Wincombe Road Brighton

5 addresses across 2 postcodes (BN1), about 80 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 4401117.

  • Sales: 5 recorded sales since 1995; in 2021 the median was £803,000 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 4 homes have an energy certificate (C: 1, D: 2, E: 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 A; Band D in Brighton and Hove costs £2,581 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Preston Park, about 670 m (0.4 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Dyke Road Park, is about 230 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 75 to 76 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 5 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Stanford Medical Centre, about 570 m (0.4 miles) away, with 8 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 230 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 75% of households owned their home and 65% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 81 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
20212£803,000£406,000£1,200,000
20151£580,000£580,000£580,000
20051£240,000£240,000£240,000
20011£337,750£337,750£337,750
Most recent sales (5)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
19 Nov 2021UPPER GLENSIDE BN1 5ARFlat or maisonette£406,000Leasehold.
15 Apr 2021KENWYN BN1 5ARDetached£1,200,000
12 Nov 2015THE COTTAGE BN1 5ARSemi-detached£580,000
20 Sep 2005THE COTTAGE BN1 5ARSemi-detached£240,000
24 Apr 2001KENWYN BN1 5ARDetached£337,750

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 2014 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

4 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 160 m². Most common: House, detached (2); House, semi-detached (1); Flat (1). Built: 1930-1949 (2); 1950-1966 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (3); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (1 address)

Council tax

What each band costs in Brighton and Hove in 2026-27: Band D £2,581 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,720£2,007£2,294£2,581£3,154£3,727£4,301£5,161

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (26% of about 810 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

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 31 October 2026.

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 5 addresses are between 75 m and 76 m above sea level (75 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
BN1 5AH100%100%100%0%
BN1 5AR100%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 stationsPreston Park 1.1 million journeys in 2024–25670 m (0.4 miles)
Hove 2.0 million journeys in 2024–251.2 km (0.7 miles)
London Road (Brighton) 392,000 journeys in 2024–251.4 km (0.9 miles)
Bus stops12 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 46 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Dyke Tavern Brighton70 m
Bus or coach stationPreston Park - London Road Brighton730 m (0.5 miles)
Car parksApcoa1.4 km (0.9 miles)
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Apcoa Charging Station1.2 km (0.8 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Gatwick Airport LGW34.4 km (21 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 surgeries8 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Stanford Medical Centre570 m (0.4 miles)
Pharmacies11 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Matlock Pharmacy430 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists14 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Townhouse Dental Practice430 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalThe Montefiore Hospital900 m (0.6 miles)
Police stationBrighton Police Station2.4 km (1.5 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Tesco Bank ATM210 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 garden4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Dyke Road Park 4.0 ha230 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Preston Park 15 ha560 m (0.3 miles)
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,040 m²510 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 6,990 m²390 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Kelly Road Allotments 640 m²380 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 22 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Preston Manor and Attached Railings, a listed building (Grade II*), 510 m (0.3 miles) north-east. 29 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Preston Manor and Attached RailingsListed building, Grade II*510 m (0.3 miles) north-east
Church of St Peter and Attached WallsListed building, Grade II*530 m (0.3 miles) north-east
Preston Manor and Preston ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II640 m (0.4 miles) east
The Royal Pavilion, BrightonRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.3 km (1.4 miles) south-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
The RookeryWood390 m east
Tivoli CopseWood840 m (0.5 miles) north
Hove BeachBeach2.2 km (1.4 miles) south-west
Coney HillHill2.6 km (1.6 miles) north
The LakeLake or reservoir2.8 km (1.7 miles) south-east
Eastwick BottomValley3.3 km (2.1 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)8.74010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.7205
Particles (PM10)10.04015

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
55 to 5910
Under 5545

1 of the street's 5 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 Brighton and Hove: see them on the Brighton and Hove 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
Cardinal Newman Catholic School Roman CatholicSecondary11–18350 m No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Stanford Primary SchoolPrimary4–11370 m Good (Mar 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Cottesmore St Mary's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary5–11450 m (0.3 miles) Good (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Brighton Hove and Sussex Sixth Form College16 plus16–19730 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
St Bernadette's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–11850 m (0.5 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Brunswick Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.2 km (0.8 miles) Requires improvement (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Dorothy Stringer SchoolSecondary11–161.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Bilingual Primary School - Brighton & HovePrimary4–111.4 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Balfour Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Good (Dec 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Downs Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Varndean College16 plus16–991.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Downs Infant SchoolPrimary5–71.6 km (1 mile) No overall grade (Sep 2024, 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 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
Hungry Minds BN3 6PAHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises180 m5 Very good10 Sep 2025
Unearthed BN1 5AARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen180 m5 Very good12 Nov 2024
Tesco BN3 6NFRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets230 m5 Very good9 Jun 2017
Tivoli Cafe BN1 5AGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen260 m5 Very good17 Sep 2026
Tammy's Fish Bar BN1 5AFTakeaway/sandwich shop290 m5 Very good19 Aug 2025
Breakfast Club @ Stanford Infant School BN1 5PSSchool/college/university310 m5 Very good11 Jul 2023
Stanford Infants School BN1 5PSSchool/college/university320 m5 Very good8 Oct 2026
Cottesmore St Mary's Primary School BN3 6NBSchool/college/university340 m5 Very good4 Jun 2026
Breakfast Club And Afterschool Club BN3 6NBSchool/college/university340 m4 Good24 Nov 2025
Achieve Together BN1 5BAHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises350 m5 Very good24 Sep 2024
Plumber On Call BN1 5AARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen360 m1 Major improvement necessary21 Jul 2026
Impact Food Group At Cardinal Newman Catholic School BN3 6NESchool/college/university360 m5 Very good15 Jun 2026
Hoogly Tea BN1 6SBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen380 m5 Very good28 Apr 2022
Achieve Together BN3 6LFHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises380 m5 Very good3 Oct 2022
Oriental Kitchen BN1 5AATakeaway/sandwich shop380 m3 Generally satisfactory7 Aug 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.

81 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences29
Anti-social behaviour19
Criminal damage and arson7
Other theft5
Shoplifting5
Other crime4
Public order3
Burglary2
Vehicle crime2
Robbery2
Drugs2
Possession of weapons1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Dyke Road (22); On or near Petrol Station (17); On or near Wincombe Road (7); On or near Miller'S Road (6); On or near Hove Park Road (5).

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: 233 residents in 99 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 1517%17%
Aged 65 and over12%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)75%61%
Owned outright27%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented1%17%
Private rented24%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work76%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)13%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)0%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)50%32%
Travel to work by car or van19%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram8%4%
By any public transport, including bus8%8%
On foot or by bicycle22%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)71%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)65%34%
No qualifications9%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualificationunder 1%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)86%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

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.

Nearby streets

Reigate Road · Dyke Road · Dyke Road · Compton Road · Fulmar Close · Miller's Road · Inwood Crescent · Merlin Close · Old Mills Mews · The Martlet · Radinden Drive · Kestrel Close

All the streets in BN1 and across Brighton and Hove.

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.