Durston Close Street, Somerset

25 addresses across 2 postcodes (BA16), about 80 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 25000061.

  • Sales: 41 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £255,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 18 homes have an energy certificate (A: 1, B: 2, C: 7, D: 8).
  • 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 B; Band D in Somerset costs £2,561 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 73% to 90% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Castle Cary, about 15.6 km (9.7 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Merriman Park, is about 150 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 19 to 22 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 25 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Vine Surgery Partnership, about 400 m (0.2 miles) away.
  • People: About 220 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 75% of households owned their home and 31% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 109 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.

Sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20241£255,000£255,000£255,000
20221£228,000£228,000£228,000
20212£249,000£245,000£253,000
20202£293,500£212,000£375,000
20191£110,250£110,250£110,250
20153£219,950£189,950£300,000
20141£120,000£120,000£120,000
20134£182,750£105,000£250,000
20121£178,000£178,000£178,000
20101£179,000£179,000£179,000
20091£117,000£117,000£117,000
20071£172,000£172,000£172,000
Most recent sales (41)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
11 Jun 202417 BA16 0JUSemi-detached£255,000
31 May 202211 BA16 0JUSemi-detached£228,000
27 Aug 20211 BA16 0JUSemi-detached£253,000
31 Mar 20219 BA16 0JUSemi-detached£245,000
6 Aug 2020ORCHARDLEY BA16 0JUDetached£375,000
18 Jun 202015 BA16 0JUSemi-detached£212,000
4 Oct 2019FLAT 4, DURSTON HOUSE BA16 0JUFlat or maisonette£110,250Leasehold.
23 Sep 20151 BA16 0JUSemi-detached£219,950
26 Jun 2015ORCHARDLEY BA16 0JUDetached£300,000
9 Jan 20157 BA16 0JUSemi-detached£189,950
6 Jun 2014FLAT 3, DURSTON HOUSE BA16 0JUFlat or maisonette£120,000Leasehold.
6 Dec 20132 BA16 0JUTerraced£191,500
30 Aug 2013FLAT 1, DURSTON HOUSE BA16 0JUFlat or maisonette£105,000Leasehold.
12 Aug 201315 BA16 0JUSemi-detached£174,000
4 Apr 2013ORCHARDLEY BA16 0JUDetached£250,000
6 Jul 20123 BA16 0JUSemi-detached£178,000
10 Nov 20109 BA16 0JUSemi-detached£179,000
4 Sep 2009FLAT 3, DURSTON HOUSE BA16 0JUFlat or maisonette£117,000Leasehold.
24 Oct 20076 BA16 0JUSemi-detached£172,000
28 Sep 20059 BA16 0JUSemi-detached£110,000
4 Nov 2004FLAT 1, DURSTON HOUSE BA16 0JUFlat or maisonette£105,000Leasehold.
29 Jul 2004FLAT 5, DURSTON HOUSE BA16 0JUFlat or maisonette£122,500Leasehold.
25 May 200415 BA16 0JUSemi-detached£159,950
11 Oct 2002FLAT 6, DURSTON HOUSE BA16 0JUFlat or maisonette£90,000Leasehold.
14 Sep 20018 BA16 0JUSemi-detached£83,000
2 Feb 20015 BA16 0JUSemi-detached£60,000
21 Dec 20007 BA16 0JUSemi-detached£85,250
4 Aug 2000FLAT 5, DURSTON HOUSE BA16 0JUFlat or maisonette£65,000Leasehold.
14 Apr 20008 BA16 0JUSemi-detached£67,250
21 Jan 2000FLAT 3, DURSTON HOUSE BA16 0JUFlat or maisonette£64,000Leasehold.
17 Dec 19996 BA16 0JUSemi-detached£69,950
16 Aug 19998 BA16 0JUSemi-detached£59,000
29 Jul 19987 BA16 0JUSemi-detached£63,500
20 Mar 19986 BA16 0JUSemi-detached£58,750
24 Jul 199710 BA16 0JUSemi-detached£55,000
20 Jan 199715 BA16 0JUSemi-detached£55,000
31 Jul 1996FLAT 3, DURSTON HOUSE BA16 0JUFlat or maisonette£47,000Leasehold.
17 Jun 199610 BA16 0JUSemi-detached£49,500
1 Apr 1996FLAT 2, DURSTON HOUSE BA16 0JUFlat or maisonette£41,500Leasehold.
13 Apr 1995FLAT 6, DURSTON HOUSE BA16 0JUFlat or maisonette£44,000Leasehold.
24 Feb 199512 BA16 0JUSemi-detached£64,000

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from July 2010 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

18 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 66 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (11); Flat (4); House, end-terrace (1). Built: 1983-1990 (8); 1976-1982 (8); 2003-2006 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (10); rented (private) (5).

Each home's certificates and sales (14 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Somerset in 2026-27: Band D £2,561 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,707£1,992£2,276£2,561£3,130£3,699£4,268£5,121

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (36% of about 1,190 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

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

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 3 addresses are in areas at high risk, 3 at medium risk and 6 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: 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
BA16 0JUnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
BA16 0NDnot in 2 or 3 3 / 3 / 6 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 25 addresses are between 19 m and 22 m above sea level (21 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
BA16 0JU100%73%73%0%
BA16 0ND100%90%90%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 stationCastle Cary 355,000 journeys in 2024–2515.6 km (9.7 miles)
Bus stops10 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 42 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Church Street120 m
Bus or coach stationCoach Park Street430 m (0.3 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest M Bayliss Car Park60 m
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Osprey Charging Station580 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBristol Airport BRS28.8 km (18 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 Vine Surgery Partnership400 m (0.2 miles)
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Tout's Pharmacy Street280 m
NHS dentists5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Family Dental Practice50 m
HospitalWest Mendip Hospital5 km (3.1 miles)
Police stationStreet Police Station380 m
Cash machines3 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Cashpoint® 64 High Street Lloyds Bank370 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 garden6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Merriman Park 8,450 m²150 m
Play area6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,610 m²150 m
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.9 ha530 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.3 ha750 m (0.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 6 parks and gardens, 2.5 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Section of medieval road, south of Pomparles Bridge, north of Street, a scheduled monument, 1.3 km (0.8 miles) north-east. 30 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Section of medieval road, south of Pomparles Bridge, north of StreetScheduled monument1.3 km (0.8 miles) north-east
Roman villa NW of Two Acre PlantationScheduled monument1.9 km (1.2 miles) south-east
Beckery Chapel and cemetery (site of)Scheduled monument2 km (1.2 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Teazle WoodWood1.7 km (1 mile) south
Leigholt WoodWood1.7 km (1.1 miles) south-east
Half Acre PlantationWood1.8 km (1.1 miles) south
Ivy Thorn HillHill1.8 km (1.1 miles) south
Clyce HoleLake or reservoir1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-east
Bushy CombeValley3.7 km (2.3 miles) north-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)6.04010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.6205
Particles (PM10)9.24015

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 552325

2 of the street's 25 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 Somerset: see them on the Somerset 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
Hindhayes Infant SchoolPrimary5–7420 m (0.3 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
Elmhurst Junior SchoolPrimary7–11740 m (0.5 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Brookside Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Crispin School AcademySecondary11–161 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Walton Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Good (Oct 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
Break n Dish Ltd BA16 0EXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen60 m5 Very good16 Apr 2026
Peggys Diner, BA16 0EXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen60 mAwaiting inspection
P & K Meats BA16 0EXRetailers - other70 m2 Improvement necessary18 Aug 2026
Ram's Kebab BA16 0ERTakeaway/sandwich shop110 m1 Major improvement necessary14 Sep 2026
OCEAN HOUSE BA16 0ERTakeaway/sandwich shop110 m4 Good7 Sep 2026
Table 9 BA16 0EXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen120 m4 Good29 Oct 2025
Street kebab house BA16 0EXTakeaway/sandwich shop120 m4 Good6 May 2025
Another one bites the crust BA16 0HYRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen140 m5 Very good26 Nov 2025
Saffron Indian BA16 0NHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen160 m1 Major improvement necessary10 Aug 2026
Arthurs Court Care Home BA16 0JJHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises160 m5 Very good12 Aug 2025
The Lantokay BA16 0EYPub/bar/nightclub190 m5 Very good19 Aug 2026
Park Fish and Chips BA16 0JRTakeaway/sandwich shop190 m5 Very good18 Oct 2024
boba & dessert BA16 0EYRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen200 m5 Very good13 Aug 2026
Fondo Lounge BA16 0EYRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen200 m5 Very good7 Sep 2026
Aroma Kitchen BA16 0EWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen220 m3 Generally satisfactory19 Aug 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.

109 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences54
Anti-social behaviour13
Public order12
Criminal damage and arson10
Other theft7
Other crime3
Drugs3
Vehicle crime3
Shoplifting2
Burglary1
Bicycle theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Parking Area (55); On or near Vestry Close (16); On or near Goswell Close (7); On or near Back Lane (6); On or near Maple Close (5).

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: 217 residents in 102 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 age4940
Children under 1518%17%
Aged 65 and over27%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)75%61%
Owned outright48%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented0%17%
Private rented26%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work53%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)35%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)under 1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)26%32%
Travel to work by car or van57%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus1%8%
On foot or by bicycle15%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)50%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away6%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)31%34%
No qualifications23%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%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

  • Energy certificates New energy certificate: band C, flat (lodged 14 October 2026) found 2 November 2026
  • Energy certificates New energy certificate: band D, flat (lodged 14 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.

Nearby streets

Back Lane · Vestry Close · Goswell Road · Goswell Close · Merriman Gardens · Silver Road · Elaina Close · Park Road · Rambler Court · Merriman Road · Bullmead Close · Vestry Road

All the streets in BA16 and across 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.