Sharp Close Swindon

32 addresses across 2 postcodes (SN5), about 160 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 83876678.

50 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £275,000 across 1 sale. 25 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 6, D: 12, E: 6). 4 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. Most homes around it are in council tax band B; Band D in Swindon costs £2,438 a year in 2026-27. Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises. The nearest railway station is Swindon (Wilts), about 3.0 km away in a straight line. There is a small park or garden about 70 m away, and Shaw Forest Park (35 hectares) is about 240 m away. Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits. Its addresses are 106 to 110 m above sea level. 2 of its 32 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic. The nearest GP surgery is Ridge Green Medical Practice, about 560 m away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km. About 350 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 80% of households owned their home and 38% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification. 28 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£275,000£275,000£275,000
20231£435,000£435,000£435,000
20212£408,750£372,500£445,000
20201£312,000£312,000£312,000
20191£257,000£257,000£257,000
20181£322,500£322,500£322,500
20151£292,500£292,500£292,500
20142£206,000£170,000£242,000
20131£264,950£264,950£264,950
20124£222,250£202,500£242,000
20091£101,000£101,000£101,000
20051£182,500£182,500£182,500
Most recent sales (50)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
2 May 20259 SN5 5XNSemi-detached£275,000
17 Nov 202324 SN5 5XNDetached£435,000
14 Sep 202117 SN5 5XNDetached£445,000
13 Apr 202138 SN5 5XNDetached£372,500
22 Jan 202011 SN5 5XNDetached£312,000
14 Jun 201920 SN5 5XNSemi-detached£257,000
20 Feb 201830 SN5 5XNDetached£322,500
13 Mar 201517 SN5 5XNDetached£292,500
19 Sep 20147 SN5 5XNSemi-detached£170,000
18 Jul 20144 SN5 5XNDetached£242,000
22 Mar 201321 SN5 5XNDetached£264,950
1 Oct 201230 SN5 5XNDetached£232,500
16 Jul 201210 SN5 5XNSemi-detached£202,500
15 Jun 201226 SN5 5XNDetached£242,000
23 Mar 201236 SN5 5XNDetached£212,000
30 Apr 200938 SN5 5XNDetached£101,000
1 Jul 200510 SN5 5XNDetached£182,500
11 Jun 200410 SN5 5XNDetached£167,995
6 Feb 200422 SN5 5XNDetached£179,000
12 Sep 20037 SN5 5XNSemi-detached£136,000
6 Dec 200215 SN5 5XNDetached£218,000
31 May 200221 SN5 5XNDetached£214,950
27 May 200226 SN5 5XNDetached£188,000
9 Jul 20015 SN5 5XNDetached£149,950
27 Oct 20007 SN5 5XNSemi-detached£109,000
6 Apr 200030 SN5 5XNDetached£172,950
4 Jun 199810 SN5 5XNDetached£89,950New build.
1 May 199838 SN5 5XNDetached£116,950New build.
1 May 199834 SN5 5XNDetached£81,000New build.
1 May 199832 SN5 5XNDetached£81,000New build.
24 Apr 199836 SN5 5XNDetached£107,950New build.
9 Apr 199828 SN5 5XNDetached£107,500New build.
27 Mar 199826 SN5 5XNDetached£116,950New build.
27 Mar 199824 SN5 5XNDetached£116,950New build.
20 Mar 199830 SN5 5XNDetached£116,950New build.
27 Feb 199816 SN5 5XNDetached£116,000New build.
26 Feb 199815 SN5 5XNDetached£119,950New build.
19 Dec 199717 SN5 5XNDetached£119,950New build.
19 Dec 199714 SN5 5XNDetached£106,500New build.
19 Dec 199722 SN5 5XNDetached£94,950New build.
19 Dec 199712 SN5 5XNDetached£84,950New build.
19 Dec 199718 SN5 5XNSemi-detached£79,950New build.
19 Dec 199720 SN5 5XNSemi-detached£79,950New build.
21 Nov 199719 SN5 5XNDetached£115,000New build.
20 Nov 19977 SN5 5XNSemi-detached£69,500
25 Apr 19975 SN5 5XNDetached£94,000
27 Sep 19966 SN5 5XNDetached£112,950New build.
13 Dec 19958 SN5 5XNDetached£108,500New build.
26 May 19953 SN5 5XNDetached£106,500New build.
15 May 19957 SN5 5XNSemi-detached£70,950New build.

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 August 2011 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

25 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 116 m². Most common: House, detached (21); House, semi-detached (4). Built: 1991-1995 (10); 1996-2002 (7); 1983-1990 (6). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (23); rented (private) (1).

Council tax

What each band costs in Swindon in 2026-27: Band D £2,438 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,625£1,896£2,167£2,438£2,980£3,522£4,064£4,876

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (23% of about 740 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.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1.0 km

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, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 4 at medium risk and 4 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
SN5 5XNnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
SN5 5WXnot in 2 or 3 0 / 4 / 4 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.

Height above sea level

The street's 32 addresses are between 106 m and 110 m above sea level (108 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
SN5 5WX100%100%100%0%
SN5 5XN100%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 stationSwindon (Wilts) 3.2 million journeys in 2024–253.0 km
Bus stops13 stops within 400 m, 28 within 800 m; nearest Old Shaw Lane90 m
Car parksAsda Swindon Car Park1.0 km
EV charging points7 within 1.6 km; nearest Be.EV Charging Station360 m
Airport with scheduled flightsBristol Airport BRS65.0 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 surgeries3 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Ridge Green Medical Practice560 m
Pharmacies5 pharmacies within 1.6 km; nearest Hearts Pharmacy Shaw630 m
NHS dentists4 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Shaw Village Dental630 m
HospitalRidgeway Hospital5.5 km
Police stationWiltshire Police2.8 km
Cash machinesMidcounties Co-Op Roughmoor, Unit 2 Swinley Drive, Peatmoor Cashzone1.4 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 garden6 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 840 m²70 m
Largest park within 800 mShaw Forest Park 35 ha240 m
Play area8 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 120 m²60 m
Playing fieldMannington Recreation Ground 14 ha1.1 km
AllotmentsUnnamed 4,590 m²1.5 km

Within 800 m: 6 parks and gardens, 66 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is The Spectrum Building (formerly the Renault Distribution Centre), a listed building (Grade II*), 280 m east. 2 listed buildings are within 1.0 km, 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
The Spectrum Building (formerly the Renault Distribution Centre)Listed building, Grade II*280 m east
Roman pottery 140m SSW of Tewkesbury CrossScheduled monument1.1 km south
Lydiard ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.3 km west
Natural landmarks within 5.0 km
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Peatmoor LagoonLake or reservoir1.0 km north-west
Peatmoor Community WoodlandWood1.2 km north-west
Crow BrakeWood1.3 km west
Greendown PlantationWood1.9 km south-west
Quarr PlantationWood1.9 km south-west
Toot HillHill2.0 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)8.34010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.6205
Particles (PM10)10.74015

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: 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 on the roads and railways, not measurements; they leave out aircraft, 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 and 54 dB for railways.

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
55 to 5920
Under 553032

2 of the street's 32 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

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
Shaw Ridge Primary SchoolPrimary2–11370 m Good (Mar 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Westlea Primary SchoolPrimary2–11640 m Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Brook Field Primary SchoolPrimary4–11730 m No published inspection
Tregoze Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.2 km Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Oliver Tomkins Church of England Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.3 km Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
Oliver Tomkins Church of England Infant and Nursery SchoolPrimary3–71.3 km No published inspection
Peatmoor Community Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.3 km No published inspection
Even Swindon Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.6 km No published inspection
Lydiard Park AcademySecondary11–181.6 km No published inspection
Lift HazelwoodPrimary2–111.7 km Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Ridgeway Farm CofE Academy Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.7 km 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
Nova Hreod AcademySecondary11–162.0 km 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 of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Shell Mead Way SN5 5XSRetailers - other120 m5 Very good3 Mar 2026
The Big Adventure Club SN5 5PUHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises230 m5 Very good15 Jan 2025
Harrison Catering Services Ltd (c/o Shaw Ridge School) SN5 5PUSchool/college/university230 m5 Very good2 Oct 2026
Premier Sports Coach Solutions SN5 5PURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen230 m4 Good2 Apr 2026
Aldi Stores Ltd SN5 7EZRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets230 m5 Very good27 Aug 2024
Tropi Bites Express SN5 7EXOther catering premises400 m5 Very good11 Jun 2026
Padel Nova Limited SN5 7EXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen450 mAwaiting inspection
Lifeways SN5 5PSHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises470 m4 Good10 Mar 2025

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.

28 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences7
Shoplifting7
Anti-social behaviour4
Public order3
Other theft2
Possession of weapons2
Vehicle crime1
Drugs1
Theft from the person1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Dennis Street (13); On or near Winlaw Close (5); On or near Nuffield Close (4); On or near The Bramptons (3); On or near Worlidge Drive (2).

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: 345 residents in 124 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 age4240
Children under 1520%17%
Aged 65 and over9%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)80%61%
Owned outright28%33%
Shared ownership10%1%
Social rentedunder 1%17%
Private rented10%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work73%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)12%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)under 1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)32%32%
Travel to work by car or van57%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus4%8%
On foot or by bicycle5%10%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)80%65%
Work 30 km or more away9%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)38%34%
No qualifications10%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)89%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all1%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

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.

  • SN5 5XN: 31 addresses of 37 in the postcode
  • SN5 5WX: 1 address of 45 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Bankfoot Close · Edgeworth Close · Winlaw Close · Nuffield Close · Shaw Road · Mortimer Close · Worlidge Drive · Rivermead Industrial Estate · Hanson Close · Chelmsford Road · Dennis Street · Ridge Green

All the streets in SN5 and across Swindon.

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 aircraft, industry or neighbours: noise figures are models of road and rail traffic outside, in England only.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.