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On Macclesfield Road, in Gawsworth & Macclesfield Forest
What it's like at SK23 7QU: every home that has sold on Macclesfield 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.
1 home on the street extended (energy certificates). 3 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 Macclesfield Road; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
1 of the 119 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 1, Bulls Head Cottage, Macclesfield RoadTerraced | Feb 2000 | £71,500 | – | – | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2, Bulls Head Cottage, Macclesfield RoadTerraced | Apr 2005 | £157,000 | 74 m² | £2,122/m² | 3 |
| Glebe House, Macclesfield RoadDetached | Jul 2024 | £1,200,000 | 330 m² | £3,636/m² | 2 |
| Northfield, Macclesfield RoadDetached | Jun 2021 | £690,000 | 169 m² | £4,083/m² | 2 |
| Old Loom Cottage, Macclesfield RoadTerraced | Mar 2023 | £167,500 | 137 m² | £1,223/m² | 2 |
| Paddock Lodge, Macclesfield RoadDetached | Dec 1999 | £217,500 | – | – | 1 |
| Shepherds Bank, Macclesfield RoadOther | Feb 2017 | £25,000 | – | – | 1 |
| Smithy House, Macclesfield RoadDetached | Jan 2008 | £320,000 | 84 m² | £3,810/m² | 4 |
| Spout House Farm, Macclesfield RoadDetached | May 2018 | £395,000 | 255 m² | £1,549/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: 44% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is Whaley Bridge, a short drive or bike ride (2.9 km), with 134k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Manchester Piccadilly.
The nearest bus stop is Bull's Head, under 50 m away, with a bus about every 32 minutes on weekdays (routes 58, 60, 60A); 4 departures an hour from the 2 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Work usually means a journey: the nearest place with 5,000 or more jobs is about 41 minutes away by public transport (15 by car).
This is car country: only 7% of households have no car.
The nearest primary school is Kettleshulme St James CofE (VA) Primary School, a few minutes' walk (under 50 m); 44% met the expected standard.
The closest top-rated primary is Ash Grove Academy (1.1 km).
Few families with young children: only 13% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is Co-op Food, 2.8 km away; Edwin Wild & Son Butchers (2.9 km) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Goyt Valley Medical Practice (3.0 km), with Well the closest pharmacy (2.9 km).
For a haircut, Giovanni is 2.4 km away.
The nearest full A&E is Macclesfield District General Hospital, 2.3 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 48% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 62% 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: 3 restaurants and cafés, 15 pubs and bars.
District @ Peak Power Gym is the closest café or restaurant (2.2 km), and The Swan Inn the nearest pub (under 50 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 36 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
There are 350 listed buildings.
Detached houses make up 56% of homes.
The typical home here was built in 1955-1964.
It's growing: about 245 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Memorial Park, 2.5 km away; for exercise, Whaley Bridge Centre for Sports (2.3 km).
The air is clean: background nitrogen dioxide is 5.2 µg/m³, among the lowest in the country.
For holidays, Manchester is 15 km away.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 50% 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.
| Building | Grade | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Bull'S Head Cottages and the Bull'S Head | II | 10 m |
| Paddock Lodge the Tea Cosy | II | 20 m |
| Dales Cottage Dales Farmhouse | II | 60 m |
| Ely Fold Cottages | 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.
Macclesfield constituency: Tim Roca MP (Labour), since July 2024. 2024 general election: Lab gain from Con, majority 9,120 (17.3%), turnout 69%. Vote shares: Labour 47%, Conservative 30%, Reform UK 13%, Green Party 5%.
2 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 SK23 7QU →
It's an older community: 29% are 65 or over.
It's highly educated: 44% 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: 0 of 89 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 | 1.5% | 0.9% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 3.2% | 1.1% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 68.7% | 88.4% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 22.4% | 4.8% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 3.9% | 5.2% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.1% | 0.2% | 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 119 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
Nearest: Wallasey · about 68 min
Nearest: Waterworld (Stoke-On-Trent) · about 37 min
Nearest: Churnet Valley Railway · about 35 min
Nearest: Peak Wildlife Park · about 36 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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