Follyhouse Close Walsall

10 addresses across 3 postcodes (WS1), about 50 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 41901144.

  • Sales: 16 recorded sales since 1995; in 2018 the median was £110,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 6 homes have an energy certificate (C: 1, D: 5).
  • Flood: 1 address on its postcodes is in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band A; Band D in Walsall costs £2,627 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Walsall, about 1.3 km (0.8 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Palfrey Park, is about 610 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 15.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 8.4 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 143 to 146 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 10 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Little London Surgery, about 240 m away, with 10 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 640 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 58% of households owned their home and 29% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 131 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
20181£110,000£110,000£110,000
20141£80,000£80,000£80,000
20131£119,000£119,000£119,000
20052£119,000£119,000£119,000
20043£127,000£115,000£139,000
20031£130,000£130,000£130,000
19991£43,000£43,000£43,000
19961£49,950£49,950£49,950
Most recent sales (16)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
14 Nov 20251 WS1 3ENOther£210,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
14 Nov 20251 WS1 3ENOther£210,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
7 Jun 20223 WS1 3ENSemi-detached£129,999Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
27 Jun 20198 WS1 3ENSemi-detached£138,500Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
16 Feb 20185 WS1 3ENSemi-detached£110,000
29 May 20152 WS1 3ENSemi-detached£74,950Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
21 Jun 20143 WS1 3ENSemi-detached£80,000
10 Oct 20138 WS1 3ENSemi-detached£119,000
28 Oct 20055 WS1 3ENSemi-detached£119,000
28 Oct 20055 WS1 3ENSemi-detached£119,000Leasehold.
8 Oct 20048 WS1 3ENSemi-detached£127,000
27 Sep 20044 WS1 3ENSemi-detached£139,000Leasehold.
23 Jul 20043 WS1 3ENSemi-detached£115,000
21 Nov 20035 WS1 3ENSemi-detached£130,000Leasehold.
9 Jul 19994 WS1 3ENSemi-detached£43,000Leasehold.
10 Jun 19962 WS1 3ENSemi-detached£49,950Leasehold.

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 February 2014 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

6 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 72 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (6). Built: 1950-1966 (4); 1967-1975 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (3); rented (private) (3).

Each home's certificates and sales (3 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Walsall in 2026-27: Band D £2,627 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,752£2,044£2,336£2,627£3,211£3,795£4,379£5,255

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (57% of about 690 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, Highgate (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • 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 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

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 4 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
WS1 3ENnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
WS1 3EJnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
WS1 3ELnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 2 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 10 addresses are between 143 m and 146 m above sea level (145 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
WS1 3EJ100%100%100%0%
WS1 3EL100%100%100%0%
WS1 3EN100%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 stationsWalsall 1.2 million journeys in 2024–251.3 km (0.8 miles)
Bescot Stadium 155,000 journeys in 2024–251.6 km (1 mile)
Tame Bridge Parkway 632,000 journeys in 2024–252.4 km (1.5 miles)
Bus stops6 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 30 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Redhouse Street Caldmore230 m
Bus or coach stationWalsall Bus Station1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Car parksAsda St Matthews Car Park1 km (0.6 miles)
EV charging points7 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Wenea420 m (0.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX20.4 km (13 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 surgeries10 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Little London Surgery240 m
Pharmacies18 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Little London Pharmacy240 m
NHS dentists9 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery560 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalWalsall Diabetes Centre (Manor Hospital)1.6 km (1 mile)
Police stationWest Midlands Police1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Cash machines4 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Payzone500 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 Palfrey Park 6.6 ha610 m (0.4 miles)
Play area5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 200 m²390 m
Playing field4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.0 ha330 m
Allotments3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 6,000 m²490 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 7.6 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Mary and attached presbytery, a listed building (Grade II*), 840 m (0.5 miles) north-west. 16 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St Mary and attached presbyteryListed building, Grade II*840 m (0.5 miles) north-west
Walsall Memorial GardenRegistered park or garden, Grade II850 m (0.5 miles) north
Church of St MatthewListed building, Grade II*930 m (0.6 miles) north
Walsall ArboretumRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.7 km (1.1 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Hatherton LakeLake or reservoir1.7 km (1.1 miles) north
Park PitsLake or reservoir2.8 km (1.7 miles) north-east
Merrion's WoodWood2.8 km (1.8 miles) south-east
Longwood JunctionLake or reservoir2.9 km (1.8 miles) north-east
Pouk HillHill3.2 km (2 miles) north-west
The DingleValley3.6 km (2.3 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)15.04010
Fine particles (PM2.5)8.4205
Particles (PM10)13.54015

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
55 to 5910
Under 55910

1 of the street's 10 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 Walsall: see them on the Walsall 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
Whitehall Nursery and Infant AcademyPrimary3–7310 m Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Needs attention; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Whitehall Junior Community SchoolPrimary7–11400 m (0.2 miles) Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Caldmore Primary AcademyPrimary3–11410 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
St Mary's The Mount Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–11420 m (0.3 miles) No overall grade (Apr 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Blue Coat Church of England Aided Infant SchoolPrimary3–7650 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Queen Mary's Grammar SchoolSecondary11–18740 m (0.5 miles) Outstanding (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Palfrey Infant SchoolPrimary2–7740 m (0.5 miles) Requires improvement (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Blue Coat Church of England AcademySecondary11–18780 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Blue Coat Church of England Aided Junior SchoolPrimary7–11800 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Palfrey Junior SchoolPrimary7–11860 m (0.5 miles) Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Fullbrook Nursery SchoolNursery3–4860 m (0.5 miles) Outstanding (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Walsall Studio SchoolSecondary14–191 km (0.6 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

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
Ajay's News WS1 4DERetailers - other180 m4 Good14 Feb 2019
Highgate House Walsall Ltd WS1 3JHHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises200 mAwaiting inspection
Whitehall Infant School WS1 3HSSchool/college/university200 m5 Very good13 Apr 2026
Khana Shana WS1 3HSRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen200 m3 Generally satisfactory30 Jun 2026
Harmony Care Home (2003) Ltd WS1 3JAHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises210 m5 Very good27 Jul 2018
Walsall Cricket Club WS1 3BEPub/bar/nightclub290 m3 Generally satisfactory8 Sep 2026
Little Crickets Nursery WS1 3BEHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises290 m4 Good26 Sep 2025
Gorway House WS1 3BGHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises290 m4 Good29 Aug 2025
Little Crickets WS1 3BJOther catering premises310 m5 Very good19 May 2025
The Cambridge Pub WS1 4BZPub/bar/nightclub320 m5 Very good14 Jan 2018
Kiddies Playhouse Ltd WS1 4BYHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises360 m5 Very good11 Dec 2024
Walsall Community College WS1 4EQSchool/college/university360 mExempt
Aaina Women Centre WS1 3BSOther catering premises370 m5 Very good24 Sep 2025
Kurdish Pizza Walsall WS1 4BPTakeaway/sandwich shop370 m2 Improvement necessary26 Aug 2025
Al Haram WS1 4BPRetailers - other390 m3 Generally satisfactory5 Mar 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.

131 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences69
Vehicle crime17
Criminal damage and arson12
Burglary8
Other theft5
Drugs5
Public order5
Anti-social behaviour3
Possession of weapons3
Robbery2
Shoplifting1
Theft from the person1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Vincent Street (37); On or near Little London (27); On or near Highgate Road (22); On or near Follyhouse Lane (9); On or near Canute Close (6).

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: 642 residents in 216 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 1522%17%
Aged 65 and over13%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)58%61%
Owned outright28%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented12%17%
Private rented30%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work52%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)8%6%
Retired (of adults)16%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)22%32%
Travel to work by car or van53%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus12%8%
On foot or by bicycle9%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)63%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away7%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)29%34%
No qualifications29%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)77%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all8%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 2 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 Iqra Supplementary School & Youth Provision (school/college/university, WS1 3BT) is no longer listed; it was rated Awaiting inspection found 30 October 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.

Nearby streets

Avion Close · Highgate Close · Vincent Street · Follyhouse Lane · Fairfield Mount · Canute Close · Green Hill Walk · Gorway Close · Little Gorway · Highgate Avenue · Highgate Road · Little London

All the streets in WS1 and across Walsall.

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.