Dryburgh Washington, Sunderland

53 addresses across 3 postcodes (NE38), about 270 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 38719670.

  • Sales: 13 recorded sales since 1995; in 2016 the median was £73,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 43 homes have an energy certificate (C: 11, D: 32).
  • Flood: 6 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 Sunderland costs £2,197 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 90% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Chester-Le-Street, about 6.1 km (3.8 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 110 m away, and The Princess Anne Park (43 hectares) is about 500 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 10.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 61 to 64 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 53 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Galleries Medical Practice, about 450 m (0.3 miles) away, with 5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 620 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 30% of households owned their home and 18% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 133 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
20161£73,000£73,000£73,000
20141£78,500£78,500£78,500
20121£62,900£62,900£62,900
20082£75,500£74,000£77,000
20042£44,780£29,610£59,950
20022£37,750£30,000£45,500
20011£26,950£26,950£26,950
19981£24,500£24,500£24,500
Most recent sales (13)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
29 Apr 202435 NE38 7PUTerraced£55,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
29 Nov 202246 NE38 7PUTerraced£86,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
14 Mar 201634 NE38 7PUTerraced£73,000
10 Dec 201414 NE38 7PTTerraced£78,500
23 Nov 201247 NE38 7PUTerraced£62,900
3 Sep 200834 NE38 7PUTerraced£74,000
22 Jan 200846 NE38 7PUTerraced£77,000
20 Dec 200411 NE38 7PTTerraced£29,610
2 Feb 200447 NE38 7PUTerraced£59,950
14 Nov 200247 NE38 7PUTerraced£45,500
10 May 200246 NE38 7PUTerraced£30,000
12 Oct 200147 NE38 7PUTerraced£26,950
9 Mar 199814 NE38 7PTTerraced£24,500

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

43 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 86 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (28); Flat (6); House, end-terrace (5). Built: 1967-1975 (39); 1950-1966 (3); 1983-1990 (1). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (35); rented (private) (3); owner-occupied (3).

Council tax

What each band costs in Sunderland in 2026-27: Band D £2,197 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,465£1,709£1,953£2,197£2,685£3,174£3,662£4,394

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (88% of about 590 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: 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

Finished in the last three months

  • 27 August 2026 to 24 September 2026: NORTHERN GAS NETWORKS, Utility repair and maintenance works, give and take, on the footway, carriageway (major 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, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 5 at medium risk and 2 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 on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
NE38 7PUnot in 2 or 3 0 / 3 / 0 unlikely
NE38 7PTnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
NE38 7PZnot in 2 or 3 1 / 2 / 2 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 53 addresses are between 61 m and 64 m above sea level (63 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
NE38 7PT100%90%90%0%
NE38 7PU100%97%97%0%
NE38 7PZ100%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 stationsChester-Le-Street 232,000 journeys in 2024–256.1 km (3.8 miles)
Heworth 46,000 journeys in 2024–256.2 km (3.8 miles)
Sunderland 709,000 journeys in 2024–259.1 km (5.7 miles)
Bus stops8 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 40 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Glebe Washington110 m
Bus or coach stationGalleries Bus Station Washington620 m (0.4 miles)
Ferry terminalNewcastle International Ferry Terminal Royal Quays11.4 km (7.1 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Galleries Shopping Centre Car Park720 m (0.4 miles)
EV charging points8 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest PoGo Charge570 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsNewcastle International Airport NCL18.7 km (12 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 surgeries5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Galleries Medical Practice450 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies5 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Asda Pharmacy520 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Washington Pimary Care Centre340 m
HospitalSpire Washington Hospital3.2 km (2 miles)
Police stationWashington Police Station400 m (0.2 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Cash machine The Galleries Halifax440 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 8.5 ha110 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)The Princess Anne Park 43 ha500 m (0.3 miles)
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,090 m²280 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.0 ha500 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 610 m²700 m (0.4 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 55 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Lodge to West of Washington Old Hall, a listed building (Grade I), 590 m (0.4 miles) north-east. 10 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade I.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Lodge to West of Washington Old HallListed building, Grade I590 m (0.4 miles) north-east
Washington Old HallListed building, Grade I620 m (0.4 miles) north-east
Colliery engine house at Washington F Pit, AlbanyScheduled monument1.3 km (0.8 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Pattinson South PondLake or reservoir1.8 km (1.1 miles) south-east
Cube PlantationWood2 km (1.2 miles) west
Worm HillHill2.1 km (1.3 miles) south
Long ReachTidal water2.2 km (1.4 miles) south-east
Mount Pleasant LakeLake or reservoir2.3 km (1.4 miles) south-east
Stony HeughCliff or slope3.8 km (2.4 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)10.94010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.3205
Particles (PM10)10.24015

All three are within the UK legal limits; nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 are 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 555153

2 of the street's 53 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 Sunderland: see them on the Sunderland 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
Wessington Primary SchoolPrimary2–1180 m No published inspection
Biddick Primary SchoolPrimary3–11390 m Good (Nov 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Washington Roman CatholicPrimary3–11470 m (0.3 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
John F Kennedy Primary SchoolPrimary3–11750 m (0.5 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Biddick AcademySecondary11–161 km (0.6 miles) Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Washington AcademySecondary11–161 km (0.6 miles) Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Barmston Village Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Albany Village Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.2 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
St John Boste Catholic Primary School, Washington Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.2 km (0.8 miles) Outstanding (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Oxclose Primary AcademyPrimary4–111.2 km (0.8 miles) Good (Apr 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Oxclose Nursery SchoolNursery2–41.3 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
St Robert of Newminster Catholic School and Sixth Form College, Washington Roman CatholicSecondary11–181.3 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
Wessington Primary School NE38 7PYSchool/college/university140 m5 Very good14 Nov 2025
Biddick Primary School NE38 7HQSchool/college/university380 m5 Very good29 Apr 2026
The Black Bush NE38 7HYPub/bar/nightclub410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good2 Oct 2024
Sainsbury's NE38 7RURetailers - other440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good26 Apr 2017
Tim Horton's NE38 7RWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good21 Nov 2025
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School NE38 7HUSchool/college/university450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good9 Jul 2025
Washington Union Club NE38 7HUPub/bar/nightclub460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good12 Jan 2018
Glebe Methodist Church-Kitchen NE38 7DEOther catering premises460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good4 Feb 2020
Premier - Washington Village Stores NE38 7HSRetailers - other480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good28 Sep 2024
Olivias Coffee House NE38 7HSRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen490 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good16 Jun 2025
Leaf & Bean NE38 7LNRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen500 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good21 Jan 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.

133 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences46
Anti-social behaviour25
Criminal damage and arson21
Public order9
Shoplifting7
Other crime6
Burglary6
Other theft5
Vehicle crime3
Drugs2
Theft from the person1
Bicycle theft1
Possession of weapons1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Newstead Court (54); On or near Roche Court (23); On or near Gertrude Court (18); On or near Lanercost (10); On or near Rosehip Court (7).

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: 621 residents in 226 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 age3240
Children under 1530%17%
Aged 65 and over12%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)30%61%
Owned outright16%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented61%17%
Private rented9%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work48%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)14%6%
Retired (of adults)17%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)8%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)13%32%
Travel to work by car or van57%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus7%8%
On foot or by bicycle22%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)90%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more awayunder 1%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)18%34%
No qualifications24%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 1 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

What has changed

Nothing new since the change feed started on 30 October 2026. New sales and energy certificates, and hygiene ratings, school inspections and flood figures nearby, will be listed here as the sources update.

Everything that has changed on and near this street

Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

Nearby streets

Rosehip Court · Gertrude Court · Lanercost · Hambard Way · Princess Anne Court · Roche Court · Harland Way · Princess Anne Court · Beaumont Drive · Abbey Close · Talley Court · Skirlaw Close

All the streets in NE38 and across Sunderland.

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.