Forge Close Pyecombe, Mid Sussex

13 addresses across 2 postcodes (BN45), about 190 m long, classed as a restricted local access road. USRN 25603156.

15 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £420,000 across 1 sale. 12 homes have an energy certificate (B: 12). No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. Most homes around it are in council tax band C; Band D in Mid Sussex costs £2,474 a year in 2026-27. Gigabit broadband is available to 0% of premises. The nearest railway station is Hassocks, about 3.3 km away in a straight line. Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits. Its addresses are 92 to 101 m above sea level. 13 of its 13 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic. The nearest GP surgery is Mid Sussex Health Care, about 4.2 km away. About 300 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 70% of households owned their home and 36% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification. 55 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£420,000£420,000£420,000
20242£583,750£435,000£732,500
20231£450,000£450,000£450,000
20221£650,000£650,000£650,000
20211£725,000£725,000£725,000
20201£620,000£620,000£620,000
20183£615,000£550,000£625,000
20173£668,425£550,000£675,000
Most recent sales (15)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
12 Dec 20259 BN45 7BJSemi-detached£420,000
24 May 202410 BN45 7BJSemi-detached£435,000
8 Apr 20247 BN45 7BJDetached£732,500
10 Nov 20239 BN45 7BJSemi-detached£450,000
11 Nov 202212 BN45 7BJSemi-detached£650,000
9 Dec 20218 BN45 7BJDetached£725,000
14 Oct 20204 BN45 7BJDetached£620,000
31 Jan 202011 BN45 7BJOther£133,334Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
2 Mar 20185 BN45 7BJDetached£550,000
28 Feb 20188 BN45 7BJDetached£615,000
19 Jan 20186 BN45 7BJDetached£625,000
20 Dec 20174 BN45 7BJDetached£550,000
3 Nov 20173 BN45 7BJDetached£668,425
8 Sep 20177 BN45 7BJDetached£675,000
28 Jun 20136 BN45 7BJOther£500,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).

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 April 2017 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 145 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (6); House, detached (6). Built: 2016 (8); 2022 (4).

Council tax

What each band costs in Mid Sussex in 2026-27: Band D £2,474 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

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£1,650£1,924£2,199£2,474£3,024£3,574£4,124£4,949

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (21% of about 780 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 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.

Height above sea level

The street's 13 addresses are between 92 m and 101 m above sea level (95 m on average); the ground rises about 9 m from the lowest to the highest.

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
BN45 7BJ100%0%0%0%
BN45 7FE100%0%0%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 stationsHassocks 1.3 million journeys in 2024–253.3 km
Preston Park 1.1 million journeys in 2024–255.7 km
Moulsecoomb 445,000 journeys in 2024–256.4 km
Bus stops2 stops within 400 m, 2 within 800 m; nearest Garage Pyecombe50 m
Bus or coach stationPreston Park - London Road Brighton5.7 km
EV charging pointsOrion Car Park3.4 km
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Gatwick Airport LGW28.1 km

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 surgeriesMid Sussex Health Care4.2 km
PharmaciesDay Lewis Pharmacy3.4 km
NHS dentistsDental Surgery3.4 km
HospitalMill View Hospital6.3 km
Police stationBrighton Crowhurst Road Police Station4.4 km
Cash machinesMFG - Brighton Cashzone3.3 km

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
Play area1 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 830 m²320 m
Playing fieldClayton Green 2.6 ha1.7 km
AllotmentsParklands Road Allotment Site 7,540 m²3.0 km

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is The Parish Church, a listed building (Grade I), 200 m north-west. 6 listed buildings are within 1.0 km, 1 of them Grade I.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
The Parish ChurchListed building, Grade I200 m north-west
Roman road and 18th century coaching road N of Pyecombe churchScheduled monument700 m north
Cross dyke and bowl barrow 310m south east of Wolstonbury CampScheduled monument1.2 km north-west
Platform barrow 300m south of Wolstonbury CampScheduled monument1.3 km north-west
Natural landmarks within 5.0 km
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Rag BottomValley1.3 km east
South HillHill1.3 km south-east
The HoltWood1.4 km west
Holt BottomValley1.4 km south-east
Pangdean HoltWood1.4 km south-east
Sandfield PondLake or reservoir3.0 km north

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10.0 km, battlefields within 5.0 km, registered parks and gardens within 3.0 km, scheduled monuments within 2.0 km, and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1.0 km. 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)7.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.5205
Particles (PM10)11.44015

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: 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 on the roads and railways, not measurements; they leave out aircraft, 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 and 54 dB for railways.

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
60 to 64100
55 to 5930
Under 55013

13 of the street's 13 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

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.

No open schools within 2.0 km.

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 of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
The Plough BN45 7FNPub/bar/nightclub80 m5 Very good1 Oct 2024
Tallai House BN45 7FEHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house90 m5 Very good21 Sep 2022
Brendon Stud And Saddlery BN45 7EGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen250 m5 Very good7 Oct 2025
Duck Lodge B&B BN45 7FQHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house250 m5 Very good21 Jul 2022

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.

55 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Shoplifting24
Other theft15
Violence and sexual offences9
Public order2
Other crime2
Anti-social behaviour1
Vehicle crime1
Drugs1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Petrol Station (45); On or near Forge Close (10).

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: 297 residents in 116 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 age4740
Children under 1517%17%
Aged 65 and over21%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)70%61%
Owned outright39%33%
Shared ownership2%1%
Social rented11%17%
Private rented17%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work64%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)22%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)45%32%
Travel to work by car or van46%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus1%8%
On foot or by bicycle5%10%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)70%65%
Work 30 km or more away14%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)36%34%
No qualifications11%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%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.

  • BN45 7BJ: 12 addresses of 19 in the postcode
  • BN45 7FE: 1 address of 18 in the postcode

Nearby streets

A273 · Church Lane · London Road · Haresdean Lane · School Lane · Church Hill · The Wyshe · A273 · A273

All the streets in BN45 and across Mid Sussex.

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 aircraft, industry or neighbours: noise figures are models of road and rail traffic outside, in England only.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.