Ashbourne Road Blackbrook, Amber Valley
41 addresses across 2 postcodes (DE56), about 1.2 km (0.7 miles) long, classed as a a road. USRN 600058.
- Sales: 24 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £945,000 across 2 sales.
- Energy: 15 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 3, D: 8, E: 2, F: 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.
- Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band C; Band D in Amber Valley costs £2,408 a year in 2026-27.
- Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 6% to 13% of premises.
- Transport: The nearest railway station is Belper, about 2 km (1.3 miles) away in a straight line.
- Green space: The nearest park or garden, Beaurepaire Garden, is about 1.8 km (1.1 miles) away.
- Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 5.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
- Height: Its addresses are 79 to 116 m above sea level.
- Noise: 31 of its 41 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
- Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Riversdale Surgery, about 1.9 km (1.2 miles) away.
- People: About 630 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 87% of households owned their home and 45% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
Sales on this street
| Year | Sales | Median price | Lowest | Highest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 2 | £945,000 | £600,000 | £1,290,000 |
| 2022 | 1 | £880,000 | £880,000 | £880,000 |
| 2020 | 2 | £278,250 | £236,500 | £320,000 |
| 2017 | 1 | £180,000 | £180,000 | £180,000 |
| 2015 | 2 | £702,500 | £555,000 | £850,000 |
| 2011 | 1 | £750,000 | £750,000 | £750,000 |
| 2010 | 2 | £346,250 | £192,500 | £500,000 |
| 2009 | 1 | £185,000 | £185,000 | £185,000 |
| 2007 | 2 | £512,500 | £235,000 | £790,000 |
| 2004 | 1 | £125,000 | £125,000 | £125,000 |
| 2002 | 2 | £122,750 | £118,500 | £127,000 |
| 2001 | 2 | £236,500 | £183,000 | £290,000 |
| Date | Address | Type | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 Jul 2024 | 16 DE56 2LD | Detached | £1,290,000 | |
| 24 May 2024 | THE LODGE DE56 2DB | Detached | £600,000 | |
| 1 Sep 2023 | THE LODGE DE56 2DB | Other | £215,000 | Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer). |
| 14 Oct 2022 | LILAC DENE DE56 2LD | Detached | £880,000 | |
| 17 Apr 2020 | JASMINE COTTAGE DE56 2LD | Semi-detached | £236,500 | |
| 6 Mar 2020 | 6 DE56 2LD | Semi-detached | £320,000 | |
| 4 Aug 2017 | JASMINE COTTAGE DE56 2LD | Semi-detached | £180,000 | |
| 10 Nov 2015 | OLD FARM DE56 2LD | Detached | £555,000 | |
| 19 Oct 2015 | 25 DE56 2LD | Detached | £850,000 | |
| 5 Sep 2011 | 25 DE56 2LD | Detached | £750,000 | |
| 8 Oct 2010 | JASMINE COTTAGE DE56 2LD | Semi-detached | £192,500 | |
| 2 Jul 2010 | LILAC DENE DE56 2LD | Detached | £500,000 | |
| 15 Sep 2009 | JASMINE COTTAGE DE56 2LD | Semi-detached | £185,000 | |
| 25 Jan 2007 | 16 DE56 2LD | Detached | £790,000 | |
| 22 Jan 2007 | 6 DE56 2LD | Semi-detached | £235,000 | |
| 10 Feb 2004 | 6 DE56 2LD | Semi-detached | £125,000 | |
| 17 Dec 2002 | JASMINE COTTAGE DE56 2LD | Semi-detached | £127,000 | |
| 22 Feb 2002 | JASMINE COTTAGE DE56 2LD | Semi-detached | £118,500 | |
| 15 Oct 2001 | 31 DE56 2LD | Detached | £290,000 | |
| 16 Mar 2001 | 29 DE56 2LD | Terraced | £183,000 | |
| 28 Jul 2000 | 20 DE56 2LD | Detached | £460,000 | |
| 13 Dec 1996 | JASMINE COTTAGE DE56 2LD | Semi-detached | £44,000 | |
| 12 Dec 1996 | 2 DE56 2LD | Semi-detached | £59,950 | |
| 1 Jun 1995 | LILAC DENE DE56 2LD | Detached | £141,000 |
Energy performance certificates
15 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 129 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (6); House, detached (5); Bungalow, detached (3). Built: before 1900 (5); 2003-2006 (3); 1900-1929 (3). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (10); rented (private) (2).
Each home's certificates and sales (7 addresses)
Council tax
What each band costs in Amber Valley in 2026-27: Band D £2,408 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.
| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| £1,605 | £1,873 | £2,140 | £2,408 | £2,943 | £3,478 | £4,013 | £4,815 |
Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band C (20% of about 1,540 homes).
Planning and heritage
- Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
- Listed buildings on or by this street: 3.
- 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
Roadworks
Finished in the last three months
- 23 October 2026 to 27 October 2026: Connect Fibre (Fibre Assets Ltd), Utility repair and maintenance works, multi-way signals, on the footway, carriageway, verge (minor works)
- 7 October 2026 to 9 October 2026: SEVERN TRENT WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, road closure, on the carriageway (immediate - urgent works)
- 5 October 2026 to 7 October 2026: Connect Fibre (Fibre Assets Ltd), Utility repair and maintenance works, multi-way signals, on the footway, carriageway, verge (minor works)
- 14 September 2026 to 15 September 2026: Connect Fibre (Fibre Assets Ltd), Utility repair and maintenance works, multi-way signals, on the footway, carriageway, verge (minor works)
- 4 September 2026 to 7 September 2026: Connect Fibre (Fibre Assets Ltd), Utility repair and maintenance works, multi-way signals, on the footway, carriageway, verge (minor works)
- 20 August 2026 to 21 August 2026: Connect Fibre (Fibre Assets Ltd), Utility repair and maintenance works, multi-way signals, on the footway, carriageway, verge (minor 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: 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 on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.
| Postcode | Planning zone | Addresses at high / medium / low risk | Groundwater |
|---|---|---|---|
| DE56 2LD | not in 2 or 3 | 0 / 0 / 1 | unlikely |
| DE56 2DB | not in 2 or 3 | 0 / 0 / 1 | unlikely |
Height above sea level
The street's 41 addresses are between 79 m and 116 m above sea level (87 m on average); the ground rises about 37 m from the lowest to the highest.
Broadband
| Postcode | Superfast (30 Mbit/s+) | Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+) | Gigabit | Below 10 Mbit/s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE56 2DB | 100% | 13% | 13% | 0% |
| DE56 2LD | 100% | 6% | 6% | 0% |
Getting around
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| Railway stations | Belper 219,000 journeys in 2024–25 | 2 km (1.3 miles) |
| Duffield 67,000 journeys in 2024–25 | 4.4 km (2.7 miles) | |
| Ambergate 39,000 journeys in 2024–25 | 4.6 km (2.9 miles) | |
| Bus stops | 4 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Hanging Gate Shottlegate | 360 m |
| Bus or coach station | Bus Garage Belper | 1.9 km (1.2 miles) |
| Car parks | Coppice Car Park | 2.3 km (1.4 miles) |
| EV charging points | MFG Charging Station | 1.9 km (1.2 miles) |
| Airport with scheduled flights | East Midlands Airport EMA | 24.8 km (15 miles) |
Local services
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| GP surgeries | Riversdale Surgery | 1.9 km (1.2 miles) |
| Pharmacies | Morrisons Pharmacy | 1.8 km (1.1 miles) |
| NHS dentists | Unity Mill House Dental Practice | 1.8 km (1.1 miles) |
| Hospital | Babington Hospital | 1.9 km (1.2 miles) |
| Police station | Belper, Kilburn, Heage and Duffield Police SNT | 2 km (1.3 miles) |
| Cash machines | Central England Co-op - Belper | 2.1 km (1.3 miles) |
Parks and green space
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| Park or garden | Beaurepaire Garden 1,850 m² | 1.8 km (1.1 miles) |
| Play area | Unnamed 590 m² | 1.5 km (1 mile) |
| Playing field | Unnamed 1.1 ha | 1.4 km (0.9 miles) |
| Allotments | Unnamed 1,120 m² | 1.9 km (1.2 miles) |
Landmarks
The nearest historic landmark is Crossroads Farmhouse, a listed building (Grade II*), 930 m (0.6 miles) east. 9 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.
| Name | What it is | From the middle of the street |
|---|---|---|
| Crossroads Farmhouse | Listed building, Grade II* | 930 m (0.6 miles) east |
| Derwent Valley Mills | World Heritage Site | 1.3 km (0.8 miles) east |
| River Gardens | Registered park or garden, Grade II* | 2 km (1.3 miles) east |
| Belper Cemetery | Registered park or garden, Grade II | 2.8 km (1.7 miles) north-east |
| Name | What it is | From the middle of the street |
|---|---|---|
| Wattispiece Plantation | Wood | 550 m (0.3 miles) south-east |
| Johnson's Wood | Wood | 770 m (0.5 miles) north-east |
| Goodwin's Lumbs | Wood | 1.1 km (0.7 miles) south-east |
| Firestone Hill | Hill | 1.8 km (1.1 miles) south-east |
| Lower Slades | Valley | 3 km (1.9 miles) north |
| Kilburn Lake | Lake or reservoir | 4.1 km (2.6 miles) east |
Air quality
| Pollutant | Here | UK limit | WHO guideline |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) | 5.7 | 40 | 10 |
| Fine particles (PM2.5) | 6.5 | 20 | 5 |
| Particles (PM10) | 11.4 | 40 | 15 |
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
| Level | Road traffic | Railways |
|---|---|---|
| 70 to 74 | 2 | 0 |
| 65 to 69 | 7 | 0 |
| 60 to 64 | 13 | 0 |
| 55 to 59 | 9 | 0 |
| Under 55 | 10 | 41 |
31 of the street's 41 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 Amber Valley: see them on the Amber Valley page.
Nearest schools
| School | Phase | Ages | Distance | Inspection |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Long Row Primary School | Primary | 2–11 | 1.9 km (1.2 miles) | No published inspection |
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 (derbyshire).
People and work
Who lives here
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Median age | 52 | 40 |
| Children under 15 | 11% | 17% |
| Aged 65 and over | 27% | 18% |
Homes
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Owned (outright or with a mortgage) | 87% | 61% |
| Owned outright | 56% | 33% |
| Shared ownership | under 1% | 1% |
| Social rented | 2% | 17% |
| Private rented | 10% | 21% |
Work and commuting
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Adults (16 and over) in work | 56% | 57% |
| Unemployment (of those working or looking for work) | 2% | 6% |
| Retired (of adults) | 32% | 22% |
| Long-term sick or disabled (of adults) | under 1% | 4% |
| Work mainly from home (of those in work) | 42% | 32% |
| Travel to work by car or van | 50% | 48% |
| By train, Underground, metro or tram | under 1% | 4% |
| By any public transport, including bus | 2% | 8% |
| On foot or by bicycle | 5% | 10% |
| Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work) | 44% | 65% |
| Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away | 10% | 8% |
Education and languages
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults) | 45% | 34% |
| No qualifications | 14% | 18% |
| Apprenticeship as highest qualification | 6% | 5% |
| Main language English (aged 3 and over) | 99% | 91% |
| Cannot speak English well or at all | under 1% | 2% |
Deprivation
The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 7 to 9 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: SEVERN TRENT WATER: Utility repair and maintenance works, 7 October 2026 to 12 October 2026 (road closure) found 3 November 2026
- Roadworks Street works permit: Connect Fibre (Fibre Assets Ltd): Utility repair and maintenance works, 23 October 2026 to 27 October 2026 (multi-way signals) found 3 November 2026
Postcodes on this street
Nearby streets
All the streets in DE56 and across Amber Valley.
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.