Barrack Square Gloucester

2 addresses across 1 postcode (GL1), about 200 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 15301089.

  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band B; Band D in Gloucester costs £2,356 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Gloucester, about 900 m (0.6 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 420 m (0.3 miles) away, and Gloucester Park (12 hectares) is about 650 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 11.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 10 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 2 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Severnside Medical Practice, about 50 m away, with 6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 280 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 39% of households owned their home and 37% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 101 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often anti-social behaviour.

Sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
Most recent sales (1)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
15 Jul 2016H.M. PRISON GLOUCESTER GL1 2JNOther£750,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 13 October 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

No certificates found for addresses on this street.

Council tax

What each band costs in Gloucester in 2026-27: Band D £2,356 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,571£1,832£2,094£2,356£2,879£3,403£3,926£4,712

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (42% of about 1,130 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: yes, Barbican (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 1.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Listed buildings

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 30 September 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 30 September 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 1 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: the postcode centre is in flood zone 2. Zone 2 is between 0.1% and 1% a year from rivers (0.1% and 0.5% from the sea), ignoring defences.

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 addresses are about 10 m above sea level.

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
GL1 2JN100%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 stationsGloucester 1.8 million journeys in 2024–25900 m (0.6 miles)
Cheltenham Spa 2.4 million journeys in 2024–2511 km (6.9 miles)
Stonehouse 193,000 journeys in 2024–2513.5 km (8.4 miles)
Bus stops9 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 54 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Castlemeads Court Gloucester60 m
Bus or coach stationTransport Hub Gloucester750 m (0.5 miles)
Car parks13 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest North Warehouse Car Park160 m
EV charging points18 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Connected Kerb Charging Stations80 m
Airport with scheduled flightsBristol Airport BRS62.7 km (39 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 surgeries6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Severnside Medical Practice50 m
Pharmacies10 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Badham Pharmacy50 m
NHS dentists9 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery50 m
HospitalGloucester Royal Hospital1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Police stationGloucester Police Station130 m
Cash machines6 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Cash machine 3-5 Westgate Street Halifax360 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 garden5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 7,190 m²420 m (0.3 miles)
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Gloucester Park 12 ha650 m (0.4 miles)
Play areaUnnamed 2,160 m²880 m (0.5 miles)
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Archdeacon Meadow 3.8 ha450 m (0.3 miles)
AllotmentsDeans Way Allotments 1,480 m²1.2 km (0.7 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 5 parks and gardens, 14 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Central Block (Wings A & B and Chapel) former Her Majesty's Prison Gloucester, a listed building (Grade II*), 70 m south-east. 353 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 34 of them Grade I and 37 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Central Block (Wings A & B and Chapel) former Her Majesty's Prison GloucesterListed building, Grade II*70 m south-east
Bearland House and Attached Railings and Gates to ForecourtListed building, Grade II*160 m east
99-101 Westgate Street, Folk of GloucesterListed building, Grade II*180 m north-east
Bearland LodgeListed building, Grade II*180 m east
BlackfriarsScheduled monument250 m south-east
St Mary's gatewayScheduled monument350 m north-east
Glevum Roman coloniaScheduled monument390 m south-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Victoria DockLake or reservoir340 m south
Barge ArmLake or reservoir440 m (0.3 miles) south
Alney IslandIsland650 m (0.4 miles) north-west
Richard's WoodWood1 km (0.6 miles) north-west
Vale of GloucesterValley2.9 km (1.8 miles) north
Lassington HillHill3.2 km (2 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)11.54010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.7205
Particles (PM10)10.94015

All three are within the UK legal limits; nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 are 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
65 to 6910
60 to 6410
Under 5502

2 of the street's 2 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 Gloucester: see them on the Gloucester page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 1 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
Gloucestershire College16 plus16–99490 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Kingsholm Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Requires improvement; Personal development: Requires improvement; Leadership and management: Requires improvement
St Paul's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Widden Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Requires improvement (Mar 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Denmark Road High SchoolSecondary11–181.3 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Feb 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; Post-16 provision: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
St James' Church of England Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.6 km (1 mile) Requires improvement (Sep 2021, overall grade under the previous framework)
Tredworth Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.7 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Linden Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.7 km (1.1 miles) Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Tredworth Infant and Nursery AcademyPrimary2–71.7 km (1.1 miles) Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Peter's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.7 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
Hatherley Infant SchoolPrimary4–71.9 km (1.2 miles) Good (Jan 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 1 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 Folk Cafe GL1 2PGOther catering premises180 m5 Very good18 Oct 2024
Burger Master GL1 2PGTakeaway/sandwich shop190 m5 Very good5 Feb 2025
Keelings Newsagents GL1 2PGRetailers - other190 m4 Good23 Jul 2026
Deli Greek GL1 2GAOther catering premises210 m4 Good24 Jul 2026
Caterlink At Shire Hall GL1 2TGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen220 m5 Very good2 Sep 2026
Janes Pantry GL1 2PERetailers - other220 m5 Very good26 Mar 2026
Soldiers Of Gloucestershire GL1 2EDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen220 m5 Very good19 Sep 2024
Clementine GL1 2NZOther catering premises220 m5 Very good7 Sep 2023
Westgate Pantry GL1 2PERetailers - other230 m5 Very good11 Nov 2025
The Sisters GL1 2PEPub/bar/nightclub230 mAwaiting inspection
The Gloucester Refillery GL1 2NZRetailers - other240 m5 Very good26 Mar 2026
Fountain Inn GL1 2NWPub/bar/nightclub240 m5 Very good5 Nov 2025
Bangkok Canteen GL1 2NZRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen250 m5 Very good8 Apr 2026
Mister's Cafe GL1 2NWOther catering premises250 m5 Very good22 Jan 2025
Hetty's Place Limited GL1 2EPOther catering premises250 m4 Good6 Jan 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.

101 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Anti-social behaviour38
Violence and sexual offences25
Vehicle crime12
Criminal damage and arson5
Burglary5
Public order5
Drugs3
Other theft2
Robbery2
Bicycle theft2
Other crime1
Theft from the person1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Lower Quay Street (32); On or near Upper Quay Street (22); On or near Parking Area (14); On or near Ladybellegate Street (11); On or near Berkeley Street (9).

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: 281 residents in 169 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 age3740
Children under 159%17%
Aged 65 and over14%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)39%61%
Owned outright25%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented10%17%
Private rented51%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work64%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)17%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)31%32%
Travel to work by car or van43%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus7%8%
On foot or by bicycle18%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)68%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)37%34%
No qualifications10%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)92%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 3 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

  • Food hygiene ratings Angel African Kitchen Limited (other catering premises, GL1 2NW) re-inspected, still 4 Good (rated 24 September 2026) found 30 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.

  • GL1 2JN: 2 addresses of 3 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Barbican Way · Barbican Road · Bearland · Bearland · Upper Quay Street · Lower Quay Street · Bearland · Quay Street · Ladybellegate Street · Berkeley Street · Blackfriars · Fountain Square

All the streets in GL1 and across Gloucester.

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.