Grange Close Watford

32 addresses across 1 postcode (WD17), about 280 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 42425126.

  • Sales: 60 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £1,110,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 19 homes have an energy certificate (A: 1, C: 11, D: 7).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area 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 D; Band D in Watford costs £2,447 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Watford Junction, about 930 m (0.6 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Nascot Grange Open Space, is about 80 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 13.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.9 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 80 to 83 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 32 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is The Elms Surgery, about 840 m (0.5 miles) away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 400 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 49% of households owned their home and 56% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 120 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
20261£1,110,000£1,110,000£1,110,000
20251£1,060,000£1,060,000£1,060,000
20211£877,500£877,500£877,500
20201£910,000£910,000£910,000
20181£868,000£868,000£868,000
20153£817,500£700,000£920,000
20141£800,000£800,000£800,000
20131£615,000£615,000£615,000
20111£699,250£699,250£699,250
20101£630,000£630,000£630,000
20081£475,000£475,000£475,000
20072£620,000£590,000£650,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 60)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
19 Mar 202624 WD17 4HQDetached£1,110,000
4 Dec 20256 WD17 4HQDetached£1,060,000
29 Apr 202116 WD17 4HQDetached£877,500
30 Sep 20203 WD17 4HQDetached£910,000
11 Apr 201826 WD17 4HQDetached£1,638,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
11 Apr 201826 WD17 4HQOther£98,280Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
23 Jan 201838 WD17 4HQDetached£868,000
30 Oct 201515 WD17 4HQDetached£920,000
2 Apr 201516 WD17 4HQDetached£700,000
1 Apr 201512 WD17 4HQDetached£817,500
29 Oct 20142 WD17 4HQDetached£800,000
7 Nov 201322 WD17 4HQDetached£615,000
25 Feb 20111 WD17 4HQDetached£699,250
22 Jun 201011 WD17 4HQDetached£630,000
28 Oct 20084 WD17 4HQDetached£475,000
31 Jul 200714 WD17 4HQDetached£590,000
25 May 200732 WD17 4HQDetached£650,000
28 Nov 200640 WD17 4HQDetached£486,000
30 Oct 200642 WD17 4HQDetached£560,000
10 Aug 200630 WD17 4HQDetached£589,000
2 May 200644 WD17 4HQDetached£642,000
16 Dec 200524 WD17 4HQDetached£610,000
16 Dec 200511 WD17 4HQDetached£495,000
25 Oct 200512 WD17 4HQDetached£600,000
19 Oct 200538 WD17 4HQDetached£555,000
20 Feb 200422 WD17 4HQDetached£475,000
24 Jan 200342 WD17 4HQDetached£488,000
23 Aug 20017 WD17 4HQDetached£465,000
3 May 200116 WD17 4HQDetached£335,000
25 Apr 200011 WD17 4HQDetached£370,000
25 Feb 200024 WD17 4HQDetached£405,000New build.
20 Dec 199934 WD17 4HQDetached£365,000New build.
10 Dec 199944 WD17 4HQDetached£420,000New build.
16 Nov 199942 WD17 4HQDetached£334,995New build.
29 Oct 199940 WD17 4HQDetached£284,995New build.
22 Oct 199928 WD17 4HQDetached£284,995New build.
21 Oct 199930 WD17 4HQDetached£366,000New build.
14 Oct 199938 WD17 4HQDetached£334,995New build.
1 Oct 199936 WD17 4HQDetached£320,000New build.
23 Sep 199926 WD17 4HQDetached£284,995New build.
23 Aug 199932 WD17 4HQDetached£399,995New build.
26 Jan 199915 WD17 4HQDetached£375,000New build.
29 Dec 19982 WD17 4HQDetached£410,000New build.
27 Nov 199812 WD17 4HQDetached£375,995New build.
23 Oct 19988 WD17 4HQDetached£275,000New build.
13 Aug 199813 WD17 4HQDetached£342,995New build.
31 Jul 19984 WD17 4HQDetached£319,995New build.
27 Jul 19987 WD17 4HQDetached£411,995New build.
30 Jun 19981 WD17 4HQDetached£429,995New build.
30 Jun 199811 WD17 4HQDetached£349,995New build.

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

19 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 154 m². Most common: House, detached (18); House, semi-detached (1). Built: 1996-2002 (15); 2003-2006 (3); 1991-1995 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (16).

Each home's certificates and sales (11 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Watford in 2026-27: Band D £2,447 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,631£1,903£2,175£2,447£2,990£3,534£4,078£4,893

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band D (47% of about 580 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.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

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

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 31 October 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 1 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 32 addresses are between 80 m and 83 m above sea level (82 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
WD17 4HQ100%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 stationsWatford Junction 6.9 million journeys in 2024–25930 m (0.6 miles)
Watford North 65,000 journeys in 2024–251.4 km (0.9 miles)
Watford High Street 1.4 million journeys in 2024–252.1 km (1.3 miles)
Underground, metro or tramWatford Underground Station1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Bus stops8 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 41 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Spinney Watford70 m
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Parking space on Silas Court, WD17130 m
EV charging points4 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Apcoa Charging Station1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Heathrow Airport LHR22.4 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 surgeries3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Elms Surgery840 m (0.5 miles)
Pharmacies9 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Pyramid Pharmacy450 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists14 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Crysalis Dental Surgery450 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalLangley House Community Hospital1.9 km (1.2 miles)
Police stationWatford Police Station1 km (0.6 miles)
Cash machines5 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Tesco Bank ATM150 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 garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Nascot Grange Open Space 7,880 m²80 m
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Nascot Grange Play Area 690 m²90 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 5,170 m²260 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 3,450 m²1.3 km (0.8 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 1.0 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Little Cassiobury and former stable block to rear., a listed building (Grade II*), 940 m (0.6 miles) south. 10 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Little Cassiobury and former stable block to rear.Listed building, Grade II*940 m (0.6 miles) south
Cassiobury ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.8 km (1.1 miles) west
Moated site at Bushey Hall FarmScheduled monument1.9 km (1.2 miles) east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Watford PondLake or reservoir1.2 km (0.7 miles) south
Rough WoodWood1.2 km (0.7 miles) west
Harebreaks WoodWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) north
Charlotte's ValeValley1.5 km (0.9 miles) west
Jacotts HillHill2 km (1.2 miles) west
Carpdell LakeLake or reservoir2 km (1.2 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)13.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.9205
Particles (PM10)12.44015

All three are within the UK legal limits; nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 are above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
55 to 5911
Under 553131

1 of the street's 32 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, and 1 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 Watford: see them on the Watford 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
Nascot Wood Infant and Nursery SchoolPrimary3–7240 m Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Nascot Wood Junior SchoolPrimary7–11330 m Outstanding (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Beechfield SchoolPrimary3–11770 m (0.5 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Lanchester Primary SchoolPrimary4–11930 m (0.6 miles) No published inspection
West Herts College16 plus16–99940 m (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Cassiobury Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Jan 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Cassiobury Infant and Nursery SchoolPrimary3–71.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Parkgate Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
The Orchard Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Knutsford Primary AcademyPrimary3–111.4 km (0.8 miles) Good (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Watford St John's Church of England Primary School Church of England/ChristianPrimary4–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Requires improvement
Cherry Tree Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (Jul 2022, 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
Tesco WD17 1BURetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets160 m5 Very good3 Jan 2020
Montrose Care Home WD17 4PEHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises190 m5 Very good27 Jul 2026
The Pantry @ Nascot Wood Infants School WD17 4YTSchool/college/university230 m5 Very good20 Nov 2024
Gourmet Pizza And Desserts WD24 5RRRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen300 mAwaiting inspection
Caterplus @ Prince Michael Of Kent Court WD17 4DHHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises330 m5 Very good8 Oct 2026
Jack In The Box Nascot Wood WD17 4YSHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises330 m5 Very good11 Nov 2025
The Pantry @ Nascot Wood Junior School WD17 4YSSchool/college/university330 m5 Very good6 Jun 2024
Herts Food And Wine WD24 5ERRetailers - other430 m (0.3 miles)4 Good9 Oct 2025
Toad Hall Nursery WD17 4LAHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good7 Aug 2025
Zoya WD24 5EPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good15 Oct 2025
Cassio Pre-school WD17 4PYHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises460 m (0.3 miles)Exempt
Building Blocks Preschool Nurseries WD17 4PYRetailers - other490 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good3 May 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.

120 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences37
Anti-social behaviour24
Shoplifting23
Vehicle crime8
Public order5
Other crime5
Other theft5
Criminal damage and arson4
Robbery3
Burglary3
Drugs2
Bicycle theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Molteno Road (35); On or near Lockhart Road (32); On or near Baldwin Road (10); On or near Outlook Place (7); On or near Bellamy Close (4).

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: 398 residents in 141 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

Around this streetEngland
Median age3540
Children under 1528%17%
Aged 65 and over6%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)49%61%
Owned outright15%33%
Shared ownership4%1%
Social rented26%17%
Private rented22%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work65%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)7%6%
Retired (of adults)9%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)60%32%
Travel to work by car or van24%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram4%4%
By any public transport, including bus5%8%
On foot or by bicycle9%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)63%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away3%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)56%34%
No qualifications9%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)80%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all2%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 7 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

Shirley Road · Woolman Road · The Spinney · Lockhart Road · Colnhurst Road · Biskra · Salters Gardens · Baldwin Road · Manor Road · Molteno Road · Schreiber Grange · Bellamy Close

All the streets in WD17 and across Watford.

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.