Stephen Bennett Close Northampton

15 addresses across 2 postcodes (NN5), about 50 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 28702156.

  • Sales: 27 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £265,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 8 homes have an energy certificate (C: 2, D: 6).
  • 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 C; 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 2.8 km (1.8 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 230 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.4 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 104 to 106 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 15 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is St Lukes Primary Care Centre, about 450 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • People: About 530 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 66% of households owned their home and 30% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 35 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
20261£265,000£265,000£265,000
20242£321,250£257,500£385,000
20231£298,000£298,000£298,000
20201£229,000£229,000£229,000
20191£270,000£270,000£270,000
20172£230,500£195,000£266,000
20131£235,000£235,000£235,000
20122£185,500£169,000£202,000
20071£153,500£153,500£153,500
20043£130,000£127,995£177,000
20031£186,000£186,000£186,000
20022£136,000£127,000£145,000
Most recent sales (27)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
29 May 20268 NN5 6PHDetached£265,000
1 Nov 202414 NN5 6PHDetached£385,000
1 Nov 20249 NN5 6PHDetached£257,500
10 Feb 202310 NN5 6PHDetached£298,000
9 Dec 202010 NN5 6PHDetached£229,000
15 Nov 20192 NN5 6PHDetached£270,000
9 Oct 201710 NN5 6PHDetached£195,000
30 Mar 201712 NN5 6PHDetached£266,000
15 Feb 20135 NN5 6PHDetached£235,000
17 Aug 201212 NN5 6PHDetached£202,000
2 Mar 20123 NN5 6PHDetached£169,000
5 Jul 20079 NN5 6PHDetached£153,500
21 May 200410 NN5 6PHDetached£130,000
20 Feb 20048 NN5 6PHDetached£127,995
16 Jan 20042 NN5 6PHDetached£177,000
16 Dec 20031 NN5 6PHDetached£186,000
23 Aug 200214 NN5 6PHDetached£145,000
28 Jun 20026 NN5 6PHDetached£127,000
21 Dec 20012 NN5 6PHDetached£124,500
8 Dec 200010 NN5 6PHDetached£90,000
30 Jul 19994 NN5 6PHDetached£104,950
16 Apr 199910 NN5 6PHDetached£66,250
31 Jul 199811 NN5 6PHDetached£83,500
6 Mar 19982 NN5 6PHDetached£86,000
27 Feb 199815 NN5 6PHDetached£87,000
13 Feb 19989 NN5 6PHDetached£55,000
10 Oct 199714 NN5 6PHDetached£85,000

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

8 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 106 m². Most common: House, detached (8). Built: 1983-1990 (7); 1991-1995 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (4); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (6 addresses)

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 C (32% of about 680 homes).

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

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 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

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 30 September 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 30 September 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 3 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
NN5 6PHnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
NN5 6PNnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 3 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 15 addresses are between 104 m and 106 m above sea level (105 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
NN5 6PH100%100%100%0%
NN5 6PN100%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 stationsNorthampton 2.8 million journeys in 2024–252.8 km (1.8 miles)
Long Buckby 330,000 journeys in 2024–2511 km (6.8 miles)
Bus stops10 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 51 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Cotswold House Duston200 m
Bus or coach stationNorthampton Bus Interchange3.3 km (2 miles)
Car parksParking space on Weedon Road, NN51.8 km (1.1 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest evyve Charging Station710 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Luton Airport LTN57.3 km (36 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 St Lukes Primary Care Centre450 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Limehurst Square Pharmacy280 m
NHS dentistsDental Surgery1.9 km (1.2 miles)
HospitalBerrywood Hospital1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Police stationNorthamptonshire Police3.5 km (2.1 miles)
Cash machines3 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Payzone310 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 garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 870 m²230 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 2.2 ha290 m
Play area6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 50 m²410 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Errington Park 3.7 ha630 m (0.4 miles)
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3.3 ha510 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 2.4 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of Saint Luke, a listed building (Grade I), 700 m (0.4 miles) south-east. 20 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of Saint LukeListed building, Grade I700 m (0.4 miles) south-east
Churchyard cross base in St Michael's churchyardScheduled monument1.5 km (1 mile) south
Upton medieval village and C17 garden earthworksScheduled monument1.8 km (1.1 miles) south
Battle of Northampton 1460Registered battlefield4.9 km (3 miles) south-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Berry WoodWood920 m (0.6 miles) south-west
Ryehill SpinneyWood1.1 km (0.7 miles) north-east
Hoppinghill SpinneyWood1.1 km (0.7 miles) north-east
Heath SpinneyWood1.4 km (0.9 miles) north
Storton's PitsLake or reservoir2 km (1.2 miles) south-east
Hunsbury HillHill3.7 km (2.3 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)8.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.4205
Particles (PM10)13.24015

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 5910
Under 551415

1 of the street's 15 addresses is 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
Hopping Hill Primary SchoolPrimary3–11310 m No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
The Duston SchoolAll-through4–18800 m (0.5 miles) Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Strong standard; Post-16 provision: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Chiltern Primary SchoolPrimary3–11830 m (0.5 miles) Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Duston Eldean Primary SchoolPrimary4–11870 m (0.5 miles) No overall grade (Jan 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Millway Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Luke's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.2 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (Mar 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Lyncrest Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Report card (Jul 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: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
St Mary's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Upton Meadows Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.7 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Kings Heath Primary AcademyPrimary2–111.7 km (1.1 miles) Outstanding (Jan 2024, 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
The Cotswolds NN5 6DSHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises240 m5 Very good12 Aug 2019
Serenity Cafe NN5 6LPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen270 m5 Very good10 Jul 2024
Golden Rice Bowl NN5 6LPTakeaway/sandwich shop270 m5 Very good7 Oct 2026
Bargain Booze NN5 6LPRetailers - other280 m5 Very good29 Jan 2019
Goldings Butcher NN5 6LPRetailers - other280 m5 Very good9 Sep 2025
GJ Catering NN5 6DTRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen280 m5 Very good13 Oct 2021
Kids Planet Duston NN5 6DTHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises280 m5 Very good10 Mar 2026
Tesco NN5 6LPRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets290 m5 Very good10 May 2017
Silver Sea Fish & Chip NN5 6LPTakeaway/sandwich shop300 m4 Good27 Apr 2026
The Longboat NN5 6TGPub/bar/nightclub360 m5 Very good20 Nov 2023
Oak Lodge NN5 6JWHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good9 Dec 2025
Supershop Newsagents NN5 6JSRetailers - other490 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good27 Mar 2013
Well Pharmacy NN5 6JBRetailers - other500 m (0.3 miles)Exempt

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.

35 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences12
Anti-social behaviour6
Criminal damage and arson5
Burglary3
Vehicle crime3
Public order2
Drugs2
Other theft1
Other crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Cotswold Court (11); On or near Tesla Close (7); On or near Dulce Road (5); On or near Barnard Close (3); On or near Castle Avenue (3).

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: 531 residents in 208 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 age3640
Children under 1523%17%
Aged 65 and over8%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)66%61%
Owned outright26%33%
Shared ownership6%1%
Social rented6%17%
Private rented22%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work72%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)12%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 van59%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle7%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)74%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away12%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)30%34%
No qualifications12%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)91%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 5 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

  • Food hygiene ratings Golden Rice Bowl (takeaway/sandwich shop, NN5 6LP) newly listed: 5 Very good (rated 7 October 2026) found 30 October 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.

Nearby streets

Javelin Close · Rosette Close · Hardlands Road · Castle Bush · Sir John Pascoe Way · Castle Close · Cotswold Court · Dulce Road · Watson Close · Limehurst Road · Pascal Close · Tesla Close

All the streets in NN5 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.