Last sold £655,000 in July 2025

Price history in context

• Show me today's estimate
• Jul 2025 — £655,000 · +0.8% · 35 pts behind the UK market
• Jul 2016 — £650,000

The life around it

• Commonswood Primary & Nursery School 2.8km
• Essendon CofE (VC) Primary School 7-min walk
• Bayford station 4.1km
• Backhouse Wood 218m
• The coast (coastline) 27.0km
• The Broadwater 2.6km
• Pond 159m
• Goldings Canal 6.1km
• Essendon Brook 557m
• Sundial Garden 3.9km
• Playing Field 208m
• The Co-Operative Food 3.3km
• War Memorial (Nr) 108m

Broadband

• Gigabit 1 Gbit/s or more 100% of premises
• Ultrafast 100 Mbit/s or more 100% of premises
• Superfast 30 Mbit/s or more 100% of premises

Ofcom figures for every home in this postcode — about fifteen addresses — not a measurement of this one. They say what can be ordered here, not the speed you would get: that depends on the package you buy. Ofcom Connected Nations, July 2024. About this data

Commute by train

From Bayford, 4.1km away

• 46 min London
• 62 min Cambridge
• 113 min Oxford

Train only, station to station, at the weekday morning peak — getting to the station is not included, because we don't know whether you'd walk, drive or take a bus. The distance to the platform is above so you can judge that yourself.

Schools nearby

Flood risk

Environment Agency flood risk from rivers and sea: outside every mapped risk area. Check the current map

Noise

Road noise here is mapped at 55–59 dB (Lden, DEFRA 2022) — audible traffic.

Modelled annual average at this point, not a measurement on the doorstep. Below 55 dB is not mapped.

Sunshine and hills

Sunshine: about 1,620 hours a year — sunnier than 70% of homes in England and Wales. Met Office average for this square kilometre, 1991–2020.

Hills: on a gentle north-facing slope; surrounding hills hide about 2% of the year's sun. Buildings and trees are not counted.

Planning

• Grade II listed — listed building consent is needed for most alterations. Historic England entry
• In the Essendon conservation area — external changes usually need consent.
• In the green belt — new building is tightly restricted.

From planning.data.gov.uk, where the council has published. Not planning advice.

Crime

Below average for England & Wales — 136 crimes recorded nearby last year. About this data

Map

Location: exact

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Nearby sold homes

• 5, Orme Court, Hatfield £532,000 · 2016
• 4, Orme Court, Hatfield £525,000 · 2016
• The Manor House, Essendon Hill, Hatfield £640,000 · 2003
• 3, Orme Court, Hatfield £570,000 · 2017
• 2, Orme Court, Hatfield £495,000 · 2016
• 1, Orme Court, Hatfield £495,000 · 2016

Planning activity nearby

• Permitted Prunus (approx 5m tall) : remove to ground level due to excessive lean towards… Dec 2025 source
• Undecided Submission of details pursuant of condition 15 (additional plans) on planning permission… Jun 2026 source
• Permitted Repair and replacement of existing roof tiles, the removal of one existing rooflight, and… Jun 2026 source
• Undecided Certificate of lawfulness for proposed outbuilding Jun 2026 source
• Permitted Submission of details pursuant to condition 1 (Arboricultural Impact Statement and… May 2026 source

Planning data via PlanIt (planit.org.uk), from local planning authority registers.