Kettering Letting & Estate Agents

Kettering has a lot to offer, especially since it’s encircled by open countryside and picturesque villages, perfect for a hike or afternoon stroll. Here are (just some) of the interesting things to do in the local area that we highly recommend:

Visit Wicksteed Park: This is a grade II listed park and is Britain’s second oldest theme park offering a fun day out for all the family. This historical amusement park offers rides, attractions, and a large lake with boating options. It’s a popular destination for families and draws in many visitors from the surrounding area.

Explore Boughton House: Known as “The English Versailles,” this stately home features grand architecture, expansive gardens, and a significant art collection. Visitors can tour the house and grounds. It is one of Britain’s best-preserved stately homes. You can explore both the house and beautifully landscaped gardens and surrounding country park.

Kettering is a traditional market town in Northamptonshire which has grown in importance due to its excellent transport links.

Like neighbouring Northampton, Kettering grew rapidly in the 19th century due to the success of the boot and shoe industry. The excellent transport links have seen the town develop into a distribution hub attracting large companies like Weetabix and Argos.

Property styles: Kettering’s housing stock spans several centuries of building, giving the town a genuinely varied residential landscape. The older streets close to the town centre contain red-brick Victorian terraces, many with bay windows, tiled porches, and the high ceilings typical of the era — a product of Kettering’s rapid expansion during the industrial period, when it grew from a modest market town into a significant manufacturing centre.

Edwardian semi-detached houses sit across much of the wider residential spread, generally set further back from the road than their Victorian neighbours, with larger plots and more daylight to the front rooms. From the mid-twentieth century onwards, post-war semi-detached and detached estates filled out the town’s outer edges, and more recent decades have brought modern executive housing to areas like Barton Seagrave and Burton Latimer on the southern fringe.

Streets such as Headlands, the Bowling Green Road area, and the roads surrounding Wicksteed Park in the NN15 postcode tend to draw buyers looking for larger detached and semi-detached homes. The Headlands area, in particular, commands some of the highest prices in the town, with well-maintained period homes and generous gardens sitting alongside more recent infill development. London Road and the streets running off it in NN15 also offer a good spread of Edwardian and early-twentieth-century houses that remain popular with families.

Developments: The most significant development project shaping Kettering’s housing market is Hanwood Park — a 332-hectare Sustainable Urban Extension on the eastern edge of the town, planned to deliver up to 5,500 dwellings over several phases. The scheme, a joint venture between North Northamptonshire Investment Limited and Buccleuch Property, includes housebuilders such as Bellway, Taylor Wimpey, and Grace Homes working across different parcels of land.

Kettering has many excellent schools, making the area a popular choice for families. Kettering Science Academy and Bishop Stopford School are both large secondary schools with “Good” Ofsted ratings. Additionally, several primary schools in the area hold “Good” or “Outstanding” ratings.

For those seeking an independent education, Kettering Buccleuch Academy provides an option from nursery through secondary years. Parents and pupils interested in extracurricular opportunities will find a variety of offerings with some schools specialising in sports or the arts.

Kettering sits neatly in between, Leicester, Nottingham and Peterborough, allowing for easy access to the rest of the country, however you’re looking to travel. Here’s some of the ways

By Car… By car, the A14 motorway runs close to the town, connecting to the larger road network, including the M1, M6 and A1.

By Bus… Kettering is served by Stagecoach bus routes (10, 15, 16, 17A), allowing travel to Northampton, Corby, Raunds and Desborough. The 48 and 50 buses also take you to nearby Burton Latimer and Barton Seagrave.

Kettering is well served for supermarkets, Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Asda, Morrisons, Aldi and Lidl are all available.

The town centre has a good range of high street shops in Newlands Shopping Centre and High Street. The Cultural Quarter has many smaller independent retailers and micro-businesses and an array of cafés, bars and restaurants, many serving food and beer from local producers.

Kettering has a traditional market and Fridays and Saturdays offering customers everything from fruit & vegetables to fashion. The market is held in the pedestrianised area of the High Street in Kettering Town Centre.

The town has its own General Hospital, and many doctors and other hospital staff are looking for rental accommodation. Kettering is one of the fastest-growing areas in the UK, expected to see significant growth between now and 2031.

Homes in Kettering were an average price of £252,134 over the last year. The most common properties sold were semi-detached homes for ££246,859 on average.

Terraced homes were cheaper, however, and went for £203,989 on average (Source: HM Land Registry, 2024). As many estate agents and letting agents in Kettering know, the area offers consistently healthy prices that stand the test of time.