Capstone Parade North Devon

46 addresses across 3 postcodes (EX34), about 1.6 km (1 mile) long, classed as a restricted local access road. USRN 27505893.

  • Energy: 2 homes have an energy certificate (D: 1, G: 1).
  • Flood: 4 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 North Devon costs £2,642 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Barnstaple, about 15.8 km (9.8 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Jubilee Gardens, is about 140 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 3.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 4.4 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 5 to 31 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 24 of its 46 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Combe Coastal Practice, about 1 km (0.6 miles) away.
  • People: About 1,030 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 30% of households owned their home and 22% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 85 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often anti-social behaviour.

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.

No sales recorded on this street since January 1995 under this street name.

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026 (load in progress). Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from December 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

2 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 100 m². Most common: Flat (2). Built: before 1900 (2). Tenure at assessment: rented (private) (1).

Council tax

What each band costs in North Devon in 2026-27: Band D £2,642 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,761£2,055£2,349£2,642£3,229£3,817£4,404£5,284

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band A (62% of about 1,840 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 2 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) 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, Ilfracombe (council page). 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.

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, 3 addresses are in areas at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 2 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
EX34 9BDnot in 2 or 3 2 / 0 / 2 unlikely
EX34 9BZnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 0 unlikely
EX34 9BHnot in 2 or 3 1 / 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 46 addresses are between 5 m and 31 m above sea level (12 m on average); the ground rises about 26 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
EX34 9BD94%0%0%0%
EX34 9BH91%0%0%0%
EX34 9BZ100%0%0%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 stationBarnstaple 609,000 journeys in 2024–2515.8 km (9.8 miles)
Bus stops6 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 29 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest St James' Place Gardens Ilfracombe200 m
Ferry terminalIlfracombe Ferry Landing690 m (0.4 miles)
Car parks2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Oxford Grove Car Park450 m (0.3 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Osprey Charging Station1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsCardiff International Airport CWL58 km (36 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 Combe Coastal Practice1 km (0.6 miles)
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Superdrug Pharmacy400 m (0.2 miles)
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Torrs Park Dental Practice720 m (0.4 miles)
HospitalIlfracombe Hospital820 m (0.5 miles)
Police stationBraunton Police11.8 km (7.3 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Morrisons Daily - Ilfracombe360 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 garden4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Jubilee Gardens 1.1 ha140 m
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 160 m²140 m
Playing fieldBrimlands Playing Field 8.8 ha820 m (0.5 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,780 m²630 m (0.4 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 1.9 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Parish Church of Saint Philip and St James, a listed building (Grade II*), 290 m south-east. 125 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade I and 2 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Parish Church of Saint Philip and St JamesListed building, Grade II*290 m south-east
The Quay From Royal Britannia Hotel on West to Pier Hotel on East Including Old Quay HeadListed building, Grade II*500 m (0.3 miles) east
St Nicholas' Chapel and LighthouseListed building, Grade I580 m (0.4 miles) east
Parish Church of Holy TrinityListed building, Grade I840 m (0.5 miles) south-west
Hillsborough Promontory FortScheduled monument1.3 km (0.8 miles) east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Capstone HillHill50 m
Capstone PointHeadland70 m north-east
Wildersmouth BeachBeach80 m south-west
Chambercombe WoodsWood1.7 km (1.1 miles) south-east
Lower ReservoirLake or reservoir2.7 km (1.7 miles) south-west
Borough ValleyValley4.4 km (2.7 miles) south-west

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)3.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)4.4205
Particles (PM10)7.24015

All three are within both the UK limits and the WHO guidelines.

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 59240
Under 552246

24 of the street's 46 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 North Devon: see them on the North Devon 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
Ilfracombe Church of England Junior SchoolPrimary7–11600 m (0.4 miles) No overall grade (Sep 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Ilfracombe Infant and Nursery SchoolPrimary2–7810 m (0.5 miles) No overall grade (Mar 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Requires improvement; Personal development: Requires improvement; Leadership and management: Requires improvement
The Ilfracombe Church of England AcademySecondary11–18900 m (0.6 miles) Report card (Jan 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; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met

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
Dollys Cafe EX34 9BDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen160 m1 Major improvement necessary10 Sep 2026
Dolphin Gifts EX34 9BDRetailers - other170 m5 Very good20 Aug 2024
Fire & Fusion EX34 9BDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen170 mAwaiting inspection
Stacc EX34 9BDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen170 m5 Very good21 Mar 2024
The Admiral Collingwood EX34 9ARPub/bar/nightclub200 m5 Very good20 May 2024
No. 28 The Cookery Ltd EX34 9BHHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house210 m5 Very good19 Jun 2026
Imperial Hotel EX34 9ALHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house220 m5 Very good6 Mar 2026
Giovanni And Luca's Italian Restaurant EX34 9ARRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen230 m5 Very good21 Jul 2026
Curiosity Cottage EX34 9BHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen250 m5 Very good19 May 2025
Rocky Cove B&B EX34 9BHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen250 m5 Very good7 Oct 2026
Fudgies EX34 9BHRetailers - other250 m5 Very good2 Sep 2024
Santiago's EX34 9BHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen250 m4 Good3 Jun 2025
Blacksands Kitchen, Bar and Garden EX34 9BHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen250 m5 Very good20 Feb 2026
The Sweet Shop EX34 9BHRetailers - other250 m5 Very good21 Aug 2026
St James Tearoom EX34 9BHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen250 m4 Good21 Aug 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.

85 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Anti-social behaviour34
Violence and sexual offences21
Criminal damage and arson10
Public order10
Other theft7
Burglary2
Other crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Promenade (24); On or near Arcade Road (18); On or near Parking Area (17); On or near Mill Head (9); On or near Sommers' Crescent (7).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 3 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 1,034 residents in 528 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 age4640
Children under 1514%17%
Aged 65 and over24%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)30%61%
Owned outright19%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented10%17%
Private rented60%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work51%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)9%6%
Retired (of adults)26%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)8%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)19%32%
Travel to work by car or van37%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus5%8%
On foot or by bicycle35%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)63%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)22%34%
No qualifications24%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 1 to 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

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.

  • EX34 9BD: 35 addresses of 37 in the postcode
  • EX34 9BZ: 7 addresses of 8 in the postcode
  • EX34 9BH: 4 addresses of 60 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Arcade Road · Capstone Parade · Upper Torrs Park · Sommers' Crescent · Marine Place · Ropery Road · St James Place · Rear of High Street · Market Street Mews · Gilbert Grove · Parade Terrace · Fore Street

All the streets in EX34 and across North Devon.

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.