Bell Street Middlesbrough

30 addresses across 3 postcodes (TS5), about 110 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 25700145.

  • Sales: 19 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £55,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 15 homes have an energy certificate (C: 9, D: 5, E: 1).
  • Flood: 8 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 Middlesbrough costs £2,549 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Middlesbrough, about 1.9 km (1.2 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 90 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 14.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 8 to 9 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 28 of its 30 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Linthorpe Surgery, about 1 km (0.6 miles) away, with 4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 360 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 35% of households owned their home and 20% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 193 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
20261£55,000£55,000£55,000
20221£65,000£65,000£65,000
20141£24,645£24,645£24,645
20131£43,000£43,000£43,000
20092£43,000£41,000£45,000
20082£67,500£60,000£75,000
20071£55,000£55,000£55,000
20061£75,000£75,000£75,000
20051£49,500£49,500£49,500
20042£37,100£24,700£49,500
20031£23,500£23,500£23,500
19992£21,500£15,000£28,000
Most recent sales (19)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
27 Feb 202624 TS5 4DUTerraced£55,000
6 May 202220 TS5 4DUTerraced£65,000
30 Jun 201410 TS5 4DUTerraced£24,645
17 May 201334 TS5 4DUTerraced£43,000
3 Apr 200938 TS5 4DUTerraced£41,000
9 Jan 200920 TS5 4DUTerraced£45,000
2 Jun 200844 TS5 4DUTerraced£75,000
20 Mar 200846 TS5 4DUTerraced£60,000
8 Mar 200744 TS5 4DUTerraced£55,000
18 Dec 200632 TS5 4DUTerraced£75,000
25 Aug 200544 TS5 4DUTerraced£49,500
10 Dec 200424 TS5 4DUTerraced£49,500
23 Jan 200420 TS5 4DUTerraced£24,700
30 Jun 200330 TS5 4DUTerraced£23,500
30 Jul 199946 TS5 4DUTerraced£15,000
18 Jun 199927 TS5 4DUTerraced£28,000
27 Feb 199814 TS5 4DUTerraced£20,000
31 Oct 199720 TS5 4DUTerraced£28,000
30 May 199724 TS5 4DUTerraced£30,000

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 March 2010 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

15 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 68 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (14); House, end-terrace (1). Built: 1900-1929 (11); 1930-1949 (2); before 1900 (2). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (6); rented (private) (6); owner-occupied (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (11 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Middlesbrough in 2026-27: Band D £2,549 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,699£1,983£2,266£2,549£3,116£3,682£4,249£5,098

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (77% of about 650 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.

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

Planned, as of 30 September 2026

  • 2 October 2026: NORTHUMBRIAN WATER, Optional permit (no fee) e.g. for traffic management etc, priority working, on the carriageway (minor works)

Finished in the last three months

  • 15 September 2026: NORTHUMBRIAN WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, road closure, on the carriageway (major works)
  • 3 September 2026: BT, Utility asset works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)
  • 5 August 2026: NORTHUMBRIAN WATER, Utility asset works, road closure, on the carriageway (major works)

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, 7 addresses are in areas at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 3 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
TS5 4DUnot in 2 or 3 1 / 0 / 1 unlikely
TS5 4DNnot in 2 or 3 6 / 1 / 1 unlikely
TS5 4DTnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 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 30 addresses are between 8 m and 9 m above sea level (9 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
TS5 4DN100%100%100%0%
TS5 4DT100%100%100%0%
TS5 4DU100%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 stationsMiddlesbrough 1.5 million journeys in 2024–251.9 km (1.2 miles)
Thornaby 660,000 journeys in 2024–253.1 km (1.9 miles)
James Cook University Hospital 61,000 journeys in 2024–253.5 km (2.2 miles)
Bus stops11 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 28 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Ayresome Grange Road60 m
Ferry terminalTransporter Bridge South Side Middlesbrough2.6 km (1.6 miles)
Car parksApcoa1.6 km (1 mile)
EV charging points25 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Shell Recharge Charging Station360 m
Airport with scheduled flightsTeesside International Airport MME12.9 km (8 miles)
Nearest large airportNewcastle International Airport NCL59.3 km (37 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 surgeries4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Linthorpe Surgery1 km (0.6 miles)
Pharmacies9 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Moules Pharmacy590 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Linthorpe House Dentistry And Aesthetics1.1 km (0.7 miles)
HospitalWest Lane Hospital560 m (0.3 miles)
Police stationCleveland Police Middlesbrough HQ1.9 km (1.2 miles)
Cash machines3 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Raj Store Cashzone320 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 1.8 ha90 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 19 ha800 m (0.5 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.2 ha40 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.0 ha630 m (0.4 miles)
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,860 m²280 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 5 parks and gardens, 26 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Albert Park, a registered park or garden (Grade II), 1.4 km (0.9 miles) east. 4 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Albert ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.4 km (0.9 miles) east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
New CutTidal water1.4 km (0.9 miles) west
Portrack MarshWetland1.5 km (0.9 miles) west
Lower LakeLake or reservoir1.7 km (1.1 miles) east
North WoodWood2.2 km (1.4 miles) south
Norton BottomsValley2.6 km (1.6 miles) north-west
Primrose HillHill3.9 km (2.4 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)14.54010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.6205
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
65 to 6950
60 to 6470
55 to 59160
Under 55230

28 of the street's 30 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 Middlesbrough: see them on the Middlesbrough 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
Archibald Primary SchoolPrimary2–11150 m No published inspection
Macmillan AcademySecondary11–19510 m (0.3 miles) Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Sacred Heart Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–11640 m (0.4 miles) Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Newport Primary SchoolPrimary3–11760 m (0.5 miles) Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Ayresome Primary SchoolPrimary2–11780 m (0.5 miles) Good (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Linthorpe Community Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Outstanding (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Edward's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.6 km (1 mile) Good (Dec 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Whinney Banks Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.7 km (1.1 miles) No overall grade (Jun 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Green Lane Primary AcademyPrimary2–111.9 km (1.2 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Abingdon Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.9 km (1.2 miles) Good (May 2023, 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
Quick Stop TS5 4DNRetailers - other110 m5 Very good11 Aug 2025
Archibald Primary School TS5 4DYSchool/college/university140 m5 Very good9 Mar 2026
KFCYF Youth Hub TS1 4RYHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises190 m5 Very good7 Jan 2026
KFCYF The Pantry TS1 4RYRetailers - other190 mAwaiting inspection
Arncliffe Store TS5 4DHRetailers - other210 m4 Good27 Nov 2024
Leinster News TS1 4RDRetailers - other230 m3 Generally satisfactory20 Feb 2026
Pizza Feast TS5 4DETakeaway/sandwich shop240 m4 Good17 Jun 2026
Chapel TS5 4BYPub/bar/nightclub260 m5 Very good20 Jul 2023
The Hungry Monk TS5 4BYRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen260 m5 Very good22 Feb 2026
Cafe Connect TS5 4AURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen290 m5 Very good13 Oct 2026
Teesside and District Society For the Blind TS5 4AHOther catering premises300 m5 Very good27 Nov 2024
Rajs Store TS1 4QURetailers - other320 m5 Very good17 Oct 2024
Jhoots Pharmacy TS5 4EQRetailers - other420 m (0.3 miles)Exempt
Fulcrum Education Solutions Ltd TS5 4EQSchool/college/university420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good19 Jun 2025
Booze 4 Us TS1 5PFRetailers - other450 m (0.3 miles)3 Generally satisfactory22 Nov 2025

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.

193 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences74
Anti-social behaviour32
Criminal damage and arson22
Vehicle crime15
Public order12
Other crime11
Burglary8
Drugs6
Other theft5
Possession of weapons4
Robbery4

Most of these are attached to: On or near Liverton Avenue (44); On or near Carlow Street (33); On or near Aidan Court (29); On or near West Lane (22); On or near Bell Street (21).

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: 363 residents in 138 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 age3040
Children under 1531%17%
Aged 65 and over10%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)35%61%
Owned outright21%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented40%17%
Private rented25%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work50%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)9%6%
Retired (of adults)12%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)9%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)9%32%
Travel to work by car or van56%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus7%8%
On foot or by bicycle19%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)83%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away6%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)20%34%
No qualifications28%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)85%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all4%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.

  • TS5 4DU: 28 addresses of 29 in the postcode
  • TS5 4DN: 1 address of 28 in the postcode
  • TS5 4DT: 1 address of 20 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Ayresome Grange Road · Ayresome Green Lane · Aidan Court · Waterford Terrace · West Lane · Liverton Avenue · Donegal Terrace · Mills Street · Abbeygate · Connaught Road · Orwell Street · Arncliffe Road

All the streets in TS5 and across Middlesbrough.

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.