The Paddocks Codicote, North Hertfordshire

1 address across 1 postcode (SG4), about 1.2 km (0.8 miles) long. USRN 27923159.

  • Sales: 142 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £280,000 across 3 sales.
  • Flood: 23 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 D; Band D in North Hertfordshire costs £2,449 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Knebworth, about 2.7 km (1.7 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 1 km (0.6 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.1 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 86 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 Bridge Cottage Surgery, about 2.9 km (1.8 miles) away.
  • People: About 260 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 73% of households owned their home and 49% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.

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
20263£280,000£280,000£295,000
20259£297,500£245,000£350,000
20243£325,000£310,000£331,000
20233£315,000£250,000£330,000
20224£309,500£285,000£320,000
20215£275,000£242,500£280,000
20203£290,000£275,000£290,000
20195£265,000£240,000£278,000
20182£278,000£278,000£278,000
20173£280,000£275,000£285,000
20164£247,500£230,000£277,000
20156£228,500£185,000£250,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 142)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
17 Jul 202627 SG4 8YXTerraced£295,000
24 Mar 20261 SG4 8YXTerraced£280,000
6 Feb 202617 SG4 8YXTerraced£280,000
17 Oct 202510 SG4 8YXSemi-detached£290,000
14 Jul 202520 SG4 8YXTerraced£290,000
16 Apr 202511 SG4 8YXTerraced£310,000
26 Mar 202540 SG4 8YXTerraced£297,500
21 Mar 202526 SG4 8YXTerraced£318,000
20 Mar 202530 SG4 8YXTerraced£275,000
11 Feb 20255 SG4 8YXTerraced£350,000
11 Feb 202521 SG4 8YXTerraced£302,500
17 Jan 202518 SG4 8YXTerraced£245,000
1 Nov 202432 SG4 8YXTerraced£331,000
26 Sep 202431 SG4 8YXTerraced£325,000
2 Feb 202423 SG4 8YXTerraced£310,000
6 Jun 202334 SG4 8YXTerraced£315,000
19 May 202317 SG4 8YXTerraced£250,000
13 Mar 202329 SG4 8YXTerraced£330,000
7 Oct 20223 SG4 8YXTerraced£320,000
16 May 202219 SG4 8YXTerraced£309,000
23 Feb 202211 SG4 8YXTerraced£285,000
21 Feb 202232 SG4 8YXTerraced£310,000
29 Sep 202126 SG4 8YXTerraced£275,000
21 Jun 202121 SG4 8YXTerraced£280,000
28 Apr 202120 SG4 8YXTerraced£270,000
9 Apr 20211 SG4 8YXTerraced£242,500
22 Mar 202137 SG4 8YXTerraced£280,000
23 Oct 202034 SG4 8YXTerraced£290,000
3 Apr 202025 SG4 8YXTerraced£275,000
30 Mar 202032 SG4 8YXTerraced£290,000
13 Dec 201940 SG4 8YXTerraced£240,000
5 Jul 201931 SG4 8YXTerraced£278,000
31 May 201929 SG4 8YXTerraced£276,000
1 Apr 201923 SG4 8YXTerraced£265,000
12 Mar 201926 SG4 8YXTerraced£255,000
26 Oct 201835 SG4 8YXTerraced£278,000
12 Jan 201829 SG4 8YXTerraced£278,000
10 Oct 201711 SG4 8YXTerraced£280,000
22 Aug 201734 SG4 8YXTerraced£285,000
14 Feb 201722 SG4 8YXTerraced£275,000
21 Dec 20166 SG4 8YXTerraced£277,000
15 Dec 20162 SG4 8YXTerraced£230,000
4 Nov 20164 SG4 8YXTerraced£265,000
20 Jun 20161 SG4 8YXTerraced£230,000
23 Oct 201532 SG4 8YXTerraced£250,000
22 Jul 20157 SG4 8YXTerraced£222,000
30 Jun 201525 SG4 8YXTerraced£235,000
24 Apr 201531 SG4 8YXTerraced£235,000
23 Mar 201535 SG4 8YXTerraced£215,000
2 Feb 201518 SG4 8YXTerraced£185,000

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026 (load in progress). Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

No certificates found for addresses on this street.

Council tax

What each band costs in North Hertfordshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,449 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,632£1,904£2,176£2,449£2,993£3,537£4,081£4,897

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band D (28% of about 860 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: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 2.
  • 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

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, 20 addresses are in areas at high risk, 3 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 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 address is about 86 m above sea level.

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
SG4 8YX100%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 stationsKnebworth 437,000 journeys in 2024–252.7 km (1.7 miles)
Welwyn North 387,000 journeys in 2024–254.1 km (2.6 miles)
Stevenage 4.7 million journeys in 2024–255.2 km (3.3 miles)
Bus stops0 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest St Giles Church Codicote780 m (0.5 miles)
Bus or coach stationBus Station Stevenage5.2 km (3.2 miles)
Car parksLockleys Drive Car Park2.8 km (1.7 miles)
EV charging pointsOsprey Charging Station2.9 km (1.8 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Luton Airport LTN10.3 km (6.4 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 surgeriesBridge Cottage Surgery2.9 km (1.8 miles)
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Codicote Pharmacy1.1 km (0.7 miles)
NHS dentistsKnebworth Dental Surgery2.7 km (1.7 miles)
HospitalThe Lister Hospital7.7 km (4.8 miles)
Police stationStevenage Police Station5 km (3.1 miles)
Cash machinesThe Cooperative Food Knebworth Cashzone2.9 km (1.8 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 1,400 m²1 km (0.6 miles)
Play areaUnnamed 430 m²1 km (0.6 miles)
Playing fieldUnnamed 7,700 m²1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.1 ha760 m (0.5 miles)

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Parish Church of St Giles, a listed building (Grade II*), 710 m (0.4 miles) west. 7 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 St GilesListed building, Grade II*710 m (0.4 miles) west
The BuryListed building, Grade II*760 m (0.5 miles) south-west
HomewoodRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.6 km (1 mile) north-east
KnebworthRegistered park or garden, Grade II*2.1 km (1.3 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Ashley GroveWood250 m south-east
Thickney WoodWood300 m north
Deard's WoodWood500 m (0.3 miles) east
Highfield SpringWood780 m (0.5 miles) south-east
Mill StreamLake or reservoir2.7 km (1.7 miles) west
Lucas Dell HoleHollow3.1 km (1.9 miles) north-west

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

Air quality

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

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)7.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.1205
Particles (PM10)12.84015

All three are within the UK legal limits; PM2.5 is above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road, rail and aircraft 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 trafficRailwaysAircraft
Under 55111

None of the street's 1 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, railways or aircraft.

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 North Hertfordshire: see them on the North Hertfordshire 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
Codicote Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good

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.

No rated food businesses within 500 m (0.3 miles).

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.

No crimes recorded at anonymised points within 250 m in this period (hertfordshire).

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: 263 residents in 127 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 1517%17%
Aged 65 and over13%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)73%61%
Owned outright27%33%
Shared ownership3%1%
Social rented6%17%
Private rented18%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work74%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)16%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)0%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)36%32%
Travel to work by car or van59%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle2%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)51%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away8%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)49%34%
No qualifications6%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)97%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

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.

  • SG4 8YX: 1 address of 46 in the postcode

All the streets in SG4 and across North Hertfordshire.

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.