Bath Street Wivenhoe, Colchester

9 addresses across 2 postcodes (CO7), about 80 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 8900126.

  • Sales: 15 recorded sales since 1995; in 2021 the median was £350,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 5 homes have an energy certificate (C: 2, D: 2, E: 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.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band B; Band D in Colchester costs £2,283 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 11% to 33% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Wivenhoe, about 190 m away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 330 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 2 to 5 m above sea level.
  • Noise: None of its addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Wivenhoe Surgery, about 280 m away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 370 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 63% of households owned their home and 65% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 41 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
20211£350,000£350,000£350,000
20181£340,000£340,000£340,000
20161£550,000£550,000£550,000
20141£248,995£248,995£248,995
20131£218,000£218,000£218,000
20121£460,000£460,000£460,000
20101£330,000£330,000£330,000
20091£230,000£230,000£230,000
20081£175,000£175,000£175,000
20033£189,200£185,000£250,000
19991£79,000£79,000£79,000
19981£78,225£78,225£78,225
Most recent sales (15)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
19 Mar 20212 CO7 9DFTerraced£350,000
9 Jul 20181 CO7 9DFTerraced£340,000
31 May 20162, SHIPWRIGHTS HOUSE CO7 9DFFlat or maisonette£550,000Leasehold.
22 Aug 20144 CO7 9DFTerraced£248,995
31 Oct 20134 CO7 9DFTerraced£218,000
31 Oct 20121, SHIPWRIGHTS HOUSE CO7 9DFFlat or maisonette£460,000Leasehold.
28 Jan 20102, SHIPWRIGHTS HOUSE CO7 9DFFlat or maisonette£330,000Leasehold.
17 Dec 20092 CO7 9DFTerraced£230,000
4 Apr 20084 CO7 9DFTerraced£175,000New build.
21 Nov 20032 CO7 9DFTerraced£185,000
2 May 20032, SHIPWRIGHTS HOUSE CO7 9DFFlat or maisonette£250,000Leasehold.
9 Mar 20031 CO7 9DFTerraced£189,200
12 Jul 19993 CO7 9DFTerraced£79,000
1 May 19981 CO7 9DFTerraced£78,225
30 Mar 19952 CO7 9DFTerraced£55,000

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

5 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 86 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (4); Maisonette, end-terrace (1). Built: before 1900 (2); 2003-2006 (1); 1930-1949 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (4).

Each home's certificates and sales (3 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Colchester in 2026-27: Band D £2,283 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,522£1,776£2,029£2,283£2,790£3,297£3,805£4,566

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (23% of about 1,120 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: yes, WIVENHOE. Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 4.
  • 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

Finished in the last three months

  • 21 October 2026 to 26 October 2026: UK POWER NETWORKS EASTERN & LONDON, Utility repair and maintenance works, road closure, on the carriageway (immediate - urgent works)

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

No address in this street's postcodes is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

Rivers and the sea alone: of the 15 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 0 medium, 0 low and 15 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
CO7 9DFzone 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
CO7 9DDzone 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Height above sea level

The street's 9 addresses are between 2 m and 5 m above sea level (4 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
CO7 9DD100%11%11%0%
CO7 9DF100%33%33%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 stationsWivenhoe 352,000 journeys in 2024–25190 m
Alresford (Essex) 97,000 journeys in 2024–252.8 km (1.7 miles)
Hythe (Essex) 433,000 journeys in 2024–254 km (2.5 miles)
Bus stops4 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 9 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Station Road Wivenhoe110 m
Bus or coach stationColchester North Park-and-Ride Mile End9 km (5.6 miles)
Ferry terminalEast Mersea Ferry Landing7 km (4.4 miles)
Car parks2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest National Car Parks190 m
EV charging pointsRoam Charging Station5.5 km (3.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Southend Airport SEN36.5 km (23 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Stansted Airport STN49.9 km (31 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 surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Wivenhoe Surgery280 m
PharmaciesBoots1.7 km (1 mile)
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Distinction180 m
HospitalOaks Hospital7.1 km (4.4 miles)
Police stationEssex Police5.3 km (3.3 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest East of England Co-op Wivenhoe Cashzone660 m (0.4 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 garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 9,930 m²330 m
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,700 m²180 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest King Georges Field 3.5 ha160 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 2,850 m²840 m (0.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 1.3 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Old Garrison House, a listed building (Grade I), 120 m east. 83 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Old Garrison HouseListed building, Grade I120 m east
The Church of St MaryListed building, Grade II*130 m east
Tumulus NW of East Donyland HallScheduled monument1.2 km (0.8 miles) west
Wivenhoe ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.6 km (1.6 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Wivenhoe WoodWood800 m (0.5 miles) north
Fingringhoe CommonWood890 m (0.6 miles) south
Church HillHill1 km (0.7 miles) south-west
Fingringhoe Hall PondLake or reservoir1.4 km (0.9 miles) south-west
Hythe MarshesWetland1.7 km (1 mile) north-west
Rat IslandIsland4.7 km (2.9 miles) south

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)6.94010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.7205
Particles (PM10)10.74015

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
Under 5599

None of the street's 9 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic or railways.

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 Colchester: see them on the Colchester 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 Lawrence Church of England Primary School, RowhedgePrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Millfields Primary SchoolPrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) No overall grade (Mar 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Fingringhoe Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary SchoolPrimary5–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Broomgrove Infant SchoolPrimary4–71.5 km (0.9 miles) Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Broomgrove Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection

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
Trinity Patisserie CO7 9BERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen90 m5 Very good9 Sep 2026
The Wivenhoe Deli CO7 9BJRetailers - other110 m5 Very good21 May 2025
Barrells of Wivenhoe CO7 9BERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen110 m5 Very good25 Jul 2025
The Olive Branch CO7 9DHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen120 m5 Very good7 Sep 2026
Rose & Crown CO7 9BXPub/bar/nightclub130 m5 Very good28 Aug 2026
Wivenhoe Cafe & Gallery CO7 9BWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen140 m5 Very good10 Sep 2026
Saffron CO7 9AZRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen160 m5 Very good2 Sep 2025
Wyvern Stores CO7 9AARetailers - other180 m5 Very good20 May 2026
Kando Convenience Store CO7 9AZRetailers - other190 m5 Very good10 Jul 2025
The Black Buoy CO7 9BSPub/bar/nightclub190 m5 Very good7 Aug 2025
Smashed at Wivenhoe CO7 9BSTakeaway/sandwich shop190 m4 Good7 Aug 2025
The Greyhound CO7 9AZPub/bar/nightclub210 m5 Very good2 Sep 2025
The Cellar Door CO7 9AZRetailers - other220 mExempt
Serendipity Cakes and Catering CO7 9DPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen250 m5 Very good1 Sep 2026
Brunch Brunch Baby CO7 9DPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen250 m5 Very good20 Jul 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.

41 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences15
Public order6
Criminal damage and arson6
Vehicle crime4
Anti-social behaviour3
Other theft2
Shoplifting2
Bicycle theft1
Theft from the person1
Burglary1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Parking Area (6); On or near St John'S Road (6); On or near Rose Lane (5); On or near Hamilton Road (5); On or near Wivenhoe (3).

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: 368 residents in 202 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 age5340
Children under 159%17%
Aged 65 and over28%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)63%61%
Owned outright41%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented2%17%
Private rented36%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work56%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)29%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)64%32%
Travel to work by car or van19%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram5%4%
By any public transport, including bus6%8%
On foot or by bicycle9%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)69%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away14%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)65%34%
No qualifications6%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)93%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 9 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

What has changed

  • Roadworks Street works permit: UK POWER NETWORKS EASTERN & LONDON: Utility repair and maintenance works, 21 October 2026 to 27 October 2026 (road closure) found 3 November 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.

  • CO7 9DF: 8 addresses of 10 in the postcode
  • CO7 9DD: 1 address of 20 in the postcode

Nearby streets

The Shipwrights · Quay Street · Dry Dock · Anchor Hill · West Street · Blyths Lane · The Quay · Mulberry Harbour Way · East Street · East Street · Station Road · Chapel Road

All the streets in CO7 and across Colchester.

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.