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On Upper Hamilton Road, in Preston Park
What it's like at BN1 5DF: every home that has sold on Upper Hamilton Road since 1995 and who owns them, what's happening down the road, crime on the street, a day in the life, history on the doorstep and what's changing nearby. Moving, buying, selling, improving or investing? Pick a lens above for what matters to you.
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1 home on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Upper Hamilton Road; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
1 of the 34 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| Flat C, 1, Upper Hamilton RoadFlat | May 2018 | £380,000 | – | – | 4 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ground Floor Flat, 1, Upper Hamilton RoadFlat | Sept 2013 | £200,000 | – | – | 3 |
| Ground Floor Flat, 3, Upper Hamilton RoadFlat | Mar 2006 | £162,000 | – | – | 3 |
| 3, Upper Hamilton RoadFlat | Sept 2006 | £280,000 | 138 m² | £2,029/m² | 1 |
| 4, Upper Hamilton RoadTerraced | May 2012 | £365,000 | 96 m² | £3,802/m² | 2 |
| 5, Upper Hamilton RoadTerraced | Jun 2021 | £960,000 | 196 m² | £4,898/m² | 3 |
| 6, Upper Hamilton RoadTerraced | Dec 2024 | £610,000 | 93 m² | £6,559/m² | 3 |
| Flat 3, 7, Upper Hamilton RoadFlat | Jul 2010 | £164,500 | 40 m² | £4,113/m² | 5 |
| Flat 2, 7, Upper Hamilton RoadFlat | Oct 1999 | £52,950 | – | – | 1 |
| Flat 1, 7, Upper Hamilton RoadFlat | Jan 2013 | £145,000 | 43 m² | £3,372/m² | 3 |
| 8, Upper Hamilton RoadTerraced | Sept 2023 | £650,000 | 104 m² | £6,250/m² | 3 |
| Flat 4, 9, Upper Hamilton RoadFlat | Apr 2002 | £94,000 | 45 m² | £2,089/m² | 2 |
| Flat 1, 9, Upper Hamilton RoadFlat | Sept 2024 | £278,000 | 51 m² | £5,451/m² | 5 |
| Flat 3, 9 - 9a, Upper Hamilton RoadFlat | Oct 1999 | £58,500 | – | – | 3 |
| Basement And Ground Floor Premises, 10, Upper Hamilton RoadFlat | Feb 2019 | £105,000 | – | – | 1 |
| Flat 1, 10, Upper Hamilton RoadFlat | May 2021 | £420,000 | 59 m² | £7,119/m² | 1 |
| Flat 2, 10, Upper Hamilton RoadFlat | Nov 2022 | £453,670 | – | – | 2 |
| Flat 3, 10, Upper Hamilton RoadFlat | Jul 2019 | £410,000 | 72 m² | £5,694/m² | 1 |
| 10a, Upper Hamilton RoadTerraced | Oct 2007 | £105,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 11, Upper Hamilton RoadTerraced | Jun 2018 | £710,000 | 129 m² | £5,504/m² | 4 |
| 12, Upper Hamilton RoadTerraced | Dec 2025 | £542,500 | 97 m² | £5,593/m² | 2 |
| 12a, Upper Hamilton RoadTerraced | Mar 2011 | £314,950 | 103 m² | £3,058/m² | 1 |
| 13, Upper Hamilton RoadTerraced | Oct 2011 | £450,000 | 121 m² | £3,719/m² | 2 |
| 14, Upper Hamilton RoadTerraced | Mar 2016 | £260,000 | 83 m² | £3,133/m² | 2 |
| 17, Upper Hamilton RoadTerraced | Aug 2022 | £750,000 | 133 m² | £5,639/m² | 1 |
| Ground Floor Flat, 18, Upper Hamilton RoadFlat | Jul 2000 | £39,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 18a, Upper Hamilton RoadFlat | Apr 2022 | £346,000 | 66 m² | £5,242/m² | 2 |
| 19, Upper Hamilton RoadOther · company-owned | Jul 2024 | £377,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 20, Upper Hamilton RoadTerraced | Jul 2026 | £700,000 | 111 m² | £6,306/m² | 3 |
| 21, Upper Hamilton RoadTerraced | May 1998 | £84,000 | 134 m² | £627/m² | 1 |
| 22, Upper Hamilton RoadTerraced | May 2017 | £475,000 | 124 m² | £3,831/m² | 4 |
| 23, Upper Hamilton RoadTerraced | Mar 2019 | £397,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 26, Upper Hamilton RoadSemi-detached | Dec 2005 | £250,000 | 168 m² | £1,488/m² | 1 |
| 26a, Upper Hamilton RoadSemi-detached | Oct 2012 | £420,000 | 94 m² | £4,468/m² | 1 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
Plenty of people here don't commute at all: 53% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is Brighton, about a 10-minute walk (800 m), with 15.3m journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Victoria.
The nearest bus stop is BHASVIC, 200 m away, with a bus about every 14 minutes on weekdays (routes 27, 27B, 14, 48); 46 departures an hour from the 10 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Plenty of jobs are close by: somewhere with 5,000 or more jobs (a town centre, business park or big hospital) is about 14 minutes away by public transport or on foot.
Central London is 74 km away as the crow flies.
The nearest primary school is Stanford Primary School, a few minutes' walk (500 m).
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Cardinal Newman Catholic School, 750 m away; Attainment 8: 50.4 · 15.9% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: King's School (3.8 km).
Few families with young children: only 13% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is Co-op, 550 m away, with Port Hall Stores closer still (under 50 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Stanford Medical Centre (350 m), with Kamsons Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (350 m).
For a haircut, McKenna & Co. is 400 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Royal Sussex County Hospital, 2.7 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 57% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 53% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 17 weeks).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 24 restaurants and cafés, 11 pubs and bars.
Tung-Wong Thai Vegan is the closest café or restaurant (under 50 m), and The Chimney House the nearest pub (under 50 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (12 of them).
It's a low-crime area: about 62 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
Much of it is protected: 41% of postcodes sit in a conservation area (Preston Park, Preston Village).
There are 16 listed buildings.
Homes are mostly flats (66%).
Most homes are Victorian or Edwardian: 71% were built before 1919.
It's growing: about 251 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
62 places on this map are within about a 10-minute walk.
Walking times are estimates from straight-line distance. Food businesses from the FSA food hygiene register; schools from the DfE register; nurseries from Ofsted's childcare register; care homes from the Care Quality Commission; pools, sports halls, tennis and golf from Sport England Active Places (contains data © Sport England); everything else © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Map © OpenFreeMap, OpenMapTiles, OpenStreetMap contributors.
| Building | Grade | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Stanford County Junior School Including Walls and Gate Piers and Railings | II | 90 m |
Grade I and II* are the most important few per cent. Listing means consent is needed for most changes, inside and out. Contains Historic England data © Historic England 2026 (via planning.data.gov.uk), OGL.
Brighton Pavilion constituency: Siân Berry MP (Green Party), since July 2024. 2024 general election: Green hold, majority 14,290 (27.3%), turnout 70%. Vote shares: Green Party 55%, Labour 28%, Conservative 8%, Reform UK 5%.
85 new homes, planning permissions and school changes on record within 2 km, plus energy projects, road works, storm overflows and major infrastructure. Everything changing near BN1 5DF →
Compared with all 7,264 neighbourhoods in England and Wales (council well-being: all councils). Open a tab below for the detail.
The nearest park is Dyke Road Park, 500 m away; for exercise, BHASVIC Sports Centre (300 m).
The beach is on your doorstep: Brighton Central, 1.9 km away, was rated good for water quality in 2025.
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 10.3 µg/m³).
For holidays, London Gatwick is 35 km away.
Many neighbours rent: 38% of households rent privately and 8% socially.
It's young: 25% of residents are aged 15–29.
It's highly educated: 57% of adults have a degree.
The nearest university is INTO University Partnerships, 1.3 km away.
Written from the figures on this page: Census 2021, DfT journey times (2019), NaPTAN/ORR, Ofsted, CQC, FSA, police.uk and planning registers. Figures describe the neighbourhood around the street.
Plaques recorded by Open Plaques (openplaques.org), a volunteer project; its data is public domain. Not every plaque is recorded.
On this street: 0 of 23 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 0 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.7% | 0.6% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.6% | 0.6% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 90.5% | 84.3% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.1% | 0.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 6.8% | 11.1% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 2.0% | 3.8% | 2.1% |
From each home's latest energy certificate, so panels or heat pumps fitted since aren't counted and the shares are lower than today's real figures. Compare areas in the data explorer.
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police.uk, 2025-09 to 2026-08. Crimes are mapped to the nearest of a set of anonymised points and labelled with that point's street, so busy roads and junctions collect crimes from nearby; the street has about 34 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
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