 201916 NN5 4WJSemi-detached£230,000
3 Aug 201818 NN5 4WJDetached£278,500
25 Aug 20171 NN5 4WJSemi-detached£110,250Leasehold.
5 Nov 201518 NN5 4WJDetached£245,000New build.
30 Oct 201524 NN5 4WJDetached£254,950New build.
30 Oct 201516 NN5 4WJSemi-detached£204,950New build.
9 Oct 201528 NN5 4WJDetached£254,950
25 Sep 201512 NN5 4WJDetached£239,950New build.
25 Sep 201514 NN5 4WJSemi-detached£204,950New build.
25 Sep 201520 NN5 4WJSemi-detached£199,950New build.
24 Sep 201522 NN5 4WJSemi-detached£199,950New build.
21 Sep 201526 NN5 4WJDetached£254,950New build.
4 Sep 20154 NN5 4WJSemi-detached£199,950New build.
4 Sep 20158 NN5 4WJSemi-detached£199,950New build.
28 Aug 20152 NN5 4WJDetached£239,950New build.
28 Aug 201510 NN5 4WJSemi-detached£199,950New build.
28 Aug 20156 NN5 4WJSemi-detached£199,950New build.
22 Jun 20151 NN5 4WJSemi-detached£31,697New build. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
22 Jun 20153 NN5 4WJSemi-detached£31,697New build. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).

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 August 2015 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

12 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 80 m². Most common: House (11); House, semi-detached (1). Built: 2014 (11); 2012-2021 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (12 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 neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band C (30% of about 1,270 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 2 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) 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

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.

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 13 addresses are between 101 m and 103 m above sea level (102 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
NN5 4WD100%100%100%0%
NN5 4WJ100%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 2024–252.9 km (1.8 miles)
Long Buckby 330,000 journeys in 2024–2511.2 km (6.9 miles)
Bus stops8 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 31 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Kent Road South St Crispin40 m
Bus or coach stationNorthampton Bus Interchange3.4 km (2.1 miles)
Car parksParking space on Tower Square, NN51.9 km (1.1 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest evyve Charging Station870 m (0.5 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Luton Airport LTN56.9 km (35 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 St Lukes Primary Care Centre750 m (0.5 miles)
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Well750 m (0.5 miles)
NHS dentistsDental Surgery2 km (1.3 miles)
HospitalBerrywood Hospital1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Police stationNorthamptonshire Police3.7 km (2.3 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest One Stop Northampton, Main Road Duston Cashzone470 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 garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.4 ha140 m
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 220 m²190 m
Playing field4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.2 ha300 m
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3.3 ha530 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 1.5 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of Saint Michael, a listed building (Grade I), 580 m (0.4 miles) south. 31 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 3 of them Grade I.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of Saint MichaelListed building, Grade I580 m (0.4 miles) south
Churchyard cross base in St Michael's churchyardScheduled monument600 m (0.4 miles) south
Upton Hall (Quinton House School)Listed building, Grade I630 m (0.4 miles) south-west
Church of Saint LukeListed building, Grade I650 m (0.4 miles) north-east
Upton medieval village and C17 garden earthworksScheduled monument900 m (0.6 miles) south
Upton bowl barrowScheduled monument1.8 km (1.1 miles) south
Battle of Northampton 1460Registered battlefield4.7 km (2.9 miles) south-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Berry WoodWood700 m (0.4 miles) north-west
Bottom SpinneyWood1.1 km (0.7 miles) south
Storton's PitsLake or reservoir1.6 km (1 mile) south-east
Hoppinghill SpinneyWood2 km (1.2 miles) north-east
Ryehill SpinneyWood2 km (1.3 miles) north-east
Hunsbury HillHill3.1 km (1.9 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)7.74010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.1205
Particles (PM10)12.84015

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 5910
Under 551213

1 of the street's 13 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 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
St Luke's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–11410 m (0.3 miles) No overall grade (Mar 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Millway Primary SchoolPrimary4–11620 m (0.4 miles) Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Upton Meadows Primary SchoolPrimary4–11870 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
The Duston SchoolAll-through4–181 km (0.6 miles) Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Strong standard; Post-16 provision: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Hopping Hill Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.2 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Lyncrest Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Report card (Jul 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Chiltern Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Duston Eldean Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.6 km (1 mile) No overall grade (Jan 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; 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
Furlow NN5 4GLHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises120 m4 Good29 Jan 2018
SMILE PACIFIC LTD NN5 4DRTakeaway/sandwich shop260 m3 Generally satisfactory17 Jun 2025
The food club ita NN5 4DRMobile caterer260 mAwaiting inspection
St Crispins Fish Bar NN5 4XBTakeaway/sandwich shop290 m3 Generally satisfactory4 Jun 2026
The Courtyard Cafe St Crispins NN5 4DRRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen320 m5 Very good24 Apr 2024
Duston Village Bakery NN5 6JFManufacturers/packers360 m5 Very good9 Jul 2019
The Squirrels Inn NN5 6JFPub/bar/nightclub370 m5 Very good14 Mar 2023
Duston Village Chippy NN5 6JFTakeaway/sandwich shop400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good13 Jun 2024
Taste of Spice NN5 6JFTakeaway/sandwich shop440 m (0.3 miles)3 Generally satisfactory16 Jul 2025
Favell Day Services NN5 6JBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good16 Oct 2019
Hearty Cuisine NN5 6JBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good25 Jun 2025
Supershop Newsagents NN5 6JSRetailers - other470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good27 Mar 2013
One Stop Shop NN5 6JQRetailers - other470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good27 Apr 2023
Oak Lodge NN5 6JWHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises490 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good9 Dec 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.

122 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Shoplifting70
Violence and sexual offences20
Anti-social behaviour8
Burglary8
Robbery5
Criminal damage and arson4
Vehicle crime3
Other theft2
Other crime1
Public order1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Howarth Way (85); On or near Kent Road South (6); On or near Dave Bowen Close (5); On or near Kent Crescent (5); On or near Muscott Lane (5).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 895 residents in 305 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 age3140
Children under 1533%17%
Aged 65 and over3%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)64%61%
Owned outright7%33%
Shared ownership5%1%
Social rented10%17%
Private rented21%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work83%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)2%6%
Retired (of adults)4%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)30%32%
Travel to work by car or van61%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle5%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)64%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away12%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)40%34%
No qualifications7%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)91%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 7 to 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.

  • NN5 4WJ: 12 addresses of 26 in the postcode
  • NN5 4WD: 1 address of 68 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Kent Road South · Bronte Close · Eden Road · Austen Close · Hardy Close · Southfield Road · Eden Way · Dane Ridge · Muscott Lane · Howarth Way · Austen Close · Scott Close

All the streets in NN5 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.