Corn Mill Close Hele, North Devon

48 addresses across 2 postcodes (EX34), about 150 m long, classed as a restricted local access road. USRN 27507274.

  • Sales: 40 recorded sales since 1995; in 2023 the median was £72,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 34 homes have an energy certificate (B: 2, C: 13, D: 7, E: 6, F: 6).
  • Flood: 11 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 C; 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 15.1 km (9.4 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 550 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 2.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 4.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 16 to 20 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 18 of its 48 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Combe Coastal Practice, about 2 km (1.2 miles) away.
  • People: About 250 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 49% of households owned their home and 24% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 8 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
20231£72,000£72,000£72,000
20211£125,000£125,000£125,000
20201£92,000£92,000£92,000
20191£99,000£99,000£99,000
20181£86,000£86,000£86,000
20171£86,000£86,000£86,000
20161£70,000£70,000£70,000
20155£71,000£50,000£85,000
20131£86,000£86,000£86,000
20112£75,500£69,000£82,000
20101£75,000£75,000£75,000
20071£80,000£80,000£80,000
Most recent sales (40)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
6 Jan 202338 EX34 9PZFlat or maisonette£72,000Leasehold.
11 Oct 20212 EX34 9PZFlat or maisonette£125,000Leasehold.
29 Jun 202024 EX34 9PZFlat or maisonette£92,000Leasehold.
27 Sep 20199 EX34 9PZFlat or maisonette£99,000
12 Jun 201820 EX34 9PZFlat or maisonette£65,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
5 Jan 201811 EX34 9PZFlat or maisonette£86,000Leasehold.
8 Dec 201714 EX34 9PZFlat or maisonette£86,000Leasehold.
9 May 201642 EX34 9PZFlat or maisonette£70,000Leasehold.
15 Dec 201535 EX34 9PZFlat or maisonette£71,000Leasehold.
13 Aug 201514 EX34 9PZFlat or maisonette£85,000Leasehold.
13 Aug 201521 EX34 9PZFlat or maisonette£67,000Leasehold.
11 Jun 20158 EX34 9PZFlat or maisonette£75,000Leasehold.
27 Feb 201514 EX34 9PZFlat or maisonette£50,000Leasehold.
4 Jul 201324 EX34 9PZFlat or maisonette£86,000Leasehold.
16 Dec 201136 EX34 9PZFlat or maisonette£69,000Leasehold.
1 Jul 201122 EX34 9PZFlat or maisonette£82,000Leasehold.
3 Sep 201015 EX34 9PZFlat or maisonette£75,000Leasehold.
23 Jun 200724 EX34 9PZFlat or maisonette£80,000Leasehold.
13 Sep 200636 EX34 9PZFlat or maisonette£80,000Leasehold.
27 Feb 200616 EX34 9PZFlat or maisonette£78,000Leasehold.
21 Feb 200614 EX34 9PZFlat or maisonette£78,000Leasehold.
13 Feb 200626 EX34 9PZFlat or maisonette£82,000Leasehold.
2 Feb 200620 EX34 9PZFlat or maisonette£87,000Leasehold.
27 Sep 200516 EX34 9PZFlat or maisonette£77,750Leasehold.
1 Feb 200511 EX34 9PZFlat or maisonette£68,000
2 Jun 200419 EX34 9PZTerraced£84,950Leasehold.
25 Feb 20039 EX34 9PZFlat or maisonette£58,000
14 Dec 200120 EX34 9PZFlat or maisonette£26,500Leasehold.
14 Sep 200112 EX34 9PZFlat or maisonette£26,000Leasehold.
17 Nov 20009 EX34 9PZFlat or maisonette£30,000
30 Aug 200037 EX34 9PZFlat or maisonette£29,950Leasehold.
24 Mar 200035 EX34 9PZFlat or maisonette£22,000New build. Leasehold.
21 Feb 200025 EX34 9PZFlat or maisonette£29,000Leasehold.
18 Aug 199922 EX34 9PZFlat or maisonette£18,000Leasehold.
29 Jun 199921 EX34 9PZFlat or maisonette£18,000Leasehold.
7 Aug 199813 EX34 9PZFlat or maisonette£14,000Leasehold.
31 Oct 199711 EX34 9PZFlat or maisonette£19,000
23 Aug 199639 EX34 9PZFlat or maisonette£13,000Leasehold.
15 Jan 199615 EX34 9PZFlat or maisonette£14,500Leasehold.
18 Apr 199512 EX34 9PZFlat or maisonette£14,000Leasehold.

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

34 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 43 m². Most common: Flat (33); Maisonette, end-terrace (1). Built: 1967-1975 (23); 1950-1966 (5); 1976-1982 (3). Tenure at assessment: rented (private) (23); owner-occupied (6); rented (social) (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 neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (36% of about 590 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): 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 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, 5 addresses are in areas at high risk, 6 at medium risk and 12 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 63 homes the Environment Agency counts, 5 are in areas at high risk, 6 medium, 12 low and 10 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 3. Zone 3 is a 1% (1 in 100) or greater annual chance of flooding from rivers, or 0.5% from the sea, ignoring defences.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
EX34 9PZnot in 2 or 3 4 / 6 / 12 unlikely
EX34 9QYzone 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 48 addresses are between 16 m and 20 m above sea level (17 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
EX34 9PZ100%0%0%0%
EX34 9QY100%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 2024–2515.1 km (9.4 miles)
Bus stops4 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 12 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Hele Bay Hotel Chambercombe140 m
Ferry terminalIlfracombe Ferry Landing890 m (0.6 miles)
Car parksOxford Grove Car Park1.5 km (0.9 miles)
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Osprey Charging Station510 m (0.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsCardiff International Airport CWL56.8 km (35 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 surgeriesCombe Coastal Practice2 km (1.2 miles)
PharmaciesSuperdrug Pharmacy1.7 km (1 mile)
NHS dentistsMarlborough Dental Centre1.8 km (1.1 miles)
HospitalIlfracombe Hospital1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Police stationBraunton Police11.9 km (7.4 miles)
Cash machinesMorrisons Daily - Ilfracombe1.6 km (1 mile)

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 garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,180 m²550 m (0.3 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 460 m²270 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Brimlands Playing Field 8.8 ha420 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Crofts Lea Allotments 1.2 ha580 m (0.4 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 0.2 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Hillsborough Promontory Fort, a scheduled monument, 320 m north-west. 9 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Hillsborough Promontory FortScheduled monument320 m north-west
Beara FarmhouseListed building, Grade II*620 m (0.4 miles) south-east
Chambercombe Manor With Attached Yard WallsListed building, Grade II*720 m (0.4 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Hele BeachBeach440 m (0.3 miles) north-east
Blythe's CoveTidal water500 m (0.3 miles) north
Chambercombe WoodsWood740 m (0.5 miles) south
Lantern HillHill1 km (0.6 miles) north-west
Lower ReservoirLake or reservoir3.4 km (2.1 miles) south-west
Sterridge ValleyValley3.7 km (2.3 miles) south-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)2.54010
Fine particles (PM2.5)4.3205
Particles (PM10)7.44015

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
60 to 6440
55 to 59140
Under 553048

18 of the street's 48 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
The Ilfracombe Church of England AcademySecondary11–181.1 km (0.7 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
Ilfracombe Church of England Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.5 km (0.9 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 SchoolPrimary2–71.6 km (1 mile) 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

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
Hele Cornmill And Tea Rooms EX34 9QYRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen50 m5 Very good24 Oct 2023
Blackingstone Ltd EX34 9RADistributors/Transporters100 m5 Very good9 Dec 2019
Cork & Vine Company EX34 9RARetailers - other100 m5 Very good26 Mar 2025
The Porthole (prep kitchen) EX34 9RAManufacturers/packers120 m5 Very good11 Apr 2025
Hele Bay Service Station EX34 9QYRetailers - other130 m5 Very good13 Jan 2026
The Bay Cafe EX34 9QZRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen220 m5 Very good24 Apr 2026
Ilfracombe Rugby Club EX34 9QQPub/bar/nightclub370 m5 Very good8 Sep 2012
Pinehurst Residential Care Home EX34 9QNHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises390 m4 Good27 Feb 2026
Varley House EX34 9QWHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good25 Oct 2011
The Towers Guesthouse EX34 9QNHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house500 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good14 Jan 2010

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.

8 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences5
Other theft2
Criminal damage and arson1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Corn Mill Close (3); On or near Hillside Road (2); On or near Witheridge Place (1); On or near Watermouth Road (1); On or near Beach Road (1).

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: 245 residents in 128 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 age5240
Children under 1510%17%
Aged 65 and over27%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)49%61%
Owned outright31%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented2%17%
Private rented48%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work57%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)28%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)5%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)20%32%
Travel to work by car or van60%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle14%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)60%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away0%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)24%34%
No qualifications20%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)100%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%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.

  • EX34 9PZ: 47 addresses of 48 in the postcode
  • EX34 9QY: 1 address of 35 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Witheridge Place · Beach Road · Dovedale Close · Hillside Road · Hillsborough Park Road · Oxenpark Lane · Foxbeare Road

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.