Millfield Cottages Brighton

14 addresses across 2 postcodes (BN2), about 90 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 4400440.

  • Sales: 35 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £467,500 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 11 homes have an energy certificate (C: 4, D: 7).
  • Flood: 5 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 A; Band D in Brighton and Hove costs £2,581 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 92% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Brighton, about 2.1 km (1.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 220 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.4 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 33 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 4 of its 14 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Broadway Surgery, about 1.1 km (0.7 miles) away, with 6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 480 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 49% of households owned their home and 56% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 736 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
20252£467,500£435,000£500,000
20232£492,500£435,000£550,000
20201£370,000£370,000£370,000
20191£400,000£400,000£400,000
20171£385,000£385,000£385,000
20142£309,350£288,750£329,950
20091£275,000£275,000£275,000
20071£276,500£276,500£276,500
20063£225,000£225,000£249,999
20051£176,000£176,000£176,000
20041£247,500£247,500£247,500
20022£122,081£37,162£207,000
Most recent sales (35)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
16 Dec 20253 BN2 1HGTerraced£500,000
21 Oct 202510 BN2 1HGTerraced£435,000
1 Sep 202312 BN2 1HGTerraced£550,000
28 Apr 20233 BN2 1HGTerraced£435,000
3 Jul 20205 BN2 1HGTerraced£370,000
21 Aug 201913 BN2 1HGTerraced£400,000
7 Jul 201711 BN2 1HGTerraced£387,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
12 Jun 201710 BN2 1HGTerraced£385,000
1 Aug 201411 BN2 1HGTerraced£329,950
26 Jun 201413 BN2 1HGTerraced£288,750
17 Apr 20097 BN2 1HGTerraced£275,000
22 Aug 200711 BN2 1HGSemi-detached£276,500
4 Oct 20066 BN2 1HGTerraced£249,999
4 Sep 200610 BN2 1HGTerraced£225,000
1 Mar 20069 BN2 1HGTerraced£225,000
25 Feb 20057 BN2 1HGTerraced£176,000
30 Jul 200413 BN2 1HGTerraced£247,500
29 Nov 200212 BN2 1HGTerraced£37,162
18 Oct 200213 BN2 1HGTerraced£207,000
7 Dec 200113 BN2 1HGTerraced£175,000
15 Oct 20012 BN2 1HGTerraced£238,500
24 Apr 200113 BN2 1HGTerraced£75,000
6 Nov 200014 BN2 1HGTerraced£91,500
23 Jun 200010 BN2 1HGTerraced£126,000
13 Jun 200012 BN2 1HGTerraced£168,000
26 Apr 199912 BN2 1HGTerraced£132,250
24 Jul 19985 BN2 1HGTerraced£95,000
29 May 19988 BN2 1HGTerraced£87,000
16 Apr 199812 BN2 1HGTerraced£72,500
3 Mar 19986 BN2 1HGTerraced£90,000
5 Dec 199710 BN2 1HGTerraced£87,500
29 Jul 19978 BN2 1HGTerraced£85,500
6 Jun 19972 BN2 1HGTerraced£127,500
27 Mar 199710 BN2 1HGTerraced£50,000
10 Apr 19958 BN2 1HGTerraced£70,675

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 March 2012 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

11 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 71 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (8); House, end-terrace (3). Built: before 1900 (8); 1900-1929 (2); 1930-1949 (1). Tenure at assessment: rented (private) (5); owner-occupied (4).

Each home's certificates and sales (5 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Brighton and Hove in 2026-27: Band D £2,581 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,720£2,007£2,294£2,581£3,154£3,727£4,301£5,161

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band A (27% of about 1,990 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the 2 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: yes, East Cliff (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 1.
  • 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.

Listed buildings

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, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 4 at medium risk and 14 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
BN2 1HGnot in 2 or 3 0 / 2 / 4 unlikely
BN2 1EFnot in 2 or 3 1 / 2 / 10 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 addresses are about 33 m above sea level.

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
BN2 1EF100%92%92%0%
BN2 1HG100%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 stationsBrighton 15 million journeys in 2024–252.1 km (1.3 miles)
London Road (Brighton) 392,000 journeys in 2024–252.5 km (1.5 miles)
Moulsecoomb 445,000 journeys in 2024–253.2 km (2 miles)
Bus stops21 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 51 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Eaton Place Kemp Town90 m
Bus or coach stationPool Valley Coach Station Brighton1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Ferry terminalNewhaven Harbour Ferry Terminal12.5 km (7.8 miles)
Car parksThe Lanes Car Park1.7 km (1.1 miles)
EV charging pointsbp Pulse1.7 km (1.1 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Gatwick Airport LGW37.1 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 surgeries6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Broadway Surgery1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Pharmacies7 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Kemptown Pharmacy440 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery440 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalSussex Eye Hospital110 m
Police stationBrighton Police Station1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Cooperative Food Kemp Town, Kemptown Cashzone300 m

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 4.6 ha220 m
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,010 m²280 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4,850 m²240 m
Allotments3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest St Marks Allotments 1,880 m²410 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 4.6 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Numbers 1-14 and Chichester House and Attached Railings, a listed building (Grade I), 320 m south-east. 188 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 7 of them Grade I and 4 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Numbers 1-14 and Chichester House and Attached RailingsListed building, Grade I320 m south-east
Numbers 1-14 and Attached RailingsListed building, Grade I400 m (0.2 miles) south-east
Numbers 1-10 and Attached Piers and RailingsListed building, Grade I450 m (0.3 miles) east
Kemp Town EnclosuresRegistered park or garden, Grade II450 m (0.3 miles) south-east
Numbers 11-40 and Attached RailingsListed building, Grade I530 m (0.3 miles) east
Queen's Park, BrightonRegistered park or garden, Grade II950 m (0.6 miles) north-west
Whitehawk Camp causewayed enclosureScheduled monument1.1 km (0.7 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Kemp Town BeachBeach310 m south
Whitehawk HillHill850 m (0.5 miles) north
The LakeLake or reservoir920 m (0.6 miles) north-west
Whitehawk BottomValley1.4 km (0.9 miles) north-east
Blackrock ValleyValley1.4 km (0.9 miles) east
Warren PlantationWood2.7 km (1.7 miles) north-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)8.54010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.4205
Particles (PM10)9.64015

All three are within the UK legal limits; PM2.5 is above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
55 to 5940
Under 551014

4 of the street's 14 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 Brighton and Hove: see them on the Brighton and Hove 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
St John the Baptist Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–11560 m (0.3 miles) No overall grade (Sep 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
St Mark's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–11570 m (0.4 miles) No overall grade (Mar 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
Queen's Park Primary SchoolPrimary4–11840 m (0.5 miles) Report card (Jul 2026): 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
Royal Spa Nursery SchoolNursery2–5940 m (0.6 miles) No published inspection
St Luke's Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (Mar 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
City Academy WhitehawkPrimary2–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Tarnerland Nursery SchoolNursery2–51.2 km (0.7 miles) Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Carlton Hill Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Elm Grove Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Fairlight Primary SchoolPrimary3–112 km (1.2 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 Kemp Town Chippy BN2 1EFTakeaway/sandwich shop40 m3 Generally satisfactory25 Mar 2025
Kemp Thai BN2 1EFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen40 m5 Very good16 Oct 2024
Haus Of Cabaret BN2 1EFPub/bar/nightclub40 m5 Very good4 Jan 2025
Vel South Indian Kitchen And Bar BN2 1EFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen40 m5 Very good26 Aug 2022
St George's Food And Wine BN2 1EFRetailers - other40 m4 Good17 May 2023
Ideal Market BN2 1EFRetailers - other40 m1 Major improvement necessary30 Jun 2026
Seed N Sprout BN2 1EFRetailers - other40 m5 Very good2 Apr 2026
Open Bakery BN2 1EFOther catering premises40 mExempt
St Michael's News BN2 1EFRetailers - other40 m5 Very good27 Feb 2024
Suriya's Thai Kitchen BN2 1EFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen40 m5 Very good3 Jan 2025
Kemptown Klub BN2 1EFPub/bar/nightclub40 m5 Very good23 Jul 2024
Safe Art Cafe BN2 1EFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen40 m5 Very good28 Aug 2026
St Georges Inn BN2 1HEPub/bar/nightclub50 m5 Very good10 Jun 2026
ElektrikPicknick At The St Georges Inn BN2 1HEPub/bar/nightclub50 m5 Very good27 Aug 2025
FGround Kemptown BN2 1EFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen70 m5 Very good17 Aug 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.

736 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences332
Public order100
Anti-social behaviour97
Other theft51
Criminal damage and arson42
Drugs25
Bicycle theft22
Other crime19
Burglary14
Vehicle crime13
Shoplifting8
Theft from the person5
Robbery4
Possession of weapons4

Most of these are attached to: On or near Hospital (445); On or near Percival Terrace (68); On or near Belgrave Place (33); On or near Eastern Terrace Mews (26); On or near Eastern Terrace (22).

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: 483 residents in 245 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 age4240
Children under 157%17%
Aged 65 and over16%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)49%61%
Owned outright29%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented4%17%
Private rented47%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work61%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)17%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)42%32%
Travel to work by car or van14%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram4%4%
By any public transport, including bus10%8%
On foot or by bicycle34%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)78%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away7%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)56%34%
No qualifications7%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)92%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 4 to 7 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

Upper Sudeley Street · Sudeley Street · Eastern Street · Eastern Terrace Mews · Sudeley Place · Belgrave Place · Eaton Place · Sudeley Terrace · Eastern Terrace · Chapel Terrace · Paston Place · Seymour Square

All the streets in BN2 and across Brighton and Hove.

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.