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On The Common, in Dewsbury Savile Town & Thornhill Lees
What it's like at WF12 0LJ: every home that has sold on The 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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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).
Sales and extensions on The Common; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
2 of the 53 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 1, The CommonSemi-detached | May 2024 | £170,000 | – | – | 3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3, The CommonTerraced | May 2018 | £103,250 | 99 m² | £1,043/m² | 6 |
| 5, The CommonTerraced | Dec 2016 | £115,000 | 67 m² | £1,716/m² | 2 |
| 6, The CommonTerraced | Apr 2022 | £140,500 | 110 m² | £1,277/m² | 1 |
| 7, The CommonTerraced | Oct 2003 | £60,000 | 67 m² | £896/m² | 1 |
| 8, The CommonTerraced · company-owned | Jul 1997 | £24,750 | 73 m² | £339/m² | 1 |
| 9, The CommonTerraced | Jun 2021 | £135,000 | 106 m² | £1,274/m² | 5 |
| 12, The CommonTerraced | Jun 2009 | £80,000 | 76 m² | £1,053/m² | 1 |
| 13, The CommonTerraced | Sept 2019 | £93,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 14, The CommonTerraced | Nov 2022 | £136,500 | 75 m² | £1,820/m² | 2 |
| 15, The CommonTerraced | Oct 2021 | £106,000 | 66 m² | £1,606/m² | 3 |
| 16, The CommonTerraced | May 2014 | £69,000 | 68 m² | £1,015/m² | 1 |
| 19, The CommonTerraced | May 1999 | £28,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 20, The CommonTerraced | Nov 2023 | £145,000 | 82 m² | £1,768/m² | 5 |
| 22, The CommonTerraced | Dec 2021 | £124,995 | 77 m² | £1,623/m² | 3 |
| 23, The CommonTerraced | Aug 2019 | £126,000 | 80 m² | £1,575/m² | 5 |
| 24, The CommonTerraced | Aug 2007 | £106,000 | 87 m² | £1,218/m² | 1 |
| 27, The CommonDetached | Dec 2001 | £54,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 29, The CommonOther | Oct 2017 | £117,000 | 54 m² | £2,167/m² | 5 |
| 30, The CommonTerraced | Feb 2025 | £150,000 | 76 m² | £1,974/m² | 5 |
| 31, The CommonTerraced | Mar 2026 | £150,000 | 66 m² | £2,273/m² | 4 |
| 35, The CommonTerraced | Aug 2024 | £170,000 | 80 m² | £2,125/m² | 6 |
| 37, The CommonSemi-detached | Feb 2010 | £82,000 | 73 m² | £1,123/m² | 1 |
| 39, The CommonTerraced | Apr 2020 | £103,000 | 80 m² | £1,288/m² | 3 |
| 40, The CommonTerraced | Dec 2018 | £107,000 | 63 m² | £1,698/m² | 6 |
| 41, The CommonTerraced | Jun 2018 | £107,000 | 79 m² | £1,354/m² | 3 |
| 41a, The CommonSemi-detached | Apr 2024 | £170,000 | 83 m² | £2,048/m² | 4 |
| 42, The CommonTerraced | Jan 1995 | £35,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 43, The CommonTerraced | Nov 2004 | £85,000 | 75 m² | £1,133/m² | 1 |
| 44, The CommonTerraced | Oct 2021 | £140,500 | 99 m² | £1,419/m² | 5 |
| 45, The CommonTerraced | Jul 2013 | £65,000 | 76 m² | £855/m² | 1 |
| 47, The CommonTerraced | Feb 2015 | £110,000 | 74 m² | £1,486/m² | 4 |
| 48, The CommonDetached | Mar 1998 | £59,950 | – | – | 1 |
| 49, The CommonTerraced | Dec 2022 | £178,000 | 91 m² | £1,956/m² | 4 |
| 50, The CommonDetached | Jun 2024 | £315,000 | 167 m² | £1,886/m² | 1 |
| 51, The CommonTerraced | Dec 2005 | £75,000 | 54 m² | £1,389/m² | 4 |
| 51a, The CommonTerraced · company-owned | Sept 2023 | £70,000 | 76 m² | £921/m² | 1 |
| 52, The CommonSemi-detached | Jan 2026 | £195,500 | 81 m² | £2,414/m² | 5 |
| 53, The CommonTerraced | Oct 2019 | £68,000 | 73 m² | £932/m² | 7 |
| 54, The CommonSemi-detached | Nov 2025 | £200,000 | 83 m² | £2,410/m² | 4 |
| 55, The CommonTerraced | Jul 2005 | £115,000 | 74 m² | £1,554/m² | 1 |
| 56, The CommonSemi-detached | Feb 2023 | £145,000 | 69 m² | £2,101/m² | 3 |
| 57, The CommonTerraced | Jul 2004 | £93,000 | – | – | 4 |
| 58, The CommonSemi-detached | Feb 2022 | £200,000 | 78 m² | £2,564/m² | 1 |
| 61, The CommonTerraced | Dec 2000 | £39,500 | 96 m² | £411/m² | 2 |
| 65, The CommonTerraced | Apr 2015 | £66,500 | 81 m² | £821/m² | 2 |
| 67, The CommonTerraced | Sept 2020 | £106,000 | 160 m² | £663/m² | 2 |
| The Lodge, Parkhouse Farm, The CommonDetached | Apr 2000 | £120,000 | – | – | 1 |
| Hamlet, Parkhouse Farm, The CommonSemi-detached | Aug 2018 | £220,000 | 134 m² | £1,642/m² | 2 |
| The Barn, Parkhouse Farm, The CommonSemi-detached | Jul 2000 | £170,000 | – | – | 1 |
| The Old Smithy, The CommonDetached | Jan 2018 | £200,000 | 131 m² | £1,527/m² | 4 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Ravensthorpe, a short drive or bike ride (2.3 km), with 31k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Leeds.
The nearest bus stop is The Common, 100 m away, with fewer than one bus an hour on weekdays (routes 230A, 230); 27 departures an hour from the 10 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Plenty of jobs are close by: somewhere with 5,000 or more jobs (a town centre, business park or big hospital) is about 12 minutes away by public transport or on foot.
The nearest primary school is Thornhill Lees Church of England Voluntary Controlled Infant and Nursery School, about a 10-minute walk (900 m).
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Thornhill Community Academy, A Share Academy, 1.2 km away; Attainment 8: 43.6 · 7.2% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Horbury Academy (5.8 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: Heckmondwike Grammar School (4.1 km).
It's a family area: 22% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is Mullaco Dewsbury Supermarket, 450 m away; Blitz Mobile (650 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Thornhill Lees Medical Centre (650 m), with Sykes Chemist the closest pharmacy (650 m).
For a haircut, 133 By El is 600 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Pinderfields Hospital, 9.5 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 66% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 12 weeks).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 12 restaurants and cafés, 3 pubs and bars.
La Dolce Vita is the closest café or restaurant (400 m), and Thornhill Cricket And Bowling Club the nearest pub (700 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (15 of them).
Crime is around the national middle: about 71 per 1,000 residents a year.
There are 15 listed buildings.
It's a mix of homes: 12% flats and 13% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1930s.
The nearest park is Thornhill Rectory Park, 800 m away; for exercise, Overthorpe Park (850 m).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 13.1 µg/m³).
For holidays, Leeds Bradford is 21 km away, and Manchester, with far more destinations, 56 km.
16 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Park House Farmhouse and Adjoining Outbuildings | II | 130 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.
Dewsbury and Batley constituency: Iqbal Mohamed MP (Independent), since July 2024. 2024 general election: Ind gain from Lab, majority 6,934 (18.2%), turnout 53%. Vote shares: Independent 41%, Labour 23%, Reform UK 16%, Conservative 11%.
11 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 WF12 0LJ →
Compared with all 7,264 neighbourhoods in England and Wales (council well-being: all councils). Open a tab below for the detail.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 42% of households own their home outright.
It's young: 25% of residents are aged 15–29.
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.
Tap a type to see what it covers and how it has changed in Kirklees 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 53 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
Nearest: Formby · about 83 min
Nearest: Ilkley Swimming Pool · about 57 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: 0 of 40 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 | 1.3% | 1.3% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.0% | 0.4% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 98.5% | 93.9% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.1% | 0.5% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 1.4% | 4.6% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.0% | 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.