Windmill Fold The Bratch, South Staffordshire

13 addresses across 1 postcode (WV5), about 30 m long. USRN 36702118.

  • Sales: 18 recorded sales since 1995; in 2023 the median was £260,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 9 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 8).
  • 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 South Staffordshire costs £2,314 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Coseley, about 6.9 km (4.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 340 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 100 m above sea level.
  • Noise: None of its addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Gravel Hill Surgery, about 260 m away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 210 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 29% of households owned their home and 23% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 88 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
20231£260,000£260,000£260,000
20201£220,000£220,000£220,000
20173£200,000£193,000£207,000
20161£200,000£200,000£200,000
20141£207,000£207,000£207,000
20101£205,000£205,000£205,000
20085£150,000£137,500£239,950
20074£250,000£249,950£250,000
Most recent sales (18)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
13 Jul 202312 WV5 9DQFlat or maisonette£260,000Leasehold.
7 Aug 20201 WV5 9DQFlat or maisonette£220,000Leasehold.
4 Jun 20197 WV5 9DQFlat or maisonette£200,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
27 Jul 20175 WV5 9DQFlat or maisonette£207,000Leasehold.
21 Jun 20177 WV5 9DQFlat or maisonette£193,000Leasehold.
28 Apr 201711 WV5 9DQFlat or maisonette£200,000Leasehold.
1 Jun 20168 WV5 9DQFlat or maisonette£200,000Leasehold.
15 Jul 201412 WV5 9DQFlat or maisonette£207,000Leasehold.
14 Dec 201012 WV5 9DQFlat or maisonette£205,000Leasehold.
30 Dec 20087 WV5 9DQFlat or maisonette£150,000New build. Leasehold.
5 Dec 20082 WV5 9DQFlat or maisonette£162,000New build. Leasehold.
1 Dec 200811 WV5 9DQFlat or maisonette£150,000New build. Leasehold.
28 Nov 20088 WV5 9DQFlat or maisonette£137,500New build. Leasehold.
30 Jun 20085 WV5 9DQFlat or maisonette£239,950New build. Leasehold.
6 Jul 20073 WV5 9DQFlat or maisonette£249,950New build. Leasehold.
18 May 200710 WV5 9DQFlat or maisonette£250,000New build. Leasehold.
11 May 20076 WV5 9DQFlat or maisonette£250,000New build. Leasehold.
4 May 200712 WV5 9DQFlat or maisonette£250,000New build. Leasehold.

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.

9 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 72 m². Most common: Flat (9). Built: 2003-2006 (5); 2007-2011 (3); Post-2006 (1). Tenure at assessment: rented (private) (4); owner-occupied (3).

Council tax

What each band costs in South Staffordshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,314 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,542£1,800£2,057£2,314£2,828£3,342£3,856£4,627

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (21% of about 670 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: yes, Wombourne Conservation Area Management Plan (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • 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

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 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 addresses are about 100 m above sea level.

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
WV5 9DQ100%75%0%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 stationsCoseley 520,000 journeys in 2024–256.9 km (4.3 miles)
Wolverhampton 5.2 million journeys in 2024–257.3 km (4.5 miles)
Tipton 359,000 journeys in 2024–258.2 km (5.1 miles)
Bus stops12 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 19 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Stanham Close Wombourne70 m
Bus or coach stationWolverhampton Bus Station6.9 km (4.3 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Osprey Charging Station160 m
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX31.1 km (19 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 Gravel Hill Surgery260 m
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots240 m
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Willows Dental & Implant Centre230 m
HospitalRussells Hall Hospital6 km (3.7 miles)
Police stationWombourne Police Station310 m
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest SGN - Wombourne, Wombourne 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 garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4.0 ha340 m
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 160 m²790 m (0.5 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.1 ha140 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 9,930 m²2.7 km (1.7 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 5.0 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is The Bratch Water Pumping Station, a listed building (Grade II*), 850 m (0.5 miles) north-west. 12 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
The Bratch Water Pumping StationListed building, Grade II*850 m (0.5 miles) north-west
Himley HallRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.8 km (1.1 miles) south-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Bullmeadow CoppiceWood670 m (0.4 miles) north
Parson's Wood HillHill690 m (0.4 miles) east
The BeltWood870 m (0.5 miles) east
Round Birch HillHill870 m (0.5 miles) east
Wodehouse Mill PoolLake or reservoir1.4 km (0.8 miles) north-east
The DingleValley3.8 km (2.3 miles) east

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)7.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.7205
Particles (PM10)10.44015

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
Under 551313

None of the street's 13 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic or railways.

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 South Staffordshire: see them on the South Staffordshire 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
St Benedict Biscop CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–11250 m Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Westfield Primary SchoolPrimary2–11500 m (0.3 miles) Requires improvement (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Wombourne High SchoolSecondary11–18720 m (0.4 miles) Report card (May 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: Expected standard; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
St Bernadette's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–11920 m (0.6 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Blakeley Heath Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection

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
Boxleys Of Wombourne WV5 9JDManufacturers/packers40 m5 Very good2 Sep 2026
Windmill Bakery WV5 9JDManufacturers/packers50 m5 Very good17 Jun 2025
Spar WV5 9JDRetailers - other60 m5 Very good7 Jan 2025
Ellys WV5 9JBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen60 m5 Very good3 Jul 2025
Wombourne Fish Bar WV5 9JBTakeaway/sandwich shop70 m5 Very good3 Dec 2024
Greenside Parlour WV5 9EZRetailers - other80 m5 Very good9 Dec 2025
Wombourne Volunteer Bureau WV5 9EZOther catering premises100 m5 Very good13 Nov 2025
Wombourne Cricket Tennis Bowling & Social Club WV5 9EZPub/bar/nightclub100 m5 Very good7 Feb 2025
Wombourne Pool Bar Ltd WV5 9JBPub/bar/nightclub110 m5 Very good19 Jun 2025
Farmer And Friends WV5 9JBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen120 m5 Very good13 Dec 2024
Sandhills Day Nursery WV5 9JBHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises150 m5 Very good25 Jul 2025
Beaubrook WV5 9DNRetailers - other230 m5 Very good29 Apr 2026
Wombourne Tandoori WV5 9DNRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen230 m3 Generally satisfactory18 May 2026
Kingsway Church WV5 9DNRetailers - other230 m5 Very good11 Jul 2024
JES 759 Ltd WV5 9DNRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen240 m5 Very good22 Jun 2026

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.

88 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Shoplifting25
Violence and sexual offences17
Anti-social behaviour14
Other theft7
Public order7
Robbery6
Vehicle crime4
Criminal damage and arson4
Other crime2
Drugs1
Possession of weapons1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Parking Area (36); On or near Hazel Grove (13); On or near Petrol Station (11); On or near Supermarket (10); On or near Stanham Close (6).

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: 206 residents in 157 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 age7240
Children under 152%17%
Aged 65 and over62%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)29%61%
Owned outright25%33%
Shared ownership9%1%
Social rented41%17%
Private rented19%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work26%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)12%6%
Retired (of adults)61%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)23%32%
Travel to work by car or van57%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram4%4%
By any public transport, including bus6%8%
On foot or by bicycle15%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)49%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)23%34%
No qualifications32%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification8%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)100%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 6 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.

  • WV5 9DQ: 13 addresses of 14 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Windmill Bank · Stanham Close · Sunridge Avenue · Gravel Hill · Church Road · Walk Lane · Old Vicarage Close · Ounsdale Road · The Fold · Link Road · Saint Benedicts Road · Waverley Gardens

All the streets in WV5 and across South Staffordshire.

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.