Dowse Road Devizes, Wiltshire

60 addresses across 2 postcodes (SN10), about 290 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 18503619.

  • Sales: 101 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £300,000 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 59 homes have an energy certificate (B: 15, C: 44).
  • 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 C; Band D in Wiltshire costs £2,572 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 92% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Melksham, about 11.6 km away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, The Green, is about 350 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 130 to 134 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 60 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Southbroom Surgery, about 490 m away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km.
  • People: About 590 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 71% of households owned their home and 33% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 39 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£300,000£275,000£325,000
20255£320,000£90,000£380,000
20244£283,750£235,000£310,000
20232£348,000£321,000£375,000
20222£262,500£210,000£315,000
20216£236,000£155,000£296,000
20206£235,000£100,000£268,000
20195£242,000£112,391£327,000
20176£258,750£131,250£305,000
20163£195,000£53,000£235,000
20152£222,500£210,000£235,000
20144£202,500£182,500£238,500
Most recent sales (101)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
2 Jul 202627 SN10 3FNSemi-detached£325,000
7 May 20265A SN10 3FNSemi-detached£275,000
3 Oct 202516 SN10 3FNDetached£350,000
29 Aug 202540 SN10 3FNTerraced£230,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
11 Aug 20251 SN10 3FNDetached£380,000
15 May 202511 SN10 3FNSemi-detached£320,000
28 Mar 202537 SN10 3FNFlat or maisonette£90,000Leasehold.
24 Feb 202519 SN10 3FNSemi-detached£290,000
8 Oct 202420 SN10 3FNSemi-detached£235,000
25 Apr 202415A SN10 3FNSemi-detached£277,500
15 Jan 202428B SN10 3FNDetached£310,000
14 Jan 202419A SN10 3FNSemi-detached£290,000
15 Dec 202334 SN10 3FNDetached£375,000
10 Oct 202342 SN10 3FNSemi-detached£342,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
31 Jan 202316A SN10 3FNTerraced£321,000
7 Oct 202228 SN10 3FNDetached£270,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
24 Mar 20225 SN10 3FNSemi-detached£315,000
28 Jan 202235 SN10 3FNTerraced£210,000
23 Sep 20217 SN10 3FNSemi-detached£232,000
26 Aug 20212 SN10 3FNFlat or maisonette£155,000Leasehold.
27 Jul 202123 SN10 3FNSemi-detached£296,000
3 Jun 202120A SN10 3FNSemi-detached£260,000
15 Apr 202115 SN10 3FNSemi-detached£210,000
3 Mar 202119 SN10 3FNSemi-detached£240,000
17 Dec 202036 SN10 3FNTerraced£100,000Leasehold.
30 Nov 20209 SN10 3FNSemi-detached£268,000
17 Nov 202024A SN10 3FNSemi-detached£245,000
12 Jun 202022A SN10 3FNSemi-detached£245,000
3 Apr 202018A SN10 3FNTerraced£192,500
2 Apr 202018A SN10 3FNTerraced£197,500Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
7 Feb 20207A SN10 3FNSemi-detached£225,000
25 Oct 201912 SN10 3FNDetached£327,000
27 Sep 201934 SN10 3FNDetached£300,000
27 Sep 20195A SN10 3FNSemi-detached£242,000
25 Apr 201915A SN10 3FNSemi-detached£112,391
8 Apr 20192 SN10 3FNFlat or maisonette£157,500Leasehold.
11 Dec 201729 SN10 3FNSemi-detached£305,000
11 Aug 201723 SN10 3FNSemi-detached£272,000
26 May 20177A SN10 3FNSemi-detached£215,000
21 Apr 20175 SN10 3FNSemi-detached£262,500
4 Apr 201714 SN10 3FNDetached£255,000
27 Mar 201735 SN10 3FNTerraced£131,250Leasehold.
22 Sep 201616A SN10 3FNTerraced£235,000
25 Jul 20163 SN10 3FNSemi-detached£195,000
27 Jan 201643 SN10 3FNFlat or maisonette£53,000Leasehold.
1 May 201516A SN10 3FNTerraced£210,000
20 Mar 201542 SN10 3FNSemi-detached£235,000
25 Jul 201424 SN10 3FNSemi-detached£182,500
20 Jun 201412 SN10 3FNDetached£238,500
20 Jun 201419 SN10 3FNSemi-detached£185,000

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 13 October 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from September 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

59 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 78 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (33); Flat (9); House, end-terrace (7). Built: 2007-2011 (29); 2010 (14); 2003-2006 (5). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (35); rented (social) (2); rented (private) (1).

Council tax

What each band costs in Wiltshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,572 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,715£2,000£2,286£2,572£3,143£3,715£4,286£5,144

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (34% of about 1,050 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 1.0 km

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 30 September 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 30 September 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 2 at medium risk and 4 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.

Groundwater flooding is possible in 2 of these postcodes: an address there is in a groundwater flood alert area.

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
SN10 3FNnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 3 possible
SN10 3FJnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 1 possible

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.

Height above sea level

The street's 60 addresses are between 130 m and 134 m above sea level (132 m on average).

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
SN10 3FJ100%100%100%0%
SN10 3FN100%92%92%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 stationsMelksham 61,000 journeys in 2024–2511.6 km
Pewsey 209,000 journeys in 2024–2514.8 km
Bus stops8 stops within 400 m, 35 within 800 m; nearest Canal Bridge Devizes160 m
Bus or coach stationCrooks Lane Urchfont5.6 km
Car parks1 within 800 m; nearest Sainsbury Car Park600 m
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km; nearest Be.EV Charging Station770 m
Airport with scheduled flightsBristol Airport BRS51.2 km

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 surgeries3 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Southbroom Surgery490 m
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km; nearest Morrisons Pharmacy470 m
NHS dentists7 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Ferndale490 m
HospitalDevizes Hospital740 m
Police stationWiltshire Police220 m
Cash machinesCashpoint® 38 Market Place Lloyds Bank880 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 garden4 within 800 m; nearest The Green 2.5 ha350 m
Largest park within 800 mUnnamed 3.4 ha620 m
Play area11 within 800 m; nearest Dowse Road Play Area 80 m²50 m
Playing field2 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 3.5 ha300 m
Allotments2 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 4.8 ha590 m

Within 800 m: 4 parks and gardens, 6.7 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St James, a listed building (Grade II*), 270 m south-west. 267 listed buildings are within 1.0 km, 4 of them Grade I and 34 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St JamesListed building, Grade II*270 m south-west
Handel HouseListed building, Grade II*670 m south-west
Heathcote HouseListed building, Grade II*680 m south-west
Boundary Wall to Front of Heathcote HouseListed building, Grade II*690 m south-west
Devizes CastleScheduled monument1.1 km west
Battle of Roundway Down 1643Registered battlefield3.4 km north
Natural landmarks within 5.0 km
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
The CrammerLake or reservoir360 m south-west
Newlands WoodWood770 m north-west
Belvedere WoodWood1.0 km west
Home CovertWood1.6 km north
Etchilhampton HillHill2.5 km south-east
Stert ValleyValley2.6 km south-east

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10.0 km, battlefields within 5.0 km, registered parks and gardens within 3.0 km, scheduled monuments within 2.0 km, and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1.0 km. 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)6.44010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.3205
Particles (PM10)10.04015

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 5920
Under 555860

2 of the street's 60 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

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
Devizes SchoolSecondary11–18520 m No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
The Trinity Church of England Primary AcademyPrimary4–11550 m No published inspection
Southbroom Infants' SchoolPrimary2–7730 m No overall grade (Jun 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Nursteed Community Primary SchoolPrimary4–11790 m Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Needs attention; Inclusion: Needs attention; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Early years: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
Southbroom St James Academy Church of EnglandPrimary7–11830 m No published inspection
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Devizes Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.4 km No published inspection
Wansdyke SchoolPrimary4–111.4 km Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met

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 of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Devizes RFC Facility LTD SN10 2DLPub/bar/nightclub300 m5 Very good5 Jan 2024
Devizes Cricket Club SN10 2DLPub/bar/nightclub300 mExempt
OCS Food Co @ Wiltshire Police SN10 2DNRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen320 m5 Very good29 Jul 2026
The Wyvern Club SN10 3AAPub/bar/nightclub360 m5 Very good10 Sep 2026
Moonrakers Bar Grill SN10 3AJPub/bar/nightclub470 m3 Generally satisfactory20 May 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.

39 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences20
Drugs5
Anti-social behaviour4
Other crime3
Other theft3
Public order2
Shoplifting2

Most of these are attached to: On or near Wadworth Road (30); On or near Bricksteed Avenue (3); On or near Dowse Road (2); On or near Meadow Drive (2); On or near Gundry Close (2).

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: 591 residents in 268 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 1516%17%
Aged 65 and over25%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)71%61%
Owned outright41%33%
Shared ownership11%1%
Social rented13%17%
Private rented6%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work61%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)29%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)29%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 bicycle17%10%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)54%65%
Work 30 km or more away11%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)33%34%
No qualifications13%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 7 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.

Nearby streets

Meadow Drive · Gundry Close · Brickley Lane · Spitalcroft Road · Wadworth Road · Tilley Close · Kemp Close · Elizabeth Drive · Mattock Close · Cunnington Close · Steele Close · Anstie Close

All the streets in SN10 and across Wiltshire.

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.