Westcott Road Dorking, Mole Valley

224 addresses across 14 postcodes (RH4), about 350 m long, classed as a a road. USRN 25901331.

  • Energy: 83 homes have an energy certificate (B: 12, C: 26, D: 21, E: 22, F: 1, G: 1).
  • Flood: 12 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 Mole Valley costs £2,520 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 33% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Dorking West, about 550 m (0.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 580 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 10.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 56 to 64 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 159 of its 225 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Dorking Medical Practice, about 370 m away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 1,280 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 53% of households owned their home and 46% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 153 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often shoplifting.

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.

No sales recorded on this street since January 1995 under this street name.

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

83 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 65 m². Most common: Flat (48); House, end-terrace (11); House, semi-detached (7). Built: before 1900 (47); 1930 (11); 1996-2002 (5). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (34); rented (private) (22); rented (social) (4).

Each home's certificates and sales (51 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Mole Valley in 2026-27: Band D £2,520 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,680£1,960£2,240£2,520£3,080£3,640£4,200£5,040

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band D (35% of about 1,840 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, Dorking. Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 30.
  • 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

Finished in the last three months

  • 29 September 2026 to 30 September 2026: SURREY COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway improvement works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)
  • 7 September 2026: SURREY COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway improvement works, some carriageway incursion, on the carriageway (immediate - urgent works)
  • 28 August 2026: SURREY COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway improvement works, some carriageway incursion, on the carriageway (immediate - urgent works)
  • 28 August 2026: SURREY COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway improvement works, some carriageway incursion, on the carriageway (immediate - urgent works)
  • 28 August 2026: SURREY COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway improvement works, some carriageway incursion, on the carriageway (immediate - urgent works)
  • 28 August 2026: SURREY COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway improvement works, some carriageway incursion, on the carriageway (immediate - urgent works)
  • 21 August 2026: SURREY COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway improvement works, some carriageway incursion, on the carriageway (immediate - emergency 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, 6 addresses are in areas at high risk, 6 at medium risk and 24 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
RH4 1BLnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
RH4 1BSnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 6 unlikely
RH4 1BUnot in 2 or 3 3 / 5 / 8 unlikely
RH4 1BYnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
RH4 1QLnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
RH4 1DBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
RH4 1QJnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
RH4 1DDnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
RH4 1QHnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
RH4 1DAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
RH4 3HAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
RH4 1ARnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 6 unlikely
RH4 1DGnot in 2 or 3 3 / 0 / 3 unlikely
RH4 1DNnot 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 225 addresses are between 56 m and 64 m above sea level (59 m on average); the ground rises about 8 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
RH4 1AR100%100%100%0%
RH4 1BL100%79%79%0%
RH4 1BS100%96%96%0%
RH4 1BU100%100%100%0%
RH4 1BY100%33%33%0%
RH4 1DA100%100%100%0%
RH4 1DB100%100%100%0%
RH4 1DD100%80%80%0%
RH4 1DG100%50%50%0%
RH4 1DN100%100%100%0%
RH4 1QH100%100%100%0%
RH4 1QJ100%100%100%0%
RH4 1QL100%100%100%0%
RH4 3HA100%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 stationsDorking West 40,000 journeys in 2024–25550 m (0.3 miles)
Dorking (Deepdene) 506,000 journeys in 2024–251.1 km (0.7 miles)
Dorking (Main) 835,000 journeys in 2024–251.3 km (0.8 miles)
Bus stops5 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 15 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest West Street Dorking90 m
Bus or coach stationBoxhill - Burford Bridge Hotel Box Hill2.7 km (1.7 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest St Martins Walk Car Park350 m
EV charging points10 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest 7A Meadowbrook Road200 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Gatwick Airport LGW14 km (8.7 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 Dorking Medical Practice370 m
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Frith Pharmacy Dorking210 m
NHS dentists8 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Arundel Lodge Dental Surgery130 m
HospitalDorking Community Hospital680 m (0.4 miles)
Police stationThe Police Federation of England and Wales7.5 km (4.7 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Moto - Doncaster Nth, Hatfield120 m

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 garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4.0 ha580 m (0.4 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,380 m²440 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Meadowbank 7.9 ha370 m
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.2 ha760 m (0.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 4.0 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is 20 and 22, High Street, a listed building (Grade II*), 300 m east. 130 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 3 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
20 and 22, High StreetListed building, Grade II*300 m east
Church of St MartinListed building, Grade II*330 m east
Pippbrook HouseListed building, Grade II*1 km (0.6 miles) north-east
Bowl barrow on Milton HeathScheduled monument1 km (0.7 miles) south-west
Bowl barrow in The Glory WoodScheduled monument1.2 km (0.8 miles) south-east
The Deepdene (including Chart Park)Registered park or garden, Grade II*1.5 km (0.9 miles) south-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Milton HeathWood1 km (0.6 miles) south-west
The NowerHill1.1 km (0.7 miles) south-west
Bury HillHill1.2 km (0.7 miles) south-west
The Glory WoodWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) south-east
The LakeLake or reservoir1.6 km (1 mile) south-west
Long BottomValley2.7 km (1.7 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)10.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.2205
Particles (PM10)11.04015

All three are within the UK legal limits; nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 are 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
70 to 7480
65 to 69670
60 to 64500
55 to 59340
Under 5566225

159 of the street's 225 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 Mole Valley: see them on the Mole Valley 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
Dorking Nursery SchoolNursery2–570 m Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–11340 m No published inspection
St Martin's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–11610 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
The Priory Church of England SchoolSecondary11–16630 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
St Paul's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary5–11710 m (0.4 miles) Good (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Powell Corderoy Primary SchoolPrimary4–11870 m (0.5 miles) Good (Sep 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
The Ashcombe SchoolSecondary11–18920 m (0.6 miles) No published inspection
St John's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Needs attention; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Early years: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
Surrey Hills All Saints Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.8 km (1.1 miles) No overall grade (Jul 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; 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.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Cafe Willow RH4 1BURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen10 m5 Very good3 Mar 2026
The Star RH4 1BUPub/bar/nightclub20 m5 Very good3 Mar 2026
The Old House RH4 1BYPub/bar/nightclub30 m5 Very good8 Jan 2026
The Kings Arms RH4 1BUPub/bar/nightclub80 m5 Very good14 Mar 2025
Grove House Club RH4 1BUOther catering premises100 m5 Very good22 May 2025
The New Fountain Garden RH4 1BLRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen100 m5 Very good14 Oct 2025
Dorking Brasserie RH4 3HBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen110 m5 Very good8 Jul 2025
Putty Cakes RH4 1BLRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen140 m5 Very good14 Aug 2025
Dorking United Reformed Church RH4 1BSOther catering premises140 m5 Very good6 Feb 2025
My Time for Young Carers RH4 1BSHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises140 m5 Very good14 Jan 2026
Aroma Ristorante Italiano RH4 1BSRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen170 m5 Very good19 May 2025
Waitrose - Dorking RH4 2HQRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets180 m5 Very good31 Mar 2025
Sushi Daily RH4 2HQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen180 m5 Very good25 Aug 2026
Mullins Coffee Shop RH4 1BSRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen190 m5 Very good8 Jul 2026
Frith Pharmacy RH4 2HQRetailers - other190 mExempt

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.

153 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Shoplifting46
Violence and sexual offences28
Anti-social behaviour22
Public order13
Criminal damage and arson9
Other theft9
Burglary7
Drugs7
Vehicle crime4
Robbery3
Theft from the person2
Possession of weapons1
Bicycle theft1
Other crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Victoria Terrace (48); On or near Chapel Court (20); On or near Butter Hill (15); On or near Parking Area (11); On or near Station Road (9).

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: 1,278 residents in 674 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 age4240
Children under 1513%17%
Aged 65 and over16%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)53%61%
Owned outright25%33%
Shared ownership2%1%
Social rented6%17%
Private rented39%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work73%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)16%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)43%32%
Travel to work by car or van38%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram4%4%
By any public transport, including bus5%8%
On foot or by bicycle14%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)51%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away9%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)46%34%
No qualifications11%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)91%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all2%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 7 to 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.

  • RH4 1BL: 60 addresses
  • RH4 1BS: 50 addresses of 52 in the postcode
  • RH4 1BU: 36 addresses of 39 in the postcode
  • RH4 1BY: 30 addresses
  • RH4 1QL: 19 addresses of 20 in the postcode
  • RH4 1DB: 7 addresses
  • RH4 1QJ: 5 addresses of 7 in the postcode
  • RH4 1DD: 4 addresses of 5 in the postcode
  • RH4 1QH: 4 addresses
  • RH4 1DA: 3 addresses of 12 in the postcode
  • RH4 3HA: 3 addresses of 11 in the postcode
  • RH4 1AR: 1 address of 37 in the postcode
  • RH4 1DG: 1 address of 13 in the postcode
  • RH4 1DN: 1 address of 37 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Church Street · Junction Road · West Street · Westfield Gardens · Parsonage Square · Myrtle Road · South Street · Howard Road · West Street · Spring Gardens · Vincents Walk · Mount Street

All the streets in RH4 and across Mole Valley.

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.