Wolfe Close Warrington
9 addresses across 2 postcodes (WA4), about 120 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 42260230.
- Sales: 9 recorded sales since 1995; in 2019 the median was £595,000 across 1 sale.
- Energy: 4 homes have an energy certificate (C: 1, D: 3).
- Flood: 1 address on its postcodes is in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
- Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band D; Band D in Warrington costs £2,448 a year in 2026-27.
- Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 96% to 100% of premises.
- Transport: The nearest railway station is Warrington Central, about 3.7 km (2.3 miles) away in a straight line.
- Green space: There is a small park or garden about 40 m away, and Lumb Brook Millennium Green (5.5 hectares) is about 570 m (0.4 miles) away.
- Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
- Height: Its addresses are 42 to 44 m above sea level.
- Noise: 2 of its 9 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
- Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Latchford Medical Centre, about 1.6 km (1 mile) away.
- People: About 570 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 92% of households owned their home and 57% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
- Crime: 8 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often anti-social behaviour.
Sales on this street
| Year | Sales | Median price | Lowest | Highest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 1 | £595,000 | £595,000 | £595,000 |
| 2017 | 1 | £670,000 | £670,000 | £670,000 |
| 2014 | 1 | £550,000 | £550,000 | £550,000 |
| 2012 | 1 | £572,115 | £572,115 | £572,115 |
| 2006 | 1 | £175,000 | £175,000 | £175,000 |
| 2003 | 1 | £515,000 | £515,000 | £515,000 |
| 2001 | 1 | £410,000 | £410,000 | £410,000 |
| 2000 | 2 | £431,750 | £428,500 | £435,000 |
| Date | Address | Type | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 Jun 2019 | 1 WA4 3DT | Detached | £595,000 | |
| 16 Jan 2017 | 2 WA4 3DT | Detached | £670,000 | |
| 18 Feb 2014 | 5 WA4 3DT | Detached | £550,000 | |
| 1 Jun 2012 | 2 WA4 3DT | Detached | £572,115 | |
| 29 Mar 2006 | 5 WA4 3DT | Detached | £175,000 | |
| 29 Sep 2003 | 1 WA4 3DT | Detached | £515,000 | |
| 28 Feb 2001 | 5 WA4 3DT | Detached | £410,000 | New build. |
| 13 Dec 2000 | 4 WA4 3DT | Detached | £428,500 | New build. |
| 29 Sep 2000 | 2 WA4 3DT | Detached | £435,000 | New build. |
Energy performance certificates
4 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 254 m². Most common: House, detached (4). Built: 1996-2002 (3); 2003-2006 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (4).
Council tax
What each band costs in Warrington in 2026-27: Band D £2,448 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.
| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| £1,632 | £1,904 | £2,176 | £2,448 | £2,992 | £3,535 | £4,079 | £4,895 |
Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band D (25% of about 870 homes).
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)
- Grappenhall Hall Residential School, Church Lane, Grappenhall, WA4 3EU, not permissioned (850 m (0.5 miles))
- Broomfields, Bridge Lane, Appleton, Warrington, WA4 3AT, permissioned (1 km (0.6 miles))
Roadworks
Finished in the last three months
- 22 August 2026 to 24 August 2026: United Utilities Water Ltd, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the verge (immediate - urgent works)
Flood risk
Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 1 address is 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 on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.
| Postcode | Planning zone | Addresses at high / medium / low risk | Groundwater |
|---|---|---|---|
| WA4 3DT | not in 2 or 3 | 0 / 0 / 0 | unlikely |
| WA4 3DS | not in 2 or 3 | 1 / 0 / 1 | unlikely |
Height above sea level
The street's 9 addresses are between 42 m and 44 m above sea level (43 m on average).
Broadband
| Postcode | Superfast (30 Mbit/s+) | Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+) | Gigabit | Below 10 Mbit/s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WA4 3DS | 100% | 96% | 96% | 0% |
| WA4 3DT | 100% | 100% | 100% | 0% |
Getting around
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| Railway stations | Warrington Central 1.3 million journeys in 2024–25 | 3.7 km (2.3 miles) |
| Warrington Bank Quay 1.5 million journeys in 2024–25 | 3.7 km (2.3 miles) | |
| Padgate 118,000 journeys in 2024–25 | 4.3 km (2.7 miles) | |
| Bus stops | 0 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 14 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Astor Drive Grappenhall Heys | 410 m (0.3 miles) |
| Bus or coach station | Warrington Bus Interchange Stand A | 3.7 km (2.3 miles) |
| EV charging points | Be.EV Charging Station | 1.9 km (1.2 miles) |
| Airport with scheduled flights | Manchester Airport MAN | 18.5 km (12 miles) |
Local services
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| GP surgeries | 1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Latchford Medical Centre | 1.6 km (1 mile) |
| Pharmacies | 3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Click Trading | 1.3 km (0.8 miles) |
| NHS dentists | 1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Stockton Heath Dental Practice | 1.5 km (0.9 miles) |
| Hospital | Spire Cheshire Hospital | 3.6 km (2.2 miles) |
| Police station | Stockton Heath Police Station | 1.3 km (0.8 miles) |
| Cash machines | Bridge Lane Stores, Appleton | 1.1 km (0.7 miles) |
Parks and green space
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| Park or garden | 2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3.5 ha | 40 m |
| Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles) | Lumb Brook Millennium Green 5.5 ha | 570 m (0.4 miles) |
| Play area | 1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 360 m² | 470 m (0.3 miles) |
| Playing field | 1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.9 ha | 570 m (0.4 miles) |
| Allotments | Unnamed 2.0 ha | 2 km (1.2 miles) |
Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 9.0 hectares in all.
Landmarks
5 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).
| Name | What it is | From the middle of the street |
|---|---|---|
| The Dingle | Valley | 820 m (0.5 miles) south-west |
| The Gorse | Wood | 1 km (0.6 miles) south-east |
| Ford's Rough | Wood | 1.3 km (0.8 miles) south |
| Warrington Dock Entrance | Lake or reservoir | 2.4 km (1.5 miles) west |
| Primrose Hill | Hill | 4.8 km (3 miles) east |
| Bank Quay Reach | Tidal water | 5 km (3.1 miles) west |
Air quality
| Pollutant | Here | UK limit | WHO guideline |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) | 7.8 | 40 | 10 |
| Fine particles (PM2.5) | 6.2 | 20 | 5 |
| Particles (PM10) | 11.0 | 40 | 15 |
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
| Level | Road traffic | Railways |
|---|---|---|
| 55 to 59 | 2 | 0 |
| Under 55 | 7 | 9 |
2 of the street's 9 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 Warrington: see them on the Warrington page.
Nearest schools
| School | Phase | Ages | Distance | Inspection |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grappenhall Heys Community Primary School | Primary | 3–11 | 670 m (0.4 miles) | No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding |
| Grappenhall St Wilfrid's CofE Primary School Church of England | Primary | 5–11 | 920 m (0.6 miles) | Good (Dec 2019, overall grade under the previous framework) |
| The Cobbs Infant and Nursery School | Primary | 2–7 | 1 km (0.6 miles) | Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met |
| Broomfields Junior School | Primary | 7–11 | 1 km (0.6 miles) | Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) |
| St Monica's Catholic Primary School Roman Catholic | Primary | 4–11 | 1.1 km (0.7 miles) | No overall grade (Mar 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good |
| Bridgewater High School | Secondary | 11–16 | 1.3 km (0.8 miles) | Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) |
| St Thomas' CofE Primary School Church of England | Primary | 3–11 | 1.4 km (0.9 miles) | No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good |
| Bradshaw Primary School | Primary | 4–11 | 1.5 km (0.9 miles) | No published inspection |
| Sir Thomas Boteler Church of England High School | Secondary | 11–16 | 1.5 km (1 mile) | Report card (Feb 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met |
| Our Lady's Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy Roman Catholic | Primary | 5–11 | 1.7 km (1.1 miles) | Good (Feb 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) |
| Alderman Bolton Primary School | Primary | 2–11 | 1.8 km (1.1 miles) | No published inspection |
| St Augustine's Catholic Primary School Roman Catholic | Primary | 3–11 | 1.9 km (1.2 miles) | Report card (Dec 2025): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met |
Food hygiene ratings nearby
No rated food businesses within 500 m (0.3 miles).
Crime within 250 m
| Category | Crimes |
|---|---|
| Anti-social behaviour | 3 |
| Vehicle crime | 2 |
| Violence and sexual offences | 1 |
| Burglary | 1 |
| Other theft | 1 |
Most of these are attached to: On or near Bourchier Way (5); On or near Tresham Drive (3).
People and work
Who lives here
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Median age | 45 | 40 |
| Children under 15 | 17% | 17% |
| Aged 65 and over | 10% | 18% |
Homes
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Owned (outright or with a mortgage) | 92% | 61% |
| Owned outright | 35% | 33% |
| Shared ownership | 0% | 1% |
| Social rented | 1% | 17% |
| Private rented | 7% | 21% |
Work and commuting
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Adults (16 and over) in work | 72% | 57% |
| Unemployment (of those working or looking for work) | 1% | 6% |
| Retired (of adults) | 15% | 22% |
| Long-term sick or disabled (of adults) | under 1% | 4% |
| Work mainly from home (of those in work) | 50% | 32% |
| Travel to work by car or van | 47% | 48% |
| By train, Underground, metro or tram | 0% | 4% |
| By any public transport, including bus | under 1% | 8% |
| On foot or by bicycle | 3% | 10% |
| Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work) | 46% | 65% |
| Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away | 7% | 8% |
Education and languages
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults) | 57% | 34% |
| No qualifications | 6% | 18% |
| Apprenticeship as highest qualification | 3% | 5% |
| Main language English (aged 3 and over) | 99% | 91% |
| Cannot speak English well or at all | 0% | 2% |
Deprivation
The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 10 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.
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.
Postcodes on this street
Nearby streets
Bourchier Way · Phelps Close · Broughton Close · Palfreyman Drive · Tresham Drive · Astor Drive · Abbotsford Gardens · Winterbourne Gardens · Benvarden Gardens · Farringford Gardens
All the streets in WA4 and across Warrington.
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.