Brook Close Charminster, Dorset

5 addresses across 1 postcode (DT2), about 20 m long. USRN 43210196.

  • Sales: 6 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £509,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 4 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 1, D: 2).
  • Flood: 1 address on its postcodes is 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 C; Band D in Dorset costs £2,765 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Dorchester West, about 3.1 km (1.9 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 1.8 km (1.1 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 4.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 67 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 3 of its 5 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Poundbury Doctors Surgery, about 2.6 km (1.6 miles) away.
  • People: About 300 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 86% of households owned their home and 37% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 3 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
20241£509,000£509,000£509,000
20191£360,000£360,000£360,000
20142£340,000£290,000£390,000
20081£305,000£305,000£305,000
20061£225,000£225,000£225,000
Most recent sales (6)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
28 Aug 20241 DT2 9RADetached£509,000
3 Sep 20194 DT2 9RADetached£360,000
11 Dec 20143 DT2 9RADetached£390,000
17 Jun 20144 DT2 9RADetached£290,000
16 May 20081 DT2 9RADetached£305,000
16 Jan 20064 DT2 9RADetached£225,000

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

4 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 149 m². Most common: Bungalow, detached (4). Built: 1967-1975 (4). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (4).

Council tax

What each band costs in Dorset in 2026-27: Band D £2,765 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,843£2,151£2,458£2,765£3,379£3,994£4,608£5,530

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (36% of about 1,220 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: yes, Charminster Conservation Area 3. Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • 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.

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, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 1 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: of the 4 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 1 medium, 1 low and 0 very low.

Groundwater flooding is possible in this postcode: an address there is in a groundwater flood alert area.

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: the postcode centre is in flood zone 2. Zone 2 is between 0.1% and 1% a year from rivers (0.1% and 0.5% from the sea), ignoring defences.

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 addresses are about 67 m above sea level.

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
DT2 9RA100%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 stationsDorchester West 97,000 journeys in 2024–253.1 km (1.9 miles)
Dorchester South 466,000 journeys in 2024–253.4 km (2.1 miles)
Maiden Newton 22,000 journeys in 2024–259.2 km (5.7 miles)
Bus stops3 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 15 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Higher Charminster340 m
Bus or coach stationTop O Town Coach Park Dorchester2.6 km (1.6 miles)
Ferry terminalWeymouth Ferry Terminal14.3 km (8.9 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Parking Services340 m
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Be.EV Charging Station480 m (0.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBournemouth Airport BOH43.8 km (27 miles)
Nearest large airportBristol Airport BRS74 km (46 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 surgeriesPoundbury Doctors Surgery2.6 km (1.6 miles)
PharmaciesPoundbury Pharmacy2.6 km (1.6 miles)
NHS dentistsSt John's Dental Practice2.5 km (1.6 miles)
HospitalDorset County Hospital2.8 km (1.7 miles)
Police stationDorset Police3 km (1.8 miles)
Cash machinesThe Cooperative Food Dorchester, Wadham Cashzone2.9 km (1.8 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 gardenUnnamed 1.3 ha1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,550 m²270 m
Playing fieldUnnamed 4.1 ha1.4 km (0.8 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Charminster Farm Allotments 7,080 m²590 m (0.4 miles)

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Medieval settlement 850m north of St Mary's Church, a scheduled monument, 420 m (0.3 miles) north. 19 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Medieval settlement 850m north of St Mary's ChurchScheduled monument420 m (0.3 miles) north
Parish Church of St MaryListed building, Grade I460 m (0.3 miles) south
The Riding HouseListed building, Grade II*900 m (0.6 miles) south
Bowl barrow on Wood Hill 310m north east of CowdenScheduled monument1 km (0.6 miles) north
Long barrow and four bowl barrows 500m north west of Whitfield FarmScheduled monument1.5 km (0.9 miles) south-west
Borough Gardens, DorchesterRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.9 km (1.8 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Miller's OrchardWood420 m (0.3 miles) south-east
Wood Hill ClumpWood1.1 km (0.7 miles) north
Wood HillHill1.1 km (0.7 miles) north
Longwalls CoppiceWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) south-west
Fordington BottomValley2.4 km (1.5 miles) south-west
Stinsford ChannelLake or reservoir4.1 km (2.5 miles) south-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)4.14010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.2205
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, 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 5930
Under 5525

3 of the street's 5 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
St Mary's Church of England First School, CharminsterPrimary4–9470 m (0.3 miles) 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
GAMEKEEPER DT2 9QZPub/bar/nightclub20 m5 Very good4 Jul 2025
SPROUTERS FRUIT & VEG DT2 9RBRetailers - other360 mExempt
Rainbow stay and play DT2 9QYRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good25 Mar 2022
CHARMINSTER PRE-SCHOOL DT2 9RDSchool/college/university470 m (0.3 miles)Exempt
St Marys School Charminster DT2 9RDSchool/college/university470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good19 Jan 2026

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.

3 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences3

Most of these are attached to: On or near North Street (3).

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: 302 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 age5640
Children under 1513%17%
Aged 65 and over33%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)86%61%
Owned outright56%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented8%17%
Private rented6%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work47%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)38%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)28%32%
Travel to work by car or van65%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle4%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)48%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away26%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)37%34%
No qualifications14%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification9%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)100%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is 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.

Nearby streets

Mill Lane · Shepherds Drove · Haydon Hill Close · Highfield Close · Higher Charminster · Longhorn Hill · Barton Gardens · Wheatlands · Granary Hill · Rickyard Close

All the streets in DT2 and across Dorset.

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.