Rectory Close Ingatestone, Brentwood

6 addresses across 2 postcodes (CM4), about 70 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 4201148.

  • Sales: 3 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £940,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 3 homes have an energy certificate (C: 2, D: 1).
  • Flood: 3 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 E; Band D in Brentwood costs £2,258 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 4% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Ingatestone, about 630 m (0.4 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.4 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 68 to 71 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 6 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is The New Folly Surgery, about 360 m away.
  • People: About 530 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 68% of households owned their home and 39% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 20 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
20241£940,000£940,000£940,000
20191£1,250,000£1,250,000£1,250,000
19991£465,000£465,000£465,000
Most recent sales (3)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
15 Nov 20242 CM4 0DBDetached£940,000
3 Dec 20195 CM4 0DBDetached£1,250,000
25 Nov 19995 CM4 0DBDetached£465,000

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 January 2016 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

3 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 175 m². Most common: House, detached (3). Built: 1967-1975 (1); 1983-1990 (1); 1991-1995 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (2); rented (private) (1).

Council tax

What each band costs in Brentwood in 2026-27: Band D £2,258 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

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£1,505£1,756£2,007£2,258£2,760£3,262£3,764£4,516

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band E (21% of about 1,630 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), 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: 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.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

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, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 2 at medium risk and 0 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: of the 26 homes the Environment Agency counts, 1 are in areas at high risk, 0 medium, 2 low and 0 very low.

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
CM4 0DBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
CM4 0DDnot in 2 or 3 1 / 2 / 0 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.

© 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 6 addresses are between 68 m and 71 m above sea level (69 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
CM4 0DB100%100%100%0%
CM4 0DD100%4%4%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 stationsIngatestone 779,000 journeys in 2024–25630 m (0.4 miles)
Billericay 2.3 million journeys in 2024–255.5 km (3.4 miles)
Shenfield 5.8 million journeys in 2024–255.9 km (3.7 miles)
Bus stops2 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 7 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Market Place Ingatestone250 m
Bus or coach stationCommunity Hospital Shenfield7.1 km (4.4 miles)
Car parks3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest 16 Market Place Parking200 m
EV charging pointsPoGo Charge5.7 km (3.6 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Southend Airport SEN24.3 km (15 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Stansted Airport STN25.7 km (16 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 surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The New Folly Surgery360 m
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Shadforth Pharmaceutical Co LTD250 m
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Start Smiling Dental Practice190 m
HospitalMayflower Community Hospital5.7 km (3.5 miles)
Police stationBillericay Police Station6 km (3.7 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Chelmsford Star Coop Ingatestone Cashzone310 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
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,000 m²330 m
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3.1 ha320 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Stock Lane Allotments 1.8 ha640 m (0.4 miles)

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is 98, High Street, a listed building (Grade II*), 260 m south-east. 48 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
98, High StreetListed building, Grade II*260 m south-east
Church of St Edmund and St MaryListed building, Grade I330 m south-east
Roman villa 100m north west of Handley BarnsScheduled monument1.9 km (1.2 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
The GroveWood1.1 km (0.7 miles) north
Millgreen WoodWood1.5 km (0.9 miles) north-west
Spring WoodWood1.7 km (1.1 miles) east
Osborne's WoodWood1.8 km (1.1 miles) north-east
Barns PondLake or reservoir2.7 km (1.7 miles) north-west
Stock HillHill4.2 km (2.6 miles) east

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)9.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.4205
Particles (PM10)14.44015

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
Under 5556

1 of the street's 6 addresses is 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 Brentwood: see them on the Brentwood 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
Anglo European SchoolSecondary11–19260 m Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Ingatestone Infant SchoolPrimary4–7330 m Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Ingatestone and Fryerning Church of England Junior SchoolPrimary7–11470 m (0.3 miles) 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 (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Wright Start Day Nurseries Ltd CM4 0DEHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises130 m5 Very good1 Sep 2026
The Ginger Tree CM4 0DGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen240 m5 Very good14 Aug 2018
Shadforth Pharmacy CM4 9DWRetailers - other250 mExempt
Budgens CM4 9DWRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets250 m5 Very good12 Oct 2022
Ravens Bakery Essex Limited CM4 9DWManufacturers/packers250 m5 Very good17 Feb 2024
Pastasciutta Ingatestone CM4 9DWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen250 m4 Good1 Mar 2024
May & Raeburn Ltd CM4 0BAImporters/Exporters250 mExempt
Nirvana Indian Cuisine CM4 9DWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen260 m5 Very good17 Dec 2025
Brownbread CM4 0BARetailers - other260 m5 Very good29 Oct 2026
Mini Moments Nursery CM4 0BAHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises270 m5 Very good26 Mar 2026
Ingatestone Convenience Store CM4 9DURetailers - other270 m4 Good11 Oct 2023
The Star Inn CM4 9DUPub/bar/nightclub280 m5 Very good28 May 2025
Galvins Family Butchers CM4 9DURetailers - other280 m5 Very good21 Jan 2021
Stones Pizza And Restaurant CM4 9DUOther catering premises280 m5 Very good13 Mar 2026
Patrick Green Limited CM4 0AURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen290 m5 Very good27 Jun 2022

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.

20 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences13
Criminal damage and arson1
Drugs1
Public order1
Other crime1
Anti-social behaviour1
Other theft1
Theft from the person1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Bakers Mews (6); On or near Disney Close (3); On or near Parking Area (3); On or near The Meads (2); On or near Wadham Close (2).

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: 527 residents in 245 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 1515%17%
Aged 65 and over32%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)68%61%
Owned outright43%33%
Shared ownership1%1%
Social rented12%17%
Private rented17%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work50%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)36%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)48%32%
Travel to work by car or van38%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram8%4%
By any public transport, including bus9%8%
On foot or by bicycle5%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)42%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away26%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)39%34%
No qualifications15%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 7 to 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

  • Food hygiene ratings Brownbread (retailers - other, CM4 0BA) now 5 Very good, was Awaiting inspection (rated 29 October 2026) found 31 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.

Nearby streets

Wadham Close · Bakers Lane · Disney Close · The Meads · Market Place · Bakers Mews · Chapel Croft · Steen Close · Trimble Close · Willow Green · Pemberton Avenue · Fryerning Lane

All the streets in CM4 and across Brentwood.

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.