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On School Road, in Wombourne Outer, Swindon & Seisdon
What it's like at WV5 7HR: every home that has sold on School 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).
Sales and extensions on School Road; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 28 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| Ketley Barn, School RoadDetached | Apr 2015 | £337,000 | 125 m² | £2,696/m² | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Orchard Cottage, School RoadDetached | Nov 1998 | £140,000 | – | – | 1 |
| Plough Cottage, School RoadSemi-detached | Mar 2025 | £470,000 | 132 m² | £3,561/m² | 2 |
| Pound Piece, School RoadDetached | Jan 2020 | £406,000 | 96 m² | £4,229/m² | 1 |
| Rose Cottage, School RoadDetached | Dec 2015 | £330,000 | 121 m² | £2,727/m² | 2 |
| The Plough, School RoadOther | Dec 2018 | £651,000 | – | – | 1 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Wolverhampton St George's Metro station, a drive away (7.9 km). The nearest rail station is Wolverhampton, 8.4 km away, with 5.2m journeys a year.
Work usually means a journey: the nearest place with 5,000 or more jobs is about 50 minutes away by public transport (16 by car).
This is car country: only 8% of households have no car.
The nearest primary school is All Saints' CofE Primary School, a few minutes' walk (under 50 m); 74% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Wombourne High School, 1.8 km away; Attainment 8: 42.1 · 3.7% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Grammar schools are within reach: Wolverhampton Girls' High School (7.8 km).
Few families with young children: only 13% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is Lidl, 1.9 km away, with Seisdon Village Shop closer still (1.6 km) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Dale Medical Practice (2.1 km), with Wombourne Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (2.1 km).
For a haircut, Gary Lees is 2.1 km away.
The nearest full A&E is Russells Hall Hospital, 7.0 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 73% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 63% 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: 20 restaurants and cafés, 19 pubs and bars.
R J's Cafe is the closest café or restaurant (1.5 km), and The Bell Inn the nearest pub (350 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 55 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
There are 104 listed buildings.
Detached houses make up 49% of homes.
The typical home here was built in 1965-1972.
It's growing: about 157 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Warstones Green, 4.2 km away; for exercise, Active Fitness (1.4 km).
The air is clean: background nitrogen dioxide is 6.5 µg/m³, among the lowest in the country.
For holidays, Birmingham is 32 km away.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 49% of households own their home outright.
It's an older community: 28% are 65 or over.
4 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Croft Cottage | II | 0 m |
| the Plough Inn | II | 40 m |
| Ketley House | II | 170 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.
Kingswinford and South Staffordshire constituency: Mike Wood MP (Conservative), since May 2015. 2024 general election: Con hold, majority 6,303 (14.0%), turnout 63%. Vote shares: Conservative 40%, Labour 26%, Reform UK 22%, Liberal Democrat 5%.
3 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 WV5 7HR →
Compared with all 7,264 neighbourhoods in England and Wales (council well-being: all councils). Open a tab below for the detail.
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 20 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 2 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 1.2% | 1.1% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.7% | 1.1% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 87.6% | 90.5% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 7.2% | 4.7% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 3.9% | 3.1% | 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.
Nearest: Cotswold Country Park and Beach · about 89 min
Nearest: Little Lakes Golf Club · 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 South Staffordshire 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 28 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.