A386 Sourton, West Devon
27 addresses across 5 postcodes (EX20), about 1.4 km (0.9 miles) long, classed as a a road. USRN 43101851.
- Prices and rents: A typical home in West Devon cost £286,921 in August 2026 (-1.5% on a year); private rents averaged £854 a month.
- Energy: 10 homes have an energy certificate (C: 2, E: 4, F: 3, G: 1).
- Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
- Recorded floods: No recorded flood covers the centre of any of its postcodes.
- Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the A386, carries 4,757 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
- Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band D; Band D in West Devon costs £2,705 a year in 2026-27.
- Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 50% to 100% of premises.
- Transport: The nearest railway station is Okehampton, about 7.7 km (4.8 miles) away in a straight line.
- Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 2.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 4.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
- Height: Its addresses are 231 to 263 m above sea level.
- Noise: 22 of its 27 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
- Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Okehampton Medical Centre, about 8.1 km (5.1 miles) away.
- People: About 450 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 81% of households owned their home and 28% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
- Road safety: No collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025.
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Sales on this street
No sales recorded on this street since January 1995 under this street name.
House prices and rents in West Devon
A typical home in West Devon cost £286,921 in August 2026, 1.5% less than a year before. That is 6% more than five years earlier and 30% more than ten years earlier.
| Home | Typical price, Aug 2026 |
|---|---|
| Detached | £432,878 |
| Semi-detached | £286,619 |
| Terraced | £219,965 |
| Flat or maisonette | £146,185 |
| Bought by a first-time buyer | £231,506 |
Private renters in West Devon paid £854 a month on average in September 2026, 3.9% more than a year before. That is 23% more than five years earlier.
| Home | Average rent a month, Sep 2026 |
|---|---|
| One bedroom | £608 |
| Two bedrooms | £778 |
| Three bedrooms | £961 |
| Four or more bedrooms | £1,363 |
Energy performance certificates
10 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 84 m². Most common: House, detached (4); Bungalow, detached (3); House, semi-detached (3). Built: before 1900 (5); 1930-1949 (2); 1900-1929 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (7); rented (private) (2); rented (social) (1).
Each home's certificates and sales (10 addresses)
Council tax
What each band costs in West Devon in 2026-27: Band D £2,705 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.
| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| £1,804 | £2,104 | £2,405 | £2,705 | £3,307 | £3,908 | £4,509 | £5,411 |
Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band D (26% of about 800 homes).
Planning and heritage
- Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
- Listed buildings on or by this street: 6.
- Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
- Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
- Green belt: no.
Listed buildings
- COLLAVEN MANOR, grade II
- GATE PIERS APPROXIMATELY 70 METRES EAST NORTH EAST OF COLLAVEN MANOR, grade II
- OLD POST OFFICE, grade II
- OUTBUILDING IMMEDIATELY TO WEST OF PALMER'S FARMHOUSE, grade II
- PALMER'S FARM, grade II
- WAYSIDE STONE APPROXIMATELY 100 METRES TO NORTH NORTH WEST OF CHURCH OF ST THOMAS, grade II
Energy projects nearby
No wind turbine or waste plant within 5 km (3.1 miles), and no solar farm, battery site or other project of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles), of the street's postcodes, operating or planned.
Roadworks
Planned, as of 31 October 2026
- 15 December 2026 to 16 December 2026: BT, Utility asset works, road closure, on the carriageway (major (paa) works)
Finished in the last three months
- 20 October 2026 to 22 October 2026: BT, Utility asset works, multi-way signals, on the carriageway (standard works)
- 13 October 2026: SOUTH WEST WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, two-way signals, on the carriageway, verge (immediate - urgent works)
Flood risk
Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 2 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.
Rivers and the sea alone: of the 13 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 0 medium, 1 low and 0 very low.
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 on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.
| Postcode | Planning zone | Addresses at high / medium / low risk | Groundwater |
|---|---|---|---|
| EX20 4HJ | not in 2 or 3 | 0 / 0 / 0 | unlikely |
| EX20 4HH | not in 2 or 3 | 0 / 0 / 0 | unlikely |
| EX20 4HN | not in 2 or 3 | 0 / 0 / 2 | unlikely |
| EX20 4HL | not in 2 or 3 | 0 / 0 / 0 | unlikely |
| EX20 4FE | not in 2 or 3 | 0 / 0 / 0 | unlikely |
Recorded floods
No recorded flood covers the centre of any of this street's postcodes.
Recorded floods are where floodwater was seen or surveyed after a flood. Many floods were never mapped, an outline over a postcode's centre does not mean every home in it flooded, and homes outside one may have. Ask the seller whether the home itself has flooded.
Coastal erosion
No projected coastal erosion zone is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.
Storm overflows
No storm overflow outlet is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.
Coal mining
No postcode centre on the street is in a coalfield: the Mining Remediation Authority records no coal mining risk here.
Historic landfill
No historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes.
Height above sea level
The street's 27 addresses are between 231 m and 263 m above sea level (244 m on average); the ground rises about 31 m from the lowest to the highest.
Broadband
| Postcode | Superfast (30 Mbit/s+) | Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+) | Gigabit | Below 10 Mbit/s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EX20 4FE | 100% | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| EX20 4HH | 50% | 50% | 50% | 0% |
| EX20 4HJ | 100% | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| EX20 4HL | 91% | 91% | 91% | 9% |
| EX20 4HN | 94% | 94% | 94% | 0% |
Getting around
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| Railway station | Okehampton 348,000 journeys in 2024–25 | 7.7 km (4.8 miles) |
| Bus stops | 0 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Windard Terrace Sourton | 600 m (0.4 miles) |
| Airport with scheduled flights | Exeter International Airport EXT | 47.3 km (29 miles) |
| Nearest large airport | Cardiff International Airport CWL | 94.3 km (59 miles) |
Local services
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| GP surgeries | Okehampton Medical Centre Good May 2019 | 8.1 km (5.1 miles) |
| Pharmacies | Pharmaderma Limited Okehampton | 7.9 km (4.9 miles) |
| NHS dentists | Okehampton Dental Care | 7.7 km (4.8 miles) |
| Hospital | Okehampton Hospital | 8.4 km (5.2 miles) |
| Care homes | 1 home within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Springfield Residential Home Good Jun 2023 | 1.5 km (0.9 miles) |
| Police station | Okehampton Police | 8 km (5 miles) |
Parks and green space
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| Play area | Unnamed 1,000 m² | 1.9 km (1.2 miles) |
| Playing field | Unnamed 4,180 m² | 1.8 km (1.1 miles) |
Landmarks
The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Thomas of Canterbury, a listed building (Grade II*), 800 m (0.5 miles) north-east. 18 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.
| Name | What it is | From the middle of the street |
|---|---|---|
| Church of St Thomas of Canterbury | Listed building, Grade II* | 800 m (0.5 miles) north-east |
| Lake Down cairnfield 810m ESE and 780m east of Lake Viaduct | Scheduled monument | 1.3 km (0.8 miles) south-east |
| Round cairn 700m south of Sourton Tors | Scheduled monument | 1.4 km (0.8 miles) east |
| Round cairn 470m south east of Sourton Tors | Scheduled monument | 1.4 km (0.9 miles) east |
| Name | What it is | From the middle of the street |
|---|---|---|
| Tor Wood | Wood | 630 m (0.4 miles) south-east |
| Sourton Tors | Hill | 1.2 km (0.7 miles) east |
| Leawood Grove | Wood | 1.3 km (0.8 miles) south-west |
| Middle Wood | Wood | 1.3 km (0.8 miles) south-west |
| Island of Rocks | Island | 2.7 km (1.7 miles) east |
| Meldon Reservoir | Lake or reservoir | 3.1 km (1.9 miles) north-east |
Air quality
| Pollutant | Here | UK limit | WHO guideline |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) | 2.0 | 40 | 10 |
| Fine particles (PM2.5) | 4.7 | 20 | 5 |
| Particles (PM10) | 8.2 | 40 | 15 |
All three are within both the UK limits and the WHO guidelines.
Road and rail noise
| Level | Road traffic | Railways |
|---|---|---|
| 70 to 74 | 1 | 0 |
| 65 to 69 | 10 | 0 |
| 60 to 64 | 7 | 0 |
| 55 to 59 | 4 | 0 |
| Under 55 | 5 | 27 |
22 of the street's 27 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.
Climate, daylight and earthquakes
Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for West Devon: see them on the West Devon page.
Nearest schools
| School | Phase | Ages | Distance | Inspection |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bridestowe Primary School | Primary | 4–11 | 1.8 km (1.1 miles) | Good (Apr 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) |
Nurseries and childcare
No nursery, pre-school or out-of-school club on Ofsted's register is within 1.5 km (0.9 miles) of the middle of the street.
Ofsted also registers 328 childminders and 60 home childcarers (nannies) in Devon. It does not publish their addresses, so they cannot be shown here; the council's family information service lists those taking children.
Food hygiene ratings nearby
No rated food businesses within 500 m (0.3 miles).
Crime within 250 m
No crimes recorded at anonymised points within 250 m in this period (devon-and-cornwall).
Road safety
No collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025.
Only collisions in which someone was hurt and which the police were told about are here: damage-only collisions and near misses are not, and some injuries are never reported. Positions are recorded by the police, usually to within a few metres. Each year's figures are published the following September.
Traffic on nearby roads
The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles) is the A386 between Station Rd and A30 slip roads mid-junction, with 4,757 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 40 m from the street's postcodes.
| Road | Between | Vehicles a day | Lorries | Ten years before | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A386 | Station Rd to A30 slip roads mid-junction | 4,757 counted 2025 | 4% | -1% since 2015 | 40 m |
Each figure is the annual average daily flow: the motor vehicles passing the count point, both ways, on an average day of the year. A point is counted by hand on a weekday every few years and estimated from the trend on similar roads in between. Lorries are heavy goods vehicles, as a share of all motor vehicles.
People and work
Who lives here
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Median age | 57 | 40 |
| Children under 15 | 10% | 17% |
| Aged 65 and over | 32% | 18% |
Homes
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Owned (outright or with a mortgage) | 81% | 61% |
| Owned outright | 59% | 33% |
| Shared ownership | 0% | 1% |
| Social rented | 4% | 17% |
| Private rented | 16% | 21% |
Work and commuting
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Adults (16 and over) in work | 55% | 57% |
| Unemployment (of those working or looking for work) | 4% | 6% |
| Retired (of adults) | 33% | 22% |
| Long-term sick or disabled (of adults) | 2% | 4% |
| Work mainly from home (of those in work) | 38% | 32% |
| Travel to work by car or van | 54% | 48% |
| By train, Underground, metro or tram | under 1% | 4% |
| By any public transport, including bus | 1% | 8% |
| On foot or by bicycle | 4% | 10% |
| Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work) | 42% | 65% |
| Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away | 33% | 8% |
Education and languages
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults) | 28% | 34% |
| No qualifications | 17% | 18% |
| Apprenticeship as highest qualification | 8% | 5% |
| Main language English (aged 3 and over) | 100% | 91% |
| Cannot speak English well or at all | under 1% | 2% |
Deprivation
The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 4 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.
What has changed
- Roadworks Street works permit: SOUTH WEST WATER: Utility repair and maintenance works, 13 October 2026 to 15 October 2026 (two-way signals) found 3 November 2026
Postcodes on this street
- EX20 4HJ: 15 addresses of 16 in the postcode
- EX20 4HH: 5 addresses of 11 in the postcode
- EX20 4HN: 4 addresses of 24 in the postcode
- EX20 4HL: 2 addresses of 12 in the postcode
- EX20 4FE: 1 address of 10 in the postcode
All the streets in EX20 and across West Devon.
What this page cannot tell you
- Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
- What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
- How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported; road collisions count only those in which someone was hurt and the police were told.
- Whether you would get a place at a school: distances are straight lines, not catchments.
- Who lives on the street now: census figures describe the small areas around it in March 2021, during a lockdown.
- How long a journey takes or how often anything runs: transport distances are straight lines to the nearest stops.
- Whether a GP practice is taking new patients, or a dentist new NHS patients.
- How loud a home is inside, or noise from industry, neighbours or smaller airfields: noise figures are models of road, rail and air traffic outside.
How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.