Skipton Close Northampton

37 addresses across 1 postcode (NN4), about 220 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 28701534.

  • Sales: 78 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £272,500 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 23 homes have an energy certificate (C: 10, D: 13).
  • 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 West Northamptonshire costs £2,487 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Northampton, about 3.2 km (2 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Grange Wood Park, is about 50 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 85 to 91 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 5 of its 37 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Danes Camp Medical Centre, about 420 m (0.3 miles) away, with 4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 340 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 78% of households owned their home and 35% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 22 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often anti-social behaviour.

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
20252£272,500£240,000£305,000
20231£315,000£315,000£315,000
20222£288,500£200,000£377,000
20202£235,000£210,000£260,000
20191£250,000£250,000£250,000
20163£190,000£145,000£254,950
20151£160,000£160,000£160,000
20132£135,750£132,500£139,000
20121£216,500£216,500£216,500
20113£158,000£152,000£163,500
20102£161,000£135,000£187,000
20093£131,000£129,995£133,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 78)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
16 Jul 202531 NN4 0RBSemi-detached£305,000
6 Jun 202519 NN4 0RBSemi-detached£240,000
10 Oct 20231 NN4 0RBDetached£315,000
7 Nov 202212 NN4 0RBSemi-detached£200,000
22 Jul 202218 NN4 0RBDetached£377,000
4 Feb 202114 NN4 0RBSemi-detached£225,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
12 Jun 202010 NN4 0RBDetached£260,000
12 Jun 202017 NN4 0RBSemi-detached£210,000
5 Jul 201931 NN4 0RBSemi-detached£250,000
9 Mar 201827 NN4 0RBDetached£247,500Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
30 Nov 20165 NN4 0RBSemi-detached£145,000
26 Sep 201634 NN4 0RBDetached£254,950
21 Sep 201617 NN4 0RBSemi-detached£190,000
23 Sep 201517 NN4 0RBSemi-detached£160,000
4 Oct 201319 NN4 0RBSemi-detached£139,000
2 Aug 201317 NN4 0RBSemi-detached£132,500
21 Sep 201226 NN4 0RBDetached£216,500
24 Jun 201131 NN4 0RBSemi-detached£163,500
6 Jun 20111 NN4 0RBDetached£158,000
28 Apr 201111 NN4 0RBDetached£152,000
29 Oct 20107 NN4 0RBSemi-detached£135,000
23 Jul 201022 NN4 0RBDetached£187,000
7 Aug 200914 NN4 0RBSemi-detached£133,000
26 Jun 200921 NN4 0RBSemi-detached£131,000
24 Apr 200917 NN4 0RBSemi-detached£129,995
26 Sep 200816 NN4 0RBDetached£173,000
28 Sep 200723 NN4 0RBSemi-detached£150,500
5 Sep 200735 NN4 0RBDetached£205,000
30 Jul 200732 NN4 0RBDetached£215,000
26 Oct 200621 NN4 0RBSemi-detached£145,000
15 Sep 20069 NN4 0RBSemi-detached£31,000Leasehold.
25 Aug 20067 NN4 0RBSemi-detached£138,000
28 Apr 20065 NN4 0RBSemi-detached£128,000
10 Feb 200635 NN4 0RBDetached£185,000
28 Nov 200522 NN4 0RBDetached£190,000
14 Oct 200517 NN4 0RBSemi-detached£132,500
21 Jul 200521 NN4 0RBSemi-detached£125,000
18 May 200525 NN4 0RBDetached£155,500
29 Apr 200514 NN4 0RBSemi-detached£144,000
22 Jul 20042 NN4 0RBDetached£197,000
13 Feb 200411 NN4 0RBDetached£145,000
14 Oct 200317 NN4 0RBSemi-detached£113,200
11 Jul 20036 NN4 0RBDetached£173,000
11 Jul 200333 NN4 0RBSemi-detached£133,000
27 May 200332 NN4 0RBDetached£151,000
20 May 200332 NN4 0RBDetached£154,000
23 Apr 200317 NN4 0RBSemi-detached£107,500
15 Nov 20028 NN4 0RBDetached£30,000
1 Oct 200223 NN4 0RBSemi-detached£95,000
23 Aug 20023 NN4 0RBSemi-detached£90,000

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026 (load in progress). Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from December 2008 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

23 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 69 m². Most common: House, detached (12); House, semi-detached (9); Bungalow, semi-detached (2). Built: 1983-1990 (15); 1991-1995 (5); 1976-1982 (3). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (14); rented (private) (4).

Council tax

What each band costs in West Northamptonshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,487 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,658£1,934£2,210£2,487£3,039£3,592£4,144£4,973

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band D (36% of about 580 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.

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 37 addresses are between 85 m and 91 m above sea level (88 m on average); the ground rises about 6 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
NN4 0RB100%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 stationNorthampton 2.8 million journeys in 2024–253.2 km (2 miles)
Bus stops7 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 30 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Skipton Close Merefield60 m
Bus or coach stationBus Terminus Brackmills2.3 km (1.4 miles)
Car parksParking space on Old Towcester Road, NN42.4 km (1.5 miles)
EV charging pointsSuperior Green Energy Solutions1.9 km (1.2 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Luton Airport LTN52.4 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 surgeries4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Danes Camp Medical Centre420 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Unidrug Dispensing Chemist660 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery420 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalNorthampton General Hospital3.4 km (2.1 miles)
Police stationUnison Northants Police and Fire Branch300 m
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Northamptonshire Police HQ Cashzone330 m

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Grange Wood Park 15 ha50 m
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,030 m²660 m (0.4 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.1 ha660 m (0.4 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 1.9 ha850 m (0.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 6 parks and gardens, 28 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Eleanor Cross 1km south west of Delapre Abbey, a scheduled monument, 1.1 km (0.7 miles) north-east. 3 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Eleanor Cross 1km south west of Delapre AbbeyScheduled monument1.1 km (0.7 miles) north-east
Multivallate hillfort at Hunsbury HillScheduled monument1.5 km (0.9 miles) north-west
Battle of Northampton 1460Registered battlefield2.1 km (1.3 miles) north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Grange WoodWood690 m (0.4 miles) west
Hazel WoodWood720 m (0.4 miles) north-west
Hunsbury HillHill1.5 km (0.9 miles) north-west
Delapre WoodWood1.6 km (1 mile) north-east
Storton's PitsLake or reservoir3.2 km (2 miles) north-west
Bourne BottomValley4.5 km (2.8 miles) south-east

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)9.44010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.3205
Particles (PM10)12.94015

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 5950
Under 553237

5 of the street's 37 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 West Northamptonshire: see them on the West Northamptonshire 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
East Hunsbury Primary SchoolPrimary4–11340 m No published inspection
Simon de Senlis Primary SchoolPrimary4–11490 m (0.3 miles) Outstanding (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Wootton Park SchoolAll-through4–19780 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Overstone Gate Primary SchoolPrimary4–11780 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Abbeyfield SchoolSecondary11–18810 m (0.5 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Needs attention; Inclusion: Needs attention; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Post-16 provision: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
The Abbey Primary SchoolPrimary3–11870 m (0.5 miles) Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Gloucester Nursery SchoolNursery2–51.2 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (Jun 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Hardingstone AcademyPrimary0–111.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Wootton Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.6 km (1 mile) No overall grade (Jun 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Collingtree Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.6 km (1 mile) Good (Mar 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)
Queen Eleanor Primary AcademyPrimary3–111.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Hunsbury Park Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.7 km (1.1 miles) Good (Sep 2022, 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
Claregate Children's Home NN4 0QZHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good1 Mar 2023

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.

22 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Anti-social behaviour15
Vehicle crime5
Other theft1
Criminal damage and arson1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Bank View (9); On or near Kelburn Close (4); On or near Rea Close (4); On or near Skipton Close (2); On or near Thames Road (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: 336 residents in 126 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 age3740
Children under 1518%17%
Aged 65 and over12%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)78%61%
Owned outright30%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented2%17%
Private rented20%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)16%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)32%32%
Travel to work by car or van61%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle3%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)62%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)35%34%
No qualifications9%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)88%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all2%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.

  • NN4 0RB: 37 addresses of 38 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Kelburn Close · Penvale Road · Bank View · Thames Road · Buckingham Close · Rea Close · South Copse · Stanford Way · Meldon Close · Harrier Park · Kimble Close · Penn Gardens

All the streets in NN4 and across West 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.