Horton Close Alcester, Stratford-on-Avon

33 addresses across 2 postcodes (B49), about 150 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 38301058.

  • Sales: 40 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £318,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 17 homes have an energy certificate (C: 9, D: 8).
  • Flood: 23 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 Stratford-on-Avon costs £2,484 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Wootton Wawen, about 7.3 km (4.5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 240 m away, and River Arrow Local Nature Reserve (8.9 hectares) is about 680 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 5.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.4 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 46 to 49 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 10 of its 33 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Alcester Health Centre, about 440 m (0.3 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 810 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 71% of households owned their home and 38% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 51 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£318,000£318,000£318,000
20241£160,000£160,000£160,000
20222£253,500£225,000£282,000
20211£355,000£355,000£355,000
20201£265,000£265,000£265,000
20192£284,248£146,000£422,495
20181£220,000£220,000£220,000
20143£190,000£114,000£320,000
20133£178,000£112,000£195,000
20122£162,500£145,000£180,000
20101£165,000£165,000£165,000
20091£162,500£162,500£162,500
Most recent sales (40)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
19 Sep 202532 B49 6LBSemi-detached£318,000
24 Jul 20245 B49 6LBTerraced£160,000
27 May 202226 B49 6LBSemi-detached£282,000
4 Feb 20226 B49 6LBSemi-detached£225,000
10 Dec 20217 B49 6LBDetached£355,000
27 Oct 202023 B49 6LBSemi-detached£265,000
13 Dec 201910 B49 6LBTerraced£146,000
25 Jan 201924 B49 6LBDetached£422,495
1 Mar 201826 B49 6LBSemi-detached£220,000
24 Oct 201426 B49 6LBSemi-detached£190,000
26 Feb 201410 B49 6LBTerraced£114,000
14 Feb 2014THE GABLES, 20 B49 6LBDetached£320,000
22 Nov 201319 B49 6LBSemi-detached£195,000
4 Oct 201318 B49 6LBFlat or maisonette£112,000
19 Feb 201332 B49 6LBSemi-detached£178,000
6 Jun 201212 B49 6LBTerraced£145,000
25 May 201223 B49 6LBSemi-detached£180,000
25 Oct 201021 B49 6LBSemi-detached£165,000
11 Dec 200938 B49 6LBSemi-detached£162,500
26 Jul 20076 B49 6LBSemi-detached£166,000
8 Dec 200611 B49 6LBDetached£267,000
1 Dec 20067 B49 6LBDetached£242,000
25 May 200538 B49 6LBSemi-detached£146,000
24 Mar 200532 B49 6LBSemi-detached£175,000
29 Oct 20046 B49 6LBSemi-detached£135,000
18 Jun 200436 B49 6LBSemi-detached£134,950
29 Nov 200228 B49 6LBSemi-detached£130,000
1 Feb 200223 B49 6LBSemi-detached£118,000
20 Apr 200111 B49 6LBDetached£180,000
20 Dec 20009 B49 6LBDetached£169,000
16 Oct 200038 B49 6LBSemi-detached£81,800
16 Jul 199936 B49 6LBSemi-detached£65,500
17 Jul 199834 B49 6LBSemi-detached£84,000
12 Dec 19976 B49 6LBSemi-detached£65,000
25 Jul 199710 B49 6LBSemi-detached£42,950
25 Apr 199712 B49 6LBSemi-detached£57,000
1 Mar 19966 B49 6LBSemi-detached£48,000
2 Jun 19957 B49 6LBDetached£92,000
27 Apr 199528 B49 6LBSemi-detached£63,000
28 Feb 199514 B49 6LBTerraced£50,000

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

17 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 71 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (8); House, detached (4); House, enclosed end-terrace (4). Built: 1976-1982 (11); 1983-1990 (4); 1967-1975 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (9); rented (private) (3).

Council tax

What each band costs in Stratford-on-Avon in 2026-27: Band D £2,484 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,656£1,932£2,208£2,484£3,036£3,588£4,140£4,968

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (23% of about 1,240 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Roadworks

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, 14 addresses are in areas at high risk, 9 at medium risk and 7 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
B49 6LBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 2 / 2 unlikely
B49 6LDnot in 2 or 3 14 / 7 / 5 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 33 addresses are between 46 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
B49 6LB100%100%100%0%
B49 6LD100%100%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 stationsWootton Wawen 19,000 journeys in 2024–257.3 km (4.5 miles)
Wilmcote 20,000 journeys in 2024–257.3 km (4.5 miles)
Bearley 2,550 journeys in 2024–258.1 km (5 miles)
Bus stops10 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 16 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest St Faiths Road Alcester180 m
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest bp pulse Charging Station920 m (0.6 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX26.9 km (17 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 Alcester Health Centre440 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Hopkins Pharmacy440 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Practice1 km (0.6 miles)
HospitalAlexandra Hospital7.2 km (4.5 miles)
Police stationAlcester Police Station1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Cash machinesOversley Mill Service Station, Oversley Green, Alcester Bypass Cashzone2.2 km (1.4 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 garden4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 7,810 m²240 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)River Arrow Local Nature Reserve 8.9 ha680 m (0.4 miles)
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 580 m²250 m
Playing field4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 630 m²510 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 480 m²690 m (0.4 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 12 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Alcester Abbey, a scheduled monument, 800 m (0.5 miles) south-west. 75 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade I and 5 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Alcester AbbeyScheduled monument800 m (0.5 miles) south-west
Town HallListed building, Grade I830 m (0.5 miles) south-west
Churchill HouseListed building, Grade II*850 m (0.5 miles) south-west
Church of St NicholasListed building, Grade II*890 m (0.6 miles) south-west
2 Malt Mill LaneListed building, Grade II*910 m (0.6 miles) south-west
Standing cross in St Mary's churchyardScheduled monument1 km (0.6 miles) east
Beauchamp Court moated siteScheduled monument1.1 km (0.7 miles) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Durlop HillHill1.5 km (0.9 miles) south-east
Primrose HillHill2.2 km (1.4 miles) south
Oversley WoodWood2.2 km (1.4 miles) south-east
Windmill HillHill2.3 km (1.4 miles) north
The RookeryWood2.4 km (1.5 miles) north-west
Westminster PoolLake or reservoir2.5 km (1.6 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)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)5.54010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.4205
Particles (PM10)10.54015

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
60 to 6460
55 to 5940
Under 552333

10 of the street's 33 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 Stratford-on-Avon: see them on the Stratford-on-Avon 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
Alcester AcademySecondary11–16430 m (0.3 miles) Report card (Jul 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Exceptional; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
St Nicholas CofE Primary Church of EnglandPrimary4–11520 m (0.3 miles) Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Our Lady's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–11530 m (0.3 miles) No overall grade (Jun 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
St Benedict's Catholic High School Roman CatholicSecondary11–18590 m (0.4 miles) Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Alcester Grammar SchoolSecondary11–181 km (0.6 miles) Outstanding (Dec 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)

Food hygiene ratings nearby

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

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Greggs PLC B49 6EHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen300 m5 Very good30 Oct 2025
Costcutter B49 6EHRetailers - other300 m4 Good16 Jun 2025
The Alcester Inn B49 6AQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good2 Feb 2026
Miquill Catering Company B49 6QQSchool/college/university430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good29 Sep 2026
Arden Cafe B49 6ESRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen440 m (0.3 miles)4 Good29 Nov 2023
Tesco B49 6AARetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good8 Oct 2024
AIP C/O St Benedict's Catholic High School & Sixth Form B49 6PXSchool/college/university470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good24 Sep 2026
Alcester Butchers B49 6AARetailers - other470 m (0.3 miles)4 Good16 Oct 2025
Alcester Fish Bar B49 6AATakeaway/sandwich shop470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good6 Oct 2026

Crime within 250 m

Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, September 2025 to August 2026. Police forces move every crime to the nearest of about 760,000 anonymised map points before publishing, so these are crimes near this street, not on it, and a busy point can collect crimes from a wider area. Counts are of records, not convictions.

51 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences28
Criminal damage and arson7
Anti-social behaviour6
Public order3
Other crime2
Burglary2
Drugs2
Other theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Hertford Road (14); On or near Crooks Lane (7); On or near Wakefield Way (6); On or near Rufford Close (5); On or near Purton Close (3).

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: 807 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 age4340
Children under 1519%17%
Aged 65 and over21%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)71%61%
Owned outright41%33%
Shared ownership4%1%
Social rented9%17%
Private rented16%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work60%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)26%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)36%32%
Travel to work by car or van55%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including busunder 1%8%
On foot or by bicycle7%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)40%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away10%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)38%34%
No qualifications10%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 9 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.

  • B49 6LB: 32 addresses of 33 in the postcode
  • B49 6LD: 1 address of 51 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Seymour Road · Kinwarton Farm Road · Devonish Close · Wain Close · Burton Court · Alauna Avenue · Glebe Road · Fisher Road · Wakefield Way · Fenwick Close · Rufford Close · Purton Close

All the streets in B49 and across Stratford-on-Avon.

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.