Castlegate Thirsk, North Yorkshire

45 addresses across 4 postcodes (YO7), about 70 m long, classed as a a road. USRN 16200412.

  • Sales: 15 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £139,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 16 homes have an energy certificate (C: 8, D: 8).
  • 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 A; Band D in North Yorkshire costs £2,544 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 76% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Thirsk, about 1.9 km away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Castle Garth, is about 50 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 5.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 36 to 37 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 33 of its 45 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Thirsk Doctors Surgery, about 100 m away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km.
  • People: About 530 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 23% of households owned their home and 35% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 224 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.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20241£139,000£139,000£139,000
20221£140,000£140,000£140,000
20171£135,000£135,000£135,000
20161£154,595£154,595£154,595
20091£315,000£315,000£315,000
20081£80,000£80,000£80,000
20065£145,000£84,582£334,000
20051£144,500£144,500£144,500
19991£60,000£60,000£60,000
19951£32,500£32,500£32,500
Most recent sales (15)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
14 Jun 202423 YO7 1HLFlat or maisonette£139,000Leasehold.
7 Jul 202221 YO7 1HLFlat or maisonette£140,000Leasehold.
21 Sep 202023 YO7 1HLFlat or maisonette£140,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
31 Jan 201723 YO7 1HLFlat or maisonette£135,000Leasehold.
29 Apr 201629 YO7 1HLFlat or maisonette£154,595Leasehold.
29 Jun 20092 YO7 1HLTerraced£315,000
4 Apr 20089 YO7 1HLFlat or maisonette£80,000Leasehold.
6 Oct 20062 YO7 1HLTerraced£334,000
21 Jul 200623 YO7 1HLFlat or maisonette£84,582Leasehold.
7 Apr 200621 YO7 1HLFlat or maisonette£139,000New build. Leasehold.
3 Apr 200629 YO7 1HLFlat or maisonette£150,000Leasehold.
7 Mar 200617 YO7 1HLFlat or maisonette£145,000New build. Leasehold.
31 Oct 200523 YO7 1HLFlat or maisonette£144,500New build. Leasehold.
19 Mar 19998 YO7 1HLTerraced£60,000
31 May 19958 YO7 1HLTerraced£32,500

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 December 2015 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

16 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 66 m². Most common: Flat (10); House, enclosed end-terrace (2); House, mid-terrace (2). Built: before 1900 (10); 2003-2006 (3); 1900-1929 (3). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (10); rented (private) (6).

Council tax

What each band costs in North Yorkshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,544 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,696£1,979£2,262£2,544£3,110£3,675£4,241£5,089

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (30% of about 1,040 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, Thirsk and Sowerby (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 4.
  • 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.

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

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 13 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
YO7 1HLnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 2 unlikely
YO7 1HPnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 3 unlikely
YO7 1LBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 6 unlikely
YO7 1LUnot in 2 or 3 1 / 0 / 2 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.

Height above sea level

The street's 45 addresses are between 36 m and 37 m above sea level (37 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
YO7 1HL100%100%100%0%
YO7 1HP100%100%100%0%
YO7 1LB100%76%76%0%
YO7 1LU100%94%94%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 stationsThirsk 288,000 journeys in 2024–251.9 km
Northallerton 798,000 journeys in 2024–2513.0 km
Bus stops4 stops within 400 m, 21 within 800 m; nearest Tesco Store Thirsk150 m
Car parks1 within 800 m; nearest Marage Car Park300 m
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km; nearest bp pulse Charging Station320 m
Airport with scheduled flightsTeesside International Airport MME31.4 km
Nearest large airportLeeds Bradford Airport LBA45.7 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 surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Thirsk Doctors Surgery100 m
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km; nearest Boots90 m
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Dental Surgery270 m
HospitalLambert Memorial Community Hospital110 m
Police stationNorth Yorkshire Police13.1 km
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m; nearest The Cooperative Food Thirsk Cashzone230 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 garden8 within 800 m; nearest Castle Garth 7,930 m²50 m
Largest park within 800 mUnnamed 1.4 ha410 m
Play area5 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 7,070 m²200 m
Playing field2 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 7,990 m²430 m
Allotments2 within 800 m; nearest Stammergate Allotments 1,520 m²510 m

Within 800 m: 8 parks and gardens, 3.1 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Thirsk Castle: a motte and bailey castle, a scheduled monument, 130 m north-west. 77 listed buildings are within 1.0 km, 1 of them Grade I and 2 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Thirsk Castle: a motte and bailey castleScheduled monument130 m north-west
Thirsk HallListed building, Grade II*340 m north-west
A moated site 100m east of St Mary Magdalene's ChurchScheduled monument370 m north
Church of St MaryListed building, Grade I400 m north
Church of St OswaldListed building, Grade II*620 m south-east
Pudding Pie Hill: a bowl barrow 650m south-east of St Oswald's ChurchScheduled monument1.2 km south-east
Natural landmarks within 5.0 km
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Pudding Pie HillHill1.3 km south-east
Bown Crofts PlantationWood1.9 km north-west
Pickering WoodWood2.1 km north-west
Underwood PlantationWood2.3 km north-west
Ox Moor PlantationWood2.3 km south
Long PondLake or reservoir4.8 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)5.74010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.5205
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
70 to 7410
65 to 69150
60 to 64150
55 to 5920
Under 551245

33 of the street's 45 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
All Saints Catholic Primary School, a Catholic Voluntary Academy Roman CatholicPrimary3–11470 m Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Sowerby Primary AcademyPrimary2–11580 m No published inspection
Thirsk Community Primary SchoolPrimary2–11770 m Report card (Feb 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Thirsk School & Sixth Form CollegeSecondary11–18860 m Report card (Mar 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
Keeble Gateway AcademyPrimary3–111.4 km Good (Jan 2024, 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
The Ritz Cinema YO7 1QSRetailers - other30 m5 Very good6 Oct 2023
Franks Family Butcher YO7 1HLRetailers - other40 m5 Very good21 Jan 2026
The Pamper Lounge YO7 1HLRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen40 m5 Very good8 Aug 2023
North Yorkshire Hospice Care YO7 1LURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen50 m5 Very good11 Aug 2026
Thirsk Fish And Chips YO7 1QRTakeaway/sandwich shop60 m5 Very good27 Jan 2026
Istanbul restaurant bar & grill YO7 1LBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen60 m4 Good14 May 2026
Brew & Bite Cafe YO7 1HQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen70 m4 Good1 Jul 2026
Court House Cafe YO7 1QSRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen90 m5 Very good21 Jan 2025
TG Jones YO7 1LBRetailers - other110 mExempt
Thirsk And Sowerby Institute YO7 1LYPub/bar/nightclub110 m5 Very good5 Jul 2023
Boots UK Ltd YO7 1LBRetailers - other110 mExempt
Thomas The Baker YO7 1LBRetailers - other120 m5 Very good23 Jul 2025
Holland & Barrett Ltd. YO7 1LBRetailers - other120 mExempt
Bianco Ristorante Ltd YO7 1HDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen120 m4 Good8 Jul 2025
Racha Thai Bistro YO7 1HDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen120 m5 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.

224 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Anti-social behaviour73
Violence and sexual offences53
Criminal damage and arson32
Shoplifting28
Public order13
Other theft10
Drugs4
Burglary3
Other crime3
Vehicle crime2
Possession of weapons2
Bicycle theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Parking Area (76); On or near Supermarket (49); On or near Millgate (29); On or near Chapel Street (16); On or near Westgate (13).

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: 530 residents in 326 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 age4240
Children under 159%17%
Aged 65 and over19%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)23%61%
Owned outright14%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented13%17%
Private rented64%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work65%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)19%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)21%32%
Travel to work by car or van45%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including busunder 1%8%
On foot or by bicycle31%10%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)58%65%
Work 30 km or more away15%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)35%34%
No qualifications20%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification8%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)90%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all3%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

Chapel Street · Steads Yard · Castle Terrace · Market Place · Westgate · Sowerby Terrace · Picks Court · Wesley Villas · Castle Yard Stables · Mowbray Place · Belgrave Terrace · Kemps Yard

All the streets in YO7 and across North Yorkshire.

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.