Cottage Road Wooler, Northumberland

35 addresses across 4 postcodes (NE71), about 350 m long, classed as a a road. USRN 2501515.

  • Sales: 24 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £243,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 12 homes have an energy certificate (C: 5, D: 4, E: 3).
  • Flood: 2 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band A; Band D in Northumberland costs £2,597 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 67% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Chathill, about 19.5 km (12 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 640 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 1.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 4.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 49 to 61 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 25 of its 35 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Wooler Health, about 510 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • People: About 380 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 85% of households owned their home and 31% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 7 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£243,000£243,000£243,000
20231£224,000£224,000£224,000
20211£226,500£226,500£226,500
20201£127,000£127,000£127,000
20191£198,000£198,000£198,000
20171£129,000£129,000£129,000
20161£235,000£235,000£235,000
20081£250,000£250,000£250,000
20062£207,500£175,000£240,000
20041£139,000£139,000£139,000
20022£90,250£90,000£90,500
20001£75,000£75,000£75,000
Most recent sales (24)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
5 Jan 20247 NE71 6ADSemi-detached£243,000
7 Feb 20237 NE71 6ADSemi-detached£224,000
29 Jan 2021THE OLD VICARAGE, 26 NE71 6ADOther£325,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
5 Jan 202125 NE71 6ADSemi-detached£226,500
31 Jul 202014 NE71 6ADSemi-detached£127,000
18 Oct 201924 NE71 6ADDetached£198,000
27 Feb 2018COTTAGE FARM HOUSE NE71 6ADOther£380,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
3 Oct 2017THE OLD VICARAGE, 26 NE71 6ADOther£350,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
16 Jan 20177 NE71 6ADSemi-detached£129,000
22 Jan 2016THORNEYDYKE, 1 NE71 6ADSemi-detached£235,000
18 Apr 2008OLD DAIRY HOUSE NE71 6ADDetached£250,000
22 Aug 2006THORNEYDYKE, 1 NE71 6ADSemi-detached£240,000
22 Feb 20064 NE71 6AASemi-detached£175,000
4 Aug 200423 NE71 6ADSemi-detached£139,000
27 Nov 2002THORNEYDYKE, 1 NE71 6ADSemi-detached£90,000
1 Nov 200223 NE71 6ADSemi-detached£90,500
27 Sep 20004 NE71 6AASemi-detached£75,000
21 May 19994 NE71 6AASemi-detached£58,000
29 Jan 19992 NE71 6AASemi-detached£43,750
4 Aug 199816 NE71 6ADSemi-detached£80,000
13 Mar 1997THE OLD VICARAGE, 26 NE71 6ADDetached£220,000
19 Dec 199616 NE71 6ADSemi-detached£83,000
25 Nov 19967 NE71 6ADSemi-detached£65,000
29 Mar 19966 NE71 6AADetached£70,000

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 July 2010 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 97 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (6); Bungalow, semi-detached (1); House, mid-terrace (1). Built: 2012-2021 (4); before 1900 (3); 1930-1949 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (10).

Each home's certificates and sales (6 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Northumberland in 2026-27: Band D £2,597 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,731£2,020£2,308£2,597£3,174£3,751£4,328£5,194

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (52% of about 1,170 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), 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: 2.
  • 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

Planned, as of 30 September 2026

  • 12 October 2026 to 16 October 2026: NORTHUMBRIAN WATER, New service connection, two-way signals, on the footway, carriageway, verge (standard works)

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, 2 at medium risk and 6 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 53 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 3 medium, 0 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: no postcode centre on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
NE71 6ADnot in 2 or 3 0 / 2 / 2 unlikely
NE71 6AAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
NE71 6AWnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 4 unlikely
NE71 6DYnot in 2 or 3 0 / 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 35 addresses are between 49 m and 61 m above sea level (56 m on average); the ground rises about 12 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
NE71 6AA100%67%67%0%
NE71 6AD100%83%83%0%
NE71 6AW100%90%90%0%
NE71 6DY100%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 stationChathill 1,580 journeys in 2024–2519.5 km (12 miles)
Bus stops2 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 12 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Ryecroft Way Wooler90 m
Airport with scheduled flightsNewcastle International Airport NCL60.6 km (38 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Wooler Health510 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Glendale Pharmacy460 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalBerwick Infirmary24.8 km (15 miles)
Police stationNorthumbria Police520 m (0.3 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest ATM430 m (0.3 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 garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 730 m²640 m (0.4 miles)
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,520 m²490 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Scott Park 2.4 ha390 m
Allotments3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 940 m²290 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 0.1 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Wooler Tower on east side of Church Street, a scheduled monument, 440 m (0.3 miles) south. 29 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Wooler Tower on east side of Church StreetScheduled monument440 m (0.3 miles) south
Two pillboxes near Green CastleScheduled monument1.1 km (0.7 miles) south-west
Green Castle ringwork 320m south west of Humbleton MillScheduled monument1.2 km (0.8 miles) south-west
Battle of Homildon Hill 1402Registered battlefield2.6 km (1.6 miles) west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Cardingmill PlantationWood860 m (0.5 miles) south
Gallowlaw HillHill1 km (0.6 miles) west
Kenterdale HillHill2 km (1.2 miles) south-west
Earle WhinHill2.2 km (1.4 miles) south-west
Cresswell BogLake or reservoir2.9 km (1.8 miles) south
Monday CleughValley3.3 km (2 miles) 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)1.84010
Fine particles (PM2.5)4.3205
Particles (PM10)7.54015

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
65 to 6930
60 to 64130
55 to 5990
Under 551035

25 of the street's 35 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 Northumberland: see them on the Northumberland 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
Glendale Primary School (Prev. Wooler First School)Primary2–11850 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection

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
Wooler Mart Canteen NE71 6SLRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen150 m3 Generally satisfactory25 Sep 2026
Tankerville Arms Hotel NE71 6ADHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house210 m5 Very good6 Feb 2025
Old Vicarage Care Home NE71 6ADHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises210 m5 Very good8 Dec 2025
Mike Hope of Wooler NE71 6SNRetailers - other320 m5 Very good19 Feb 2026
Old Mill Bed & Breakfast NE71 6NLHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house350 m5 Very good6 Mar 2026
The Good Life Shop Ltd NE71 6BGRetailers - other420 m (0.3 miles)4 Good11 Feb 2026
The Cherrytree Cafe NE71 6BGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good6 Oct 2025
T R Johnson NE71 6BDManufacturers/packers430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good24 Jun 2025
Bibi Bakers NE71 6BDManufacturers/packers440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good3 Feb 2026
Black Bull Inn NE71 6BYPub/bar/nightclub460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good3 Feb 2026
Angel Inn NE71 6BYPub/bar/nightclub460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good15 May 2023
Milan Restaurant NE71 6BYRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good26 Mar 2026
Glendale Pharmacy NE71 6BYRetailers - other460 m (0.3 miles)Exempt
T W Brand of Wooler Ltd NE71 6BHRetailers - other470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good16 Mar 2026
Grinders Cafe NE71 6BURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good15 Apr 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.

7 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences4
Burglary1
Other theft1
Vehicle crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Victoria Road (3); On or near B6525 (2); On or near Fenton Grange (1); On or near Shopping Area (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: 377 residents in 181 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 age6240
Children under 159%17%
Aged 65 and over42%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)85%61%
Owned outright62%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented4%17%
Private rented10%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work43%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)47%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)30%32%
Travel to work by car or van54%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus0%8%
On foot or by bicycle16%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)37%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away24%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)31%34%
No qualifications18%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 5 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

  • Food hygiene ratings Wooler Mart Canteen (restaurant/cafe/canteen, NE71 6SL) now 3 Generally satisfactory, was 4 Good (rated 25 September 2026) found 31 October 2026

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.

  • NE71 6AD: 28 addresses of 32 in the postcode
  • NE71 6AA: 5 addresses of 6 in the postcode
  • NE71 6AW: 1 address of 41 in the postcode
  • NE71 6DY: 1 address of 17 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Station Road · Berwick Road · Victoria Road · Ryecroft Park · Fenton Grange · Fenton Drive · South Road · Ryecroft View · Queen's Road · Magdalene Court · Glendale Road · Tankerville Terrace

All the streets in NE71 and across Northumberland.

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.