Station Road Countesthorpe, Blaby

152 addresses across 3 postcodes (LE8), about 910 m (0.6 miles) long, classed as a minor road. USRN 2801022.

  • Sales: 128 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £573,250 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 68 homes have an energy certificate (B: 3, C: 11, D: 30, E: 17, F: 5, G: 2).
  • Flood: 17 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 B; Band D in Blaby costs £2,490 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 74% to 98% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is South Wigston, about 3.3 km (2.1 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 540 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.0 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 85 to 95 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 46 of its 152 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Countesthorpe Health Centre, about 770 m (0.5 miles) away.
  • People: About 910 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 80% of households owned their home and 26% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 40 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
20262£573,250£246,500£900,000
20252£442,500£340,000£545,000
20243£500,000£440,000£825,000
20223£237,500£220,000£325,000
20211£448,000£448,000£448,000
20206£380,000£190,000£505,000
20195£237,000£160,000£750,000
20183£182,000£160,000£370,000
20173£189,950£185,000£193,000
20166£220,000£65,000£355,555
20156£193,000£135,000£650,000
20141£250,000£250,000£250,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 128)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
30 Mar 202650 LE8 5TADetached£900,000
20 Feb 202613 LE8 5TATerraced£246,500
24 Nov 2025113 LE8 5TDOther£170,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
24 Nov 2025113A LE8 5TDSemi-detached£125,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
17 Oct 202532 LE8 5TADetached£340,000
7 Jul 202593 LE8 5TDDetached£545,000
19 Dec 20247 LE8 5TADetached£825,000
15 Nov 202479 LE8 5TBDetached£500,000
19 Sep 202477 LE8 5TBDetached£440,000
23 Sep 202245 LE8 5TBSemi-detached£220,000
25 Feb 2022135 LE8 5TDSemi-detached£325,000
11 Feb 202274 LE8 5TBSemi-detached£237,500
28 Jan 2022138 LE8 5TDDetached£385,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
29 Jun 202136 LE8 5TASemi-detached£448,000
10 Dec 2020113 LE8 5TDOther£147,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
4 Dec 2020135 LE8 5TDSemi-detached£220,000
26 Nov 202010 LE8 5TADetached£220,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
2 Nov 202079 LE8 5TBDetached£400,000
17 Jul 202051 LE8 5TBTerraced£190,000
19 Jun 20206 LE8 5TADetached£375,000
12 Jun 202073 LE8 5TBDetached£385,000
26 Mar 202091 LE8 5TDDetached£505,000
27 Sep 20191 LE8 5TADetached£750,000
26 Jul 201996 LE8 5TBSemi-detached£170,000
20 Jun 201981 LE8 5TBSemi-detached£160,000
29 May 201990 LE8 5TBSemi-detached£237,000
24 May 2019108 LE8 5TDSemi-detached£268,000
9 Aug 201892 LE8 5TBSemi-detached£182,000
6 Jul 2018113A LE8 5TDSemi-detached£210,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
29 Jun 201844 LE8 5TADetached£370,000
17 Apr 201890 LE8 5TBSemi-detached£160,000
22 Nov 201788 LE8 5TBSemi-detached£185,000
31 Mar 2017108 LE8 5TDSemi-detached£189,950
18 Jan 201770 LE8 5TBSemi-detached£193,000
22 Dec 2016115A LE8 5TDFlat or maisonette£65,000Leasehold.
21 Oct 201641 LE8 5TADetached£282,500
22 Jul 201658 LE8 5TADetached£355,555
24 Jun 201651 LE8 5TBTerraced£148,000
10 Jun 201665 LE8 5TBSemi-detached£175,000
1 Apr 201632 LE8 5TADetached£265,000
21 Dec 2015102 LE8 5TBDetached£375,000
11 Dec 201533 LE8 5TASemi-detached£196,000
21 Aug 201570 LE8 5TBSemi-detached£189,450
3 Jul 201529 LE8 5TADetached£190,000
1 May 201550 LE8 5TADetached£650,000
6 Mar 201549 LE8 5TBTerraced£135,000
17 Sep 201497 LE8 5TDDetached£250,000
12 Sep 201475 LE8 5TBDetached£313,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
12 Jul 201392 LE8 5TBSemi-detached£137,000
21 Jun 201337 LE8 5TATerraced£240,000

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 October 2008 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

68 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 96 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (30); House, detached (16); Bungalow, detached (11). Built: 1900-1929 (23); 1930-1949 (19); 1950-1966 (8). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (45); rented (social) (6); rented (private) (5).

Each home's certificates and sales (35 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Blaby in 2026-27: Band D £2,490 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,660£1,937£2,214£2,490£3,044£3,597£4,150£4,980

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band B (24% of about 1,560 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), 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: 4.
  • 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

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

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

Roadworks

Finished in the last three months

  • 2 October 2026: VIRGIN MEDIA, New service connection, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (immediate - urgent works)
  • 28 September 2026: VIRGIN MEDIA, New service connection, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)
  • 22 September 2026: BT, Utility asset works, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)
  • 24 August 2026: SEVERN TRENT WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor 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, 12 addresses are in areas at high risk, 5 at medium risk and 9 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
LE8 5TDnot in 2 or 3 10 / 0 / 1 unlikely
LE8 5TBnot in 2 or 3 1 / 1 / 6 unlikely
LE8 5TAnot in 2 or 3 1 / 4 / 2 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 152 addresses are between 85 m and 95 m above sea level (91 m on average); the ground rises about 9 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
LE8 5TA100%98%98%0%
LE8 5TB100%89%89%0%
LE8 5TD100%74%74%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 stationsSouth Wigston 134,000 journeys in 2024–253.3 km (2.1 miles)
Narborough 294,000 journeys in 2024–254.2 km (2.6 miles)
Leicester 5.5 million journeys in 2024–258.8 km (5.5 miles)
Bus stops6 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 14 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Waterloo Crescent Countesthorpe20 m
Bus or coach stationCharles Street Leicester9.3 km (5.8 miles)
Car parksCountesthorpe Road Car Park2.9 km (1.8 miles)
EV charging pointsbp pulse Charging Station4.4 km (2.7 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsEast Midlands Airport EMA33.2 km (21 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 surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Countesthorpe Health Centre770 m (0.5 miles)
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Countesthorpe Chemist770 m (0.5 miles)
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Rd Dental770 m (0.5 miles)
HospitalStoneygate Eye Hospital7.3 km (4.5 miles)
Police stationLeicestershire Police Federation3.5 km (2.2 miles)
Cash machinesMorrisons Daily - Leicester Blaby Forge Cor Cashzone2.7 km (1.7 miles)

Parks and green space

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

NearestDistance
Park or garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 6,960 m²540 m (0.3 miles)
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 3.3 ha580 m (0.4 miles)
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,400 m²590 m (0.4 miles)
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.4 ha300 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.3 ha240 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 3.9 hectares in all.

Landmarks

27 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Ash SpinneyWood1 km (0.6 miles) north
Black SpinneyWood2.2 km (1.4 miles) north
Whetstone GorseWood2.3 km (1.4 miles) south-west
Foston WoodWood2.4 km (1.5 miles) east
Mill StreamLake or reservoir2.5 km (1.5 miles) north-east
Cosby HillHill3.5 km (2.2 miles) south-west

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)7.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.0205
Particles (PM10)11.54015

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 6410
55 to 59450
Under 55106152

46 of the street's 152 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 Blaby: see them on the Blaby 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
Greenfield Primary SchoolPrimary3–11560 m (0.3 miles) Good (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Countesthorpe AcademySecondary11–19870 m (0.5 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Requires improvement; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Requires improvement

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
Cherrytree Residential Home LE8 5TDHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises80 m4 Good16 Dec 2025
Crookies LE8 5TDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen110 m4 Good10 Mar 2026
Countesthorpe Village Store LE8 5TBRetailers - other150 m5 Very good19 Jul 2023
Rex St Pubs Railway LE8 5TDTakeaway/sandwich shop220 m4 Good28 Jul 2025
Countesthorpe Cricket Club LE8 5QFPub/bar/nightclub220 m5 Very good4 Aug 2023
Countesthorpe Bowling Club LE8 5TBOther catering premises440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good18 Nov 2024

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.

40 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences23
Anti-social behaviour6
Burglary4
Public order3
Criminal damage and arson2
Other crime1
Other theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Maurice Drive (7); On or near The Vineries (6); On or near Penfold Drive (5); On or near Waterloo Crescent (5); On or near Bassett Avenue (5).

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: 914 residents in 369 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 age5040
Children under 1514%17%
Aged 65 and over27%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)80%61%
Owned outright45%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented11%17%
Private rented8%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work56%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)29%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)30%32%
Travel to work by car or van65%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including busunder 1%8%
On foot or by bicycle4%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)60%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)26%34%
No qualifications18%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification8%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 7 to 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

  • Roadworks Street works permit: VIRGIN MEDIA: New service connection, 2 October 2026 to 6 October 2026 (no carriageway incursion) 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.

  • LE8 5TD: 55 addresses of 59 in the postcode
  • LE8 5TB: 50 addresses of 51 in the postcode
  • LE8 5TA: 47 addresses of 50 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Glebe Drive · The Vineries · Springwell Drive · Mennecy Close · Waterloo Crescent · Bladen Close · Christopher Close · Penfold Drive · Leopold Close · Springwell Close · Gwendoline Drive · Beechings Close

All the streets in LE8 and across Blaby.

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.