Frost Close Desborough, North Northamptonshire

24 addresses across 2 postcodes (LE16,NN14), about 100 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 18750262.

  • Sales: 45 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £207,000 across 1 sale.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in North Northamptonshire cost £252,884 in August 2026 (+0.1% on a year); private rents averaged £995 a month.
  • Energy: 21 homes have an energy certificate (C: 19, D: 1, E: 1).
  • Flood: 2 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Recorded floods: No recorded flood covers the centre of any of its postcodes.
  • Landfill: 1 historic landfill site within 500 m (0.3 miles) of its postcodes; the nearest, Rear Of Goode And Marlow Limited, is 130 m away.
  • Storm overflows: 6 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) spilled 55 times (113 hours) in 2025.
  • Radon: Up to 30% or more of homes in the 1 km squares around it are estimated to be at or above the radon Action Level.
  • Energy projects: 3 renewable energy projects nearby are planned or being built; the nearest, VPK Desborough, Stoke Albany Road, Desborough - Solar PV Arrays, is 1.3 km (0.8 miles) away.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band C; Band D in North Northamptonshire costs £2,424 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 82% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Market Harborough, about 7.6 km (4.8 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 380 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.9 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 126 to 128 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 24 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Rothwell Medical Centre, about 2.1 km (1.3 miles) away.
  • People: About 840 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 75% of households owned their home and 31% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 51 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: No collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025.

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House 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£207,000£207,000£207,000
20231£176,000£176,000£176,000
20223£207,000£195,000£226,000
20212£190,000£185,000£195,000
20202£173,500£170,000£177,000
20182£172,000£160,000£184,000
20173£151,000£132,500£173,000
20163£150,000£149,000£167,500
20141£137,005£137,005£137,005
20112£125,000£125,000£125,000
20091£95,000£95,000£95,000
20081£140,000£140,000£140,000
All 45 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
10 Aug 20111 NN14 2GNSemi-detached£125,000
21 Apr 20061 NN14 2GNSemi-detached£159,500New build.
20 May 20222 NN14 2GNSemi-detached£226,000
29 Mar 20072 NN14 2GNSemi-detached£182,500New build.
27 Nov 20203 NN14 2GNSemi-detached£177,000
17 May 20183 NN14 2GNSemi-detached£160,000
10 May 20173 NN14 2GNSemi-detached£151,000
25 Jun 20063 NN14 2GNSemi-detached£130,000New build.
8 Sep 20064 NN14 2GNDetached£199,500New build.
27 Oct 20205 NN14 2GNTerraced£170,000
29 Jun 20075 NN14 2GNTerraced£160,000New build.
11 Nov 20166 NN14 2GNTerraced£167,500
7 Nov 20146 NN14 2GNTerraced£137,005
29 Sep 20066 NN14 2GNSemi-detached£162,500New build.
26 Jul 20177 NN14 2GNTerraced£173,000
29 Sep 20067 NN14 2GNTerraced£159,500New build.
6 Sep 20168 NN14 2GNTerraced£150,000
8 May 20088 NN14 2GNTerraced£140,000
6 Oct 20068 NN14 2GNTerraced£159,500New build.
22 Dec 20069 NN14 2GNFlat or maisonette£87,500New build.
8 May 200910 NN14 2GNTerraced£95,000
23 Apr 200710 NN14 2GNTerraced£162,500New build.
16 Dec 202211 NN14 2GNTerraced£195,000
12 May 201711 NN14 2GNTerraced£132,500
2 Jun 200611 NN14 2GNTerraced£132,500New build.
29 Sep 200612 NN14 2GNTerraced£159,500New build.
19 Jan 200713 NN14 2GNTerraced£159,500New build.
15 Jun 202315 NN14 2GNTerraced£176,000
19 Jan 200715 NN14 2GNTerraced£159,500New build.
7 Dec 201817 NN14 2GNTerraced£184,000
19 Jan 200717 NN14 2GNTerraced£159,500New build.
3 Apr 202519 NN14 2GNTerraced£207,000
27 Oct 200619 NN14 2GNTerraced£159,500New build.
27 Jun 202221 NN14 2GNTerraced£207,000
21 May 202121 NN14 2GNTerraced£185,000
3 Jan 201421 NN14 2GNTerraced£120,150Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
21 Dec 200621 NN14 2GNTerraced£159,500New build.
4 Nov 201623 NN14 2GNTerraced£156,500Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
8 Dec 200623 NN14 2GNTerraced£159,500
22 Dec 200625 NN14 2GNTerraced£159,500New build.
10 Sep 202127 NN14 2GNTerraced£195,000
12 Aug 201127 NN14 2GNTerraced£125,000
28 Sep 200627 NN14 2GNTerraced£159,500New build.
29 Apr 201629 NN14 2GNTerraced£149,000
21 Dec 200629 NN14 2GNTerraced£159,500New build.

House prices and rents in North Northamptonshire

A typical home in North Northamptonshire cost £252,884 in August 2026, 0.1% more than a year before. That is 11% more than five years earlier and 43% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£401,061
Semi-detached£249,321
Terraced£201,883
Flat or maisonette£117,641
Bought by a first-time buyer£217,161

Private renters in North Northamptonshire paid £995 a month on average in September 2026, 4.7% more than a year before. That is 37% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£686
Two bedrooms£885
Three bedrooms£1,072
Four or more bedrooms£1,533

Sources: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry, with the ONS and the Welsh Government), to August 2026; ONS Price Index of Private Rents, to September 2026. Figures for the whole council area, not this street. The typical price is adjusted for the mix of homes that sold, so it is not the value of any one home; the street's own sales are above. Rents are the average paid on all private tenancies, new and existing, so they move more slowly than rents being advertised.

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 May 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

21 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 86 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (10); House, semi-detached (6); House, end-terrace (4). Built: 2003-2006 (15); 2007-2011 (4); 1996-2002 (2). Tenure at assessment: rented (private) (10); owner-occupied (6); rented (social) (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (21 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 8,932 kWh of it on average in 2024, 23% less than the district's 11,570 kWh, and 2,237 kWh of electricity, 41% less than the district's 3,795 kWh. There are gas meters for about 100% of the homes.

These are all the homes on each postcode, whatever their size and however many live in them, so they show the kind of homes and heating here rather than what any one home uses. The typical figure is the median: half the homes used less. The district is NN14.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, postcode level domestic gas and electricity statistics for 2024 (gas from mid-May to mid-May), Open Government Licence: domestic meters on each postcode, from the gas and electricity industry's meter readings. A postcode with fewer than 5 meters of a fuel has no figures for it.

Council tax

What each band costs in North Northamptonshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,424 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,616£1,885£2,155£2,424£2,963£3,501£4,040£4,848

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band C (23% of about 1,710 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: 1.
  • 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.

Energy projects nearby

6 energy projects near the street's postcodes, 3 of them not yet operating.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Gaultney Solar Park North Northamptonshire KET/2014/0391 Solar farm 20.5 MW Operational Mar 2015 1.1 km (0.7 miles)
VPK Desborough, Stoke Albany Road, Desborough - Solar PV Arrays North Northamptonshire 25/00826/14JPN Solar farm 1.9 MW Permission granted, not yet built Sep 2025 1.3 km (0.8 miles)
West Lodge Farm Solar Array North Northamptonshire 25/02021/FUL Solar farm 1.2 MW Planning application made Dec 2025 1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Fernbrook Bio Limited - Anaerobic Digestion Plant North Northamptonshire 20/00063/WASFUL Anaerobic digestion Planning application made Nov 2020 3.8 km (2.3 miles)
New Albion Wind Farm North Northamptonshire KET/2009/0549 Wind 7 turbines 14.4 MW Operational Jan 2016 4 km (2.5 miles)
Fernbrook AD Plant (Waste AD) North Northamptonshire 09/00033/WAS Anaerobic digestion 1.5 MW Operational Sep 2010 4.8 km (3 miles)

Planned projects can change or not go ahead; search the planning authority's applications by the reference shown for the plans, conditions and any objections. Construction brings traffic for some months; once built, solar farms and batteries are usually quiet, while turbines and waste plants can be seen or heard further away.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Renewable Energy Planning Database, Q2 2026 extract, Open Government Licence: renewable electricity and storage projects over 150 kW, operating, being built, permitted or applied for. Shown: wind turbines and plants that burn or digest waste within 5 km (3.1 miles), other projects of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles); refused, withdrawn and abandoned projects are left out. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each project's grid reference.

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, 2 at medium risk and 3 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
NN14 2GNnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 2 unlikely
LE16 8PTnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 1 unlikely

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre of any of this street's postcodes.

Recorded floods are where floodwater was seen or surveyed after a flood. Many floods were never mapped, an outline over a postcode's centre does not mean every home in it flooded, and homes outside one may have. Ask the seller whether the home itself has flooded.

Sources: Environment Agency Recorded Flood Outlines; 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.

Coastal erosion

No projected coastal erosion zone is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency, National Coastal Erosion Risk Mapping 2024 (England), and Natural Resources Wales, National Coastal Erosion Risk Management (Wales), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each zone; where a postcode centre is inside a zone, some homes on it may not be.

Storm overflows

6 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes spilled 55 times, for 113 hours in all, in 2025. They discharge into A Tributary of the River Ise, Trib River Nene, River Ise, Unnamed Tributary of River Ise.

OverflowIntoSpillsHoursDistance
Desborough - Hilltop Avenue Cso Anglian Water; monitored 60% of the year A Tributary of the River Ise 13 12 890 m (0.6 miles)
Desborough-Near Corset Factory Cso Anglian Water; monitored 52% of the year Trib River Nene 0 0 910 m (0.6 miles)
Desborough-Rectory Field Cso Anglian Water; monitored 75% of the year River Ise 20 61 910 m (0.6 miles)
Desborough-Near Corset Factory Cso Anglian Water Unnamed Tributary of River Ise 6 2 950 m (0.6 miles)
Desborough-Rushton Road Sso Anglian Water River Ise 1 0 1 km (0.6 miles)
Desborough Sewage Ps Anglian Water River Ise 15 39 1 km (0.6 miles)

A storm overflow lets sewage diluted with rainwater into a river, stream or the sea when heavy rain overwhelms the sewers, so the spills here affect the water they run into, not homes. A spill is counted the regulators' way: a first 12 hours, then each 24 hours it goes on.

Source: Environment Agency, Event Duration Monitoring storm overflow annual return for 2025, from the water companies' monitors on each overflow in England, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each overflow's outlet. A year's figures are published the following spring; a monitor that worked for less of the year undercounts.

Coal mining

No postcode centre on the street is in a coalfield: the Mining Remediation Authority records no coal mining risk here.

Source: Mining Remediation Authority (formerly the Coal Authority), development high and low risk areas, Open Government Licence. Checked at each postcode's centre, so a home near the edge of an area may differ. It covers coal mining only, not other mining (such as tin, lead, iron or chalk), and is no substitute for a coal mining search. About the risk areas.

Radon

The highest radon potential in the 1 km squares around the street's postcodes is 30% or more: up to that share of homes there is estimated to be at or above the Action Level of 200 becquerels per cubic metre. At least part of that area is a radon Affected Area, where 1% or more of homes are.

By postcode centre: 10 to 30% (1); 30% or more (2).

Radon is a natural radioactive gas from the ground that can build up indoors; long exposure raises the risk of lung cancer. A three-month test with two small detectors is the only way to know a home's level, and a high level can usually be brought down with a sump or better ventilation. Homes built here in recent decades should have radon protection under the building regulations (basic protection from 3%, full protection from 10%). UKHSA sells a radon report for a single address from its detailed map at ukradon.org.

Source: British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency, Indicative Atlas of Radon in Great Britain, Open Government Licence. Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026. Each 1 km square is classed by the highest radon potential found anywhere in it, so a square's figure can overstate it for much of the square; the detailed map is not open data.

Historic landfill

1 historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes, the nearest 130 m away.

SiteWaste went inWasteDistance
Rear Of Goode And Marlow Limited Rushton Road, Desborough 1950 to 1988 Inert 130 m

Closed tips can give off gas (methane and carbon dioxide) and leak into the ground for years. An environmental search, which conveyancers usually order, looks at landfill and contaminated land around the home; the council keeps a register of land it has found to be contaminated.

Sources: Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales, historic landfill sites (places where waste was put into or onto the land and no environmental permit is now in force), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each site as mapped; the outlines and dates come from old records and can be approximate. Landfill still operating is not included.

Height above sea level

The street's 24 addresses are between 126 m and 128 m above sea level (127 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
LE16 8PT82%82%82%18%
NN14 2GN100%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 stationsMarket Harborough 943,000 journeys in 2024–257.6 km (4.8 miles)
Kettering 1.1 million journeys in 2024–257.9 km (4.9 miles)
Corby 561,000 journeys in 2024–259.8 km (6.1 miles)
Bus stops2 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 19 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Union Street Desborough130 m
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Total Parking Solutions Ltd250 m
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Sainsburys Desborough Smart Charge860 m (0.5 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsEast Midlands Airport EMA55.4 km (34 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. Ratings and care homes: Care Quality Commission, latest ratings as at 2 November 2026 (England only; the CQC does not rate dental practices, and Wales's inspectorates give no ratings). 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 surgeriesRothwell Medical Centre Good Jun 20262.1 km (1.3 miles)
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Well580 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists1 practice within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Brennan Dental Surgery480 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalWoodlands Hospital4.5 km (2.8 miles)
Care homes4 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Heather Holmes Care Home Good Jan 2025400 m (0.2 miles)
Police stationKettering Police Station7.8 km (4.9 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Central England Co-Op - Gladstone Street Cashzone450 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 garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 240 m²380 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 4,220 m²600 m (0.4 miles)
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,360 m²440 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.9 ha280 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.4 ha640 m (0.4 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 0.5 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Anglican and Methodist Church of St Giles, a listed building (Grade I), 680 m (0.4 miles) south-west. 10 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Anglican and Methodist Church of St GilesListed building, Grade I680 m (0.4 miles) south-west
Rushton HallRegistered park or garden, Grade II*2.9 km (1.8 miles) east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Gaultney WoodWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) east
Eleven Acre SpinneyWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) north-east
Stanton PlantationWood1.6 km (1 mile) south-east
Rothwell GulletWood1.9 km (1.2 miles) south
New SpinneyWood2.1 km (1.3 miles) east
Darwen LakeLake or reservoir3.6 km (2.2 miles) south

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)7.44010
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
60 to 6417
55 to 5915
Under 552212

2 of the street's 24 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, and 12 from railways, 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 North Northamptonshire: see them on the North Northamptonshire page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 4 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.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspectionExam results
Havelock Infant SchoolPrimary5–7330 m No published inspection None published
Havelock Junior SchoolPrimary7–11360 m No published inspection 60% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 8% at the higher standard (2025; 72% in 2024 and 53% in 2023)
Loatlands Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection 55% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 4% at the higher standard (2025; 61% in 2024 and 64% in 2023)

Exam results are from the Department for Education's school performance tables (Explore Education Statistics, Open Government Licence), for all pupils at each school. The middle school in England had 63% at the expected standard at the end of primary school (2025), Attainment 8 of 46.0 at GCSE (2026) and an A level average of C+ (2025). Attainment 8 adds up a pupil's grades in eight GCSEs, with English and maths counted twice (90 is the most), averaged over the school's pupils. Progress 8 compares pupils with others who had the same results at the end of primary school; it is not published for GCSEs in 2025 and 2026, as those pupils sat no primary tests during the pandemic. Small year groups swing from year to year, and figures for very small ones are withheld.

Nurseries and childcare

5 nurseries, pre-schools and clubs within 1.5 km (0.9 miles), the nearest 490 m (0.3 miles) from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Sunshine Pre-School NN14 2UB Full day care 25 Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 490 m (0.3 miles)
Little Foxes Childcare NN14 2SW Full day care 20 Not inspected yet 500 m (0.3 miles)
Oak Tree Out Of School Club NN14 2LZ Out-of-school day care 26 Not inspected yet 540 m (0.3 miles)
Fiesta Sports Loatlands NN14 2NJ Out-of-school day care 32 Not inspected yet 1.3 km (0.8 miles)
West Lodge Day Nursery NN14 2SH Full day care 92 Good (Oct 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.4 km (0.9 miles)

Ofsted also registers 216 childminders and 19 home childcarers (nannies) in North Northamptonshire. It does not publish their addresses, so they cannot be shown here; the council's family information service lists those taking children.

Source: Ofsted, childcare providers and inspections management information, as at June 2026, Open Government Licence: providers on the Early Years and Childcare Registers on non-domestic premises, placed at their postcode. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives a standard for each of six areas (Exceptional, Strong, Expected, Needs attention, Urgent improvement) rather than one overall grade; older grades stand until a provider is inspected again. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street.

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 4 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
Dawes to Door NN14 2REMobile caterer180 m5 Very good26 Jul 2021
Consensus Homes NN14 2QDHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises250 m5 Very good5 Aug 2024
Desborough United Reformed Church Hall NN14 2RHOther catering premises260 m5 Very good6 Dec 2021
Desborough Town Bowls Club NN14 2PNPub/bar/nightclub350 m5 Very good29 Apr 2025
Massala Junction NN14 2RSTakeaway/sandwich shop350 m5 Very good30 Jul 2025
Desborough Fish Bar NN14 2RSTakeaway/sandwich shop360 m5 Very good20 Nov 2025
Revive NN14 2RLRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good26 Nov 2025
Domino's Pizza NN14 2SDTakeaway/sandwich shop420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good8 Sep 2025
Wendy-Lou's Tearoom NN14 2RSRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good8 Sep 2026
Great Wall NN14 2RSTakeaway/sandwich shop450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good25 Jun 2025
K P Wolfenden NN14 2RLRetailers - other450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good27 Nov 2024
Sunshine Preschool NN14 2UBHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good6 May 2026
Pizza Plus Desborough NN14 2RLTakeaway/sandwich shop480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good29 Nov 2024
The Old Works NN14 2LXPub/bar/nightclub490 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good22 Jan 2021
Desborough Town Juniors Football Club NN14 2JJOther catering premises500 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good24 Jan 2023

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.

51 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences21
Anti-social behaviour12
Other theft5
Vehicle crime5
Criminal damage and arson3
Public order3
Burglary1
Drugs1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Pipewell Road (20); On or near Regent Street (7); On or near Queen Street (6); On or near Morse Way (4); On or near Tawny Lane (3).

Road safety

Source: Department for Transport, road safety data (STATS19), collisions in 2021 to 2025, as published by November 2026. Collisions in which someone was hurt and which were reported to the police, within 150 m of the middle of any of this street's postcodes, or of the street. Severity is the worst injury as the police recorded it.

No collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025.

Only collisions in which someone was hurt and which the police were told about are here: damage-only collisions and near misses are not, and some injuries are never reported. Positions are recorded by the police, usually to within a few metres. Each year's figures are published the following September.

Traffic on nearby roads

No traffic count point is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes. The Department for Transport counts every motorway and A road and only a sample of minor roads, so a quiet residential street usually has none.

Source: Department for Transport, road traffic statistics, annual average daily flows to 2025, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each count point.

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: 836 residents in 364 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 age4840
Children under 1513%17%
Aged 65 and over23%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)75%61%
Owned outright43%33%
Shared ownership2%1%
Social rented6%17%
Private rented18%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work62%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)2%6%
Retired (of adults)25%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 van60%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including busunder 1%8%
On foot or by bicycle6%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)52%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away13%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)31%34%
No qualifications15%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhoods around this street are all 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

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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.

  • NN14 2GN: 23 addresses of 24 in the postcode
  • LE16 8PT: 1 address of 37 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Morse Way · Regent Street · Union Street · Tackler Close · Nightingale Drive · Queen Street · Stanton Close · Bittern Close · Heddles Way · House Martin Close · Hawfinch Green · Tawny Lane

All the streets in LE16, NN14 and across North 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; road collisions count only those in which someone was hurt and the police were told.
  • 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.