Blackthorn Close Hereford

33 addresses across 2 postcodes (HR2), about 60 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 23201336.

Sales: 80 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £177,500 across 1 sale.
Energy: 25 homes have an energy certificate (C: 9, D: 12, E: 4).
Flood: 5 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 B; Band D in Herefordshire, County of costs £2,574 a year in 2026-27.
Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
Transport: The nearest railway station is Hereford, about 3.4 km (2.1 miles) away in a straight line.
Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 210 m away.
Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 4.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
Height: Its addresses are 64 to 67 m above sea level.
Noise: 3 of its 33 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Belmont Medical Centre, about 330 m away.
People: About 450 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 42% of households owned their home and 22% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
Crime: 62 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)
Year	Sales	Median price	Lowest	Highest
2026	1	£177,500	£177,500	£177,500
2025	1	£190,000	£190,000	£190,000
2023	2	£161,500	£143,000	£180,000
2022	2	£212,500	£200,000	£225,000
2021	1	£129,500	£129,500	£129,500
2019	1	£112,500	£112,500	£112,500
2018	1	£110,000	£110,000	£110,000
2017	1	£98,000	£98,000	£98,000
2016	1	£130,000	£130,000	£130,000
2015	4	£122,500	£98,000	£150,000
2014	3	£105,000	£96,000	£125,000
2013	1	£80,000	£80,000	£80,000

Most recent sales (latest 50 of 80)
Date	Address	Type	Price	Notes
19 Jun 2026	13 HR2 7XU	Terraced	£177,500
10 Oct 2025	16 HR2 7XU	Terraced	£190,000
22 Mar 2024	18 HR2 7XU	Terraced	£160,000	Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
17 Nov 2023	21 HR2 7XU	Terraced	£143,000
2 Jun 2023	30 HR2 7XU	Terraced	£180,000
29 Nov 2022	3 HR2 7XU	Terraced	£225,000
2 Sep 2022	16 HR2 7XU	Terraced	£200,000
25 Jul 2022	19 HR2 7XU	Flat or maisonette	£145,300	Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
10 Mar 2021	18 HR2 7XU	Terraced	£129,500
28 Feb 2019	32 HR2 7XU	Terraced	£112,500
5 Apr 2018	18 HR2 7XU	Terraced	£110,000
12 Apr 2017	7 HR2 7XU	Terraced	£98,000
25 Nov 2016	30 HR2 7XU	Terraced	£130,000
18 Dec 2015	31 HR2 7XU	Terraced	£150,000
11 Dec 2015	24 HR2 7XU	Terraced	£125,000
30 Oct 2015	6 HR2 7XU	Flat or maisonette	£120,000
19 Oct 2015	20 HR2 7XU	Terraced	£98,000
26 Sep 2014	17 HR2 7XU	Terraced	£125,000
18 Jul 2014	6 HR2 7XU	Terraced	£105,000
12 Feb 2014	32 HR2 7XU	Terraced	£96,000
15 Feb 2013	7 HR2 7XU	Terraced	£80,000
2 Sep 2011	28 HR2 7XU	Terraced	£100,000
20 May 2011	29 HR2 7XU	Terraced	£120,500
20 Aug 2010	6 HR2 7XU	Semi-detached	£116,000
15 May 2009	1 HR2 7XU	Semi-detached	£154,000
16 May 2008	10 HR2 7XU	Semi-detached	£122,000
31 Aug 2007	24 HR2 7XU	Terraced	£140,250
20 Aug 2007	22 HR2 7XU	Terraced	£135,000
1 Jun 2007	28 HR2 7XU	Terraced	£118,500
18 Aug 2006	18 HR2 7XU	Terraced	£103,000
20 Jul 2006	13 HR2 7XU	Terraced	£131,000
13 Apr 2006	30 HR2 7XU	Terraced	£119,995
13 Apr 2006	24 HR2 7XU	Terraced	£119,000
7 Apr 2006	23 HR2 7XU	Terraced	£117,000
9 Dec 2005	29 HR2 7XU	Terraced	£119,500
28 Nov 2005	19 HR2 7XU	Flat or maisonette	£99,950
28 Oct 2005	21 HR2 7XU	Terraced	£90,000
2 Sep 2005	8 HR2 7XU	Terraced	£95,000
18 Jul 2005	28 HR2 7XU	Terraced	£90,000
29 Oct 2004	2 HR2 7XU	Semi-detached	£158,500
20 Feb 2004	2 HR2 7XU	Semi-detached	£127,000
16 Jan 2004	28 HR2 7XU	Terraced	£74,000
20 Aug 2003	20 HR2 7XU	Terraced	£70,000
1 May 2003	21 HR2 7XU	Terraced	£74,000
25 Apr 2003	13 HR2 7XU	Terraced	£95,000
18 Dec 2002	10 HR2 7XU	Semi-detached	£86,000
25 Oct 2002	18 HR2 7XU	Terraced	£65,000
2 Aug 2002	24 HR2 7XU	Terraced	£69,950
26 Jul 2002	13 HR2 7XU	Terraced	£85,000
15 Feb 2002	30 HR2 7XU	Terraced	£68,500

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 October 2008 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

D12

25 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 54 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (11); House, end-terrace (5); House, enclosed end-terrace (5). Built: 1991-1995 (13); 1983-1990 (10); 1996-2002 (1). Tenure at assessment: rented (private) (11); owner-occupied (6); rented (social) (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (13 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Herefordshire, County of in 2026-27: Band D £2,574 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H
£1,716	£2,002	£2,288	£2,574	£3,146	£3,719	£4,291	£5,149

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band B (39% of about 1,520 homes).

A14%

B39%

C19%

D13%

E14%

G0%

H0%

F2%

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 2 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) 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)

Land at Beattie Avenue, Hereford: up to 71 homes, permissioned (930 m (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

13 August 2026 to 21 September 2026: National Grid Electricity Distribution (West Midlands), Utility repair and maintenance works, multi-way signals, on the footway (major 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

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 4 addresses are in areas at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 6 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.

Postcode	Planning zone	Addresses at high / medium / low risk	Groundwater
HR2 7XU	not in 2 or 3	0 / 0 / 0	unlikely
HR2 7UJ	not in 2 or 3	4 / 1 / 6	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 33 addresses are between 64 m and 67 m above sea level (66 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)
Postcode	Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)	Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)	Gigabit	Below 10 Mbit/s
HR2 7UJ	100%	100%	100%	0%
HR2 7XU	100%	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.

	Nearest	Distance
Railway station	Hereford 1.2 million journeys in 2024–25	3.4 km (2.1 miles)
Bus stops	8 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 19 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Northolme Road Belmont	260 m
Car parks	Friars Street car park	2.3 km (1.4 miles)
EV charging points	PoGo Charge	2.1 km (1.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flights	Bristol Airport BRS	73.1 km (45 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.

	Nearest	Distance
GP surgeries	1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Belmont Medical Centre	330 m
Pharmacies	2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Rowlands Pharmacy	330 m
NHS dentists	Wye Valley NHS Trust	1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Hospital	Hereford County Hospital	3.2 km (2 miles)
Police station	South Wye Police Station	700 m (0.4 miles)
Cash machines	Morrisons Daily - The Oval, Belmont Road Cashzone	1 km (0.6 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.

	Nearest	Distance
Park or garden	3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 36 ha	210 m
Play area	9 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 310 m²	260 m
Playing field	1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Viewing Point 4.5 ha	260 m
Allotments	Unnamed 2,890 m²	1.9 km (1.2 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 49 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Abbey Church of St Michael and All Angels, a listed building (Grade II*), 910 m (0.6 miles) west. 8 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
Name	What it is	From the middle of the street
Abbey Church of St Michael and All Angels	Listed building, Grade II*	910 m (0.6 miles) west

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
Name	What it is	From the middle of the street
Belmont Pool	Lake or reservoir	390 m west
Newton Coppice	Wood	750 m (0.5 miles) west
Hunderton Rough	Wood	860 m (0.5 miles) north-west
Merry Hill	Hill	1.1 km (0.7 miles) south-west
Hayleasow Wood	Wood	1.3 km (0.8 miles) south-west
Dyffryn Gwy	Valley	1.6 km (1 mile) north-west

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

Air quality

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

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
Pollutant	Here	UK limit	WHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)	4.7	40	10
Fine particles (PM2.5)	5.6	20	5
Particles (PM10)	9.1	40	15

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)
Level	Road traffic	Railways
55 to 59	3	0
Under 55	30	33

3 of the street's 33 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 Herefordshire, County of: see them on the Herefordshire, County of 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.

School	Phase	Ages	Distance	Inspection
The Hereford Church of England Academy Christian	Secondary	11–16	1 km (0.6 miles)	Report card (Jul 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Marlbrook Primary School	Primary	3–11	1.2 km (0.8 miles)	Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Riverside Primary School	Primary	3–11	1.5 km (0.9 miles)	Outstanding (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Our Lady's RC Primary School Roman Catholic	Primary	4–11	1.5 km (0.9 miles)	Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
St Martin's Primary School	Primary	3–11	1.8 km (1.1 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.

Business	Type	Distance	Rating	Rated
South Wye Community Centre HR2 7UQ	Other catering premises	310 m	5 Very good	14 Aug 2019
Tesco Stores Ltd HR2 7XS	Retailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets	390 m	5 Very good	22 Jan 2026
Yo! To Go! HR2 7XS	Takeaway/sandwich shop	390 m	5 Very good	17 Dec 2024
Tesco Family Dining Ltd HR2 7XS	Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen	390 m	5 Very good	20 Aug 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.

62 recorded crimes by category
Category	Crimes
Violence and sexual offences	38
Criminal damage and arson	8
Other crime	5
Anti-social behaviour	5
Other theft	3
Burglary	1
Vehicle crime	1
Public order	1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Green Ash Close (12); On or near Cottonwoods (9); On or near Sycamore Avenue (7); On or near Kingfisher Road (6); On or near Abingdon Drive (5).

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: 452 residents in 207 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 street	England
Median age	35	40
Children under 15	21%	17%
Aged 65 and over	12%	18%

Homes

	Around this street	England
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)	42%	61%
Owned outright	18%	33%
Shared ownership	2%	1%
Social rented	17%	17%
Private rented	39%	21%

Work and commuting

	Around this street	England
Adults (16 and over) in work	74%	57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)	2%	6%
Retired (of adults)	14%	22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)	3%	4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)	9%	32%
Travel to work by car or van	76%	48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram	0%	4%
By any public transport, including bus	under 1%	8%
On foot or by bicycle	14%	10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)	76%	65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away	6%	8%

Education and languages

	Around this street	England
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)	22%	34%
No qualifications	23%	18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification	9%	5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)	82%	91%
Cannot speak English well or at all	3%	2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 3 to 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

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.

HR2 7XU: 32 addresses of 33 in the postcode
HR2 7UJ: 1 address of 61 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Blackthorn Close · Wheatridge Road · Wheatridge Road · Sycamore Avenue · Sycamore Avenue · Rowantree Close · Rowantree Close · Kingfisher Road · Kingfisher Road · Green Ash Close · Green Ash Close · Linnet Close

All the streets in HR2 and across Herefordshire, County of.

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.