Holbrook Close Upper Holloway, Islington

6 addresses across 1 postcode (N19), about 60 m long. USRN 21606850.

  • Sales: 8 recorded sales since 1995; in 2016 the median was £1,305,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 2 homes have an energy certificate (C: 1, D: 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 C; Band D in Islington costs £2,108 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Upper Holloway, about 890 m (0.6 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Waterlow Park, is about 70 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 19.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 9.0 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 79 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 5 of its 6 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Brookfield Park Surgery, about 390 m away, with 9 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 300 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 21% of households owned their home and 38% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 819 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
20161£1,305,000£1,305,000£1,305,000
20101£690,000£690,000£690,000
20091£685,000£685,000£685,000
20061£585,000£585,000£585,000
20001£335,000£335,000£335,000
19991£390,000£390,000£390,000
19952£235,000£220,000£250,000
Most recent sales (8)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
5 Aug 20164 N19 5HHTerraced£1,305,000Leasehold.
16 Feb 20104 N19 5HHFlat or maisonette£690,000Leasehold.
27 Nov 20093 N19 5HHTerraced£685,000Leasehold.
2 Oct 20064 N19 5HHFlat or maisonette£585,000Leasehold.
7 Apr 20002 N19 5HHTerraced£335,000Leasehold.
1 Nov 19995 N19 5HHFlat or maisonette£390,000Leasehold.
11 Aug 19953 N19 5HHTerraced£220,000Leasehold.
26 May 19955 N19 5HHFlat or maisonette£250,000Leasehold.

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 2014 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

2 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 191 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (1); House, end-terrace (1). Built: 1983-1990 (1); 1976-1982 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (2 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Islington in 2026-27: Band D £2,108 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,405£1,640£1,874£2,108£2,577£3,045£3,514£4,216

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (62% of about 740 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

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

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

Flood risk

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 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 addresses are about 79 m above sea level.

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
N19 5HH0%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 stationsUpper Holloway 1.4 million journeys in 2024–25890 m (0.6 miles)
Gospel Oak 2.7 million journeys in 2024–251.5 km (0.9 miles)
Crouch Hill 901,000 journeys in 2024–251.7 km (1.1 miles)
Underground, metro or tramArchway Underground Station470 m (0.3 miles)
Tufnell Park Underground Station1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Highgate Underground Station1.2 km (0.8 miles)
Bus stops16 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 51 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Magdala Avenue / Dartmouth Park Hill Archway180 m
Bus or coach stationFinchley Road Underground Station3.5 km (2.2 miles)
Ferry terminalCamden Lock Waterbus Camden Town2.9 km (1.8 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest RCP - Archway Car Park360 m
EV charging points36 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest ubitricity240 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon City Airport LCY15.3 km (9.5 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Heathrow Airport LHR24.6 km (15 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 surgeries9 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Brookfield Park Surgery390 m
Pharmacies10 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Well510 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists12 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Day Treatment Centre150 m
HospitalThe Whittington Hospital150 m
Police stationPolice Training Centre1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Cash machines3 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Nisa Cashzone390 m

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden8 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Waterlow Park 10 ha70 m
Play area13 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 460 m²250 m
Playing fieldUnnamed 2.0 ha1 km (0.6 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 2,100 m²1.1 km (0.7 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 8 parks and gardens, 15 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Joseph, a listed building (Grade II*), 200 m north. 261 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 4 of them Grade I and 27 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St JosephListed building, Grade II*200 m north
Tomb of Karl Marx and Family in Highgate (Eastern) CemetryListed building, Grade I220 m south-west
Waterlow ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II*290 m north-west
Lauderdale HouseListed building, Grade II*290 m north-west
Forecourt Walls to Cromwell HouseListed building, Grade I330 m north-west
Highgate CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade I390 m west
Bell Barrow called Boadicea's Grave, 650m west of Millfield CottageScheduled monument1.6 km (1 mile) west
Palace of Westminster, Westminster Abbey and St. Margaret's ChurchWorld Heritage Site7.6 km (4.7 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Number 1 PondLake or reservoir1.1 km (0.7 miles) south-west
Number 2 PondLake or reservoir1.2 km (0.7 miles) south-west
Number 3 PondLake or reservoir1.2 km (0.7 miles) west
Highgate PondsLake or reservoir1.2 km (0.8 miles) west
Parliament HillHill1.5 km (0.9 miles) south-west
Queen's WoodWood1.6 km (1 mile) north

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)19.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)9.0205
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 6910
60 to 6420
55 to 5920
Under 5516

5 of the street's 6 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 Islington: see them on the Islington 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 Joseph's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary2–11180 m Outstanding (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Hargrave Park SchoolPrimary0–11320 m Good (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Aloysius' College Roman CatholicSecondary11–19340 m Good (Jun 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Brookfield Primary SchoolPrimary2–11460 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
St John's Upper Holloway CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary2–11740 m (0.5 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Whitehall Park SchoolPrimary4–11770 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
City of London Academy, Highgate HillSecondary11–18810 m (0.5 miles) Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
La Sainte Union Catholic Secondary School Roman CatholicSecondary11–181 km (0.6 miles) No overall grade (Dec 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Yerbury Primary SchoolPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) Outstanding (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Michael's CofE Voluntary Aided Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) Outstanding (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Acland Burghley SchoolSecondary11–181.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Parliament Hill SchoolSecondary11–181.1 km (0.7 miles) Outstanding (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 3 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Union House Café N19 5NXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen100 m5 Very good22 Oct 2024
Highgate Mental Health Centre (WEST) N19 5NXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen100 m5 Very good17 Sep 2026
Caterlink @St Joseph's RC Primary N19 5DTSchool/college/university110 m5 Very good17 Jul 2025
Royal Voluntary Service N19 5NFRetailers - other150 m5 Very good19 Jun 2018
Patient Dining N19 5NFHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises150 m5 Very good22 Dec 2025
Staff meal Services N19 5NFOther catering premises150 m5 Very good22 Dec 2025
Meals For The NHS N19 5NFOther catering premises150 m5 Very good20 Jan 2025
Elior @ Whittington Hospital - eatwell N19 5NFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen150 m5 Very good14 Sep 2026
Archie's Cafe, Bar and Grill N19 5NLRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen170 m4 Good25 Mar 2026
Fabrizio N19 5NLRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen180 m4 Good15 Aug 2025
Domino's Pizza Highgate N19 5NLTakeaway/sandwich shop180 m5 Very good26 Feb 2025
Archway Express N19 5NLRetailers - other180 m4 Good22 May 2024
Sushi Wa N19 5NLRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen180 m3 Generally satisfactory13 Mar 2026
Hi hill coffee cafe N19 5NLRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen190 m5 Very good11 Jun 2024
Muffin Break N19 5NFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen200 m5 Very good27 Aug 2025

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.

819 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences451
Anti-social behaviour128
Public order69
Other theft67
Criminal damage and arson27
Theft from the person20
Vehicle crime17
Burglary12
Drugs10
Bicycle theft8
Robbery5
Other crime4
Shoplifting1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Hospital (568); On or near Highgate Hill (117); On or near Netherleigh Close (53); On or near Despard Road (45); On or near Magdala Avenue (36).

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: 301 residents in 116 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 age3440
Children under 1520%17%
Aged 65 and over13%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)21%61%
Owned outright7%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented62%17%
Private rented16%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work50%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)15%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)8%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)38%32%
Travel to work by car or van11%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram19%4%
By any public transport, including bus35%8%
On foot or by bicycle15%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)89%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away3%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)38%34%
No qualifications25%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)73%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all7%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 2 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.

  • N19 5HH: 6 addresses of 7 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Gordon Close · Lulot Gardens · Retcar Place · Magdala Avenue · Highgate Hill · Netherleigh Close · Anatola Road · Sandstone Place · Chester Road · Thornbury Square · Despard Road · Salisbury Walk

All the streets in N19 and across Islington.

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.