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On Buttermere Drive, in Featherstone East & Essington
What it's like at WV11 2SA: every home that has sold on Buttermere Drive 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).
Sales and extensions on Buttermere Drive; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 11 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 1, Buttermere DriveDetached | Oct 2016 | £315,000 | 129 m² | £2,442/m² | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2, Buttermere DriveDetached | Jul 2020 | £405,000 | 165 m² | £2,455/m² | 1 |
| 3, Buttermere DriveDetached | Jun 2025 | £375,000 | 164 m² | £2,287/m² | 2 |
| 4, Buttermere DriveDetached | Nov 2020 | £365,000 | 145 m² | £2,517/m² | 1 |
| 7, Buttermere DriveDetached | Nov 1997 | £106,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 9, Buttermere DriveDetached | Jun 2014 | £249,950 | 101 m² | £2,475/m² | 1 |
| 10, Buttermere DriveDetached | Jul 2025 | £395,000 | 121 m² | £3,264/m² | 1 |
| 11, Buttermere DriveDetached | Oct 2009 | £250,000 | 112 m² | £2,232/m² | 1 |
| 17, Buttermere DriveDetached | Apr 2024 | £415,000 | 91 m² | £4,560/m² | 2 |
| 19, Buttermere DriveDetached | Apr 2004 | £191,000 | 95 m² | £2,011/m² | 2 |
| 21, Buttermere DriveDetached | Sept 2002 | £153,500 | – | – | 1 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Bloxwich North, a short drive or bike ride (2.7 km), with 123k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Birmingham New Street.
The nearest bus stop is New Street, 200 m away, with fewer than one bus an hour on weekdays (route 71); 3 departures an hour from the 5 stops within a 5-minute walk.
The nearest primary school is St John's Primary Academy, about a 10-minute walk (800 m); 70% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Coppice Performing Arts School, 1.4 km away; Attainment 8: 43.8 · 3.8% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Grammar schools are within reach: Queen Mary's High School (7.6 km) and Wolverhampton Girls' High School (7.8 km).
The nearest supermarket is Aldi Food Stores, 1.0 km away, with Essington Grocery closer still (450 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Essington Medical Centre (800 m), with Hawthorne Chemists the closest pharmacy (800 m).
For a haircut, La Belle is 2.2 km away.
The nearest full A&E is New Cross Hospital, 4.3 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 66% 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: 11 restaurants and cafés, 9 pubs and bars.
The Casual Cafe is the closest café or restaurant (150 m), and Essington Working Mens Club the nearest pub (100 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (10 of them).
Crime is around the national middle: about 87 per 1,000 residents a year.
It's a mix of homes: 10% flats and 30% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1955-1964.
It's growing: about 165 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Brownshore Lakes, 150 m away; for exercise, PureGym (3.7 km).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 10.8 µg/m³).
For holidays, Birmingham is 29 km away.
Most households own their home, 8% 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.
12 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.
Stone, Great Wyrley and Penkridge constituency: Sir Gavin Williamson MP (Conservative), since May 2010. 2024 general election: Con hold, majority 5,466 (12.8%), turnout 60%. Vote shares: Conservative 47%, Labour 34%, Liberal Democrat 7%, UK Independence Party 6%.
4 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 WV11 2SA →
Compared with all 7,264 neighbourhoods in England and Wales (council well-being: all councils). Open a tab below for the detail.
On this street: 0 of 9 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 | 1.0% | 1.1% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.6% | 1.1% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 95.3% | 90.5% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 1.4% | 4.7% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 2.0% | 3.1% | 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.
Nearest: Cotswold Country Park and Beach · about 88 min
Nearest: Waterworld (Stoke-On-Trent) · about 38 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 11 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.