Hornblower Close Ripon, North Yorkshire

22 addresses across 2 postcodes (HG4), about 100 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 16607716.

  • Sales: 51 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £275,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 14 homes have an energy certificate (C: 6, D: 7, F: 1).
  • Flood: 7 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 C; Band D in North Yorkshire costs £2,544 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Thirsk, about 15.1 km (9.4 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 160 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 3.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 47 to 49 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 22 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Ripon Spa Surgery, about 1.5 km (0.9 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 960 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 75% of households owned their home and 36% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 50 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
20251£275,000£275,000£275,000
20181£195,000£195,000£195,000
20161£160,000£160,000£160,000
20122£169,000£146,000£192,000
20112£163,750£145,000£182,500
20081£159,000£159,000£159,000
20072£178,975£164,950£193,000
20061£113,000£113,000£113,000
20054£174,000£90,000£180,000
20042£137,000£135,000£139,000
20032£146,000£133,000£159,000
20011£74,995£74,995£74,995
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 51)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
13 Jan 202515 HG4 2TRTerraced£275,000
26 Jan 20241 HG4 2TRTerraced£171,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
15 Jun 20183 HG4 2TRSemi-detached£170,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
23 Feb 201815 HG4 2TRTerraced£195,000
1 Nov 20168 HG4 2TRTerraced£160,000
17 Dec 20125 HG4 2TRTerraced£146,000
29 Mar 201227 HG4 2TRTerraced£192,000
21 Dec 20119 HG4 2TRTerraced£145,000
14 Apr 20114 HG4 2TRSemi-detached£182,500
28 Feb 200819 HG4 2TRSemi-detached£159,000
20 Jul 200727 HG4 2TRTerraced£193,000
12 Apr 20079 HG4 2TRSemi-detached£164,950
21 Jun 200611 HG4 2TRTerraced£113,000
22 Dec 200512 HG4 2TRSemi-detached£180,000
18 Nov 200511 HG4 2TRTerraced£90,000
3 Nov 20056 HG4 2TRSemi-detached£170,000
3 May 200527 HG4 2TRTerraced£178,000
9 Nov 20045 HG4 2TRSemi-detached£139,000
10 Jun 20043 HG4 2TRSemi-detached£135,000
19 Dec 20032 HG4 2TRTerraced£159,000
25 Jul 200312 HG4 2TRSemi-detached£133,000
19 Jan 200119 HG4 2TRSemi-detached£74,995
21 Sep 200027 HG4 2TRTerraced£74,000
18 Aug 200019 HG4 2TRSemi-detached£72,500
30 Jun 200013 HG4 2TRSemi-detached£72,000
29 Jun 200011 HG4 2TRTerraced£36,950
9 Jun 200025 HG4 2TRTerraced£67,500
2 Jun 200021 HG4 2TRSemi-detached£70,000
14 Jan 20004 HG4 2TRSemi-detached£67,000
12 Nov 199912 HG4 2TRSemi-detached£68,000
19 Jul 19991 HG4 2TRTerraced£56,500
17 Mar 19988 HG4 2TRTerraced£57,000
9 May 19977 HG4 2TRSemi-detached£50,500
22 Apr 19971 HG4 2TRTerraced£49,500
24 Feb 19972 HG4 2TRTerraced£56,500
14 Feb 199725 HG4 2TRTerraced£56,500New build.
22 Nov 199623 HG4 2TRTerraced£56,045New build.
17 Oct 199612 HG4 2TRSemi-detached£58,995New build.
30 Aug 199613 HG4 2TRSemi-detached£54,995New build.
26 Jul 199619 HG4 2TRSemi-detached£56,500New build.
19 Jul 199611 HG4 2TRTerraced£36,500New build.
5 Jul 199610 HG4 2TRTerraced£56,045New build.
28 Jun 19966 HG4 2TRSemi-detached£58,995New build.
14 Jun 199627 HG4 2TRTerraced£58,995New build.
6 Jun 19967 HG4 2TRSemi-detached£49,995New build.
4 Apr 19963 HG4 2TRSemi-detached£55,000New build.
29 Mar 19961 HG4 2TRTerraced£52,500New build.
26 Feb 19969 HG4 2TRSemi-detached£53,500New build.
16 Feb 199614 HG4 2TRSemi-detached£61,500New build.
19 Jan 19965 HG4 2TRSemi-detached£55,000New build.

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

14 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 70 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (8); House, mid-terrace (6). Built: 1996-2002 (8); 1991-1995 (5); 2003-2006 (1). Tenure at assessment: rented (private) (5); owner-occupied (3).

Council tax

What each band costs in North Yorkshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,544 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,696£1,979£2,262£2,544£3,110£3,675£4,241£5,089

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band C (37% of about 1,160 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 2 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) 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 30 September 2026.

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, 4 addresses are in areas at high risk, 3 at medium risk and 22 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
HG4 2TRnot in 2 or 3 1 / 2 / 7 unlikely
HG4 2TPnot in 2 or 3 3 / 1 / 15 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 22 addresses are between 47 m and 49 m above sea level (48 m on average).

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
HG4 2TP100%100%100%0%
HG4 2TR100%95%100%0%

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 31 October 2026; Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage 2024–25 (which stations are on the National Rail network, and their journeys: entries and exits in the year to March); OurAirports (public domain, kept by volunteers); car parks and charging points from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others: not an official register, so some will be missing, private or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street, not routes, and say nothing about how often anything runs. Stations opened since the end of ORR's year appear when ORR publishes the next one, each December; heritage railways are left out.

NearestDistance
Railway stationThirsk 288,000 journeys in 2024–2515.1 km (9.4 miles)
Bus stops2 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 8 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Chatham Road Ripon310 m
Car parksVictoria Grove Car Park1.8 km (1.1 miles)
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Connected Kerb Charging Stations1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLeeds Bradford Airport LBA31.3 km (19 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 surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Ripon Spa Surgery1.5 km (0.9 miles)
PharmaciesBoots1.7 km (1 mile)
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Ripon Dental Centre560 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalRipon And District Community Hospital1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Police stationRipon Police Station1.7 km (1 mile)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Co-operative440 m (0.3 miles)

Parks and green space

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

NearestDistance
Park or garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 5,490 m²160 m
Play area6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 690 m²190 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.2 ha160 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4,490 m²680 m (0.4 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 0.5 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Bishopton Lodge, a listed building (Grade II*), 710 m (0.4 miles) south-east. 17 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Bishopton LodgeListed building, Grade II*710 m (0.4 miles) south-east
Ripon Minster CloseScheduled monument2 km (1.2 miles) east
Studley RoyalRegistered park or garden, Grade I2.6 km (1.6 miles) south-west
Studley Royal Park including the ruins of Fountains AbbeyWorld Heritage Site2.9 km (1.8 miles) south-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Paddy WoodWood460 m (0.3 miles) south
Hospital WoodWood940 m (0.6 miles) south-west
Limekiln WoodWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) south-west
Coltsgate HillHill1.4 km (0.9 miles) east
The DaleValley2.3 km (1.4 miles) south-west
The LakeLake or reservoir2.9 km (1.8 miles) south-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)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)3.94010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.3205
Particles (PM10)8.94015

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 552122

1 of the street's 22 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 North Yorkshire: see them on the North Yorkshire 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
Ripon Grammar SchoolSecondary11–18660 m (0.4 miles) Good (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Outwood Academy RiponSecondary11–18740 m (0.5 miles) Good (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Wilfrid's Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.2 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Holy Trinity Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Feb 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; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Moorside Primary School & NurseryPrimary4–111.9 km (1.2 miles) Good (Sep 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.

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.

50 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences32
Anti-social behaviour8
Burglary3
Criminal damage and arson3
Public order1
Other crime1
Possession of weapons1
Robbery1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Doublegates Green (13); On or near Sports/Recreation Area (8); On or near Doublegates Walk (8); On or near Doublegates Court (6); On or near Doublegates Close (5).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 955 residents in 358 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 age4140
Children under 1521%17%
Aged 65 and over13%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)75%61%
Owned outright36%33%
Shared ownership2%1%
Social rented9%17%
Private rented14%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work68%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)18%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)30%32%
Travel to work by car or van57%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including busunder 1%8%
On foot or by bicycle12%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)51%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away13%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)36%34%
No qualifications10%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 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 9 to 10 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

What has changed

  • Energy certificates New energy certificate: band C, house, semi-detached (lodged 19 October 2026) found 2 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.

Nearby streets

Doublegates Green · Doublegates Court · Bellman Walk · Doublegates Close · Williams Road · Doublegates Walk · Cornbell Gate · Wemyss Road · Wayne Tarbard Close · Ash Bank Close · Doublegates Avenue · Lark Lane

All the streets in HG4 and across North Yorkshire.

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.