Grace Road Desford, Hinckley and Bosworth

40 addresses across 1 postcode (LE9), about 280 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 17400513.

  • Sales: 31 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £450,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 15 homes have an energy certificate (C: 3, D: 11, E: 1).
  • Flood: 5 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 C; Band D in Hinckley and Bosworth costs £2,383 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Narborough, about 8.4 km (5.2 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 820 m (0.5 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.9 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 114 to 125 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 40 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Desford Medical Centre, about 500 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • People: About 380 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 93% of households owned their home and 47% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 16 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.

Sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20241£450,000£450,000£450,000
20231£340,000£340,000£340,000
20221£350,000£350,000£350,000
20212£317,000£275,000£359,000
20151£288,000£288,000£288,000
20133£210,000£173,000£317,500
20121£148,000£148,000£148,000
20101£190,000£190,000£190,000
20091£207,500£207,500£207,500
20073£206,000£187,000£225,000
20051£160,000£160,000£160,000
20042£190,000£175,000£205,000
Most recent sales (31)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
9 Aug 202415 LE9 9FZDetached£450,000
16 Jun 20232 LE9 9FZDetached£340,000
14 Apr 202239 LE9 9FZDetached£350,000
11 Jun 202112 LE9 9FZDetached£359,000
26 Mar 202135 LE9 9FZDetached£275,000
20 Aug 201529 LE9 9FZDetached£288,000
23 Aug 201332 LE9 9FZDetached£173,000
20 Aug 20131 LE9 9FZSemi-detached£317,500
5 Apr 201313 LE9 9FZDetached£210,000
7 Feb 20123 LE9 9FZDetached£148,000
2 Nov 20106 LE9 9FZDetached£190,000
31 Jul 200934 LE9 9FZDetached£207,500
23 Nov 200734 LE9 9FZDetached£225,000
23 Mar 200733 LE9 9FZDetached£206,000
23 Feb 200711 LE9 9FZDetached£187,000
18 Apr 200511 LE9 9FZDetached£160,000
7 Oct 200433 LE9 9FZDetached£175,000
7 Apr 200439 LE9 9FZDetached£205,000
9 May 200333 LE9 9FZDetached£150,000
14 Feb 200319 LE9 9FZDetached£162,000
6 Dec 200239 LE9 9FZDetached£167,000
30 Mar 200139 LE9 9FZDetached£127,500
21 Jul 200018 LE9 9FZDetached£105,000
9 Dec 199836 LE9 9FZDetached£60,000
21 Oct 19976 LE9 9FZDetached£62,000
1 Aug 199729 LE9 9FZDetached£102,000
13 Jun 199713 LE9 9FZDetached£62,500
7 Feb 19973 LE9 9FZDetached£58,000
4 Apr 199614 LE9 9FZDetached£79,500
30 Nov 199539 LE9 9FZDetached£71,250
5 May 199534 LE9 9FZDetached£68,950

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.

15 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 119 m². Most common: House, detached (15). Built: 1976-1982 (9); 1967-1975 (3); 1950-1966 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (10).

Each home's certificates and sales (11 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Hinckley and Bosworth in 2026-27: Band D £2,383 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,588£1,853£2,118£2,383£2,912£3,442£3,971£4,765

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (19% of about 1,020 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

Finished in the last three months

  • 26 October 2026: SEVERN TRENT WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, road closure, on the footway (immediate - urgent works)
  • 26 October 2026: SEVERN TRENT WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, road closure, on the footway (immediate - urgent works)
  • 15 October 2026: SEVERN TRENT WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)

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, 2 addresses are in areas at high risk, 3 at medium risk and 5 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 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 40 addresses are between 114 m and 125 m above sea level (119 m on average); the ground rises about 11 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
LE9 9FZ100%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 stationsNarborough 294,000 journeys in 2024–258.4 km (5.2 miles)
Hinckley (Leics) 378,000 journeys in 2024–2511.1 km (6.9 miles)
Leicester 5.5 million journeys in 2024–2511.5 km (7.1 miles)
Bus stops3 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 8 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Main Street Desford300 m
EV charging pointsMFG Charging Station2.8 km (1.8 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsEast Midlands Airport EMA23.2 km (14 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 surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Desford Medical Centre500 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Desford Pharmacy300 m
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Desford Dental Care380 m
HospitalFrith Hospital (Epma)8.4 km (5.2 miles)
Police stationBlaby Police7.9 km (4.9 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Central England Co-Op - Desford Cashzone310 m

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or gardenUnnamed 6,740 m²820 m (0.5 miles)
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 290 m²220 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Pickard Recreation Ground 4,340 m²470 m (0.3 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 1.8 ha940 m (0.6 miles)

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Old Manor House and Attached Barn and Service Block, a listed building (Grade II*), 290 m north. 15 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Old Manor House and Attached Barn and Service BlockListed building, Grade II*290 m north
Church of St MartinListed building, Grade II*420 m (0.3 miles) north
Moated site 440m south west of Lindridge Fields FarmScheduled monument1.8 km (1.1 miles) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Lindridge WoodWood1.4 km (0.9 miles) north-west
Peckleton CommonWood1.8 km (1.1 miles) south
Bullacre SpinneyWood2.1 km (1.3 miles) west
Old BrakeWood2.2 km (1.4 miles) south-east
Newbold SpinneyWood2.5 km (1.6 miles) west
Foundation LakeLake or reservoir3.9 km (2.4 miles) south-west

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)7.14010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.9205
Particles (PM10)11.54015

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 6410
55 to 5910
Under 553840

2 of the street's 40 addresses are 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 Hinckley and Bosworth: see them on the Hinckley and Bosworth 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
Desford Community Primary SchoolPrimary5–11420 m (0.3 miles) No overall grade (May 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Bosworth AcademySecondary11–19590 m (0.4 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)

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
Caterpillar Sports And Social Club LE9 9JUPub/bar/nightclub160 m5 Very good30 Jan 2024
Sport In Desford LE9 9JURetailers - other160 mExempt
Baxterstorey Ltd At Caterpillar (UK) Ltd LE9 9JURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen160 m5 Very good15 Aug 2025
The Blue Bell Inn And Lodge LE9 9JFPub/bar/nightclub300 m5 Very good19 Mar 2025
The Co-op LE9 9JFRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets310 m5 Very good12 Mar 2026
Desford Primary School Extra Time Club LE9 9JGHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises370 mExempt
Husbands Bosworth C Of E School School/college/university400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good2 Dec 2024
St Martins Church Centre LE9 9JPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good9 Dec 2025

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.

16 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences11
Burglary2
Other theft1
Criminal damage and arson1
Anti-social behaviour1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Meadow Way (5); On or near The Finches (3); On or near Peckleton View (2); On or near Burley Close (1); On or near Lancaster Close (1).

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: 379 residents in 152 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 age4940
Children under 1516%17%
Aged 65 and over24%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)93%61%
Owned outright53%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented0%17%
Private rented7%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work63%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)0%6%
Retired (of adults)30%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)under 1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)39%32%
Travel to work by car or van51%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle8%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)47%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away10%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)47%34%
No qualifications9%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)97%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

  • Roadworks Street works permit: SEVERN TRENT WATER: Utility repair and maintenance works, 26 October 2026 to 28 October 2026 (road closure) found 3 November 2026
  • Roadworks Street works permit: SEVERN TRENT WATER: Utility repair and maintenance works, 26 October 2026 to 28 October 2026 (road closure) found 3 November 2026
  • Roadworks Street works permit: SEVERN TRENT WATER: Utility repair and maintenance works, 15 October 2026 (no carriageway incursion) found 3 November 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.

  • LE9 9FZ: 40 addresses of 42 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Ringwood Close · Peckleton View · Lancaster Close · Bambrook Close · Hayes End · Beaufort Close · Meadow Way · Peckleton Lane · Burley Close · Parkstone Road · Drovers Court · Suffolk Way

All the streets in LE9 and across Hinckley and Bosworth.

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.