Eldon Place Reading

18 addresses across 1 postcode (RG1), about 100 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 31000454.

  • Sales: 32 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £288,125 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 12 homes have an energy certificate (C: 5, D: 5, E: 2).
  • 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 Reading costs £2,613 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 94% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Reading, about 1.1 km (0.7 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, King George V Memorial Garden, is about 90 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 12.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.4 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 44 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 Melrose Surgery, about 100 m away, with 7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 250 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 43% of households owned their home and 65% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 402 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
20241£288,125£288,125£288,125
20221£310,000£310,000£310,000
20212£318,400£286,800£350,000
20141£250,000£250,000£250,000
20132£203,750£190,500£217,000
20121£187,000£187,000£187,000
20101£189,950£189,950£189,950
20091£165,835£165,835£165,835
20083£177,000£170,000£215,000
20073£250,000£249,950£480,000
20062£194,975£179,950£210,000
20041£155,000£155,000£155,000
Most recent sales (32)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
4 Nov 202416 RG1 4EDTerraced£288,125
8 Dec 202214 RG1 4EDTerraced£310,000
25 Jun 202122 RG1 4EDTerraced£350,000
30 Apr 20218 RG1 4EDTerraced£286,800
1 Aug 20144 RG1 4EDTerraced£250,000
24 Oct 20138 RG1 4EDTerraced£217,000
19 Sep 201316 RG1 4EDTerraced£190,500
10 Oct 201218 RG1 4EDTerraced£187,000
6 Jan 20104 RG1 4EDTerraced£189,950
22 Jun 200916 RG1 4EDTerraced£165,835
31 Mar 20084 RG1 4EDTerraced£170,000
5 Mar 20088 RG1 4EDSemi-detached£215,000
7 Jan 20086 RG1 4EDTerraced£177,000
22 Nov 200726 RG1 4EDDetached£480,000
27 Apr 200720A RG1 4EDSemi-detached£250,000
10 Apr 200724 RG1 4EDDetached£249,950
16 Aug 200614 RG1 4EDTerraced£179,950
10 Mar 200620A RG1 4EDSemi-detached£210,000
23 Jun 20042 RG1 4EDTerraced£155,000
1 Aug 20038 RG1 4EDTerraced£152,000
11 Apr 200322 RG1 4EDTerraced£187,000
5 Apr 200116 RG1 4EDTerraced£114,000
15 Dec 199924 RG1 4EDDetached£132,500
10 Aug 19992 RG1 4EDTerraced£85,000
5 Feb 199916 RG1 4EDTerraced£79,950
29 Jan 199922 RG1 4EDTerraced£60,000
7 Dec 199818 RG1 4EDTerraced£83,000New build.
30 Oct 199816 RG1 4EDTerraced£75,000
26 Feb 199716 RG1 4EDTerraced£54,000
12 Dec 19962 RG1 4EDTerraced£64,950
25 Oct 199620 RG1 4EDTerraced£55,000
7 Dec 199520 RG1 4EDTerraced£22,000

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 13 October 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from October 2011 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 60 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (9); House, end-terrace (1); House, detached (1). Built: 1900-1929 (5); before 1900 (4); 1996-2002 (2). Tenure at assessment: rented (private) (7); owner-occupied (4).

Council tax

What each band costs in Reading in 2026-27: Band D £2,613 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,742£2,032£2,322£2,613£3,193£3,774£4,355£5,226

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (60% of about 680 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: yes, Eldon Square (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 6.
  • 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

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 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.

Height above sea level

The street's addresses are about 44 m above sea level.

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
RG1 4ED100%94%94%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 stationsReading 14 million journeys in 2024–251.1 km (0.7 miles)
Reading West 482,000 journeys in 2024–252.2 km (1.4 miles)
Earley 426,000 journeys in 2024–253.1 km (1.9 miles)
Bus stops13 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 65 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Eldon Road Reading90 m
Bus or coach stationReading Rail Station - buses1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Car parks5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Parking Space on Kings Road, RG1200 m
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Apcoa Charging Station1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Heathrow Airport LHR34.8 km (22 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 surgeries7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Melrose Surgery100 m
Pharmacies10 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Fourways Pharmacy690 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists9 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dr Bk Clinic190 m
HospitalRoyal Berkshire Hospital160 m
Police stationReading Police Station1.2 km (0.8 miles)
Cash machines5 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Barclays Bank Cash Machine220 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 garden4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest King George V Memorial Garden 3,520 m²90 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Forbury Gardens 1.8 ha700 m (0.4 miles)
Play area5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 190 m²250 m
Playing fieldKing's Meadow 8.4 ha820 m (0.5 miles)
AllotmentsNewcastle Road Allotments 6,410 m²1.5 km (0.9 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 2.5 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Main block and flanking wings at Royal Berkshire Hospital, a listed building (Grade II*), 170 m south. 222 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 3 of them Grade I and 11 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Main block and flanking wings at Royal Berkshire HospitalListed building, Grade II*170 m south
Watlington HouseListed building, Grade II*170 m west
173-183, Kings RoadListed building, Grade II*200 m north-east
Albion PlaceListed building, Grade II*260 m south-west
Reading Abbey: a Cluniac and Benedictine monastery and Civil War earthwork.Scheduled monument640 m (0.4 miles) north-west
High BridgeScheduled monument670 m (0.4 miles) west
The Forbury GardenRegistered park or garden, Grade II740 m (0.5 miles) north-west
Reading CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II1 km (0.6 miles) east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Holy BrookLake or reservoir760 m (0.5 miles) west
View IslandIsland1.1 km (0.7 miles) north
Fry's IslandIsland1.5 km (0.9 miles) north-west
Whiteknights LakeLake or reservoir1.6 km (1 mile) south-east
The WildernessWood2.4 km (1.5 miles) south-east
Sonning HillHill2.8 km (1.7 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)12.94010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.4205
Particles (PM10)11.64015

All three are within the UK legal limits; nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 are 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 551818

None of the street's 18 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic or railways.

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
Kendrick SchoolSecondary11–18390 m Outstanding (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
St John's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–11480 m (0.3 miles) Report card (Jul 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Reading SchoolSecondary11–18570 m (0.4 miles) Outstanding (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
New Town Primary SchoolPrimary3–11810 m (0.5 miles) No overall grade (Jan 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Katesgrove Primary SchoolPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Redlands Primary SchoolPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) No overall grade (Jul 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
New Christ Church Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Good (Sep 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Coley Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Maiden Erlegh School in ReadingSecondary11–161.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
UTC ReadingSecondary14–191.4 km (0.9 miles) No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
The Palmer Primary AcademyPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
New Bridge Nursery SchoolNursery2–51.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection

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
Twins News Mart Retailers - other110 m5 Very good10 Nov 2025
Sip and Spin RG1 4DXPub/bar/nightclub130 m5 Very good10 Sep 2025
The Retreat RG1 4EHPub/bar/nightclub140 m5 Very good16 Jul 2025
Nisha Food & Wine RG1 4DGRetailers - other160 m5 Very good12 Jul 2025
Royal Berkshire Hospital Central Catering RG1 5ANHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises160 m5 Very good19 Feb 2026
Whistlestop Level 2 Main Entrance at Royal Berkshire Hospital RG1 5ANRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen160 m5 Very good30 Oct 2024
Marks & Spencer Simply Foods Level 2 Main Ent Royal Berkshire Hospital RG1 5ANRetailers - other160 m5 Very good30 Oct 2024
Friends Coffee House Battle Block at Royal Berkshire Hospital RG1 5ANRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen160 m5 Very good13 Jul 2026
AMT Coffee at Royal Berkshire Hospital RG1 5ANRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen160 m5 Very good28 Nov 2024
Cafe Local RG1 5ANRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen160 m5 Very good7 Mar 2026
Red Balloon Learner Centre RG1 4JJSchool/college/university160 m5 Very good5 Feb 2026
Reading Golders at Wesley Methodist Church RG1 4BWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen210 m5 Very good3 Feb 2026
Wesley Pantry RG1 4BWOther catering premises210 m5 Very good20 Nov 2024
Piwnica Pub RG1 5BYPub/bar/nightclub220 m5 Very good19 May 2025
Reading Local RG1 4HPRetailers - other260 m4 Good21 Aug 2026

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.

402 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences163
Other theft44
Criminal damage and arson42
Anti-social behaviour29
Public order26
Vehicle crime24
Bicycle theft15
Burglary15
Robbery10
Drugs10
Shoplifting9
Other crime7
Possession of weapons7
Theft from the person1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Petrol Station (204); On or near Kennet Street (35); On or near Watlington Street (20); On or near Eldon Square (20); On or near Eldon Road (16).

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: 247 residents in 125 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 age3340
Children under 1512%17%
Aged 65 and over10%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)43%61%
Owned outright19%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented7%17%
Private rented49%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work77%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)10%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)0%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)48%32%
Travel to work by car or van19%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus4%8%
On foot or by bicycle28%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)81%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)65%34%
No qualifications8%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification0%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)76%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all3%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.

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.

Nearby streets

Eldon Road · Eldon Road · Prince's Street · St John's Hill · Town Place · King's Road · St John's Street · Eldon Square · Boult Street · Eldon Street · Eldon Terrace · The Grove

All the streets in RG1 and across Reading.

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.