High Road Thurrock

155 addresses across 10 postcodes (RM16), about 1.3 km (0.8 miles) long, classed as a b road. USRN 40500676.

  • Sales: 121 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £425,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 59 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 10, D: 36, E: 9, F: 3).
  • Flood: 6 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 D; Band D in Thurrock costs £2,255 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 14% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Stanford-Le-Hope, about 4.5 km (2.8 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 2.5 km (1.5 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 12.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.9 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 11 to 25 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 125 of its 155 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Orsett Surgery, about 520 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • People: About 1,480 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 76% of households owned their home and 26% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.

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£425,000£425,000£425,000
20257£490,000£350,000£935,000
20241£413,000£413,000£413,000
20226£537,500£400,000£790,000
20212£582,500£465,000£700,000
20201£850,000£850,000£850,000
20194£390,000£350,000£550,000
20173£300,000£290,000£545,000
20164£567,500£317,500£765,000
20152£462,500£385,000£540,000
20145£285,000£167,500£585,000
20133£430,000£375,000£500,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 121)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
31 Mar 202655 RM16 3HBOther£850,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
23 Jan 2026124 RM16 3LHSemi-detached£425,000
24 Oct 202524 RM16 3ERSemi-detached£490,000
14 Oct 20255 RM16 3ERTerraced£790,000
2 Oct 2025147 RM16 3LDSemi-detached£388,000
22 Aug 2025137 RM16 3LDSemi-detached£410,000
31 Jul 202531 RM16 3ERSemi-detached£350,000
1 May 202569 RM16 3HBDetached£935,000
28 Mar 202537 RM16 3ERDetached£575,000
26 Jun 202435 RM16 3ERSemi-detached£413,000
6 Apr 2023HILL HOUSE FARM RM16 3LHOther£1,950,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
25 Nov 202299A RM16 3LDDetached£575,000
3 Oct 2022FLAT 3, ROWLEY COURT RM16 3ERFlat or maisonette£230,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
26 Sep 2022158 RM16 3LHDetached£790,000
3 Aug 2022120 RM16 3LHSemi-detached£500,000
2 Aug 2022THE POST OFFICE, 10 RM16 3ERSemi-detached£720,000
30 May 2022FLAT 4, ORSETT HOUSE RM16 3NSFlat or maisonette£459,000Leasehold.
13 May 202229 RM16 3ERSemi-detached£400,000
15 Oct 2021135 RM16 3LDSemi-detached£465,000
30 Mar 2021FLAT 1, ORSETT HOUSE RM16 3NSFlat or maisonette£700,000Leasehold.
12 Oct 20206 RM16 3ERDetached£850,000
1 Nov 201924 RM16 3ERSemi-detached£415,000
2 Oct 2019FLAT 2, ROWLEY COURT RM16 3ERFlat or maisonette£210,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
23 Aug 2019103 RM16 3LDSemi-detached£550,000
23 Aug 201995 RM16 3LDTerraced£365,000
9 Aug 2019FLAT 4, ORSETT HOUSE RM16 3NSFlat or maisonette£350,000Leasehold.
15 Jun 2018COACH HOUSE, ORSETT HOUSE RM16 3NSOther£650,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
8 Dec 201744 RM16 3HBDetached£545,000
31 Aug 2017129 RM16 3LDSemi-detached£290,000
17 Aug 2017127 RM16 3LDSemi-detached£300,000
21 Oct 2016107 RM16 3LDDetached£765,000
25 Jul 201629 RM16 3ERSemi-detached£317,500
11 Mar 201669 RM16 3HBDetached£645,000
22 Jan 201697 RM16 3LDSemi-detached£490,000
30 Oct 2015105 RM16 3LDDetached£540,000
15 Jul 2015140 RM16 3LHSemi-detached£385,000
3 Oct 201473 RM16 3HBDetached£585,000
1 Aug 201435 RM16 3ERSemi-detached£297,000
31 Jul 2014FLAT 1, ROWLEY COURT RM16 3ERFlat or maisonette£167,500Leasehold.
18 Jul 2014153 RM16 3LDSemi-detached£285,000
28 Feb 2014125 RM16 3LDSemi-detached£279,000
20 Sep 2013158 RM16 3LHDetached£375,000
19 Jul 2013109 RM16 3LDDetached£430,000
31 Jan 201369A RM16 3HBDetached£500,000
2 Nov 201293 RM16 3LDTerraced£190,000
16 Oct 201226 RM16 3ERSemi-detached£240,000
7 Jun 2012107 RM16 3LDDetached£410,000
5 Jan 201295 RM16 3LDTerraced£185,000
23 Jun 201131 RM16 3ERSemi-detached£240,000
5 May 201130 RM16 3ERDetached£480,000

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 May 2011 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

59 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 88 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (19); House, detached (16); Bungalow, semi-detached (10). Built: 1950-1966 (18); 1930-1949 (14); before 1900 (12). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (38); rented (social) (11); rented (private) (5).

Each home's certificates and sales (30 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Thurrock in 2026-27: Band D £2,255 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,503£1,754£2,004£2,255£2,756£3,257£3,758£4,509

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band D (27% of about 780 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: yes, Orsett (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 16.
  • 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: yes, Thurrock.

Listed buildings

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

Planned, as of 31 October 2026

  • 14 December 2026 to 18 December 2026: NATIONAL HIGHWAYS, Works for road purposes, road closure, on the verge (major (paa) works)

Finished in the last three months

  • 19 October 2026: ESSEX AND SUFFOLK WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, no carriageway incursion, on the footway, 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

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 6 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 6 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
RM16 3ERnot in 2 or 3 1 / 0 / 4 unlikely
RM16 3LDnot in 2 or 3 4 / 0 / 1 unlikely
RM16 3LHnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
RM16 3HBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
RM16 3NSnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
RM16 3GZnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
RM16 3JPnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
RM16 3JTnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
RM16 3LBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
RM16 3LJnot in 2 or 3 1 / 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 155 addresses are between 11 m and 25 m above sea level (22 m on average); the ground rises about 14 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
RM16 3ER100%100%100%0%
RM16 3GZ100%100%100%0%
RM16 3HB100%95%95%0%
RM16 3JP100%67%67%0%
RM16 3JT100%14%14%0%
RM16 3LB100%100%100%0%
RM16 3LD100%100%100%0%
RM16 3LH100%100%100%0%
RM16 3LJ97%97%97%0%
RM16 3NS100%20%20%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 stationsStanford-Le-Hope 745,000 journeys in 2024–254.5 km (2.8 miles)
Grays 3.6 million journeys in 2024–254.5 km (2.8 miles)
East Tilbury 385,000 journeys in 2024–254.6 km (2.9 miles)
Bus stops2 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 11 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest High Road Orsett320 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Grays4.5 km (2.8 miles)
Ferry terminalTilbury Ferry Terminal6.6 km (4.1 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Roam Charging Station1.6 km (1 mile)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon City Airport LCY21.1 km (13 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Stansted Airport STN42.6 km (26 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 Orsett Surgery520 m (0.3 miles)
PharmaciesStifford Pharmacy2.4 km (1.5 miles)
NHS dentistsDental Surgery2.6 km (1.6 miles)
HospitalOrsett Hospital490 m (0.3 miles)
Police stationGrays Police Station4.2 km (2.6 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Orsett Store580 m (0.4 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
Park or gardenUnnamed 8.6 ha2.5 km (1.5 miles)
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,890 m²640 m (0.4 miles)
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.5 ha390 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 1.6 ha850 m (0.5 miles)

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Springfield style enclosure and Iron Age enclosures south of Hill House, Baker Street., a scheduled monument, 110 m south-east. 28 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Springfield style enclosure and Iron Age enclosures south of Hill House, Baker Street.Scheduled monument110 m south-east
Orsett HouseListed building, Grade II*390 m north-east
Bishop Bonner's Palace, OrsettScheduled monument710 m (0.4 miles) north-east
Church of St Giles and All SaintsListed building, Grade I720 m (0.4 miles) north-east
Crop mark complex, OrsettScheduled monument1.2 km (0.7 miles) south-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Well WoodWood1.4 km (0.9 miles) north-east
Larch PlantationWood1.4 km (0.9 miles) east
Long CovertWood1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-east
Sticking HillHill2.3 km (1.4 miles) north-east
GrangewatersLake or reservoir2.8 km (1.8 miles) west
Little Thurrock MarshesWetland4.3 km (2.7 miles) south

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)12.94010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.9205
Particles (PM10)14.14015

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
65 to 6940
60 to 64740
55 to 59470
Under 5530155

125 of the street's 155 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 Thurrock: see them on the Thurrock 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
Orsett Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary5–11510 m (0.3 miles) Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Orsett Heath AcademySecondary11–161.9 km (1.2 miles) Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
William Edwards SchoolSecondary11–162 km (1.2 miles) Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met

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
Orsett Hospital Cafe RM16 3EURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good23 Sep 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.

No crimes recorded at anonymised points within 250 m in this period (essex).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 5 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 1,479 residents in 544 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 age4740
Children under 1516%17%
Aged 65 and over24%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)76%61%
Owned outright40%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented9%17%
Private rented16%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work55%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)28%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)33%32%
Travel to work by car or van56%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram5%4%
By any public transport, including bus7%8%
On foot or by bicycle2%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)55%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away11%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)26%34%
No qualifications22%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)96%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%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

  • Roadworks Street works permit: ESSEX AND SUFFOLK WATER: Utility repair and maintenance works, 19 October 2026 to 23 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.

  • RM16 3ER: 44 addresses of 45 in the postcode
  • RM16 3LD: 40 addresses of 41 in the postcode
  • RM16 3LH: 31 addresses of 32 in the postcode
  • RM16 3HB: 28 addresses of 29 in the postcode
  • RM16 3NS: 7 addresses of 8 in the postcode
  • RM16 3GZ: 1 address of 17 in the postcode
  • RM16 3JP: 1 address of 8 in the postcode
  • RM16 3JT: 1 address of 19 in the postcode
  • RM16 3LB: 1 address of 8 in the postcode
  • RM16 3LJ: 1 address of 47 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Mill Lane · Daltons Shaw · Cassell Close · Shelford Close · Medbree Court · Bonham Drive · Randall Drive · Bloomfield Walk · Lodysons Close

All the streets in RM16 and across Thurrock.

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.