StreetDossier

Downside Portishead, North Somerset

32 addresses across 1 postcode (BS20), about 170 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 47806007.

  • Sales: 48 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £370,500 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 19 homes have an energy certificate (C: 5, D: 10, E: 4).
  • 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 C; Band D in North Somerset costs £2,491 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Avonmouth, about 5.4 km (3.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 120 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 20 to 28 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 32 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Portishead Medical Group, about 350 m away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 280 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 87% of households owned their home and 38% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 53 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
20262£370,500£360,000£381,000
20243£399,950£390,000£400,000
20231£400,000£400,000£400,000
20222£372,500£364,000£381,000
20212£343,000£323,000£363,000
20203£335,000£315,000£345,000
20191£282,500£282,500£282,500
20183£310,000£290,000£315,000
20171£307,000£307,000£307,000
20163£285,000£270,000£325,000
20151£283,500£283,500£283,500
20132£174,000£173,000£175,000
Most recent sales (48)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
19 Feb 20265 BS20 6JHSemi-detached£381,000
3 Feb 202631 BS20 6JHSemi-detached£360,000
31 Oct 20246 BS20 6JHSemi-detached£400,000
30 Jul 20244 BS20 6JHSemi-detached£390,000
17 Apr 202417 BS20 6JHSemi-detached£399,950
15 Dec 202310 BS20 6JHSemi-detached£400,000
29 Jul 20225 BS20 6JHSemi-detached£381,000
28 Jul 202215 BS20 6JHTerraced£364,000
12 Mar 202120 BS20 6JHSemi-detached£323,000
19 Feb 202127 BS20 6JHSemi-detached£363,000
11 Dec 202026 BS20 6JHSemi-detached£335,000
1 Sep 202023 BS20 6JHSemi-detached£315,000
27 Feb 202017 BS20 6JHSemi-detached£345,000
8 Feb 20195 BS20 6JHSemi-detached£282,500
18 May 201822 BS20 6JHSemi-detached£310,000
20 Apr 201828 BS20 6JHSemi-detached£290,000
19 Apr 201810 BS20 6JHSemi-detached£315,000
30 Mar 201713 BS20 6JHSemi-detached£307,000
24 Oct 201627 BS20 6JHSemi-detached£325,000
7 Jul 201617 BS20 6JHSemi-detached£270,000
13 May 201623 BS20 6JHSemi-detached£285,000
22 Dec 201520 BS20 6JHSemi-detached£283,500
19 Dec 201331 BS20 6JHSemi-detached£175,000
19 Apr 201313 BS20 6JHSemi-detached£173,000
28 May 201228 BS20 6JHSemi-detached£195,000
18 Dec 200916 BS20 6JHSemi-detached£185,000
27 Nov 200928 BS20 6JHSemi-detached£185,000
13 May 200933 BS20 6JHSemi-detached£167,000
13 Jun 20082 BS20 6JHSemi-detached£178,000
11 Dec 200714 BS20 6JHSemi-detached£239,995
16 Jul 200715 BS20 6JHTerraced£187,500
15 Nov 200627 BS20 6JHSemi-detached£169,000
11 Aug 200622 BS20 6JHSemi-detached£220,000
27 May 200433 BS20 6JHSemi-detached£167,500
26 May 200428 BS20 6JHSemi-detached£173,000
10 Oct 200226 BS20 6JHSemi-detached£145,000
12 Jul 200214 BS20 6JHSemi-detached£138,000
29 May 200210 BS20 6JHSemi-detached£124,750
1 Mar 200233 BS20 6JHSemi-detached£113,500
30 Oct 200129 BS20 6JHSemi-detached£112,500
8 Oct 199920 BS20 6JHSemi-detached£89,000
27 Aug 199929 BS20 6JHSemi-detached£82,000
2 Apr 199812 BS20 6JHSemi-detached£71,000
31 Oct 199726 BS20 6JHSemi-detached£68,000
13 Oct 199714 BS20 6JHSemi-detached£80,000
27 Jun 199716 BS20 6JHSemi-detached£62,000
27 Mar 19976 BS20 6JHSemi-detached£77,000
29 Feb 199617 BS20 6JHSemi-detached£57,500

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

19 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 85 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (16); Bungalow, semi-detached (3). Built: 1950-1966 (10); 1967-1975 (7); 1976-1982 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (16); rented (private) (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (11 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in North Somerset in 2026-27: Band D £2,491 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,661£1,938£2,214£2,491£3,045£3,598£4,152£4,982

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (43% of about 740 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: 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.

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

  • 2 October 2026 to 5 October 2026: BRISTOL WATERWORKS COMPANY, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)

Finished in the last three months

  • 18 September 2026 to 21 September 2026: BRISTOL WATERWORKS COMPANY, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor 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, 0 at medium risk and 1 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre 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 32 addresses are between 20 m and 28 m above sea level (23 m on average); the ground rises about 8 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
BS20 6JH100%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 stationsAvonmouth 171,000 journeys in 2024–255.4 km (3.3 miles)
Portway Park and Ride 59,000 journeys in 2024–255.9 km (3.7 miles)
St Andrews Road 82,000 journeys in 2024–256.2 km (3.8 miles)
Bus stops15 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 50 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Downside Portishead100 m
Ferry terminalPortishead Pier Portishead Harbour1.7 km (1.1 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Waitrose Portishead Car Park610 m (0.4 miles)
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Shell Recharge Charging Station580 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBristol Airport BRS11.9 km (7.4 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 Portishead Medical Group350 m
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Portishead Pharmacy350 m
NHS dentists7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Combe Road Dental190 m
HospitalBft Southmead Clevedon Hospital7.2 km (4.5 miles)
Police stationAvon And Somerset Police HQ240 m
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Fryers Superstore, Shirehampton410 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 garden4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.4 ha120 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 11 ha710 m (0.4 miles)
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Avon Way Children''s Play Area 830 m²420 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,730 m²410 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Beach Hill Allotments 5,400 m²440 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 32 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Parish Church of St Peter, a listed building (Grade I), 380 m south. 28 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 3 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Parish Church of St PeterListed building, Grade I380 m south
Medieval Cross 5 Yards From South Porch in St Peter's ChurchyardListed building, Grade II*400 m (0.2 miles) south
Court House FarmhouseListed building, Grade II*440 m (0.3 miles) south-east
The GrangeListed building, Grade II*820 m (0.5 miles) south
Parts of a minor Romano-British villa and later medieval barn 545m south east of St Mary's WellScheduled monument920 m (0.6 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Welly BottomValley160 m north-west
Fore HillHill590 m (0.4 miles) south-west
Marine LakeLake or reservoir770 m (0.5 miles) north
Kilkenny BayBay930 m (0.6 miles) north-west
East WoodWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) north-east
Nelson PointWetland4.7 km (2.9 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)8.14010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.7205
Particles (PM10)8.84015

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
55 to 5910
Under 553132

1 of the street's 32 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 North Somerset: see them on the North Somerset 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
St Peter's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–11520 m (0.3 miles) Outstanding (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Portishead Primary SchoolPrimary4–11780 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Gordano SchoolSecondary11–181 km (0.6 miles) Good (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
High Down Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.2 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
High Down Infant SchoolPrimary3–71.2 km (0.7 miles) Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Trinity Anglican-Methodist Primary School Church of England/MethodistPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 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
Blossom Tree Nursery BS20 6BQHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises170 m5 Very good10 Mar 2026
Indian Empire BS20 6EHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen210 m5 Very good10 Dec 2025
Shanicatti Shakes BS20 6ELRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen210 m4 Good20 Nov 2025
Greggs BS20 6EHRetailers - other220 m5 Very good12 May 2026
Impero Lounge BS20 6EHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen220 m5 Very good5 Jun 2025
Costa Coffee BS20 6ELRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen220 m4 Good10 Jun 2025
The Settle Inn BS20 6ELPub/bar/nightclub230 m5 Very good24 Jul 2025
Coffi Lab BS20 6ABRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen250 m5 Very good21 Jul 2026
Venga Portishead BS20 6ENRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen260 m5 Very good7 Nov 2025
Wan Tu BS20 6ENTakeaway/sandwich shop260 m4 Good28 Nov 2024
Domino's Pizza BS20 6ENTakeaway/sandwich shop260 m5 Very good29 Apr 2025
Portishead Market BS20 6AJRetailers - other260 m2 Improvement necessary15 Jul 2026
Beacon Hub Cafe (The) BS20 6ENRetailers - other260 m4 Good25 Sep 2026
Sports Direct BS20 6ABRetailers - other270 m5 Very good24 Sep 2026
Poacher Portishead BS20 6AJPub/bar/nightclub270 m5 Very good7 Oct 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.

53 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences21
Anti-social behaviour11
Other theft6
Public order6
Vehicle crime2
Criminal damage and arson2
Burglary2
Other crime1
Shoplifting1
Robbery1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Rippleside (13); On or near Combe Road (11); On or near Leeside (8); On or near Slade Road (7); On or near Lilys Orchard (4).

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: 282 residents in 112 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 age4640
Children under 1518%17%
Aged 65 and over19%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)87%61%
Owned outright45%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented4%17%
Private rented8%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work65%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)23%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)31%32%
Travel to work by car or van50%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle16%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)51%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away5%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)38%34%
No qualifications9%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 8 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 Beacon Hub Cafe (The) (retailers - other, BS20 6EN) re-inspected, still 4 Good (rated 25 September 2026) found 31 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Ghandi Tandoori Restaurant (restaurant/cafe/canteen, BS20 6AG) now 5 Very good, was 3 Generally satisfactory (rated 28 October 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.

Nearby streets

Leeside · Combe Fields · Lilys Orchard · Combe Road · Stoke Road · Slade Road · Orchard Close · Combe Road · Rippleside · Rose Mews · Combe Avenue · Briary Road

All the streets in BS20 and across North Somerset.

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.