Offham Road Offham, Lewes
6 addresses across 2 postcodes (BN7), about 940 m (0.6 miles) long, classed as a a road. USRN 23300568.
- Sales: 2 recorded sales since 1995; in 2005 the median was £160,000 across 1 sale.
- Energy: 1 homes have an energy certificate (E: 1).
- 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 Lewes costs £2,756 a year in 2026-27.
- Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% to 100% of premises.
- Transport: The nearest railway station is Cooksbridge, about 1.8 km (1.1 miles) away in a straight line.
- Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 680 m (0.4 miles) away.
- Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.4 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
- Height: Its addresses are 43 to 55 m above sea level.
- Noise: 5 of its 6 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
- Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Foundry Healthcare Lewes, about 2.1 km (1.3 miles) away.
- People: About 700 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 65% of households owned their home and 43% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
Sales on this street
| Year | Sales | Median price | Lowest | Highest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 1 | £160,000 | £160,000 | £160,000 |
| 2000 | 1 | £357,500 | £357,500 | £357,500 |
| Date | Address | Type | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 Nov 2005 | CHALK PIT INN BN7 3QF | Semi-detached | £160,000 | Leasehold. |
| 21 Sep 2000 | OUSEDALE HOUSE BN7 3QF | Detached | £357,500 |
Energy performance certificates
1 home with a current certificate; median floor area 48 m². Most common: Bungalow, semi-detached (1). Built: 1900-1929 (1). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (1).
Council tax
What each band costs in Lewes in 2026-27: Band D £2,756 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.
| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| £1,837 | £2,144 | £2,450 | £2,756 | £3,369 | £3,981 | £4,594 | £5,512 |
Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band C (30% of about 1,610 homes).
Planning and heritage
- Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
- 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
Roadworks
No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 30 September 2026.
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 on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.
Height above sea level
The street's 6 addresses are between 43 m and 55 m above sea level (48 m on average); the ground rises about 12 m from the lowest to the highest.
Broadband
| Postcode | Superfast (30 Mbit/s+) | Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+) | Gigabit | Below 10 Mbit/s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BN7 2TP | 100% | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| BN7 3QF | 50% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
Getting around
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| Railway stations | Cooksbridge 91,000 journeys in 2024–25 | 1.8 km (1.1 miles) |
| Lewes 2.6 million journeys in 2024–25 | 2.3 km (1.5 miles) | |
| Plumpton 105,000 journeys in 2024–25 | 5.8 km (3.6 miles) | |
| Bus stops | 0 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 9 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Churchill Road Landport | 490 m (0.3 miles) |
| Bus or coach station | Sussex House University of Sussex | 6 km (3.7 miles) |
| Ferry terminal | Newhaven Harbour Ferry Terminal | 11.7 km (7.3 miles) |
| Car parks | NCP | 2.2 km (1.4 miles) |
| EV charging points | Little East Street Car Park | 2 km (1.3 miles) |
| Airport with scheduled flights | London Gatwick Airport LGW | 31.6 km (20 miles) |
Local services
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| GP surgeries | Foundry Healthcare Lewes | 2.1 km (1.3 miles) |
| Pharmacies | St Annes Pharmacy | 1.7 km (1.1 miles) |
| NHS dentists | 1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Orchard House | 1.4 km (0.8 miles) |
| Hospital | Lewes Victoria Hospital | 1.4 km (0.8 miles) |
| Police station | Sussex Police | 1.6 km (1 mile) |
| Cash machines | Cashpoint® 8 High Street Lloyds Bank | 2.3 km (1.4 miles) |
Parks and green space
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| Park or garden | 1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,610 m² | 680 m (0.4 miles) |
| Play area | 1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 410 m² | 680 m (0.4 miles) |
| Playing field | Unnamed 2.4 ha | 1.2 km (0.8 miles) |
| Allotments | 2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 8,540 m² | 560 m (0.3 miles) |
Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 0.2 hectares in all.
Landmarks
The nearest historic landmark is Three barrows on Offham Hill, a scheduled monument, 260 m west. 13 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.
| Name | What it is | From the middle of the street |
|---|---|---|
| Three barrows on Offham Hill | Scheduled monument | 260 m west |
| Causewayed enclosure on Offham Hill | Scheduled monument | 290 m north-west |
| A platform barrow and two bowl barrows forming a linear barrow group SSE of Offham Hill | Scheduled monument | 650 m (0.4 miles) south |
| Battle of Lewes 1264 | Registered battlefield | 710 m (0.4 miles) south-west |
| Offham House | Listed building, Grade II* | 770 m (0.5 miles) north |
| Name | What it is | From the middle of the street |
|---|---|---|
| Offham Hill | Hill | 280 m west |
| Landport Bottom | Valley | 640 m (0.4 miles) south-west |
| Coombe Plantation | Wood | 1.4 km (0.8 miles) north-west |
| Cuckoo Bottom | Valley | 1.5 km (0.9 miles) south-west |
| Pells Pool | Lake or reservoir | 1.7 km (1.1 miles) south-east |
| Cliffe Cut | Tidal water | 3 km (1.9 miles) south-east |
Air quality
| Pollutant | Here | UK limit | WHO guideline |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) | 6.2 | 40 | 10 |
| Fine particles (PM2.5) | 6.4 | 20 | 5 |
| Particles (PM10) | 10.0 | 40 | 15 |
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
| Level | Road traffic | Railways |
|---|---|---|
| 70 to 74 | 2 | 0 |
| 65 to 69 | 1 | 0 |
| 60 to 64 | 2 | 0 |
| Under 55 | 1 | 6 |
5 of the street's 6 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 Lewes: see them on the Lewes page.
Nearest schools
| School | Phase | Ages | Distance | Inspection |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wallands Community Primary and Nursery School | Primary | 3–11 | 1 km (0.6 miles) | Good (Sep 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) |
| Hamsey Community Primary School | Primary | 4–11 | 1.9 km (1.2 miles) | Good (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) |
Food hygiene ratings nearby
| Business | Type | Distance | Rating | Rated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Akshayapatra BN7 3QF | Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen | 60 m | 5 Very good | 7 May 2026 |
Crime within 250 m
No crimes recorded at anonymised points within 250 m in this period (sussex).
People and work
Who lives here
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Median age | 40 | 40 |
| Children under 15 | 24% | 17% |
| Aged 65 and over | 15% | 18% |
Homes
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Owned (outright or with a mortgage) | 65% | 61% |
| Owned outright | 28% | 33% |
| Shared ownership | 1% | 1% |
| Social rented | 21% | 17% |
| Private rented | 13% | 21% |
Work and commuting
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Adults (16 and over) in work | 64% | 57% |
| Unemployment (of those working or looking for work) | 3% | 6% |
| Retired (of adults) | 16% | 22% |
| Long-term sick or disabled (of adults) | 3% | 4% |
| Work mainly from home (of those in work) | 43% | 32% |
| Travel to work by car or van | 38% | 48% |
| By train, Underground, metro or tram | 3% | 4% |
| By any public transport, including bus | 7% | 8% |
| On foot or by bicycle | 11% | 10% |
| Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work) | 40% | 65% |
| Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away | 9% | 8% |
Education and languages
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults) | 43% | 34% |
| No qualifications | 14% | 18% |
| Apprenticeship as highest qualification | 3% | 5% |
| Main language English (aged 3 and over) | 98% | 91% |
| Cannot speak English well or at all | under 1% | 2% |
Deprivation
The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 2 to 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.
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.
Postcodes on this street
Nearby streets
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.