Mount Street Reading

8 addresses across 4 postcodes (RG2), about 200 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 31000917.

  • Sales: 4 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £317,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 4 homes have an energy certificate (D: 4).
  • 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 B; Band D in Reading costs £2,613 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Reading, about 1.5 km (0.9 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Waterloo Meadows, is about 310 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 11.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.4 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 64 to 65 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 8 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Milman & Kennet Surgery, about 260 m away, with 10 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 960 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 34% of households owned their home and 31% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 153 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.

Sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20251£317,000£317,000£317,000
20131£190,000£190,000£190,000
20021£115,000£115,000£115,000
19951£49,500£49,500£49,500
Most recent sales (4)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
15 Aug 20251 RG2 0ABTerraced£317,000
14 Mar 20132 RG2 0ABTerraced£190,000
8 Feb 20025 RG2 0ABSemi-detached£115,000
15 Dec 19951 RG2 0ABTerraced£49,500

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

4 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 87 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (2); House, end-terrace (2). Built: 1967-1975 (4). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (1); rented (private) (1); owner-occupied (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (3 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Reading in 2026-27: Band D £2,613 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,742£2,032£2,322£2,613£3,193£3,774£4,355£5,226

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (55% of about 560 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 30 September 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 30 September 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 3 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
RG2 0ABnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
RG2 0ADnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
RG2 0AEnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 3 unlikely
RG2 0BDnot 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 8 addresses are between 64 m and 65 m above sea level (65 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
RG2 0AB100%100%100%0%
RG2 0AD100%100%100%0%
RG2 0AE100%100%100%0%
RG2 0BD100%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 stationsReading 14 million journeys in 2024–251.5 km (0.9 miles)
Reading West 482,000 journeys in 2024–251.8 km (1.1 miles)
Reading Green Park 221,000 journeys in 2024–253.1 km (1.9 miles)
Bus stops6 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 36 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Whitley Street280 m
Bus or coach stationReading Rail Station - buses1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Premier Inn Reading Central Car Park680 m (0.4 miles)
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Tesla Supercharger710 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Heathrow Airport LHR35.5 km (22 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 surgeries10 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Milman & Kennet Surgery260 m
Pharmacies9 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Whitley Street Pharmacy310 m
NHS dentists12 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Whitley Street (Dental Surgery)310 m
HospitalRoyal Berkshire Hospital930 m (0.6 miles)
Police stationReading Police Station930 m (0.6 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Tesco Bank ATM320 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 garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Waterloo Meadows 7.2 ha310 m
Play area9 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 590 m²110 m
Playing field5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Spring Gardens Recreation Ground 2,360 m²240 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Waterloo Meadows Allotments 3.1 ha730 m (0.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 7.8 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is 78-84, Southampton Street, a listed building (Grade II*), 490 m (0.3 miles) north. 178 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 13 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
78-84, Southampton StreetListed building, Grade II*490 m (0.3 miles) north
Christ ChurchListed building, Grade II*550 m (0.3 miles) east
73 and 75 London Street, and railings to the frontListed building, Grade II*690 m (0.4 miles) north
St David's HallListed building, Grade II*760 m (0.5 miles) north-east
High BridgeScheduled monument940 m (0.6 miles) north
Reading Abbey: a Cluniac and Benedictine monastery and Civil War earthwork.Scheduled monument1.2 km (0.8 miles) north
The Forbury GardenRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.3 km (0.8 miles) north
Reading CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Holy BrookLake or reservoir1 km (0.6 miles) north
View IslandIsland1.8 km (1.1 miles) north
Fobney IslandIsland2 km (1.2 miles) south-west
Fry's IslandIsland2 km (1.2 miles) north
The WildernessWood2.6 km (1.6 miles) east
Nores HillHill3.3 km (2 miles) south

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)11.84010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.4205
Particles (PM10)12.04015

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
65 to 6910
55 to 5910
Under 5568

2 of the street's 8 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 Reading: see them on the Reading 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
New Christ Church Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–11220 m Good (Sep 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Katesgrove Primary SchoolPrimary3–11450 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
The Palmer Primary AcademyPrimary3–11650 m (0.4 miles) Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Kendrick SchoolSecondary11–18710 m (0.4 miles) Outstanding (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Coley Primary SchoolPrimary3–11730 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Reading SchoolSecondary11–181.1 km (0.7 miles) Outstanding (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Mary & All Saints Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.2 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (Jun 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
Reading Girls' SchoolSecondary11–181.2 km (0.8 miles) Good (Nov 2021, overall grade under the previous framework)
All Saints Church of England Aided Infant SchoolPrimary5–71.5 km (0.9 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
All Saints Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Redlands Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No overall grade (Jul 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
St John's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Report card (Jul 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: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met

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
The Pheasant Inn RG1 2RBPub/bar/nightclub260 m2 Improvement necessary11 May 2026
The Hop Leaf RG1 2QZPub/bar/nightclub270 m4 Good6 Feb 2025
Home Cooking RG1 5ENTakeaway/sandwich shop280 m3 Generally satisfactory29 Jan 2026
Lazaro Store Limited RG2 0EGRetailers - other290 m4 Good1 Sep 2024
St Anthony Store RG2 0EGRetailers - other290 m5 Very good11 Aug 2025
Pizza 2 Night Takeaway/sandwich shop290 m5 Very good22 Apr 2026
Ephesus RG2 0EGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen290 m4 Good24 Mar 2026
Pau Brasil RG1 2TFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen290 m3 Generally satisfactory22 Oct 2025
Amsterdam Selection RG2 0EGRetailers - other300 mExempt
Whitley Food & Wine Store RG2 0EGRetailers - other300 mUnknown6 Jul 2026
Mini Mart RG2 0EGRetailers - other300 m3 Generally satisfactory6 May 2026
Golden Rice RG2 0EGTakeaway/sandwich shop300 m4 Good15 Aug 2025
Turkish Halal Food Centre RG2 0EQRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets300 m1 Major improvement necessary18 Aug 2026
Freddie's Afro Caribbean RG2 0EGRetailers - other300 m2 Improvement necessary17 Jun 2025
Exotic Food Market RG2 0EQRetailers - other310 m3 Generally satisfactory31 Jan 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.

153 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences64
Anti-social behaviour17
Vehicle crime17
Other theft16
Other crime10
Public order9
Criminal damage and arson7
Burglary4
Possession of weapons3
Drugs3
Bicycle theft2
Theft from the person1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Waterloo Road (23); On or near Essex Street (18); On or near Elgar Road (16); On or near Charndon Close (16); On or near Sailcloth Close (14).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 3 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 959 residents in 362 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 age3240
Children under 1517%17%
Aged 65 and over6%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)34%61%
Owned outright10%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented24%17%
Private rented41%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work68%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)8%6%
Retired (of adults)6%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)25%32%
Travel to work by car or van32%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram3%4%
By any public transport, including bus15%8%
On foot or by bicycle26%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)83%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)31%34%
No qualifications20%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)66%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all7%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 3 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.

  • RG2 0AB: 5 addresses
  • RG2 0AD: 1 address of 15 in the postcode
  • RG2 0AE: 1 address of 60 in the postcode
  • RG2 0BD: 1 address of 41 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Collis Street · Kinver Walk · Waldeck Street · Elizabeth Walk · Waterloo Road · Blyth Walk · Waterloo Road · Edgehill Street · Charndon Close · Tippett Rise · Alpine Street · Mellor Walk

All the streets in RG2 and across Reading.

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.