Top Road Sharpthorne, Mid Sussex

112 addresses across 12 postcodes (RH19), about 520 m long, classed as a minor road. USRN 25600305.

  • Sales: 83 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £335,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 36 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 8, D: 12, E: 12, F: 3).
  • Flood: 8 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 Mid Sussex costs £2,474 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is East Grinstead, about 6.0 km away in a straight line.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 108 to 165 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 71 of its 112 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Ashdown Forest Health Centre, about 5.8 km away.
  • People: About 1,380 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 83% of households owned their home and 42% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 7 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£335,000£335,000£335,000
20251£420,000£420,000£420,000
20233£415,000£400,000£640,000
20221£615,000£615,000£615,000
20212£430,000£420,000£440,000
20201£295,000£295,000£295,000
20192£367,500£362,500£372,500
20182£521,000£417,000£625,000
20172£413,000£370,000£456,000
20161£292,500£292,500£292,500
20153£270,000£260,000£475,000
20142£339,250£323,500£355,000
Most recent sales (83)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
15 Jan 20265, THE OLD BAKERY RH19 4PQTerraced£335,000
27 Mar 20252, RAILWAY COTTAGES RH19 4PHSemi-detached£420,000
9 Nov 2023HILL VIEW RH19 4NSDetached£415,000
31 Oct 20234, BULLDOG BANK RH19 4PHDetached£400,000
1 Mar 20231, BULLDOG BANK RH19 4PHDetached£640,000
4 Jan 20221, BULLDOG BANK RH19 4PHDetached£615,000
16 Jun 2021CHERRY COTTAGE RH19 4PQDetached£440,000
24 Mar 2021ODCOMBE RH19 4NSSemi-detached£420,000
25 Nov 20205, THE OLD BAKERY RH19 4PQTerraced£295,000
12 Dec 2019ODCOMBE RH19 4NSSemi-detached£362,500
16 May 2019TENCHLEY RH19 4PHOther£1,150,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
4 Feb 2019FRANBAR RH19 4NSSemi-detached£372,500
20 Aug 2018INGLEWOOD RH19 4PHDetached£417,000
31 Jan 2018OLD AUTUMN COTTAGE RH19 4NSDetached£625,000
20 Oct 2017LYDD COTTAGE RH19 4PHSemi-detached£370,000
30 Jun 2017BRAMBLES RH19 4PQDetached£456,000
3 Jun 20165, THE OLD BAKERY RH19 4PQTerraced£292,500
30 Oct 20152, THE OLD BAKERY RH19 4PQSemi-detached£260,000
3 Sep 2015LYDCOMBE RH19 4PQDetached£475,000
14 Aug 2015FLAT 2, SHARPTHORNE HOUSE RH19 4PQFlat or maisonette£124,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
28 Apr 2015LYDD COTTAGE RH19 4PHSemi-detached£270,000
18 Dec 2014CHERRY COTTAGE RH19 4PQDetached£323,500
30 Apr 2014INGLEWOOD RH19 4PHDetached£355,000
11 Jul 2013PIGLETS PLACE, BULLDOGS BANK RH19 4PHDetached£625,000
4 Jan 2013FLAT 3, SHARPTHORNE HOUSE RH19 4PQFlat or maisonette£122,500Leasehold.
31 Aug 20124, BULLDOG BANK RH19 4PHDetached£300,000
23 Jul 2012LYDCOMBE RH19 4PQDetached£385,000
20 Jan 2012FLAT 5, SHARPTHORNE HOUSE RH19 4PQFlat or maisonette£79,000Leasehold.
16 Sep 20113, THE OLD BAKERY RH19 4PQTerraced£195,000
1 Aug 2011ODCOMBE RH19 4NSSemi-detached£249,995
31 Aug 2010FLAT 2, SHARPTHORNE HOUSE RH19 4PQFlat or maisonette£110,000Leasehold.
1 Jun 20102, THE OLD BAKERY RH19 4PQSemi-detached£230,000
29 Apr 2010LYDCOMBE RH19 4PQDetached£247,000
26 Mar 2010HOMESTALL RH19 4PHDetached£725,000
3 Aug 2009CHASERS, THE OLD BAKERY RH19 4PQSemi-detached£202,500
31 Jul 2008FLAT 4, SHARPTHORNE HOUSE RH19 4PQFlat or maisonette£125,000Leasehold.
16 Apr 2007OLD AUTUMN COTTAGE RH19 4NSDetached£340,000
15 Mar 20072, THE OLD BAKERY RH19 4PQSemi-detached£182,000
25 Jan 2007FLAT 3, SHARPTHORNE HOUSE RH19 4PQFlat or maisonette£107,000Leasehold.
28 Apr 2006FLAT 4, SHARPTHORNE HOUSE RH19 4PQFlat or maisonette£108,500Leasehold.
24 Nov 20055, THE OLD BAKERY RH19 4PQTerraced£195,000
11 Oct 20053, THE OLD BAKERY RH19 4PQTerraced£195,000
19 Jan 20054, THE OLD BAKERY RH19 4PQTerraced£200,000
2 Jun 2004BRAMBLES RH19 4PQDetached£315,000
20 Oct 2003FLAT 4, SHARPTHORNE HOUSE RH19 4PQFlat or maisonette£92,500Leasehold.
4 Aug 2003CHERRY COTTAGE RH19 4PQDetached£222,501
1 Aug 2003OLD AUTUMN COTTAGE RH19 4NSDetached£300,000
2 May 2003CHASERS, THE OLD BAKERY RH19 4PQSemi-detached£169,950
5 Dec 2002LYDD COTTAGE RH19 4PHSemi-detached£184,000
19 Nov 20024, THE OLD BAKERY RH19 4PQTerraced£172,000

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 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

36 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 89 m². Most common: House, detached (13); Flat (13); House, semi-detached (6). Built: 1950-1966 (14); 1900-1929 (7); 1976-1982 (5). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (20); rented (social) (6); rented (private) (3).

Council tax

What each band costs in Mid Sussex in 2026-27: Band D £2,474 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,650£1,924£2,199£2,474£3,024£3,574£4,124£4,949

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band D (23% of about 910 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: 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.

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

  • 31 July 2026 to 7 August 2026: SOUTH EAST 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, 4 addresses are in areas at high risk, 4 at medium risk and 8 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
RH19 4NSnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
RH19 4PHnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
RH19 4PQnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
RH19 4HUnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 0 unlikely
RH19 4JFnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
RH19 4PJnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
RH19 4NTnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
RH19 4NUnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
RH19 4NXnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
RH19 4PDnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
RH19 4PEnot in 2 or 3 3 / 1 / 3 unlikely
RH19 4PZnot in 2 or 3 1 / 2 / 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.

Height above sea level

The street's 112 addresses are between 108 m and 165 m above sea level (147 m on average); the ground rises about 57 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
RH19 4HU100%0%0%0%
RH19 4JF100%0%0%0%
RH19 4NS95%0%0%0%
RH19 4NT100%0%0%0%
RH19 4NU100%0%0%0%
RH19 4NX100%0%0%0%
RH19 4PD100%0%0%0%
RH19 4PE100%0%0%0%
RH19 4PH100%0%0%0%
RH19 4PJ100%0%0%0%
RH19 4PQ100%0%0%0%
RH19 4PZ100%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 stationsEast Grinstead 1.1 million journeys in 2024–256.0 km
Balcombe 213,000 journeys in 2024–257.0 km
Haywards Heath 4.0 million journeys in 2024–258.9 km
Bus stops2 stops within 400 m, 4 within 800 m; nearest Station Road Sharpthorne70 m
EV charging pointsStreet Lane3.9 km
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Gatwick Airport LGW13.0 km

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 surgeriesAshdown Forest Health Centre5.8 km
PharmaciesCrawley Down Pharmacy5.7 km
NHS dentistsElm House Dental Surgery5.7 km
HospitalQueen Victoria Hospital Cdc7.2 km
Police stationEast Grinstead Police Station6.7 km

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
Play area1 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 790 m²180 m
Playing field1 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 5,530 m²180 m
Allotments2 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 3,790 m²570 m

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is The Parish Church of St Margaret, a listed building (Grade I), 930 m west. 20 listed buildings are within 1.0 km, 1 of them Grade I and 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
The Parish Church of St MargaretListed building, Grade I930 m west
The Manor HouseListed building, Grade II*1.0 km west
Gravetye ManorRegistered park or garden, Grade II*2.0 km north-west
StonehurstRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.6 km west
Natural landmarks within 5.0 km
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Grinstead WoodWood240 m north
Mare Pit WoodWood260 m north-east
Sloe Garden WoodWood360 m south
Lower LakeLake or reservoir1.7 km north-west
Hawk's DenValley2.5 km west
Stone HillHill2.7 km north

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10.0 km, battlefields within 5.0 km, registered parks and gardens within 3.0 km, scheduled monuments within 2.0 km, and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1.0 km. 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)6.54010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.3205
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: 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 on the roads and railways, not measurements; they leave out aircraft, 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 and 54 dB for railways.

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
65 to 69180
60 to 64430
55 to 59100
Under 5541112

71 of the street's 112 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

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
West Hoathly CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–11930 m Requires improvement (Oct 2023, 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 of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
The Fox RH19 4PJPub/bar/nightclub440 m5 Very good20 Oct 2026
Hippocrateas RH19 4SJManufacturers/packers490 m5 Very good8 Jul 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.

7 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences4
Criminal damage and arson1
Anti-social behaviour1
Other theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Home Platt (5); On or near Station Road (1); On or near Top Road (1).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 4 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 1,375 residents in 583 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 age5140
Children under 1514%17%
Aged 65 and over25%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)83%61%
Owned outright46%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented6%17%
Private rented11%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work59%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)28%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)under 1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)45%32%
Travel to work by car or van47%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram3%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle3%10%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)47%65%
Work 30 km or more away18%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)42%34%
No qualifications11%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 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.

  • RH19 4NS: 35 addresses of 41 in the postcode
  • RH19 4PH: 30 addresses of 39 in the postcode
  • RH19 4PQ: 20 addresses of 22 in the postcode
  • RH19 4HU: 7 addresses of 49 in the postcode
  • RH19 4JF: 7 addresses of 32 in the postcode
  • RH19 4PJ: 3 addresses of 29 in the postcode
  • RH19 4NT: 2 addresses
  • RH19 4NU: 2 addresses
  • RH19 4NX: 2 addresses of 22 in the postcode
  • RH19 4PD: 2 addresses of 43 in the postcode
  • RH19 4PE: 1 address of 18 in the postcode
  • RH19 4PZ: 1 address of 27 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Home Platt · Highcroft Road · Forest Ridge · Longview Lane · Hamsey Road · Marlpit Road · Bayhams Field · Bulldogs Bank · Station Road

All the streets in RH19 and across Mid Sussex.

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 aircraft, industry or neighbours: noise figures are models of road and rail traffic outside, in England only.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.