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On Reading Road, in Shiplake & Binfield Heath
What it's like at RG9 3PH: every home that has sold on Reading 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). 4 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 Reading Road; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
24 of the 250 homes on the street are owned by companies (1 overseas).
| Beresford House, Reading RoadDetached | Mar 2025 | £1,950,000 | 300 m² | £6,500/m² | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Highlands House, Reading RoadDetached | May 2024 | £1,600,000 | 349 m² | £4,585/m² | 4 |
| Mount Ida, Reading RoadOther | Oct 2019 | £1,915,863 | 358 m² | £5,352/m² | 2 |
| Raleith, Reading RoadDetached | Jul 2000 | £525,000 | – | – | 1 |
| Rambler Cottage, Reading RoadDetached | Jul 2010 | £1,150,000 | 294 m² | £3,912/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: 58% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is Shiplake, about a 5-minute walk (550 m), with 129k journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Paddington.
The nearest bus stop is Station Road, 200 m away, with a bus about every 32 minutes on weekdays (routes 28, 28a); 8 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 49 minutes away by public transport (22 by car).
Central London is 56 km away as the crow flies.
This is car country: only 5% of households have no car.
The nearest primary school is Shiplake Church of England School, a short drive or bike ride (1.6 km); 86% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Gillotts School, 2.7 km away; Attainment 8: 61.3 · 29.2% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Grammar schools are within reach: Kendrick School (7.9 km) and Reading School (8.1 km).
The nearest supermarket is Tesco Superstore, 1.7 km away, with Shiplake Butcher closer still (450 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Wargrave Practice (2.3 km), with Tesco Instore Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (1.7 km).
For a haircut, Sheer Indulgence is 1.7 km away.
The nearest full A&E is Royal Berkshire Hospital, 7.9 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: 15 restaurants and cafés, 8 pubs and bars.
The Baskerville is the closest café or restaurant (500 m), and Harpsden Cricket Club the nearest pub (1.5 km).
It's a low-crime area: about 25 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
There are 158 listed buildings.
Detached houses make up 66% of homes.
The typical home here was built in 1955-1964.
It's growing: about 261 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Marsh Meadows, 2.1 km away; for exercise, No Limits (1.7 km).
The air is clean: background nitrogen dioxide is 6.9 µg/m³, among the lowest in the country.
4 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lower Shiplake War Memorial | II | 190 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.
Henley and Thame constituency: Freddie van Mierlo MP (Liberal Democrat), since July 2024. 2024 general election: LD gain from Con, majority 6,267 (11.8%), turnout 72%. Vote shares: Liberal Democrat 45%, Conservative 33%, Reform UK 10%, Labour 7%.
17 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 RG9 3PH →
For holidays, London Heathrow is 34 km away.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 46% of households own their home outright.
It's highly educated: 53% 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.
Nearest: The Serpentine - Hyde Park · about 54 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.
On this street: 1 of 184 homes with certificates have solar panels, 1 a heat pump, and 67 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 1.2% | 1.3% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 7.4% | 2.7% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 67.1% | 82.2% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 21.6% | 7.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 3.2% | 7.4% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.1% | 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.
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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 250 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.