Back Street Winsham, Somerset

27 addresses across 4 postcodes (TA20), about 300 m long, classed as a minor road. USRN 36612193.

  • Sales: 33 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £600,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 15 homes have an energy certificate (A: 1, C: 2, D: 4, E: 7, 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 E; Band D in Somerset costs £2,561 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Crewkerne, about 8.1 km (5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 3.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 101 to 120 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 11 of its 27 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Ariel Healthcare, about 5.8 km (3.6 miles) away.
  • People: About 510 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 80% of households owned their home and 40% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 6 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often anti-social behaviour.

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
20241£600,000£600,000£600,000
20231£475,000£475,000£475,000
20212£320,000£285,000£355,000
20201£315,000£315,000£315,000
20181£435,000£435,000£435,000
20174£329,750£235,000£400,000
20151£247,000£247,000£247,000
20141£230,000£230,000£230,000
20132£287,500£235,000£340,000
20111£180,000£180,000£180,000
20102£392,500£250,000£535,000
20081£248,000£248,000£248,000
Most recent sales (33)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
18 Dec 2024CORNERSTONES TA20 4EDDetached£600,000
6 Jun 2023CORNERSTONES TA20 4EDDetached£475,000
16 Feb 2021BEAUCROFT TA20 4EDDetached£355,000
15 Jan 2021THE GEORGE TA20 4EDSemi-detached£285,000
22 Sep 2020BRAMBLE COTTAGE, 2 TA20 4EBDetached£315,000
10 Dec 2018OLD YARDHOUSE TA20 4EBDetached£435,000
30 Nov 2017WOODCOTT TA20 4EBTerraced£235,000
17 Nov 2017MINDEN TA20 4EBDetached£330,000
28 Sep 2017OLD YARDHOUSE TA20 4EBDetached£400,000
18 Aug 2017MILESTONES TA20 4EDDetached£329,500
23 Jan 2015BRAMBLE COTTAGE, 2 TA20 4EBDetached£247,000
12 Jun 2014MINDEN TA20 4EBDetached£230,000
11 Nov 2013BOWER TA20 4EBDetached£235,000
23 Aug 2013OLD YARDHOUSE TA20 4EBDetached£340,000
11 Feb 2011DRAGON HOUSE TA20 4EDSemi-detached£180,000
29 Nov 2010BEAUCROFT TA20 4EDDetached£250,000
24 May 2010DAIRY COTTAGE TA20 4EDDetached£535,000
4 Mar 2008MINDEN TA20 4EBDetached£248,000
6 Sep 2007IVY COTTAGE TA20 4EDDetached£455,000
6 Aug 2007MANOR FARM COTTAGE TA20 4EDDetached£365,000
2 Aug 2007I DUNNO TA20 4EBDetached£249,950
4 Jun 2007COBBLESTONE TA20 4EBTerraced£141,254
14 Mar 2007FLINT COTTAGE TA20 4EBSemi-detached£235,000New build.
19 Dec 2006BRAMBLE COTTAGE, 2 TA20 4EBSemi-detached£235,000
27 Sep 2004BEAUCROFT TA20 4EDDetached£235,000
30 Jul 2004MANOR FARM COTTAGE TA20 4EDDetached£250,000
8 Apr 2004STADBROKE TA20 4EBDetached£183,000
11 Jul 2003STADBROKE TA20 4EBDetached£150,000
30 Jun 2003DRAGON HOUSE TA20 4EDSemi-detached£163,000
28 Jun 2002WOODCOTT TA20 4EBTerraced£112,500
4 Nov 1998MANOR FARM COTTAGE TA20 4EDDetached£117,000
21 Aug 1998MINDEN TA20 4EBDetached£77,500
28 Feb 1997MANOR FARM COTTAGE TA20 4EDDetached£99,950

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 July 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

15 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 111 m². Most common: House, detached (7); Bungalow, detached (5); House, semi-detached (3). Built: 1967-1975 (4); before 1900 (4); 1976-1982 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (10); rented (private) (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (7 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Somerset in 2026-27: Band D £2,561 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,707£1,992£2,276£2,561£3,130£3,699£4,268£5,121

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band E (21% of about 1,160 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 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: yes, Winsham. Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 8.
  • 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

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 31 October 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 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

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 3 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.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
TA20 4EDnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 2 unlikely
TA20 4EBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
TA20 4EAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
TA20 4JAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely

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 27 addresses are between 101 m and 120 m above sea level (111 m on average); the ground rises about 19 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
TA20 4EA100%0%0%0%
TA20 4EB100%0%0%0%
TA20 4ED100%0%0%0%
TA20 4JA100%0%0%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 stationsCrewkerne 178,000 journeys in 2024–258.1 km (5 miles)
Axminster 418,000 journeys in 2024–2511.7 km (7.3 miles)
Bus stops4 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Winsham Post Office130 m
EV charging pointsRoam Charging Station4.5 km (2.8 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsExeter International Airport EXT39.3 km (24 miles)
Nearest large airportBristol Airport BRS59.9 km (37 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 surgeriesAriel Healthcare5.8 km (3.6 miles)
PharmaciesMortons Pharmacy Chard Holyrood Street5.7 km (3.5 miles)
NHS dentistsSpa Dental Practice5.6 km (3.5 miles)
HospitalChard Hospital5 km (3.1 miles)
Police stationChard Police Station - Avon And Somerset Police5.4 km (3.4 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
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,500 m²150 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.0 ha330 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,020 m²340 m

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Lullingstone, a listed building (Grade II*), 90 m south. 27 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
LullingstoneListed building, Grade II*90 m south
Church of St StephenListed building, Grade II*220 m south
Cricket HouseRegistered park or garden, Grade II*2.1 km (1.3 miles) north
Forde AbbeyRegistered park or garden, Grade II*2.1 km (1.3 miles) south-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Hazelwood HillHill450 m (0.3 miles) north-west
Cookshill PlantationWood810 m (0.5 miles) north
Grove CoppiceWood880 m (0.5 miles) south
Blackmoor WoodWood1.1 km (0.7 miles) north-east
Mermaid PondLake or reservoir2.2 km (1.4 miles) south-west
Hewood BottomValley3.5 km (2.2 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)3.84010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.2205
Particles (PM10)8.64015

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
60 to 6420
55 to 5990
Under 551627

11 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 Somerset: see them on the Somerset page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 3 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
Winsham Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary2–11180 m Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 3 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
Winsham Primary and Pre School TA20 4JASchool/college/university140 m5 Very good24 Oct 2024
Winsham Shop & Post Office TA20 4JARetailers - other140 m5 Very good4 Dec 2023
The Bell Inn TA20 4HUPub/bar/nightclub180 m4 Good27 Aug 2026

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.

6 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Anti-social behaviour3
Violence and sexual offences2
Burglary1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Pooles Lane (4); On or near Western Way (1); On or near High Street (1).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 514 residents in 228 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 age5740
Children under 1513%17%
Aged 65 and over37%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)80%61%
Owned outright60%33%
Shared ownership1%1%
Social rented5%17%
Private rented14%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work48%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)41%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)42%32%
Travel to work by car or van49%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus1%8%
On foot or by bicycle6%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)40%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away12%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)40%34%
No qualifications13%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 5 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.

Nearby streets

Fore Street · High Street · Pooles Lane · Davies Close · Bakersfield · Balsom Close · Court Farm Close

All the streets in TA20 and across Somerset.

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.