Walgrave Close Congleton, Cheshire East

51 addresses across 2 postcodes (CW12), about 210 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 9101285.

  • Sales: 53 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £234,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 24 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 4, D: 17, E: 1, G: 1).
  • 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 B; Band D in Cheshire East costs £2,455 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Congleton, about 3 km (1.8 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 400 m (0.2 miles) away, and Astbury Mere Country Park (32 hectares) is about 730 m (0.5 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 95 to 97 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 51 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Readesmoor Medical Group Practice, about 1.2 km (0.8 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 410 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 72% of households owned their home and 27% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 11 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£234,000£234,000£234,000
20251£218,000£218,000£218,000
20241£210,000£210,000£210,000
20233£212,500£195,000£215,000
20222£233,500£197,000£270,000
20212£166,000£166,000£166,000
20202£193,000£172,000£214,000
20195£160,000£147,000£170,000
20161£138,000£138,000£138,000
20131£147,000£147,000£147,000
20121£118,000£118,000£118,000
20112£121,000£117,000£125,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 53)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
29 May 202615 CW12 4TSSemi-detached£234,000
25 Jul 202560 CW12 4TSSemi-detached£218,000
13 Sep 202462 CW12 4TSSemi-detached£210,000
28 Jul 202325 CW12 4TSSemi-detached£195,000
16 Jun 202317 CW12 4TSSemi-detached£215,000
2 Jun 20234 CW12 4TSSemi-detached£212,500
30 Nov 202258 CW12 4TSSemi-detached£197,000
19 Aug 202242 CW12 4TSSemi-detached£270,000
22 Jun 202156 CW12 4TSSemi-detached£166,000
24 Mar 202123 CW12 4TSSemi-detached£166,000
11 Dec 20206 CW12 4TSSemi-detached£214,000
11 Dec 202024 CW12 4TSSemi-detached£172,000
11 Oct 201966 CW12 4TSSemi-detached£170,000
27 Sep 201936 CW12 4TSSemi-detached£160,000
9 Aug 20193 CW12 4TSSemi-detached£165,000
16 Apr 201928 CW12 4TSSemi-detached£147,000
11 Apr 201954 CW12 4TSSemi-detached£160,000
24 Mar 201662 CW12 4TSSemi-detached£138,000
5 Jul 201338 CW12 4TSSemi-detached£147,000
27 Jan 201266 CW12 4TSSemi-detached£118,000
14 Sep 201124 CW12 4TSSemi-detached£125,000
15 Jun 201115 CW12 4TSSemi-detached£117,000
2 Jul 201038 CW12 4TSSemi-detached£118,500
8 Dec 200917 CW12 4TSSemi-detached£104,500
30 Nov 200968 CW12 4TSSemi-detached£138,500
5 Jun 200954 CW12 4TSSemi-detached£100,500
31 Oct 200823 CW12 4TSSemi-detached£127,000
25 Jun 200817 CW12 4TSSemi-detached£90,000
28 Sep 200752 CW12 4TSSemi-detached£156,950
20 Jan 200652 CW12 4TSSemi-detached£149,500
5 Aug 200517 CW12 4TSSemi-detached£130,000
10 Jun 200552 CW12 4TSSemi-detached£117,000
2 Feb 200544 CW12 4TSSemi-detached£132,000
9 Nov 200468 CW12 4TSSemi-detached£138,500
20 Oct 200425 CW12 4TSSemi-detached£127,000
5 Apr 200244 CW12 4TSSemi-detached£82,000
28 Feb 200217 CW12 4TSSemi-detached£76,000
1 Aug 200142 CW12 4TSSemi-detached£74,000
28 Jan 200027 CW12 4TSSemi-detached£76,000
3 Dec 199938 CW12 4TSSemi-detached£68,000
12 Feb 199968 CW12 4TSSemi-detached£54,000
22 Jan 199944 CW12 4TSSemi-detached£49,000
24 Apr 199817 CW12 4TSSemi-detached£52,000
31 Oct 199718 CW12 4TSSemi-detached£54,000
1 Oct 199758 CW12 4TSSemi-detached£49,000
22 Aug 199762 CW12 4TSSemi-detached£53,000
8 Aug 199722 CW12 4TSSemi-detached£49,000
25 Jul 19972 CW12 4TSSemi-detached£62,500
23 Jul 199712 CW12 4TSSemi-detached£46,000
27 Mar 19976 CW12 4TSSemi-detached£52,500

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

24 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 61 m². Most common: Bungalow, semi-detached (13); House, semi-detached (11). Built: 1967-1975 (22); 1950-1966 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (17); rented (private) (3).

Council tax

What each band costs in Cheshire East in 2026-27: Band D £2,455 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,637£1,909£2,182£2,455£3,000£3,546£4,091£4,910

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (38% of about 1,020 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.

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, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 6 at medium risk and 29 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
CW12 4TSnot in 2 or 3 0 / 4 / 20 unlikely
CW12 4QXnot in 2 or 3 0 / 2 / 9 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 51 addresses are between 95 m and 97 m above sea level (96 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
CW12 4QX100%100%100%0%
CW12 4TS100%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 stationsCongleton 324,000 journeys in 2024–253 km (1.8 miles)
Holmes Chapel 244,000 journeys in 2024–258.6 km (5.3 miles)
Goostrey 40,000 journeys in 2024–258.7 km (5.4 miles)
Bus stops9 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 34 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Naseby Road West Heath170 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Alighting Only Congleton1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Car parksBlake Street Car Park830 m (0.5 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Osprey Charging Station1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsManchester Airport MAN20.4 km (13 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 surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Readesmoor Medical Group Practice1.2 km (0.8 miles)
Pharmacies6 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest West Heath Pharmacy390 m
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest West Street (Dental Surgery)1.3 km (0.8 miles)
HospitalCongleton War Memorial Hospital2.3 km (1.5 miles)
Police stationCheshire Police - Congleton Police Station1.6 km (1 mile)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Morrisons Daily - West Heath, Sandbach Road Cashzone400 m (0.2 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 garden4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 9,110 m²400 m (0.2 miles)
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Astbury Mere Country Park 32 ha730 m (0.5 miles)
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 360 m²170 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 7,210 m²710 m (0.4 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 220 m²1.1 km (0.7 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 35 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Roman camp at Bent Farm, a scheduled monument, 1.7 km (1.1 miles) south-west. 11 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Roman camp at Bent FarmScheduled monument1.7 km (1.1 miles) south-west
Congleton ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.7 km (1.1 miles) east
Canopied tomb in St Mary's churchyardScheduled monument1.9 km (1.2 miles) south
Standing cross in St Mary's churchyardScheduled monument1.9 km (1.2 miles) south
Jodrell Bank ObservatoryWorld Heritage Site8.8 km (5.5 miles) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Forge WoodWood320 m north-east
Astbury MereLake or reservoir1.1 km (0.7 miles) south
Radnor WoodWood1.2 km (0.7 miles) north
Black Firs PlantationWood1.2 km (0.8 miles) west
Dexter DaleValley4.3 km (2.7 miles) south-east
Nick i' th' HillHill4.7 km (2.9 miles) south-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)7.44010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.5205
Particles (PM10)10.14015

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 5910
Under 555051

1 of the street's 51 addresses is 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 Cheshire East: see them on the Cheshire East 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
The Quinta Primary SchoolPrimary2–11680 m (0.4 miles) Good (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Black Firs Primary SchoolPrimary3–11750 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Congleton High SchoolSecondary11–181 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Saint Mary's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary2–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Requires improvement (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Marlfields Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Jul 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
Astbury St Mary's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–111.9 km (1.2 miles) Good (Mar 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 (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Vanilla In All Seasons CW12 4TROther catering premises230 m5 Very good23 Oct 2026
Aldi CW12 4NBRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets380 m5 Very good1 Feb 2025
Home Bargains CW12 4NBRetailers - other380 m5 Very good26 Feb 2024
Mario's Fish Bar CW12 4NBTakeaway/sandwich shop380 m4 Good22 Nov 2025
Bargain Booze CW12 4NBRetailers - other380 m5 Very good23 Jul 2025
The Unicorn CW12 4NBPub/bar/nightclub380 m5 Very good24 Oct 2025
Zante Palm CW12 4NBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen380 m5 Very good11 May 2026
Subway CW12 4NBTakeaway/sandwich shop420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good14 Mar 2025
Tesco Express CW12 4HBRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good24 Oct 2025
The Orange Tree CW12 4EYRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good5 May 2026
Alexandra Court Hotel CW12 4HNHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house500 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good22 Nov 2025

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.

11 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences6
Bicycle theft2
Criminal damage and arson1
Public order1
Other theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Westheath Close (8); On or near Walgrave Close (2); On or near Richards Grove (1).

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: 409 residents in 199 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 age4740
Children under 1514%17%
Aged 65 and over27%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)72%61%
Owned outright41%33%
Shared ownership18%1%
Social rented4%17%
Private rented7%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work62%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)1%6%
Retired (of adults)31%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)under 1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)24%32%
Travel to work by car or van66%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus1%8%
On foot or by bicycle8%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)45%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away2%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)27%34%
No qualifications16%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification8%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%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

  • Food hygiene ratings The Orange Tree (restaurant/cafe/canteen, CW12 4EY) re-inspected, still 5 Very good (rated 5 May 2026) found 30 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Vanilla In All Seasons (other catering premises, CW12 4TR) now 5 Very good, was 1 Major improvement necessary (rated 23 October 2026) found 30 October 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.

Nearby streets

Naseby Road · Churchill Close · Westheath Close · Richards Grove · Newman Close · Three Fields Close · Atkin Close · Hornby Drive · Thomson Gardens · Parker Way · Barnett Grove · Hopkins Close

All the streets in CW12 and across Cheshire East.

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.