Abbey Road Exeter

19 addresses across 1 postcode (EX4), about 140 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 14200002.

  • Sales: 28 recorded sales since 1995; in 2021 the median was £308,500 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 11 homes have an energy certificate (C: 1, D: 6, E: 2, F: 2).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band C; Band D in Exeter costs £2,495 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Polsloe Bridge, about 560 m (0.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 150 m away, and Mincinglake Valley Park (28 hectares) is about 640 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 51 to 57 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 4 of its 19 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Mount Pleasant Health Centre, about 450 m (0.3 miles) away, with 9 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 390 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 45% of households owned their home and 31% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 129 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.

Sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20212£308,500£280,000£337,000
20201£355,000£355,000£355,000
20191£231,560£231,560£231,560
20151£242,000£242,000£242,000
20131£235,000£235,000£235,000
20111£220,000£220,000£220,000
20101£237,000£237,000£237,000
20082£201,250£198,500£204,000
20071£189,000£189,000£189,000
20031£165,000£165,000£165,000
20021£132,500£132,500£132,500
20015£110,000£84,000£120,000
Most recent sales (28)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
3 Sep 20214 EX4 7BGTerraced£280,000
19 Feb 20216 EX4 7BGTerraced£390,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
15 Jan 202111 EX4 7BGTerraced£337,000
14 Sep 202010 EX4 7BGTerraced£355,000
5 Apr 201913 EX4 7BGTerraced£231,560
16 Jul 20151 EX4 7BGTerraced£242,000
18 Mar 20133 EX4 7BGTerraced£235,000
5 Jan 20116 EX4 7BGTerraced£220,000
11 Nov 20107 EX4 7BGTerraced£237,000
19 Dec 200815 EX4 7BGTerraced£198,500
3 Sep 200811 EX4 7BGTerraced£204,000
26 Nov 20077 EX4 7BGTerraced£189,000
19 Dec 200316 EX4 7BGTerraced£165,000
9 Aug 200216 EX4 7BGTerraced£132,500
10 Aug 200110 EX4 7BGTerraced£110,000
19 Jul 200111 EX4 7BGTerraced£114,950
25 May 20011 EX4 7BGTerraced£120,000
22 Mar 200110 EX4 7BGTerraced£84,000
16 Mar 20013 EX4 7BGTerraced£88,000
3 Dec 19988 EX4 7BGTerraced£60,000
3 Dec 199812 EX4 7BGTerraced£59,950
19 Oct 199817 EX4 7BGTerraced£75,500
29 Jun 19982 EX4 7BGTerraced£59,000
7 Nov 19976 EX4 7BGTerraced£52,750
31 Oct 19963 EX4 7BGTerraced£59,500
16 Sep 199612 EX4 7BGTerraced£57,500
28 Aug 199617 EX4 7BGTerraced£68,500
15 Aug 199515 EX4 7BGTerraced£51,500

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from August 2010 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

11 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 104 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (8); House, end-terrace (3). Built: 1900-1929 (11). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (7); rented (private) (3).

Council tax

What each band costs in Exeter in 2026-27: Band D £2,495 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,664£1,941£2,218£2,495£3,050£3,604£4,159£4,991

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (36% of about 530 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this street; 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: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): 2023 Article 4 Direction.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

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 on or by this street. 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.

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 30 September 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 30 September 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

No address in this street's postcodes is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

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.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Height above sea level

The street's 19 addresses are between 51 m and 57 m above sea level (54 m on average); the ground rises about 6 m from the lowest to the highest.

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
EX4 7BG100%100%100%0%

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 31 October 2026; Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage 2024–25 (which stations are on the National Rail network, and their journeys: entries and exits in the year to March); OurAirports (public domain, kept by volunteers); car parks and charging points from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others: not an official register, so some will be missing, private or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street, not routes, and say nothing about how often anything runs. Stations opened since the end of ORR's year appear when ORR publishes the next one, each December; heritage railways are left out.

NearestDistance
Railway stationsPolsloe Bridge 189,000 journeys in 2024–25560 m (0.3 miles)
St James Park (Exeter) 145,000 journeys in 2024–25860 m (0.5 miles)
Exeter Central 3.0 million journeys in 2024–251.8 km (1.1 miles)
Bus stops13 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 60 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest St. Mark's Church Polsloe130 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Exeter City Centre1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Ferry terminalTopsham Ferry Landing6.1 km (3.8 miles)
Car parksTriangle Car Park1 km (0.6 miles)
EV charging points13 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Wenea160 m
Airport with scheduled flightsExeter International Airport EXT6.8 km (4.2 miles)
Nearest large airportCardiff International Airport CWL74.9 km (47 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries9 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Mount Pleasant Health Centre450 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies6 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Mount Pleasant Community Pharmacy450 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists13 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Irish And King Dental Practice180 m
HospitalHeavitree Hospital830 m (0.5 miles)
Police stationHeavitree Road Police Station Exeter1 km (0.6 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Cooperative Food Exeter - Old Tiverton Road Cashzone650 m (0.4 miles)

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.8 ha150 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Mincinglake Valley Park 28 ha640 m (0.4 miles)
Play area7 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 920 m²130 m
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Belmont Pleasure Ground 2.8 ha590 m (0.4 miles)
Allotments5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.5 ha390 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 31 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is St Katherine's Priory, Polsloe, a scheduled monument, 640 m (0.4 miles) north-east. 52 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
St Katherine's Priory, PolsloeScheduled monument640 m (0.4 miles) north-east
Polsloe PrioryListed building, Grade II*640 m (0.4 miles) north-east
Chapel at St Anne's AlmshousesListed building, Grade II*780 m (0.5 miles) west
Underground passagesScheduled monument1.5 km (0.9 miles) south-west
Rougemont CastleScheduled monument1.6 km (1 mile) west
Northernhay and Rougemont GardensRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.6 km (1 mile) west
Larkbeare HouseRegistered park or garden, Grade II2 km (1.3 miles) south-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Lower CovertWood1.6 km (1 mile) north
Stoke HillHill1.8 km (1.1 miles) north
Great HillHill1.9 km (1.2 miles) north
Fairy DellValley2.2 km (1.4 miles) north
Salmon PoolLake or reservoir2.7 km (1.7 miles) south
Duck's MarshWetland2.8 km (1.7 miles) south

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)6.04010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.6205
Particles (PM10)9.24015

All three are within the UK legal limits; PM2.5 is above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
55 to 5940
Under 551519

4 of the street's 19 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 Exeter: see them on the Exeter page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 1 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
Ladysmith Junior SchoolPrimary7–11420 m (0.3 miles) Requires improvement (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Ladysmith Infant & Nursery SchoolPrimary3–7480 m (0.3 miles) Requires improvement (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Stoke Hill Infant and Nursery SchoolPrimary3–7590 m (0.4 miles) No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Stoke Hill Junior SchoolPrimary7–11830 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Newtown Primary SchoolPrimary4–11920 m (0.6 miles) Requires improvement (Sep 2021, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Michael's Church of England Primary AcademyPrimary2–111 km (0.6 miles) No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
St Sidwell's Church of England Primary School & NurseryPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Whipton Barton Infants and Nursery SchoolPrimary2–71.2 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Whipton Barton Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Willowbrook SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Requires improvement (Jun 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
St James SchoolSecondary11–161.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Exeter Mathematics School16 plus16–191.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 1 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Cocorico EX1 2QBRetailers - other150 m5 Very good25 Sep 2026
RMC Stores EX4 7HLRetailers - other180 m5 Very good13 Mar 2025
Vijay Convenience Store EX1 2QARetailers - other270 m5 Very good28 Aug 2026
Henrys Bar EX4 7ABPub/bar/nightclub310 m5 Very good23 Mar 2018
Morrisons Daily Exeter EX4 7BYRetailers - other350 m5 Very good13 Aug 2024
Exeter Gateway Centre EX4 7AEHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises360 m4 Good5 Mar 2026
Highbray EX4 7AEHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises360 m5 Very good13 Mar 2025
No1 Polsloe EX1 2HLRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen360 m1 Major improvement necessary13 Nov 2025
Oh My Kimchi EX4 6TBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen360 m5 Very good30 Jul 2026
Morrisons Daily EX4 7HYRetailers - other380 m5 Very good14 Nov 2024
The Stoke Arms EX4 7BZPub/bar/nightclub380 m5 Very good10 Nov 2023
Polsloe & Priory Conservative Club EX4 6LRRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen390 m5 Very good24 Jul 2025
New Treetops Short Breaks EX1 2AGHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good17 Mar 2025
Caterlink @ Ladysmith Junior School EX1 2PTSchool/college/university470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good15 Oct 2025
Pinhoe Road Baptist Church EX4 7HZRetailers - other490 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good29 Jul 2025

Crime within 250 m

Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, September 2025 to August 2026. Police forces move every crime to the nearest of about 760,000 anonymised map points before publishing, so these are crimes near this street, not on it, and a busy point can collect crimes from a wider area. Counts are of records, not convictions.

129 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences75
Anti-social behaviour9
Vehicle crime8
Criminal damage and arson8
Other theft7
Public order7
Other crime5
Burglary3
Bicycle theft3
Theft from the person1
Robbery1
Shoplifting1
Possession of weapons1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Cloister Road (31); On or near Devon Road (20); On or near King'S Road (19); On or near Greyfriars Road (12); On or near Manston Road (10).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this street's postcodes are in: 389 residents in 121 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

Around this streetEngland
Median age2340
Children under 156%17%
Aged 65 and over4%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)45%61%
Owned outright21%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented2%17%
Private rented53%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work38%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)10%6%
Retired (of adults)5%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)33%32%
Travel to work by car or van27%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus4%8%
On foot or by bicycle35%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)78%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away13%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)31%34%
No qualifications4%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification1%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)90%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 8 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.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

What has changed

Nothing new since the change feed started on 30 October 2026. New sales and energy certificates, and hygiene ratings, school inspections and flood figures nearby, will be listed here as the sources update.

Everything that has changed on and near this street

Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

  • EX4 7BG: 19 addresses of 20 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Morley Road · Devon Road · Monks Road · King's Road · Clinton Avenue · Monks Road · Clinton Avenue · Commins Road · Elton Road · St Anne's Road · Monkswell Road · Abbots Road

All the streets in EX4 and across Exeter.

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.
  • 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.