Swallowtail Road Horsham

94 addresses across 5 postcodes (RH12), about 300 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 17601402.

  • Sales: 141 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £390,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 54 homes have an energy certificate (C: 28, D: 23, E: 3).
  • 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 Horsham costs £2,441 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Littlehaven, about 140 m away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 560 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.9 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 57 to 61 m above sea level.
  • Noise: None of its addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Holbrook Surgery, about 830 m (0.5 miles) away.
  • People: About 490 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 42% of households owned their home and 29% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 55 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
20261£390,000£390,000£390,000
20253£375,000£320,000£395,000
20241£385,000£385,000£385,000
20234£220,176£138,000£331,400
20223£380,000£347,000£386,000
20215£295,000£265,000£353,000
20201£179,000£179,000£179,000
20194£221,250£111,000£317,500
20182£267,400£254,800£280,000
20171£179,950£179,950£179,950
20164£270,000£154,000£302,500
20154£235,500£155,000£315,995
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 141)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
21 Jan 202666 RH12 5YGTerraced£390,000
12 Mar 202517 RH12 5YDDetached£320,000
21 Feb 202569 RH12 5YGTerraced£375,000
16 Jan 202536 RH12 5YETerraced£395,000
13 Dec 202417 RH12 5YDDetached£330,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
22 Aug 202471 RH12 5YQTerraced£385,000
1 Dec 202339 RH12 5YEFlat or maisonette£138,000Leasehold.
17 Jul 202378 RH12 5YQTerraced£287,852
12 Jun 202377 RH12 5YQTerraced£248,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
4 Apr 202384 RH12 5YQFlat or maisonette£152,500Leasehold.
27 Jan 202376 RH12 5YQTerraced£331,400
23 Aug 202270 RH12 5YGTerraced£380,000
5 Aug 202264 RH12 5YGTerraced£386,000
23 Jun 202245 RH12 5YFTerraced£347,000
30 Sep 202138 RH12 5YESemi-detached£353,000
27 Sep 202131 RH12 5YETerraced£240,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
11 Jun 202164 RH12 5YGTerraced£290,000
22 Apr 202136 RH12 5YETerraced£330,000
17 Mar 202149 RH12 5YFTerraced£295,000
15 Mar 202178 RH12 5YQTerraced£265,000
16 Apr 202019 RH12 5YDFlat or maisonette£179,000Leasehold.
12 Aug 201982 RH12 5YQFlat or maisonette£205,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
5 Jul 201959 RH12 5YGTerraced£317,500
20 Jun 201973 RH12 5YQTerraced£297,000
14 Jun 20195 RH12 5YDFlat or maisonette£145,500Leasehold.
14 Mar 201919 RH12 5YDFlat or maisonette£111,000Leasehold.
12 Sep 201876 RH12 5YQTerraced£280,000
17 Jan 201875 RH12 5YQTerraced£254,800
12 Apr 201781 RH12 5YQFlat or maisonette£179,950Leasehold.
16 Dec 201659 RH12 5YGTerraced£280,000
17 Aug 201616 RH12 5YDTerraced£302,500
29 Jun 201676 RH12 5YQTerraced£260,000
27 Jan 201614 RH12 5YDTerraced£154,000Leasehold.
7 Dec 201531 RH12 5YETerraced£235,000
16 Nov 201581 RH12 5YQFlat or maisonette£155,000Leasehold.
17 Sep 201536 RH12 5YETerraced£315,995
26 Feb 201578 RH12 5YQTerraced£236,000
23 May 201421 RH12 5YDFlat or maisonette£144,950Leasehold.
7 Feb 201414 RH12 5YDTerraced£110,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
21 Oct 201377 RH12 5YQTerraced£158,000
12 Aug 201362 RH12 5YGTerraced£241,000
17 Sep 201274 RH12 5YQTerraced£205,000
30 Mar 201235 RH12 5YETerraced£187,000
16 Mar 201216 RH12 5YDTerraced£202,500
16 Mar 201278 RH12 5YQTerraced£178,000
27 Jun 201162 RH12 5YGTerraced£225,000
1 Apr 201161 RH12 5YGTerraced£203,000
18 Mar 201131 RH12 5YETerraced£130,000
26 Jan 201123 RH12 5YDTerraced£165,000
16 Dec 201064 RH12 5YGTerraced£215,000

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

54 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 59 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (19); Flat (11); House, end-terrace (11). Built: 1976-1982 (27); 1967-1975 (13); 1983-1990 (6). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (28); rented (social) (14); rented (private) (4).

Each home's certificates and sales (32 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Horsham in 2026-27: Band D £2,441 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,627£1,899£2,170£2,441£2,983£3,526£4,068£4,882

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band E (34% of about 470 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: 3 protected trees on or by this street.
  • 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

Finished in the last three months

  • 16 October 2026: BT, Utility asset works, some 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, 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
RH12 5YDnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 3 unlikely
RH12 5YQnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
RH12 5YEnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
RH12 5YFnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
RH12 5YGnot 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 94 addresses are between 57 m and 61 m above sea level (59 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
RH12 5YD100%100%100%0%
RH12 5YE100%100%100%0%
RH12 5YF100%100%100%0%
RH12 5YG100%100%100%0%
RH12 5YQ100%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 stationsLittlehaven 281,000 journeys in 2024–25140 m
Horsham 2.5 million journeys in 2024–251.6 km (1 mile)
Warnham 9,710 journeys in 2024–252 km (1.3 miles)
Bus stops10 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 40 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Rook Way North Heath170 m
Bus or coach stationLittlehaven - Lambs Farm Road220 m
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest KKS Gatwick Parking570 m (0.4 miles)
EV charging points4 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest evyve Charging Station510 m (0.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Gatwick Airport LGW11.6 km (7.2 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 Holbrook Surgery830 m (0.5 miles)
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Day Lewis Denne Pharmacy480 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery480 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalHorsham Hospital1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Police stationHorsham Police Station1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest ATM470 m (0.3 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 garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 6,910 m²560 m (0.3 miles)
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 2.1 ha760 m (0.5 miles)
Play area13 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3,700 m²280 m
Playing field4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 6,860 m²640 m (0.4 miles)
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Rusper Road Allotments 480 m²110 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 4.7 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Motte and bailey castle north of Chennells Brook Farm, a scheduled monument, 840 m (0.5 miles) north-east. 9 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Motte and bailey castle north of Chennells Brook FarmScheduled monument840 m (0.5 miles) north-east
Moated site 200m west of Graylands CopseScheduled monument2 km (1.2 miles) north-west
Warnham CourtRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.5 km (1.6 miles) west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Lower Barn CopseWood170 m north-east
Dutchells CopseWood490 m (0.3 miles) north
North Heath CopseWood890 m (0.6 miles) north-west
Kingslea PondLake or reservoir1.3 km (0.8 miles) south
Severals BottomValley1.8 km (1.1 miles) south-east
Hurst HillHill2.5 km (1.6 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)7.54010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.9205
Particles (PM10)10.44015

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 6406
55 to 5906
Under 559482

12 of the street's 94 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from railways, 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 Horsham: see them on the Horsham 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
All Saints CofE Primary School, Horsham Church of EnglandPrimary4–11550 m (0.3 miles) No overall grade (Apr 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
North Heath Community Primary SchoolPrimary4–11660 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Holbrook Primary SchoolPrimary4–11770 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
St Robert Southwell Catholic Primary School, Horsham Roman CatholicPrimary4–11940 m (0.6 miles) Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Oakfields Primary School, HorshamPrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Kingslea Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Report card (May 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; Safeguarding standards: Met
Horsham Nursery SchoolNursery3–51.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Leechpool Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Requires improvement (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
The College of Richard Collyer In Horsham16 plus16–191.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Bohunt HorshamAll-through4–161.6 km (1 mile) Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Millais SchoolSecondary11–161.7 km (1.1 miles) Good (Sep 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Trafalgar Community Infant SchoolPrimary4–71.9 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection

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
Campus and Co RH12 4QLRetailers - other100 m5 Very good9 Jan 2025
Essentials RH12 4BNRetailers - other320 m4 Good30 Oct 2023
The Holbrook Club RH12 5PJOther catering premises440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good22 Jan 2025
New Friend Chinese Takeaway RH12 5FNTakeaway/sandwich shop450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good22 Oct 2025
Shelley's Budgens RH12 5FNRetailers - other470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good14 May 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.

55 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Anti-social behaviour18
Violence and sexual offences15
Criminal damage and arson5
Public order5
Other theft4
Burglary3
Theft from the person2
Vehicle crime1
Drugs1
Other crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Siskin Close (14); On or near Serrin Way (11); On or near Lower Barn Close (6); On or near Jackdaw Lane (5); On or near Red Admiral Street (4).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 492 residents in 225 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 age4040
Children under 1517%17%
Aged 65 and over13%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)42%61%
Owned outright12%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented44%17%
Private rented13%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work67%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)14%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)5%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)25%32%
Travel to work by car or van60%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle11%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)64%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away5%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)29%34%
No qualifications19%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)91%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 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

  • Roadworks Street works permit: BT: Utility asset works, 16 October 2026 to 20 October 2026 (some 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.

Nearby streets

Rook Way · Red Admiral Street · Serrin Way · Raven Close · Lower Barn Close · Kidmans Close · Siskin Close · Tern Avenue · Jackdaw Lane · Brook Road · Havengate · Badgers Close

All the streets in RH12 and across Horsham.

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.