White Close High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire

53 addresses across 2 postcodes (HP13), about 260 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 45501702.

  • Sales: 63 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £478,750 across 4 sales.
  • Energy: 32 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 4, D: 18, E: 8, F: 1).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area 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 Buckinghamshire costs £2,527 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is High Wycombe, about 2.4 km (1.5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Plomer Hill, is about 380 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.1 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 107 to 125 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 3 of its 53 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Tower House Surgery, about 630 m (0.4 miles) away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 370 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 93% of households owned their home and 39% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 40 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often drugs.

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
20244£478,750£427,500£625,000
20221£500,000£500,000£500,000
20211£440,000£440,000£440,000
20192£467,500£450,000£485,000
20182£387,500£375,000£400,000
20166£355,000£340,000£454,000
20152£375,000£290,000£460,000
20143£268,750£260,000£410,000
20131£340,000£340,000£340,000
20122£278,750£245,000£312,500
20114£269,000£212,500£325,000
20092£212,500£195,000£230,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 63)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
7 Nov 202412 HP13 5NGDetached£487,500
14 Jun 202417 HP13 5NGSemi-detached£427,500
17 May 202437 HP13 5NGDetached£470,000
27 Mar 20241 HP13 5NGDetached£625,000
6 Oct 202230 HP13 5NGSemi-detached£500,000
26 Mar 202135 HP13 5NGDetached£440,000
11 Nov 201950 HP13 5NDDetached£485,000
30 Aug 201941 HP13 5NDDetached£450,000
31 Jan 201940 HP13 5NGSemi-detached£320,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
31 Aug 201830 HP13 5NGSemi-detached£400,000
25 May 20182 HP13 5NGSemi-detached£375,000
16 Dec 201627 HP13 5NGSemi-detached£400,000
13 Oct 201620 HP13 5NGSemi-detached£355,000
20 May 201645 HP13 5NDDetached£454,000
29 Mar 201616 HP13 5NGSemi-detached£340,000
4 Feb 20164 HP13 5NGSemi-detached£355,000
21 Jan 201629 HP13 5NGSemi-detached£340,000
1 Jul 20157 HP13 5NGDetached£460,000
9 Jan 201528 HP13 5NGSemi-detached£290,000
1 Dec 201411 HP13 5NGSemi-detached£268,750
12 Jun 2014FAR VIEW HP13 5NGDetached£410,000
12 Jun 201420 HP13 5NGSemi-detached£260,000
14 Mar 201345 HP13 5NDDetached£340,000
30 Apr 201229 HP13 5NGSemi-detached£245,000
10 Feb 201241 HP13 5NDDetached£312,500
9 Nov 201131 HP13 5NGSemi-detached£212,500
20 Jul 201136 HP13 5NGSemi-detached£213,000
21 Jun 201146A HP13 5NDDetached£325,000
21 Jun 201143 HP13 5NDDetached£325,000
2 Nov 200919 HP13 5NGSemi-detached£230,000
17 Jul 200949 HP13 5NDSemi-detached£195,000
1 Feb 200712 HP13 5NGDetached£245,000
1 Feb 200720 HP13 5NGSemi-detached£219,000
16 Oct 200634 HP13 5NGSemi-detached£231,000
22 Jun 200619 HP13 5NGSemi-detached£205,000
1 Oct 200419 HP13 5NGSemi-detached£200,000
4 May 20049 HP13 5NGDetached£250,000
12 Feb 200422 HP13 5NGSemi-detached£187,500
3 Jul 200326 HP13 5NGSemi-detached£180,000
12 Jun 200345 HP13 5NDDetached£235,000
20 Sep 200231 HP13 5NGSemi-detached£178,000
29 Oct 200110 HP13 5NGSemi-detached£167,000
2 Oct 200143 HP13 5NDDetached£196,500
14 Aug 200126 HP13 5NGSemi-detached£149,995
25 May 200125 HP13 5NGSemi-detached£155,000
30 Mar 200112 HP13 5NGDetached£80,000
15 Dec 200034 HP13 5NGSemi-detached£148,000
28 Nov 200020 HP13 5NGSemi-detached£145,000
3 Dec 199948 HP13 5NDDetached£193,000
11 Oct 19992 HP13 5NGSemi-detached£139,950

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

32 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 100 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (20); House, detached (12). Built: 1930-1949 (18); 1950-1966 (9); 2018 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (25).

Each home's certificates and sales (25 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Buckinghamshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,527 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,684£1,965£2,246£2,527£3,088£3,650£4,211£5,053

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band D (58% of about 650 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the 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

Planned, as of 31 October 2026

  • 1 March 2027 to 12 March 2027: Buckinghamshire Council, Highway improvement works, road closure, on the carriageway (major (paa) works)
  • 19 July 2027 to 13 August 2027: Buckinghamshire Council, Highway improvement works, road closure, on the carriageway (major (paa) works)
  • 19 July 2027 to 13 August 2027: Buckinghamshire Council, Highway improvement works, road closure, on the carriageway (major (paa) works)
  • 20 July 2027 to 22 July 2027: Buckinghamshire Council, Highway improvement works, road closure, on the carriageway (major works)

Finished in the last three months

  • 19 August 2026 to 21 August 2026: THAMES 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 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

No address in this street's postcodes is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

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.

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 53 addresses are between 107 m and 125 m above sea level (117 m on average); the ground rises about 18 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
HP13 5ND100%100%100%0%
HP13 5NG100%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 stationsHigh Wycombe 2.2 million journeys in 2024–252.4 km (1.5 miles)
Saunderton 70,000 journeys in 2024–255.2 km (3.2 miles)
Marlow 361,000 journeys in 2024–257.8 km (4.8 miles)
Bus stops15 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 51 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Southfield Road High Wycombe110 m
Bus or coach stationHigh Wycombe BusStn1.7 km (1 mile)
Car parksDesborough Street Car Park1.1 km (0.7 miles)
EV charging pointsOsprey Charging Station1.6 km (1 mile)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Heathrow Airport LHR28.9 km (18 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 surgeries3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Tower House Surgery630 m (0.4 miles)
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Pharmazon Homecare410 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Sands House Dental Practice710 m (0.4 miles)
HospitalWycombe Hospital2.2 km (1.4 miles)
Police stationWycombe Police Station2.3 km (1.5 miles)
Cash machinesATM910 m (0.6 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 garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Plomer Hill 7.4 ha380 m
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 480 m²440 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Desborough Recreation Ground 5.6 ha260 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 1.0 ha870 m (0.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 8.2 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Disraeli Monument, a listed building (Grade II*), 900 m (0.6 miles) north-east. 15 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Disraeli MonumentListed building, Grade II*900 m (0.6 miles) north-east
Desborough CastleScheduled monument1 km (0.6 miles) south
West Wycombe ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade I1.6 km (1 mile) west
Hughenden ManorRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.6 km (1 mile) north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Little Tinker's WoodWood760 m (0.5 miles) north-east
Great Tinker's WoodWood870 m (0.5 miles) east
Castlefield WoodWood1 km (0.6 miles) south
Branch WoodWood1 km (0.6 miles) north-west
West Wycombe HillHill2.2 km (1.4 miles) west
Hughenden ValleyValley3.6 km (2.2 miles) north-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)8.04010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.1205
Particles (PM10)10.94015

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 5930
Under 555053

3 of the street's 53 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 Buckinghamshire: see them on the Buckinghamshire 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
Millbrook Combined SchoolPrimary3–11440 m (0.3 miles) Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Needs attention; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Early years: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
The Disraeli SchoolPrimary2–11800 m (0.5 miles) No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
The Downley SchoolPrimary4–11930 m (0.6 miles) Inadequate (Mar 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Oakridge SchoolPrimary2–111.2 km (0.8 miles) Good (Mar 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Castlefield SchoolPrimary2–111.7 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
Hamilton AcademyPrimary3–112 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection
High Wycombe Church of England Combined SchoolPrimary4–112 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection

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
Slimming World HP13 5NJRetailers - other280 mAwaiting inspection
Waves Care HP12 3ASHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises290 m5 Very good4 Jun 2024
Downley Express HP13 5LBRetailers - other300 m4 Good28 Apr 2025
Tot Town Nursery HP12 3ANHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises400 m (0.2 miles)4 Good13 Apr 2026
Globalcafe HP12 4BASchool/college/university440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good24 Oct 2025
Active Sport High Wycombe HP12 4BAHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good7 Jul 2026
Rachel's Event Catering HP13 5LWOther catering premises500 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good15 Jan 2018

Crime within 250 m

Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, September 2025 to August 2026. Police forces move every crime to the nearest of about 760,000 anonymised map points before publishing, so these are crimes near this street, not on it, and a busy point can collect crimes from a wider area. Counts are of records, not convictions.

40 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Drugs13
Violence and sexual offences8
Vehicle crime4
Criminal damage and arson3
Public order2
Theft from the person2
Anti-social behaviour2
Other theft2
Other crime1
Possession of weapons1
Shoplifting1
Burglary1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Southfield Road (23); On or near Plomer Hill (10); On or near Red Kite Close (4); On or near Merry Down (2); On or near White Close (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: 372 residents in 133 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 1522%17%
Aged 65 and over14%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)93%61%
Owned outright38%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented3%17%
Private rented5%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work66%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)18%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)38%32%
Travel to work by car or van54%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus1%8%
On foot or by bicycle6%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)52%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away17%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)39%34%
No qualifications10%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification9%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)95%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 10 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: Buckinghamshire Council: Highway improvement works, 20 July 2027 to 22 July 2027 (road closure) found 3 November 2026
  • Roadworks Street works permit: Buckinghamshire Council: Highway improvement works, 19 July 2027 to 13 August 2027 (road closure) found 3 November 2026
  • Energy certificates New energy certificate: band C, house, detached (lodged 15 October 2026) found 2 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.

Nearby streets

Plomer Green Lane · Merry Down · Red Kite Close · Westover Road · The Pastures · Southfield Road · Westover Court · Middlebrook Road · Lyndhurst Close · Court Close · Templeside Gardens · Millbrook Close

All the streets in HP13 and across Buckinghamshire.

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.