Bowness Close Dronfield, North East Derbyshire

27 addresses across 2 postcodes (S18), about 90 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 27700159.

  • Sales: 44 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £235,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 16 homes have an energy certificate (C: 6, D: 9, 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 North East Derbyshire costs £2,467 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Dronfield, about 1.3 km (0.8 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 210 m away, and Sindelfingen Park (4.7 hectares) is about 240 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.1 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 170 to 173 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 27 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Stubley Medical Centre, about 560 m (0.3 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 190 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 73% of households owned their home and 29% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 12 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often anti-social behaviour.

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£235,000£235,000£235,000
20242£211,750£173,500£250,000
20231£220,000£220,000£220,000
20221£230,000£230,000£230,000
20201£230,000£230,000£230,000
20192£218,000£211,000£225,000
20171£150,000£150,000£150,000
20151£152,000£152,000£152,000
20141£142,500£142,500£142,500
20131£159,000£159,000£159,000
20072£145,500£141,000£150,000
20062£133,750£125,000£142,500
Most recent sales (44)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
20 Mar 20262 S18 8PESemi-detached£235,000
30 Aug 202428 S18 8PESemi-detached£250,000
29 Feb 20241 S18 8PESemi-detached£173,500
8 Dec 20232 S18 8PESemi-detached£220,000
24 Nov 202318 S18 8PEOther£210,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
11 Feb 20221 S18 8PESemi-detached£230,000
28 Feb 202021 S18 8PESemi-detached£230,000
4 Jul 201932 S18 8PESemi-detached£225,000
18 Jan 20191 S18 8PESemi-detached£211,000
17 Feb 20172 S18 8PESemi-detached£150,000
12 Mar 20153 S18 8PESemi-detached£152,000
28 Jan 201416 S18 8PESemi-detached£142,500
7 Jun 201315 S18 8PESemi-detached£159,000
24 Sep 20072 S18 8PESemi-detached£150,000
16 Aug 200720 S18 8PESemi-detached£141,000
2 Jun 20063 S18 8PESemi-detached£125,000
26 May 200615 S18 8PESemi-detached£142,500
7 Dec 20052 S18 8PESemi-detached£138,000
21 Mar 20051 S18 8PESemi-detached£147,000
9 Sep 200416 S18 8PESemi-detached£119,100
10 Dec 200318 S18 8PESemi-detached£92,500
31 Oct 20039 S18 8PESemi-detached£122,000
5 Sep 200324 S18 8PESemi-detached£120,000
6 Dec 200216 S18 8PESemi-detached£82,500
31 Aug 20012 S18 8PESemi-detached£59,950
30 Aug 200122 S18 8PESemi-detached£64,500
28 Jun 200120 S18 8PESemi-detached£59,950
8 Aug 20009 S18 8PESemi-detached£63,750
28 Apr 200014 S18 8PESemi-detached£58,950
10 Nov 199916 S18 8PESemi-detached£50,000
28 May 199928 S18 8PESemi-detached£55,000
21 May 19992 S18 8PESemi-detached£48,000
30 Apr 199921 S18 8PESemi-detached£56,500
5 Feb 19994 S18 8PESemi-detached£45,000Leasehold.
5 Feb 19994 S18 8PESemi-detached£45,000
20 Nov 19983 S18 8PESemi-detached£48,750
4 Jun 199820 S18 8PESemi-detached£47,500
24 Mar 199815 S18 8PESemi-detached£54,500
10 Oct 199730 S18 8PESemi-detached£44,500
1 Sep 199726 S18 8PESemi-detached£54,500
26 Apr 19961 S18 8PESemi-detached£51,000
26 Apr 19963 S18 8PESemi-detached£43,500
29 Sep 199510 S18 8PESemi-detached£44,950
16 Jun 19956 S18 8PESemi-detached£52,950

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 2013 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

16 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 67 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (16). Built: 1967-1975 (9); 1976-1982 (6); 1950-1966 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (12); rented (private) (4).

Each home's certificates and sales (9 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in North East Derbyshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,467 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,644£1,918£2,193£2,467£3,015£3,563£4,111£4,933

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (40% of about 1,040 homes).

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

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 30 September 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 30 September 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

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: 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.

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 27 addresses are between 170 m and 173 m above sea level (172 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
S18 8PD100%100%100%0%
S18 8PE100%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 stationsDronfield 230,000 journeys in 2024–251.3 km (0.8 miles)
Dore and Totley 240,000 journeys in 2024–253.6 km (2.2 miles)
Chesterfield 1.8 million journeys in 2024–258.3 km (5.1 miles)
Bus stops7 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 36 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Coniston Road Gosforth100 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Eckington8.8 km (5.5 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest bp pulse Charging Station870 m (0.5 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsManchester Airport MAN53 km (33 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 Stubley Medical Centre560 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Peak Pharmacy370 m
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Apex Dental Care Dronfield Partnership760 m (0.5 miles)
HospitalScarsdale Hospital7.8 km (4.8 miles)
Police stationDronfield Police Station750 m (0.5 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Central England Co-Op - Dronfield Woodhouse, Dronfield Woodhouse Cashzone420 m (0.3 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 garden4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3.5 ha210 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Sindelfingen Park 4.7 ha240 m
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4,630 m²460 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.6 ha210 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 1.1 ha840 m (0.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 8.7 hectares in all.

Landmarks

12 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
School WoodWood920 m (0.6 miles) south-east
Kitchen WoodWood1 km (0.6 miles) west
Spring WoodWood1.1 km (0.7 miles) south-west
Mill PondLake or reservoir4 km (2.5 miles) north-west
Ryecroft GlenValley4.2 km (2.6 miles) north-west
Hollin HillHill4.8 km (3 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)8.74010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.1205
Particles (PM10)10.94015

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
55 to 5910
Under 552627

1 of the street's 27 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for North East Derbyshire: see them on the North East Derbyshire 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
Gorseybrigg Primary School and NurseryPrimary3–11330 m No published inspection
St Andrew's CofE Methodist (Aided) Primary School Church of England/MethodistPrimary4–11420 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
William Levick Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Dronfield Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.2 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Dronfield Infant SchoolPrimary4–71.2 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Dronfield Henry Fanshawe SchoolSecondary11–181.5 km (0.9 miles) Good (Jul 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Lenthall Infant and Nursery SchoolPrimary2–71.7 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
Holmesdale Infant SchoolPrimary5–71.9 km (1.2 miles) No overall grade (Sep 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Dronfield Stonelow Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.9 km (1.2 miles) No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good

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
Central England Co-operative Society S18 8ZQRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets380 m5 Very good7 Nov 2025
Dronfield Butty Hut S18 8NPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good11 Nov 2024
Gorseybrigg Primary School And Nursery S18 8ZYSchool/college/university400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good8 Jul 2025
The Snug S18 8UERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen410 m (0.3 miles)4 Good12 Nov 2025
St Andrew's Primary School S18 8ZQSchool/college/university440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good16 Jan 2025
Jolly Farmer S18 8ZQPub/bar/nightclub440 m (0.3 miles)4 Good21 Jan 2026
St Andrew's Kids Club S18 8ZQHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good17 May 2022
St Andrews Pre School S18 8ZQSchool/college/university440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good10 Jan 2023
Pizza Experts S18 8ZQTakeaway/sandwich shop440 m (0.3 miles)3 Generally satisfactory18 Dec 2025
Happy Panda S18 8ZQTakeaway/sandwich shop440 m (0.3 miles)4 Good21 Jan 2026
Tiffin Dronfield S18 8ZQTakeaway/sandwich shop440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good24 Jul 2025
All Things Nice Ltd S18 8ZQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good19 Feb 2026
Thirst Quencher S18 8ZQMobile caterer440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good6 Aug 2024
Gosforth Fields Bar S18 8NPPub/bar/nightclub460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good24 Mar 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.

12 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Anti-social behaviour3
Public order3
Other theft2
Violence and sexual offences2
Criminal damage and arson1
Vehicle crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Buttermere Drive (4); On or near Cartmel Close (3); On or near Ennerdale Close (3); On or near Grasmere Road (1); On or near Bowness Close (1).

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: 190 residents in 84 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 age3840
Children under 1515%17%
Aged 65 and over17%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)73%61%
Owned outright36%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented2%17%
Private rented25%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work73%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)18%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)29%32%
Travel to work by car or van61%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle8%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)68%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)29%34%
No qualifications14%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification9%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%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

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

Windermere Avenue · Grange Avenue · Kentmere Close · Hawkshead Avenue · Cartmel Close · Patterdale Close · Buttermere Drive · Eskdale Close · Castlerigg Way · Kendal Drive · Grasmere Road · Gosforth Drive

All the streets in S18 and across North East Derbyshire.

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.