Barrass Yard Wakefield

106 addresses across 4 postcodes (WF2), about 190 m long. USRN 41803756.

  • Sales: 19 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £100,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 99 homes have an energy certificate (C: 37, D: 55, E: 6, F: 1).
  • Flood: 103 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 Wakefield costs £2,297 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Wakefield Westgate, about 750 m (0.5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Thornes Park, is about 190 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 12.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 27 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 106 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Homestead, about 610 m (0.4 miles) away, with 5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 740 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 27% of households owned their home and 19% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 164 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.

Sales on this street

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

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20241£100,000£100,000£100,000
20232£103,500£100,000£107,000
20181£87,000£87,000£87,000
20171£98,500£98,500£98,500
20161£105,000£105,000£105,000
20151£85,000£85,000£85,000
20121£102,000£102,000£102,000
20071£135,000£135,000£135,000
20061£100,000£100,000£100,000
20057£125,995£118,495£144,995
Most recent sales (19)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
1 Nov 20244 WF2 8WJFlat or maisonette£100,000Leasehold.
7 Jul 20239 WF2 8WJFlat or maisonette£107,000Leasehold.
9 Feb 202310 WF2 8WJFlat or maisonette£100,000Leasehold.
16 Jun 20215 WF2 8WJFlat or maisonette£90,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
15 Mar 20215 WF2 8WJFlat or maisonette£72,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
23 May 201814 WF2 8WJFlat or maisonette£87,000Leasehold.
26 Jun 20176 WF2 8WJFlat or maisonette£98,500Leasehold.
1 Jul 20162 WF2 8WJFlat or maisonette£105,000Leasehold.
18 Sep 20154 WF2 8WJFlat or maisonette£85,000Leasehold.
17 Feb 20126 WF2 8WJFlat or maisonette£102,000Leasehold.
30 Apr 20078 WF2 8WJFlat or maisonette£135,000Leasehold.
14 Jul 20062 WF2 8WJTerraced£100,000Leasehold.
30 Jun 20053 WF2 8WJFlat or maisonette£144,995New build. Leasehold.
27 Jun 200512 WF2 8WJFlat or maisonette£135,995New build. Leasehold.
27 Jun 200514 WF2 8WJFlat or maisonette£132,995New build. Leasehold.
24 Jun 20058 WF2 8WJFlat or maisonette£125,995New build. Leasehold.
24 Jun 20057 WF2 8WJFlat or maisonette£123,995New build. Leasehold.
24 Jun 20055 WF2 8WJFlat or maisonette£118,495New build. Leasehold.
1 Apr 20051 WF2 8WJFlat or maisonette£119,995New build. Leasehold.

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 August 2012 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

99 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 50 m². Most common: Flat (99). Built: 1950-1966 (93); 1967-1975 (6). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (97); owner-occupied (1).

Council tax

What each band costs in Wakefield in 2026-27: Band D £2,297 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,531£1,786£2,042£2,297£2,807£3,318£3,828£4,594

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (61% of about 980 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 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, 103 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 33 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: of the 136 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 0 medium, 131 low and 5 very low.

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: at least one postcode centre is in flood zone 3. Zone 3 is a 1% (1 in 100) or greater annual chance of flooding from rivers, or 0.5% from the sea, ignoring defences.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
WF2 8TPzone 3 63 / 0 / 0 unlikely
WF2 8TRzone 3 40 / 0 / 0 unlikely
WF2 8TFzone 3 0 / 0 / 20 unlikely
WF2 8WJzone 3 0 / 0 / 13 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 addresses are about 27 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
WF2 8TF100%100%100%0%
WF2 8TP100%100%100%0%
WF2 8TR100%100%100%0%
WF2 8WJ100%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 stationsWakefield Westgate 2.3 million journeys in 2024–25750 m (0.5 miles)
Wakefield Kirkgate 612,000 journeys in 2024–251.6 km (1 mile)
Sandal and Agbrigg 202,000 journeys in 2024–252.7 km (1.7 miles)
Bus stops14 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 50 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Park Grove Rd Horbury Road Thornes90 m
Bus or coach stationWakefield Bus Station Wakefield City Centre1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Morrisons Car park-Wakefield720 m (0.4 miles)
EV charging points11 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest PoGo Charge290 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLeeds Bradford Airport LBA23.1 km (14 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 surgeries5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Homestead610 m (0.4 miles)
Pharmacies6 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Horbury Road Pharmacy540 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists10 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery530 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalPinderfields Hospital2.3 km (1.4 miles)
Police stationPolice & Crime Commissioner for West Yorkshire840 m (0.5 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Westgate Mini Market210 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 garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Thornes Park 45 ha190 m
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,430 m²210 m
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.1 ha430 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.0 ha380 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 61 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Austin House, a listed building (Grade II*), 530 m (0.3 miles) north-east. 58 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 7 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Austin HouseListed building, Grade II*530 m (0.3 miles) north-east
Thornes ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II540 m (0.3 miles) south
138-148 WestgateListed building, Grade II*580 m (0.4 miles) north-east
136, WestgateListed building, Grade II*600 m (0.4 miles) north-east
Lowe Hill motte and bailey castleScheduled monument690 m (0.4 miles) south-east
The former Milnes' Orangery, formerly the Unitarian Chapel HallListed building, Grade II*760 m (0.5 miles) north-east
Wakefield BridgeScheduled monument1.6 km (1 mile) east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Calder IslandIsland1.6 km (1 mile) south
Thornes CutLake or reservoir1.7 km (1.1 miles) south
Stennard IslandIsland1.8 km (1.1 miles) east
Old CutLake or reservoir1.8 km (1.1 miles) east
Park HillHill2 km (1.2 miles) east
Old Hall WoodWood2.9 km (1.8 miles) east

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)12.74010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.2205
Particles (PM10)11.94015

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
55 to 5910
Under 55105106

1 of the street's 106 addresses is 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 Wakefield: see them on the Wakefield 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
Wakefield Lawefield Primary SchoolPrimary3–11240 m No published inspection
CAPA College16 plus16–19840 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Trinity Academy Cathedral Church of EnglandSecondary11–16930 m (0.6 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
St Michael's CofE Academy Church of EnglandPrimary2–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Heart of Yorkshire Education Group16 plus16–991.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Wakefield Flanshaw Junior and Infant SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Requires improvement (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
The Mount Junior Infant & Nursery SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
English Martyrs Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Good (Dec 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Methodist Voluntary Controlled Junior, Infant and Nursery School: With Communication ResourcePrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Wakefield St Johns Church of England Voluntary Aided Junior and Infant SchoolPrimary4–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Wakefield St Marys Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.7 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
Wakefield Snapethorpe Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Requires improvement (Jun 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
Westgate Common Working Mens Club WF2 8TWPub/bar/nightclub90 m5 Very good21 Jun 2019
Pak Butcher WF2 8TQRetailers - other100 m4 Good27 Nov 2023
Redoubt WF2 8TSPub/bar/nightclub110 mAwaiting inspection
Wakefield District City of Sanctuary Food Store WF2 9RWHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises130 m5 Very good30 Apr 2024
Legends Dessert And Burger Bar WF2 9RLTakeaway/sandwich shop160 m5 Very good14 Oct 2025
Pepe's Piri Piri WF2 8TURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen170 m5 Very good10 Feb 2026
Mavas Pizza & Chicken Shop WF2 9BSTakeaway/sandwich shop180 m4 Good30 Mar 2026
Sun Mini Market WF2 8TURetailers - other180 m5 Very good23 Jul 2024
Mother Hubbards WF2 8TUTakeaway/sandwich shop180 m4 Good30 Jul 2026
Sun Park WF2 8TUTakeaway/sandwich shop180 m5 Very good11 Jun 2026
Pizza Hut Delivery Wakefield WF2 8TUTakeaway/sandwich shop180 mAwaiting inspection
St Michaels Snooker Club WF2 9NWPub/bar/nightclub210 m4 Good21 Jul 2026
Freddy's Chicken & Pizza WF2 9RLTakeaway/sandwich shop210 m5 Very good16 Sep 2024
Westgate Rolls WF2 9RLTakeaway/sandwich shop210 m5 Very good23 Feb 2026
M & S Newsagents WF2 9RLRetailers - other210 m4 Good17 Jan 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.

164 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences69
Anti-social behaviour26
Public order15
Other theft11
Criminal damage and arson10
Burglary9
Vehicle crime6
Robbery5
Drugs4
Other crime3
Bicycle theft3
Theft from the person2
Possession of weapons1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Parking Area (28); On or near Lawefield Lane (23); On or near Sports/Recreation Area (21); On or near A638 (14); On or near Makin Street (12).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 743 residents in 360 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 age3940
Children under 1515%17%
Aged 65 and over15%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)27%61%
Owned outright17%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented38%17%
Private rented35%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work52%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)9%6%
Retired (of adults)18%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)9%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)15%32%
Travel to work by car or van56%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram3%4%
By any public transport, including bus10%8%
On foot or by bicycle15%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)67%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away4%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)19%34%
No qualifications35%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)73%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all8%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 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.

Everything that has changed on and near this street

Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

Nearby streets

Grange Street · Brighton Street · Clayton Street · Park Grove Road · Barrass Yard · Gaskell Street · Lawefield Grove · Carlton Street · Mayfair Court · St Michael's Close · Clarence Walk · Co-Operative Street

All the streets in WF2 and across Wakefield.

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.