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On Windmill Road, in Brentford Central
What it's like at W5 4BT: every home that has sold on Windmill 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.
9 homes on the street extended (energy certificates). 5 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 Windmill Road; planning applications within 500 m (Planning London Datahub); new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
5 of the 138 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| First Floor Flat, 158, Windmill RoadFlat | May 2000 | £167,000 | – | – | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ground Floor Flat, 158, Windmill RoadFlat · company-owned | Oct 2024 | £522,000 | – | – | 3 |
| 160, Windmill RoadTerraced | Nov 2006 | £419,950 | – | – | 3 |
| Flat B, 162, Windmill RoadFlat | Feb 2016 | £417,000 | – | – | 4 |
| 162a, Windmill RoadFlat | Jun 2021 | £520,000 | 61 m² | £8,525/m² | 4 |
| 164, Windmill RoadTerraced | Jul 2022 | £667,000 | 141 m² | £4,730/m² | 2 |
| 166, Windmill RoadTerraced | Jun 2026 | £825,000 | 109 m² | £7,569/m² | 2 |
| Flat A, 168, Windmill RoadFlat | Nov 2004 | £280,000 | 103 m² | £2,718/m² | 1 |
| Flat B, 168, Windmill RoadFlat | Nov 2004 | £250,000 | 55 m² | £4,545/m² | 1 |
| 168a, Windmill RoadFlat | Oct 2024 | £480,000 | 103 m² | £4,660/m² | 1 |
| 168b, Windmill RoadFlat | Feb 2025 | £450,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 172, Windmill RoadTerraced | Jan 2023 | £900,000 | 145 m² | £6,207/m² | 2 |
| 174, Windmill RoadTerraced | May 2011 | £467,000 | 115 m² | £4,061/m² | 2 |
| 176, Windmill RoadFlat | Jan 2006 | £245,000 | 51 m² | £4,804/m² | 3 |
| Ground Floor Flat, 180, Windmill RoadFlat | Jul 2002 | £190,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 182, Windmill RoadTerraced | Jan 2025 | £830,000 | 122 m² | £6,803/m² | 2 |
| 2, Boston Lodge, Windmill RoadFlat | Aug 2010 | £110,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 3, Boston Lodge, Windmill RoadFlat | Jul 1997 | £64,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 12, Boston Lodge, Windmill RoadFlat | Feb 2005 | £84,600 | – | – | 1 |
| Flat 8, Boston Lodge, 190, Windmill RoadFlat | Jun 2000 | £62,500 | 53 m² | £1,179/m² | 2 |
| Flat 13, Boston Lodge, 190, Windmill RoadFlat | Jan 2011 | £245,000 | 61 m² | £4,016/m² | 2 |
| Flat 14, Boston Lodge, 190, Windmill RoadFlat | May 2004 | £204,000 | 53 m² | £3,849/m² | 1 |
| Flat 4, Boston Lodge, 190, Windmill RoadFlat | May 2002 | £40,000 | 53 m² | £755/m² | 1 |
| Flat 12, Boston Lodge, 190, Windmill RoadFlat | Oct 2022 | £264,000 | 53 m² | £4,981/m² | 2 |
| Flat 10, Boston Lodge, 190, Windmill RoadFlat | Jul 2016 | £360,000 | 56 m² | £6,429/m² | 1 |
| Flat 2, Boston Lodge, 190, Windmill RoadFlat | Dec 2023 | £148,000 | 51 m² | £2,902/m² | 3 |
| Flat 1, Boston Lodge, 190, Windmill RoadFlat | Sept 2019 | £96,875 | 53 m² | £1,828/m² | 1 |
| Flat 9, Boston Lodge, 190, Windmill RoadFlat | Aug 2023 | £323,000 | 53 m² | £6,094/m² | 1 |
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 Brentford, about a 5-minute walk (600 m), with 977k journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Waterloo.
The nearest bus stop is Ealing Park Gardens, 200 m away, with a bus about every 9 minutes on weekdays (route E2); 65 departures an hour from the 8 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Rail is a big part of life: 11% of workers commuted by train or Tube.
Central London is 13 km away as the crow flies.
The nearest primary school is Our Lady and St John's Catholic Primary School, a few minutes' walk (300 m); 90% met the expected standard.
The closest top-rated primary is Nishkam School West London (1.8 km), with 2 rated strongly by Ofsted within 2 km.
The nearest secondary is Gunnersbury Catholic School, 250 m away; Attainment 8: 63.5 · 32.5% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Nishkam School West London (1.8 km) and Twyford Church of England High School (3.3 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: The Tiffin Girls' School (6.8 km) and Tiffin School (8.4 km).
The nearest supermarket is The Co-Operative Food, 400 m away, with David's closer still (150 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Albany Practice (650 m), with Bramley Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (650 m).
For a haircut, Divine Revelation is 500 m away.
The nearest full A&E is West Middlesex University Hospital, 1.7 km away, rated good by the CQC.
At its trust, 72% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 69% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 12 weeks).
Evenings out are on the doorstep: 32 restaurants and cafés and 11 pubs and bars in the neighbourhood.
Sodexo @ University of West London is the closest café or restaurant (350 m), and The Globe the nearest pub (300 m).
Crime is around the national middle: about 124 per 1,000 residents a year.
Much of it is protected: 31% of postcodes sit in a conservation area (St Paul's Brentford, St Paul's, Brentford).
There are 54 listed buildings.
Homes are mostly flats (57%).
The typical home here was built in 1965-1972.
It's growing: about 466 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
45 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.
Brentford and Isleworth constituency: Ruth Cadbury MP (Labour), since May 2015. 2024 general election: Lab hold, majority 9,824 (21.7%), turnout 57%. Vote shares: Labour 44%, Conservative 23%, Green Party 9%, Reform UK 9%.
62 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 W5 4BT →
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest park is Boston Manor Park, 500 m away; for exercise, London Fight Academy (500 m).
A swim is a short trip away: The Serpentine - Hyde Park, 10 km away, was rated good for water quality in 2025.
The air is city air: background nitrogen dioxide is 18.5 µg/m³, well above the WHO guideline of 10.
For holidays, London Heathrow is 10 km away.
Most households own their home, 29% rent privately.
It's highly educated: 50% of adults have a degree.
The nearest university is University of West London, 1.8 km away (TEF Silver).
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 98 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 10 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.2% | 0.4% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.9% | 0.6% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 55.8% | 74.4% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.0% | 0.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 15.4% | 13.5% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 27.8% | 11.3% | 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 138 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
National infrastructure projects and headline schemes only, not local planning applications. See them all on a map.
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