Pelham Close Cottenham, South Cambridgeshire

44 addresses across 1 postcode (CB24), about 320 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 35300979.

  • Sales: 84 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £295,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 31 homes have an energy certificate (C: 21, D: 10).
  • Flood: 1 address on its postcodes is 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 C; Band D in South Cambridgeshire costs £2,536 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 88% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Waterbeach, about 5.7 km (3.6 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, The Green, is about 210 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 5.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.1 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 10 to 11 m above sea level.
  • Noise: None of its addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Firs House Surgery, about 4.4 km (2.8 miles) away.
  • People: About 310 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 87% of households owned their home and 37% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 52 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
20261£295,000£295,000£295,000
20252£302,500£300,000£305,000
20242£317,500£315,000£320,000
20233£335,000£285,000£385,000
20221£325,000£325,000£325,000
20213£295,000£272,000£315,000
20202£260,750£256,500£265,000
20192£299,000£278,000£320,000
20174£278,750£245,000£290,000
20162£260,248£250,500£269,995
20154£233,000£195,000£241,000
20144£202,500£190,000£232,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 84)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
7 Aug 202656 CB24 8TYSemi-detached£295,000
21 Nov 202518 CB24 8TYTerraced£300,000
15 Jan 20253 CB24 8TYSemi-detached£305,000
31 Oct 202427 CB24 8TYTerraced£320,000
20 Mar 202433 CB24 8TYSemi-detached£315,000
4 Dec 202333 CB24 8TYOther£340,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
25 Aug 202335 CB24 8TYSemi-detached£385,000
31 Mar 202358 CB24 8TYSemi-detached£285,000
27 Jan 202352 CB24 8TYTerraced£335,000
11 Nov 20224 CB24 8TYTerraced£325,000
7 Sep 202115 CB24 8TYTerraced£295,000
30 Jun 202126 CB24 8TYTerraced£315,000
30 Jun 202158 CB24 8TYSemi-detached£245,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
16 Apr 202111 CB24 8TYTerraced£272,000
30 Oct 202056 CB24 8TYSemi-detached£256,500
7 Jul 202020 CB24 8TYSemi-detached£265,000
10 Oct 201950 CB24 8TYTerraced£278,000
2 Aug 201931 CB24 8TYSemi-detached£320,000
1 Nov 201824 CB24 8TYTerraced£280,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
31 Aug 201724 CB24 8TYTerraced£272,500
31 Jan 20178 CB24 8TYSemi-detached£290,000
23 Jan 201731 CB24 8TYSemi-detached£285,000
5 Jan 201711 CB24 8TYTerraced£245,000
6 Sep 201652 CB24 8TYTerraced£269,995
30 Aug 201656 CB24 8TYSemi-detached£250,500
28 Aug 20159 CB24 8TYTerraced£195,000
3 Jul 20154 CB24 8TYTerraced£241,000
29 May 201530 CB24 8TYTerraced£228,000
8 Jan 201514 CB24 8TYTerraced£238,000
9 Oct 201416 CB24 8TYTerraced£232,000
1 Aug 20146 CB24 8TYTerraced£195,000
5 Jun 201425 CB24 8TYTerraced£210,000
6 Feb 201415 CB24 8TYTerraced£190,000
18 Sep 20133 CB24 8TYSemi-detached£197,500
29 Jul 20134 CB24 8TYTerraced£199,950
4 Apr 201252 CB24 8TYTerraced£178,500
6 Jan 201226 CB24 8TYTerraced£175,000
28 Nov 201117 CB24 8TYTerraced£190,000
28 Nov 201156 CB24 8TYSemi-detached£167,000
14 Sep 201113 CB24 8TYTerraced£185,000
22 Nov 201012 CB24 8TYTerraced£175,000
28 Oct 201010 CB24 8TYTerraced£215,000
12 Aug 20098 CB24 8TYSemi-detached£170,000
25 Jun 200916 CB24 8TYTerraced£175,000
4 Jun 200930 CB24 8TYTerraced£164,000
3 Oct 200833 CB24 8TYSemi-detached£180,000
21 Apr 200846 CB24 8TYSemi-detached£199,950
11 May 200716 CB24 8TYTerraced£192,500
19 Dec 200614 CB24 8TYTerraced£189,500
20 Jul 200658 CB24 8TYSemi-detached£158,000

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026 (load in progress). Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from August 2010 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

31 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 75 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (13); House, end-terrace (10); House, semi-detached (8). Built: 1967-1975 (14); 1976-1982 (10); 1983-1990 (4). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (20); rented (private) (7); rented (social) (2).

Council tax

What each band costs in South Cambridgeshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,536 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,691£1,973£2,254£2,536£3,100£3,663£4,227£5,073

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (35% of about 720 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), 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: 1 protected tree on or by this street.
  • 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 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, 1 at medium risk and 7 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 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 44 addresses are between 10 m and 11 m above sea level (10 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
CB24 8TY100%88%88%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 stationsWaterbeach 372,000 journeys in 2024–255.7 km (3.6 miles)
Cambridge North 1.5 million journeys in 2024–257.2 km (4.5 miles)
Cambridge 11 million journeys in 2024–2510.2 km (6.3 miles)
Bus stops12 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 24 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Denmark Road Cottenham190 m
Bus or coach stationDrummer St Bus Station Cambridge8.8 km (5.5 miles)
EV charging pointsbp pulse Charging Station4.6 km (2.9 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Stansted Airport STN45.2 km (28 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 surgeriesFirs House Surgery4.4 km (2.8 miles)
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Well350 m
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Wiese And Associates630 m (0.4 miles)
HospitalSpire Cambridge Lea Hospital4.5 km (2.8 miles)
Police stationHiston Police Station4.5 km (2.8 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Cooperative Food Cottenham, Cottenham370 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 The Green 5,880 m²210 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 1.2 ha700 m (0.4 miles)
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,730 m²500 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest King Georges Field 6.0 ha260 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.7 ha540 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 2.0 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Cottenham moated site, a scheduled monument, 790 m (0.5 miles) north. 43 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Cottenham moated siteScheduled monument790 m (0.5 miles) north
Giant's Hill: a motte castle with part of an earlier medieval settlement and associated field systemScheduled monument2 km (1.2 miles) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
The WrensWood1.4 km (0.9 miles) north-east
Big SpinneyWood1.7 km (1.1 miles) north-west
Turks Head LakeLake or reservoir2.1 km (1.3 miles) north-east
Histon WoodWood4.2 km (2.6 miles) south
Swan PondLake or reservoir4.4 km (2.7 miles) south-west
Girton WoodWood4.6 km (2.9 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)5.54010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.1205
Particles (PM10)12.54015

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).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
Under 554444

None of the street's 44 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic or railways.

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 South Cambridgeshire: see them on the South Cambridgeshire 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
Cottenham Primary SchoolPrimary5–11280 m Good (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Cottenham Village CollegeSecondary11–16340 m Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)

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
Premier Express - Cottenham CB24 8TXRetailers - other200 m5 Very good1 Oct 2026
Cottenham Court Nursing Home CB24 8SSHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises210 m3 Generally satisfactory13 Jul 2026
The Chequers CB24 8QPPub/bar/nightclub260 m5 Very good2 Oct 2025
Rumbles fish bar CB24 8RZTakeaway/sandwich shop270 m4 Good23 Jul 2026
Impact Food Group @ Cottenham Village College CB24 8UASchool/college/university340 m5 Very good15 Jul 2026
Impact Food Group @ The Centre School CB24 8UASchool/college/university340 m5 Very good18 Oct 2024
Cottenham Community Centre CB24 8RZRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen350 m5 Very good8 Apr 2022
Baked Coffee shop ltd CB24 8RZRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen370 m5 Very good24 Jan 2025
Co-Operative Retail Services Ltd CB24 8QPRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets380 m5 Very good27 Mar 2025
Les Ward Ltd CB24 8RZRetailers - other420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good18 Oct 2021
Ladybird Pre-School CB24 8TBHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good28 Sep 2026
The Hop Bind CB24 8RZPub/bar/nightclub440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good28 Nov 2023
Curry Palace CB24 8QPTakeaway/sandwich shop460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good18 Jan 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.

52 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences25
Anti-social behaviour10
Criminal damage and arson8
Burglary5
Robbery1
Other crime1
Possession of weapons1
Public order1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Bramley Close (21); On or near Lacks Close (11); On or near Cross Keys Court (5); On or near Manor Farm Court (4); On or near Lee Close (4).

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: 305 residents in 126 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 age4040
Children under 1519%17%
Aged 65 and over19%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)87%61%
Owned outright41%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented2%17%
Private rented12%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work72%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)under 1%6%
Retired (of adults)19%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)0%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)31%32%
Travel to work by car or van53%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus6%8%
On foot or by bicycle7%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)64%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away3%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)37%34%
No qualifications14%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)95%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 9 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.

  • CB24 8TY: 44 addresses of 45 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Lee Close · Wilkin Walk · High Street · Lacks Close · Cross Keys Court · Manor Farm Court · Lyles Road · Pelham Way · Harlestones Road · Morgans · Bramley Close · Franklin Gardens

All the streets in CB24 and across South Cambridgeshire.

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.