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On Water End Road, in Northchurch & Potten End
What it's like at HP4 2SH: every home that has sold on Water End 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.
3 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Water End Road; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 44 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 3, Water End RoadTerraced | Mar 2016 | £340,000 | 60 m² | £5,667/m² | 3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3a, Water End RoadFlat | Sept 2016 | £285,000 | 74 m² | £3,851/m² | 1 |
| 3b, Water End RoadFlat | Apr 2017 | £252,000 | 66 m² | £3,818/m² | 2 |
| 5, Water End RoadTerraced | Nov 2025 | £305,000 | 38 m² | £8,026/m² | 1 |
| 11, Water End RoadTerraced | Jul 2001 | £100,000 | 39 m² | £2,564/m² | 2 |
| 13, Water End RoadTerraced | Jun 2002 | £269,950 | 109 m² | £2,477/m² | 2 |
| 19, Water End RoadTerraced | Sept 2021 | £395,000 | 80 m² | £4,938/m² | 2 |
| 23, Water End RoadDetached | Nov 1999 | £95,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 25, Water End RoadSemi-detached | Jun 1997 | £94,500 | 67 m² | £1,410/m² | 1 |
| 37, Water End RoadSemi-detached | Aug 2021 | £795,000 | 123 m² | £6,463/m² | 4 |
| 39, Water End RoadTerraced | Oct 2018 | £543,500 | 130 m² | £4,181/m² | 3 |
| 47, Water End RoadSemi-detached | Oct 2010 | £565,000 | – | – | 3 |
| Beechwood House, Water End RoadDetached | Mar 1997 | £430,000 | – | – | 1 |
| Brackens, Water End RoadDetached | Feb 2016 | £1,400,000 | 241 m² | £5,809/m² | 2 |
| Greyholme, Water End RoadTerraced | Apr 2018 | £525,000 | 91 m² | £5,769/m² | 2 |
| Holly Bush Wood, Water End RoadDetached | Sept 1997 | £590,000 | – | – | 1 |
| Jenady, Water End RoadSemi-detached | Oct 2020 | £615,000 | 137 m² | £4,489/m² | 2 |
| Latimer House, Water End RoadDetached | Mar 2010 | £2,762,500 | 441 m² | £6,264/m² | 2 |
| Ramblers, Water End RoadSemi-detached | Jan 2002 | £250,000 | 93 m² | £2,688/m² | 1 |
| Shawlands, Water End RoadDetached | Nov 1996 | £275,350 | – | – | 1 |
| Sugar Lodge, Water End RoadDetached | Jun 2016 | £1,875,000 | 323 m² | £5,805/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: 52% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is Berkhamsted, a drive away (3.2 km), with 1.3m journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Euston.
Work usually means a journey: the nearest place with 5,000 or more jobs is about 50 minutes away by public transport (19 by car).
Central London is 43 km away as the crow flies.
The nearest primary school is Potten End CofE Primary School, about a 10-minute walk (700 m); 59% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is John F Kennedy Catholic School, 1.9 km away; Attainment 8: 47.9 · 10.7% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Grammar schools are within reach: Chesham Grammar School (8.1 km) and Dr Challoner's Grammar School (11.8 km).
The nearest supermarket is Co-operative Food, 2.5 km away, with Rumblers Farm Shop closer still (1.5 km) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Parkwood Surgery (2.4 km), with Gadebridge Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (2.1 km).
For a haircut, Potten End Village Barbers is 200 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Luton and Dunstable Hospital, 14 km away, rated good by the CQC.
At its trust, 63% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 60% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 15 weeks).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 5 restaurants and cafés, 7 pubs and bars.
Cedar Village Store & Coffee Shop is the closest café or restaurant (700 m), and The Plough the nearest pub (600 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 42 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
There are 117 listed buildings.
Detached houses make up 45% of homes.
The typical home here was built in 1955-1964.
Bungalow country: 21% of homes are bungalows.
It's growing: about 130 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Warners End Valley, 2.4 km away; for exercise, Fives Courts (3.2 km).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 7.3 µg/m³).
For holidays, London Luton is 18 km away.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 47% of households own their home outright.
3 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.
Harpenden and Berkhamsted constituency: Victoria Collins MP (Liberal Democrat), since July 2024. 2024 general election: LD gain from Con, majority 10,708 (19.7%), turnout 75%. Vote shares: Liberal Democrat 50%, Conservative 31%, Reform UK 8%, Labour 8%.
5 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 HP4 2SH →
It's an older community: 28% are 65 or over.
It's highly educated: 47% of adults have a degree.
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.
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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 44 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
Nearest: The Serpentine - Hyde Park · about 59 min
Nearest: Leighton Buzzard Light Railway · about 37 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.
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On this street: 1 of 32 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 1 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 1.2% | 1.1% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 4.3% | 1.0% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 77.6% | 86.9% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 13.9% | 1.7% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 3.3% | 9.5% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.0% | 0.7% | 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.