Bacup Old Road Rossendale
22 addresses across 7 postcodes (OL13), about 2 km (1.2 miles) long, classed as a minor road. USRN 32402348.
- Sales: 2 recorded sales since 1995; in 2022 the median was £290,000 across 1 sale.
- Prices and rents: A typical home in Rossendale cost £201,483 in August 2026 (+4.9% on a year); private rents averaged £814 a month.
- Energy: 6 homes have an energy certificate (D: 3, E: 1, G: 2).
- Flood: 6 addresses on its postcodes are in areas 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.
- Coal mining: 6 of its postcodes are in a coal mining high risk area; ask for a coal mining search.
- Storm overflows: 2 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) spilled 10 times (17 hours) in 2025.
- Radon: Up to 10 to 30% of homes in the 1 km squares around it are estimated to be at or above the radon Action Level.
- Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band A; Band D in Rossendale costs £2,520 a year in 2026-27.
- Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 50% to 100% of premises.
- Transport: The nearest railway station is Todmorden, about 7 km (4.4 miles) away in a straight line.
- Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 2.4 km (1.5 miles) away.
- Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 4.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
- Height: Its addresses are 285 to 410 m above sea level.
- Noise: 2 of its 22 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
- Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Irwell Medical Practice, about 3 km (1.9 miles) away.
- People: About 950 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 76% of households owned their home and 29% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
- Road safety: 2 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025, 1 of them fatal or serious.
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House sales on this street
| Year | Sales | Median price | Lowest | Highest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1 | £290,000 | £290,000 | £290,000 |
| Date | Address | Type | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 Nov 2022 | HEIGHT END LOG CABIN OL13 8SA | Other | £5,000 | Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer). |
| 1 Jun 2022 | THE HORSESHOES OL13 8SA | Detached | £290,000 |
House prices and rents in Rossendale
A typical home in Rossendale cost £201,483 in August 2026, 4.9% more than a year before. That is 24% more than five years earlier and 80% more than ten years earlier.
| Home | Typical price, Aug 2026 |
|---|---|
| Detached | £361,572 |
| Semi-detached | £215,819 |
| Terraced | £166,082 |
| Flat or maisonette | £125,571 |
| Bought by a first-time buyer | £175,367 |
Private renters in Rossendale paid £814 a month on average in September 2026, 3.7% more than a year before. That is 50% more than five years earlier.
| Home | Average rent a month, Sep 2026 |
|---|---|
| One bedroom | £593 |
| Two bedrooms | £758 |
| Three bedrooms | £912 |
| Four or more bedrooms | £1,231 |
Energy performance certificates
6 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 95 m². Most common: House, detached (4); Bungalow, detached (1); House, semi-detached (1). Built: before 1900 (3); 2007 onwards (2); 2007-2011 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (4).
Each home's certificates and sales (6 addresses)
Gas and electricity use
Homes with gas used 14,040 kWh of it on average in 2024, 18% more than the district's 11,860 kWh, and 4,654 kWh of electricity, 40% more than the district's 3,316 kWh. There are gas meters for about 75% of the homes.
1 of its postcodes has no gas meters recorded among 10 or more homes: often flats heated by electricity, or homes off the gas grid.
| Postcode | Electricity meters | Typical electricity | Gas meters | Typical gas |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OL13 8RQ | 8 | 5,228 kWh | under 5 | |
| OL13 8RG | 10 | 5,245 kWh | none recorded | |
| OL13 8QR | 19 | 3,254 kWh | 20 | 17,065 kWh |
| OL13 8RF | 6 | 6,212 kWh | under 5 | |
| OL13 8PT | 10 | 1,782 kWh | 10 | 8,218 kWh |
| OL13 8QE | 49 | 2,544 kWh | 47 | 11,145 kWh |
These are all the homes on each postcode, whatever their size and however many live in them, so they show the kind of homes and heating here rather than what any one home uses. The typical figure is the median: half the homes used less. The district is OL13.
Council tax
What each band costs in Rossendale in 2026-27: Band D £2,520 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.
| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| £1,680 | £1,960 | £2,240 | £2,520 | £3,080 | £3,640 | £4,200 | £5,040 |
Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band A (36% of about 1,460 homes).
Planning and heritage
- Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
- Listed buildings on or by this street: 1.
- Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): Immediate Article 4 Direction for small Houses in Multiple Occupation.
- Tree preservation orders: 3 protected trees on or by this street.
- Green belt: no.
Listed buildings
- NOS 2 AND 4 LORD'S COURT, grade II
Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)
- ADJACENT 93 BURNLEY ROAD BACUP LANCASHIRE OL13 8PZ: up to 8 homes, permissioned (670 m (0.4 miles))
- FORMER CAR PARK, PARK ROAD, HELMSHORE: up to 8 homes, permissioned (890 m (0.6 miles))
Energy projects nearby
5 energy projects near the street's postcodes.
| Project | Kind | Size | Stage | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deerplay Landfill Site | Landfill Gas | 2 MW | Operational May 2006 | 2.3 km (1.5 miles) |
| Reaps Moss Wind Farm Rossendale 2007/125 | Wind 3 turbines, 125 m tall | 10.2 MW | Operational Mar 2015 | 2.8 km (1.8 miles) |
| Todmorden Moor Calderdale 10/01057/WDF | Wind 5 turbines | 12.3 MW | Operational Sep 2014 | 3.3 km (2 miles) |
| Coal Clough Wind Farm Burnley 91/0920 & APP/2005/0867 | Wind 24 turbines | 9.6 MW | Operational Feb 1993 | 4 km (2.5 miles) |
| Coal Clough Wind Farm Repowering Burnley APP/2009/0758 | Wind 8 turbines | 16 MW | Operational May 2015 | 4 km (2.5 miles) |
Planned projects can change or not go ahead; search the planning authority's applications by the reference shown for the plans, conditions and any objections. Construction brings traffic for some months; once built, solar farms and batteries are usually quiet, while turbines and waste plants can be seen or heard further away.
Roadworks
Finished in the last three months
- 16 October 2026: LANCASHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, road closure, on the carriageway (immediate - emergency works)
Flood risk
Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 4 addresses are in areas at high risk, 2 at medium risk and 11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| OL13 8RQ | not in 2 or 3 | 0 / 0 / 0 | unlikely |
| OL13 8RG | not in 2 or 3 | 1 / 0 / 2 | unlikely |
| OL13 8QR | not in 2 or 3 | 0 / 0 / 0 | unlikely |
| OL13 8RF | not in 2 or 3 | 0 / 0 / 0 | unlikely |
| OL13 8SA | not in 2 or 3 | 0 / 0 / 0 | unlikely |
| OL13 8PT | not in 2 or 3 | 3 / 2 / 3 | unlikely |
| OL13 8QE | not in 2 or 3 | 0 / 0 / 6 | 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
2 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes spilled 10 times, for 17 hours in all, in 2025. They discharge into River Irwell.
| Overflow | Into | Spills | Hours | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burnley Road Bacup Cso United Utilities | River Irwell | 1 | 9 | 710 m (0.4 miles) |
| Hammertonstreet/Stanley Street Cso United Utilities | River Irwell | 9 | 9 | 720 m (0.4 miles) |
A storm overflow lets sewage diluted with rainwater into a river, stream or the sea when heavy rain overwhelms the sewers, so the spills here affect the water they run into, not homes. A spill is counted the regulators' way: a first 12 hours, then each 24 hours it goes on.
Coal mining
6 of the street's 7 postcodes are in a coal mining high risk area, where coal mining features at or near the surface, such as shallow workings or old mine shafts, are recorded or likely and could affect the ground. 1 more is elsewhere in the coalfield, at low risk.
Ask your conveyancer for a coal mining search (CON29M) on the home: it says what is recorded beneath and near it, and whether there have been claims for subsidence damage.
Radon
The highest radon potential in the 1 km squares around the street's postcodes is 10 to 30%: up to that share of homes there is estimated to be at or above the Action Level of 200 becquerels per cubic metre. At least part of that area is a radon Affected Area, where 1% or more of homes are.
By postcode centre: 1 to 3% (6); 10 to 30% (2).
Radon is a natural radioactive gas from the ground that can build up indoors; long exposure raises the risk of lung cancer. A three-month test with two small detectors is the only way to know a home's level, and a high level can usually be brought down with a sump or better ventilation. Homes built here in recent decades should have radon protection under the building regulations (basic protection from 3%, full protection from 10%). UKHSA sells a radon report for a single address from its detailed map at ukradon.org.
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 22 addresses are between 285 m and 410 m above sea level (378 m on average); the ground rises about 125 m from the lowest to the highest.
Broadband
| Postcode | Superfast (30 Mbit/s+) | Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+) | Gigabit | Below 10 Mbit/s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OL13 8PT | 100% | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| OL13 8QE | 94% | 94% | 94% | 0% |
| OL13 8QR | 100% | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| OL13 8RF | 50% | 50% | 50% | 25% |
| OL13 8RG | 100% | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| OL13 8RQ | 78% | 67% | 67% | 0% |
| OL13 8SA | 100% | 100% | 100% | 0% |
Getting around
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| Railway stations | Todmorden 718,000 journeys in 2024–25 | 7 km (4.4 miles) |
| Burnley Manchester Road 583,000 journeys in 2024–25 | 7.1 km (4.4 miles) | |
| Walsden 80,000 journeys in 2024–25 | 7.4 km (4.6 miles) | |
| Bus stops | 4 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 11 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Moorlands Weir | 350 m |
| Bus or coach station | Bus station Rawtenstall | 6.1 km (3.8 miles) |
| EV charging points | Bank Street, Bacup | 2.7 km (1.7 miles) |
| Airport with scheduled flights | Leeds Bradford Airport LBA | 39 km (24 miles) |
Local services
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| GP surgeries | Irwell Medical Practice Outstanding Jan 2018 | 3 km (1.9 miles) |
| Pharmacies | Boots | 2.6 km (1.6 miles) |
| NHS dentists | Bacup Primary Health Trust | 3 km (1.9 miles) |
| Hospital | Burnley General Hospital Good Jan 2023 | 9.4 km (5.9 miles) |
| Care homes | Fern Hill House Care Home Requires improvement Apr 2021 | 2.5 km (1.6 miles) |
| Police station | Waterfoot Police Station | 5.3 km (3.3 miles) |
| Cash machines | Waterfoot Mini Market Cashzone | 4.4 km (2.7 miles) |
Parks and green space
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| Park or garden | Unnamed 2,730 m² | 2.4 km (1.5 miles) |
| Play area | 1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,800 m² | 360 m |
| Playing field | 1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 7,860 m² | 380 m |
| Allotments | Unnamed 6,310 m² | 2.6 km (1.6 miles) |
Landmarks
3 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).
| Name | What it is | From the middle of the street |
|---|---|---|
| Old Clough | Valley | 700 m (0.4 miles) north-east |
| Coal Pit Clough Plantation | Wood | 790 m (0.5 miles) south |
| Lane Head Plantation | Wood | 880 m (0.5 miles) south |
| Dog Pits Plantation | Wood | 1 km (0.6 miles) south |
| Small Shaw Height | Hill | 1.2 km (0.7 miles) south-west |
| Clough Bottom Reservoir | Lake or reservoir | 2.2 km (1.4 miles) north-west |
Air quality
| Pollutant | Here | UK limit | WHO guideline |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) | 4.9 | 40 | 10 |
| Fine particles (PM2.5) | 5.7 | 20 | 5 |
| Particles (PM10) | 8.7 | 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 | 1 | 0 |
| 55 to 59 | 1 | 0 |
| Under 55 | 20 | 22 |
2 of the street's 22 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 Rossendale: see them on the Rossendale page.
Nearest schools
| School | Phase | Ages | Distance | Inspection | Exam results |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northern Primary School | Primary | 5–11 | 1 km (0.6 miles) | No published inspection | 50% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 66% in 2024 and 48% in 2023) |
Exam results are from the Department for Education's school performance tables (Explore Education Statistics, Open Government Licence), for all pupils at each school. The middle school in England had 63% at the expected standard at the end of primary school (2025), Attainment 8 of 46.0 at GCSE (2026) and an A level average of C+ (2025). Attainment 8 adds up a pupil's grades in eight GCSEs, with English and maths counted twice (90 is the most), averaged over the school's pupils. Progress 8 compares pupils with others who had the same results at the end of primary school; it is not published for GCSEs in 2025 and 2026, as those pupils sat no primary tests during the pandemic. Small year groups swing from year to year, and figures for very small ones are withheld.
Nurseries and childcare
1 nursery, pre-school or club within 1.5 km (0.9 miles), the nearest 1 km (0.6 miles) from the middle of the street.
| Provider | Kind | Places | Latest inspection | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northern Out of School Hours Club OL13 8PH | Out-of-school day care | 36 | Not inspected yet | 1 km (0.6 miles) |
Ofsted also registers 428 childminders and 26 home childcarers (nannies) in Lancashire. 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
| Business | Type | Distance | Rating | Rated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anna's Cafe Bar OL13 8QE | Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen | 480 m (0.3 miles) | 4 Good | 30 Mar 2026 |
Crime within 250 m
No crimes recorded at anonymised points within 250 m in this period (lancashire).
Road safety
2 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 1 serious and 1 slight, in which 1 person was seriously hurt. 1 involved a motorcyclist. 50% happened in the dark. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.
| Year | Collisions | Fatal or serious |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025 | 1 | 1 |
| Date | Severity | Who was hurt | Road | Conditions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 Sep 2025 18:35 | Serious | 1 person: 1 motorcyclist | A671, 30 mph | Dark |
| 1 Jun 2024 19:43 | Slight | 1 person | A671, 30 mph | Daylight |
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
No traffic count point is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes. The Department for Transport counts every motorway and A road and only a sample of minor roads, so a quiet residential street usually has none.
People and work
Who lives here
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Median age | 45 | 40 |
| Children under 15 | 16% | 17% |
| Aged 65 and over | 16% | 18% |
Homes
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Owned (outright or with a mortgage) | 76% | 61% |
| Owned outright | 38% | 33% |
| Shared ownership | 0% | 1% |
| Social rented | 5% | 17% |
| Private rented | 19% | 21% |
Work and commuting
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Adults (16 and over) in work | 67% | 57% |
| Unemployment (of those working or looking for work) | 3% | 6% |
| Retired (of adults) | 19% | 22% |
| Long-term sick or disabled (of adults) | 3% | 4% |
| Work mainly from home (of those in work) | 26% | 32% |
| Travel to work by car or van | 67% | 48% |
| By train, Underground, metro or tram | under 1% | 4% |
| By any public transport, including bus | 2% | 8% |
| On foot or by bicycle | 3% | 10% |
| Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work) | 52% | 65% |
| Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away | 9% | 8% |
Education and languages
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults) | 29% | 34% |
| No qualifications | 15% | 18% |
| Apprenticeship as highest qualification | 6% | 5% |
| Main language English (aged 3 and over) | 98% | 91% |
| Cannot speak English well or at all | under 1% | 2% |
Deprivation
The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 4 to 6 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: LANCASHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL: Highway repair and maintenance works, 16 October 2026 (road closure) found 3 November 2026
Postcodes on this street
- OL13 8RQ: 6 addresses of 22 in the postcode
- OL13 8RG: 5 addresses of 14 in the postcode
- OL13 8QR: 3 addresses of 28 in the postcode
- OL13 8RF: 3 addresses of 10 in the postcode
- OL13 8SA: 3 addresses of 4 in the postcode
- OL13 8PT: 1 address of 13 in the postcode
- OL13 8QE: 1 address of 69 in the postcode
Nearby streets
All the streets in OL13 and across Rossendale.
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.