Rectory Close Guildford

32 addresses across 1 postcode (GU4), about 340 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 16001519.

  • Sales: 38 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £980,000 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 19 homes have an energy certificate (C: 6, D: 11, E: 2).
  • 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 Guildford costs £2,547 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Clandon, about 2.4 km away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 190 m away, and Bushy Hill Park (1.9 hectares) is about 700 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.0 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 69 to 75 m above sea level.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Merrow Park Surgery, about 250 m away.
  • People: About 330 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 92% of households owned their home and 65% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 8 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often anti-social behaviour.

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£980,000£975,000£985,000
20252£1,112,500£1,075,000£1,150,000
20222£1,101,000£1,007,000£1,195,000
20213£982,982£905,000£1,125,000
20202£830,000£750,000£910,000
20192£918,500£917,000£920,000
20171£870,000£870,000£870,000
20152£857,500£815,000£900,000
20131£565,000£565,000£565,000
20112£715,000£695,000£735,000
20082£587,500£530,000£645,000
20063£590,000£525,000£610,000
Most recent sales (38)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
10 Jul 20264 GU4 7ARDetached£985,000
28 May 202614 GU4 7ARDetached£975,000
16 May 202517 GU4 7ARDetached£1,075,000
8 Jan 202511 GU4 7ARDetached£1,150,000
25 Jul 202227 GU4 7ARDetached£1,007,000
29 Apr 202210 GU4 7ARDetached£1,195,000
3 Dec 202121 GU4 7ARDetached£1,125,000
30 Jun 202119 GU4 7ARDetached£982,982
4 Feb 202132 GU4 7ARDetached£905,000
21 Oct 202015 GU4 7ARDetached£910,000
21 Oct 20202 GU4 7ARDetached£750,000
25 Sep 201931 GU4 7ARDetached£920,000
31 Jan 20194 GU4 7ARDetached£917,000
7 Dec 201722 GU4 7ARDetached£870,000
24 Apr 201514 GU4 7ARDetached£815,000
10 Feb 201529 GU4 7ARDetached£900,000
24 Jul 201311 GU4 7ARDetached£565,000
29 Jun 20117 GU4 7ARDetached£735,000
2 Jun 201119 GU4 7ARDetached£695,000
11 Dec 200829 GU4 7ARDetached£530,000
4 Jul 20083 GU4 7ARDetached£645,000
11 Oct 200610 GU4 7ARDetached£590,000
27 Sep 20068 GU4 7ARDetached£525,000
10 Feb 20067 GU4 7ARDetached£610,000
14 Dec 200523 GU4 7ARDetached£500,000
3 Nov 200516 GU4 7ARDetached£457,500
3 Nov 20056 GU4 7ARDetached£445,000
6 Apr 20048 GU4 7ARDetached£460,000
7 Jun 200216 GU4 7ARDetached£337,500
13 Jul 199922 GU4 7ARDetached£280,000
9 Jul 199910 GU4 7ARDetached£288,000
24 Jun 19999 GU4 7ARDetached£331,100
26 Feb 199931 GU4 7ARDetached£278,000
13 May 199810 GU4 7ARDetached£157,500
21 Aug 199712 GU4 7ARDetached£188,000
20 Nov 19967 GU4 7ARDetached£167,500
31 Jul 199613 GU4 7ARDetached£205,500
30 Nov 199533 GU4 7ARDetached£170,000

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

19 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 160 m². Most common: House, detached (18); House, semi-detached (1). Built: 1950-1966 (11); 1967-1975 (5); 1976-1982 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (17); rented (private) (1).

Council tax

What each band costs in Guildford in 2026-27: Band D £2,547 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,698£1,981£2,264£2,547£3,113£3,679£4,246£5,095

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (30% of about 760 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

Planned, as of 30 September 2026

  • 2 October 2026 to 7 October 2026: UK POWER NETWORKS SOUTH EASTERN, Utility asset works, no carriageway incursion, on the verge (standard works)

Finished in the last three months

  • 11 September 2026: BT, Utility asset works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor 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, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 1 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.

Height above sea level

The street's 32 addresses are between 69 m and 75 m above sea level (72 m on average); the ground rises about 6 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
GU4 7AR100%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 stationsClandon 166,000 journeys in 2024–252.4 km
London Road (Guildford) 869,000 journeys in 2024–252.7 km
Chilworth 27,000 journeys in 2024–253.8 km
Bus stops9 stops within 400 m, 22 within 800 m; nearest Partridge Way Merrow180 m
Bus or coach stationFriary Bus Station Guildford3.5 km
Car parks1 within 800 m; nearest Merrow Park and Ride640 m
EV charging points10 within 1.6 km; nearest Sheeplands Avenue590 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Heathrow Airport LHR25.1 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 surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Merrow Park Surgery250 m
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km; nearest Merrow Park Pharmacy240 m
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Merrow Park Dental Practice240 m
HospitalMount Alvernia Hospital2.9 km
Police stationSurrey Police3.0 km
Cash machinesMFG - Pantiles, 224 London Road Cashzone1.5 km

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; nearest Unnamed 3,690 m²190 m
Largest park within 800 mBushy Hill Park 1.9 ha700 m
Play area1 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 810 m²700 m
Playing field1 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 3.1 ha410 m
Allotments1 within 800 m; nearest Merrow Street Allotments 1.2 ha300 m

Within 800 m: 3 parks and gardens, 3.8 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Lodges and Gates to Clandon Park House, a listed building (Grade II*), 370 m south-east. 19 listed buildings are within 1.0 km, 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Lodges and Gates to Clandon Park HouseListed building, Grade II*370 m south-east
Merrow GrangeRegistered park or garden, Grade II890 m south-west
Clandon ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.2 km north-east
Natural landmarks within 5.0 km
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Merrow CommonWood1.0 km north-west
Walnut Tree BottomValley1.4 km south
The WildernessWood1.5 km east
Cotts WoodWood1.6 km north
St Martha's HillHill2.8 km south
Postford PondLake or reservoir3.4 km south

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)9.94010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.0205
Particles (PM10)10.64015

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
Merrow CofE Controlled Infant School Church of EnglandPrimary4–7160 m Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Merrow Junior SchoolPrimary7–11250 m No published inspection
St Peter's Catholic School Roman CatholicSecondary11–18650 m Outstanding (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Thomas of Canterbury Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary2–111.1 km No published inspection
Boxgrove Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.2 km No overall grade (Jun 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
George Abbot SchoolSecondary11–181.4 km Good (Dec 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)
Clandon CofE Aided Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary5–101.9 km Good (Sep 2022, 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 of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
The Little Market Co GU4 7EWRetailers - other230 m4 Good24 Apr 2025
Merrowpark Pharmacy GU4 7EWRetailers - other240 m5 Very good22 Oct 2025
MuddyBoots Camps - Guildford GU4 7EASchool/college/university270 mAwaiting inspection
Merrow CofE Infant School GU4 7EASchool/college/university270 mAwaiting inspection
Merrow Junior School GU1 2SGSchool/college/university290 m5 Very good10 Sep 2026
Merrow Community Lunch Club GU1 2SHOther catering premises340 m5 Very good6 May 2025
Nisa Local GU1 2RERetailers - other350 m5 Very good14 Mar 2024
Ashuka Tandoori GU1 2RERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen350 mAwaiting inspection
Boots UK Ltd GU1 2RERetailers - other360 mExempt
Cottage GU1 2RERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen370 m5 Very good23 Jul 2026
Horse and Groom GU1 2RGPub/bar/nightclub400 m5 Very good17 Sep 2026
BP Merrow Simply Food GU1 2RBRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets400 m5 Very good14 Aug 2026
Domino's Pizza GU1 2RBTakeaway/sandwich shop400 m5 Very good14 Aug 2026
Clandon Golf GU4 7AARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen410 m5 Very good10 Sep 2026
Merrow Village Club & Hall GU1 2QYOther catering premises480 mExempt

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.

8 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Anti-social behaviour3
Violence and sexual offences3
Other theft1
Burglary1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Merrow Place (2); On or near Hawthorn Place (2); On or near Goldfinch Gardens (2); On or near Merrow Street (1); On or near Linnet Grove (1).

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: 327 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 age5140
Children under 1517%17%
Aged 65 and over28%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)92%61%
Owned outright58%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rentedunder 1%17%
Private rented7%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work54%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)36%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)0%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)58%32%
Travel to work by car or van38%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle2%10%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)65%65%
Work 30 km or more away6%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)65%34%
No qualifications6%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification2%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)96%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%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.

Nearby streets

Field Close · Redwing Rise · Kestrel Close · Dunlin Rise · Linnet Grove · Hawthorn Place · Goldfinch Gardens · Willow Place · Merrow Street · Lapwing Grove · Merrow Place · Partridge Way

All the streets in GU4 and across Guildford.

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.