Ensor Drive Polesworth, North Warwickshire

53 addresses across 4 postcodes (B78), about 380 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 28400312.

  • Sales: 65 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £231,500 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 26 homes have an energy certificate (C: 4, D: 19, E: 2, F: 1).
  • 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 B; Band D in North Warwickshire costs £2,532 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Polesworth, about 1.3 km (0.8 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Pooley Country Park, is about 1.2 km (0.7 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 71 to 80 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 17 of its 53 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Dordon & Polesworth Group Practice, about 1.4 km (0.9 miles) away.
  • People: About 940 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 70% of households owned their home and 25% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 17 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
20252£231,500£228,000£235,000
20243£273,500£265,000£273,500
20231£375,000£375,000£375,000
20222£305,000£285,000£325,000
20215£280,000£200,000£307,000
20193£263,000£219,000£265,000
20171£230,000£230,000£230,000
20162£211,000£185,000£237,000
20152£166,250£157,500£175,000
20143£180,000£154,250£248,000
20111£120,000£120,000£120,000
20082£205,000£175,000£235,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 65)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
26 Mar 202537 B78 1JWDetached£228,000
14 Feb 202539 B78 1JWDetached£235,000
17 May 20247 B78 1JJDetached£272,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
27 Mar 202450 B78 1JNSemi-detached£273,500Leasehold.
27 Mar 202450 B78 1JNSemi-detached£273,500
14 Feb 202425 B78 1JWDetached£265,000
29 Sep 202318 B78 1JNDetached£375,000Leasehold.
11 Nov 202256 B78 1JWDetached£285,000Leasehold.
20 May 202234 B78 1JNDetached£325,000
12 Nov 202128 B78 1JNDetached£280,000
23 Sep 202160 B78 1JWDetached£290,000
3 Sep 202115 B78 1JJDetached£307,000
28 Jun 202156 B78 1JWDetached£260,000Leasehold.
12 Feb 20216 B78 1JJDetached£200,000
9 Aug 20192 B78 1JJDetached£219,000Leasehold.
29 Apr 201920 B78 1JNDetached£265,000
4 Jan 201962 B78 1JWDetached£263,000
18 Aug 201715 B78 1JJDetached£230,000
13 May 201646 B78 1JNDetached£185,000
24 Mar 201616 B78 1JNDetached£237,000
14 Dec 201512 B78 1JJSemi-detached£157,500
10 Feb 201520 B78 1JNDetached£175,000
13 Nov 201428 B78 1JNDetached£180,000
28 May 201417 B78 1JJDetached£248,000
28 May 20145 B78 1JJSemi-detached£154,250Leasehold.
15 Sep 20118 B78 1JJDetached£120,000Leasehold.
30 May 200817 B78 1JJDetached£235,000
18 Jan 200825 B78 1JWDetached£175,000
18 Dec 200725 B78 1JWDetached£185,000
14 Nov 200715 B78 1JJDetached£165,000
3 Oct 200764 B78 1JWDetached£205,000
30 Mar 200646 B78 1JNDetached£144,500Leasehold.
7 Oct 20056 B78 1JJDetached£170,000
30 Sep 200516 B78 1JNDetached£168,500
30 Sep 200516 B78 1JNDetached£168,500
19 Sep 20051 B78 1JJDetached£162,000
19 Sep 20051 B78 1JJDetached£162,000Leasehold.
11 Dec 200364 B78 1JWDetached£164,000
11 Dec 20036 B78 1JJDetached£110,000
13 Dec 200247 B78 1JWDetached£135,000
16 Aug 200258 B78 1JWDetached£129,000
26 Apr 200218 B78 1JNDetached£104,000Leasehold.
14 Mar 200235 B78 1JWDetached£93,000
20 Nov 200130 B78 1JNDetached£85,000Leasehold.
26 Oct 200135 B78 1JWDetached£67,000
18 Jul 200127 B78 1JWDetached£97,000
18 Jul 200139 B78 1JWDetached£92,000
2 Nov 200056 B78 1JWDetached£78,000Leasehold.
15 Sep 20005 B78 1JJSemi-detached£65,000Leasehold.
8 Sep 200017 B78 1JJDetached£119,000

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

26 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 82 m². Most common: House, detached (19); Bungalow, detached (4); House, semi-detached (3). Built: 1976-1982 (14); 1967-1975 (5); 1983-1990 (4). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (25).

Each home's certificates and sales (11 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in North Warwickshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,532 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,688£1,969£2,251£2,532£3,095£3,657£4,220£5,064

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (36% of about 840 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): Borough wide.
  • 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

  • 21 September 2026: SEVERN TRENT WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)
  • 20 August 2026 to 27 August 2026: SEVERN TRENT WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, multi-way signals, on the footway (immediate - urgent works)
  • 13 August 2026 to 28 August 2026: SEVERN TRENT WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, give and take, on the footway (immediate - urgent 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, 1 at medium risk and 5 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
B78 1JNnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 3 unlikely
B78 1JWnot in 2 or 3 1 / 1 / 2 unlikely
B78 1JJnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
B78 1JDnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 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 71 m and 80 m above sea level (74 m on average); the ground rises about 9 m from the lowest to the highest.

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

Broadband

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

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
B78 1JD100%100%100%0%
B78 1JJ100%100%100%0%
B78 1JN100%100%100%0%
B78 1JW100%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 stationsPolesworth 150 journeys in 2024–251.3 km (0.8 miles)
Wilnecote (Staffs) 99,000 journeys in 2024–254 km (2.5 miles)
Tamworth 1.2 million journeys in 2024–255 km (3.1 miles)
Bus stops10 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 26 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Bulls Head Polesworth230 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Atherstone6.6 km (4.1 miles)
EV charging pointsGridserve Charging Station1.6 km (1 mile)
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX20 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 surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dordon & Polesworth Group Practice1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Polesworth Pharmacy570 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Polesworth Dental Centre540 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalSir Robert Peel Community Hospital6.9 km (4.3 miles)
Police stationThornhill Road Police Station3.8 km (2.4 miles)
Cash machinesMoto - Tamworth - Amenity, Green Lane Cashzone1.6 km (1 mile)

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 gardenPooley Country Park 59 ha1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 740 m²510 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Abbey Green Park 4.8 ha400 m (0.2 miles)
Allotments3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,720 m²580 m (0.4 miles)

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Polesworth Bridge, a scheduled monument, 440 m (0.3 miles) north-east. 17 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 5 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Polesworth BridgeScheduled monument440 m (0.3 miles) north-east
Remains of Polesworth AbbeyScheduled monument690 m (0.4 miles) north-east
Church of St EdithaListed building, Grade II*700 m (0.4 miles) north-east
22, High StreetListed building, Grade II*730 m (0.5 miles) north-east
Abbey GatehouseListed building, Grade II*730 m (0.5 miles) north-east
Pooley Hall, Attached Former Chapel and Pooley Hall FarmhouseListed building, Grade II*740 m (0.5 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Stiper's Hill PlantationWood1.5 km (0.9 miles) east
Hoo HillHill1.6 km (1 mile) east
Alvecote WoodWood1.6 km (1 mile) north-west
Birch CoppiceWood1.9 km (1.2 miles) south-east
The SpinneyWood2.3 km (1.4 miles) south-west
Alvecote PoolsLake or reservoir2.5 km (1.6 miles) north

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)9.54010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.2205
Particles (PM10)14.04015

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
65 to 6920
60 to 6440
55 to 59110
Under 553653

17 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 North Warwickshire: see them on the North Warwickshire 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
The Polesworth SchoolSecondary11–18620 m (0.4 miles) Good (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Birchwood Primary SchoolPrimary4–11700 m (0.4 miles) No overall grade (Apr 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
The Nethersole CofE Academy Church of EnglandPrimary2–111.1 km (0.7 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; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Dordon Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)

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
Polesworth Group Homes Ltd B78 1JAHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises310 m5 Very good14 Sep 2022
The Yard Spice B78 1HWTakeaway/sandwich shop330 m4 Good27 Jun 2025
Fosters Yard B78 1HWHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house330 m3 Generally satisfactory15 Jul 2025
Domino's Pizza B78 1HWTakeaway/sandwich shop330 m5 Very good17 Feb 2025
Dragon Edge B78 1HNTakeaway/sandwich shop360 m4 Good12 Mar 2025
No. 3 Bistro & Bar B78 1DFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen360 m5 Very good22 Jan 2025
The Cupcake Kitchen B78 1JYOther catering premises400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good18 Apr 2024
Anker Bridge Nursery Ltd B78 1DRHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good7 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.

17 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences5
Anti-social behaviour4
Vehicle crime3
Criminal damage and arson2
Other theft1
Burglary1
Other crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Miners Walk (3); On or near The Gullet (3); On or near Foxwood Road (2); On or near Ensor Drive (2); On or near Tamworth Road (2).

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: 940 residents in 411 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 1515%17%
Aged 65 and over21%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)70%61%
Owned outright37%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented13%17%
Private rented17%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work62%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)24%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)29%32%
Travel to work by car or van65%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus1%8%
On foot or by bicycle4%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)46%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away8%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)25%34%
No qualifications19%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%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 6 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.

  • B78 1JN: 19 addresses of 20 in the postcode
  • B78 1JW: 19 addresses
  • B78 1JJ: 14 addresses of 15 in the postcode
  • B78 1JD: 1 address of 43 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Saxon Close · Kiln Way · The Gullet · Spinney Close · Dexter Way · Miners Walk · Foxwood Road · Dexter Way · Hermitage Close · The Lynch · Holly Rise · The Lair

All the streets in B78 and across North Warwickshire.

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.