Rickyard Close Oxford

16 addresses across 1 postcode (OX1), about 40 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 29701807.

  • Sales: 32 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £500,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 13 homes have an energy certificate (C: 11, D: 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 D; Band D in Oxford costs £2,678 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Oxford, about 190 m away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 550 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 11.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.1 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 58 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 16 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Beaumont Elms Practice, about 550 m (0.3 miles) away, with 6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 360 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 35% of households owned their home and 78% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 117 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
20251£500,000£500,000£500,000
20211£745,000£745,000£745,000
20191£695,000£695,000£695,000
20171£640,000£640,000£640,000
20153£605,000£475,000£645,000
20131£522,150£522,150£522,150
20103£408,500£395,000£420,000
20091£390,000£390,000£390,000
20062£351,250£340,000£362,500
20052£340,000£340,000£340,000
20041£340,000£340,000£340,000
19992£197,500£195,000£200,000
Most recent sales (32)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
12 Jun 20256 OX1 2REFlat or maisonette£500,000Leasehold.
19 Nov 20214 OX1 2REDetached£745,000
8 Nov 201910 OX1 2RETerraced£695,000
28 Sep 201711 OX1 2RETerraced£640,000
14 Dec 20156 OX1 2REFlat or maisonette£475,000Leasehold.
23 Jul 201510 OX1 2RETerraced£645,000
15 May 20155 OX1 2RETerraced£605,000
30 Jul 201312 OX1 2RETerraced£522,150
8 Oct 20103 OX1 2RETerraced£420,000
18 Aug 20107 OX1 2REFlat or maisonette£395,000Leasehold.
3 Aug 20104 OX1 2REDetached£408,500
16 Dec 20093 OX1 2RETerraced£390,000
23 Oct 200612 OX1 2RETerraced£362,500
30 Jun 200614 OX1 2RETerraced£340,000
9 Dec 20054 OX1 2RETerraced£340,000
6 Jun 20053 OX1 2RETerraced£340,000
15 Apr 200415 OX1 2RETerraced£340,000
5 Feb 19999 OX1 2REFlat or maisonette£195,000Leasehold.
6 Jan 199915 OX1 2RETerraced£200,000New build.
4 Sep 19988 OX1 2REFlat or maisonette£172,500New build. Leasehold.
31 Aug 19989 OX1 2REFlat or maisonette£182,500Leasehold.
31 Jul 199810 OX1 2RETerraced£210,950New build.
1 Jul 199812 OX1 2RETerraced£200,000New build.
1 Jul 199814 OX1 2RETerraced£200,000New build.
30 Jun 199811 OX1 2RETerraced£206,950New build.
30 Jun 19982 OX1 2RETerraced£200,000New build.
29 May 19987 OX1 2REFlat or maisonette£174,500New build. Leasehold.
29 May 19986 OX1 2REFlat or maisonette£166,500New build. Leasehold.
31 Mar 19981 OX1 2RETerraced£209,950
31 Mar 19984 OX1 2REDetached£209,950New build.
31 Mar 19983 OX1 2RETerraced£205,950
27 Mar 19985 OX1 2REDetached£209,950New 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 June 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

13 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 109 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (6); House, end-terrace (4); House, semi-detached (1). Built: 1996-2002 (9); 2003-2006 (3); 1991-1995 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (6); rented (private) (6).

Each home's certificates and sales (7 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Oxford in 2026-27: Band D £2,678 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,786£2,083£2,381£2,678£3,274£3,869£4,464£5,357

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band D (34% of about 980 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): Houses in Multiple Occupation Article 4 Direction.
  • 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

No address in this street's postcodes is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

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 addresses are about 58 m above sea level.

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
OX1 2RE100%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 stationsOxford 8.1 million journeys in 2024–25190 m
Oxford Parkway 655,000 journeys in 2024–255.5 km (3.4 miles)
Radley 132,000 journeys in 2024–257.9 km (4.9 miles)
Bus stops16 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 73 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Railway Station Oxford City Centre160 m
Bus or coach stationGloucester Green Bus Station Oxford City Centre470 m (0.3 miles)
Car parks5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Worcester Street Car Park430 m (0.3 miles)
EV charging points20 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest ubitricity400 m (0.2 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Luton Airport LTN63.5 km (39 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 surgeries6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Beaumont Elms Practice550 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies5 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Oxwell Pharmacy600 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest St Johns Dental Practice530 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalWarneford Hospital Opd3.3 km (2 miles)
Police stationOxford Police Station1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Cash machines5 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Midcounties Co-op Little Clarendon530 m (0.3 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 garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,950 m²550 m (0.3 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 760 m²460 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Botley Park 4.5 ha470 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Twenty Pound Meadow Allotments 4.9 ha390 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 0.2 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Swing bridge, LNWR Station, a scheduled monument, 90 m north-west. 439 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 70 of them Grade I and 37 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Swing bridge, LNWR StationScheduled monument90 m north-west
Rewley AbbeyScheduled monument130 m south-east
Worcester CollegeRegistered park or garden, Grade II*250 m east
Church of St BarnabasListed building, Grade I320 m north
Worcester College, North RangeListed building, Grade I380 m east
Worcester College, South Range With Pump Quadrangle and Old KitchenListed building, Grade I400 m (0.2 miles) east
Worcester College, Main BlockListed building, Grade I420 m (0.3 miles) east
Oxford Castle and earlier settlement remainsScheduled monument600 m (0.4 miles) south-east
St Sepulchre's CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II660 m (0.4 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Sheepwash ChannelLake or reservoir130 m west
Worcester College PondLake or reservoir220 m east
Castle HillHill550 m (0.3 miles) south-east
Fiddler's IslandIsland820 m (0.5 miles) north-west
The GroveWood1.2 km (0.7 miles) north-west
Hangman's BottomValley3.8 km (2.4 miles) south

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)11.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.1205
Particles (PM10)11.64015

All three are within the UK legal limits; nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 are 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 551416

2 of the street's 16 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 Oxford: see them on the Oxford 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
St Barnabas' Church of England Aided Primary SchoolPrimary3–11490 m (0.3 miles) No overall grade (Mar 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
West Oxford Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–11640 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Activate Learning16 plus16–99710 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
St Ebbe's Church of England Aided Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
St Aloysius' Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.4 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Mar 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
St Philip and James' Church of England Aided Primary School OxfordPrimary4–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
North Hinksey Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary0–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Report card (Feb 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; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Grandpont Nursery SchoolNursery2–41.5 km (0.9 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: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Botley SchoolPrimary3–112 km (1.2 miles) Requires improvement (Jul 2024, 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
The Oxford Retreat OX1 2TAPub/bar/nightclub130 m4 Good17 Jul 2026
WH Smith OX1 1HSRetailers - other190 m4 Good26 Jan 2024
Marks & Spencer Simply Foods OX1 1HSRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets190 m5 Very good26 Jan 2024
Greggs OX1 1HSRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen190 m5 Very good11 Feb 2025
Upper Crust OX1 1HSTakeaway/sandwich shop190 m5 Very good8 Dec 2023
Pret A Manger OX1 1HSRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen190 m5 Very good7 Dec 2022
Costa Coffee Oxford Station Concourse OX1 1HSTakeaway/sandwich shop190 m5 Very good27 Aug 2025
Baxterstorey At Said Business School OX1 1HPSchool/college/university220 m5 Very good10 Feb 2026
Pizza Club OX2 6AYRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen290 m4 Good2 Dec 2025
The Royal Oxford Hotel OX1 1HRHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house290 mExempt
Sainsburys Local OX1 1HRRetailers - other290 m5 Very good3 Oct 2025
The Olive Branch Cafe And Restaurant OX1 1HRRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen290 m5 Very good18 Nov 2024
Jericho Community Curry Meal OX2 6BQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen290 m5 Very good12 Oct 2026
Lulas Ethiopian And Eritrean Cuisine OX1 1HURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen300 m5 Very good7 Feb 2024
Domino's Pizza OX1 1HUTakeaway/sandwich shop300 m5 Very good17 Mar 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.

117 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences37
Bicycle theft23
Other theft12
Public order12
Anti-social behaviour9
Criminal damage and arson5
Vehicle crime4
Robbery4
Other crime3
Drugs3
Shoplifting2
Theft from the person2
Possession of weapons1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Bus/Coach Station (52); On or near Further/Higher Educational Building (34); On or near Rickyard Close (13); On or near Nelson Street (4); On or near Abbey Road (3).

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: 360 residents in 143 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 age3040
Children under 1518%17%
Aged 65 and over10%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)35%61%
Owned outright22%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented11%17%
Private rented55%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work65%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)1%6%
Retired (of adults)13%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)63%32%
Travel to work by car or van11%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram3%4%
By any public transport, including bus4%8%
On foot or by bicycle22%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)76%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away9%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)78%34%
No qualifications6%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualificationunder 1%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)82%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 10 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.

  • OX1 2RE: 16 addresses of 17 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Stable Close · Great Mead · Shipley Way · Beesley Lane · Cripley Road · Rewley Road · Abbey Road · Lasher Lane · Cripley Place · Nelson Street · St Barnabas Street · Canal Street

All the streets in OX1 and across Oxford.

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.