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On Alderford Street, in Hedingham, Gosfield & Greenstead Green
What it's like at CO9 3HX: every home that has sold on Alderford Street 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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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.
Sales and extensions on Alderford Street; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 31 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 3, Alderford StreetSemi-detached | Dec 2015 | £180,000 | 58 m² | £3,103/m² | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5, Alderford StreetDetached | Dec 2020 | £400,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 11, Alderford StreetTerraced | Sept 2005 | £142,500 | 88 m² | £1,619/m² | 1 |
| 13, Alderford StreetSemi-detached | Apr 1997 | £15,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 17a, Alderford StreetDetached | Feb 2018 | £440,000 | 144 m² | £3,056/m² | 2 |
| 17b, Alderford StreetSemi-detached | Mar 2004 | £322,500 | – | – | 3 |
| 17c, Alderford StreetDetached | Jan 2007 | £300,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 19, Alderford StreetSemi-detached | Jul 2012 | £292,000 | 141 m² | £2,071/m² | 2 |
| 21, Alderford StreetSemi-detached | Jul 2016 | £378,000 | 127 m² | £2,976/m² | 4 |
| 23, Alderford StreetTerraced | Feb 2023 | £260,000 | 66 m² | £3,939/m² | 4 |
| 25, Alderford StreetTerraced | May 2026 | £242,500 | 60 m² | £4,042/m² | 2 |
| 27, Alderford StreetDetached | Sept 2007 | £190,000 | – | – | 4 |
| 28, Alderford StreetSemi-detached | Aug 2013 | £159,000 | 92 m² | £1,728/m² | 1 |
| 29, Alderford StreetTerraced | Oct 2017 | £225,000 | 86 m² | £2,616/m² | 1 |
| 30, Alderford StreetSemi-detached | Aug 2022 | £370,000 | 105 m² | £3,524/m² | 4 |
| 31, Alderford StreetTerraced | Mar 2018 | £237,500 | 83 m² | £2,861/m² | 1 |
| 38, Alderford StreetDetached | Aug 1996 | £26,500 | 58 m² | £457/m² | 1 |
| 40, Alderford StreetOther | Mar 2024 | £218,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 41, Alderford StreetDetached | Jul 1997 | £71,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 43, Alderford StreetSemi-detached | Oct 2016 | £240,000 | 95 m² | £2,526/m² | 3 |
| 45, Alderford StreetTerraced | Feb 2004 | £140,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 49, Alderford StreetTerraced | Aug 2024 | £345,000 | 67 m² | £5,149/m² | 1 |
| 53, Alderford StreetSemi-detached | Nov 2001 | £148,500 | – | – | 2 |
| 56, Alderford StreetDetached | Jun 2021 | £799,995 | 153 m² | £5,229/m² | 3 |
| 59, Alderford StreetDetached | Feb 2021 | £470,000 | 186 m² | £2,527/m² | 3 |
| Regency House, 5, Alderford StreetDetached | Jul 2024 | £450,000 | – | – | 1 |
| Wentworth House, 17c, Alderford StreetDetached | Dec 2017 | £430,000 | – | – | 2 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Braintree, a drive away (11 km), with 631k journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Liverpool Street.
The nearest bus stop is The Swan, 150 m away, with a bus about every 33 minutes on weekdays (routes 89, 87, 86, 85); 7 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 80 minutes away by public transport (34 by car).
Central London is 71 km away as the crow flies.
This is car country: only 9% of households have no car.
The nearest primary school is St Peter's Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School, Sible Hedingham, about a 10-minute walk (750 m); 55% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Hedingham School and Sixth Form, 1.3 km away; Attainment 8: 39.9 · 3.9% of GCSEs at 8–9.
The nearest supermarket is East Of England Co-op, 250 m away; Premier (450 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Hilton House Surgery (150 m), with Day Lewis Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (450 m).
The nearest full A&E is Colchester General Hospital, 21 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: 6 restaurants and cafés, 9 pubs and bars.
Corner Cafe is the closest café or restaurant (400 m), and The White Lion the nearest pub (700 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 38 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
There are 284 listed buildings.
It's a mix of homes: 9% flats and 37% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1965-1972.
The nearest park is Deer Park, 2.1 km away; for exercise, Halstead Leisure Centre Sports Hall (4.7 km).
A swim is a short trip away: Friars Meadow, River Stour, 12 km away, was rated good for water quality in 2025.
The air is clean: background nitrogen dioxide is 5.8 µg/m³, among the lowest in the country.
For holidays, London Stansted is 26 km away.
9 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 41, Alderford Street | II | 10 m |
| Pump Adjacent to North of Number 30 | II | 20 m |
| St Marys | II | 30 m |
| the Old Bakehouse and Adjoining Cottage | II | 40 m |
| Searles | II | 50 m |
| 13 and 15, Alderford Street | II | 70 m |
| Baymakers Cottage | II | 90 m |
| Davenants | II | 100 m |
| Alderford Mill | II* | 110 m |
| Mudpluggers Motorcycles and Adjoining House | II | 110 m |
| No. 60 (Acacia) and Nos. 64-66 | II | 120 m |
| Alderford Maltings Barn | II | 150 m |
Nearest 12 shown. 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.
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%.
3 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 CO9 3HX →
Most households own their home, 13% rent privately.
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.
Tap a type to see what it covers and how it has changed in Braintree since 2011.
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 31 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
On this street: 0 of 19 homes with certificates have solar panels, 2 a heat pump, and 6 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 1.2% | 1.2% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 1.8% | 1.9% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 83.4% | 78.1% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 8.8% | 9.8% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 5.0% | 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.
National infrastructure projects and headline schemes only, not local planning applications. See them all on a map.
Nearest: Manningtree Beach, Stour Estuary · about 43 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.