Thackeray Close Braintree

57 addresses across 3 postcodes (CM7), about 210 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 3901975.

  • Sales: 32 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £244,000 across 3 sales.
  • Energy: 23 homes have an energy certificate (C: 17, D: 5, E: 1).
  • Flood: 2 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 Braintree costs £2,280 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 97% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Braintree Freeport, about 710 m (0.4 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 410 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 51 to 58 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 57 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Blyth's Meadow Surgery, about 1.3 km (0.8 miles) away.
  • People: About 870 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 61% of households owned their home and 20% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 90 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
20253£244,000£218,000£304,000
20241£260,000£260,000£260,000
20221£278,000£278,000£278,000
20211£267,000£267,000£267,000
20201£150,000£150,000£150,000
20181£230,000£230,000£230,000
20151£160,000£160,000£160,000
20142£150,000£140,000£160,000
20132£132,500£125,000£140,000
20121£128,000£128,000£128,000
20101£127,000£127,000£127,000
20091£116,500£116,500£116,500
Most recent sales (32)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
4 Sep 20251 CM7 1BWSemi-detached£218,000
28 Jul 202542 CM7 1BWTerraced£244,000
7 May 202548 CM7 1BWTerraced£260,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
21 Mar 20252 CM7 1BWTerraced£304,000
15 Nov 202420 CM7 1BWSemi-detached£260,000
19 Aug 202246 CM7 1BWTerraced£278,000
14 Dec 202138 CM7 1BWTerraced£267,000
13 Jul 20204 CM7 1BWSemi-detached£150,000
16 Jan 20188 CM7 1BWTerraced£230,000
18 Mar 20159 CM7 1BWTerraced£160,000
12 May 201411 CM7 1BWTerraced£160,000
28 Feb 201438 CM7 1BWTerraced£140,000
29 Nov 201334 CM7 1BWTerraced£140,000
22 Nov 201342 CM7 1BWTerraced£125,000
20 Dec 201242 CM7 1BWTerraced£128,000
7 May 201042 CM7 1BWTerraced£127,000
11 May 200912 CM7 1BWTerraced£116,500
8 Jun 200748 CM7 1BWTerraced£138,950
31 Jan 200722 CM7 1BWSemi-detached£141,000
22 Jan 20079 CM7 1BWTerraced£145,000
20 Nov 200620 CM7 1BWSemi-detached£148,000
8 Apr 200548 CM7 1BWTerraced£134,000
19 Aug 200420 CM7 1BWSemi-detached£122,000
26 Jul 20049 CM7 1BWTerraced£125,000
31 Jan 20021 CM7 1BWSemi-detached£71,000
28 Sep 200015 CM7 1BWTerraced£68,000
6 Mar 199812 CM7 1BWTerraced£46,500
17 Oct 199720 CM7 1BWSemi-detached£45,000
17 Mar 199742 CM7 1BWTerraced£45,500
29 Nov 199620 CM7 1BWSemi-detached£45,750
30 Aug 199642 CM7 1BWTerraced£31,000
29 Feb 199618 CM7 1BWSemi-detached£41,500

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 13 October 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from September 2010 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

23 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 83 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (12); House, end-terrace (7); Bungalow, semi-detached (4). Built: 1967-1975 (17); 1950-1966 (4); 1976-1982 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (12); rented (social) (6); rented (private) (2).

Council tax

What each band costs in Braintree in 2026-27: Band D £2,280 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,520£1,774£2,027£2,280£2,787£3,294£3,801£4,561

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band B (44% of about 1,460 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the 2 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 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, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 7 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
CM7 1BWnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
CM7 1AHnot in 2 or 3 1 / 1 / 5 unlikely
CM7 1APnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 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.

Height above sea level

The street's 57 addresses are between 51 m and 58 m above sea level (55 m on average); the ground rises about 6 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
CM7 1AH100%100%100%0%
CM7 1AP100%97%97%0%
CM7 1BW100%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 stationsBraintree Freeport 142,000 journeys in 2024–25710 m (0.4 miles)
Braintree 631,000 journeys in 2024–251.1 km (0.7 miles)
Cressing (Essex) 51,000 journeys in 2024–252 km (1.2 miles)
Bus stops10 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 25 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Forsyth Drive Braintree40 m
Bus or coach stationBus Interchange Braintree Town Centre1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Car parksBraintree Station Car Park1.1 km (0.7 miles)
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest bp pulse Charging Station730 m (0.5 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Stansted Airport STN22.5 km (14 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 Blyth's Meadow Surgery1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Challis Pharmacy410 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Oakmoor Dental Practice1.3 km (0.8 miles)
HospitalSt Michael's Hospital2 km (1.2 miles)
Police stationBraintree Police Station1.6 km (1 mile)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Chelmsford Star Coop Challis Lane390 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 garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3.4 ha410 m (0.3 miles)
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 420 m²60 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 9,760 m²600 m (0.4 miles)
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 830 m²210 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 3.4 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Black Notley Lodge, a listed building (Grade II*), 430 m (0.3 miles) west. 20 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Black Notley LodgeListed building, Grade II*430 m (0.3 miles) west
Church of St Peter and St PaulListed building, Grade II*1 km (0.6 miles) south
Moated site and two fishponds at Black Notley churchyard, 20m east of St Peter's and St Paul's ChurchScheduled monument1 km (0.6 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Mill StreamLake or reservoir1.6 km (1 mile) south-east
Ley WoodWood1.7 km (1 mile) north-east
White Court WoodsWood2.1 km (1.3 miles) west
Templeborder WoodWood2.3 km (1.4 miles) north-east
Darby's HoleLake or reservoir2.3 km (1.5 miles) north
Polly's HillHill3.1 km (1.9 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)7.94010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.2205
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 5920
Under 555557

2 of the street's 57 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 Braintree: see them on the Braintree 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
John Ray Infant SchoolPrimary2–7490 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
John Ray Junior SchoolPrimary7–11500 m (0.3 miles) Good (Mar 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)
Notley High School and Sixth FormSecondary11–19670 m (0.4 miles) Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Alec Hunter AcademySecondary11–161.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Beckers Green Primary SchoolPrimary5–111.7 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
St Michael's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary SchoolPrimary4–112 km (1.2 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: Requires improvement

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
Goldingham Hall (Goldingham Drive Community Preschool) CM7 1AWOther catering premises170 mExempt
Masefield Takeaway CM7 1AATakeaway/sandwich shop370 m5 Very good11 Oct 2023
The Co-op CM7 1ANRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good1 Oct 2025
Challis Convenience Stores CM7 1ANRetailers - other440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good28 Mar 2025
Griffin Dairies Ltd CM7 1NBDistributors/Transporters500 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good22 Apr 2026

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.

90 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences46
Anti-social behaviour10
Criminal damage and arson10
Vehicle crime8
Public order5
Other theft3
Drugs3
Other crime2
Burglary2
Theft from the person1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Scott Close (9); On or near Austen Close (9); On or near Marlowe Close (8); On or near Kipling Way (7); On or near Thackeray Close (7).

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: 865 residents in 360 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 age3940
Children under 1518%17%
Aged 65 and over15%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)61%61%
Owned outright28%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented21%17%
Private rented18%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work62%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)8%6%
Retired (of adults)17%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)5%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)18%32%
Travel to work by car or van68%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle9%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)48%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away14%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)20%34%
No qualifications20%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)97%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 3 to 7 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

What has changed

Nothing new since the change feed started on 30 October 2026. New sales and energy certificates, and hygiene ratings, school inspections and flood figures nearby, will be listed here as the sources update.

Everything that has changed on and near this street

Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

  • CM7 1BW: 50 addresses of 54 in the postcode
  • CM7 1AH: 6 addresses of 65 in the postcode
  • CM7 1AP: 1 address of 53 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Parklands · Scott Close · Haskell Mews · Forsyth Drive · Conan Doyle Close · Bronte Close · Warrenside · Panton Mews · Penn Mews · Park Drive · Dickens Close · Austen Close

All the streets in CM7 and across Braintree.

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.