Grove Road Guildford

51 addresses across 9 postcodes (GU1), about 470 m (0.3 miles) long, classed as a local road. USRN 16000759.

  • Sales: 57 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £1,220,000 across 3 sales.
  • Energy: 28 homes have an energy certificate (B: 2, C: 5, D: 12, E: 7, F: 1, G: 1).
  • 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 G; Band D in Guildford costs £2,547 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 94% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is London Road (Guildford), about 2 km (1.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 110 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.0 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 83 to 109 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 9 of its 51 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Merrow Park Surgery, about 1.2 km (0.7 miles) away.
  • People: About 1,030 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 84% of households owned their home and 61% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 19 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
20243£1,220,000£440,000£1,400,000
20223£1,005,000£780,000£1,385,000
20212£950,000£700,000£1,200,000
20201£450,000£450,000£450,000
20191£927,000£927,000£927,000
20181£975,000£975,000£975,000
20171£925,000£925,000£925,000
20162£1,037,250£849,500£1,225,000
20142£1,208,500£1,127,000£1,290,000
20135£970,000£350,000£1,280,000
20101£675,000£675,000£675,000
20081£595,000£595,000£595,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 57)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
17 Dec 202411 GU1 2HRDetached£1,220,000
27 Sep 2024FLAT 4, FIRFIELD, 17 GU1 2HRFlat or maisonette£440,000Leasehold.
4 Jan 202415A GU1 2HRDetached£1,400,000
19 Dec 202233 GU1 2HLDetached£780,000
22 Sep 2022FLAT 3A, FIRFIELD, 17 GU1 2HRFlat or maisonette£545,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
26 Aug 2022FLAT 4, FIRFIELD, 17 GU1 2HRFlat or maisonette£595,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
6 May 2022FIRFIELD LODGE, 17 GU1 2HRFlat or maisonette£1,385,000
25 Jan 20226 GU1 2HPDetached£1,005,000
28 Jun 2021FLAT 2, FIRFIELD, 17 GU1 2HRFlat or maisonette£700,000Leasehold.
7 Jun 202113 GU1 2HRDetached£1,200,000
21 Oct 2020THE COACHHOUSE, FIRFIELD MANOR, 17 GU1 2HRSemi-detached£450,000
19 Feb 2020FIRFIELD LODGE, 17 GU1 2HROther£950,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
29 Mar 2019FIRFIELD LODGE, 17 GU1 2HRFlat or maisonette£927,000
29 Mar 2018FLAT 2, FIRFIELD, 17 GU1 2HROther£877,500Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
26 Mar 20181 GU1 2HRDetached£975,000
16 Feb 20172 GU1 2HPDetached£925,000
21 Oct 2016FIRFIELD LODGE, 17 GU1 2HRFlat or maisonette£849,500
10 Aug 20168 GU1 2HPDetached£1,225,000
18 Sep 201428 GU1 2HPDetached£1,290,000
16 Jul 20142 GU1 2HPDetached£754,200Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
25 Apr 20149 GU1 2HRDetached£1,127,000
15 Nov 201322 GU1 2HPDetached£1,280,000
20 Sep 201315 GU1 2HRDetached£970,000
9 Apr 2013FLAT 3, FIRFIELD, 17 GU1 2HRFlat or maisonette£350,000Leasehold.
14 Mar 20138 GU1 2HPDetached£850,000
18 Jan 201312 GU1 2HPDetached£995,000
22 Dec 201011 GU1 2HRDetached£675,000
2 Jun 200811A GU1 2HRDetached£595,000
11 Oct 2006FLAT 3, 17 GU1 2HRFlat or maisonette£250,000Leasehold.
1 Aug 2006FLAT 3A, 17 GU1 2HRFlat or maisonette£158,000Leasehold.
29 Jul 20054 GU1 2HPDetached£715,000
19 Aug 2004TANGLEWOOD HOLLOW GU1 2HRDetached£570,000
6 Jun 2003FIRFIELD LODGE, 17 GU1 2HRFlat or maisonette£420,000
6 Dec 200232 GU1 2HPDetached£687,156
1 Nov 20024 GU1 2HPDetached£595,000
1 Mar 2002FLAT 3A, 17 GU1 2HRFlat or maisonette£127,000Leasehold.
6 Feb 20028 GU1 2HPDetached£525,000
4 Jan 2002FLAT 3, 17 GU1 2HRFlat or maisonette£169,950Leasehold.
7 Sep 20013 GU1 2HRDetached£425,000
5 Jun 2001FLAT 3, 17 GU1 2HRFlat or maisonette£162,000Leasehold.
22 May 20011 GU1 2HRDetached£460,000
8 Mar 2001TANGLEWOOD HOLLOW GU1 2HRDetached£380,000New build.
28 Feb 200113 GU1 2HRDetached£435,000New build.
8 Sep 199922 GU1 2HPDetached£475,000
1 Jul 1999TANGLEWOOD HOLLOW GU1 2HRDetached£265,000
21 May 19999 GU1 2HRSemi-detached£327,500
9 Feb 199920 GU1 2HPDetached£408,000
1 Feb 19997 GU1 2HRDetached£410,000
13 Oct 19989 GU1 2HRSemi-detached£250,000
27 Aug 199810 GU1 2HPDetached£375,000

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 October 2008 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

28 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 178 m². Most common: House, detached (17); Bungalow, detached (4); Flat (3). Built: 1930-1949 (11); 1900-1929 (8); 1950-1966 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (16); rented (private) (6); rented (social) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (13 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Guildford in 2026-27: Band D £2,547 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,698£1,981£2,264£2,547£3,113£3,679£4,246£5,095

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band G (29% of about 700 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

Finished in the last three months

  • 15 October 2026 to 17 October 2026: THAMES WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, give and take, on the carriageway, verge (immediate - urgent 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

No address in this street's postcodes is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

© 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 51 addresses are between 83 m and 109 m above sea level (91 m on average); the ground rises about 26 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
GU1 2HL100%100%100%0%
GU1 2HN100%94%94%0%
GU1 2HP100%100%100%0%
GU1 2HR100%94%94%0%
GU1 2QF100%100%100%0%
GU1 2QL100%100%100%0%
GU1 2QP100%100%100%0%
GU1 2TW100%100%100%0%
GU1 2WH100%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 stationsLondon Road (Guildford) 869,000 journeys in 2024–252 km (1.3 miles)
Chilworth 27,000 journeys in 2024–253 km (1.9 miles)
Guildford 6.4 million journeys in 2024–253.1 km (2 miles)
Bus stops3 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 13 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest High Path Road Merrow280 m
Bus or coach stationFriary Bus Station Guildford2.8 km (1.7 miles)
Car parksMerrow Park and Ride1.2 km (0.7 miles)
EV charging points10 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Elles Avenue190 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Heathrow Airport LHR26.1 km (16 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 Merrow Park Surgery1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots720 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Merrow Park Dental Practice1.2 km (0.7 miles)
HospitalMount Alvernia Hospital2.1 km (1.3 miles)
Police stationSurrey Police2.3 km (1.4 miles)
Cash machinesMFG - Pantiles, 224 London Road Cashzone2.1 km (1.3 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 garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 17 ha110 m
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 130 m²550 m (0.3 miles)
Playing fieldUnnamed 3.1 ha1 km (0.6 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Epsom Road Allotments 6,760 m²400 m (0.2 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 18 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Merrow Grange, a registered park or garden (Grade II), 330 m north-west. 14 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Merrow GrangeRegistered park or garden, Grade II330 m north-west
Bowl barrow 90m west of Tyting FarmScheduled monument1.6 km (1 mile) south
Earth circles on St Martha's HillScheduled monument2 km (1.2 miles) south
Clandon ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.1 km (1.3 miles) north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Walnut Tree BottomValley830 m (0.5 miles) south-east
The RoughsWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) south-east
Farthing CopseWood1.8 km (1.1 miles) south
Merrow CommonWood1.8 km (1.1 miles) north
Whinny HillHill1.8 km (1.1 miles) south-west
Postford PondLake or reservoir2.8 km (1.7 miles) south-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)8.54010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.0205
Particles (PM10)10.44015

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

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, 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
70 to 7410
60 to 6420
55 to 5960
Under 554251

9 of the street's 51 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 Guildford: see them on the Guildford 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
St Thomas of Canterbury Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary2–11500 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
St Peter's Catholic School Roman CatholicSecondary11–18610 m (0.4 miles) Outstanding (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Boxgrove Primary SchoolPrimary4–11820 m (0.5 miles) No overall grade (Jun 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Merrow Junior SchoolPrimary7–11820 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Merrow CofE Controlled Infant School Church of EnglandPrimary4–71.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
George Abbot SchoolSecondary11–181.6 km (1 mile) Good (Dec 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)
Holy Trinity, Guildford, CofE Aided Junior School Church of EnglandPrimary7–111.7 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection

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
Guildford Golf Club GU1 2HLRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen80 m4 Good23 Jul 2026
Merrow Premier Mart GU1 2RRRetailers - other230 m4 Good30 Aug 2024

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.

19 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences7
Criminal damage and arson3
Anti-social behaviour3
Public order2
Vehicle crime2
Drugs1
Other theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near High Path Road (9); On or near Holford Road (4); On or near Grove Road (2); On or near Downs Drive (2); On or near Longmead (2).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 3 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 1,026 residents in 408 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 age4640
Children under 1518%17%
Aged 65 and over18%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)84%61%
Owned outright43%33%
Shared ownership2%1%
Social rented2%17%
Private rented12%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work62%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)22%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)under 1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)57%32%
Travel to work by car or van32%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram3%4%
By any public transport, including bus5%8%
On foot or by bicycle5%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)59%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away17%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)61%34%
No qualifications6%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification2%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)94%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 10 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: THAMES WATER: Utility repair and maintenance works, 15 October 2026 to 19 October 2026 (give and take) 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.

  • GU1 2HR: 19 addresses
  • GU1 2HP: 17 addresses of 18 in the postcode
  • GU1 2HL: 7 addresses of 8 in the postcode
  • GU1 2HN: 2 addresses of 19 in the postcode
  • GU1 2WH: 2 addresses of 14 in the postcode
  • GU1 2QF: 1 address of 22 in the postcode
  • GU1 2QL: 1 address of 38 in the postcode
  • GU1 2QP: 1 address of 3 in the postcode
  • GU1 2TW: 1 address of 20 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Downs Drive · Grove Road · Merrow Chase · Holford Road · Merrow Chase · Elles Avenue · Carroll Avenue · Levylsdene · Merrow Croft

All the streets in GU1 and across Guildford.

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.