Overton Close Congleton, Cheshire East

46 addresses across 2 postcodes (CW12), about 220 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 9100926.

  • Sales: 55 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £247,500 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 30 homes have an energy certificate (C: 10, D: 16, E: 4).
  • Flood: 10 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 B; Band D in Cheshire East costs £2,455 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 95% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Congleton, about 1.9 km away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 100 m away, and Astbury Mere Country Park (32 hectares) is about 540 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 82 to 92 m above sea level.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Readesmoor Medical Group Practice, about 140 m away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km.
  • People: About 540 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 56% of households owned their home and 30% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 70 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
20262£247,500£245,000£250,000
20252£193,750£192,500£195,000
20244£191,250£187,500£260,000
20232£286,250£280,000£292,500
20222£253,500£170,000£337,000
20213£155,000£155,000£165,000
20191£150,000£150,000£150,000
20164£165,000£131,000£175,000
20151£155,500£155,500£155,500
20142£142,500£135,000£150,000
20132£162,500£155,000£170,000
20112£131,250£126,500£136,000
Most recent sales (55)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
23 Jul 202639 CW12 1JZSemi-detached£245,000
1 May 202628 CW12 1JZTerraced£250,000
15 Apr 202541 CW12 1JZSemi-detached£192,500
11 Apr 202534 CW12 1JZSemi-detached£195,000
12 Dec 202431 CW12 1JZDetached£260,000
29 Nov 202426 CW12 1JZTerraced£192,500
6 Sep 202436 CW12 1JZSemi-detached£187,500
1 May 202428 CW12 1JZTerraced£190,000
18 Aug 20234 CW12 1JZDetached£292,500
13 Feb 202343 CW12 1JZDetached£280,000
10 Oct 20225 CW12 1JZDetached£337,000
14 Feb 202245 CW12 1JZSemi-detached£170,000
18 Jun 202119 CW12 1JZSemi-detached£155,000
5 Mar 202136 CW12 1JZSemi-detached£155,000
29 Jan 202133 CW12 1JZDetached£165,000
7 Jan 202125 CW12 1JZDetached£170,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
10 Dec 20194 CW12 1JZDetached£150,000
2 Nov 201639 CW12 1JZSemi-detached£131,000
15 Sep 201615 CW12 1JZDetached£173,000
15 Jul 201639 CW12 1JZSemi-detached£95,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
27 May 201617 CW12 1JZDetached£175,000
27 May 201640 CW12 1JZSemi-detached£157,000
15 May 201531 CW12 1JZDetached£155,500
30 Jun 201441 CW12 1JZSemi-detached£135,000
9 May 201414 CW12 1JZDetached£150,000
20 Dec 201318 CW12 1JZDetached£170,000
12 Dec 20131 CW12 1JZDetached£155,000
26 Aug 201140 CW12 1JZSemi-detached£136,000
18 Mar 201112 CW12 1JZDetached£126,500
31 Aug 200732 CW12 1JZDetached£168,000
2 Aug 200714 CW12 1JZDetached£169,950
27 Jul 200740 CW12 1JZSemi-detached£154,000
15 Jun 200715 CW12 1JZDetached£148,500
19 Oct 20061 CW12 1JZSemi-detached£147,500
8 Jun 200618 CW12 1JZDetached£180,000
30 Sep 200529 CW12 1JZDetached£141,000
12 Aug 200531 CW12 1JZTerraced£140,000
6 Jul 200416 CW12 1JZDetached£165,000
2 Jul 200446 CW12 1JZDetached£134,950
8 Apr 200414 CW12 1JZDetached£125,000
21 Dec 200124 CW12 1JZDetached£85,000
25 Jul 20016 CW12 1JZSemi-detached£87,500
14 Feb 200114 CW12 1JZDetached£68,000
1 Sep 200016 CW12 1JZDetached£75,000
19 Nov 199925 CW12 1JZDetached£64,500
11 Dec 199827 CW12 1JZDetached£59,500
8 Oct 199817 CW12 1JZDetached£77,000
28 Aug 19981 CW12 1JZSemi-detached£59,950
7 Aug 199833 CW12 1JZDetached£55,500
27 Jul 19986 CW12 1JZSemi-detached£70,000

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 13 October 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from November 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

30 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 69 m². Most common: House, detached (18); House, semi-detached (12). Built: 1967-1975 (25); 1950-1966 (3); 1976-1982 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (26); rented (private) (2).

Council tax

What each band costs in Cheshire East in 2026-27: Band D £2,455 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,637£1,909£2,182£2,455£3,000£3,546£4,091£4,910

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band B (58% of about 1,940 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: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 3.
  • 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 1.0 km

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

  • 7 September 2026 to 11 September 2026: United Utilities Water Ltd, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (immediate - urgent works)
  • 3 September 2026 to 10 September 2026: United Utilities Water Ltd, Utility repair and maintenance works, give and take, on the footway (immediate - urgent 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, 3 addresses are in areas at high risk, 7 at medium risk and 11 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
CW12 1JZnot in 2 or 3 3 / 5 / 7 unlikely
CW12 1JYnot in 2 or 3 0 / 2 / 4 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.

Height above sea level

The street's 46 addresses are between 82 m and 92 m above sea level (87 m on average); the ground rises about 10 m from the lowest to the highest.

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
CW12 1JY100%100%95%0%
CW12 1JZ100%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 stationsCongleton 324,000 journeys in 2024–251.9 km
Kidsgrove 288,000 journeys in 2024–258.9 km
Alsager 115,000 journeys in 2024–259.7 km
Bus stops7 stops within 400 m, 20 within 800 m; nearest West Street Congleton100 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Alighting Only Congleton430 m
Car parks9 within 800 m; nearest Antrobus Street Car Park160 m
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km; nearest Osprey Charging Station330 m
Airport with scheduled flightsManchester Airport MAN20.9 km

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 surgeries3 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Readesmoor Medical Group Practice140 m
Pharmacies7 pharmacies within 1.6 km; nearest Day Lewis Pharmacy140 m
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km; nearest West Street (Dental Surgery)190 m
HospitalCongleton War Memorial Hospital1.3 km
Police stationCheshire Police - Congleton Police Station520 m
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m; nearest Shell Congleton Cashzone450 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 garden5 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 700 m²100 m
Largest park within 800 mAstbury Mere Country Park 32 ha540 m
Play area4 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 380 m²490 m
Playing field1 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 1.1 ha100 m
Allotments3 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 2,790 m²460 m

Within 800 m: 5 parks and gardens, 37 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Overton House, a listed building (Grade II*), 90 m west. 82 listed buildings are within 1.0 km, 1 of them Grade I and 3 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Overton HouseListed building, Grade II*90 m west
Gate Piers and Gates of Number 61Listed building, Grade II*100 m south-west
Town HallListed building, Grade II*530 m south-east
Church of St PeterListed building, Grade I550 m south-east
Congleton ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II750 m north-east
Canopied tomb in St Mary's churchyardScheduled monument1.8 km south-west
Standing cross in St Mary's churchyardScheduled monument1.8 km south-west
Jodrell Bank ObservatoryWorld Heritage Site9.7 km north-west
Natural landmarks within 5.0 km
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Congleton Park Park WoodWood530 m north-east
Park WoodWood700 m north-east
Forge WoodWood950 m north-west
Astbury MereLake or reservoir1.0 km south-west
Dexter DaleValley3.2 km south-east
Nick i' th' HillHill3.7 km south-east

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10.0 km, battlefields within 5.0 km, registered parks and gardens within 3.0 km, scheduled monuments within 2.0 km, and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1.0 km. 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)9.14010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.7205
Particles (PM10)10.54015

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).

Noise figures are still being loaded.

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
Saint Mary's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary2–11210 m Requires improvement (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Marlfields Primary SchoolPrimary3–11430 m Report card (Jul 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
Daven Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.0 km Report card (May 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
The Quinta Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.5 km Good (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Eaton Bank AcademySecondary11–181.6 km No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Buglawton Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.7 km No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Astbury St Mary's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–111.7 km Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Black Firs Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.8 km No published inspection
Congleton High SchoolSecondary11–182.0 km No published inspection

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 of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Tasty Garden Chinese Takeaway CW12 1HETakeaway/sandwich shop80 mAwaiting inspection
Carlinas cafe ltd CW12 1HERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen80 m5 Very good16 Jul 2026
Q&J Chinese Takeaway CW12 1JYTakeaway/sandwich shop90 m5 Very good16 Jul 2026
KingfishR CW12 1HGOther catering premises90 m5 Very good23 Jul 2025
Cherubs & Imps Day Nursery CW12 1JYHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises100 m5 Very good4 Nov 2024
Top Nosh CW12 1JYTakeaway/sandwich shop130 m5 Very good3 Oct 2025
Caprinos CW12 1JYRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen150 m5 Very good16 Jul 2026
Farmers Arms CW12 1JYPub/bar/nightclub160 m4 Good6 Aug 2025
ABC at The Mill Children's Day Nursery LTD CW12 1HJSchool/college/university190 m5 Very good27 Aug 2026
No 15 Bar & Grill CW12 1JNOther catering premises190 m5 Very good14 Apr 2026
Beartown Spices CW12 1JRTakeaway/sandwich shop190 m5 Very good19 Mar 2026
Egerton-Brooks Family Butcher Ltd CW12 4EFRetailers - other200 m5 Very good18 Jun 2025
Sams Italian Restaurant CW12 1JRRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen220 mAwaiting inspection
The Bell on Mulnestrete CW12 1ABPub/bar/nightclub230 mAwaiting inspection
Cygnet Club CW12 1AHPub/bar/nightclub230 m5 Very good11 Mar 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.

70 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences28
Public order16
Other theft5
Anti-social behaviour4
Criminal damage and arson4
Drugs3
Other crime3
Burglary2
Vehicle crime2
Shoplifting1
Robbery1
Possession of weapons1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Cross Street (16); On or near Clayton By-Pass (11); On or near Parking Area (11); On or near West Street (9); On or near Banks Close (7).

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: 543 residents in 281 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 age4340
Children under 1516%17%
Aged 65 and over22%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)56%61%
Owned outright29%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented10%17%
Private rented33%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)23%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)26%32%
Travel to work by car or van53%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus1%8%
On foot or by bicycle18%10%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)46%65%
Work 30 km or more away8%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)30%34%
No qualifications16%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification9%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhoods around this street are all 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

  • Food hygiene ratings Hewitt hospitality (restaurant/cafe/canteen, CW12 1AB) is no longer listed; it was rated Awaiting inspection found 30 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Dantastic (hotel/bed & breakfast/guest house, CW12 4ED) is no longer listed; it was rated Awaiting inspection found 30 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Invicta TCG ltd (retailers - other, CW12 1AY) newly listed: Awaiting inspection found 30 October 2026

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.

  • CW12 1JZ: 45 addresses of 46 in the postcode
  • CW12 1JY: 1 address of 61 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Elizabeth Street · Silk Street · Heywood Street · North Street · West Street · Dane Street · Antrobus Street · Belgrave Avenue · Holford Street · Tanhouse Yard · South Street · Banks Close

All the streets in CW12 and across Cheshire East.

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.