Ripley Road Cottingham, North Northamptonshire

39 addresses across 2 postcodes (LE16), about 260 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 9300186.

  • Sales: 46 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £295,000 across 5 sales.
  • Energy: 30 homes have an energy certificate (A: 1, B: 1, C: 8, D: 13, E: 7).
  • 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 North Northamptonshire costs £2,424 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 96% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Corby, about 4.5 km (2.8 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 790 m (0.5 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 5.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 109 to 123 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 39 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Woodsend Medical Centre, about 3.4 km (2.1 miles) away.
  • People: About 330 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 84% of households owned their home and 35% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 6 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
20255£295,000£220,000£375,000
20242£362,500£315,000£410,000
20231£245,000£245,000£245,000
20216£277,500£192,800£320,000
20194£248,750£174,000£270,000
20181£185,000£185,000£185,000
20173£155,000£154,000£174,000
20165£215,000£174,950£238,000
20153£205,000£165,000£215,000
20101£150,000£150,000£150,000
20092£142,500£125,000£160,000
20081£170,000£170,000£170,000
Most recent sales (46)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
6 Nov 20257 LE16 8XQSemi-detached£335,000
25 Sep 202519A LE16 8XQTerraced£220,000
4 Jul 202519 LE16 8XQSemi-detached£235,000
28 Mar 20256 LE16 8XQSemi-detached£295,000
24 Jan 20257A LE16 8XQTerraced£375,000
16 Sep 202437 LE16 8XQSemi-detached£315,000
28 Mar 202413 LE16 8XQTerraced£410,000
23 Jan 202315 LE16 8XQTerraced£245,000
28 Jun 20212 LE16 8XQSemi-detached£320,000
28 May 20217A LE16 8XQTerraced£315,000
28 May 202118A LE16 8XQDetached£310,000
17 May 202118 LE16 8XQTerraced£192,800
28 Feb 20217 LE16 8XQSemi-detached£204,000
27 Jan 202122 LE16 8XQSemi-detached£245,000
10 Sep 201925 LE16 8XQSemi-detached£262,500
28 Jun 201915 LE16 8XQTerraced£174,000
17 Jun 20198 LE16 8XQSemi-detached£235,000
14 Jun 201913 LE16 8XQTerraced£270,000
14 Dec 20188 LE16 8XQSemi-detached£260,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
27 Mar 201810 LE16 8XQSemi-detached£185,000
24 Nov 20179 LE16 8XQSemi-detached£174,000
17 Nov 201718 LE16 8XQTerraced£155,000
27 Oct 201717A LE16 8XQDetached£154,000
5 Jul 201717A LE16 8XQDetached£135,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
25 Nov 20168 LE16 8XQSemi-detached£238,000
15 Aug 201631 LE16 8XQSemi-detached£215,000
14 Jul 20168A LE16 8XQDetached£235,000
1 Jul 201612 LE16 8XQSemi-detached£180,000
22 Apr 201622 LE16 8XQSemi-detached£174,950
23 Oct 201531 LE16 8XQSemi-detached£215,000
18 Sep 201518A LE16 8XQDetached£205,000
24 Jul 201519 LE16 8XQSemi-detached£165,000
28 May 201012 LE16 8XQSemi-detached£150,000
17 Jul 200925 LE16 8XQSemi-detached£160,000
30 Jun 200922 LE16 8XQSemi-detached£125,000
8 Dec 200831 LE16 8XQSemi-detached£170,000
4 Nov 200537 LE16 8XQSemi-detached£170,000
27 Oct 20048 LE16 8XQSemi-detached£156,000
17 Dec 200322 LE16 8XQSemi-detached£99,995
30 May 20037A LE16 8XQTerraced£51,000
6 Dec 20024 LE16 8XQSemi-detached£120,000
8 Mar 200235 LE16 8XQSemi-detached£110,000
14 Oct 19998A LE16 8XQDetached£84,750
30 Oct 19986 LE16 8XQSemi-detached£56,000
14 Nov 199735 LE16 8XQSemi-detached£53,000
29 Nov 199637 LE16 8XQSemi-detached£54,000

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 May 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

30 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 87 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (17); House, end-terrace (5); House, detached (3). Built: 1930-1949 (14); 1950-1966 (11); 2003-2006 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (19); rented (social) (3); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (20 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in North Northamptonshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,424 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,616£1,885£2,155£2,424£2,963£3,501£4,040£4,848

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band D (27% of about 730 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: 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

Finished in the last three months

  • 29 October 2026: North Northamptonshire Council, Highway repair and maintenance works, road closure, on the carriageway (immediate - urgent works)
  • 11 September 2026 to 15 September 2026: GIGACLEAR LIMITED, Utility asset works, give and take, on the footway (minor works)
  • 26 August 2026: North Northamptonshire Council, Highway repair and maintenance works, road closure, on the carriageway (immediate - urgent works)

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 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 on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
LE16 8XQnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
LE16 8XSnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 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 39 addresses are between 109 m and 123 m above sea level (119 m on average); the ground rises about 14 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
LE16 8XQ100%100%100%0%
LE16 8XS98%96%96%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 stationsCorby 561,000 journeys in 2024–254.5 km (2.8 miles)
Market Harborough 943,000 journeys in 2024–2511.2 km (6.9 miles)
Kettering 1.1 million journeys in 2024–2512.3 km (7.7 miles)
Bus stops2 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 8 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest 34 Rockingham Road Cottingham160 m
EV charging pointsInstaVolt Charging Station2.7 km (1.7 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsEast Midlands Airport EMA53.4 km (33 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 surgeriesWoodsend Medical Centre3.4 km (2.1 miles)
PharmaciesPytchley Court Pharmacy2 km (1.3 miles)
NHS dentistsWelland Vale Road Dental Surgery2.8 km (1.7 miles)
HospitalCorby Community Hospital2.9 km (1.8 miles)
Police stationKettering Police Station11.9 km (7.4 miles)
Cash machinesATM2.3 km (1.4 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 Unnamed 1,240 m²790 m (0.5 miles)
Play areaUnnamed 1,310 m²1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Playing fieldUnnamed 6.0 ha1.7 km (1 mile)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.2 ha690 m (0.4 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 0.1 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Mary Magdalene, a listed building (Grade I), 490 m (0.3 miles) south-west. 26 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
Church of St Mary MagdaleneListed building, Grade I490 m (0.3 miles) south-west
The Bury HouseListed building, Grade II*610 m (0.4 miles) south-west
Moated site 1km south west of Rockingham CastleScheduled monument1.3 km (0.8 miles) east
Rockingham CastleRegistered park or garden, Grade II*1.3 km (0.8 miles) east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Lodge CoppiceWood850 m (0.5 miles) south-east
New CoppiceWood1 km (0.6 miles) south-west
Blackthorn WoodWood1.2 km (0.7 miles) south-east
Great Cattage WoodWood1.2 km (0.8 miles) south
Wignell HillHill4.1 km (2.6 miles) north-west
Eyebrook ReservoirLake or reservoir4.4 km (2.7 miles) north

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)5.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.6205
Particles (PM10)11.74015

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 5910
Under 553839

1 of the street's 39 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 North Northamptonshire: see them on the North Northamptonshire 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
Cottingham Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–11680 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Lodge Park AcademySecondary11–182 km (1.2 miles) Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Post-16 provision: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met

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
The Royal George LE16 8XEOther catering premises280 m5 Very good21 Aug 2025
Ganders Goat Manufacturers/packers320 m5 Very good19 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.

6 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences2
Anti-social behaviour2
Burglary1
Other theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Stonepit Drive (3); On or near Windmill Rise (2); On or near Ripley Road (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: 329 residents in 134 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 age4840
Children under 1513%17%
Aged 65 and over22%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)84%61%
Owned outright47%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented7%17%
Private rented10%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work59%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)1%6%
Retired (of adults)27%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)28%32%
Travel to work by car or van69%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including busunder 1%8%
On foot or by bicycle1%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)47%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away10%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)35%34%
No qualifications13%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)100%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 8 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

  • Roadworks Street works permit: North Northamptonshire Council: Highway repair and maintenance works, 29 October 2026 (road closure) found 3 November 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.

  • LE16 8XQ: 38 addresses of 39 in the postcode
  • LE16 8XS: 1 address of 84 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Bancroft Road · Windmill Rise · Windmill Close · Stonepit Drive · Welland View Road · Millfield Avenue · Lawson Court · Blind Lane

All the streets in LE16 and across North Northamptonshire.

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.