Property market
The five-year median is £390,000 from 3 recorded sales in BN8 5FA. 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 5FA
Ouse Valley & Ringmer · Lewes · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BN8 5FA
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 February 2006
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BN
- Postcode district
- BN8
- Postcode sector
- BN8 5
- Latitude
- 50.890519
- Longitude
- 0.051133
- British National Grid easting
- 544,358
- British National Grid northing
- 112,119
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Lewes · E07000063
- Electoral ward
- Ouse Valley & Ringmer · E05011593
- Parish or community
- E04003783
- Westminster constituency
- Lewes · E14001330
- Output area
- E00106938
- Lower layer super output area
- Lewes 004C · E01021056
- Middle layer super output area
- Lewes 004 · E02004382
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
44 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 8, The Forges, Ringmer, Lewes, BN8 5FA | 26 January 2024 | £340,000 |
| 45, The Forges, Ringmer, Lewes, BN8 5FA | 28 July 2023 | £390,000 |
| 16, The Forges, Ringmer, Lewes, BN8 5FA | 17 May 2023 | £618,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 10
- Primary
- 7
- Secondary
- 2
- 992 m
Ringmer Primary and Nursery School
Academy converter
- 1.3 km
King's Academy Ringmer
Academy converter
- 2.5 km
South Malling CofE Primary and Nursery School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 180
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 86
- Anti social behaviour 37
- Criminal damage and arson 18
- Public order 13
- Other theft 6
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 89
- Postcode households
- 34
- Residents per household
- 2.6
- BN8 5 residents
- 6,200
52 female, 37 male
Age bands in BN8 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 17.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 30%
993 residents
510 residents
1,109 residents
1,769 residents
1,879 residents
This postcode contained 1.4% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider BN8 5 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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- 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
1
within 5 km
FOUNDRY HEALTHCARE LEWES
SCHOOL HILL PRACTICE, SCHOOL HILL H, 33 HIGH STREET, LEWES, BN7 2LU
ODS code G81021
3.3 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Lime Tree House
BCT · Ringmer
- 0.1 miles
Lime Tree House
BCT · Ringmer
- 0.2 miles
New Road
BCT · Ringmer
- 0.2 miles
The Olde Post Office Mews
BCT · Ringmer
- 0.2 miles
Harvard Road
BCT · Ringmer
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Lewes 004C, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
27,839 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
- 4
- 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
10 open schools are in scope, including 7 primary and 2 secondary schools. Ringmer Primary and Nursery School is the nearest published school at 992 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
180 published events cover 12 months, averaging 15 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 86 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.