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On Basingstoke Road, in Spencers Wood & Swallowfield
What it's like at RG7 1QS: every home that has sold on Basingstoke 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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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).
Sales and extensions on Basingstoke Road; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
2 of the 293 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 2, Basingstoke RoadSemi-detached | Aug 2012 | £315,000 | – | – | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hatherley, Basingstoke RoadSemi-detached | Mar 2010 | £250,000 | 131 m² | £1,908/m² | 2 |
| Honeymans House, Basingstoke RoadDetached | May 2015 | £615,000 | – | – | 1 |
| Hunters End, Basingstoke RoadSemi-detached | Dec 2022 | £498,000 | 108 m² | £4,611/m² | 2 |
| Kingston, Basingstoke RoadDetached | Jul 2016 | £634,000 | – | – | 1 |
| Kingston Cottage, Basingstoke RoadDetached | Nov 2019 | £680,000 | 180 m² | £3,778/m² | 2 |
| Partridge House, Basingstoke RoadDetached | Oct 2015 | £610,000 | – | – | 1 |
| Poachers Cottage, Basingstoke RoadDetached | Sept 2015 | £600,000 | – | – | 1 |
| Skomer, Basingstoke RoadSemi-detached | Mar 1996 | £60,000 | 80 m² | £750/m² | 1 |
| The Retreat, Basingstoke RoadDetached | Oct 2022 | £710,000 | 154 m² | £4,610/m² | 1 |
| Westbourne House, Basingstoke RoadDetached | Mar 2009 | £616,000 | 222 m² | £2,775/m² | 1 |
| Woodside Cottage, Basingstoke RoadDetached | Aug 2026 | £690,000 | 112 m² | £6,161/m² | 2 |
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: 50% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is Mortimer, a drive away (5.0 km), with 158k journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Paddington.
The nearest bus stop is The Bull, 150 m away, with fewer than one bus an hour on weekdays (route 600); 4 departures an hour from the 4 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Central London is 59 km away as the crow flies.
This is car country: only 5% of households have no car.
The nearest primary school is Lambs Lane Primary School, a short drive or bike ride (2.8 km).
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Oakbank School, 4.6 km away.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Maiden Erlegh School (5.9 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: Reading School (6.5 km) and Kendrick School (6.8 km).
It's a family area: 22% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is Lidl Great Britain, 4.9 km away, with Swallowfield Parish Stores closer still (1.9 km) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Swallowfield Medical Practice (1.9 km), with Day Lewis Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (3.4 km).
For a haircut, Sally Ann’s Hair Salon is 5.7 km away.
The nearest full A&E is Royal Berkshire Hospital, 6.8 km away, rated good by the CQC.
At its trust, 62% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 81% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 11 weeks).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 12 restaurants and cafés, 6 pubs and bars.
RSF Tennis Club is the closest café or restaurant (100 m), and The Bull at Riseley the nearest pub (50 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 45 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
There are 81 listed buildings.
It's a mix of homes: 13% flats and 39% detached houses.
It's new: 53% of homes were built since 2000.
It's growing: about 582 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Wellington Country Park, 900 m away; for exercise, Arborfield Green Leisure Centre (5.4 km).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 7.5 µg/m³).
For holidays, London Heathrow is 36 km away.
5 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pound House | II | 90 m |
| Bull Lane Cottage | II | 180 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.
Wokingham constituency: Clive Jones MP (Liberal Democrat), since July 2024. 2024 general election: LD gain from Con, majority 8,345 (15.5%), turnout 72%. Vote shares: Liberal Democrat 48%, Conservative 32%, Reform UK 10%, Labour 7%.
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 RG7 1QS →
Most households own their home, 11% rent privately.
It's highly educated: 46% 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.
On this street: 7 of 209 homes with certificates have solar panels, 11 a heat pump, and 81 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.8% | 1.1% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 1.3% | 0.7% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 88.7% | 92.0% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 5.4% | 0.9% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 3.7% | 5.9% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.6% | 0.3% | 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: The Serpentine - Hyde Park · about 52 min
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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 293 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.