Bowring Close Exeter

43 addresses across 2 postcodes (EX1), about 210 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 14200091.

37 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £310,000 across 1 sale. 22 homes have an energy certificate (C: 10, D: 12). 6 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 A; Band D in Exeter costs £2,495 a year in 2026-27. Gigabit broadband is available to 95% to 98% of premises. The nearest railway station is Polsloe Bridge, about 780 m away in a straight line. There is a small park or garden about 250 m away, and Heavitree Pleasure Ground (8.5 hectares) is about 590 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 28 to 32 m above sea level. 9 of its 43 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic. The nearest GP surgery is Whipton Surgery, about 640 m away, with 5 practices within 1.6 km. About 550 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 61% of households owned their home and 22% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification. 61 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£310,000£310,000£310,000
20252£252,500£215,000£290,000
20243£266,000£250,000£268,000
20222£282,500£256,000£309,000
20211£258,000£258,000£258,000
20181£265,000£265,000£265,000
20141£185,088£185,088£185,088
20133£166,000£164,000£173,000
20121£130,500£130,500£130,500
20111£164,000£164,000£164,000
20101£148,500£148,500£148,500
20092£158,975£154,950£163,000
Most recent sales (37)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
31 Mar 202649 EX1 3TUSemi-detached£310,000
25 Nov 202548 EX1 3TUTerraced£215,000
8 Jan 202521 EX1 3TUDetached£290,000
28 May 202445 EX1 3TUSemi-detached£250,000
3 May 202458 EX1 3TUTerraced£266,000
26 Apr 202444 EX1 3TUDetached£268,000
20 Sep 202249 EX1 3TUSemi-detached£309,000
26 Jul 202250 EX1 3TUTerraced£256,000
30 Apr 202122 EX1 3TUTerraced£258,000
8 Jun 201825 EX1 3TUTerraced£265,000
6 Jun 201423 EX1 3TUTerraced£185,088
18 Dec 201356 EX1 3TUTerraced£166,000
27 Aug 201358 EX1 3TUTerraced£173,000
7 Mar 201354 EX1 3TUTerraced£164,000
18 May 201214 EX1 3TUTerraced£130,500
16 Aug 201123 EX1 3TUTerraced£164,000
18 Jun 201056 EX1 3TUTerraced£148,500
3 Dec 200929 EX1 3TUTerraced£163,000
9 Jul 200920 EX1 3TUTerraced£154,950
14 Oct 200821 EX1 3TUDetached£166,500
19 Jul 200749 EX1 3TUSemi-detached£163,500
23 Mar 200758 EX1 3TUTerraced£150,000
18 Dec 200660 EX1 3TUTerraced£165,000
1 Dec 200644 EX1 3TUDetached£174,000
15 Sep 200625 EX1 3TUSemi-detached£161,500
31 Mar 200610 EX1 3TUSemi-detached£134,950
25 Nov 200529 EX1 3TUDetached£133,000
25 Jul 200523 EX1 3TUTerraced£134,995
7 Mar 200356 EX1 3TUSemi-detached£123,000
3 May 200248 EX1 3TUDetached£92,000Leasehold.
3 May 200248 EX1 3TUTerraced£92,000
21 Dec 200145 EX1 3TUSemi-detached£78,100
7 Jul 200018 EX1 3TUDetached£67,500
12 Dec 199749 EX1 3TUSemi-detached£49,500
24 Oct 199752 EX1 3TUDetached£45,500
24 Sep 199631 EX1 3TUDetached£47,750
30 Aug 199631 EX1 3TUDetached£47,800

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

22 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 77 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (14); House, semi-detached (3); House, end-terrace (3). Built: 1976-1982 (11); 1967-1975 (5); 1983-1990 (3). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (15); rented (private) (3).

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 neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band A (27% of about 1,280 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), 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 1.0 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, 3 addresses are in areas at high risk, 3 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
EX1 3TUnot in 2 or 3 1 / 2 / 0 unlikely
EX1 3LFnot in 2 or 3 2 / 1 / 3 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 43 addresses are between 28 m and 32 m above sea level (29 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
EX1 3LF95%95%95%5%
EX1 3TU98%98%98%2%

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 2024–25780 m
Pinhoe 232,000 journeys in 2024–252.0 km
Digby and Sowton 968,000 journeys in 2024–252.0 km
Bus stops9 stops within 400 m, 47 within 800 m; nearest Vaughan Road Heavitree220 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Exeter City Centre2.2 km
Ferry terminalTopsham Ferry Landing5.2 km
Car parksExeter Park and Ride1.5 km
EV charging points9 within 1.6 km; nearest Wenea760 m
Airport with scheduled flightsExeter International Airport EXT5.6 km
Nearest large airportCardiff International Airport CWL75.1 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 surgeries5 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Whipton Surgery640 m
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km; nearest Day Lewis Pharmacy560 m
NHS dentists4 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Pinhoe Dental Surgery840 m
HospitalExeter Community Hospital670 m
Police stationDevon & Cornwall Police1.4 km
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m; nearest Morrisons Daily - Exeter Barton Road Cashzone610 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 Unnamed 5,000 m²250 m
Largest park within 800 mHeavitree Pleasure Ground 8.5 ha590 m
Play area6 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 2,030 m²150 m
Playing field3 within 800 m; nearest Hamlin Lane Playing Field 8.5 ha140 m
Allotments4 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 2.4 ha480 m

Within 800 m: 5 parks and gardens, 11 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is St Katherine's Priory, Polsloe, a scheduled monument, 1.0 km north-west. 10 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 monument1.0 km north-west
Polsloe PrioryListed building, Grade II*1.0 km north-west
St Loye's Chapel and cross, Rifford RoadScheduled monument1.2 km south
Larkbeare HouseRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.7 km south-west
Northernhay and Rougemont GardensRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.7 km west
Natural landmarks within 5.0 km
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Upper Moor PlantationWood1.9 km east
Pyne's HillHill2.1 km south
Middle Moor PlantationWood2.1 km east
Fairy DellValley2.6 km north
Salmon PoolLake or reservoir2.8 km south-west
Duck's MarshWetland2.8 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 5990
Under 553443

9 of the street's 43 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, 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
Whipton Barton Junior SchoolPrimary7–11300 m Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Whipton Barton Infants and Nursery SchoolPrimary2–7330 m No published inspection
St Nicholas Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–11690 m 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
St Michael's Church of England Primary AcademyPrimary2–111.0 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
Willowbrook SchoolPrimary3–111.0 km Requires improvement (Jun 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Luke's Church of England SchoolSecondary11–161.0 km Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Ladysmith Infant & Nursery SchoolPrimary3–71.2 km Requires improvement (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St James SchoolSecondary11–161.2 km No published inspection
St Peter's Church of England Aided SchoolSecondary11–161.2 km No overall grade (Apr 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Ladysmith Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.2 km Requires improvement (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Woodwater AcademyPrimary3–111.3 km Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Monkerton Community Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.6 km Good (Jun 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 of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
South West Norse Ltd (Ellen Tinkham Wayside College) EX1 3LFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen80 m5 Very good1 Dec 2025
Whipton And Pinhoe Labour Club EX1 3JTPub/bar/nightclub130 m5 Very good13 Feb 2025
Stoke Hill AFC Cafe EX1 3LARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen190 m4 Good27 Sep 2017
Premier Education @ Whipton Barton Federation EX1 3JPHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises300 m5 Very good17 Sep 2025
Whipton Barton Infants/Junior School EX1 3JPSchool/college/university370 m5 Very good23 Feb 2026
Vranch House EX4 8ADSchool/college/university430 m5 Very good13 Mar 2025
Whipton Community Hall EX4 8ADRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen430 m5 Very good7 Mar 2025
Little Ones EX4 8AFHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises480 m5 Very good10 Dec 2025
BBQ Kebab House EX4 8AQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen490 m4 Good16 May 2025
Chadni Express EX4 8AQTakeaway/sandwich shop490 m4 Good4 Jun 2025
Central Convenience Stores EX1 3HERetailers - other490 m1 Major improvement necessary22 Jan 2026
Birchy Coffee House EX1 3HERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen500 m5 Very good22 Jan 2026
Tommy's Fish Bar & Chinese Takeaway EX1 3HETakeaway/sandwich shop500 m5 Very good20 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.

61 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences29
Criminal damage and arson7
Vehicle crime6
Anti-social behaviour6
Other theft4
Other crime4
Public order2
Drugs2
Possession of weapons1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Bonville Close (22); On or near Clifford Close (12); On or near Georges Close (4); On or near Binford Close (4); On or near Bowring Close (4).

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: 547 residents in 246 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 age4640
Children under 1514%17%
Aged 65 and over22%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)61%61%
Owned outright36%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented24%17%
Private rented14%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work58%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)26%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)5%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)17%32%
Travel to work by car or van56%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus9%8%
On foot or by bicycle15%10%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)85%65%
Work 30 km or more away5%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)22%34%
No qualifications23%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)94%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhoods around this street are all in decile 6 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.

  • EX1 3TU: 42 addresses of 44 in the postcode
  • EX1 3LF: 1 address of 65 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Vaughan Road · Bodley Close · Wayside Crescent · Bonville Close · Clifford Close · Heather Close · Georges Close · Binford Close · Vaughan Road · Bevan Road · Vaughan Rise · Staddon Close

All the streets in EX1 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.