Button Close Birmingham

13 addresses across 1 postcode (B19), about 40 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 2753335.

  • Sales: 5 recorded sales since 1995; in 2021 the median was £122,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 12 homes have an energy certificate (B: 9, C: 3).
  • 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 Birmingham costs £2,363 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Jewellery Quarter, about 1.1 km away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 30 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 17.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 8.4 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 120 to 121 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 13 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Burbury Medical Centre, about 350 m away, with 11 practices within 1.6 km.
  • People: About 560 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 44% of households owned their home and 27% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 164 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
20211£122,000£122,000£122,000
20133£149,995£149,995£159,995
Most recent sales (5)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
9 Aug 202115 B19 1QDDetached£122,000New build.
6 Sep 20132 B19 1QDSemi-detached£149,995New build. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
5 Sep 20134 B19 1QDSemi-detached£149,995New build.
14 Aug 20133 B19 1QDSemi-detached£149,995New build.
28 Jun 20131 B19 1QDSemi-detached£159,995New build.

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

12 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 90 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (12). Built: 2012 (9); 2003-2006 (2); 2012 onwards (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (2); rented (private) (1).

Council tax

What each band costs in Birmingham in 2026-27: Band D £2,363 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,575£1,838£2,100£2,363£2,888£3,413£3,938£4,726

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (77% of about 700 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: 1.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): CITY WIDE HMO.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Listed buildings

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

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.

Height above sea level

The street's 13 addresses are between 120 m and 121 m above sea level (120 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
B19 1QD100%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 stationsJewellery Quarter 446,000 journeys in 2024–251.1 km
Birmingham Snow Hill 3.2 million journeys in 2024–252.0 km
Perry Barr 185,000 journeys in 2024–252.0 km
Underground, metro or tramJewellery Quarter (West Midlands Metro)1.1 km
Soho Benson Road (West Midlands Metro)1.3 km
St Paul's (West Midlands Metro)1.4 km
Bus stops6 stops within 400 m, 56 within 800 m; nearest Villa Street Hockley140 m
Bus or coach stationBirmingham Coach Station Digbeth3.1 km
Car parksBuckingham Street Car Park1.2 km
EV charging points10 within 1.6 km; nearest ubitricity170 m
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX12.3 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 surgeries11 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Burbury Medical Centre350 m
Pharmacies21 pharmacies within 1.6 km; nearest Al-Shifa Pharmacy440 m
NHS dentists11 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Farm Street (Dental Surgery)380 m
HospitalBirmingham Children's Hospital1.3 km
Police stationWest Midlands Police - Newtown Police Station1.0 km
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m; nearest ATM580 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 garden7 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 2.4 ha30 m
Largest park within 800 mUnnamed 5.4 ha690 m
Play area6 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 1,130 m²130 m
Playing fieldUnnamed 8,730 m²1.2 km
AllotmentsGibson Road Allotments 1,440 m²1.0 km

Within 800 m: 7 parks and gardens, 19 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Convent of Our Lady of Mercy, a listed building (Grade II*), 230 m south-west. 74 listed buildings are within 1.0 km, 6 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Convent of Our Lady of MercyListed building, Grade II*230 m south-west
Icknield Street School (St Chad's Roman Catholic Annexe)Listed building, Grade II*620 m south
303, Icknield Street B18Listed building, Grade II*640 m south
Soho HouseListed building, Grade II*710 m west
Key Hill CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II*1.0 km south
Warstone Lane CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.2 km south
Natural landmarks within 5.0 km
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Soho LoopLake or reservoir1.5 km south-west
Icknield Port LoopLake or reservoir2.4 km south-west
Halfmoon PlantationWood2.8 km north
Perry ReservoirLake or reservoir3.7 km north
Brookvale ParkLake or reservoir3.9 km north-east
Garden GroveWood4.0 km north-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)17.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)8.4205
Particles (PM10)13.44015

All three are within the UK legal limits; nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 are 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 5910
Under 551213

1 of the street's 13 addresses is 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
Anglesey Primary SchoolPrimary3–11130 m Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Francis Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–11210 m No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Nishkam High School SikhSecondary11–19530 m No overall grade (Mar 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Lozells Junior and Infant School and NurseryPrimary3–11730 m No published inspection
Welford Primary SchoolPrimary3–11750 m No published inspection
Holte SchoolSecondary11–18760 m Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Heathfield Primary SchoolPrimary3–11770 m No published inspection
Nishkam Primary School Birmingham SikhPrimary4–11820 m No overall grade (Apr 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
King Edward VI Handsworth SchoolSecondary11–18820 m No overall grade (Dec 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Newtown Nursery SchoolNursery0–5840 m Outstanding (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Michael's CofE Primary Academy, Handsworth Church of EnglandPrimary4–11870 m Outstanding (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Chad's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.1 km Good (Mar 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
St Francis Catholic Primary B19 1PHSchool/college/university160 m5 Very good14 Apr 2026
Nursery Mini Market B19 2YARetailers - other160 m3 Generally satisfactory8 Sep 2025
GREYMA B19 1QXOther catering premises180 mAwaiting inspection
SLIMMISH B19 2XNOther catering premises180 mAwaiting inspection
Anglesey Primary School B19 1RASchool/college/university190 m5 Very good17 Sep 2026
Noya Mach Bazaar B19 1QXRetailers - other200 m1 Major improvement necessary3 Aug 2026
Happy Days Nursery B19 1QYHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises200 m3 Generally satisfactory25 Feb 2026
Seven Up Charity B19 1QYOther catering premises210 mAwaiting inspection
St Francis Primary School B19 1PHSchool/college/university210 mAwaiting inspection
Hockley Esso Service Station B19 2XYRetailers - other220 m4 Good26 Jun 2009
M A L Revolutions Ltd B19 1TLImporters/Exporters230 mExempt
SLR Convenience B19 1TLRetailers - other230 m4 Good8 Jul 2026
Adam's Fast Food Supplies B19 2XLDistributors/Transporters240 m4 Good9 Aug 2023
Q CHIDO B19 1EBMobile caterer240 mAwaiting inspection
Community Foundation B19 1QWHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises290 m5 Very good20 Dec 2024

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.

164 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences84
Vehicle crime16
Other theft12
Drugs11
Criminal damage and arson10
Public order8
Possession of weapons7
Anti-social behaviour5
Burglary5
Theft from the person2
Other crime2
Robbery2

Most of these are attached to: On or near Hunters Road (37); On or near Petrol Station (34); On or near Anglesey Street (24); On or near Overmoor Close (14); On or near Graham Street (13).

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: 557 residents in 146 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 age2840
Children under 1528%17%
Aged 65 and over10%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)44%61%
Owned outright21%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented41%17%
Private rented15%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work44%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)16%6%
Retired (of adults)12%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)20%32%
Travel to work by car or van47%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus14%8%
On foot or by bicycle12%10%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)75%65%
Work 30 km or more away13%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)27%34%
No qualifications28%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)71%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all11%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 1 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.

  • B19 1QD: 13 addresses of 14 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Pearl Place · Villa Street · Overmoor Close · Graham Street · Church Street · Brougham Street · Nursery Road · Wills Street · Villa Street · Villa Cottages · Lozells Wood Close · Wellington Terrace

All the streets in B19 and across Birmingham.

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.