Station Road Melbourn, South Cambridgeshire

39 addresses across 1 postcode (SG8), about 300 m long, classed as a minor road. USRN 35301950.

  • Sales: 17 recorded sales since 1995; in 2018 the median was £1,150,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 9 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 1, D: 6, F: 1).
  • 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 E; Band D in South Cambridgeshire costs £2,536 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 52% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Meldreth, about 780 m (0.5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 940 m (0.6 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 5.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.9 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 22 to 25 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 11 of its 39 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Orchard Surgery,Melbourn, about 590 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • People: About 300 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 85% of households owned their home and 54% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 20 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
20181£1,150,000£1,150,000£1,150,000
20141£440,000£440,000£440,000
20131£735,000£735,000£735,000
20112£460,000£420,000£500,000
20072£262,500£75,000£450,000
20031£242,000£242,000£242,000
20022£297,500£285,000£310,000
20001£360,000£360,000£360,000
19972£120,500£91,000£150,000
19952£57,500£55,000£60,000
Most recent sales (17)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
30 May 20254 SG8 6DXOther£538,356Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
9 Oct 20237 - 9 SG8 6DXOther£400,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
4 Jun 201825 SG8 6DXTerraced£1,150,000
5 Sep 201429 SG8 6DXSemi-detached£440,000
5 Jul 201323A SG8 6DXDetached£735,000
23 Sep 201125 SG8 6DXTerraced£420,000
14 Jan 2011THE RIVERSIDE GUEST HOUSE, 32 SG8 6DXDetached£500,000
31 Oct 200724A SG8 6DXDetached£75,000
13 Mar 200727 SG8 6DXSemi-detached£450,000
22 Dec 200333 SG8 6DXDetached£242,000
6 Dec 200227 SG8 6DXSemi-detached£285,000
21 Aug 2002THE RIVERSIDE GUEST HOUSE, 32 SG8 6DXDetached£310,000
26 Apr 200031 SG8 6DXDetached£360,000
15 Aug 199727 SG8 6DXSemi-detached£150,000
14 Jul 199733 SG8 6DXDetached£91,000
8 Sep 199527 SG8 6DXSemi-detached£60,000
16 Jun 199529 SG8 6DXSemi-detached£55,000

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

9 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 87 m². Most common: House, detached (4); Bungalow, detached (3); House, semi-detached (2). Built: before 1900 (4); 1950-1966 (2); 2013 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (6); rented (private) (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (4 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in South Cambridgeshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,536 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,691£1,973£2,254£2,536£3,100£3,663£4,227£5,073

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band E (24% of about 1,110 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: yes, Melbourn (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 15.
  • 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

Planned, as of 31 October 2026

  • 7 November 2026: VIRGIN MEDIA, Utility asset works, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)

Finished in the last three months

  • 21 October 2026: CAMBRIDGESHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, multi-way signals, on the footway (immediate - emergency works)

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 1 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre 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 39 addresses are between 22 m and 25 m above sea level (24 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
SG8 6DX52%52%52%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 stationsMeldreth 246,000 journeys in 2024–25780 m (0.5 miles)
Shepreth 110,000 journeys in 2024–253.5 km (2.2 miles)
Royston 1.4 million journeys in 2024–254.5 km (2.8 miles)
Bus stops5 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 13 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Church Melbourn90 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Royston5 km (3.1 miles)
EV charging pointsBE.EV Charging Station2.2 km (1.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Stansted Airport STN26.9 km (17 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 Orchard Surgery,Melbourn590 m (0.4 miles)
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Well170 m
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery370 m
HospitalRoyston Hospital5.5 km (3.4 miles)
Police stationRoyston Police Station5 km (3.1 miles)
Cash machinesEsso Flint Cross, Heydon Cashzone3.4 km (2.1 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 1,530 m²940 m (0.6 miles)
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,720 m²530 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4.1 ha530 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,340 m²660 m (0.4 miles)

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Parish Church of All Saints, a listed building (Grade II*), 100 m east. 79 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Parish Church of All SaintsListed building, Grade II*100 m east
The Manor HouseListed building, Grade II*200 m south
Bowl barrow 205m SSE of Lodge CottageScheduled monument1.3 km (0.8 miles) south-west
Bowl barrow, known as Grinnel Hill, 260m SSE of Lodge CottageScheduled monument1.3 km (0.8 miles) south-west
Square barrow 170m north east of Summer House FarmScheduled monument2 km (1.2 miles) south-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
MelwoodWood1.2 km (0.7 miles) north
Mettle HillHill1.8 km (1.1 miles) north-west
Goffers KnollHill2.6 km (1.6 miles) south
FowlmereWetland2.6 km (1.6 miles) east
Rushmoor PlantationWood2.7 km (1.7 miles) north-east
Malton Rook GroveWood3.4 km (2.1 miles) north

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

Air quality

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

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)5.84010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.9205
Particles (PM10)11.84015

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 6420
55 to 5990
Under 552839

11 of the street's 39 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 South Cambridgeshire: see them on the South Cambridgeshire 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
Melbourn Primary SchoolPrimary4–11330 m Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Melbourn Village CollegeSecondary11–16440 m (0.3 miles) No overall grade (May 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Requires improvement; Leadership and management: Requires improvement
Meldreth Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good

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
Joy SG8 6DXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen110 m5 Very good1 Sep 2026
Esse Retail And Therapy (Cafe) SG8 6DXRetailers - other120 m5 Very good14 Feb 2024
Leech and Sons SG8 6DXRetailers - other140 m5 Very good16 Jan 2026
MACS Warm Hub SG8 6DYOther catering premises160 m5 Very good13 Apr 2023
Melbourn Fish Bar SG8 6ABTakeaway/sandwich shop170 m5 Very good4 Feb 2025
Co-Operative Retail Services Ltd SG8 6DURetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets170 m5 Very good3 Feb 2023
Well Pharmacy SG8 6DURetailers - other170 mExempt
Melbourn Stores SG8 6DZRetailers - other210 m5 Very good22 Jun 2021
Melbourn Community Hub SG8 6DZRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen290 m5 Very good16 Jan 2026
Melbourn Playgroup/OoS Club SG8 6DBSchool/college/university320 m5 Very good14 Nov 2024
HCL @ Melbourn Primary School SG8 6DBSchool/college/university320 m5 Very good20 Jan 2026
Caterlink @ Melbourn Village College SG8 6EFSchool/college/university350 m5 Very good16 Sep 2025
The Dolphin SG8 6APPub/bar/nightclub370 m5 Very good15 Dec 2025
The Black Horse SG8 6BPPub/bar/nightclub450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good8 Feb 2022
Davey's Butchers SG8 6JPRetailers - other490 m (0.3 miles)4 Good27 May 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.

20 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Anti-social behaviour7
Drugs3
Burglary3
Violence and sexual offences3
Public order2
Criminal damage and arson2

Most of these are attached to: On or near Supermarket (10); On or near Vicarage Close (5); On or near Station Road (4); On or near Rose Lane (1).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this street's postcodes are in: 297 residents in 133 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 age5440
Children under 1513%17%
Aged 65 and over32%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)85%61%
Owned outright58%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented0%17%
Private rented15%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work54%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)under 1%6%
Retired (of adults)38%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)0%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)45%32%
Travel to work by car or van44%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle9%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)29%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away11%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)54%34%
No qualifications7%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%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

  • Roadworks Street works permit: VIRGIN MEDIA: Utility asset works, 7 November 2026 (no carriageway incursion) found 3 November 2026
  • Roadworks Street works permit: CAMBRIDGESHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL: Highway repair and maintenance works, 21 October 2026 (multi-way signals) 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.

  • SG8 6DX: 39 addresses of 46 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Rose Lane · High Street · High Street · Chapman's Close · Cross Lane · Dolphin Lane · Mortlock Street · Vicarage Close · Mortlock Close · Kays Close · Little Lane · Stockbridge Meadows

All the streets in SG8 and across South Cambridgeshire.

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.