Broadfields Avenue Cowes, Isle of Wight

45 addresses across 1 postcode (PO31), about 270 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 82000233.

  • Sales: 63 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £328,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 28 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 8, D: 12, E: 6, F: 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 C; Band D in Isle of Wight costs £2,626 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Ryde Pier Head, about 10.8 km (6.7 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, The Green, is about 1 km (0.6 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 49 to 52 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 45 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Cowes Medical Centre, about 690 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • People: About 340 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 88% of households owned their home and 31% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 9 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.

Sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20251£328,000£328,000£328,000
20241£295,000£295,000£295,000
20233£380,000£320,000£445,000
20212£273,661£232,322£315,000
20202£261,250£195,000£327,500
20191£335,000£335,000£335,000
20181£265,000£265,000£265,000
20171£199,000£199,000£199,000
20155£190,000£165,000£285,000
20141£200,000£200,000£200,000
20134£188,750£169,000£208,500
20122£150,000£140,000£160,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 63)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
31 Mar 202545 PO31 7UDSemi-detached£328,000
18 Mar 202414 PO31 7UDSemi-detached£295,000
8 Feb 202423 PO31 7UDOther£2,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
10 Nov 202337 PO31 7UDSemi-detached£320,000
5 Sep 202322 PO31 7UDDetached£445,000
7 Jul 202339 PO31 7UDSemi-detached£380,000
28 Sep 20216 PO31 7UDSemi-detached£315,000
11 Aug 202123 PO31 7UDDetached£232,322
14 Dec 2020MARICO PO31 7UDDetached£327,500
19 Jun 202045 PO31 7UDSemi-detached£195,000
22 May 201932 PO31 7UDDetached£335,000
14 Sep 201843 PO31 7UDDetached£430,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
31 Aug 201839 PO31 7UDSemi-detached£265,000
13 Jan 201715 PO31 7UDSemi-detached£199,000
8 Mar 201645 PO31 7UDSemi-detached£158,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
5 Oct 201511 PO31 7UDDetached£215,000
18 Jun 201514 PO31 7UDSemi-detached£190,000
11 Jun 201510 PO31 7UDSemi-detached£165,000
26 May 201532 PO31 7UDDetached£285,000
8 May 201512 PO31 7UDSemi-detached£170,000
25 Jul 201435 PO31 7UDSemi-detached£200,000
12 Dec 20136 PO31 7UDSemi-detached£208,500
26 Jul 201322A PO31 7UDDetached£192,500
9 Jul 201325 PO31 7UDSemi-detached£185,000
2 Apr 201326 PO31 7UDSemi-detached£169,000
21 Dec 20128 PO31 7UDSemi-detached£140,000
19 Oct 201219 PO31 7UDSemi-detached£160,000
30 Sep 201143 PO31 7UDDetached£225,000
15 Jul 20113A PO31 7UDDetached£192,000
21 Apr 201139 PO31 7UDSemi-detached£170,000
1 Apr 201147 PO31 7UDSemi-detached£165,000
5 Jan 201116 PO31 7UDSemi-detached£158,520
19 Oct 20106 PO31 7UDSemi-detached£200,000
2 Oct 200927 PO31 7UDDetached£182,000
9 Mar 200924 PO31 7UDDetached£190,000
13 Jul 20076 PO31 7UDSemi-detached£182,000
7 Jul 200620 PO31 7UDDetached£192,000
18 May 20067 PO31 7UDSemi-detached£180,000
28 Apr 20063 PO31 7UDSemi-detached£152,500
6 Jan 200630 PO31 7UDDetached£180,000
21 Jan 200522 PO31 7UDDetached£249,950
18 Jun 200447 PO31 7UDSemi-detached£165,000
23 Apr 200427 PO31 7UDDetached£170,000
4 Dec 200328 PO31 7UDSemi-detached£139,950
18 Jul 200347 PO31 7UDSemi-detached£134,950
23 May 200347 PO31 7UDSemi-detached£142,000
7 Mar 200315 PO31 7UDSemi-detached£125,000
18 Dec 200226 PO31 7UDSemi-detached£135,000
19 Nov 20027 PO31 7UDSemi-detached£130,000
27 Sep 200211 PO31 7UDDetached£126,500

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 January 2009 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 80 m². Most common: Bungalow, semi-detached (17); Bungalow, detached (8); House, detached (2). Built: 1930-1949 (15); 1950-1966 (7); 1967-1975 (5). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (22).

Each home's certificates and sales (18 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Isle of Wight in 2026-27: Band D £2,626 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,751£2,042£2,334£2,626£3,209£3,793£4,376£5,252

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (46% of about 740 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 31 October 2026.

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

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 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 45 addresses are between 49 m and 52 m above sea level (51 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
PO31 7UD100%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 stationsRyde Pier Head 129,000 journeys in 2024–2510.8 km (6.7 miles)
Ryde Esplanade 130,000 journeys in 2024–2511 km (6.8 miles)
Ryde St Johns Road 53,000 journeys in 2024–2511.4 km (7.1 miles)
Bus stops7 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 23 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Broadfields Avenue Cowes100 m
Bus or coach stationIOW Festival Fairlee4.7 km (2.9 miles)
Ferry terminalWest Cowes Floating Bridge1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Cowes Park and Ride600 m (0.4 miles)
EV charging points4 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Be.EV Charging Station550 m (0.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsSouthampton Airport SOU22.2 km (14 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Gatwick Airport LGW90.5 km (56 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 surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Cowes Medical Centre690 m (0.4 miles)
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Allied Pharmacy Cowes690 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Park Road Dental Practice Isle Of Wight LTD460 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalSt Mary's Hospital4.7 km (2.9 miles)
Police stationNewport Police Station6 km (3.7 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Southern Co-operative Cowes Mill Hill Road, Cowes700 m (0.4 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 gardenThe Green 4,260 m²1 km (0.6 miles)
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,210 m²340 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 6.1 ha100 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,100 m²710 m (0.4 miles)

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is The Round House, a listed building (Grade II*), 360 m north-west. 13 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
The Round HouseListed building, Grade II*360 m north-west
Norris CastleRegistered park or garden, Grade I3 km (1.8 miles) east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Shamblers CopseWood1.1 km (0.7 miles) east
Gurnard CliffCliff or slope1.2 km (0.8 miles) north-west
Gurnard BeachBeach1.4 km (0.9 miles) north-west
Egypt PointWetland1.6 km (1 mile) north
Spring HillHill2.7 km (1.7 miles) north-east
Upper PondLake or reservoir3.2 km (2 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)6.04010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.6205
Particles (PM10)8.94015

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 5920
Under 554345

2 of the street's 45 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 Isle of Wight: see them on the Isle of Wight 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.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
Lanesend Primary SchoolPrimary4–11460 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
Gurnard Primary SchoolPrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
Cowes Enterprise College, An Ormiston AcademySecondary11–191.2 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Northwood Primary SchoolPrimary5–111.7 km (1.1 miles) Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)

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.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Elixir Freshly Frozen PO31 7AEManufacturers/packers280 m5 Very good10 Nov 2025
Cowes Community Pantry PO31 7USRetailers - other290 m5 Very good14 Jan 2025
Northwood Cricket Club PO31 7NNPub/bar/nightclub320 m4 Good22 Apr 2016
All About Catering PO31 7UTMobile caterer360 m5 Very good10 Dec 2025
The Range & Cafe 89 PO31 7AERetailers - other360 m4 Good29 Aug 2025
Isle Of Wight Community Club - Bar PO31 7NPPub/bar/nightclub420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good15 Aug 2024
Taste Thirst PO31 7AERetailers - other420 m (0.3 miles)Exempt
Booker Ltd PO31 7UPDistributors/Transporters430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good14 Oct 2025
Lifecraft, Isle Of Wight PO31 7AERetailers - other460 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.

9 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences3
Anti-social behaviour2
Criminal damage and arson2
Possession of weapons1
Public order1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Highfield Road (2); On or near The Chandlers (2); On or near Fairlead Road (2); On or near Deauville Avenue (1); On or near Place Road (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: 341 residents in 137 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 age4840
Children under 1517%17%
Aged 65 and over24%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)88%61%
Owned outright51%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented0%17%
Private rented12%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work54%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)33%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)26%32%
Travel to work by car or van52%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle14%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)80%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away4%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)31%34%
No qualifications11%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification10%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 8 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

  • Energy certificates New energy certificate: band D, bungalow, semi-detached (lodged 30 October 2026) found 2 November 2026

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

Highfield Road · Broadfields Avenue · Place Road · The Chandlers · Prospect Road · Spinnaker Close · Place Road · Fairlead Road · Sunset Drive · Deauville Avenue · Admiral Way · The Slipway

All the streets in PO31 and across Isle of Wight.

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.