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On Rayne Road, in Braintree West & Rayne
What it's like at CM7 2QF: every home that has sold on Rayne 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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Compared with all 7,264 neighbourhoods in England and Wales (council well-being: all councils). Open a tab below for the detail.
ORR, DfE, police.uk, OS Terrain 50 and Open Greenspace, Forestry Commission, Defra noise maps (England), Xoserve. Every distance: Moving; radon, ground and flood checks: Buying.
2 homes on the street extended (energy certificates). 7 homes have a new energy certificate in the last 6 months and no sale since: often a sign of a sale or let coming.
Sales and extensions on Rayne Road; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
20 of the 155 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 215, Rayne RoadSemi-detached | Oct 2004 | £160,000 | 147 m² | £1,088/m² | 2 |
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| 219, Rayne RoadTerraced | Apr 2011 | £147,250 | 87 m² | £1,693/m² | 2 |
| 221, Rayne RoadTerraced | Mar 2006 | £125,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 223, Rayne RoadTerraced | Dec 2024 | £241,000 | 67 m² | £3,597/m² | 5 |
| 225, Rayne RoadTerraced | Feb 2019 | £185,000 | 66 m² | £2,803/m² | 1 |
| 227, Rayne RoadTerraced | Feb 2020 | £205,000 | 66 m² | £3,106/m² | 2 |
| 229, Rayne RoadTerraced | Apr 2015 | £167,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 231, Rayne RoadTerraced | May 2024 | £240,000 | 67 m² | £3,582/m² | 3 |
| 233, Rayne RoadTerraced | May 2025 | £215,000 | 69 m² | £3,116/m² | 4 |
| 235, Rayne RoadTerraced | Jan 2017 | £180,000 | 67 m² | £2,687/m² | 2 |
| 239, Rayne RoadTerraced | Aug 2014 | £174,000 | 80 m² | £2,175/m² | 3 |
| 241, Rayne RoadTerraced | Dec 2024 | £268,000 | 60 m² | £4,467/m² | 5 |
| 243, Rayne RoadTerraced · company-owned | May 2021 | £230,500 | 64 m² | £3,602/m² | 5 |
| 245, Rayne RoadTerraced | Jun 2021 | £260,000 | 84 m² | £3,095/m² | 3 |
| 247, Rayne RoadTerraced · company-owned | May 2022 | £269,950 | 66 m² | £4,090/m² | 3 |
| 251, Rayne RoadTerraced | Dec 2009 | £79,000 | 69 m² | £1,145/m² | 1 |
| 255, Rayne RoadTerraced | Dec 2023 | £240,000 | 71 m² | £3,380/m² | 1 |
| 257, Rayne RoadTerraced | Jun 2019 | £190,000 | 76 m² | £2,500/m² | 1 |
| 259, Rayne RoadDetached | Jul 2012 | £357,500 | 190 m² | £1,882/m² | 2 |
| 261, Rayne RoadOther | Aug 2026 | £520,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 275, Rayne RoadOther · company-owned | Sept 2016 | £2,900,000 | 48 m² | £60,417/m² | 2 |
The nearest station is Braintree, a short drive or bike ride (1.3 km), with 631k journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Liverpool Street.
The nearest bus stop is Lidl, 50 m away, with a bus about every 50 minutes on weekdays (routes 333, 70, 332); 5 departures an hour from the 4 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Work usually means a journey: the nearest place with 5,000 or more jobs is about 45 minutes away by public transport (21 by car).
Central London is 61 km away as the crow flies.
This is car country: only 7% of households have no car.
The nearest primary school is St Michael's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School, a few minutes' walk (300 m); 52% met the expected standard.
The nearest secondary is Tabor Academy, 800 m away; Attainment 8: 38.5 · 6.5% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Grammar schools are within reach: Chelmsford County High School for Girls (15 km).
The nearest supermarket is Lidl UK, 100 m away; Braintree PFS (50 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Blandford Medical Centre (200 m), with Christchurch Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (200 m).
For a haircut, Passion is 800 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Colchester General Hospital, 26 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 59% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 61% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 14 weeks).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 7 restaurants and cafés, 4 pubs and bars.
Braintree Greggs is the closest café or restaurant (100 m), and Braintree Bowls Club the nearest pub (550 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 38 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
There are 80 listed buildings.
Detached houses make up 45% of homes.
The typical home here was built in 1973-1982.
It's growing: about 235 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Marshalls Park, 850 m away; for exercise, Ab Salute Gym (850 m).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 7.7 µg/m³).
For holidays, London Stansted is 20 km away.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 43% of households own their home outright.
10 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.
Braintree constituency: Sir James Cleverly MP (Conservative), since May 2015. 2024 general election: Con hold, majority 3,670 (7.5%), turnout 63%. Vote shares: Conservative 36%, Labour 28%, Reform UK 23%, Liberal Democrat 6%.
14 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 CM7 2QF →
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
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.
No crimes recorded "on or near" Rayne Road in the last 12 months.
On this street: 2 of 104 homes with certificates have solar panels, 2 a heat pump, and 10 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 1.4% | 1.2% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.5% | 1.9% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 93.7% | 78.1% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 3.9% | 9.8% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 1.5% | 9.4% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.1% | 0.4% | 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.
Nearest: Canvey Island Foreshore · about 46 min
Nearest: Colne Valley Railway · about 32 min
Nearest: Colchester Zoo · about 33 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.
National infrastructure projects and headline schemes only, not local planning applications. See them all on a map.