Freer Close Wigston

9 addresses across 1 postcode (LE18), about 30 m long. USRN 29200249.

  • Sales: 27 recorded sales since 1995; in 2021 the median was £180,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 4 homes have an energy certificate (C: 2, D: 2).
  • Flood: 3 addresses on its postcodes are 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 B; Band D in Oadby and Wigston costs £2,407 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is South Wigston, about 2.6 km (1.6 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 130 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.9 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 82 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 Bushloe Surgery, about 1.7 km (1.1 miles) away.
  • People: About 370 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 80% of households owned their home and 39% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 53 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
20211£180,000£180,000£180,000
20191£168,000£168,000£168,000
20132£121,500£119,000£124,000
20121£161,000£161,000£161,000
20111£120,000£120,000£120,000
20091£118,000£118,000£118,000
20081£124,950£124,950£124,950
20072£132,475£130,950£134,000
20063£119,000£110,000£145,000
20041£164,250£164,250£164,250
20031£93,000£93,000£93,000
20021£95,950£95,950£95,950
Most recent sales (27)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
5 Oct 20225 LE18 3TPTerraced£193,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
15 Jun 20218 LE18 3TPTerraced£180,000
15 Mar 20198 LE18 3TPTerraced£168,000
7 Oct 20137 LE18 3TPTerraced£124,000
5 Jul 20138 LE18 3TPTerraced£119,000
26 Oct 20121 LE18 3TPSemi-detached£161,000
2 Sep 20117 LE18 3TPTerraced£120,000
2 Oct 20097 LE18 3TPTerraced£118,000
18 Apr 20088 LE18 3TPTerraced£124,950
14 Dec 20075 LE18 3TPTerraced£134,000
30 Nov 20074 LE18 3TPTerraced£130,950
27 Sep 20062 LE18 3TPSemi-detached£145,000
25 May 20063 LE18 3TPTerraced£119,000
22 Mar 20065 LE18 3TPTerraced£110,000
21 Dec 20041 LE18 3TPSemi-detached£164,250
16 Sep 20035 LE18 3TPTerraced£93,000
27 Jul 20022 LE18 3TPSemi-detached£95,950
14 Dec 20015 LE18 3TPTerraced£60,000
28 Jul 20001 LE18 3TPSemi-detached£89,950
14 Apr 20008 LE18 3TPTerraced£52,500
18 Sep 19987 LE18 3TPTerraced£48,500
24 Jul 19984 LE18 3TPTerraced£45,500
17 Apr 19986 LE18 3TPTerraced£47,250
21 Aug 19971 LE18 3TPSemi-detached£67,000
17 Apr 19967 LE18 3TPTerraced£43,000
29 Sep 19956 LE18 3TPTerraced£40,802
23 Jun 19956 LE18 3TPTerraced£40,270

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026 (load in progress). Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from May 2012 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

4 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 57 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (2); House, semi-detached (1); House, end-terrace (1). Built: 1983-1990 (2); 1967-1975 (1); 2003-2006 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (2); rented (private) (1).

Council tax

What each band costs in Oadby and Wigston in 2026-27: Band D £2,407 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,605£1,872£2,139£2,407£2,942£3,477£4,011£4,814

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (33% of about 1,380 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, 2 addresses are in areas at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 2 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: of the 8 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 1 medium, 4 low and 0 very low.

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.

© 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 addresses are about 82 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
LE18 3TP100%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 stationsSouth Wigston 134,000 journeys in 2024–252.6 km (1.6 miles)
Leicester 5.5 million journeys in 2024–256.7 km (4.2 miles)
Narborough 294,000 journeys in 2024–257.2 km (4.4 miles)
Bus stops12 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 28 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Well Spring Hill Wigston Harcourt20 m
Bus or coach stationCharles Street Leicester7.4 km (4.6 miles)
Car parksCountesthorpe Road Car Park2.6 km (1.6 miles)
EV charging pointsevyve Charging Station3.8 km (2.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsEast Midlands Airport EMA32.6 km (20 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 surgeriesBushloe Surgery1.7 km (1.1 miles)
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Little Hill Pharmacy920 m (0.6 miles)
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery1.4 km (0.9 miles)
HospitalStoneygate Eye Hospital4.4 km (2.8 miles)
Police stationWigston Police Station1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Cash machinesCentral England Co-Op - Launceston Rd Cashzone910 m (0.6 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 Unnamed 2,980 m²130 m
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 860 m²580 m (0.4 miles)
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3.5 ha250 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 1.4 ha1.2 km (0.7 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 0.3 hectares in all.

Landmarks

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Tythorn HillHill2 km (1.2 miles) south-east
Flaxman's SpinneyWood2.2 km (1.4 miles) south-east
Lucas MarshWetland2.3 km (1.4 miles) north-east
Mill StreamLake or reservoir2.4 km (1.5 miles) west
Lockhouse SpinneyWood2.5 km (1.6 miles) south-east
The IslandsIsland3 km (1.8 miles) 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)8.04010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.9205
Particles (PM10)11.34015

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
Under 5599

None of the street's 9 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic or railways.

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 Oadby and Wigston: see them on the Oadby and Wigston 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
Thythorn Field Community Primary SchoolPrimary4–11520 m (0.3 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Wigston Menphys Nursery SchoolNursery2–51.2 km (0.8 miles) Good (Oct 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)
Little Hill PrimaryPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
The Meadow Community Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
All Saints Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Requires improvement (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Wigston AcademySecondary11–161.6 km (1 mile) Good (Jun 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Wigston CollegeSecondary16–181.7 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
Glenmere Community Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.9 km (1.2 miles) No overall grade (Sep 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; 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.

No rated food businesses within 500 m (0.3 miles).

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.

53 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences31
Anti-social behaviour12
Criminal damage and arson3
Other theft3
Burglary2
Vehicle crime1
Public order1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Meadow Hill (21); On or near Long Meadow (10); On or near Roman Hill (8); On or near Ingrams Way (5); On or near Saxondale Road (2).

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: 366 residents in 142 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 1523%17%
Aged 65 and over12%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)80%61%
Owned outright28%33%
Shared ownership1%1%
Social rented7%17%
Private rented11%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work68%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)14%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)32%32%
Travel to work by car or van61%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle4%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)67%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)39%34%
No qualifications13%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)96%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 9 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

Ashurst Close · Wards Closes · Ingrams Way · Lime Kilns · Saxondale Road · Hoskins Close · Roman Hill · Well Spring Hill · Barn Close · Welford Road · Meadow Hill · Long Meadow

All the streets in LE18 and across Oadby and Wigston.

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.