Hamsey Road Sharpthorne, Mid Sussex

60 addresses across 2 postcodes (RH19), about 310 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 25601219.

  • Sales: 64 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £490,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 30 homes have an energy certificate (C: 2, D: 11, E: 14, F: 2, 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 D; Band D in Mid Sussex costs £2,474 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is East Grinstead, about 5.7 km (3.5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 112 to 133 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 62 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Modality Mid Sussex, about 5.6 km (3.5 miles) away.
  • People: About 360 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 87% of households owned their home and 33% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 12 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£490,000£490,000£490,000
20243£510,000£508,000£525,000
20233£432,500£425,000£585,000
20217£470,000£370,000£585,000
20201£360,000£360,000£360,000
20192£382,500£310,000£455,000
20181£360,000£360,000£360,000
20172£407,500£337,000£478,000
20161£317,500£317,500£317,500
20154£346,500£285,000£390,000
20142£274,975£249,950£300,000
20121£200,500£200,500£200,500
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 64)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
30 Apr 202615 RH19 4PADetached£490,000
28 Jun 202422 RH19 4PASemi-detached£550,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
21 Jun 2024POLICE HOUSE, 2 RH19 4PADetached£525,000
21 Jun 202430 RH19 4PASemi-detached£508,000
8 May 202443 RH19 4PASemi-detached£510,000
27 Oct 20237 RH19 4PASemi-detached£425,000
8 Sep 202318 RH19 4PASemi-detached£585,000
14 Feb 202317 RH19 4PASemi-detached£432,500
17 Dec 20214A RH19 4PASemi-detached£470,000
30 Nov 2021FERNDALE RH19 4PASemi-detached£425,000
22 Sep 202123 RH19 4PASemi-detached£370,000
14 May 202142 RH19 4PADetached£495,000
22 Mar 20218 RH19 4PASemi-detached£410,000
12 Feb 2021OAKLANDS, 25 RH19 4PASemi-detached£475,000
10 Feb 202149 RH19 4PADetached£585,000
14 Feb 2020THORNHILL RH19 4PASemi-detached£360,000
6 Aug 201921 RH19 4PASemi-detached£310,000
16 May 201918 RH19 4PASemi-detached£455,000
1 Mar 20184A RH19 4PASemi-detached£360,000
14 Sep 201727 RH19 4PASemi-detached£478,000
5 May 20178 RH19 4PASemi-detached£337,000
26 Feb 201639 RH19 4PASemi-detached£317,500
27 Aug 20154 RH19 4PASemi-detached£285,000
30 Jun 201512 RH19 4PADetached£335,000
27 Feb 20152 RH19 4PADetached£358,000
22 Jan 201536 RH19 4PADetached£390,000
19 Dec 201425 RH19 4PASemi-detached£300,000
28 Feb 201421 RH19 4PASemi-detached£249,950
3 Sep 20123 RH19 4PASemi-detached£200,500
21 Dec 201114 RH19 4PASemi-detached£249,950
2 Sep 20118 RH19 4PASemi-detached£285,000
13 Mar 200930 RH19 4PASemi-detached£245,000
23 May 200741 RH19 4PADetached£335,000
29 Mar 200720A RH19 4PASemi-detached£340,000
15 Dec 200649 RH19 4PADetached£307,000
20 Oct 200644 RH19 4PADetached£295,000
20 Jun 2006THORNHILL RH19 4PASemi-detached£230,000
19 Dec 20054 RH19 4PASemi-detached£225,000
15 Jul 20053 RH19 4PASemi-detached£183,500
6 May 200515 RH19 4PADetached£223,500
24 Sep 200413 RH19 4PASemi-detached£215,000
6 Apr 200420A RH19 4PASemi-detached£318,000
25 Feb 20043 RH19 4PASemi-detached£160,000
14 Nov 200349 RH19 4PADetached£285,000
6 Jun 200320B RH19 4PASemi-detached£315,000
30 May 200318 RH19 4PASemi-detached£283,500
7 Mar 200320 RH19 4PASemi-detached£249,950
20 Dec 200122 RH19 4PASemi-detached£240,000
26 Oct 20014 RH19 4PASemi-detached£159,950
30 Nov 20004A RH19 4PASemi-detached£159,950

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

30 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 105 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (22); House, detached (5); Bungalow, detached (3). Built: 1900-1929 (9); 1950-1966 (6); 1930-1949 (5). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (23); rented (social) (3).

Council tax

What each band costs in Mid Sussex in 2026-27: Band D £2,474 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,650£1,924£2,199£2,474£3,024£3,574£4,124£4,949

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band D (23% of about 910 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

  • 21 September 2026: SOUTH EAST WATER, Remedial works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 30 September 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 2 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: 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
RH19 4PAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
RH19 4NYnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely

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 62 addresses are between 112 m and 133 m above sea level (121 m on average); the ground rises about 22 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
RH19 4NY100%0%0%0%
RH19 4PA100%0%0%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 stationsEast Grinstead 1.1 million journeys in 2024–255.7 km (3.5 miles)
Balcombe 213,000 journeys in 2024–257 km (4.4 miles)
Haywards Heath 4.0 million journeys in 2024–259.1 km (5.7 miles)
Bus stops2 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Station Road Sharpthorne320 m
EV charging pointsWithypitts East4 km (2.5 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Gatwick Airport LGW12.8 km (7.9 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 surgeriesModality Mid Sussex5.6 km (3.5 miles)
PharmaciesCrawley Down Pharmacy5.4 km (3.4 miles)
NHS dentistsElm House Dental Surgery5.4 km (3.4 miles)
HospitalQueen Victoria Hospital Cdc7 km (4.3 miles)
Police stationEast Grinstead Police Station6.5 km (4 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
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 790 m²230 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 5,530 m²150 m
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3,790 m²490 m (0.3 miles)

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is The Parish Church of St Margaret, a listed building (Grade I), 880 m (0.5 miles) west. 23 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 2 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
The Parish Church of St MargaretListed building, Grade I880 m (0.5 miles) west
The Manor HouseListed building, Grade II*940 m (0.6 miles) west
Priest HouseListed building, Grade II*1 km (0.6 miles) west
Gravetye ManorRegistered park or garden, Grade II*1.7 km (1 mile) north-west
StonehurstRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.6 km (1.6 miles) west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Grinstead WoodWood90 m south-east
Mare Pit WoodWood330 m south-east
Shagswell WoodWood480 m (0.3 miles) west
Lower LakeLake or reservoir1.4 km (0.9 miles) north-west
Hawk's DenValley2.4 km (1.5 miles) west
Stone HillHill2.5 km (1.5 miles) north-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)6.54010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.3205
Particles (PM10)12.24015

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
55 to 5910
Under 556162

1 of the street's 62 addresses is 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 Mid Sussex: see them on the Mid Sussex page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 1 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
West Hoathly CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–11810 m (0.5 miles) Requires improvement (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 1 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
The Fox RH19 4PJPub/bar/nightclub430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good20 Oct 2026

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.

12 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences7
Anti-social behaviour2
Drugs1
Possession of weapons1
Criminal damage and arson1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Home Platt (5); On or near Marlpit Road (4); On or near Bluebell Lane (1); On or near Station Road (1); On or near Hamsey Road (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: 355 residents in 148 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 age5340
Children under 1513%17%
Aged 65 and over29%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)87%61%
Owned outright52%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented3%17%
Private rented10%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work53%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)33%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)41%32%
Travel to work by car or van50%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram3%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle4%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)49%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away15%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)33%34%
No qualifications14%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%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.

  • RH19 4PA: 59 addresses of 62 in the postcode
  • RH19 4NY: 1 address of 19 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Station Road · Marlpit Road · Bluebell Lane · Home Platt · Forest Ridge · Highcroft Road · Top Road · Bayhams Field · Longview Lane

All the streets in RH19 and across Mid Sussex.

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.