Knappe Close Henley-on-Thames, South Oxfordshire

19 addresses across 1 postcode (RG9), about 60 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 36200886.

  • Sales: 33 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £435,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 12 homes have an energy certificate (C: 9, D: 3).
  • 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 D; Band D in South Oxfordshire costs £2,598 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Henley-On-Thames, about 1.2 km (0.7 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 1.2 km (0.7 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.9 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 75 to 76 m above sea level.
  • Noise: None of its addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is The Hart Surgery, about 1 km (0.6 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 290 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 54% of households owned their home and 43% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 31 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
20261£435,000£435,000£435,000
20251£285,000£285,000£285,000
20241£350,000£350,000£350,000
20212£425,000£400,000£450,000
20161£365,000£365,000£365,000
20151£265,000£265,000£265,000
20122£267,500£200,000£335,000
20102£277,475£249,950£305,000
20063£219,500£195,000£303,950
20051£195,000£195,000£195,000
20041£277,000£277,000£277,000
20032£226,713£190,925£262,500
Most recent sales (33)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
11 Feb 20262 RG9 1XPSemi-detached£435,000Leasehold.
20 Nov 202518 RG9 1XPFlat or maisonette£285,000Leasehold.
17 May 202411 RG9 1XPTerraced£350,000
19 May 202112 RG9 1XPTerraced£450,000
23 Mar 20211 RG9 1XPTerraced£400,000
14 Oct 20167 RG9 1XPTerraced£365,000
9 Mar 20154 RG9 1XPFlat or maisonette£265,000Leasehold.
5 Sep 201210 RG9 1XPTerraced£335,000
17 Aug 201216 RG9 1XPFlat or maisonette£200,000Leasehold.
11 Nov 20102 RG9 1XPSemi-detached£249,950Leasehold.
3 Jun 201012 RG9 1XPTerraced£305,000
2 Jun 200610 RG9 1XPTerraced£303,950
2 Jun 20063 RG9 1XPTerraced£219,500
7 Apr 20064 RG9 1XPFlat or maisonette£195,000Leasehold.
30 Jun 200511 RG9 1XPTerraced£195,000
3 Jun 200410 RG9 1XPTerraced£277,000
11 Dec 20038 RG9 1XPTerraced£262,500
7 Jul 20032 RG9 1XPSemi-detached£190,925Leasehold.
20 Dec 200216 RG9 1XPFlat or maisonette£156,750Leasehold.
29 Oct 200218 RG9 1XPFlat or maisonette£162,000Leasehold.
4 Oct 20027 RG9 1XPTerraced£189,500
19 Feb 200215 RG9 1XPTerraced£169,000
18 May 200114 RG9 1XPFlat or maisonette£155,000Leasehold.
25 Jul 20008 RG9 1XPTerraced£187,500
1 Jul 199910 RG9 1XPTerraced£155,000
29 Sep 199810 RG9 1XPTerraced£142,000
30 Jul 199818 RG9 1XPFlat or maisonette£91,000Leasehold.
11 Dec 19978 RG9 1XPTerraced£139,950
29 Oct 199715 RG9 1XPTerraced£93,500
7 May 199716 RG9 1XPFlat or maisonette£72,500Leasehold.
2 May 19974 RG9 1XPFlat or maisonette£75,750Leasehold.
2 Jan 199714 RG9 1XPFlat or maisonette£69,000Leasehold.
29 Jun 19953 RG9 1XPTerraced£87,000

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 February 2013 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

12 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 63 m². Most common: House, end-terrace (3); Flat (3); House, mid-terrace (3). Built: 1983-1990 (8); 1996-2002 (2); 1991-1995 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (11).

Each home's certificates and sales (6 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in South Oxfordshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,598 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,732£2,020£2,309£2,598£3,175£3,752£4,329£5,195

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band D (39% of about 880 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 19 addresses are between 75 m and 76 m above sea level (76 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
RG9 1XP100%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 stationsHenley-On-Thames 835,000 journeys in 2024–251.2 km (0.7 miles)
Shiplake 129,000 journeys in 2024–253.2 km (2 miles)
Wargrave 111,000 journeys in 2024–254.6 km (2.8 miles)
Bus stops5 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 17 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Greys Road Shops Henley-on-Thames200 m
Bus or coach stationReading Rail Station - buses9 km (5.6 miles)
Car parksGreys Road Car Park930 m (0.6 miles)
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Mer1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Heathrow Airport LHR32.4 km (20 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 The Hart Surgery1 km (0.6 miles)
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots1.1 km (0.7 miles)
NHS dentists4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest 33 - 35 Duke Street1.1 km (0.7 miles)
HospitalTownlands Memorial Hospital1 km (0.6 miles)
Police stationSonning Common Police Station4.7 km (2.9 miles)
Cash machinesThe Cooperative Food Sonning Common, Sonning Common4.8 km (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 gardenUnnamed 840 m²1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 990 m²390 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Makins Recreation Ground 1.7 ha370 m
AllotmentsWaterman's Allotments 1.9 ha1.6 km (1 mile)

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Friar Park, a registered park or garden (Grade II), 1 km (0.6 miles) north. 106 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Friar ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II1 km (0.6 miles) north
Town HallListed building, Grade II*1 km (0.6 miles) north-east
Highlands Farm Palaeolithic siteScheduled monument1 km (0.6 miles) south-west
Fawley Court and Temple IslandRegistered park or garden, Grade II*2.4 km (1.5 miles) north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Drawback HillHill770 m (0.5 miles) south-east
Lucy's CopseWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) south
Rod Eyot IslandsIsland1.5 km (0.9 miles) east
Henley ReachLake or reservoir2.5 km (1.6 miles) north-east
Happy ValleyValley2.6 km (1.6 miles) east
Wargrave MarshWetland3.5 km (2.2 miles) south-east

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)7.44010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.9205
Particles (PM10)10.34015

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
Under 551919

None of the street's 19 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic or railways.

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 South Oxfordshire: see them on the South Oxfordshire 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
Valley Road SchoolPrimary4–11280 m No published inspection
Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School, Henley-on-Thames Roman CatholicPrimary4–11570 m (0.4 miles) Report card (Dec 2025): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Gillotts SchoolSecondary11–16780 m (0.5 miles) Outstanding (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
The Henley College16 plus16–99790 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Trinity Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–11810 m (0.5 miles) Good (Dec 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Badgemore Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection

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
The Happy Wok RG9 1QWTakeaway/sandwich shop180 m3 Generally satisfactory20 May 2025
One Stop RG9 1QWRetailers - other180 m5 Very good8 Jul 2024
Herbies Pizza RG9 1QWTakeaway/sandwich shop190 m4 Good23 Jul 2025
Compass Chartwells at Henley College RG9 1TZSchool/college/university460 m (0.3 miles)4 Good24 Feb 2026
Newboy Convenience Store RG9 1SPRetailers - other460 m (0.3 miles)4 Good22 Sep 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.

31 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences16
Other crime4
Criminal damage and arson4
Anti-social behaviour3
Other theft1
Burglary1
Vehicle crime1
Robbery1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Gainsborough Crescent (14); On or near Greys Road (4); On or near Knappe Close (4); On or near Chilterns End Close (2); On or near Gravett Close (2).

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: 293 residents in 119 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 age3940
Children under 1524%17%
Aged 65 and over13%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)54%61%
Owned outright28%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented15%17%
Private rented30%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work69%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)14%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)5%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)40%32%
Travel to work by car or van43%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram3%4%
By any public transport, including bus5%8%
On foot or by bicycle12%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)63%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away12%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)43%34%
No qualifications10%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)86%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all2%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.

Nearby streets

Gravett Close · Periam Close · King James Way · Gainsborough Crescent · Oakford Court · Valley Road · Sherwood Gardens · Chilterns End Close · Gainsborough Road · Tilebarn Close · Harcourt Close · Haywards Close

All the streets in RG9 and across South Oxfordshire.

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.