The Tythings Halstead, Braintree

33 addresses across 4 postcodes (CO9), about 70 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 3902025.

  • Sales: 7 recorded sales since 1995; in 2015 the median was £102,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 13 homes have an energy certificate (C: 10, D: 3).
  • 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 0% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Braintree, about 8.5 km (5.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 360 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.9 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 66 to 70 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 33 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is The Elizabeth Courtauld Surgery, about 760 m (0.5 miles) away.
  • People: About 590 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 59% of households owned their home and 19% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 46 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
20151£102,000£102,000£102,000
20141£90,000£90,000£90,000
20072£134,975£84,950£185,000
20021£129,995£129,995£129,995
20001£83,995£83,995£83,995
19981£14,000£14,000£14,000
Most recent sales (7)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
18 Sep 201512A CO9 1EPFlat or maisonette£102,000Leasehold.
31 Oct 201412A CO9 1EPFlat or maisonette£90,000Leasehold.
12 Apr 20079 CO9 1EPTerraced£185,000
30 Mar 200712A CO9 1EPFlat or maisonette£84,950Leasehold.
15 Nov 20029 CO9 1EPTerraced£129,995
27 Oct 20007 CO9 1EPTerraced£83,995
20 Feb 19988 CO9 1EPFlat or maisonette£14,000Leasehold.

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

13 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 49 m². Most common: Flat (8); Maisonette, mid-terrace (2); House, semi-detached (1). Built: 1950-1966 (9); 1930-1949 (2); 1983-1990 (1). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (6); rented (private) (1); owner-occupied (1).

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 (47% of about 1,670 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

Started, not reported finished by 30 September 2026

  • 30 September 2026 to 6 October 2026: ANGLIAN WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (immediate - urgent works)

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, 2 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 2 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
CO9 1EPnot in 2 or 3 2 / 0 / 2 unlikely
CO9 1AYnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
CO9 1UTnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
CO9 1ENnot 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 33 addresses are between 66 m and 70 m above sea level (68 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
CO9 1AY100%20%20%0%
CO9 1EN100%100%100%0%
CO9 1EP100%100%100%0%
CO9 1UT100%0%0%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 631,000 journeys in 2024–258.5 km (5.3 miles)
Braintree Freeport 142,000 journeys in 2024–258.7 km (5.4 miles)
Chappel and Wakes Colne 33,000 journeys in 2024–259.1 km (5.6 miles)
Bus stops9 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 22 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Mount Hill Halstead120 m
Bus or coach stationBus Interchange Braintree Town Centre8.4 km (5.2 miles)
EV charging pointsbp pulse Charging Station1.7 km (1 mile)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Stansted Airport STN27.7 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 The Elizabeth Courtauld Surgery760 m (0.5 miles)
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Well760 m (0.5 miles)
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Mr N R Chappell And Associates780 m (0.5 miles)
HospitalHalstead Hospital1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Police stationBraintree Police Station8.3 km (5.1 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest MFG - Halstead Cashzone710 m (0.4 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 garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,730 m²360 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 1.3 ha540 m (0.3 miles)
Play area5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 340 m²150 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.0 ha150 m
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.2 ha450 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 1.6 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Holy Trinity Church, a listed building (Grade II*), 590 m (0.4 miles) north. 51 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 3 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Holy Trinity ChurchListed building, Grade II*590 m (0.4 miles) north
Trinity HouseListed building, Grade II*630 m (0.4 miles) north
Old Townford MillListed building, Grade II*730 m (0.5 miles) north-east
26, High StreetListed building, Grade II*1 km (0.6 miles) north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
New WoodWood730 m (0.5 miles) west
Little Spansey WoodWood940 m (0.6 miles) north-west
Hobbs WoodWood1 km (0.6 miles) west
Sparrows PondLake or reservoir2 km (1.2 miles) west
Pearman's HillHill3.1 km (1.9 miles) north
Ash BottomValley4.2 km (2.6 miles) 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)6.74010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.9205
Particles (PM10)12.24015

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 553133

2 of the street's 33 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
Holy Trinity Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School, HalsteadPrimary4–11630 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Richard de Clare Community AcademyPrimary3–11890 m (0.6 miles) Report card (Jun 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
The Ramsey Academy, HalsteadSecondary11–161.6 km (1 mile) No overall grade (Sep 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Requires improvement; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
St Andrew's Church of England Primary School, HalsteadPrimary4–111.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection

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
Three Pigeons CO9 1AAPub/bar/nightclub210 m4 Good26 Mar 2015
Mount Hill Garage CO9 1AARetailers - other210 m5 Very good30 May 2023
East Of England Co-op CO9 1EWRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets230 m5 Very good31 Mar 2025
Courtauld Halstead Bowls Club CO9 1ALPub/bar/nightclub270 m4 Good27 Apr 2017
Halstead Hall Care Home CO9 1SLHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises490 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good25 Jun 2026
Bethel Place - Meadowview Care Ltd CO9 1GXHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises500 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good26 Jun 2018

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.

46 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences23
Public order6
Drugs4
Criminal damage and arson4
Other crime2
Burglary2
Other theft2
Anti-social behaviour1
Robbery1
Shoplifting1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Petrol Station (12); On or near Mount Hill (7); On or near Link Road (7); On or near Blamsters Crescent (5); On or near The Tythings (5).

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: 588 residents in 256 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 age4440
Children under 1518%17%
Aged 65 and over17%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)59%61%
Owned outright27%33%
Shared ownership1%1%
Social rented24%17%
Private rented16%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work64%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)7%6%
Retired (of adults)19%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)5%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)16%32%
Travel to work by car or van72%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)51%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away13%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)19%34%
No qualifications19%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 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 2 to 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

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.

  • CO9 1EP: 21 addresses of 29 in the postcode
  • CO9 1AY: 7 addresses of 29 in the postcode
  • CO9 1UT: 4 addresses of 22 in the postcode
  • CO9 1EN: 1 address of 46 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Bourchier Way · Prior Close · Willow Way · Link Road · Blamsters Crescent · De Veres Road · Three Gates Close · Ramsey Road · Clovers · Tulip Drive · Juniper Close · Abels Road

All the streets in CO9 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.