Property market
The five-year median is £1,190,000 from 2 recorded sales in BN8 4ED. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Lewes is £367,918 in June 2026, up 1.7% year on year.
BN8 4ED
Chailey, Barcombe & Hamsey · Lewes · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Lewes
- Local authority
- Lewes
- Constituency
- East Grinstead and Uckfield
- Postcode district
- BN8
- Postcode sector
- BN8 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BN8 4ED
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BN
- Postcode district
- BN8
- Postcode sector
- BN8 4
- Latitude
- 50.965633
- Longitude
- -0.055553
- British National Grid easting
- 536,635
- British National Grid northing
- 120,268
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Lewes · E07000063
- Electoral ward
- Chailey, Barcombe & Hamsey · E05011583
- Parish or community
- E04003768
- Westminster constituency
- East Grinstead and Uckfield · E14001212
- Output area
- E00106773
- Lower layer super output area
- Lewes 001C · E01021025
- Middle layer super output area
- Lewes 001 · E02004379
Postcode source versions
- Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
- Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence
Explore BN8
Property
13 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Longridge Farm Cottages, 2, North Common Road, North Chailey, Lewes, BN8 4ED | 28 April 2023 | £420,000 |
| New House Farm, North Common Road, North Chailey, Lewes, BN8 4ED | 17 December 2021 | £1,960,000 |
| Longridge Barn, North Common Road, North Chailey, Lewes, BN8 4ED | 4 November 2020 | £600,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 16
- Primary
- 11
- Secondary
- 1
- 1.4 km
Wivelsfield Primary School and Nursery
Community school
- 1.9 km
Chailey Heritage School
Non-maintained special school
- 2.6 km
Chailey St Peter's Church of England Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 25
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 10
- Anti social behaviour 5
- Other theft 3
- Criminal damage and arson 3
- Public order 2
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 46
- Postcode households
- 16
- Residents per household
- 2.9
- BN8 4 residents
- 6,174
22 female, 24 male
Age bands in BN8 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 19%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 24.8%
956 residents
562 residents
1,113 residents
1,784 residents
1,455 residents
This postcode contained 0.7% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider BN8 4 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 63.2%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 63.2%
- Gigabit-capable
- 63.2%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
2
within 5 km
NORTHLANDS WOOD SURGERY
7 WALNUT PARK, HAYWARDS HEATH, RH16 3TG
ODS code H82100
3.9 km
SILVERDALE PRACTICE
4 SILVERDALE ROAD, BURGESS HILL, RH15 0EF
ODS code H82072
4.9 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.8 miles
Downsview Drive
BCT · Wivelsfield Green
- 0.8 miles
Downsview Drive
BCT · Wivelsfield Green
- 0.8 miles
Leyden House
BCT · North Chailey
- 0.8 miles
Beggar's Wood Road
BCT · North Chailey
- 0.8 miles
Beggar's Wood Road
BCT · North Chailey
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Lewes 001C, the published LSOA linked to this postcode. Decile 1 contains the most deprived 10% of English LSOAs and decile 10 the least deprived 10%.
Overall IMD decile
8 of 10
Overall England rank
24,442 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 of 10
These are relative area statistics, not measures of an individual household, affluence or absolute change. They cannot be compared with indices for other UK nations. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, version 2025-v2.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 1
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Schools
16 open schools are in scope, including 11 primary and 1 secondary schools. Wivelsfield Primary School and Nursery is the nearest published school at 0.9 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
25 published events cover 12 months, averaging 2.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 10 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.