Cornelia Terrace Seaham, County Durham

21 addresses across 3 postcodes (SR7), about 260 m long, classed as a local access road. USRN 11908556.

  • Sales: 13 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £222,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 12 homes have an energy certificate (C: 1, D: 10, E: 1).
  • 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 County Durham costs £2,622 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Seaham, about 430 m (0.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 30 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 28 to 38 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 11 of its 21 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Marlborough Surgery, about 380 m away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 510 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 33% of households owned their home and 17% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 73 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
20241£222,000£222,000£222,000
20231£257,500£257,500£257,500
20221£195,000£195,000£195,000
20181£167,500£167,500£167,500
20161£134,000£134,000£134,000
20141£168,015£168,015£168,015
20121£150,000£150,000£150,000
20111£143,000£143,000£143,000
20031£110,000£110,000£110,000
20001£64,000£64,000£64,000
19991£46,100£46,100£46,100
19971£45,000£45,000£45,000
Most recent sales (13)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
11 Oct 202426 SR7 7RZTerraced£222,000
19 Oct 202325 SR7 7RZTerraced£257,500
12 Sep 202221 SR7 7RZTerraced£195,000
20 Dec 201822 SR7 7RZTerraced£167,500
28 Nov 201622 SR7 7RZTerraced£134,000
28 Mar 201420 SR7 7RZTerraced£168,015
29 Nov 201220 SR7 7RZTerraced£150,000
18 Nov 201116 SR7 7RZTerraced£143,000
15 Aug 200325 SR7 7RZTerraced£110,000
30 Jun 200025 SR7 7RZTerraced£64,000
28 May 199915 SR7 7RZTerraced£46,100
25 Apr 199726 SR7 7RZTerraced£45,000
5 May 199525 SR7 7RZTerraced£47,500

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 November 2011 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 140 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (11); House, end-terrace (1). Built: 1900-1929 (6); before 1900 (5); 2007-2011 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (6); rented (private) (5).

Each home's certificates and sales (7 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in County Durham in 2026-27: Band D £2,622 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,748£2,039£2,331£2,622£3,205£3,788£4,370£5,244

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (83% of about 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 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, Seaham. 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.

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 31 October 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 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 on this street 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.

© 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 21 addresses are between 28 m and 38 m above sea level (35 m on average); the ground rises about 10 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
SR7 7RY100%100%100%0%
SR7 7RZ100%100%100%0%
SR7 7SB100%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 stationsSeaham 165,000 journeys in 2024–25430 m (0.3 miles)
Sunderland 709,000 journeys in 2024–258 km (4.9 miles)
Horden 165,000 journeys in 2024–258.5 km (5.3 miles)
Bus stops20 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 47 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest New Tempest Road - York House Seaham150 m
Bus or coach stationInterchange Seaham540 m (0.3 miles)
Car parksSeaham Hall Beach Car Park1.3 km (0.8 miles)
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Be.EV Charging Station390 m
Airport with scheduled flightsNewcastle International Airport NCL31.6 km (20 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 Marlborough Surgery380 m
Pharmacies6 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Kaila Pharmacy380 m
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Practice310 m
HospitalCherry Knowle Hospital3.4 km (2.1 miles)
Police stationDurham Police - Seaham Police Office580 m (0.4 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest ATM290 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 garden6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 5,610 m²30 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 7.3 ha390 m
Play area5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 6,260 m²330 m
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.8 ha570 m (0.4 miles)
Allotments4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 390 m²330 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 6 parks and gardens, 15 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is The Londonderry Institute and Forecourt Wall, a listed building (Grade II*), 370 m north-east. 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
The Londonderry Institute and Forecourt WallListed building, Grade II*370 m north-east
Dalden TowerListed building, Grade II*850 m (0.5 miles) south-west
Dalden Tower: a medieval fortified manor house and related earthworksScheduled monument870 m (0.5 miles) south-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
South DockLake or reservoir850 m (0.5 miles) east
Seaham BeachBeach1.3 km (0.8 miles) north
Lodge Field PlantationWood1.4 km (0.9 miles) north-west
Ewe HillHill1.4 km (0.9 miles) south-west
Hough Foot PlantationWood1.6 km (1 mile) north
Dawdon DeneValley1.6 km (1 mile) 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)6.74010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.5205
Particles (PM10)9.94015

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
60 to 6480
55 to 5930
Under 551021

11 of the street's 21 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 County Durham: see them on the County Durham page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 3 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 Mary Magdalen's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–11280 m No published inspection
Seaham Trinity Primary SchoolPrimary3–11290 m No published inspection
Ropery Walk Primary SchoolPrimary4–11780 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Seaham Harbour Nursery SchoolNursery2–51 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Seaview Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Seaham High SchoolSecondary11–161.6 km (1 mile) Good (Jul 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Cuthbert's Catholic Primary School, Seaham Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.9 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection
New Seaham AcademyPrimary4–111.9 km (1.2 miles) Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Westlea Primary SchoolPrimary3–112 km (1.2 miles) Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 3 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
Little Waves Day Nursery SR7 7SHHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises180 m5 Very good12 Dec 2025
Harbour Tandoori SR7 7ELTakeaway/sandwich shop250 m3 Generally satisfactory22 Apr 2026
Bruce's Gym SR7 7AURetailers - other250 m5 Very good29 Jan 2026
Seaham Chippy SR7 7ENTakeaway/sandwich shop250 m5 Very good6 Jul 2026
Angus Butchers SR7 7ELManufacturers/packers260 m5 Very good14 Oct 2025
Cipolla Pizza SR7 7ELTakeaway/sandwich shop260 m5 Very good7 Jul 2025
Seaham Kindergarten SR7 7BNHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises270 m5 Very good6 May 2026
Premier - Niru Convenience Store SR7 7SPRetailers - other270 m3 Generally satisfactory9 Feb 2023
Free The Way SR7 7EJOther catering premises280 m4 Good26 Mar 2025
Cliff House Service Station SR7 7AXRetailers - other280 m5 Very good12 Nov 2025
Swanton Care and Community Limited SR7 7BQHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises280 m5 Very good11 Jun 2024
Seaham Post Office SR7 7EJRetailers - other280 m5 Very good26 Jan 2026
Suzie's SR7 7EFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen290 m5 Very good6 Nov 2024
The Coalhouse SR7 7EJPub/bar/nightclub290 m4 Good22 Aug 2018
Happy Eating Chinese Takeaway SR7 7EFTakeaway/sandwich shop290 m3 Generally satisfactory4 Nov 2025

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.

73 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences28
Anti-social behaviour17
Criminal damage and arson15
Burglary3
Public order2
Other crime2
Drugs2
Other theft1
Robbery1
Vehicle crime1
Bicycle theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Vane Terrace (21); On or near George Street (14); On or near Emily Street East (13); On or near Cornelia Terrace (8); On or near Castlereagh Road (6).

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: 506 residents in 289 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 age4840
Children under 1513%17%
Aged 65 and over25%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)33%61%
Owned outright19%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented45%17%
Private rented21%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work44%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)7%6%
Retired (of adults)25%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)15%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)21%32%
Travel to work by car or van50%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus7%8%
On foot or by bicycle19%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)60%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away4%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)17%34%
No qualifications34%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)95%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all2%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.

  • SR7 7RZ: 18 addresses of 19 in the postcode
  • SR7 7RY: 2 addresses
  • SR7 7SB: 1 address of 30 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Dene House Road · Castlereagh Road · Emily Street East · Charles Street · Hardy Street · Tempest Road · Marlborough · George Street · Magdalene Court · Clarence Street · Blandford Place · Vane Terrace

All the streets in SR7 and across County Durham.

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.