Castle Road Alcester, Stratford-on-Avon

50 addresses across 6 postcodes (B49), about 280 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 38300387.

  • Sales: 27 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £245,000 across 3 sales.
  • Energy: 45 homes have an energy certificate (C: 32, D: 10, E: 3).
  • Flood: 3 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 B; Band D in Stratford-on-Avon costs £2,484 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Wootton Wawen, about 7.5 km (4.7 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 350 m away, and River Arrow Local Nature Reserve (8.9 hectares) is about 530 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 5.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.4 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 44 to 46 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 5 of its 50 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Alcester Health Centre, about 640 m (0.4 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 820 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 52% of households owned their home and 21% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 145 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
20253£245,000£140,000£289,000
20241£225,000£225,000£225,000
20222£283,500£275,000£292,000
20212£233,750£215,000£252,500
20182£232,500£215,000£250,000
20161£187,000£187,000£187,000
20152£157,250£152,000£162,500
20141£180,000£180,000£180,000
20102£140,000£125,000£155,000
20071£132,960£132,960£132,960
20061£142,000£142,000£142,000
20031£106,000£106,000£106,000
Most recent sales (27)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
26 Sep 20256 B49 6BGTerraced£289,000
27 Mar 202540 B49 6BQTerraced£245,000
31 Jan 202523 B49 6BQFlat or maisonette£140,000Leasehold.
26 Jan 202449 B49 6BQSemi-detached£225,000
30 Sep 20227 B49 6BGSemi-detached£292,000
29 Sep 20226 B49 6BGTerraced£275,000
5 May 20217 B49 6BGSemi-detached£215,000
16 Mar 20211 B49 6BGTerraced£252,500
28 Sep 20185 B49 6BGTerraced£215,000
22 Aug 20182 B49 6BGTerraced£250,000
10 Feb 20165 B49 6BGTerraced£187,000
6 Oct 201540 B49 6BQTerraced£162,500
20 Mar 20152 B49 6BGTerraced£152,000
7 Aug 201432 B49 6BQSemi-detached£180,000
29 Jan 201033 B49 6BQSemi-detached£125,000
22 Jan 20106 B49 6BGTerraced£155,000
22 Jun 200736 B49 6BQTerraced£132,960
27 Sep 200640 B49 6BQTerraced£142,000
5 Dec 200349 B49 6BQSemi-detached£106,000
28 Sep 200126 B49 6BQFlat or maisonette£61,000Leasehold.
27 Apr 200149 B49 6BQSemi-detached£74,000
4 Sep 200040 B49 6BQTerraced£75,000
21 Jul 20006 B49 6BGTerraced£78,950
2 Nov 199941 B49 6BQSemi-detached£79,500
6 Feb 199845 B49 6BQTerraced£57,000
3 Oct 199743 B49 6BQTerraced£54,500
19 Apr 199540 B49 6BQTerraced£49,995

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 June 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

45 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 82 m². Most common: Flat (16); House, semi-detached (12); House, end-terrace (9). Built: 1950-1966 (36); 1967-1975 (9). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (27); owner-occupied (12); rented (private) (2).

Council tax

What each band costs in Stratford-on-Avon in 2026-27: Band D £2,484 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,656£1,932£2,208£2,484£3,036£3,588£4,140£4,968

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (62% of about 650 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.

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, 3 at medium risk and 51 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 156 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 3 medium, 51 low and 0 very low.

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: at least one 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.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
B49 6BQnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 9 unlikely
B49 6BGnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
B49 6BDzone 2 0 / 2 / 8 unlikely
B49 6BEnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 10 unlikely
B49 6BHnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 23 unlikely
B49 6GFnot in 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 50 addresses are between 44 m and 46 m above sea level (45 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
B49 6BD100%100%100%0%
B49 6BE100%100%100%0%
B49 6BG100%100%100%0%
B49 6BH100%100%100%0%
B49 6BQ100%100%100%0%
B49 6GF100%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 stationsWootton Wawen 19,000 journeys in 2024–257.5 km (4.7 miles)
Wilmcote 20,000 journeys in 2024–257.7 km (4.8 miles)
Bearley 2,550 journeys in 2024–258.4 km (5.2 miles)
Bus stops10 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 20 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Beauchamp Road Alcester140 m
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest bp pulse Charging Station750 m (0.5 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX27 km (17 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 surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Alcester Health Centre640 m (0.4 miles)
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Hopkins Pharmacy640 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Practice850 m (0.5 miles)
HospitalAlexandra Hospital7 km (4.4 miles)
Police stationAlcester Police Station1 km (0.6 miles)
Cash machinesOversley Mill Service Station, Oversley Green, Alcester Bypass Cashzone2.1 km (1.3 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 garden5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 9,670 m²350 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)River Arrow Local Nature Reserve 8.9 ha530 m (0.3 miles)
Play area5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,520 m²340 m
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3.7 ha300 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest School Road Allotments 3,510 m²570 m (0.4 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 5 parks and gardens, 13 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Alcester Abbey, a scheduled monument, 500 m (0.3 miles) south-west. 107 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade I and 5 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Alcester AbbeyScheduled monument500 m (0.3 miles) south-west
Town HallListed building, Grade I740 m (0.5 miles) south
Churchill HouseListed building, Grade II*740 m (0.5 miles) south
Beauchamp Court moated siteScheduled monument770 m (0.5 miles) north-west
Church of St NicholasListed building, Grade II*790 m (0.5 miles) south
9 and 9A, High StreetListed building, Grade II*820 m (0.5 miles) south
Roman townScheduled monument1.1 km (0.7 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Durlop HillHill1.8 km (1.1 miles) south-east
Arrow Lane PlantationWood2.2 km (1.3 miles) south-west
Primrose HillHill2.2 km (1.4 miles) south
Coldcomfort WoodWood2.2 km (1.4 miles) west
Lord Henry's ClumpWood2.2 km (1.4 miles) south-west
Westminster PoolLake or reservoir2.4 km (1.5 miles) north

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)5.54010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.4205
Particles (PM10)10.54015

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 5950
Under 554550

5 of the street's 50 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 Stratford-on-Avon: see them on the Stratford-on-Avon 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
St Nicholas CofE Primary Church of EnglandPrimary4–11200 m Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Our Lady's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–11270 m No overall grade (Jun 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
St Benedict's Catholic High School Roman CatholicSecondary11–18560 m (0.3 miles) Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Alcester Grammar SchoolSecondary11–18650 m (0.4 miles) Outstanding (Dec 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Alcester AcademySecondary11–16780 m (0.5 miles) Report card (Jul 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Exceptional; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong 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
Eric Payne Community Centre Pub/bar/nightclub170 mAwaiting inspection
Wraparound Care Club B49 6AGSchool/college/university200 m4 Good17 Nov 2025
Alcester Children And Family Centre B49 6AGSchool/college/university200 m5 Very good27 Feb 2024
AIP C/O Our Lady's Catholic Primary School B49 6AGSchool/college/university200 m5 Very good2 Oct 2024
Caterlink @ St Nicholas CofE Primary Alcester B49 6AGSchool/college/university200 m4 Good10 Sep 2025
The Alcester Inn B49 6AQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen260 m5 Very good2 Feb 2026
PWRHOUSE Lifting Club B49 6EPRetailers - other340 m5 Very good14 Apr 2026
Hamiltons Chocolates Ltd B49 6HWRetailers - other370 m3 Generally satisfactory8 Jan 2026
Teddy Bear Corner Ltd B49 6HWOther catering premises370 m5 Very good16 Oct 2026
Tesco B49 6AARetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good8 Oct 2024
Alcester Butchers B49 6AARetailers - other470 m (0.3 miles)4 Good16 Oct 2025
Alcester Fish Bar B49 6AATakeaway/sandwich shop470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good6 Oct 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.

145 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences86
Anti-social behaviour27
Criminal damage and arson10
Public order6
Other crime5
Other theft3
Possession of weapons2
Burglary2
Bicycle theft1
Vehicle crime1
Drugs1
Robbery1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Beauchamp Road (34); On or near Meadow Road (25); On or near Kingley Avenue (20); On or near Castle Road (20); On or near Hertford Road (14).

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: 822 residents in 369 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 age4440
Children under 1518%17%
Aged 65 and over24%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)52%61%
Owned outright30%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented36%17%
Private rented13%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work58%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)26%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)5%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)15%32%
Travel to work by car or van65%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle17%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)49%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away10%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)21%34%
No qualifications28%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)97%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 4 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.

  • B49 6BQ: 36 addresses of 39 in the postcode
  • B49 6BG: 10 addresses of 12 in the postcode
  • B49 6BD: 1 address of 17 in the postcode
  • B49 6BE: 1 address of 61 in the postcode
  • B49 6BH: 1 address of 39 in the postcode
  • B49 6GF: 1 address of 4 in the postcode

Nearby streets

North Court · South Court · Avon Crescent · Kingley Avenue · Beauchamp Road · Arrow Crescent · Smith's Way · Meadow Road · Thornton Court · Larch Close · Alauna Avenue · Hertford Road

All the streets in B49 and across Stratford-on-Avon.

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.