BS8 4PW Bristol, City of

Streets

• The Polygon, Hotwells: 14 addresses
• Polygon Road, Bristol: 1 address

Council tax

What each band costs in Bristol, City of in 2026-27: Band D £2,714 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this postcode: most are in band A (28% of about 860 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this postcode; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

• Conservation area: yes, Clifton (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
• Listed buildings within 100 m of this postcode: 29.
• Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): Clifton Ward (1999 ward boundary).
• Tree preservation orders: 5 protected trees within 100 m of this postcode.
• Green belt: no.

Listed buildings

• 2 to 9, Albermarle Row and attached front basement area railings and piers, grade II*
• CHAPEL ROW AND ATTACHED FRONT AREA WALLS AND PIERS, grade II*
• NUMBER 10 AND ATTACHED BASEMENT AREA RAILINGS AND PIERS, grade II*
• NUMBER 11 AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT RAILINGS AND PIERS, grade II*
• NUMBER 12 AND ATTACHED FRONT AREA RAILINGS AND PIERS, grade II*
• NUMBER 4 AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT RAILINGS AND PIERS, grade II*
• NUMBER 6 AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT WALLS AND PIERS, grade II*
• NUMBER 7 AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT WALLS AND PIERS, grade II*
• NUMBER 9 AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT WALLS AND PIERS, grade II*
• NUMBERS 1 AND 1A AND ATTACHED REAR BASEMENT AREA RAILINGS, FRONT TERRACE AND BALUSTRADE NUMBERS 2 TO 23 AND ATTACHED REAR BASEMENT AREA RAILINGS, FRONT TERRACE AND BALUSTRADE, grade II*
• 48 TO 58 (EVEN) AND ATTACHED BASEMENT AREA RAILINGS, grade II
• ADAM AND EVE PUBLIC HOUSE, grade II
• GAS LAMP POST APPROXIMATELY 10 METRES NORTH WEST OF NUMBER 4, grade II
• HOPE CHAPEL, grade II
• K6 TELEPHONE KIOSK, grade II
• NUMBER 1 AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT RAILINGS, grade II
• NUMBER 12 AND ATTACHED RIGHT HAND WALL AND PIERS, grade II
• NUMBER 13 AND ATTACHED FRONT AREA RAILINGS, grade II
• NUMBER 2 AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT RAILINGS, grade II
• NUMBER 3 AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT RAILINGS AND GATE, grade II
• NUMBER 5 AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT RAILINGS AND PIERS, grade II
• NUMBER 8 AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT WALLS AND PIERS, grade II
• NUMBERS 1 TO 12 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED FRONT GARDEN WALLS AND PIERS, grade II
• NUMBERS 14 AND 15 AND ATTACHED FRONT AREA RAILINGS, grade II
• NUMBERS 8 TO 15 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT AREA RAILINGS, grade II
• PLINTH AND RAILINGS AROUND DOWRY SQUARE GARDENS, grade II
• POLYGON COTTAGE, grade II
• POLYGON HOUSE, grade II
• POLYGON LODGE AND ATTACHED REAR RUBBLE WALL, grade II

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1.0 km

• Emmaus House Clifton Hill Bristol BS8 1BN, permissioned (150 m)
• Regent House 27A Regent Street Bristol BS8 4HR, permissioned (340 m)
• Merchants House 26-28 Regent Street Bristol BS8 4HG, permissioned (370 m)
• Merchants House 26-28 Regent Street & 17-18 Merchants Road Bristol BS8 4HG, permissioned (370 m)
• 2-16 Clifton Down Road Bristol BS8 4AF, permissioned (440 m)
• Land and buildings south of Brunel Lock Road, including A-Bond Warehouse: up to 100 homes, not permissioned (540 m)
• 7 Constitution Hill Bristol BS8 1DG, permissioned (750 m)
• Somerset House 18 Canynge Road Bristol BS8 3JX, permissioned (770 m)

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted within 100 m of this postcode. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this postcode, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 4 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre is in flood zone 2 or 3.

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

Broadband

Superfast 100%, ultrafast 100%, gigabit 100% of premises; 0% cannot get 10 Mbit/s. Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026.