High Street Hempstead, Uttlesford

67 addresses across 2 postcodes (CB10), about 790 m (0.5 miles) long, classed as a b road. USRN 41400615.

Sales: 73 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £700,000 across 1 sale.
Energy: 38 homes have an energy certificate (B: 3, C: 2, D: 5, E: 18, F: 10).
Flood: 8 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 G; Band D in Uttlesford costs £2,334 a year in 2026-27.
Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 88% to 100% of premises.
Transport: The nearest railway station is Audley End, about 12 km (7.5 miles) away in a straight line.
Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 5.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
Height: Its addresses are 89 to 106 m above sea level.
Noise: 57 of its 67 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Unity Healthcare, about 7.2 km (4.4 miles) away.
People: About 430 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 79% of households owned their home and 42% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
Crime: 1 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often other theft.

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)
Year	Sales	Median price	Lowest	Highest
2025	1	£700,000	£700,000	£700,000
2024	1	£1,000,000	£1,000,000	£1,000,000
2023	3	£600,000	£590,000	£604,500
2022	1	£435,000	£435,000	£435,000
2021	2	£698,750	£490,000	£907,500
2020	2	£662,500	£605,000	£720,000
2019	1	£500,000	£500,000	£500,000
2018	3	£375,000	£360,000	£380,000
2017	5	£494,000	£450,000	£757,500
2016	1	£650,000	£650,000	£650,000
2015	1	£481,000	£481,000	£481,000
2014	4	£505,000	£365,000	£580,000

Most recent sales (latest 50 of 73)
Date	Address	Type	Price	Notes
22 Aug 2025	LONG CORNER COTTAGE CB10 2PD	Detached	£700,000
6 Aug 2024	LUMREEKIE CB10 2PE	Detached	£1,000,000
10 Nov 2023	THE VICARAGE CB10 2PE	Other	£1,660,000	Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
7 Jul 2023	CROFTERS CB10 2PD	Detached	£604,500
8 Mar 2023	CLOVE COTTAGE CB10 2PE	Detached	£600,000
16 Feb 2023	MULBERRY HOUSE CB10 2PD	Detached	£590,000
17 Nov 2022	BROOKSIDE COTTAGE CB10 2PE	Detached	£435,000
29 Sep 2021	BASIL COTTAGE CB10 2PE	Semi-detached	£490,000
18 Mar 2021	BELLROPES CB10 2PE	Detached	£907,500
30 Nov 2020	CHASESIDE COTTAGE CB10 2PE	Detached	£605,000
22 Oct 2020	THE COBB CB10 2PE	Detached	£720,000
1 Nov 2019	HAWTHORNS CB10 2PD	Detached	£500,000
28 Aug 2018	LUMREEKIE CB10 2PE	Detached	£380,000
3 Aug 2018	2, WOOD COTTAGE CB10 2PE	Semi-detached	£360,000
12 Jun 2018	1, WOOD COTTAGES CB10 2PE	Semi-detached	£375,000
5 Sep 2017	BRAMLEYS CB10 2PE	Detached	£757,500
24 Aug 2017	AMBOISE CB10 2PE	Detached	£450,000
11 Aug 2017	BRIDGE HOUSE CB10 2PE	Detached	£580,000
3 Aug 2017	VINE COTTAGE CB10 2PD	Detached	£494,000
14 Jul 2017	TWO WAYS CB10 2PD	Detached	£485,000
17 Mar 2016	THE FIRS HOUSE CB10 2PE	Detached	£650,000
13 Nov 2015	WATENDLATH CB10 2PE	Detached	£481,000
4 Dec 2014	TWO WAYS CB10 2PD	Detached	£440,000
28 Aug 2014	CUCKOO HOUSE CB10 2PE	Detached	£570,000
24 Apr 2014	CHESTNUT HOUSE CB10 2PE	Detached	£580,000
17 Jan 2014	THE OLD BAKERY CB10 2PE	Detached	£365,000
10 Dec 2013	TREVOR HOUSE CB10 2PD	Detached	£370,000
16 Aug 2013	FANES COTTAGE CB10 2PE	Detached	£515,000
27 Mar 2013	CUCKOO HOUSE CB10 2PE	Detached	£480,000
21 Nov 2012	ANVIL RISE CB10 2PD	Detached	£400,000
28 Sep 2012	OLD POST OFFICE COTTAGE CB10 2PD	Detached	£320,000
21 Jun 2012	THE COBB CB10 2PE	Detached	£650,000
5 Apr 2012	BRIDGE HOUSE CB10 2PE	Detached	£470,000
31 Jan 2012	DIMMINGS CB10 2PE	Detached	£352,000
7 Jul 2011	CROFTERS CB10 2PD	Detached	£425,000
18 Apr 2011	WATENDLATH CB10 2PE	Detached	£450,000
29 Jun 2007	WATENDLATH CB10 2PE	Detached	£430,000
22 Jun 2007	BROOKSIDE COTTAGE CB10 2PE	Detached	£310,000
13 Apr 2007	OLD POST OFFICE COTTAGE CB10 2PD	Detached	£345,000
6 Mar 2007	BOX COTTAGE CB10 2PD	Detached	£577,000
15 Jan 2007	OXBOW HOUSE CB10 2PE	Detached	£365,000
22 Sep 2006	MILL COTTAGE CB10 2PD	Detached	£343,000
1 Mar 2006	LONG CORNER COTTAGE CB10 2PD	Detached	£490,000
18 Nov 2005	THYME COTTAGE CB10 2PE	Detached	£325,000
28 Jul 2005	CHESTNUT HOUSE CB10 2PE	Detached	£525,000
18 Jul 2005	MULBERRY HOUSE CB10 2PD	Detached	£420,000
10 Dec 2004	FIRS COTTAGE CB10 2PE	Detached	£250,000
27 Sep 2004	WATERLOO HOUSE CB10 2PD	Detached	£381,000
22 Dec 2003	MILL COTTAGE CB10 2PD	Detached	£250,000
24 Oct 2003	CHASESIDE COTTAGE CB10 2PE	Detached	£524,000

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 August 2010 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

E18

F10

38 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 150 m². Most common: House, detached (33); House, semi-detached (2); Bungalow, detached (2). Built: before 1900 (13); 1976-1982 (9); 1950-1966 (5). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (27); rented (social) (1); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (20 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Uttlesford in 2026-27: Band D £2,334 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H
£1,556	£1,815	£2,075	£2,334	£2,852	£3,371	£3,890	£4,668

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band G (24% of about 870 homes).

A3%

B7%

C15%

D14%

E18%

F16%

G24%

H2%

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, Hempstead. Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
Listed buildings on or by this street: 12.
Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
Tree preservation orders: 14 protected trees on or by this street.
Green belt: no.

Listed buildings

CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, grade II*
CRACKNELLS, grade II
DICK TURPIN'S COTTAGE, grade II
FANES COTTAGE, grade II
Hempstead Village Pump, grade II
HOUSE 25 METRES SOUTH WEST OF ST ANDREWS CHURCH, grade II
OLD QUAIL FARM, grade II
PIPPINS, grade II
ROSE AND CROWN INN, grade II
THE OLD BAKERY, grade II
VINE COTTAGE, grade II
WHEELWRIGHTS, grade II

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

3 November 2026 to 5 November 2026: ESSEX COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway improvement works, road closure, on the carriageway (major (paa) works)
3 November 2026 to 5 November 2026: ESSEX COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway improvement works, road closure, on the carriageway (major works)
6 November 2026: AFFINITY WATER - C, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the verge (minor works)
15 January 2027 to 19 January 2027: ESSEX COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway improvement works, road closure, on the carriageway (major (paa) works, permit applied for)
28 May 2027 to 31 May 2027: ESSEX COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway improvement works, road closure, on the carriageway (major (paa) works, permit applied for)

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, 8 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: of the 52 homes the Environment Agency counts, 5 are in areas at high risk, 0 medium, 1 low and 0 very low.

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.

Postcode	Planning zone	Addresses at high / medium / low risk	Groundwater
CB10 2PE	not in 2 or 3	5 / 0 / 3	unlikely
CB10 2PD	not in 2 or 3	3 / 0 / 3	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 67 addresses are between 89 m and 106 m above sea level (95 m on average); the ground rises about 17 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)
Postcode	Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)	Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)	Gigabit	Below 10 Mbit/s
CB10 2PD	100%	100%	100%	0%
CB10 2PE	100%	88%	88%	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.

	Nearest	Distance
Railway stations	Audley End 814,000 journeys in 2024–25	12 km (7.5 miles)
	Newport (Essex) 206,000 journeys in 2024–25	12.2 km (7.6 miles)
	Great Chesterford 101,000 journeys in 2024–25	13.6 km (8.5 miles)
Bus stops	2 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Bluebell Inn Hempstead	280 m
Bus or coach station	Bus Station Haverhill	8.2 km (5.1 miles)
EV charging points	MFG Charging Station	8 km (5 miles)
Airport with scheduled flights	London Stansted Airport STN	17.9 km (11 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.

	Nearest	Distance
GP surgeries	Unity Healthcare	7.2 km (4.4 miles)
Pharmacies	David Holland Pharmacy	7.1 km (4.4 miles)
NHS dentists	Wimbish Dental Centre	7.5 km (4.7 miles)
Hospital	Saffron Walden Community Hospital	8.6 km (5.3 miles)
Police station	Haverhill Police Station	8.2 km (5.1 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.

	Nearest	Distance
Play area	Unnamed 80 m²	2.8 km (1.7 miles)
Playing field	Unnamed 2.1 ha	2.8 km (1.8 miles)

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Andrew, a listed building (Grade II*), 270 m south. 25 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
Name	What it is	From the middle of the street
Church of St Andrew	Listed building, Grade II*	270 m south
Wincelow Hall moated site	Scheduled monument	520 m (0.3 miles) west
The Howses moated site	Scheduled monument	1.8 km (1.1 miles) south

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
Name	What it is	From the middle of the street
Sharp Crofts Wood	Wood	1.5 km (0.9 miles) south-west
Spitland Grove	Wood	1.7 km (1 mile) north
Holbrook Wood	Wood	1.9 km (1.2 miles) north
Goose Wood	Wood	2.2 km (1.3 miles) south-west
Hempstead Wood	Wood	2.2 km (1.4 miles) east
Red Oaks Hill	Hill	3.5 km (2.2 miles) north-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)
Pollutant	Here	UK limit	WHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)	5.2	40	10
Fine particles (PM2.5)	6.7	20	5
Particles (PM10)	11.8	40	15

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)
Level	Road traffic	Railways
65 to 69	11	0
60 to 64	20	0
55 to 59	26	0
Under 55	10	67

57 of the street's 67 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 Uttlesford: see them on the Uttlesford 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.

No open schools within 2 km (1.2 miles).

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.

No rated food businesses within 500 m (0.3 miles).

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.

1 recorded crimes by category
Category	Crimes
Other theft	1

Most of these are attached to: On or near High Street (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: 431 residents in 172 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 street	England
Median age	50	40
Children under 15	16%	17%
Aged 65 and over	24%	18%

Homes

	Around this street	England
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)	79%	61%
Owned outright	38%	33%
Shared ownership	2%	1%
Social rented	6%	17%
Private rented	13%	21%

Work and commuting

	Around this street	England
Adults (16 and over) in work	58%	57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)	4%	6%
Retired (of adults)	26%	22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)	1%	4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)	52%	32%
Travel to work by car or van	45%	48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram	1%	4%
By any public transport, including bus	1%	8%
On foot or by bicycle	0%	10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)	39%	65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away	17%	8%

Education and languages

	Around this street	England
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)	42%	34%
No qualifications	12%	18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification	3%	5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)	99%	91%
Cannot speak English well or at all	0%	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: AFFINITY WATER - C: Utility repair and maintenance works, 6 November 2026 (some carriageway incursion) found 3 November 2026
Roadworks Street works permit: ESSEX COUNTY COUNCIL: Highway improvement works, 3 November 2026 to 5 November 2026 (road closure) found 3 November 2026
Roadworks Street works permit: ESSEX COUNTY COUNCIL: Highway improvement works, 28 May 2027 to 31 May 2027 (road closure) found 3 November 2026
Roadworks Street works permit: ESSEX COUNTY COUNCIL: Highway improvement works, 15 January 2027 to 19 January 2027 (road closure) 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.

CB10 2PE: 38 addresses of 42 in the postcode
CB10 2PD: 29 addresses of 33 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Harvey Way

All the streets in CB10 and across Uttlesford.

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.