Bampfylde Road Torquay, Torbay

107 addresses across 4 postcodes (TQ2), about 370 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 40701036.

  • Sales: 117 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £480,000 across 1 sale.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Torbay cost £221,469 in August 2026 (-3.1% on a year); private rents averaged £924 a month.
  • Energy: 52 homes have an energy certificate (C: 12, D: 29, E: 10, 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.
  • Recorded floods: No recorded flood covers the centre of any of its postcodes.
  • Storm overflows: 1 storm overflow within 1 km (0.6 miles) spilled 5 times (2 hours) in 2025.
  • Coastal erosion: The nearest projected coastal erosion zone is 720 m (0.4 miles) from its postcodes.
  • Radon: Up to 3 to 5% of homes in the 1 km squares around it are estimated to be at or above the radon Action Level.
  • Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the A3022, carries 11,028 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band A; Band D in Torbay costs £2,470 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 94% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Torquay, about 610 m (0.4 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 140 m away, and Abbey Park (3.1 hectares) is about 480 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 5.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 11 to 32 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 19 of its 107 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Croft Hall Medical Practice, about 460 m (0.3 miles) away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 1,020 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 41% of households owned their home and 25% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 155 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: 11 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025, 3 of them fatal or serious; 2 involved a pedestrian.

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House 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£480,000£480,000£480,000
20231£320,000£320,000£320,000
20223£200,000£124,500£307,998
20214£221,500£52,500£265,000
20191£250,000£250,000£250,000
20171£336,000£336,000£336,000
20163£180,000£178,000£197,500
20154£173,500£168,500£338,000
20141£62,000£62,000£62,000
20132£226,250£210,000£242,500
20123£196,000£74,000£475,000
20111£438,000£438,000£438,000
All 117 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
3 Jun 20163 TQ2 5ARTerraced£197,500
31 Jul 20073 TQ2 5ARTerraced£215,000
17 Feb 20063 TQ2 5ARTerraced£198,000
28 Jul 20053 TQ2 5ARTerraced£170,000
16 Jan 19983 TQ2 5ARTerraced£69,000
15 Jun 2004FLAT 1, 4 TQ2 5APFlat or maisonette£82,950Leasehold.
19 Mar 2002FLAT 1, 4 TQ2 5APFlat or maisonette£34,500Leasehold.
31 Jan 2014FLAT 2, 4 TQ2 5APFlat or maisonette£62,000Leasehold.
30 Sep 2005FLAT 2, 4 TQ2 5APFlat or maisonette£70,000Leasehold.
17 Jun 1998FLAT 2, 4 TQ2 5APFlat or maisonette£26,000Leasehold.
13 Dec 2021FLAT 3, 4 TQ2 5APFlat or maisonette£52,500Leasehold.
8 Mar 2002FLAT 3, 4 TQ2 5APFlat or maisonette£37,000Leasehold.
16 Nov 19955 TQ2 5ARSemi-detached£35,000
29 Jun 20076 TQ2 5ARSemi-detached£265,000
31 Jul 20036 TQ2 5ARSemi-detached£198,000
30 Nov 19956 TQ2 5ARSemi-detached£55,000
19 Apr 20226A TQ2 5ARTerraced£124,500
30 Nov 20057 TQ2 5ARSemi-detached£196,000
5 Dec 20037 TQ2 5ARSemi-detached£178,000
27 Aug 19987 TQ2 5ARSemi-detached£77,000
8 Apr 19987 TQ2 5ARSemi-detached£76,500
8 Mar 20168 TQ2 5ARTerraced£178,000
29 Jun 20068 TQ2 5ARTerraced£280,000
19 Mar 20048 TQ2 5ARTerraced£210,000
6 Jun 20028 TQ2 5ARTerraced£127,500
26 Nov 19998 TQ2 5ARTerraced£82,000
12 Jan 20219 TQ2 5ARTerraced£210,000
28 May 20159 TQ2 5ARTerraced£175,000
1 Aug 20079 TQ2 5ARSemi-detached£211,000
16 Jan 20049 TQ2 5ARSemi-detached£160,000
1 May 201510 TQ2 5AROther£143,500Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
26 Oct 200710 TQ2 5ARTerraced£295,000
4 Jun 199910 TQ2 5ARTerraced£94,000
16 May 199710 TQ2 5ARTerraced£80,000
23 May 201911 TQ2 5ARTerraced£149,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
31 Mar 202512 TQ2 5ARTerraced£260,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
31 Oct 201912 TQ2 5ARTerraced£250,000
2 Aug 200712 TQ2 5ARTerraced£236,000
8 Jan 200312 TQ2 5ARTerraced£184,000
15 Sep 200012 TQ2 5ARTerraced£89,000
2 Jul 199912 TQ2 5ARTerraced£82,000
10 Mar 202313 TQ2 5ARTerraced£320,000
13 Dec 202113 TQ2 5ARTerraced£233,000
22 Oct 201513 TQ2 5ARTerraced£172,000
20 Jul 200514 TQ2 5ARTerraced£220,000
2 Jun 199714 TQ2 5ARTerraced£79,000
25 Jun 200715 TQ2 5ARFlat or maisonette£200,000
17 Oct 201617 TQ2 5ARTerraced£180,000
17 Jul 201517 TQ2 5ARTerraced£168,500
20 Feb 200817 TQ2 5ARTerraced£212,000
24 Aug 200517 TQ2 5ARTerraced£179,000
23 Oct 200117 TQ2 5ARTerraced£109,000
30 Oct 2012GROUND FLOOR FLAT, 19A TQ2 5ARFlat or maisonette£74,000Leasehold.
31 Aug 200720 TQ2 5ARTerraced£245,000
15 Oct 199720 TQ2 5ARTerraced£75,000
26 Aug 202221 TQ2 5ARTerraced£200,000
25 Nov 200522 TQ2 5ARTerraced£200,000
14 Apr 200222 TQ2 5ARTerraced£105,000
22 May 199622 TQ2 5ARTerraced£77,000
2 Aug 2007FLAT 4, 22 TQ2 5ARFlat or maisonette£85,000Leasehold.
1 Dec 199523 TQ2 5ARTerraced£42,500
30 Jun 202124 TQ2 5ARTerraced£265,000
18 Jul 201224 TQ2 5ARTerraced£196,000
16 Feb 200426 TQ2 5ARTerraced£176,000
14 Oct 2008FLAT 4, 26 TQ2 5ARTerraced£210,000
19 Apr 200227 TQ2 5AYDetached£220,000
29 Aug 2018TOR DEAN HOTEL, 27 TQ2 5AYOther£580,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
31 May 201330 TQ2 5ARTerraced£210,000
7 Apr 2022LINDEN HOUSE, 31 TQ2 5AYOther£680,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
9 Jul 2021LINDEN HOUSE, 31 TQ2 5AYOther£605,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
30 May 2017LINDEN HOUSE, 31 TQ2 5AYOther£590,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
22 May 2012LINDEN HOUSE, 31 TQ2 5AYSemi-detached£475,000
3 Oct 2006LINDEN HOUSE, 31 TQ2 5AYSemi-detached£472,500
4 Mar 201332 TQ2 5ARTerraced£242,500
12 Mar 200932 TQ2 5ARTerraced£250,000
25 Jan 200832 TQ2 5ARTerraced£250,000
3 May 202434 TQ2 5ARTerraced£310,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
2 Sep 199934 TQ2 5ARTerraced£96,000
4 Aug 202236 TQ2 5ARTerraced£307,998
8 Nov 200436 TQ2 5ARTerraced£244,999
21 Oct 200336 TQ2 5ARTerraced£214,999
20 Jul 202638 TQ2 5AROther£290,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
6 Jan 201740 TQ2 5AYSemi-detached£336,000
13 Aug 201540 TQ2 5AYSemi-detached£338,000
5 Jun 200140 TQ2 5AYSemi-detached£94,000
12 Jan 200744 TQ2 5AYSemi-detached£395,000
21 Feb 200544 TQ2 5AYSemi-detached£335,000
14 Feb 200044 TQ2 5AYSemi-detached£150,000
11 May 199844 TQ2 5AYSemi-detached£158,200
1 Feb 202246 TQ2 5AYDetached£401,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
13 May 199746 TQ2 5AYDetached£112,000
30 Nov 201148 TQ2 5AYSemi-detached£438,000
12 Oct 200548 TQ2 5AYSemi-detached£360,000
21 Nov 200148 TQ2 5AYSemi-detached£179,000
31 May 202350 TQ2 5AYOther£455,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
24 May 200650 TQ2 5AYSemi-detached£410,000
1 Mar 200150 TQ2 5AYSemi-detached£169,000
13 Jul 199950 TQ2 5AYSemi-detached£152,000
10 Nov 199750 TQ2 5AYSemi-detached£135,000
16 May 201852 TQ2 5AYOther£368,100Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
14 Apr 200052 TQ2 5AYSemi-detached£114,000
27 Aug 199852 TQ2 5AYSemi-detached£103,000
11 May 2018WESTBANK, 54 TQ2 5AYSemi-detached£369,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
29 Mar 1999WESTBANK, 54 TQ2 5AYSemi-detached£100,000
31 Jan 199756 TQ2 5AYSemi-detached£60,000
10 May 2000BLUE WATERS HOTEL, 58 TQ2 5AYSemi-detached£115,500
5 Sep 1997BLUE WATERS HOTEL, 58 TQ2 5AYSemi-detached£129,000
12 Jan 1996BLUE WATERS HOTEL, 58 TQ2 5AYSemi-detached£109,000
6 Mar 201960 TQ2 5AYOther£380,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
14 Apr 200360 TQ2 5AYSemi-detached£260,000
2 Mar 200160 TQ2 5AYSemi-detached£157,500
10 Feb 200060 TQ2 5AYSemi-detached£115,000
20 Dec 199660 TQ2 5AYSemi-detached£103,000
16 Apr 202462 TQ2 5AYSemi-detached£480,000
3 Nov 199962 TQ2 5AYSemi-detached£147,500
11 Feb 199762 TQ2 5AYSemi-detached£115,500
11 Apr 200864 TQ2 5AYDetached£620,000

House prices and rents in Torbay

A typical home in Torbay cost £221,469 in August 2026, 3.1% less than a year before. That is 3% more than five years earlier and 25% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£416,968
Semi-detached£271,123
Terraced£212,910
Flat or maisonette£135,892
Bought by a first-time buyer£191,474

Private renters in Torbay paid £924 a month on average in September 2026, 3.7% more than a year before. That is 22% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£621
Two bedrooms£819
Three bedrooms£1,001
Four or more bedrooms£1,300

Sources: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry, with the ONS and the Welsh Government), to August 2026; ONS Price Index of Private Rents, to September 2026. Figures for the whole council area, not this street. The typical price is adjusted for the mix of homes that sold, so it is not the value of any one home; the street's own sales are above. Rents are the average paid on all private tenancies, new and existing, so they move more slowly than rents being advertised.

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

52 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 61 m². Most common: Flat (27); House, mid-terrace (13); House, semi-detached (6). Built: before 1900 (24); 1900-1929 (23); Pre-1900 (2). Tenure at assessment: rented (private) (25); owner-occupied (18).

Each home's certificates and sales (52 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 13,698 kWh of it on average in 2024, 41% more than the district's 9,731 kWh, and 3,683 kWh of electricity, 15% more than the district's 3,210 kWh. There are gas meters for about 99% of the homes.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
TQ2 5AR43 10 Economy 73,130 kWh 299,640 kWh
TQ2 5AY56,853 kWh 1716,486 kWh
TQ2 5HZ34 7 Economy 71,867 kWh 359,988 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 TQ2.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, postcode level domestic gas and electricity statistics for 2024 (gas from mid-May to mid-May), Open Government Licence: domestic meters on each postcode, from the gas and electricity industry's meter readings. A postcode with fewer than 5 meters of a fuel has no figures for it.

Council tax

What each band costs in Torbay in 2026-27: Band D £2,470 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,647£1,921£2,196£2,470£3,019£3,568£4,117£4,941

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band A (55% of about 2,220 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 2 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) 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, Torre, Tormohun (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 2.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: 11 protected trees on or by this street.
  • Green belt: no.

Listed buildings

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.

Energy projects nearby

No wind turbine or waste plant within 5 km (3.1 miles), and no solar farm, battery site or other project of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles), of the street's postcodes, operating or planned.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Renewable Energy Planning Database, Q2 2026 extract, Open Government Licence: renewable electricity and storage projects over 150 kW, operating, being built, permitted or applied for. Shown: wind turbines and plants that burn or digest waste within 5 km (3.1 miles), other projects of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles); refused, withdrawn and abandoned projects are left out. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each project's grid reference.

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 8 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
TQ2 5ARnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
TQ2 5AYnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
TQ2 5APnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
TQ2 5HZnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 8 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.

Sources: Environment Agency Recorded Flood Outlines; 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.

Coastal erosion

The nearest projected erosion zone is 720 m (0.4 miles) from the street's postcodes (by 2105, if defences are not maintained or built).

ProjectionPolicy for the frontageErosionDistance
By 2055, with the shoreline management plan carried outHold the line Durlston Head to Rame Head none (the line is held)730 m (0.5 miles)
By 2105, with the shoreline management plan carried outHold the line Durlston Head to Rame Head none (the line is held)730 m (0.5 miles)
By 2105, if defences are not maintained or builtNo intervention Durlston Head to Rame Head up to 13 m720 m (0.4 miles)

Each shoreline management plan sets a policy for each stretch of coast: hold the line (keep defences where they are), managed realignment (let the shore move back in a controlled way), advance the line, or no active intervention. Erosion is the distance the shore may move back, counted from today, for the higher central climate change allowance. The maps are guidance from national modelling, not a survey of any one home; the council's coastal team can say more.

Sources: Environment Agency, National Coastal Erosion Risk Mapping 2024 (England), and Natural Resources Wales, National Coastal Erosion Risk Management (Wales), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each zone; where a postcode centre is inside a zone, some homes on it may not be.

Storm overflows

1 storm overflow within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes spilled 5 times, for 2 hours in all, in 2025. They discharge into Kings Drive Stream to Sea.

OverflowIntoSpillsHoursDistance
Kings Drive Cso South West Water Kings Drive Stream to Sea 5 2 400 m (0.2 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.

Source: Environment Agency, Event Duration Monitoring storm overflow annual return for 2025, from the water companies' monitors on each overflow in England, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each overflow's outlet. A year's figures are published the following spring; a monitor that worked for less of the year undercounts.

Coal mining

No postcode centre on the street is in a coalfield: the Mining Remediation Authority records no coal mining risk here.

Source: Mining Remediation Authority (formerly the Coal Authority), development high and low risk areas, Open Government Licence. Checked at each postcode's centre, so a home near the edge of an area may differ. It covers coal mining only, not other mining (such as tin, lead, iron or chalk), and is no substitute for a coal mining search. About the risk areas.

Radon

The highest radon potential in the 1 km squares around the street's postcodes is 3 to 5%: 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.

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.

Source: British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency, Indicative Atlas of Radon in Great Britain, Open Government Licence. Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026. Each 1 km square is classed by the highest radon potential found anywhere in it, so a square's figure can overstate it for much of the square; the detailed map is not open data.

Historic landfill

No historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales, historic landfill sites (places where waste was put into or onto the land and no environmental permit is now in force), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each site as mapped; the outlines and dates come from old records and can be approximate. Landfill still operating is not included.

Height above sea level

The street's 107 addresses are between 11 m and 32 m above sea level (27 m on average); the ground rises about 21 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
TQ2 5AP100%100%100%0%
TQ2 5AR98%98%98%0%
TQ2 5AY100%100%100%0%
TQ2 5HZ96%94%94%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 stationsTorquay 508,000 journeys in 2024–25610 m (0.4 miles)
Torre 376,000 journeys in 2024–25790 m (0.5 miles)
Paignton 707,000 journeys in 2024–253.9 km (2.4 miles)
Bus stops15 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 51 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Abbey Court Hotel Torquay90 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Paignton3.9 km (2.4 miles)
Ferry terminalTorquay - North Quay1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Car parks3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Brunswick Square Car Park570 m (0.4 miles)
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Roam Charging Station580 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsExeter International Airport EXT31.1 km (19 miles)
Nearest large airportCardiff International Airport CWL104 km (65 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. Ratings and care homes: Care Quality Commission, latest ratings as at 2 November 2026 (England only; the CQC does not rate dental practices, and Wales's inspectorates give no ratings). 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 surgeries3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Croft Hall Medical Practice Requires improvement Jul 2025460 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies8 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Wellbeing Pharmacy460 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists9 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Millbrook Villas Dental Practce200 m
HospitalMount Stuart Hospital Good Oct 2018950 m (0.6 miles)
Care homes13 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Beechmount Good Oct 2022400 m (0.2 miles)
Police stationDevon & Cornwall Police450 m (0.3 miles)
Cash machines1 machine within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Cooperative Food Chelston - Torquay, Chelston Cashzone520 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 garden14 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 480 m²140 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Abbey Park 3.1 ha480 m (0.3 miles)
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,180 m²480 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Torre Valley North Playing Field 2.4 ha80 m
AllotmentsSherwell Valley Allotments 1.6 ha1.2 km (0.7 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 14 parks and gardens, 13 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Torre Abbey, a listed building (Grade I), 310 m south. 106 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade I and 4 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Torre AbbeyListed building, Grade I310 m south
The Spanish Barn, Torre AbbeyListed building, Grade I370 m south
Church of St AndrewListed building, Grade II*370 m north-east
Torre AbbeyScheduled monument460 m (0.3 miles) south
Parish Church of St LukeListed building, Grade II*690 m (0.4 miles) east
St Michael's Chapel, Chapel HillScheduled monument1 km (0.6 miles) north
Princess Gardens and Royal Terrace GardensRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.1 km (0.7 miles) south-east
Barton Road Cemetery, TorquayRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.9 km (1.2 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Tor HillHill480 m (0.3 miles) north-east
Torre Abbey SandsBeach660 m (0.4 miles) south-east
Shiphay PlantationWood900 m (0.6 miles) north-west
Broken CliffCliff or slope1.7 km (1 mile) south
Devil's PointWetland3 km (1.9 miles) east
Bickley PondLake or reservoir4.8 km (3 miles) north-west

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)5.74010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.5205
Particles (PM10)9.04015

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
70 to 7410
60 to 6430
55 to 59150
Under 5588107

19 of the street's 107 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 Torbay: see them on the Torbay page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 5 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.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspectionExam results
Cockington Primary SchoolPrimary5–11150 m No overall grade (Apr 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good 46% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 6% at the higher standard (2025; 55% in 2024 and 32% in 2023)
Upton St James CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Requires improvement 36% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 20% in 2024 and 33% in 2023)
Torre Church of England AcademyPrimary3–111.1 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 84% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 16% at the higher standard (2025; 78% in 2024 and 76% in 2023)
Our Lady of the Angels Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (May 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 50% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 4% at the higher standard (2025; 62% in 2024 and 50% in 2023)
Ellacombe Church of England AcademyPrimary2–111.2 km (0.8 miles) Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 71% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 13% at the higher standard (2025; 77% in 2024 and 61% in 2023)
Torquay Girls' Grammar SchoolSecondary11–181.4 km (0.9 miles) Outstanding (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 68.4 (68.6 in 2025 and 68.9 in 2024); 94.8% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade B; 19.6% AAB or better; progress average
Torquay AcademySecondary11–181.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 48.7 (47.6 in 2025 and 44.6 in 2024); 53.5% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade C+; 14.6% AAB or better; progress below average
Torquay Boys' Grammar SchoolSecondary11–181.5 km (0.9 miles) Report card (Feb 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 70.0 (70.8 in 2025 and 66.9 in 2024); 94.8% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade B-; 28.3% AAB or better; progress average
Sherwell Valley Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection 75% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 6% at the higher standard (2025; 62% in 2024 and 53% in 2023)
The Spires CollegeSecondary11–181.7 km (1 mile) No published inspection GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 45.1 (44.5 in 2025 and 43.6 in 2024); 45.7% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade C-; 10% AAB or better; progress below average
Preston Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.7 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection 60% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 11% at the higher standard (2025; 63% in 2024 and 56% in 2023)
Warberry CofE Academy Church of EnglandPrimary2–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Good (Dec 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 83% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 17% at the higher standard (2025; 65% in 2024 and 63% 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

4 nurseries, pre-schools and clubs within 1.5 km (0.9 miles), the nearest 200 m from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Acorns Pre-School TQ2 6AP Full day care 68 Good (Mar 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 200 m
Southernwood Nursery TQ2 6JE Full day care 36 Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 680 m (0.4 miles)
Holy Angels Pre-School TQ2 6DB Full day care 30 Outstanding (Sep 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Stagecoach Torquay - Torquay Boys Grammar School TQ2 7EL Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 1.5 km (0.9 miles)

Ofsted also registers 57 childminders and 6 home childcarers (nannies) in Torbay. It does not publish their addresses, so they cannot be shown here; the council's family information service lists those taking children.

Source: Ofsted, childcare providers and inspections management information, as at June 2026, Open Government Licence: providers on the Early Years and Childcare Registers on non-domestic premises, placed at their postcode. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives a standard for each of six areas (Exceptional, Strong, Expected, Needs attention, Urgent improvement) rather than one overall grade; older grades stand until a provider is inspected again. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street.

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 5 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
The Westbank TQ2 5AYHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house30 m5 Very good11 May 2026
The Daylesford Guest House TQ2 5AYHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house50 m5 Very good4 Mar 2026
Tor Dean Guest House TQ2 5AYHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house60 m5 Very good21 Aug 2026
Kings Lodge TQ2 5AYHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house60 m5 Very good12 Jun 2014
The Bahamas TQ2 5LBHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house70 m5 Very good27 Nov 2018
The Berburry Hotel TQ2 5AYHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house80 m5 Very good22 Jun 2026
Brandize Guest House TQ2 5LBHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house80 m5 Very good17 Oct 2025
The Glenwood Hotel TQ2 5AZHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house120 m5 Very good12 May 2025
The Brantwood TQ2 5AZHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house120 m4 Good31 Jul 2025
Mount Edgcombe Guest House TQ2 5LBHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house140 m5 Very good5 Nov 2025
Bay Tree Hotel TQ2 5BAHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house140 m5 Very good1 Oct 2013
abm catering @ Cockington Primary School TQ2 6APSchool/college/university150 m4 Good9 Jun 2026
Acorns Pre-school & Wrap Around Care TQ2 6APHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises150 m5 Very good6 May 2025
The 25 Boutique TQ2 5LBHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house160 m5 Very good12 Mar 2026
Crowndale Hotel TQ2 5BAHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house160 m5 Very good21 Feb 2018

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.

155 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences73
Anti-social behaviour32
Criminal damage and arson13
Other theft9
Public order8
Vehicle crime5
Other crime4
Burglary4
Theft from the person2
Drugs2
Robbery1
Bicycle theft1
Possession of weapons1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Rowdens Road (44); On or near Lime Avenue (29); On or near Falkland Road (23); On or near Old Mill Road (15); On or near Bexley Lane (14).

Road safety

Source: Department for Transport, road safety data (STATS19), collisions in 2021 to 2025, as published by November 2026. Collisions in which someone was hurt and which were reported to the police, within 150 m of the middle of any of this street's postcodes, or of the street. Severity is the worst injury as the police recorded it.

11 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 3 serious and 8 slight, in which 4 people were seriously hurt. 2 involved a pedestrian; 1 involved a cyclist; 3 involved a motorcyclist. 45% happened in the dark, and 45% on a wet or icy road. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202132
202210
202311
202420
202540
The most recent 10 of 11
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
7 Oct 2025 17:45 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
4 Oct 2025 18:00 Slight 1 person A3022, 30 mph Daylight
24 Apr 2025 16:08 Slight 1 person: 1 motorcyclist Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
29 Jan 2025 07:10 Slight 1 person Minor road, 30 mph Wet road
27 Dec 2024 20:27 Slight 1 person: 1 motorcyclist Minor road, 30 mph Dark, wet road
18 Dec 2024 06:28 Slight 1 person Minor road, 30 mph Dark, street lights on, wet road
19 Jan 2023 10:15 Serious 2 people Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
9 Mar 2022 09:09 Slight 1 person Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
29 Dec 2021 18:31 Serious 1 person: 1 pedestrian Minor road, 30 mph Dark, street lights on, wet road
22 Dec 2021 19:50 Slight 3 people: 1 pedestrian Minor road, 30 mph Dark, street lights on, wet road

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

The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles) is the A3022 between A3022 Falkland Rd and A3022 Newton Rd, with 11,028 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 350 m from the street's postcodes.

RoadBetweenVehicles a dayLorriesTen years beforeDistance
A3022 A3022 Falkland Rd to A3022 Newton Rd 11,028 estimated; counted 2024 1% -21% since 2015 350 m
A3022 A379 to A3022 Falkland Rd 6,888 estimated; counted 2023 1% -10% since 2015 430 m (0.3 miles)
A3022 A3022 Avenue Rd to A3022 Torbay Rd 6,347 estimated; counted 2021 2% -15% since 2015 460 m (0.3 miles)

Each figure is the annual average daily flow: the motor vehicles passing the count point, both ways, on an average day of the year. A point is counted by hand on a weekday every few years and estimated from the trend on similar roads in between. Lorries are heavy goods vehicles, as a share of all motor vehicles.

Source: Department for Transport, road traffic statistics, annual average daily flows to 2025, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each count point.

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 3 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 1,016 residents in 460 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 age4940
Children under 159%17%
Aged 65 and over25%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)41%61%
Owned outright26%33%
Shared ownership2%1%
Social rented6%17%
Private rented51%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work51%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)9%6%
Retired (of adults)23%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)8%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)33%32%
Travel to work by car or van38%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus7%8%
On foot or by bicycle19%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)85%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away3%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)25%34%
No qualifications19%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)86%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all2%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 1 to 2 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.

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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

Bath Lane · Falkland Road · Rowdens Road · Bridge Road · Bexley Lane · Lime Avenue · Mill Lane · Rosery Road · Millbrook Park Road · Old Mill Road · Old Mill Road · Old Mill Road

All the streets in TQ2 and across Torbay.

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.