Oak Tree Close Desborough, North Northamptonshire

33 addresses across 1 postcode (NN14), about 160 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 18700949.

  • Sales: 49 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £352,500 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 24 homes have an energy certificate (B: 9, C: 9, D: 6).
  • 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 North Northamptonshire costs £2,424 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Market Harborough, about 7 km (4.4 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 460 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.9 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 133 to 136 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 33 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Rothwell Medical Centre, about 2.3 km (1.4 miles) away.
  • People: About 410 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 64% of households owned their home and 24% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 117 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£352,500£352,500£352,500
20241£245,000£245,000£245,000
20222£233,500£217,000£250,000
20211£215,000£215,000£215,000
20202£184,000£178,000£190,000
20191£259,995£259,995£259,995
20182£212,750£195,000£230,500
20171£215,000£215,000£215,000
20162£151,500£148,000£155,000
20153£145,000£140,000£159,950
20141£150,000£150,000£150,000
20135£130,000£120,000£153,500
Most recent sales (49)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
10 Dec 202510 NN14 2NGDetached£352,500
23 Sep 202424 NN14 2NGSemi-detached£245,000
14 Sep 202227 NN14 2NGSemi-detached£250,000
11 Apr 202220 NN14 2NGTerraced£217,000
21 Feb 202221 NN14 2NGDetached£290,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
9 Jul 202125 NN14 2NGSemi-detached£215,000
13 Jan 202111 NN14 2NGDetached£192,500Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
18 Dec 202030 NN14 2NGSemi-detached£190,000
11 Dec 202028 NN14 2NGSemi-detached£178,000
20 Nov 202030 NN14 2NGSemi-detached£190,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
6 Dec 20198 NN14 2NGDetached£259,995
22 Jun 201818 NN14 2NGTerraced£195,000
10 Apr 201821 NN14 2NGDetached£230,500
16 Jun 201719 NN14 2NGDetached£215,000
2 Mar 201618 NN14 2NGTerraced£148,000
8 Jan 201629 NN14 2NGSemi-detached£155,000
2 Jul 201526 NN14 2NGSemi-detached£159,950
1 Apr 201520 NN14 2NGTerraced£140,000
9 Jan 20155 NN14 2NGDetached£145,000
2 May 20147 NN14 2NGDetached£150,000
11 Dec 201330 NN14 2NGSemi-detached£135,000
27 Sep 201313 NN14 2NGSemi-detached£124,995
27 Mar 20133 NN14 2NGSemi-detached£130,000
15 Mar 20137 NN14 2NGDetached£120,000
8 Mar 201316 NN14 2NGDetached£153,500
16 Nov 201219 NN14 2NGDetached£142,500
16 Apr 201210 NN14 2NGDetached£171,000
29 Jun 201126 NN14 2NGSemi-detached£150,000New build.
31 Jan 201129 NN14 2NGSemi-detached£140,000New build.
23 Dec 201030 NN14 2NGSemi-detached£140,000New build.
22 Dec 201021 NN14 2NGDetached£152,500New build.
22 Dec 201031 NN14 2NGSemi-detached£140,000New build.
22 Dec 201018 NN14 2NGTerraced£138,000New build.
20 Dec 201023 NN14 2NGDetached£180,000New build.
20 Dec 201027 NN14 2NGSemi-detached£163,000New build.
20 Dec 201025 NN14 2NGSemi-detached£163,000New build.
17 Dec 201020 NN14 2NGTerraced£130,000New build.
16 Dec 201028 NN14 2NGSemi-detached£152,950New build.
15 Dec 201024 NN14 2NGSemi-detached£163,000New build.
6 Dec 201016 NN14 2NGDetached£145,000New build.
30 Nov 201019 NN14 2NGDetached£152,500New build.
30 Nov 201022 NN14 2NGTerraced£132,000New build.
26 Apr 20078 NN14 2NGDetached£225,000
10 Mar 200610 NN14 2NGDetached£189,500
8 Aug 200212 NN14 2NGDetached£132,950
1 Dec 20009 NN14 2NGDetached£54,950
14 Jul 200015 NN14 2NGDetached£57,000
27 Jul 19986 NN14 2NGDetached£72,000
27 Mar 19978 NN14 2NGDetached£59,950

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 June 2010 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

24 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 81 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (9); Bungalow, detached (6); House, detached (5). Built: 2010 (9); 2007-2011 (5); 1976-1982 (4). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (11); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (15 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in North Northamptonshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,424 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,616£1,885£2,155£2,424£2,963£3,501£4,040£4,848

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (24% of about 970 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.

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 31 October 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

No address in this street's postcodes is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre is in flood zone 2 or 3.

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Height above sea level

The street's 33 addresses are between 133 m and 136 m above sea level (135 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
NN14 2NG100%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 stationsMarket Harborough 943,000 journeys in 2024–257 km (4.4 miles)
Kettering 1.1 million journeys in 2024–258.4 km (5.2 miles)
Corby 561,000 journeys in 2024–2510.5 km (6.5 miles)
Bus stops6 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 27 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Harrington Road Desborough70 m
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Total Parking Solutions Ltd570 m (0.4 miles)
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Sainsburys Desborough Smart Charge460 m (0.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsEast Midlands Airport EMA54.9 km (34 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 surgeriesRothwell Medical Centre2.3 km (1.4 miles)
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Well300 m
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Brennan Dental Surgery340 m
HospitalWoodlands Hospital5 km (3.1 miles)
Police stationLeicestershire Police8.3 km (5.1 miles)
Cash machines3 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Central England Co-op - Desbrough330 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 garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 240 m²460 m (0.3 miles)
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 2,350 m²580 m (0.4 miles)
Play area7 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 500 m²490 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.9 ha600 m (0.4 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 1.4 ha1.4 km (0.9 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 0.4 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Anglican and Methodist Church of St Giles, a listed building (Grade I), 550 m (0.3 miles) south-east. 10 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Anglican and Methodist Church of St GilesListed building, Grade I550 m (0.3 miles) south-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Rothwell GulletWood1.9 km (1.2 miles) south
Eleven Acre SpinneyWood1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-east
Gaultney WoodWood2.1 km (1.3 miles) east
Stanton PlantationWood2.1 km (1.3 miles) south-east
Darwen LakeLake or reservoir3.6 km (2.2 miles) south
Mill HillHill5 km (3.1 miles) south-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)7.44010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.9205
Particles (PM10)11.34015

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 5910
Under 553133

2 of the street's 33 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 North Northamptonshire: see them on the North Northamptonshire 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
Loatlands Primary SchoolPrimary4–11380 m No published inspection
Havelock Infant SchoolPrimary5–7480 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Havelock Junior SchoolPrimary7–11530 m (0.3 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
Oak Tree Stores NN14 2NQRetailers - other80 m5 Very good8 May 2025
Glenkindie Lodge Residential Care Home NN14 2QXHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises160 m5 Very good26 Oct 2026
Costa Coffee NN14 2NDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen220 m5 Very good19 Aug 2025
TA Bros Fish Bar NN14 2NDTakeaway/sandwich shop260 m5 Very good28 Jan 2025
Best Kebab & Pizza NN14 2NDTakeaway/sandwich shop270 m5 Very good17 Jul 2025
J K Peri Peri Grill NN14 2RLTakeaway/sandwich shop300 m4 Good3 Jan 2025
Dragon City NN14 2NBTakeaway/sandwich shop300 m5 Very good16 Jan 2025
The George NN14 2NBPub/bar/nightclub300 m5 Very good20 Jun 2025
Central Co-operative Society NN14 2QSRetailers - other320 m5 Very good10 Sep 2026
Feast India NN14 2RLRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen320 m5 Very good26 Nov 2025
The R Inn Tapas & Grill NN14 2RLRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen340 m5 Very good24 Oct 2022
K P Wolfenden NN14 2RLRetailers - other340 m5 Very good27 Nov 2024
Pizza Plus Desborough NN14 2RLTakeaway/sandwich shop340 m5 Very good29 Nov 2024
Great Wall NN14 2RSTakeaway/sandwich shop340 m5 Very good25 Jun 2025
Wendy-Lou's Tearoom NN14 2RSRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen350 m5 Very good8 Sep 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.

117 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences40
Anti-social behaviour35
Criminal damage and arson10
Vehicle crime9
Burglary6
Shoplifting6
Other crime3
Other theft3
Drugs2
Public order2
Possession of weapons1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Oak Tree Close (26); On or near Liner'S Yard (25); On or near B576 (15); On or near Linley Drive (11); On or near Gold Street (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: 408 residents in 172 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 age4140
Children under 1520%17%
Aged 65 and over20%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)64%61%
Owned outright33%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented16%17%
Private rented19%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work63%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)2%6%
Retired (of adults)20%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)21%32%
Travel to work by car or van66%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle9%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)57%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away6%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)24%34%
No qualifications17%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 6 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

Gold Street · Linley Drive · Laster Close · Oakham Close · Alexandra Road · Peaselands · Nichols Street · Loatland Street · Rutland Court · Addison Road · Valentine Lane · Buckwell Close

All the streets in NN14 and across North Northamptonshire.

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.