Curlew Close Okehampton, West Devon

30 addresses across 2 postcodes (EX20), about 180 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 43103479.

  • Sales: 55 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £375,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 10 homes have an energy certificate (C: 7, D: 3).
  • 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 West Devon costs £2,705 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Okehampton, about 1.4 km (0.9 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Simmons Park, is about 760 m (0.5 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 3.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 4.9 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 164 to 173 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 30 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Okehampton Medical Centre, about 840 m (0.5 miles) away.
  • People: About 760 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 75% of households owned their home and 27% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 6 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
20251£375,000£375,000£375,000
20241£385,000£385,000£385,000
20221£385,000£385,000£385,000
20201£350,000£350,000£350,000
20191£245,000£245,000£245,000
20182£273,750£252,500£295,000
20171£295,000£295,000£295,000
20152£269,525£267,500£271,550
20141£215,000£215,000£215,000
20132£220,500£205,000£236,000
20121£239,000£239,000£239,000
20101£243,950£243,950£243,950
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 55)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
13 Nov 20251 EX20 1SEDetached£375,000
5 Jan 202427 EX20 1SEDetached£385,000
7 Oct 202215 EX20 1SEDetached£385,000
14 Jan 20205 EX20 1SEDetached£350,000
5 Nov 201925 EX20 1SEDetached£245,000
14 Jun 201818 EX20 1SEDetached£295,000
14 Jun 201821 EX20 1SEDetached£252,500
4 Oct 201730 EX20 1SEDetached£295,000
24 Jul 201522 EX20 1SEDetached£271,550
15 May 201518 EX20 1SEDetached£267,500
5 Dec 201411 EX20 1SEDetached£215,000
19 Dec 201321 EX20 1SEDetached£205,000
7 Jun 201320 EX20 1SEDetached£236,000
18 May 201218 EX20 1SEDetached£239,000
28 Jan 201028 EX20 1SEDetached£243,950
20 Jun 200815 EX20 1SEDetached£255,000
14 Sep 200721 EX20 1SEDetached£216,000
12 Jun 200720 EX20 1SEDetached£269,950
12 May 200618 EX20 1SEDetached£240,000
4 Aug 20049 EX20 1SEDetached£259,500
28 May 200421 EX20 1SEDetached£187,000
18 May 200426 EX20 1SEDetached£237,500
5 Feb 200429 EX20 1SEDetached£199,950
9 May 200321 EX20 1SEDetached£167,500
20 Dec 200210 EX20 1SEDetached£205,000
19 Dec 200211 EX20 1SEDetached£145,950New build.
26 Nov 200212 EX20 1SEDetached£205,950New build.
13 Dec 200114 EX20 1SEDetached£123,950New build.
2 Aug 200126 EX20 1SEDetached£122,950New build.
27 Jul 200125 EX20 1SEDetached£102,950New build.
26 Jul 20016 EX20 1SEDetached£149,500
26 Jul 200127 EX20 1SEDetached£132,950New build.
29 Jun 200130 EX20 1SEDetached£141,950New build.
29 Jun 200129 EX20 1SEDetached£97,950New build.
28 Jun 200128 EX20 1SEDetached£122,950New build.
12 Jun 200124 EX20 1SEDetached£114,950New build.
1 Jun 200122 EX20 1SEDetached£121,950New build.
23 May 200123 EX20 1SEDetached£120,950New build.
27 Apr 200119 EX20 1SEDetached£139,950New build.
27 Apr 200121 EX20 1SEDetached£96,950New build.
25 Apr 200120 EX20 1SEDetached£125,950New build.
30 Mar 200117 EX20 1SEDetached£110,950New build.
23 Mar 200118 EX20 1SEDetached£117,950New build.
15 Mar 200116 EX20 1SEDetached£92,950New build.
8 Mar 200115 EX20 1SEDetached£129,050New build.
31 Mar 20002 EX20 1SEDetached£129,500
30 Mar 20007 EX20 1SEDetached£129,000
17 Feb 20009 EX20 1SEDetached£129,500
14 Dec 199910 EX20 1SEDetached£129,500
10 Dec 19994 EX20 1SEDetached£124,000

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 October 2010 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

10 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 123 m². Most common: House, detached (9); Bungalow, detached (1). Built: 1996-2002 (10). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (9).

Each home's certificates and sales (4 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in West Devon in 2026-27: Band D £2,705 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,804£2,104£2,405£2,705£3,307£3,908£4,509£5,411

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band A (38% of about 1,840 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 2 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) 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 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: of the 9 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 0 medium, 0 low and 3 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.

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 30 addresses are between 164 m and 173 m above sea level (169 m on average); the ground rises about 9 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
EX20 1SE100%100%100%0%
EX20 1UU100%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 stationOkehampton 348,000 journeys in 2024–251.4 km (0.9 miles)
Bus stops4 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 13 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Glendale Road Okehampton210 m
Car parks2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Co-op Okehampton Car Park370 m
Airport with scheduled flightsExeter International Airport EXT41.9 km (26 miles)
Nearest large airportCardiff International Airport CWL86.3 km (54 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 Okehampton Medical Centre840 m (0.5 miles)
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Pharmaderma Limited Okehampton560 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Okehampton Dental Care760 m (0.5 miles)
HospitalOkehampton Hospital750 m (0.5 miles)
Police stationOkehampton Police560 m (0.3 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Cooperative Food Okehampton Cashzone430 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 Simmons Park 2.9 ha760 m (0.5 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 560 m²450 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 9,410 m²110 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest North Street Allotments 4,040 m²370 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 2.9 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Oaklands, a listed building (Grade II*), 460 m (0.3 miles) north-east. 25 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 4 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
OaklandsListed building, Grade II*460 m (0.3 miles) north-east
Town HallListed building, Grade II*510 m (0.3 miles) south-east
Chapel of St JamesListed building, Grade II*570 m (0.4 miles) south-east
Church of All SaintsListed building, Grade II*580 m (0.4 miles) south-west
Simmons ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II1 km (0.6 miles) south-east
Okehampton Roman fort, fortlet and associated enclosuresScheduled monument1.3 km (0.8 miles) east
Okehampton Castle: a motte and bailey castle with associated earthworks north of the West Okement River.Scheduled monument1.4 km (0.9 miles) south
Stone cross adjoining Fitz or Fice's WellScheduled monument2 km (1.2 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Beggars Hill PlantationWood630 m (0.4 miles) west
Sterrage WoodWood840 m (0.5 miles) north-east
Hook WoodWood1.2 km (0.7 miles) north-east
Ball HillHill1.7 km (1 mile) south-east
Smerdon MarshWetland3.4 km (2.1 miles) north-west
Cors CombeValley3.5 km (2.1 miles) 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)3.34010
Fine particles (PM2.5)4.9205
Particles (PM10)8.64015

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
55 to 5910
Under 552930

1 of the street's 30 addresses is 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 West Devon: see them on the West Devon 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
Okehampton Primary School and Foundation UnitPrimary2–11150 m No published inspection
Okehampton CollegeSecondary11–18890 m (0.6 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Needs attention; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Post-16 provision: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
St James Church of England Primary and Nursery SchoolPrimary2–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (Jan 2023, 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
Okehampton Primary School EX20 1JBSchool/college/university120 m5 Very good19 Jun 2026
New Carlton Cinema EX20 1HNRetailers - other350 m5 Very good26 Nov 2024
Lidl Uk GmbH EX20 1EURetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets370 m5 Very good5 Feb 2025
Waitrose Ltd EX20 1WLRetailers - other370 m5 Very good30 Jul 2024
Co operative EX20 1HNRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets370 m5 Very good22 Apr 2026
Graylings Fish & chips, Okehampton EX20 1AWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good29 May 2024
Stepping Stones Day Nursery EX20 1BDSchool/college/university460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good16 Apr 2025
Okehampton Town Council-Charter Hall EX20 1HNOther catering premises490 m (0.3 miles)Exempt
Harvest Farm Shop EX20 1AWRetailers - other490 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good6 Dec 2023
Red Lion Cafe EX20 1AWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen500 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good14 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.

6 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences3
Criminal damage and arson2
Vehicle crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Curlew Close (4); On or near Glendale Road (1); On or near Upcott Valley (1).

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: 756 residents in 387 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 age6140
Children under 1512%17%
Aged 65 and over44%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)75%61%
Owned outright58%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented11%17%
Private rented13%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work40%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)47%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)5%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)22%32%
Travel to work by car or van54%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle21%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)62%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away25%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)27%34%
No qualifications22%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 4 to 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 Red Lion Cafe (restaurant/cafe/canteen, EX20 1AW) re-inspected, still 5 Very good (rated 14 October 2026) found 3 November 2026
  • Energy certificates New energy certificate: band C, house, detached (lodged 21 October 2026) found 2 November 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.

  • EX20 1SE: 29 addresses of 31 in the postcode
  • EX20 1UU: 1 address of 10 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Upcott Valley · Kestrel Close · Kingfisher Drive · Foxes Lair · Herons Brook · Glendale Road · Oaklands Park · Oaklands Park · Lodge Hill · Beans Meadow · Astley Corte · Vicarage Road

All the streets in EX20 and across West 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.