Windsor Close Towcester, West Northamptonshire

49 addresses across 1 postcode (NN12), about 580 m (0.4 miles) long, classed as a local road. USRN 36100295.

  • Sales: 53 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £340,000 across 3 sales.
  • Energy: 24 homes have an energy certificate (C: 14, D: 10).
  • 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 West Northamptonshire costs £2,487 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Northampton, about 13.7 km (8.5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 180 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.0 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 91 to 96 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 7 of its 49 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is The Brook Health Centre, about 100 m away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 300 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 75% of households owned their home and 30% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 25 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often anti-social behaviour.

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
20253£340,000£320,000£350,000
20241£238,500£238,500£238,500
20221£385,000£385,000£385,000
20211£360,000£360,000£360,000
20192£242,500£240,000£245,000
20181£237,000£237,000£237,000
20162£217,500£195,000£240,000
20132£211,248£172,500£249,995
20121£194,500£194,500£194,500
20111£232,000£232,000£232,000
20092£166,123£159,995£172,250
20081£237,500£237,500£237,500
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 53)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
26 Jun 202639 NN12 6JBDetached£420,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
12 Dec 202518 NN12 6JBSemi-detached£340,000
4 Aug 202515 NN12 6JBTerraced£320,000
14 Feb 202546 NN12 6JBSemi-detached£350,000
10 Dec 202420 NN12 6JBOther£270,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
14 Jun 20244 NN12 6JBTerraced£238,500
15 Feb 202239 NN12 6JBDetached£385,000
31 Mar 20212 NN12 6JBTerraced£200,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
5 Jan 202141 NN12 6JBDetached£360,000
8 Nov 201934 NN12 6JBSemi-detached£245,000
19 Jun 20199 NN12 6JBSemi-detached£240,000
16 Feb 201830 NN12 6JBSemi-detached£237,000
15 Feb 20161 NN12 6JBSemi-detached£240,000
11 Jan 20166 NN12 6JBTerraced£195,000
4 Sep 201341 NN12 6JBDetached£249,995
12 Jul 20136 NN12 6JBTerraced£172,500
29 Jun 201227 NN12 6JBDetached£194,500
24 Mar 201117 NN12 6JBDetached£232,000
29 Jun 200934 NN12 6JBSemi-detached£159,995
15 Jun 200918 NN12 6JBSemi-detached£172,250
30 Sep 200817 NN12 6JBDetached£237,500
21 Sep 200712 NN12 6JBSemi-detached£175,000
8 Jun 200747 NN12 6JBDetached£238,000
13 Apr 200739 NN12 6JBDetached£242,000
18 Dec 200642 NN12 6JBTerraced£165,000
10 Mar 200623 NN12 6JBSemi-detached£155,000
25 Nov 200538 NN12 6JBSemi-detached£155,000
7 Oct 200526 NN12 6JBSemi-detached£155,000
9 Sep 20054 NN12 6JBTerraced£130,000
18 Mar 200526 NN12 6JBSemi-detached£127,000
31 Aug 200447 NN12 6JBDetached£238,500
29 Jul 200421 NN12 6JBSemi-detached£157,000
15 Jul 200439 NN12 6JBDetached£230,000
14 May 200412 NN12 6JBSemi-detached£142,500
14 May 200411 NN12 6JBTerraced£141,000
19 Sep 200330 NN12 6JBSemi-detached£137,000
20 Jan 200344 NN12 6JBDetached£125,000
5 Sep 200214 NN12 6JBDetached£147,500
2 Jul 200223 NN12 6JBTerraced£101,500
11 Feb 20008 NN12 6JBSemi-detached£76,500
6 Jul 19992 NN12 6JBTerraced£57,000
2 Jul 199949 NN12 6JBDetached£108,500
30 Apr 199928 NN12 6JBSemi-detached£60,000
12 Mar 199923 NN12 6JBTerraced£60,000
9 Apr 199838 NN12 6JBSemi-detached£59,000
3 Apr 199826 NN12 6JBSemi-detached£54,500
30 Jan 19981 NN12 6JBSemi-detached£57,000
28 Nov 199744 NN12 6JBDetached£64,750
1 Aug 199734 NN12 6JBSemi-detached£56,500
11 Jun 199736 NN12 6JBTerraced£62,000

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026 (load in progress). Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from July 2010 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

24 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 75 m². Most common: House, detached (11); House, semi-detached (9); House, mid-terrace (2). Built: 1976-1982 (15); 1983-1990 (6); 1967-1975 (3). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (20); rented (private) (1).

Council tax

What each band costs in West Northamptonshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,487 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,658£1,934£2,210£2,487£3,039£3,592£4,144£4,973

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (57% of about 630 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

Started, not reported finished by 30 September 2026

  • 30 September 2026 to 2 October 2026: BT, Utility repair and maintenance works, no carriageway incursion, on the footway, verge (minor works)

Planned, as of 30 September 2026

  • 3 October 2026 to 6 October 2026: BT, New service connection, some carriageway incursion, on the footway, footpath (minor works)
  • 5 October 2026: VIRGIN MEDIA, Utility asset works, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works, permit applied for)
  • 19 October 2026 to 21 October 2026: BT, New service connection, some carriageway incursion, on the footway, verge (minor works)

Finished in the last three months

  • 27 August 2026: BT, New service connection, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)
  • 26 August 2026: BT, New service connection, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)
  • 5 August 2026: BT, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 30 September 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 1 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 49 addresses are between 91 m and 96 m above sea level (93 m on average); the ground rises about 5 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
NN12 6JB100%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 stationsNorthampton 2.8 million journeys in 2024–2513.7 km (8.5 miles)
Wolverton 339,000 journeys in 2024–2514.6 km (9.1 miles)
Bus stops12 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 44 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Health Centre Towcester100 m
Bus or coach stationCoach Park Silverstone5.6 km (3.5 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest bp pulse Charging Station590 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Luton Airport LTN51.3 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 surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Brook Health Centre100 m
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Jardines Pharmacy100 m
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Shire Court Dental Practice570 m (0.4 miles)
HospitalBerrywood Hospital13.7 km (8.5 miles)
Police stationTowcester Police Station930 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 garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.0 ha180 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 4.4 ha760 m (0.5 miles)
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 170 m²200 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.1 ha400 m (0.2 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 7,840 m²790 m (0.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 6.4 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is 157, Watling Street West, a listed building (Grade II*), 680 m (0.4 miles) north-east. 87 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 2 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
157, Watling Street WestListed building, Grade II*680 m (0.4 miles) north-east
Number 88 (The Chantry House) and Attached Forecourt Walls and GatewayListed building, Grade II*760 m (0.5 miles) north-east
Church of St LawrenceListed building, Grade I800 m (0.5 miles) north-east
Bank of Roman town 550ft (170m) in length N of Brackley Road and W of High StreetScheduled monument830 m (0.5 miles) north
Bury Mount motte castleScheduled monument870 m (0.5 miles) north-east
Easton NestonRegistered park or garden, Grade II*1.7 km (1 mile) north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Broad WaterLake or reservoir1.1 km (0.7 miles) north-east
Church SpinneyWood1.4 km (0.8 miles) north-east
Burcote WoodWood1.8 km (1.1 miles) south
Ash PlantationWood1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-east
Fox CovertWood2 km (1.2 miles) south-east
Windmill HillHill3.1 km (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)6.84010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.0205
Particles (PM10)13.34015

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 5970
Under 554249

7 of the street's 49 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 West Northamptonshire: see them on the West Northamptonshire 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
Nicholas Hawksmoor Primary SchoolPrimary4–11160 m Report card (Feb 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Towcester Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–11610 m (0.4 miles) Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Sponne SchoolSecondary11–18680 m (0.4 miles) No overall grade (Jan 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Marie Weller Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.2 km (0.8 miles) Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)

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
Hobbs Coffee Bar NN12 6HDOther catering premises70 m5 Very good22 Apr 2025
One Stop NN12 6HDRetailers - other70 m5 Very good3 Jul 2018
Towcester Sports & Social Club NN12 6HDPub/bar/nightclub110 mAwaiting inspection
Jardines (Uk) Ltd NN12 6HDRetailers - other190 mExempt
Jardines Pharmacy NN12 6HDRetailers - other190 mExempt
The Ganges NN12 6EDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen490 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good26 Mar 2024

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.

25 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Anti-social behaviour11
Violence and sexual offences6
Public order4
Vehicle crime2
Other theft1
Shoplifting1

Most of these are attached to: On or near York Court (8); On or near Buckingham Way (3); On or near York Close (3); On or near Hazel Crescent (2); On or near Hampton Court Close (2).

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: 297 residents in 120 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 age4340
Children under 1514%17%
Aged 65 and over18%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)75%61%
Owned outright42%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented9%17%
Private rented15%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work64%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)7%6%
Retired (of adults)22%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)22%32%
Travel to work by car or van68%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus1%8%
On foot or by bicycle9%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)34%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away8%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)30%34%
No qualifications13%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)96%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.

Nearby streets

Swinneyford Road · York Court · York Close · Hampton Court Close · Balmoral Close · Kensington Close · Solly's Way · Sandyhome Road · Link Way · St Lawrence Road · St Georges Close · Baden Powell Crescent

All the streets in NN12 and across West 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.