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On Ashwell Common, in Great Ashby & Wymondley
What it's like at SG4 7LJ: every home that has sold on Ashwell Common 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.
1 home on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Ashwell Common; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 10 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 1, Ashwell CommonSemi-detached | Jun 2021 | £495,000 | 87 m² | £5,690/m² | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2, Ashwell CommonSemi-detached | May 1995 | £72,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 3, Ashwell CommonSemi-detached | Mar 2007 | £236,500 | – | – | 2 |
| 6, Ashwell CommonSemi-detached | Oct 2016 | £465,000 | 117 m² | £3,974/m² | 3 |
| 11, Ashwell CommonTerraced | Nov 2016 | £290,000 | 160 m² | £1,813/m² | 1 |
| 16, Ashwell CommonSemi-detached | Dec 2011 | £350,000 | 111 m² | £3,153/m² | 4 |
| 18, Ashwell CommonTerraced | Mar 2025 | £340,000 | 81 m² | £4,198/m² | 2 |
| 20, Ashwell CommonTerraced | Mar 2025 | £325,000 | 77 m² | £4,221/m² | 1 |
| 25, Ashwell CommonSemi-detached | Nov 2020 | £410,000 | 119 m² | £3,445/m² | 1 |
| Hillsbank House, Ashwell CommonDetached | Aug 1996 | £325,000 | – | – | 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: 42% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is Stevenage, a drive away (3.7 km), with 4.7m journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Kings Cross.
The nearest bus stop is The Waggon and Horses PH, 250 m away, with a bus about every 21 minutes on weekdays (routes 55, 92, 56, 92A); 6 departures an hour from the 2 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Central London is 48 km away as the crow flies.
This is car country: only 7% of households have no car.
The nearest primary school is Graveley Primary School, a few minutes' walk (under 50 m); 38% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is The Saint John Henry Newman Catholic School, 1.6 km away; Attainment 8: 57.9 · 22% of GCSEs at 8–9.
It's a family area: 21% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is Sainsbury's, 1.6 km away, with BBQ land closer still (1.1 km) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is St Nicholas Health Centre (2.4 km), with St. Nicholas Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (2.4 km).
For a haircut, Shades of Gray is 2.1 km away.
The nearest full A&E is Lister Hospital, 1.5 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 47% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 65% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 13 weeks).
It's quiet in the evenings: only 6 restaurants, cafés and pubs in the neighbourhood itself.
Coffee Haven is the closest café or restaurant (750 m), and The Waggon and Horses the nearest pub (300 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 51 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
There are 65 listed buildings.
It's a mix of homes: 11% flats and 26% detached houses.
It's new: 71% of homes were built since 2000.
The nearest park is St Nicholas Park, 2.7 km away; for exercise, Active4less (1.0 km).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 8.2 µg/m³).
For holidays, London Luton is 13 km away.
Most households own their home, 16% 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Waters Edge and Number 4 | II | 180 m |
| Pondside Cottage | II | 180 m |
| Gothic House | 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.
Hitchin constituency: Alistair Strathern MP (Labour), since October 2023. 2024 general election: Lab gain from Con, majority 8,109 (15.4%), turnout 69%. Vote shares: Labour 44%, Conservative 29%, Reform UK 13%, Liberal Democrat 9%.
35 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 SG4 7LJ →
On this street: 0 of 7 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 0 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.5% | 1.0% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.2% | 1.5% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 96.7% | 82.2% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 1.0% | 4.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 1.7% | 11.6% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.0% | 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.
National infrastructure projects and headline schemes only, not local planning applications. See them all on a map.
Nearest: The Serpentine - Hyde Park · about 63 min
Nearest: Leighton Buzzard Light Railway · about 53 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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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 10 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.