Station Road Cherwell

203 addresses across 13 postcodes (OX26,OX27), about 1.9 km (1.2 miles) long, classed as a local road. USRN 6801379.

  • Sales: 86 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £362,500 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 80 homes have an energy certificate (B: 23, C: 6, D: 17, E: 26, F: 7, G: 1).
  • Flood: 47 addresses on its postcodes are in areas 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 C; Band D in Cherwell costs £2,583 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Bicester North, about 3.7 km (2.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 1.7 km (1 mile) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 5.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 63 to 73 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 44 of its 232 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Alchester Medical Group, about 3.6 km (2.2 miles) away.
  • People: About 1,130 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 82% of households owned their home and 42% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.

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£362,500£345,000£380,000
20241£425,000£425,000£425,000
20231£375,000£375,000£375,000
20223£285,000£270,000£387,500
20213£630,000£366,000£825,000
20202£330,000£300,000£360,000
20191£410,000£410,000£410,000
20183£720,000£320,000£1,075,000
20174£301,250£275,000£550,000
20161£340,000£340,000£340,000
20142£283,500£237,000£330,000
20132£275,250£242,500£308,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 86)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
5 Aug 2025THE PITCHES OX26 5DXSemi-detached£380,000
28 Feb 20254 OX26 5DSTerraced£345,000
22 Mar 2024WARWICK HOUSE OX26 5DSDetached£425,000
2 Oct 2023BETHEL CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OX26 5DSOther£140,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
18 Aug 2023LAURELS FARM OX26 5DXOther£1,375,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
28 Apr 2023AGRICOLA COURT OX26 5EEOther£6,250,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
29 Mar 2023IVY COTTAGE OX26 5DSTerraced£375,000
28 Oct 2022CHAPEL SCHOOL HOUSE OX26 5DSDetached£387,500
7 May 2022STATION COTTAGE OX26 5EHOther£535,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
31 Mar 2022AMBLESIDE OX26 5DSDetached£270,000
4 Mar 20228, SHARPES COTTAGES OX26 5BUTerraced£285,000
29 Nov 2021BOX TREE FARM HOUSE OX26 5DXDetached£825,000
30 Sep 2021PENRYN OX26 5DSSemi-detached£366,000
7 May 2021SOUTH RIDING OX26 5DSDetached£630,000
9 Jun 2020CHAPEL SCHOOL HOUSE OX26 5DSDetached£300,000
7 May 2020STATION COTTAGE OX26 5EHOther£535,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
7 May 2020STATION COTTAGE OX26 5EHDetached£535,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
31 Mar 2020NEW COTTAGE OX26 5DSDetached£360,000
13 Feb 2019LANGDALE HOUSE OX26 5DSDetached£410,000
8 Jun 2018THE STONE HOUSE OX26 5DSOther£740,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
11 May 2018POUND CROFT OX26 5DXDetached£720,000
9 Feb 2018WARWICK HOUSE OX26 5DSDetached£320,000
24 Jan 2018HOME FARM HOUSE OX26 5DXDetached£1,075,000
18 Aug 2017THE COTTAGE OX26 5DSTerraced£275,000
24 Jul 2017PENRYN OX26 5DSSemi-detached£327,500
12 Jul 2017ERSANMINE OX26 5DSTerraced£275,000
11 Jan 2017THE MARTINS OX26 5DXDetached£550,000
8 Jul 2016THE PITCHES OX26 5DXSemi-detached£340,000
2 Apr 2014ASCOT COTTAGE OX26 5DSDetached£237,000
14 Feb 2014KERRY HOLT OX26 5DSDetached£330,000
23 Oct 2013NEW COTTAGE OX26 5DSDetached£308,000
8 Oct 20133, SHARPES COTTAGES OX26 5BUTerraced£242,500
28 Aug 2012SQUIRES HOUSE OX26 5DXDetached£590,000
6 Aug 2012PENRYN OX26 5DSSemi-detached£245,000
3 Apr 2012WARWICK HOUSE OX26 5DSDetached£275,000
29 Feb 2012CLOCK COURT OX26 5DXDetached£760,000
22 Oct 2010CLAREMONT OX26 5DXDetached£280,000
24 Sep 2010THE COTTAGE OX26 5DSTerraced£190,000
26 Aug 2010NEW COTTAGE OX26 5DSDetached£310,000
4 Jun 2010LANGDALE HOUSE OX26 5DSDetached£390,000
23 Dec 2009LANGDALE HOUSE OX26 5DSDetached£340,000
6 Oct 2009THE PITCHES OX26 5DXSemi-detached£230,000
2 Oct 20098, SHARPES COTTAGES OX26 5BUTerraced£171,000
12 Feb 2008MARELEYS OX26 5DXDetached£495,000
20 Dec 2007ASCOT COTTAGE OX26 5DSDetached£225,000
30 Aug 2007HOME FARM HOUSE OX26 5DXDetached£845,000
7 Jun 2007THE ELMS OX26 5DXDetached£855,000
19 Feb 2007POUND CROFT OX26 5DXDetached£509,000
8 Nov 2006PENRYN OX26 5DSSemi-detached£300,000
1 Feb 2006ASCOT COTTAGE OX26 5DSDetached£225,000

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 November 2010 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

80 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 104 m². Most common: House, detached (34); House, semi-detached (17); House, end-terrace (14). Built: before 1900 (27); 2014 (21); 1900-1929 (9). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (66); rented (private) (7); rented (social) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (48 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Cherwell in 2026-27: Band D £2,583 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,722£2,009£2,296£2,583£3,157£3,731£4,305£5,166

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band C (26% of about 1,410 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 2 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) 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: 9.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Listed buildings

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Roadworks

Finished in the last three months

  • 1 October 2026 to 7 October 2026: THAMES WATER, New service connection, two-way signals, on the footway, carriageway (standard works)
  • 4 September 2026 to 16 September 2026: THAMES WATER, Utility asset works, two-way signals, on the carriageway, verge (standard works)
  • 13 August 2026: BT, Remedial works, some carriageway incursion, on the carriageway (minor works)
  • 10 August 2026 to 14 August 2026: THAMES WATER, New service connection, some carriageway incursion, on the footway, carriageway, verge (standard works)
  • 10 August 2026 to 14 August 2026: OXFORDSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway improvement works, road closure, on the carriageway, verge (major works)
  • 13 July 2026 to 7 August 2026: OXFORDSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL, Section 50, two-way signals, on the carriageway, verge (major works)
  • 13 July 2026 to 7 August 2026: OXFORDSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway improvement works, two-way signals, on the carriageway, verge (major 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, 40 addresses are in areas at high risk, 7 at medium risk and 27 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: of the 29 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 0 medium, 3 low and 0 very low.

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
OX26 5DXnot in 2 or 3 1 / 0 / 0 unlikely
OX26 5DSnot in 2 or 3 6 / 0 / 8 unlikely
OX26 5EHnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
OX26 5AEnot in 2 or 3 14 / 3 / 6 unlikely
OX26 5EGnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
OX26 5BUnot in 2 or 3 10 / 1 / 1 unlikely
OX26 5EEnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
OX26 5DTnot in 2 or 3 1 / 1 / 1 unlikely
OX26 5ELnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
OX26 5ABnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
OX26 5ANnot in 2 or 3 1 / 0 / 1 unlikely
OX26 5DAnot in 2 or 3 7 / 2 / 10 unlikely
OX27 0GDnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Height above sea level

The street's 234 addresses are between 63 m and 73 m above sea level (66 m on average); the ground rises about 10 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
OX26 5AB100%100%100%0%
OX26 5AE100%100%100%0%
OX26 5AN100%100%100%0%
OX26 5BU100%100%100%0%
OX26 5DA97%86%86%3%
OX26 5DS100%100%100%0%
OX26 5DT100%100%100%0%
OX26 5DX100%97%97%0%
OX26 5EG100%100%100%0%
OX26 5EH0%0%0%25%
OX26 5EL100%100%100%0%
OX27 0GD100%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 stationsBicester North 823,000 journeys in 2024–253.7 km (2.3 miles)
Bicester Village 1.9 million journeys in 2024–254.1 km (2.5 miles)
Islip 39,000 journeys in 2024–2513.5 km (8.4 miles)
Bus stopsNone within 800 m (0.5 miles)
EV charging pointsPoGo Charge3.6 km (2.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Luton Airport LTN50.3 km (31 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 surgeriesAlchester Medical Group3.6 km (2.2 miles)
PharmaciesJardines Pharmacy3.6 km (2.2 miles)
NHS dentistsAudley Dental Solutions2.8 km (1.7 miles)
HospitalBicester Community Hospital4.5 km (2.8 miles)
Police stationWaddesdon Police Station7.5 km (4.6 miles)
Cash machinesTesco Bank ATM2.8 km (1.8 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 gardenUnnamed 8,340 m²1.7 km (1 mile)
Play areaUnnamed 150 m²1.7 km (1.1 miles)
Playing fieldUnnamed 9,910 m²2.7 km (1.7 miles)
AllotmentsLaunton Plotters Allotments 9,790 m²2.2 km (1.4 miles)

Landmarks

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Rhon HillHill1.6 km (1 mile) east
Longlands SpinneyWood1.7 km (1.1 miles) west
Poodle GorseWood1.8 km (1.1 miles) north
Poundon HillHill1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-east
Townsend PondLake or reservoir2.2 km (1.4 miles) south-east
Ware PondLake or reservoir2.4 km (1.5 miles) east

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

Air quality

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

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)5.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.5205
Particles (PM10)10.94015

All three are within the UK legal limits; PM2.5 is above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
60 to 6440
55 to 59400
Under 55188232

44 of the street's 232 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 Cherwell: see them on the Cherwell 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
Launton Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–112 km (1.2 miles) Requires improvement (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)

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.

No rated food businesses within 500 m (0.3 miles).

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.

No crimes recorded at anonymised points within 250 m in this period (thames-valley).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 3 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 1,126 residents in 434 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 age4540
Children under 1520%17%
Aged 65 and over22%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)82%61%
Owned outright38%33%
Shared ownership1%1%
Social rented5%17%
Private rented12%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work65%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)23%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)43%32%
Travel to work by car or van51%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus1%8%
On foot or by bicycle4%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)39%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away13%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)42%34%
No qualifications16%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 7 to 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.

All the streets in OX26, OX27 and across Cherwell.

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.