Windmill Close Wellingborough, North Northamptonshire

23 addresses across 1 postcode (NN8), about 140 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 42900198.

  • Sales: 11 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £237,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 21 homes have an energy certificate (C: 8, D: 11, E: 2).
  • 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 B; Band D in North Northamptonshire costs £2,424 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Wellingborough, about 2.4 km (1.5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Croyland Park, is about 90 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 68 to 72 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 23 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Albany House Medical Centre, about 1.5 km (0.9 miles) away.
  • People: About 300 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 58% of households owned their home and 17% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 125 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.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20251£237,000£237,000£237,000
20221£233,000£233,000£233,000
20181£177,500£177,500£177,500
20171£185,000£185,000£185,000
20161£113,500£113,500£113,500
20061£99,950£99,950£99,950
20052£112,975£88,000£137,950
19972£36,500£33,000£40,000
Most recent sales (11)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
20 Jun 202516 NN8 2EPSemi-detached£237,000
3 Jul 20238 NN8 2EPTerraced£192,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
31 Mar 20224 NN8 2EPSemi-detached£233,000
10 Aug 20184 NN8 2EPSemi-detached£177,500
30 Nov 201710 NN8 2EPTerraced£185,000
8 Jan 20168 NN8 2EPTerraced£113,500
3 Mar 20064 NN8 2EPSemi-detached£99,950
1 Apr 20058 NN8 2EPTerraced£88,000
14 Jan 200516 NN8 2EPSemi-detached£137,950
26 Sep 199714 NN8 2EPSemi-detached£40,000
25 Apr 199716 NN8 2EPSemi-detached£33,000

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from May 2013 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

21 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 76 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (13); Flat (4); House, end-terrace (2). Built: 1991-1995 (13); 1950-1966 (5); 1930-1949 (2). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (14); owner-occupied (7).

Each home's certificates and sales (18 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in North Northamptonshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,424 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,616£1,885£2,155£2,424£2,963£3,501£4,040£4,848

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (69% of about 640 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, 0 at medium risk and 2 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 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 23 addresses are between 68 m and 72 m above sea level (70 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
NN8 2EP100%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 stationsWellingborough 981,000 journeys in 2024–252.4 km (1.5 miles)
Kettering 1.1 million journeys in 2024–2511.5 km (7.2 miles)
Bus stops24 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 58 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Kingsway Methodist Church Wellingborough80 m
Car parksCommercial Way Car Park1.4 km (0.9 miles)
EV charging pointsHatton Park Road1.9 km (1.2 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Luton Airport LTN51.7 km (32 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 surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Albany House Medical Centre1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Pharmacies5 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Berrymoor Court130 m
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery1.4 km (0.9 miles)
HospitalIsebrook Hospital1.6 km (1 mile)
Police stationWellingborough Police Station1.6 km (1 mile)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Morrisons Daily - Kingsway - Wellingborough, Wellington Cashzone70 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 garden5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Croyland Park 28 ha90 m
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 350 m²240 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 8.7 ha260 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Swanspool Allotments 2.5 ha510 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 5 parks and gardens, 29 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Tithe barn, a scheduled monument, 1.2 km (0.8 miles) north-east.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Tithe barnScheduled monument1.2 km (0.8 miles) north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
The RookeryWood1.9 km (1.2 miles) south
Cromwell SpinneyWood2.1 km (1.3 miles) west
Land PlantationWood2.6 km (1.6 miles) east
Stanwell SpinneyWood2.9 km (1.8 miles) north-west
Summer LeysWetland3.1 km (1.9 miles) south
Red HillHill3.9 km (2.4 miles) north

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)7.5205
Particles (PM10)12.84015

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 552223

1 of the street's 23 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 North Northamptonshire: see them on the North Northamptonshire page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 3 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
Warwick AcademyPrimary2–11340 m Good (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Our Lady's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–11640 m (0.4 miles) Requires improvement (Jan 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Croyland Primary SchoolPrimary5–11670 m (0.4 miles) Report card (Jun 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: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Croyland Nursery School & Day NurseryNursery0–4700 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
St Barnabas Church of England SchoolPrimary5–71.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Wrenn SchoolSecondary11–181.2 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Freemans Endowed Church of England Junior AcademyPrimary7–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Weavers AcademySecondary11–181.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Ruskin Infant SchoolPrimary2–71.6 km (1 mile) Good (Dec 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Ruskin AcademyPrimary7–111.6 km (1 mile) Good (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
All Saints CEVA Primary School and Nursery Church of EnglandPrimary3–111.7 km (1 mile) Report card (Jul 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Park Junior School, WellingboroughPrimary7–111.7 km (1.1 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
Morrisons Daily NN8 2EWRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets90 m4 Good10 Mar 2025
St Andrews Church Hall NN8 2HUOther catering premises90 m5 Very good19 Jun 2013
Wok With U NN8 2DLTakeaway/sandwich shop130 m4 Good30 Jun 2026
Berrymoor Stores NN8 2DLRetailers - other130 m5 Very good16 Jul 2025
Wellingborough Methodist Church NN8 2PDOther catering premises130 m5 Very good13 May 2026
Berrymoor Dispensing Chemist NN8 2DLRetailers - other140 mExempt
Knight & Bean Coffee Machine NN8 2PUMobile caterer280 mAwaiting inspection
Olives Afro-Caribbean Shop NN8 2PEOther catering premises310 mAwaiting inspection
Edinburgh House NN8 2HNHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good29 Nov 2022
Slimming World Frachise - Hannah Nollett NN8 2HWRetailers - other460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good4 Nov 2019
The Royal Oak NN8 2LJPub/bar/nightclub490 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good23 Nov 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.

125 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Shoplifting47
Violence and sexual offences33
Anti-social behaviour13
Other theft6
Drugs5
Robbery5
Burglary4
Criminal damage and arson4
Public order4
Possession of weapons1
Other crime1
Theft from the person1
Vehicle crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Windmill Close (68); On or near St Crispin Avenue (16); On or near Berrymoor Road (13); On or near Buckingham Close (10); On or near St Andrews Crescent (8).

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: 298 residents in 111 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 age3640
Children under 1522%17%
Aged 65 and over13%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)58%61%
Owned outright32%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented32%17%
Private rented10%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work56%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)7%6%
Retired (of adults)19%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)9%32%
Travel to work by car or van73%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle13%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)60%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away10%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)17%34%
No qualifications29%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)92%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 4 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

Pindar Road · St Andrews Crescent · St Crispin Avenue · Margaret Avenue · Kingsway · Buckingham Close · Central Avenue · Berrymoor Road · Askham Avenue · Crabtree Close · Butts Road · Anne Road

All the streets in NN8 and across North Northamptonshire.

What this page cannot tell you

  • Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
  • What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
  • How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported.
  • Whether you would get a place at a school: distances are straight lines, not catchments.
  • Who lives on the street now: census figures describe the small areas around it in March 2021, during a lockdown.
  • How long a journey takes or how often anything runs: transport distances are straight lines to the nearest stops.
  • Whether a GP practice is taking new patients, or a dentist new NHS patients.
  • How loud a home is inside, or noise from industry, neighbours or smaller airfields: noise figures are models of road, rail and air traffic outside.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.