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On Altrincham Road, in Mobberley, Plumley & High Legh
What it's like at SK9 4JE: every home that has sold on Altrincham 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.
Sales and extensions on Altrincham Road; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
14 of the 193 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 1, Oak Brow Cottages, Altrincham RoadTerraced | Jan 2025 | £485,000 | 90 m² | £5,389/m² | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2, Oak Brow Cottage, Altrincham RoadTerraced | May 1995 | £92,500 | 74 m² | £1,250/m² | 1 |
| 2, Oak Brow Cottages, Altrincham RoadOther | Oct 2023 | £390,000 | 72 m² | £5,417/m² | 2 |
| 4, Oak Brow Cottage, Altrincham RoadTerraced | Mar 1998 | £89,950 | – | – | 2 |
| 4, Oak Brow Cottages, Altrincham RoadTerraced | Nov 2024 | £307,000 | 59 m² | £5,203/m² | 1 |
| 5, Oak Brow Cottages, Altrincham RoadTerraced | Aug 2014 | £215,100 | 72 m² | £2,988/m² | 1 |
| Beech Cottage, Altrincham RoadSemi-detached | Oct 2018 | £642,500 | – | – | 2 |
| Constable House, Altrincham RoadDetached | Feb 2020 | £491,000 | 144 m² | £3,410/m² | 1 |
| Fern Cottage, Altrincham RoadSemi-detached | Oct 2024 | £975,000 | 157 m² | £6,210/m² | 4 |
| First House, Altrincham RoadOther | Nov 2021 | £20,000 | – | – | 2 |
| Oak Brow, Altrincham RoadSemi-detached | Jun 1999 | £350,000 | 377 m² | £928/m² | 1 |
| Ship Inn, Altrincham RoadOther | Feb 2019 | £1,550,000 | – | – | 1 |
| Sundial Cottage, Altrincham RoadFlat | Jul 2002 | £75,000 | – | – | 1 |
| Sundial House, Altrincham RoadDetached | Jul 2002 | £670,239 | 460 m² | £1,457/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: 47% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is Styal, a few minutes' walk (450 m), with 28k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Manchester Piccadilly.
Work usually means a journey: the nearest place with 5,000 or more jobs is about 44 minutes away by public transport (15 by car).
This is car country: only 6% of households have no car.
The nearest primary school is Styal Primary School, a few minutes' walk (under 50 m); 63% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Wilmslow High School, 3.1 km away; Attainment 8: 51.4 · 18.3% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Knutsford Academy (2.2 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: Altrincham Grammar School for Boys (6.5 km) and Saint Ambrose College (6.7 km).
The nearest supermarket is Spar, 2.1 km away, with Earlams Community Shop & Cafe closer still (under 50 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Hulme Hall Medical Group Handforth (2.1 km), with Boots the closest pharmacy (2.1 km).
For a haircut, Vogue Hairdressing is 2.4 km away.
The nearest full A&E is Wythenshawe Hospital, 9.2 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 59% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 64% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 13 weeks).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 9 restaurants and cafés, 16 pubs and bars.
Bloom Coffee Lounge is the closest café or restaurant (1.4 km), and The Ship the nearest pub (under 50 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 51 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
There are 296 listed buildings.
Detached houses make up 52% of homes.
The typical home here was built in 1955-1964.
It's growing: about 479 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Lacey Green Park, 1.7 km away; for exercise, Train Heald Green (2.4 km).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 7.2 µg/m³).
For holidays, Manchester is 7.3 km away.
9 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Farm Fold Cottages | II | 30 m |
| Farm Fold Cottages | II | 40 m |
| Farm Fold Cottages | II | 40 m |
| Farm Fold Cottages | II | 60 m |
| Farm Fold Cottages | II | 60 m |
| Farm Fold Cottages | II | 60 m |
| Farm Fold Cottages | II | 60 m |
| Methodist Chapel, Farm Fold | II | 70 m |
| Tudor Cottage | II | 120 m |
| Styal Cross | II | 130 m |
| Oak Cottages | II | 130 m |
| Estate Office Oak Cottages | II | 140 m |
Nearest 12 shown. 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.
Tatton constituency: Esther McVey MP (Conservative), since June 2017. 2024 general election: Con hold, majority 1,136 (2.2%), turnout 68%. Vote shares: Conservative 38%, Labour 36%, Reform UK 12%, Liberal Democrat 9%.
14 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 SK9 4JE →
Neighbours tend to stay put: 45% of households own their home outright.
It's an older community: 26% are 65 or over.
It's highly educated: 42% 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.
Plaques recorded by Open Plaques (openplaques.org), a volunteer project; its data is public domain. Not every plaque is recorded.
On this street: 0 of 129 homes with certificates have solar panels, 4 a heat pump, and 39 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 1.1% | 0.9% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 5.3% | 1.1% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 66.9% | 88.4% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 20.8% | 4.8% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 5.8% | 5.2% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.3% | 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.
Nearest: Wallasey · about 60 min
Nearest: Waterworld (Stoke-On-Trent) · about 50 min
Nearest: Lymm Heritage Centre · about 32 min
Nearest: East Lancashire Railway · about 53 min
Nearest: Moss Lane · about 31 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.
Tap a type to see what it covers and how it has changed in Cheshire East since 2011.
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 193 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.