Baker's Row London, Islington

38 addresses across 4 postcodes (EC1R), about 130 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 21604177.

  • Energy: 13 homes have an energy certificate (C: 11, D: 2).
  • Flood: 22 addresses on its postcodes are in areas 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 F; Band D in Islington costs £2,108 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Farringdon, about 520 m (0.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Spa Fields, is about 180 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 29.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 10.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 13 to 17 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 38 of its 38 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Clerkenwell Medical Practice, about 150 m away, with 20 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 240 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 38% of households owned their home and 75% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 608 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.

No sales recorded on this street since January 1995 under this street name.

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 June 2019 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

13 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 70 m². Most common: Flat (13). Built: before 1900 (8); 2019 (4); 2012 onwards (1). Tenure at assessment: rented (private) (8); owner-occupied (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (4 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Islington in 2026-27: Band D £2,108 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,405£1,640£1,874£2,108£2,577£3,045£3,514£4,216

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band F (28% of about 1,360 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, Clerkenwell Green (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • 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.

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

Finished in the last three months

  • 10 October 2026 to 13 October 2026: BT, Utility repair and maintenance works, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (immediate - emergency works)
  • 8 September 2026 to 9 September 2026: VORBOSS LIMITED, Utility repair and maintenance works, no carriageway incursion, on the footway, carriageway (minor works)
  • 26 August 2026 to 27 August 2026: VORBOSS LIMITED, New service connection, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)

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, 22 at medium risk and 0 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
EC1R 3DBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
EC1R 3DGnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
EC1R 3DFnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
EC1R 5ERnot in 2 or 3 0 / 22 / 0 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 47 addresses are between 13 m and 17 m above sea level (16 m on average).

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
EC1R 3DB100%100%100%0%
EC1R 3DF100%100%100%0%
EC1R 3DG100%100%100%0%
EC1R 5ER100%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 stationsFarringdon 50 million journeys in 2024–25520 m (0.3 miles)
City Thameslink 7.6 million journeys in 2024–251.2 km (0.7 miles)
London Kings Cross 28 million journeys in 2024–251.2 km (0.7 miles)
Underground, metro or tramFarringdon Underground Station520 m (0.3 miles)
Chancery Lane Underground Station620 m (0.4 miles)
Barbican Underground Station920 m (0.6 miles)
Bus stops29 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 86 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Rosebery Avenue / Mount Pleasant Clerkenwell70 m
Bus or coach stationLondon St Pancras Megabusplus1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Ferry terminalBlackfriars Pier1.6 km (1 mile)
Car parks9 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Motorcycle Parking Bay110 m
EV charging points49 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Shell Recharge460 m (0.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon City Airport LCY11.7 km (7.2 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Heathrow Airport LHR25 km (16 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 surgeries20 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Clerkenwell Medical Practice150 m
Pharmacies30 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Clerkenwell Pharmacy250 m
NHS dentists43 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Finsbury Health Centre150 m
HospitalThe Eastman Dental Hospital540 m (0.3 miles)
Police stationHolborn Police Station610 m (0.4 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest ATM480 m (0.3 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 garden21 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Spa Fields 7,790 m²180 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Gray's Inn Gardens 2.2 ha390 m
Play area20 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 300 m²170 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 920 m²350 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 900 m²2.3 km (1.4 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 21 parks and gardens, 11 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Former Clerkenwell Fire Station, a listed building (Grade II*), 100 m north. 704 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 24 of them Grade I and 46 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Former Clerkenwell Fire StationListed building, Grade II*100 m north
Finsbury Health CentreListed building, Grade I150 m north-east
Roman Catholic Italian Church of St Peter and PresbyteryListed building, Grade II*170 m south-east
Church of Our Most Holy Redeemer, Clergy House, Campanile and Parish HallListed building, Grade II*210 m north
Benedictine nunnery of St Mary, ClerkenwellScheduled monument300 m east
Gray's InnRegistered park or garden, Grade II*490 m (0.3 miles) south-west
Barnard's Inn Hall (Mercers' School)Scheduled monument680 m (0.4 miles) south
CORAM'S FIELDS, with MECKLENBURGH and BRUNSWICK SQUARESRegistered park or garden, Grade II710 m (0.4 miles) west
London Wall: site of Newgate and 121-124 Newgate Street, remains of Roman and medieval wall, gateway and bastionScheduled monument1 km (0.6 miles) south-east
Tower of LondonWorld Heritage Site2.9 km (1.8 miles) south-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
King's ReachTidal water2.3 km (1.4 miles) south
Pelican PoolLake or reservoir2.7 km (1.7 miles) south-west
Duck IslandIsland2.7 km (1.7 miles) south-west
Barrow HillHill3.9 km (2.5 miles) west
Paddington GreenWood4.5 km (2.8 miles) west
RedriffWetland4.9 km (3.1 miles) east

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)29.94010
Fine particles (PM2.5)10.5205
Particles (PM10)17.64015

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

Road, rail and aircraft 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 trafficRailwaysAircraft
60 to 641500
55 to 592300
Under 5503838

38 of the street's 38 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 Islington: see them on the Islington 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
Christopher Hatton Primary SchoolPrimary3–11190 m Report card (Jun 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
St Alban's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–11400 m (0.2 miles) No published inspection
St George the Martyr Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–11480 m (0.3 miles) Outstanding (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Hugh Myddelton Primary SchoolPrimary2–11530 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
St Peter and St Paul Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary2–11650 m (0.4 miles) Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Capital City College16 plus14–99710 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Thomas Coram CentreNursery2–5770 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Moreland Primary SchoolPrimary0–11910 m (0.6 miles) No published inspection
City of London Primary Academy, IslingtonPrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) Outstanding (Nov 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson SchoolSecondary11–161 km (0.6 miles) No overall grade (Jan 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Winton Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Outstanding (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Argyle Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Oct 2022, 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
Eagle Public House EC1R 3ALPub/bar/nightclub50 m4 Good11 Nov 2025
Kalbi Korean BBQ EC1R 5HPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen70 m4 Good18 Mar 2025
Retail Express EC1R 4TARetailers - other70 m5 Very good30 Jun 2016
Taparee EC1R 4TARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen70 m5 Very good3 Sep 2025
Great Greek Food EC1R 3ALRetailers - other80 m3 Generally satisfactory15 Apr 2026
Daffodil Mulligan EC1Y 2BJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen80 m5 Very good18 Aug 2026
Machan Kitchen EC1R 3ALRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen80 m3 Generally satisfactory24 Jan 2025
Hub by Premier Inn Clerkenwell EC1M 3HEPub/bar/nightclub80 m5 Very good5 Feb 2025
Happy Curations Ltd. / UNROOTED DRINKS EC1R 5ETRetailers - other90 mAwaiting inspection
RUBY STELLA HOTEL & BAR EC1R 5ETHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house90 m5 Very good28 Nov 2024
The Horses EC1R 3DJPub/bar/nightclub90 m5 Very good30 Sep 2026
Atush Uyghur Cuisine EC1R 4SXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen90 m5 Very good10 Oct 2025
Luis Cafe EC1R 4SPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen100 m4 Good5 May 2026
Quality Wines EC1R 3EARetailers - other100 m5 Very good10 Mar 2026
Bella Crust EC1R 4SHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen100 m1 Major improvement necessary14 Apr 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.

608 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences114
Theft from the person112
Other theft102
Anti-social behaviour76
Public order38
Burglary36
Shoplifting34
Drugs33
Robbery24
Bicycle theft13
Criminal damage and arson10
Vehicle crime8
Possession of weapons5
Other crime3

Most of these are attached to: On or near White Bear Yd (69); On or near Mount Pleasant (68); On or near Pine Street (60); On or near Laystall Street (56); On or near Vine Hill (45).

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: 243 residents in 128 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 age3340
Children under 157%17%
Aged 65 and over7%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)38%61%
Owned outright16%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented2%17%
Private rented61%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work71%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)9%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)0%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)79%32%
Travel to work by car or van0%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram6%4%
By any public transport, including bus9%8%
On foot or by bicycle11%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)89%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away0%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)75%34%
No qualifications3%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification0%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)81%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%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

  • Roadworks Street works permit: BT: Utility repair and maintenance works, 10 October 2026 to 13 October 2026 (no carriageway incursion) found 3 November 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings God Save the Pizza / GSTP (takeaway/sandwich shop, EC1R 4QE) newly listed: Awaiting inspection found 3 November 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Ebi (restaurant/cafe/canteen, EC1R 4SP) newly listed: Awaiting inspection found 3 November 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Mien Tay (restaurant/cafe/canteen, EC1R 4PX) newly listed: Awaiting inspection found 3 November 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Mien Tay (restaurant/cafe/canteen, EC1R 4PX) is no longer listed; it was rated Awaiting inspection found 31 October 2026

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

Bakers Yard · Topham Street · Farringdon Road · Crawford Passage · Coldbath Square · Bowling Green Lane · Warner Yard · Ray Street · Pine Street · Mount Pleasant · Summers Street · Warner Street

All the streets in EC1R and across Islington.

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.