Bennett Square Exeter

48 addresses across 3 postcodes (EX4), about 250 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 14200072.

41 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £222,000 across 1 sale. 29 homes have an energy certificate (C: 18, D: 9, E: 2). 3 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. Most homes around it are in council tax band B; Band D in Exeter costs £2,495 a year in 2026-27. Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises. The nearest railway station is Polsloe Bridge, about 420 m away in a straight line. The nearest park or garden, Priory Green, is about 320 m away. Background air pollution in 2024 was 5.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits. Its addresses are 40 to 45 m above sea level. None of its addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic. The nearest GP surgery is Whipton Surgery, about 640 m away, with 6 practices within 1.6 km. About 980 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 63% of households owned their home and 25% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification. 51 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
20251£222,000£222,000£222,000
20223£235,000£203,000£240,000
20211£200,000£200,000£200,000
20201£220,000£220,000£220,000
20182£185,750£161,500£210,000
20162£165,000£155,000£175,000
20131£144,000£144,000£144,000
20121£141,000£141,000£141,000
20091£150,000£150,000£150,000
20071£140,000£140,000£140,000
20052£114,500£112,500£116,500
20044£110,000£105,000£135,500
Most recent sales (41)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
14 Mar 202529 EX4 8AYTerraced£222,000
8 Jul 202227 EX4 8AYSemi-detached£235,000
3 May 20222 EX4 8AZSemi-detached£203,000
16 Feb 202214 EX4 8AZSemi-detached£240,000
8 Jan 202131 EX4 8AYTerraced£200,000
15 May 202054 EX4 8AYTerraced£220,000
14 Dec 201827 EX4 8AYSemi-detached£161,500
15 Jun 201858 EX4 8AYTerraced£210,000
5 Aug 20164 EX4 8AZTerraced£175,000
30 Jun 201628 EX4 8AYTerraced£155,000
15 Feb 201331 EX4 8AYTerraced£144,000
3 Feb 201252 EX4 8AYTerraced£141,000
31 Jul 200913 EX4 8AYSemi-detached£150,000
5 Apr 200715 EX4 8AYTerraced£140,000
3 Jun 200513 EX4 8AYSemi-detached£116,500
27 Jan 200552 EX4 8AYTerraced£112,500
1 Dec 200414 EX4 8AZSemi-detached£135,500
15 Nov 200428 EX4 8AYTerraced£110,000
2 Jul 200415 EX4 8AYTerraced£105,000
30 Jan 200431 EX4 8AYTerraced£110,000
19 Dec 20032 EX4 8AZSemi-detached£100,000
21 Jun 200226 EX4 8AYSemi-detached£75,000
20 Mar 20022 EX4 8AZSemi-detached£79,000
7 Sep 200148 EX4 8AYSemi-detached£63,250
29 Jun 200152 EX4 8AYTerraced£62,500
23 Apr 200113 EX4 8AYSemi-detached£60,000
19 Feb 200115 EX4 8AYTerraced£25,500
2 Oct 200014 EX4 8AZSemi-detached£21,500
25 Aug 20002 EX4 8AZSemi-detached£55,000
31 Jul 200027 EX4 8AYSemi-detached£55,300
26 Jan 200052 EX4 8AYTerraced£59,000
22 Dec 19992 EX4 8AZSemi-detached£45,250
17 Dec 199931 EX4 8AYTerraced£40,000
10 Dec 199928 EX4 8AYTerraced£50,950
23 Jul 199960 EX4 8AYTerraced£39,500
30 Oct 199852 EX4 8AYTerraced£34,950
1 Jul 199828 EX4 8AYTerraced£32,500
1 May 199826 EX4 8AYSemi-detached£19,610
27 Feb 199848 EX4 8AYSemi-detached£42,000
5 Dec 19974 EX4 8AZTerraced£40,500
7 Apr 199548 EX4 8AYSemi-detached£39,950

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

29 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 76 m². Most common: House, end-terrace (13); House, mid-terrace (12); House, semi-detached (3). Built: 1930-1949 (16); 1950-1966 (6); 1900-1929 (5). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (13); owner-occupied (6); rented (private) (2).

Council tax

What each band costs in Exeter in 2026-27: Band D £2,495 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,664£1,941£2,218£2,495£3,050£3,604£4,159£4,991

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (32% of about 660 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 1.0 km

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, 3 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: no postcode centre on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
EX4 8AYnot in 2 or 3 0 / 3 / 1 unlikely
EX4 8AZnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
EX4 8AXnot in 2 or 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.

Height above sea level

The street's 48 addresses are between 40 m and 45 m above sea level (43 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
EX4 8AX100%100%100%0%
EX4 8AY100%100%100%0%
EX4 8AZ100%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 stationsPolsloe Bridge 189,000 journeys in 2024–25420 m
St James Park (Exeter) 145,000 journeys in 2024–251.8 km
Pinhoe 232,000 journeys in 2024–252.0 km
Bus stops4 stops within 400 m, 42 within 800 m; nearest Honeylands Children's Centre Whipton190 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Exeter City Centre2.0 km
Ferry terminalTopsham Ferry Landing5.9 km
Car parksTriangle Car Park1.9 km
EV charging points10 within 1.6 km; nearest MFG Charging Station430 m
Airport with scheduled flightsExeter International Airport EXT5.9 km
Nearest large airportCardiff International Airport CWL74.5 km

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; nearest Whipton Surgery640 m
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km; nearest Day Lewis Pharmacy370 m
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Irish And King Dental Practice850 m
HospitalExeter Community Hospital1.0 km
Police stationHeavitree Road Police Station Exeter1.7 km
Cash machinesMorrisons Daily - Exeter Barton Road Cashzone940 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; nearest Priory Green 1,110 m²320 m
Largest park within 800 mMincinglake Valley Park 28 ha450 m
Play area8 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 850 m²200 m
Playing field4 within 800 m; nearest Betty's Mead Playing Fields 3.7 ha160 m
Allotments3 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 3,660 m²280 m

Within 800 m: 5 parks and gardens, 34 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is St Katherine's Priory, Polsloe, a scheduled monument, 330 m west. 7 listed buildings are within 1.0 km, 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
St Katherine's Priory, PolsloeScheduled monument330 m west
Polsloe PrioryListed building, Grade II*340 m west
St Loye's Chapel and cross, Rifford RoadScheduled monument1.8 km south
Northernhay and Rougemont GardensRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.5 km west
Larkbeare HouseRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.8 km south-west
Natural landmarks within 5.0 km
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Stoke HillHill1.7 km north-west
Great HillHill1.8 km north
Lower CovertWood1.8 km north-west
Fairy DellValley1.9 km north
Salmon PoolLake or reservoir3.2 km south-west
Duck's MarshWetland3.2 km south-west

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10.0 km, battlefields within 5.0 km, registered parks and gardens within 3.0 km, scheduled monuments within 2.0 km, and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1.0 km. 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)5.84010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.5205
Particles (PM10)9.14015

All three are within the UK legal limits; PM2.5 is above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023: 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 on the roads and railways, not measurements; they leave out aircraft, 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 and 54 dB for railways.

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
55 to 5908
Under 554840

8 of the street's 48 addresses at 55 dB or more from railways, above the WHO guidelines.

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
Willowbrook SchoolPrimary3–11410 m Requires improvement (Jun 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Whipton Barton Infants and Nursery SchoolPrimary2–7420 m No published inspection
Whipton Barton Junior SchoolPrimary7–11480 m Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St James SchoolSecondary11–16570 m No published inspection
Ladysmith Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.1 km Requires improvement (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Ladysmith Infant & Nursery SchoolPrimary3–71.1 km Requires improvement (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Michael's Church of England Primary AcademyPrimary2–111.2 km No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Stoke Hill Infant and Nursery SchoolPrimary3–71.2 km No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
St Luke's Church of England SchoolSecondary11–161.2 km Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Stoke Hill Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.3 km No published inspection
St Nicholas Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.4 km No overall grade (Sep 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Requires improvement; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Requires improvement
Newtown Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.8 km Requires improvement (Sep 2021, 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 of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Aaron Court Residential Care Home EX4 8ASHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises140 m5 Very good19 Aug 2026
Whipton Institute EX4 8AWPub/bar/nightclub290 m5 Very good14 Jan 2025
Star Inn EX4 8AWPub/bar/nightclub290 m5 Very good14 Nov 2024
Little Ones EX4 8AFHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises290 m5 Very good10 Dec 2025
Refuel Coffee & Sandwich Bar EX4 8AARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen310 m5 Very good14 Nov 2024
Vranch House EX4 8ADSchool/college/university310 m5 Very good13 Mar 2025
Whipton Community Hall EX4 8ADRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen310 m5 Very good7 Mar 2025
WHIPTON ROAD CONVENIENCE STORE EX4 8AWRetailers - other320 m5 Very good1 Aug 2025
Priory Community Cafe EX4 7JYRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen340 m5 Very good27 Feb 2026
International Kebab & Pizza House EX4 7JQTakeaway/sandwich shop360 m3 Generally satisfactory3 Jun 2025
Friar Tuck EX4 8ANTakeaway/sandwich shop360 m5 Very good5 Feb 2026
Mk Convenience EX4 8ANRetailers - other360 m4 Good5 Feb 2026
Day Lewis Pharmacy EX4 8BURetailers - other370 mExempt
Fish & Chips at Polsloe Bridge EX4 8ABTakeaway/sandwich shop370 m5 Very good16 May 2025
MK Convenience LTD EX4 8AHRetailers - other380 m4 Good11 Apr 2024

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.

51 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences29
Vehicle crime5
Criminal damage and arson5
Public order4
Anti-social behaviour4
Other crime1
Possession of weapons1
Other theft1
Theft from the person1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Redlands Close (15); On or near Bennett Square (12); On or near Whipton Road (6); On or near Beacon Lane (5); On or near Widgery Road (4).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 3 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 978 residents in 362 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 age4440
Children under 1515%17%
Aged 65 and over21%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)63%61%
Owned outright37%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented25%17%
Private rented11%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)24%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)27%32%
Travel to work by car or van48%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus5%8%
On foot or by bicycle18%10%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)81%65%
Work 30 km or more away9%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)25%34%
No qualifications23%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)96%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 5 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

Widgery Road · Woolsery Grove · Barberry Close · Woolsery Avenue · Redlands Close · Whipton Village Road · Whipton Road · Priory View · Kennerley Avenue · Whipton Road · Woolsery Close · Lamacraft Drive

All the streets in EX4 and across Exeter.

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 aircraft, industry or neighbours: noise figures are models of road and rail traffic outside, in England only.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.