Lescombe Close London, Lewisham

25 addresses across 2 postcodes (SE23), about 100 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 22001645.

  • Sales: 24 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £625,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 15 homes have an energy certificate (C: 4, D: 8, E: 3).
  • Flood: 1 address on its postcodes is 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 D; Band D in Lewisham costs £2,237 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Lower Sydenham, about 1 km (0.6 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, De Frene Market Garden, is about 370 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 17.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 9.0 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 29 to 31 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 7 of its 25 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Sydenham Green Group Practice, about 390 m away, with 8 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 380 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 67% of households owned their home and 44% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 112 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£625,000£625,000£625,000
20231£610,000£610,000£610,000
20191£575,000£575,000£575,000
20171£203,503£203,503£203,503
20141£197,000£197,000£197,000
20121£292,000£292,000£292,000
20111£278,000£278,000£278,000
20102£305,000£270,000£340,000
20091£275,000£275,000£275,000
20071£340,000£340,000£340,000
20062£239,500£234,000£245,000
20032£218,475£194,950£242,000
Most recent sales (24)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
18 May 202617 SE23 2RRTerraced£625,000
15 Nov 20234 SE23 2RRTerraced£610,000
28 Oct 20197 SE23 2RRTerraced£575,000
25 Aug 201714 SE23 2RRTerraced£203,503
7 Nov 201413 SE23 2RRTerraced£197,000
14 Dec 20128 SE23 2RRTerraced£292,000
27 Jul 201120 SE23 2RRTerraced£278,000
24 Sep 20102 SE23 2RRTerraced£340,000
30 Jul 20107 SE23 2RRTerraced£270,000
16 Dec 200910 SE23 2RRTerraced£275,000
23 Aug 200725 SE23 2RRSemi-detached£340,000
31 Aug 200610 SE23 2RRTerraced£234,000
13 Apr 200620 SE23 2RRTerraced£245,000
4 Apr 200322 SE23 2RRTerraced£242,000
23 Jan 20039 SE23 2RRTerraced£194,950
12 Jul 200225 SE23 2RRSemi-detached£257,500
8 Jun 20017 SE23 2RRTerraced£87,000
31 Jan 200118 SE23 2RRTerraced£153,000
6 Nov 199821 SE23 2RRSemi-detached£112,000
23 Apr 199818 SE23 2RRTerraced£110,500
3 Oct 19977 SE23 2RRTerraced£83,000
3 Apr 199722 SE23 2RRTerraced£72,000
30 Jan 199718 SE23 2RRTerraced£67,000
12 Jan 19959 SE23 2RRTerraced£71,000

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

15 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 100 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (10); House, end-terrace (5). Built: 1930-1949 (13); 1900-1929 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (6); rented (private) (5).

Each home's certificates and sales (9 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Lewisham in 2026-27: Band D £2,237 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,492£1,740£1,989£2,237£2,735£3,232£3,729£4,475

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band D (61% 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): Small Houses in Multiple Occupation Article 4.
  • 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

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 11 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
SE23 2RRnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 11 unlikely
SE23 2RPnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 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 25 addresses are between 29 m and 31 m above sea level (30 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
SE23 2RP100%100%100%0%
SE23 2RR100%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 stationsLower Sydenham 787,000 journeys in 2024–251 km (0.6 miles)
Sydenham (London) 3.5 million journeys in 2024–251.2 km (0.8 miles)
Forest Hill 4.2 million journeys in 2024–251.2 km (0.8 miles)
Bus stops14 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 37 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Ardley Close Bell Green120 m
Bus or coach stationWest Dulwich - Croxted Road3.9 km (2.4 miles)
Ferry terminalGreenwich Pier6 km (3.7 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Sainsbury's Sydenham Car Park350 m
EV charging points26 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest ubitricity190 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon City Airport LCY10.4 km (6.5 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Heathrow Airport LHR29.6 km (18 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 surgeries8 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Sydenham Green Group Practice390 m
Pharmacies9 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Perry Vale Pharmacy460 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists9 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery460 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalUniversity Hospital Lewisham2.7 km (1.7 miles)
Police stationCatford Police Base1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Harvest Energy - Northern Lights Filling Station, Stonehaven Road460 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 garden4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest De Frene Market Garden 3,460 m²370 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Mayow Park 7.0 ha590 m (0.4 miles)
Play area7 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 80 m²90 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.0 ha640 m (0.4 miles)
Allotments3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4,270 m²160 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 15 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Horniman Gardens, a registered park or garden (Grade II), 1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-west. 11 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Horniman GardensRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-west
Crystal Palace ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II*2.5 km (1.6 miles) south-west
Maritime GreenwichWorld Heritage Site5.7 km (3.5 miles) north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Devonshire Road Nature ReserveWood1.6 km (1 mile) north-west
Stumpshill WoodWood1.8 km (1.1 miles) south-east
Oak of Honor HillHill2.2 km (1.4 miles) north-west
Intermediate LakeLake or reservoir2.2 km (1.4 miles) south-west
Honor OakWood2.2 km (1.4 miles) north-west
Sydenham HillHill2.4 km (1.5 miles) 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)17.14010
Fine particles (PM2.5)9.0205
Particles (PM10)14.34015

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
55 to 5970
Under 551825

7 of the street's 25 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 Lewisham: see them on the Lewisham 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
Adamsrill Primary SchoolPrimary3–11270 m No published inspection
St Michael's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–11460 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Haseltine Primary SchoolPrimary3–11520 m (0.3 miles) Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Forest Hill SchoolSecondary11–18630 m (0.4 miles) Good (Dec 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Kilmorie Primary SchoolPrimary3–11680 m (0.4 miles) Good (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Our Lady and St Philip Neri Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–11720 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Perrymount Primary SchoolPrimary3–11730 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Rathfern Primary SchoolPrimary2–111 km (0.6 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Athelney Primary SchoolPrimary2–111 km (0.7 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
St George's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary2–111 km (0.7 miles) Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Elfrida Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Report card (Jul 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
St Bartholomews's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary5–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Jul 2023, 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
Olive Dining Ltd at Brent Knoll School SE23 2QUSchool/college/university130 m4 Good24 Apr 2025
Little Elms SE6 4HDHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises150 m5 Very good26 Jan 2026
Livesey Memorial Hall SE6 4HDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen160 m5 Very good10 Jul 2026
Glory Days Community Group SE23 2QURetailers - other200 mAwaiting inspection
Colin Limited SE23 2RUHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises230 m5 Very good4 Nov 2025
Adamsrill After School Club SE26 4AQHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises240 m5 Very good11 Oct 2024
Olive Dining Ltd at Adamsrill Primary School SE26 4AQSchool/college/university240 mAwaiting inspection
Adamsrill Primary School SE26 4AQSchool/college/university270 m5 Very good11 Oct 2024
The Stuffed Walrus SE23 2QLPub/bar/nightclub270 m3 Generally satisfactory24 Mar 2026
Sports Direct SE26 4DQRetailers - other290 mExempt
Bell Green Food and Wine SE26 4PZRetailers - other340 m5 Very good23 Jan 2026
The Dulwich Nursery and Pre-School SE6 4LPHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises370 m5 Very good8 Sep 2026
Perry Hill Pub SE6 4EYRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen390 m3 Generally satisfactory26 Nov 2024
St Michaels CofE School- Nourish Contract Catering Ltd SE26 4HHSchool/college/university400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good14 Oct 2025
Costa Ltd SE26 4PRRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good7 Feb 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.

112 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences32
Vehicle crime25
Criminal damage and arson14
Drugs13
Anti-social behaviour9
Other theft8
Burglary4
Public order3
Other crime1
Possession of weapons1
Theft from the person1
Robbery1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Winsford Road (22); On or near Perry Rise (19); On or near Ardley Close (19); On or near Normandy Close (13); On or near Garlies Road (11).

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: 384 residents in 141 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 1521%17%
Aged 65 and over18%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)67%61%
Owned outright36%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented7%17%
Private rented26%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work55%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)19%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)45%32%
Travel to work by car or van21%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram18%4%
By any public transport, including bus28%8%
On foot or by bicycle6%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)64%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away2%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)44%34%
No qualifications18%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)90%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all2%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 4 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 D, house, end-terrace (lodged 23 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

Lescombe Road · Ardley Close · Priestfield Road · Perry Hill · Sydenham Road · Garlies Road · Normandy Close · Paxton Road · Silver Birch Close · Dillwyn Close · Houston Road · Shaws Cottages

All the streets in SE23 and across Lewisham.

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.