Malthouse Close Sompting, Adur

32 addresses across 2 postcodes (BN15), about 150 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 200176.

  • Sales: 43 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £355,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 15 homes have an energy certificate (C: 6, D: 9).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band C; Band D in Adur costs £2,548 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is East Worthing, about 1.6 km (1 mile) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 530 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 13 to 14 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 4 of its 32 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Ball Tree Surgery, about 550 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • People: About 720 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 82% of households owned their home and 24% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 20 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£355,000£355,000£355,000
20252£308,500£228,000£389,000
20242£377,500£370,000£385,000
20231£413,000£413,000£413,000
20221£390,000£390,000£390,000
20191£315,000£315,000£315,000
20181£300,000£300,000£300,000
20171£290,000£290,000£290,000
20162£300,000£300,000£300,000
20143£248,000£120,000£275,000
20131£190,000£190,000£190,000
20122£231,500£218,000£245,000
Most recent sales (43)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
14 May 202616 BN15 0EFSemi-detached£355,000
11 Dec 202542 BN15 0EFTerraced£389,000
26 Mar 202515 BN15 0EFTerraced£228,000
29 Oct 20248 BN15 0EFTerraced£370,000
28 Mar 202440 BN15 0EFSemi-detached£385,000
25 Aug 20237 BN15 0EFTerraced£413,000
5 Apr 202246 BN15 0EFTerraced£390,000
31 Jul 201918 BN15 0EFSemi-detached£315,000
12 Oct 20186 BN15 0EFTerraced£300,000
5 Oct 201712 BN15 0EFTerraced£290,000
16 Sep 20166 BN15 0EFTerraced£300,000
31 Aug 20167 BN15 0EFTerraced£300,000
19 Dec 20146 BN15 0EFTerraced£248,000
15 Dec 201415 BN15 0EFTerraced£120,000
28 Nov 201440 BN15 0EFSemi-detached£275,000
21 Mar 201312 BN15 0EFTerraced£190,000
15 Oct 201214 BN15 0EFSemi-detached£245,000
3 Sep 20127 BN15 0EFTerraced£218,000
21 Dec 20114 BN15 0EFSemi-detached£200,000
22 Nov 201040 BN15 0EFSemi-detached£224,950
26 Nov 200940 BN15 0EFSemi-detached£215,000
28 Nov 20075 BN15 0EFTerraced£211,000
26 Oct 20074 BN15 0EFSemi-detached£243,000
5 Sep 200724 BN15 0EFTerraced£221,000
5 Mar 20078 BN15 0EFTerraced£207,000
14 Feb 200716 BN15 0EFSemi-detached£201,495
18 Aug 20054 BN15 0EFSemi-detached£200,000
15 Jul 200438 BN15 0EFTerraced£174,950
29 Mar 200420 BN15 0EFSemi-detached£150,000
22 Dec 20038 BN15 0EFTerraced£170,000
29 Jul 20039 BN15 0EFSemi-detached£175,000
29 Jun 20019 BN15 0EFSemi-detached£102,000
27 Apr 200028 BN15 0EFSemi-detached£119,000
24 Sep 199911 BN15 0EFTerraced£87,950
28 May 19994 BN15 0EFSemi-detached£79,000
8 Jan 19995 BN15 0EFTerraced£69,000
26 Jun 19987 BN15 0EFSemi-detached£79,995
14 Nov 199712 BN15 0EFSemi-detached£71,000
14 Nov 19968 BN15 0EFTerraced£56,500
8 Sep 199540 BN15 0EFSemi-detached£73,000
3 Jul 19955 BN15 0EFTerraced£56,000
23 Jun 19953 BN15 0EFTerraced£45,000
13 Mar 199542 BN15 0EFTerraced£68,500

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026 (load in progress). Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from April 2010 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 101 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (6); House, end-terrace (5); House, mid-terrace (4). Built: 1967-1975 (6); 1976-1982 (5); 1950-1966 (3). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (12).

Council tax

What each band costs in Adur in 2026-27: Band D £2,548 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,699£1,982£2,265£2,548£3,115£3,681£4,247£5,097

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (62% of about 550 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: 3 protected trees on or by this street.
  • 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

Finished in the last three months

  • 25 August 2026 to 27 August 2026: SOUTHERN WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)
  • 21 August 2026 to 24 August 2026: BT, New service connection, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)
  • 17 August 2026 to 19 August 2026: Open Fibre Networks Limited, Utility asset works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (standard works)
  • 12 August 2026 to 13 August 2026: BT, Utility asset works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)

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, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 2 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
BN15 0EFnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
BN15 0EEnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 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 32 addresses are between 13 m and 14 m above sea level (14 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
BN15 0EE100%100%100%0%
BN15 0EF100%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 stationsEast Worthing 471,000 journeys in 2024–251.6 km (1 mile)
Lancing 980,000 journeys in 2024–251.8 km (1.1 miles)
Worthing 2.2 million journeys in 2024–252.9 km (1.8 miles)
Bus stops8 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 30 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Loose Lane Sompting60 m
Bus or coach stationSainsbury's West Hove Portslade9.8 km (6.1 miles)
Car parksWorthing Hospital - Staff Parking2.6 km (1.6 miles)
EV charging points7 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Connected Kerb Charging Stations480 m (0.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Gatwick Airport LGW36.7 km (23 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 surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Ball Tree Surgery550 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Cokeham Pharmacy570 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery570 m (0.4 miles)
HospitalWorthing Hospital2.4 km (1.5 miles)
Police stationSussex Police Federation1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Cooperative Food Sompting, Sompting470 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 1.4 ha530 m (0.3 miles)
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 560 m²210 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3.2 ha70 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 1,170 m²1.3 km (0.8 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 1.4 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is The Parish Church of St Mary, a listed building (Grade I), 640 m (0.4 miles) north-west. 14 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
The Parish Church of St MaryListed building, Grade I640 m (0.4 miles) north-west
Cross dyke on Steep Down, 600m north east of Titch Hill FarmScheduled monument1.7 km (1 mile) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
The MountainHill1.1 km (0.7 miles) north-west
Lychpole HillHill2.4 km (1.5 miles) north-west
Lancing BeachBeach2.6 km (1.6 miles) south-east
Cow BottomValley2.8 km (1.8 miles) north-east
Mill PlantationWood2.9 km (1.8 miles) west
WidewaterLake or reservoir3.5 km (2.2 miles) 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)7.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.5205
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
60 to 6410
55 to 5930
Under 552832

4 of the street's 32 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 Adur: see them on the Adur 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
Sompting Village Primary SchoolPrimary4–11270 m Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Boundstone Nursery SchoolNursery3–5950 m (0.6 miles) No published inspection
The Sir Robert Woodard Academy ChristianSecondary11–181 km (0.6 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Bramber Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.2 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
The Globe Primary AcademyPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Downsbrook Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.5 km (1 mile) Report card (Jun 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
Whytemead Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.7 km (1.1 miles) Good (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
North Lancing Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.7 km (1.1 miles) Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Davison Church of England High School for Girls, WorthingSecondary11–161.9 km (1.2 miles) Outstanding (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Springfield Infant School and NurseryPrimary3–72 km (1.2 miles) No overall grade (Jan 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding

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
Big Ted's Nursery BN15 0BUHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises220 m5 Very good3 May 2022
Breakfast Club at Sompting V Primary BN15 0BUOther catering premises280 m5 Very good30 Oct 2023
Premier Education BN15 0BUOther catering premises280 m5 Very good18 Feb 2026
Rectory House Nursing Home BN15 0DAHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises280 m4 Good2 Jun 2026
Ball Tree Croft BN15 9UXHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good14 Aug 2025
Sompting Fish Bar BN15 0ENTakeaway/sandwich shop470 m (0.3 miles)4 Good8 May 2026
Co-Op BN15 0ENRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good8 Feb 2022

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.

20 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences8
Anti-social behaviour3
Drugs2
Burglary2
Criminal damage and arson1
Other crime1
Bicycle theft1
Shoplifting1
Vehicle crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Tristram Close (8); On or near Priory Close (4); On or near Newman'S Gardens (3); On or near St Marys Close (2); On or near Parking Area (2).

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: 724 residents in 283 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 age4740
Children under 1516%17%
Aged 65 and over26%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)82%61%
Owned outright41%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented3%17%
Private rented15%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work57%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)26%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)33%32%
Travel to work by car or van57%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus5%8%
On foot or by bicycle5%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)63%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away8%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)24%34%
No qualifications21%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)97%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 8 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.

  • BN15 0EF: 31 addresses of 36 in the postcode
  • BN15 0EE: 1 address of 8 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Newman's Gardens · St Marys Close · Priory Close · Street Barn · Tristram Close · White Styles Road · Kelso Close · Dankton Gardens · Loose Lane · Rogate Close · Roman Walk · Peveril Drive

All the streets in BN15 and across Adur.

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.