Bracken Close Stanley, County Durham

43 addresses across 2 postcodes (DH9), about 140 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 11004508.

  • Sales: 36 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £82,350 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 28 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 14, D: 13).
  • Flood: 9 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band A; Band D in County Durham costs £2,622 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Chester-Le-Street, about 8.3 km (5.2 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 370 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 5.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 203 to 211 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 43 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Tanfield View Medical Group, about 300 m away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 320 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 48% of households owned their home and 17% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 127 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often shoplifting.

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
20252£82,350£64,750£99,950
20242£91,250£83,500£99,000
20231£77,500£77,500£77,500
20221£88,000£88,000£88,000
20181£98,000£98,000£98,000
20171£85,000£85,000£85,000
20161£78,000£78,000£78,000
20131£83,000£83,000£83,000
20122£82,500£80,000£85,000
20111£58,000£58,000£58,000
20072£78,500£70,000£87,000
20063£84,950£71,000£125,000
Most recent sales (36)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
6 Aug 202532 DH9 7RRTerraced£99,950
10 Jan 202525 DH9 7RRTerraced£64,750
20 Dec 20248 DH9 7RRTerraced£99,000
1 Nov 202415 DH9 7RRDetached£83,500
13 Jun 202340 DH9 7RRTerraced£77,500
25 Mar 20222 DH9 7RRTerraced£88,000
23 Feb 202121 DH9 7RRSemi-detached£50,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
17 Jul 202039 DH9 7RRTerraced£68,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
3 Aug 201827 DH9 7RRTerraced£98,000
31 Mar 201725 DH9 7RRTerraced£85,000
14 Jul 201632 DH9 7RRTerraced£78,000
23 Mar 20161 DH9 7RRTerraced£52,500Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
20 Nov 201532 DH9 7RRTerraced£52,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
30 Aug 201333 DH9 7RRTerraced£83,000
14 Dec 201225 DH9 7RRTerraced£80,000
29 Jun 201224 DH9 7RRTerraced£85,000
31 Mar 201118 DH9 7RRTerraced£58,000
24 Sep 200714 DH9 7RRTerraced£87,000
2 Feb 200740 DH9 7RRTerraced£70,000
15 Nov 20067 DH9 7RRSemi-detached£125,000
21 Jul 200611 DH9 7RRTerraced£84,950
21 Jul 200611 DH9 7RRTerraced£71,000
31 Oct 200332 DH9 7RRTerraced£50,000
17 Apr 20037 DH9 7RRSemi-detached£62,500
5 Jul 20025 DH9 7RRTerraced£52,000
17 May 200215 DH9 7RRDetached£35,500
26 Feb 20012 DH9 7RRTerraced£11,275
15 Jan 200136 DH9 7RRSemi-detached£18,810
26 Aug 19995 DH9 7RRTerraced£42,500
23 Apr 199914 DH9 7RRTerraced£29,950
19 Mar 19999 DH9 7RRDetached£38,000
30 Apr 199832 DH9 7RRTerraced£32,750
30 Jan 19989 DH9 7RRDetached£35,000
12 Dec 199739 DH9 7RRTerraced£32,950
10 May 199615 DH9 7RRDetached£33,000
3 May 19969 DH9 7RRDetached£32,000

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from October 2010 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

28 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 83 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (11); House, end-terrace (10); House, detached (4). Built: 1976-1982 (15); 1967-1975 (10); 1950-1966 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (15); rented (social) (7); rented (private) (2).

Council tax

What each band costs in County Durham in 2026-27: Band D £2,622 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,748£2,039£2,331£2,622£3,205£3,788£4,370£5,244

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (70% of about 880 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

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 6 addresses are in areas at high risk, 3 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.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
DH9 7RRnot in 2 or 3 6 / 2 / 4 unlikely
DH9 7RWnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 2 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 43 addresses are between 203 m and 211 m above sea level (206 m on average); the ground rises about 8 m from the lowest to the highest.

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
DH9 7RR100%95%100%0%
DH9 7RW100%89%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 stationsChester-Le-Street 232,000 journeys in 2024–258.3 km (5.2 miles)
Dunston 51,000 journeys in 2024–259.9 km (6.2 miles)
MetroCentre 632,000 journeys in 2024–2510.3 km (6.4 miles)
Bus stops5 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 19 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Civic Hall Stanley250 m
Bus or coach stationStanley Bus Station Stand A440 m (0.3 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Asda Stanley Car Park280 m
EV charging points6 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Mer290 m
Airport with scheduled flightsNewcastle International Airport NCL18.8 km (12 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 Tanfield View Medical Group300 m
Pharmacies5 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Asda Pharmacy300 m
NHS dentists4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery500 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalSouth Moor Hospital1.7 km (1 mile)
Police stationStanley Police680 m (0.4 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest ATM410 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 garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.5 ha370 m
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 450 m²640 m (0.4 miles)
Playing field5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,150 m²110 m
Allotments3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 5.1 ha290 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 1.5 hectares in all.

Landmarks

6 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
Bessy Bell HillHill490 m (0.3 miles) south-west
Cockshot HillHill540 m (0.3 miles) north-west
Pea WoodWood870 m (0.5 miles) north
Harperley WoodWood1 km (0.6 miles) north-west
Fawside DeneValley3.6 km (2.2 miles) south-east
Horse ShoeLake or reservoir4.6 km (2.8 miles) east

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)5.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.5205
Particles (PM10)8.44015

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 5920
Under 554143

2 of the street's 43 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 County Durham: see them on the County Durham 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
Oxhill Nursery SchoolNursery2–4430 m (0.3 miles) No overall grade (Jul 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
St Joseph's Catholic Primary, Stanley Roman CatholicPrimary3–11660 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
South Stanley Infant and Nursery SchoolPrimary2–7740 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
South Stanley Junior SchoolPrimary7–11820 m (0.5 miles) Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Tanfield SchoolSecondary11–16930 m (0.6 miles) No overall grade (Sep 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
North Durham AcademySecondary11–161 km (0.6 miles) Good (Jun 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Mary's Catholic Primary School, South Moor Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.2 km (0.8 miles) Good (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
East Stanley SchoolPrimary2–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Greenland Community Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Stanley Burnside Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.6 km (1 mile) Report card (Feb 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: Needs attention; Early years: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
Tanfield Lea Community Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.6 km (1 mile) Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Shield Row Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.7 km (1 mile) No published inspection

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
Louisa Nursery DH9 0TEHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises200 m5 Very good2 Feb 2026
Thrive Kitchen @ The Louisa Centre DH9 0TERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen200 m5 Very good4 Sep 2024
Top House DH9 0TBPub/bar/nightclub300 m4 Good3 Feb 2026
Godfather DH9 0TBTakeaway/sandwich shop320 m4 Good7 Apr 2025
Delilah's Kitchen by Shamrock DH9 0TYRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen330 m4 Good16 Oct 2025
Pizza Corner DH9 0TYTakeaway/sandwich shop330 m3 Generally satisfactory17 Jul 2026
Pasha Pizza DH9 0TYDistributors/Transporters330 m5 Very good2 Feb 2026
Oxhill Central WMC & Institute DH9 7LWPub/bar/nightclub330 m4 Good20 Aug 2022
Premier - Park Road Stores DH9 7QBRetailers - other360 m4 Good17 Sep 2024
The Imperial Hotel, Bar and Restaurant DH9 0TBPub/bar/nightclub360 mAwaiting inspection
Lydon Pharmacy Group Ltd DH9 0TBRetailers - other370 mExempt
Brenda's Cafe DH9 0HURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen390 m3 Generally satisfactory25 Jun 2025
Poundstretcher DH9 0SYRetailers - other410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good13 Jul 2026
Stanley Empire Club DH9 0SYPub/bar/nightclub430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good19 Aug 2026
Boots UK Ltd DH9 0SYRetailers - other440 m (0.3 miles)Exempt

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.

127 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Shoplifting52
Violence and sexual offences35
Criminal damage and arson13
Anti-social behaviour10
Other theft5
Public order4
Robbery3
Drugs2
Other crime1
Possession of weapons1
Theft from the person1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Front Street (65); On or near Bracken Close (20); On or near Braidwood Mews (12); On or near Sports/Recreation Area (11); On or near Pea Road (7).

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: 319 residents in 135 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 age3540
Children under 1523%17%
Aged 65 and over13%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)48%61%
Owned outright28%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented27%17%
Private rented25%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work53%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)7%6%
Retired (of adults)16%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)8%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)14%32%
Travel to work by car or van63%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus6%8%
On foot or by bicycle17%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)57%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away3%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)17%34%
No qualifications24%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 3 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.

  • DH9 7RR: 42 addresses of 43 in the postcode
  • DH9 7RW: 1 address of 55 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Heather Way · Carmel Road · Grange Road · Lyndhurst Road · Evelyn Terrace · Evelyn Terrace · Front Street · Braidwood Mews · Coniscliffe Road · Pea Road · Scott Street · Holly Terrace

All the streets in DH9 and across County Durham.

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.