Richards Close Kenilworth, Warwick

23 addresses across 2 postcodes (CV8), about 90 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 42301257.

  • Sales: 8 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £410,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 19 homes have an energy certificate (C: 16, D: 3).
  • 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 B; Band D in Warwick costs £2,462 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 93% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Kenilworth, about 530 m (0.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, The Park, is about 200 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.8 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 87 to 89 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 23 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Abbey Medical Centre, about 430 m (0.3 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 270 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 58% of households owned their home and 60% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 49 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£410,000£410,000£410,000
20141£281,616£281,616£281,616
20111£250,000£250,000£250,000
20051£250,000£250,000£250,000
20011£144,000£144,000£144,000
19993£80,000£77,500£82,000
Most recent sales (8)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
1 Jul 20261A CV8 2QNTerraced£410,000
12 Jun 20141A CV8 2QNTerraced£281,616
4 Feb 20111A CV8 2QNTerraced£250,000
1 Jun 20051A CV8 2QNTerraced£250,000
26 Jan 20011A CV8 2QNTerraced£144,000
28 May 199918 CV8 2QNSemi-detached£82,000New build.
7 May 199919 CV8 2QNSemi-detached£77,500New build.
9 Apr 199916 CV8 2QNSemi-detached£80,000New build.

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from February 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 59 m². Most common: Flat (8); Maisonette, semi-detached (5); Bungalow, semi-detached (3). Built: 1983-1990 (13); 1991-1995 (2); 1996-2002 (2). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (13); owner-occupied (3); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (9 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Warwick in 2026-27: Band D £2,462 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,641£1,915£2,188£2,462£3,009£3,556£4,103£4,923

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (28% of about 950 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: yes, Kenilworth (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 4.
  • 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

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 31 October 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 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 2 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
CV8 2QNnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 2 unlikely
CV8 2PAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 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 23 addresses are between 87 m and 89 m above sea level (88 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
CV8 2PA100%93%93%0%
CV8 2QN100%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 stationsKenilworth 181,000 journeys in 2024–25530 m (0.3 miles)
Tile Hill 542,000 journeys in 2024–255.5 km (3.4 miles)
Canley 453,000 journeys in 2024–256.2 km (3.8 miles)
Bus stops15 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 44 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Sports & Social Club Kenilworth30 m
Bus or coach stationCoventry Station7.3 km (4.6 miles)
EV charging points4 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest bp pulse Charging Station330 m
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX16.7 km (10 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 surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Abbey Medical Centre430 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Kenilworth Pharmacy430 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Practice370 m
HospitalNuffield Warwickshire Hospital4.8 km (3 miles)
Police stationKenilworth police480 m (0.3 miles)
Cash machinesMFG - Shell Kenilworth Cashzone1 km (0.6 miles)

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 garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Park 25 ha200 m
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,280 m²400 m (0.2 miles)
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3.0 ha620 m (0.4 miles)
Allotments3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 9,160 m²310 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 25 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Abbotsford House, a listed building (Grade II*), 440 m (0.3 miles) north-west. 114 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade I and 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Abbotsford HouseListed building, Grade II*440 m (0.3 miles) north-west
Kenilworth AbbeyScheduled monument460 m (0.3 miles) west
Church of St NicholasListed building, Grade I460 m (0.3 miles) north-west
Abbey RuinsListed building, Grade I500 m (0.3 miles) north-west
Fishpond complex, 260m east of Castle FarmScheduled monument720 m (0.4 miles) south-west
Garden at 1 Castle Hill (formerly Wantage)Registered park or garden, Grade II780 m (0.5 miles) west
Kenilworth Castle: a motte and bailey and enclosure castle with mere, dams and 16th century gardensScheduled monument1 km (0.6 miles) west
Kenilworth CastleRegistered park or garden, Grade II*1.7 km (1.1 miles) west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Little WoodWood1 km (0.6 miles) west
The CommonWood1.2 km (0.7 miles) north-east
Knowle HillHill1.5 km (0.9 miles) east
Crackley WoodWood1.7 km (1 mile) north
Glasshouse SpinneyWood1.7 km (1 mile) east
Victoria SpinneyWood1.7 km (1.1 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)7.34010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.8205
Particles (PM10)10.94015

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
55 to 5920
Under 552123

2 of the street's 23 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 Warwick: see them on the Warwick page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 3 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
St Nicholas CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–1190 m No published inspection
Kenilworth Nursery School & Early Years Training CentreNursery2–5490 m (0.3 miles) Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Thorns Community Infant SchoolPrimary4–7850 m (0.5 miles) Report card (Apr 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
Kenilworth School and Sixth FormSecondary11–191.2 km (0.7 miles) Outstanding (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Park Hill Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
St Augustine's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.2 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Clinton Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.2 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
St John's Primary School and NurseryPrimary4–111.2 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Priors Field Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.5 km (1 mile) No published inspection

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 3 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
Kenilworth Sports & Social Club Ltd. CV8 2PAPub/bar/nightclub50 m5 Very good22 Jan 2024
Caterlink at St Nicholas C E Primary School CV8 2PESchool/college/university90 m5 Very good20 Apr 2026
Kenilworth Abbey Club CV8 1LWPub/bar/nightclub140 m5 Very good9 Jan 2025
St Nicholas Church Parochial Hall CV8 1LWOther catering premises140 mExempt
Priory Theatre CV8 1BNRetailers - other150 mExempt
Castle Nursery CV8 1LLHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises190 m5 Very good5 Aug 2026
Crustum CV8 1LLRetailers - other190 m5 Very good26 Nov 2025
Kenilworth Grange Nursing Home CV8 2HBHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises200 m5 Very good6 Jul 2026
Caterplus @ Wilton Court CV8 1RXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen300 m5 Very good26 May 2026
Kenilworth News CV8 1BPRetailers - other300 m5 Very good16 Sep 2026
School Lane Fish Bar CV8 2GTTakeaway/sandwich shop350 m5 Very good14 Jan 2026
Abbey End Post Office CV8 1QJRetailers - other350 mExempt
The Kenilworth Centre - Community Dinner CV8 1QJPub/bar/nightclub360 m5 Very good16 Apr 2026
Papa Johns Pizza CV8 1QJTakeaway/sandwich shop360 m5 Very good24 Oct 2024
The Almanack Kenilworth Ltd CV8 1QJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen360 m3 Generally satisfactory23 Jul 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.

49 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences19
Anti-social behaviour11
Public order4
Vehicle crime4
Other theft3
Criminal damage and arson2
Robbery2
Drugs2
Possession of weapons1
Burglary1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Abbey Hill (15); On or near Theatre/Concert Hall (8); On or near Hyde Road (7); On or near B4104 (4); On or near The Blundells (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: 271 residents in 137 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 age4940
Children under 1514%17%
Aged 65 and over29%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)58%61%
Owned outright35%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented12%17%
Private rented31%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)32%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)53%32%
Travel to work by car or van33%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus4%8%
On foot or by bicycle11%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)77%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away2%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)60%34%
No qualifications11%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)92%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

Upper Rosemary Hill · The Blundells · Upper Rosemary Hill · Church Drive · Priory Road · The Blundells · Albion Street · Hyde Road · Whateley's Drive · Southbank Road · Reeve Drive · Abbey Hill

All the streets in CV8 and across Warwick.

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.