19 addresses across 4 postcodes (NE8), about 160 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 14909230.
Sales: 22 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £115,000 across 1 sale.
Energy: 12 homes have an energy certificate (C: 4, D: 7, E: 1).
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 Gateshead costs £2,716 a year in 2026-27.
Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 78% to 100% of premises.
Transport: The nearest railway station is Newcastle, about 2.4 km (1.5 miles) away in a straight line.
Green space: There is a small park or garden about 130 m away, and Draughts' Garden (27 hectares) is about 180 m away.
Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 12.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
Height: Its addresses are 74 to 83 m above sea level.
Noise: 19 of its 19 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Oxford Tce & Rawling Rd Medical Group, about 700 m (0.4 miles) away, with 9 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
People: About 930 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 48% of households owned their home and 36% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
Crime: 113 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)
Year
Sales
Median price
Lowest
Highest
2025
1
£115,000
£115,000
£115,000
2022
1
£77,500
£77,500
£77,500
2018
1
£89,000
£89,000
£89,000
2017
1
£57,000
£57,000
£57,000
2008
2
£98,000
£95,000
£101,000
2005
3
£55,000
£50,000
£80,000
2003
1
£59,950
£59,950
£59,950
2002
1
£37,500
£37,500
£37,500
2001
1
£20,000
£20,000
£20,000
2000
1
£19,500
£19,500
£19,500
1999
1
£29,000
£29,000
£29,000
1998
1
£24,950
£24,950
£24,950
Most recent sales (22)
Date
Address
Type
Price
Notes
22 Apr 2025
5 NE8 4JN
Flat or maisonette
£115,000
Leasehold.
28 Aug 2024
21 NE8 4JN
Flat or maisonette
£122,500
Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
18 Apr 2024
15 NE8 4JN
Flat or maisonette
£375,000
Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
18 Apr 2024
13 NE8 4JN
Terraced
£375,000
Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
14 Jul 2022
15 NE8 4JN
Flat or maisonette
£65,000
Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
12 Jul 2022
5 NE8 4JN
Flat or maisonette
£77,500
20 Dec 2018
1 NE8 4JN
Flat or maisonette
£89,000
Leasehold.
23 May 2017
1 NE8 4JN
Flat or maisonette
£57,000
Leasehold.
4 Nov 2016
15 NE8 4JN
Flat or maisonette
£56,000
Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
29 Apr 2014
15 NE8 4JN
Flat or maisonette
£53,700
Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
12 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 67 m².
Most common: Flat (10); Maisonette, end-terrace (2). Built: 1900-1929 (12). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (6); rented (private) (4); rented (social) (1).
What each band costs in Gateshead in 2026-27: Band D £2,716 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
£1,811
£2,112
£2,414
£2,716
£3,319
£3,923
£4,526
£5,432
Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band A (80% of about 1,670 homes).
A80%
B17%
C2%
D1%
G0%
H0%
E0%
F0%
Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the 2 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount.
Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.
Planning and heritage
Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
Green belt: no.
Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)
Liddell Tce: up to 8 homes, permissioned (890 m (0.6 miles))
Bensham Jockey: up to 15 homes, permissioned (950 m (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
26 October 2026: GATESHEAD METROPOLITAN BOROUGH COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, give and take, on the carriageway, verge (immediate - emergency works)
31 July 2026 to 6 August 2026: NORTHERN POWERGRID (NORTHEAST) PLC, Utility repair and maintenance works, road closure, on the footway, carriageway (immediate - urgent works)
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, 4 addresses are in areas at high risk, 2 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.
Postcode
Planning zone
Addresses at high / medium / low risk
Groundwater
NE8 4JN
not in 2 or 3
0 / 0 / 0
unlikely
NE8 4JL
not in 2 or 3
0 / 0 / 0
unlikely
NE8 4JA
not in 2 or 3
0 / 0 / 0
unlikely
NE8 4JH
not in 2 or 3
4 / 2 / 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.
The street's 19 addresses are between 74 m and 83 m above sea level (79 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)
Postcode
Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)
Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)
Gigabit
Below 10 Mbit/s
NE8 4JA
100%
78%
78%
0%
NE8 4JH
100%
100%
100%
0%
NE8 4JL
100%
100%
100%
0%
NE8 4JN
100%
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.
Nearest
Distance
Railway stations
Newcastle 11 million journeys in 2024–25
2.4 km (1.5 miles)
Dunston 51,000 journeys in 2024–25
2.7 km (1.7 miles)
Manors 64,000 journeys in 2024–25
2.7 km (1.7 miles)
Underground, metro or tram
Gateshead Stadium (Tyne and Wear Metro Station)
1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Gateshead (Tyne and Wear Metro Station)
1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Felling (Tyne and Wear Metro Station)
1.9 km (1.2 miles)
Bus stops
16 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 55 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Durham Road-Dryden Road Shipcote
90 m
Bus or coach station
Interchange Gateshead
1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Ferry terminal
Newcastle International Ferry Terminal Royal Quays
10.8 km (6.7 miles)
Car parks
Civic Centre Car Park
1.1 km (0.7 miles)
EV charging points
3 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest MFG Charging Station
690 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flights
Newcastle International Airport NCL
11.4 km (7.1 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.
Nearest
Distance
GP surgeries
9 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Oxford Tce & Rawling Rd Medical Group
700 m (0.4 miles)
Pharmacies
11 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest K & A Pharmacy
380 m
NHS dentists
7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Mr Alec Waugh And Associates
300 m
Hospital
Bensham Hospital
1 km (0.6 miles)
Police station
Gateshead Police Station
1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Cash machines
1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest MFG - Swallow Services Cashzone
760 m (0.5 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.
Nearest
Distance
Park or garden
7 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed3,690 m²
130 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)
Draughts' Garden 27 ha
180 m
Play area
4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed1,170 m²
510 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field
1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed2.3 ha
770 m (0.5 miles)
Allotments
1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed660 m²
720 m (0.4 miles)
Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 7 parks and gardens, 30 hectares in all.
Landmarks
The nearest historic landmark is Saltwell Park, a registered park or garden (Grade II), 580 m (0.4 miles) south-west. 27 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.
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)
Pollutant
Here
UK limit
WHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)
12.8
40
10
Fine particles (PM2.5)
6.3
20
5
Particles (PM10)
9.9
40
15
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)
Level
Road traffic
Railways
60 to 64
4
0
55 to 59
15
0
Under 55
0
19
19 of the street's 19 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 Gateshead: see them on the Gateshead 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.
School
Phase
Ages
Distance
Inspection
South Street Community Primary School
Primary
3–11
430 m (0.3 miles)
Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Caedmon Community Primary School
Primary
3–11
500 m (0.3 miles)
Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Kelvin Grove Community Primary School
Primary
3–11
630 m (0.4 miles)
Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Corpus Christi Catholic Primary School, Gateshead Roman Catholic
Primary
3–11
670 m (0.4 miles)
Outstanding (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Peter's Catholic Primary School, Low Fell Roman Catholic
Primary
4–11
880 m (0.5 miles)
Good (Feb 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Gateshead Roman Catholic
Primary
4–11
1 km (0.6 miles)
No published inspection
Brighton Avenue Primary School
Primary
3–11
1 km (0.6 miles)
No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Carr Hill Community Primary School
Primary
3–11
1.1 km (0.7 miles)
No published inspection
Bensham Grove Nursery School
Nursery
0–5
1.1 km (0.7 miles)
No published inspection
Kells Lane Primary School
Primary
3–11
1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Good (Jun 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Bede Community Primary School
Primary
4–11
1.5 km (0.9 miles)
No published inspection
St Aidan's Church of England Primary School
Primary
3–11
1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Good (May 2022, 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.
Business
Type
Distance
Rating
Rated
Last Days Of The Raj NE8 4JR
Takeaway/sandwich shop
70 m
5 Very good
12 Feb 2025
Ibos Take Away NE8 4JR
Takeaway/sandwich shop
70 m
4 Good
28 Oct 2025
Parmos NE8 4JR
Takeaway/sandwich shop
70 m
3 Generally satisfactory
8 Jan 2026
Domino's Pizza NE8 4JR
Takeaway/sandwich shop
70 m
5 Very good
12 Dec 2024
Anglo Pizza & Kebab NE8 4JR
Takeaway/sandwich shop
80 m
5 Very good
12 Aug 2026
Spice Connection NE8 4JR
Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen
90 m
3 Generally satisfactory
29 Jan 2026
Heron Foods NE9 5EF
Retailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets
110 m
5 Very good
10 Jan 2025
Gateshead Snooker Centre NE9 5EF
Pub/bar/nightclub
120 m
4 Good
6 Feb 2025
Springfield House NE9 5BW
Hospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises
140 m
5 Very good
23 Jun 2025
Alive Church NE8 4AR
Retailers - other
140 m
4 Good
26 Jun 2025
Pop Up Pantry NE8 4AJ
Retailers - other
150 m
Awaiting inspection
Gateshead School Catering at Gibside Primary School NE8 4JA
School/college/university
210 m
5 Very good
18 Mar 2026
Bewicks (Central Library) NE8 4LN
Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen
290 m
5 Very good
2 Jul 2025
The Little Chip NE8 4JT
Takeaway/sandwich shop
290 m
5 Very good
21 Jan 2025
Jenny Hall NE8 4JT
Retailers - other
290 m
5 Very good
26 Nov 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.
113 recorded crimes by category
Category
Crimes
Violence and sexual offences
34
Anti-social behaviour
18
Criminal damage and arson
15
Public order
13
Vehicle crime
8
Burglary
6
Other theft
6
Shoplifting
6
Robbery
4
Other crime
1
Bicycle theft
1
Drugs
1
Most of these are attached to: On or near Patterdale Terrace (23); On or near Perry Street (17); On or near Rodsley Avenue (15); On or near Theatre/Concert Hall (12); On or near Shipcote Lane (11).
People and work
Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 3 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 928 residents in 391 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 street
England
Median age
32
40
Children under 15
23%
17%
Aged 65 and over
11%
18%
Homes
Around this street
England
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)
48%
61%
Owned outright
22%
33%
Shared ownership
under 1%
1%
Social rented
14%
17%
Private rented
38%
21%
Work and commuting
Around this street
England
Adults (16 and over) in work
63%
57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)
7%
6%
Retired (of adults)
14%
22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)
5%
4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)
28%
32%
Travel to work by car or van
39%
48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram
4%
4%
By any public transport, including bus
13%
8%
On foot or by bicycle
19%
10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)
81%
65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away
4%
8%
Education and languages
Around this street
England
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)
36%
34%
No qualifications
18%
18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification
4%
5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)
92%
91%
Cannot speak English well or at all
2%
2%
Deprivation
The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 1 to 2 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
Roadworks Street works permit: GATESHEAD METROPOLITAN BOROUGH COUNCIL: Highway repair and maintenance works, 26 October 2026 (give and take) found 3 November 2026
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.
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.