Upper High Street Harpole, West Northamptonshire

64 addresses across 5 postcodes (NN7), about 1.5 km (0.9 miles) long, classed as a minor road. USRN 36101015.

  • Sales: 45 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £405,000 across 3 sales.
  • Energy: 26 homes have an energy certificate (C: 3, D: 13, E: 8, F: 2).
  • Flood: 6 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 C; Band D in West Northamptonshire costs £2,487 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 88% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Northampton, about 5.4 km (3.4 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 2 km (1.2 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.8 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 84 to 123 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 29 of its 64 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is St Lukes Primary Care Centre, about 3 km (1.9 miles) away.
  • People: About 980 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 81% of households owned their home and 35% 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
20253£405,000£345,560£450,000
20241£455,000£455,000£455,000
20221£435,000£435,000£435,000
20211£357,500£357,500£357,500
20201£295,000£295,000£295,000
20191£247,000£247,000£247,000
20172£360,000£305,000£415,000
20163£244,000£161,000£424,523
20151£290,000£290,000£290,000
20141£168,000£168,000£168,000
20111£339,000£339,000£339,000
20101£365,000£365,000£365,000
Most recent sales (45)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
28 Nov 202527 NN7 4DJDetached£345,560
5 Sep 202536 NN7 4DJDetached£405,000
6 Jun 202521 NN7 4DJTerraced£450,000
1 Nov 20249A NN7 4DJDetached£455,000
23 Jun 202326 NN7 4DJOther£255,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
22 Apr 202221 NN7 4DJTerraced£435,000
11 Jun 202115 NN7 4DJTerraced£357,500
28 May 202027 NN7 4DJDetached£295,000
9 Apr 201940 NN7 4DJSemi-detached£247,000
10 Mar 201737 NN7 4DJDetached£415,000
10 Mar 201715 NN7 4DJTerraced£305,000
8 Dec 201632 NN7 4DJSemi-detached£161,000
14 Oct 201649 NN7 4DJTerraced£244,000
24 Sep 201642 NN7 4DJOther£160,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
29 Jul 201645 NN7 4DJDetached£424,523
8 Sep 201542 NN7 4DJOther£160,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
28 Aug 201521 NN7 4DJTerraced£290,000
17 Apr 201449 NN7 4DJTerraced£168,000
9 Sep 201114 NN7 4DJDetached£339,000
19 Nov 201022 NN7 4DJDetached£365,000
30 Jan 200914 NN7 4DJDetached£347,500
25 Nov 200834 NN7 4DJSemi-detached£232,500
29 Nov 200722 NN7 4DJDetached£299,000
15 Jun 200752 NN7 4DJDetached£125,000
14 Aug 200650 NN7 4DJSemi-detached£125,000
3 May 200647 NN7 4DJTerraced£145,000
3 Mar 200615 NN7 4DJDetached£218,000
4 Apr 200532 NN7 4DJSemi-detached£110,000
7 Apr 200412 NN7 4DJDetached£295,000
3 Oct 200327 NN7 4DJDetached£215,000
1 Aug 200353 NN7 4DJTerraced£145,000
19 Sep 2002HILLSIDE COTTAGE NN7 4DJDetached£300,000
17 May 20026 NN7 4DJDetached£218,000
12 Jan 200127 NN7 4DJDetached£112,500
11 Aug 200014 NN7 4DJDetached£191,000
21 Jan 200048 NN7 4DJDetached£165,000
1 Oct 199945 NN7 4DJDetached£115,000
22 Sep 199929 NN7 4DJSemi-detached£50,000
19 Mar 199946 NN7 4DJTerraced£110,000
23 Oct 199828 NN7 4DJDetached£149,950New build.
15 Sep 199714 NN7 4DJDetached£129,000
28 Feb 1997HILLSIDE COTTAGE NN7 4DJDetached£163,000
23 Dec 199627 NN7 4DJDetached£69,000
1 Nov 199629 NN7 4DJSemi-detached£52,000
24 Mar 199546 NN7 4DJTerraced£78,000

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 September 2012 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

26 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 96 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (11); House, detached (11); House, end-terrace (2). Built: before 1900 (14); 1930-1949 (7); 1900-1929 (3). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (19); rented (private) (5); rented (social) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (13 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in West Northamptonshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,487 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,658£1,934£2,210£2,487£3,039£3,592£4,144£4,973

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band C (29% of about 2,340 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), 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: yes, Harpole (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 10.
  • 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

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: ANGLIAN WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, multi-way signals, on the footway (minor works)
  • 27 August 2026 to 1 September 2026: ANGLIAN WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, give and take, on the carriageway (immediate - urgent 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, 4 addresses are in areas at high risk, 2 at medium risk and 5 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
NN7 4DJnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 2 unlikely
NN7 4DHnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
NN7 4DWnot in 2 or 3 4 / 1 / 1 unlikely
NN7 4HDnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
NN7 4HJnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 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 64 addresses are between 84 m and 123 m above sea level (91 m on average); the ground rises about 39 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
NN7 4DH97%97%97%0%
NN7 4DJ100%100%100%0%
NN7 4DW100%100%100%0%
NN7 4HD88%88%88%0%
NN7 4HJ90%90%90%11%

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 stationsNorthampton 2.8 million journeys in 2024–255.4 km (3.4 miles)
Long Buckby 330,000 journeys in 2024–258.7 km (5.4 miles)
Bus stops0 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Garners Way Harpole620 m (0.4 miles)
Bus or coach stationNorthampton Bus Interchange5.9 km (3.7 miles)
Car parksPremier Inn Northampton West Car Park1.3 km (0.8 miles)
EV charging pointsevyve Charging Station3.3 km (2 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX56.9 km (35 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 surgeriesSt Lukes Primary Care Centre3 km (1.9 miles)
PharmaciesLimehurst Square Pharmacy2.8 km (1.8 miles)
NHS dentistsDental Surgery4.5 km (2.8 miles)
HospitalBerrywood Hospital1.6 km (1 mile)
Police stationNorthamptonshire Police6.2 km (3.8 miles)
Cash machinesTesco Bank ATM1.7 km (1 mile)

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 2.0 ha2 km (1.2 miles)
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,380 m²630 m (0.4 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3.1 ha510 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Harpole Allotments 2.6 ha660 m (0.4 miles)

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of All Saints, a listed building (Grade II*), 660 m (0.4 miles) south-west. 25 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of All SaintsListed building, Grade II*660 m (0.4 miles) south-west
Roman villa N of Road Hill FarmScheduled monument770 m (0.5 miles) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
The LakeLake or reservoir1.1 km (0.7 miles) south-west
Brices SpinneyWood1.2 km (0.8 miles) west
Nobottle BeltWood1.5 km (0.9 miles) north-west
Harpole CovertWood1.6 km (1 mile) west
Bottomclose SpinneyWood1.7 km (1.1 miles) north-east
GlassthorpehillHill2.8 km (1.7 miles) 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)6.34010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.8205
Particles (PM10)12.04015

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 6410
55 to 59280
Under 553564

29 of the street's 64 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 West Northamptonshire: see them on the West Northamptonshire 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
Harpole Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–11710 m (0.4 miles) Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
The Duston SchoolAll-through4–182 km (1.2 miles) Report card (Mar 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; Post-16 provision: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met

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
Pick Your Own NN7 4DJOther catering premises230 mAwaiting inspection

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 (northamptonshire).

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: 976 residents in 416 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 over27%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)81%61%
Owned outright49%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented4%17%
Private rented15%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work60%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)2%6%
Retired (of adults)30%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)under 1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)39%32%
Travel to work by car or van56%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus1%8%
On foot or by bicycle3%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)64%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away11%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)35%34%
No qualifications12%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification9%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhoods around this street are all 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: ANGLIAN WATER: Utility repair and maintenance works, 16 October 2026 to 20 October 2026 (multi-way signals) 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.

  • NN7 4DJ: 60 addresses of 65 in the postcode
  • NN7 4DH: 1 address of 43 in the postcode
  • NN7 4DW: 1 address of 21 in the postcode
  • NN7 4HD: 1 address of 31 in the postcode
  • NN7 4HJ: 1 address of 55 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Larkhall Way

All the streets in NN7 and across West Northamptonshire.

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.