Buttermere Avenue Bacup, Rossendale

25 addresses across 4 postcodes (OL13), about 140 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 32402586.

  • Sales: 23 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £347,500 across 4 sales.
  • Energy: 17 homes have an energy certificate (B: 17).
  • 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 A; Band D in Rossendale costs £2,520 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Walsden, about 6.1 km (3.8 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Hawthorn Road, is about 520 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 5.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.0 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 287 to 300 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 3 of its 25 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Irwell Medical Practice, about 860 m (0.5 miles) away.
  • People: About 790 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 77% of households owned their home and 31% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 36 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
20264£347,500£300,000£365,000
20251£360,000£360,000£360,000
20241£352,500£352,500£352,500
20229£325,000£240,000£335,000
20215£295,000£199,950£309,995
20202£244,000£243,000£245,000
20191£229,950£229,950£229,950
Most recent sales (23)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
24 Jul 202622 OL13 9BLDetached£345,000
22 May 20262 OL13 9BLDetached£300,000
16 Apr 20268 OL13 9BLDetached£365,000
20 Feb 202634 OL13 9BLDetached£350,000
29 Oct 202532 OL13 9BLDetached£360,000
17 May 202424 OL13 9BLDetached£352,500
16 Sep 202234 OL13 9BLDetached£330,000New build.
31 Aug 202214 OL13 9BLDetached£330,000New build.
22 Jul 202232 OL13 9BLDetached£325,000New build.
15 Jul 202224 OL13 9BLDetached£325,000New build.
8 Jul 202230 OL13 9BLSemi-detached£240,000New build.
17 Jun 202228 OL13 9BLSemi-detached£240,000New build.
15 Jun 202226 OL13 9BLDetached£335,000New build.
4 Mar 202220 OL13 9BLDetached£309,995New build.
18 Feb 202222 OL13 9BLDetached£309,995New build.
3 Dec 202112 OL13 9BLDetached£309,995New build.
5 Nov 202110 OL13 9BLDetached£295,000New build.
12 Apr 20218 OL13 9BLDetached£295,000New build.
16 Mar 202116 OL13 9BLSemi-detached£199,950New build.
12 Mar 202118 OL13 9BLSemi-detached£224,950New build.
28 Aug 20204 OL13 9BLDetached£245,000New build.
14 Aug 20206 OL13 9BLDetached£243,000New build.
7 Jun 20192 OL13 9BLDetached£229,950New build.

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 May 2019 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

17 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 131 m². Most common: House, detached (13); House, semi-detached (4). Built: 2022 (9); 2021 (5); 2019 (3).

Each home's certificates and sales (3 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Rossendale in 2026-27: Band D £2,520 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,680£1,960£2,240£2,520£3,080£3,640£4,200£5,040

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (59% of about 820 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): Immediate Article 4 Direction for small Houses in Multiple Occupation.
  • Tree preservation orders: 3 protected trees on or by this street.
  • 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

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 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: 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
OL13 9BLnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
OL13 9BFnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
OL13 9DQnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
OL13 9DSnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 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 25 addresses are between 287 m and 300 m above sea level (295 m on average); the ground rises about 13 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
OL13 9BF100%100%100%0%
OL13 9BL100%100%100%0%
OL13 9DQ100%100%100%0%
OL13 9DS100%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 stationsWalsden 80,000 journeys in 2024–256.1 km (3.8 miles)
Todmorden 718,000 journeys in 2024–256.3 km (3.9 miles)
Burnley Manchester Road 583,000 journeys in 2024–259.4 km (5.8 miles)
Bus stops5 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 39 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Carlton Street Bacup160 m
Bus or coach stationBus station Rawtenstall6 km (3.7 miles)
EV charging points4 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Bank Street, Bacup690 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLeeds Bradford Airport LBA39.4 km (24 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 Irwell Medical Practice860 m (0.5 miles)
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots580 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Bacup Primary Health Trust860 m (0.5 miles)
HospitalBirch Hill Hospital8.9 km (5.5 miles)
Police stationWaterfoot Police Station4.6 km (2.9 miles)
Cash machinesWaterfoot Mini Market Cashzone3.6 km (2.3 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 Hawthorn Road 1.7 ha520 m (0.3 miles)
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 3.6 ha780 m (0.5 miles)
Play area5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 630 m²430 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.9 ha260 m
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4,540 m²670 m (0.4 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 5.7 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is The Laurels, a listed building (Grade II*), 830 m (0.5 miles) south-west. 36 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 LaurelsListed building, Grade II*830 m (0.5 miles) south-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Jeffry Barn WoodWood700 m (0.4 miles) north-west
Tong CloughValley790 m (0.5 miles) south
Oaken CloughValley880 m (0.5 miles) south-east
Greave CloughValley1 km (0.6 miles) north-east
Tooter HillHill1.6 km (1 mile) east
Gorpley ReservoirLake or reservoir3.8 km (2.4 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)5.94010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.0205
Particles (PM10)9.24015

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 552225

3 of the street's 25 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 Rossendale: see them on the Rossendale 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
Bacup Nursery SchoolNursery2–5250 m Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Bacup Thorn Primary SchoolPrimary4–11250 m Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Mary's Roman Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary AcademyPrimary3–11670 m (0.4 miles) Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Needs attention; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Sharneyford Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Report card (Jul 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Northern Primary SchoolPrimary5–111.2 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Bacup St Saviour's Community Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.5 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Britannia Community Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.9 km (1.2 miles) Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met

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
Vale Street Nursery OL13 9ELSchool/college/university250 m5 Very good29 Apr 2026
Bacup Borough Football Club OL13 8EEPub/bar/nightclub250 m5 Very good9 Oct 2025
Bacup Nursery School OL13 8EERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen250 m5 Very good6 Aug 2025
Dig In Diner OL13 8EFSchool/college/university310 m5 Very good7 Oct 2024
Crown Inn OL13 9HQPub/bar/nightclub350 m3 Generally satisfactory8 Aug 2022
Fern Hill House Care Home OL13 9BAOther catering premises420 m (0.3 miles)4 Good28 Sep 2026
Boundary Cafe OL13 9BTRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good7 Sep 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.

36 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences22
Anti-social behaviour4
Criminal damage and arson3
Burglary3
Vehicle crime3
Other crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Greensnook Terrace (6); On or near Pendle Avenue (6); On or near Todmorden Old Road (5); On or near Arbour Street (4); On or near Cross Street (3).

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: 788 residents in 334 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 age4340
Children under 1519%17%
Aged 65 and over22%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)77%61%
Owned outright41%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented11%17%
Private rented12%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work58%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)27%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)23%32%
Travel to work by car or van66%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus4%8%
On foot or by bicycle6%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)52%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away5%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)31%34%
No qualifications16%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%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 2 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

  • Food hygiene ratings Fern Hill House Care Home (other catering premises, OL13 9BA) now 4 Good, was 5 Very good (rated 28 September 2026) found 3 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

Keswick Drive · Windermere Road · Beech Street · Beech Close · Greensnook Lane · Christ Church Street · Coniston Way · Greensnook Lane · Greens Lane · Oak Street · Elm Street · Rosemount

All the streets in OL13 and across Rossendale.

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.