Bargee Close Blackburn

13 addresses across 2 postcodes (BB1), about 50 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 2903883.

  • Sales: 18 recorded sales since 1995; in 2019 the median was £185,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 10 homes have an energy certificate (C: 2, D: 8).
  • Flood: 11 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 A; Band D in Blackburn with Darwen costs £2,455 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Blackburn, about 480 m (0.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Queen's Park, is about 890 m (0.6 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 120 to 122 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 13 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is St Georges Surgery, about 440 m (0.3 miles) away, with 10 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 260 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 49% of households owned their home and 40% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 174 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often shoplifting.

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
20191£185,000£185,000£185,000
20132£172,000£171,500£172,500
20071£165,000£165,000£165,000
20061£105,000£105,000£105,000
20052£124,500£114,000£135,000
20042£106,000£77,000£135,000
20031£59,000£59,000£59,000
20011£73,000£73,000£73,000
20001£60,000£60,000£60,000
19982£39,000£38,000£40,000
19972£44,750£41,000£48,500
19961£41,000£41,000£41,000
Most recent sales (18)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
23 Aug 20192 BB1 1BWDetached£185,000
17 Sep 201319 BB1 1BWDetached£172,500
7 Jun 20136 BB1 1BWDetached£171,500
7 Sep 20076 BB1 1BWDetached£165,000
27 Oct 200617 BB1 1BWSemi-detached£105,000
27 Oct 20054 BB1 1BWDetached£135,000
9 Sep 200517 BB1 1BWSemi-detached£114,000
28 May 20044 BB1 1BWDetached£135,000
5 Mar 20043 BB1 1BWSemi-detached£77,000
22 Aug 200311 BB1 1BWTerraced£59,000
23 Mar 20011 BB1 1BWDetached£73,000
31 Oct 20007 BB1 1BWDetached£60,000
11 Dec 19983 BB1 1BWSemi-detached£40,000
9 Oct 199815 BB1 1BWTerraced£38,000
29 Aug 19975 BB1 1BWSemi-detached£41,000
7 Aug 199711 BB1 1BWTerraced£48,500
21 Jun 19963 BB1 1BWSemi-detached£41,000
31 Aug 199511 BB1 1BWTerraced£42,450

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 October 2013 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

10 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 107 m². Most common: House, detached (5); House, semi-detached (3); House, end-terrace (1). Built: 1983-1990 (6); 1991-1995 (2); 1967-1975 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (8); rented (social) (1); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (10 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Blackburn with Darwen in 2026-27: Band D £2,455 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,637£1,910£2,182£2,455£3,001£3,547£4,092£4,911

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (71% of about 510 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 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: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • 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

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, 8 addresses are in areas at high risk, 3 at medium risk and 12 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
BB1 1BWnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 3 unlikely
BB1 1BUnot in 2 or 3 8 / 2 / 9 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 13 addresses are between 120 m and 122 m above sea level (121 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
BB1 1BU100%100%100%0%
BB1 1BW100%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 stationsBlackburn 1.3 million journeys in 2024–25480 m (0.3 miles)
Mill Hill (Lancs) 60,000 journeys in 2024–251.8 km (1.1 miles)
Cherry Tree 34,000 journeys in 2024–253 km (1.8 miles)
Bus stops11 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 50 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Peel Centre Audley Lower260 m
Bus or coach stationArrival Stand Blackburn Town Centre730 m (0.5 miles)
Car parks5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Nova Scotia Retail Park Car Park480 m (0.3 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Roam Charging Station170 m
Airport with scheduled flightsManchester Airport MAN45.6 km (28 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 surgeries10 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest St Georges Surgery440 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies16 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots390 m
NHS dentists11 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Practice670 m (0.4 miles)
HospitalRoyal Blackburn Hospital1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Police stationBlackburn Police490 m (0.3 miles)
Cash machines3 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Kay Group - Grimshaw Park Service Station Cashzone370 m

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 gardenQueen's Park 12 ha890 m (0.6 miles)
Play area9 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 140 m²390 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Highfield Park 8,540 m²630 m (0.4 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 6,610 m²790 m (0.5 miles)

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Cathedral Church of St Mary the Virgin, a listed building (Grade II*), 620 m (0.4 miles) north-west. 34 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Cathedral Church of St Mary the VirginListed building, Grade II*620 m (0.4 miles) north-west
Queen's Park, BlackburnRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.1 km (0.7 miles) east
Corporation ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II*2 km (1.2 miles) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Higher Croft WoodWood1.6 km (1 mile) south
Fishmoor ReservoirLake or reservoir1.8 km (1.1 miles) south-east
Fernhurst WoodWood2.2 km (1.4 miles) south
Guide ReservoirLake or reservoir2.3 km (1.4 miles) south-east
Abbott CloughValley2.5 km (1.6 miles) east
Billinge HillHill3 km (1.9 miles) 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)9.94010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.5205
Particles (PM10)10.14015

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
55 to 5920
Under 551113

2 of the street's 13 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 Blackburn with Darwen: see them on the Blackburn with Darwen 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
St Mary's and St Joseph's Roman Catholic Primary School BlackburnPrimary4–11370 m No published inspection
Brunel Nursery SchoolNursery3–4420 m (0.3 miles) Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
St Matthew's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–11470 m (0.3 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Needs attention; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Early years: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
Blackburn Central High SchoolSecondary11–16600 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Audley Junior SchoolPrimary7–11660 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Audley Infant SchoolPrimary3–7660 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Tauheedul Islam Boys' High School MuslimSecondary11–18820 m (0.5 miles) Outstanding (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Anne's Roman Catholic Primary School BlackburnPrimary3–11890 m (0.6 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Blackburn St Thomas' Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Blackburn College16 plus16–991.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Longshaw Community Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
St Alban's Roman Catholic Primary School BlackburnPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (Sep 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good

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
Planet Ice Blackburn BB2 3DYOther catering premises130 m5 Very good3 Dec 2025
Costa Coffee Drive Thru Grimshaw Park BB2 3DYRetailers - other130 m5 Very good10 Jan 2025
Haji Baba Limited BB2 3DYRetailers - other130 m5 Very good7 Jul 2025
B & M Retail BB2 3DYRetailers - other130 m5 Very good9 Jul 2025
Asda Stores Ltd BB2 3DYRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets180 m5 Very good15 Oct 2024
Funtazia Soft Play Ltd BB1 1DERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen220 m5 Very good14 Jul 2025
mcdonalds BB1 1AQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen230 m5 Very good9 Jun 2025
Europa Superstore BB2 3HPRetailers - other230 m5 Very good7 Jun 2022
Kashmir Supermarket BB2 3HPRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets230 m4 Good8 May 2026
Better Bodies BB2 3HPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen230 m5 Very good13 Apr 2022
St. Pauls Church Room BB1 1DHOther catering premises230 m4 Good17 Mar 2026
Vue Cinema BB1 1AQOther catering premises280 m5 Very good7 Dec 2025
Nando's BB1 1DGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen320 m5 Very good14 Jan 2025
Tribez Steak and Grill BB1 1FGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen320 m1 Major improvement necessary20 May 2026
Aki Halal Meat LTD BB1 1TDRetailers - other320 mAwaiting inspection

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.

174 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Shoplifting43
Violence and sexual offences38
Anti-social behaviour34
Public order19
Criminal damage and arson9
Burglary6
Other theft6
Vehicle crime5
Drugs4
Other crime3
Possession of weapons3
Robbery3
Bicycle theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Supermarket (61); On or near Shopping Area (50); On or near Primrose Hill (17); On or near Walker Street (15); On or near A6078 (5).

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: 263 residents in 123 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 age3440
Children under 1517%17%
Aged 65 and over9%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)49%61%
Owned outright22%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented2%17%
Private rented50%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work58%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)11%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)6%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)21%32%
Travel to work by car or van59%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram3%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle8%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)80%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away5%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)40%34%
No qualifications20%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)81%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all5%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 1 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.

  • BB1 1BW: 12 addresses of 13 in the postcode
  • BB1 1BU: 1 address of 24 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Merchants Landing · Anchor House · Waters Edge · Navigation Way · Merchants Quay · Canalside · Audley Range · Kent Street · Grimshaw Retail Park · Merchants Quay · Walpole Street · Mayson Street

All the streets in BB1 and across Blackburn with Darwen.

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.