Esplanade Cromer, North Norfolk

303 addresses across 11 postcodes (NR27), about 1.2 km (0.8 miles) long, classed as a local road. USRN 28103411.

  • Energy: 11 homes have an energy certificate (C: 3, D: 4, E: 1, F: 3).
  • Flood: 23 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 North Norfolk costs £2,460 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Cromer, about 830 m (0.5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, North Lodge Park, is about 60 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 4.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are -1 to 14 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 303 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Sheringham Medical Practice, about 6.2 km (3.8 miles) away.
  • People: About 1,290 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 44% of households owned their home and 27% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 33 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.

No sales recorded on this street since January 1995 under this street name.

Energy performance certificates

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

11 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 69 m². Most common: Flat (8); House, mid-terrace (2); House, end-terrace (1). Built: before 1900 (6); 1900-1929 (4); 1983-1990 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (4); rented (private) (2).

Council tax

What each band costs in North Norfolk in 2026-27: Band D £2,460 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,640£1,913£2,187£2,460£3,007£3,553£4,100£4,920

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band A (49% of about 2,810 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 3 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: yes, Cromer, Cromer (Extension) (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 65.
  • 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.

Listed buildings

And 35 more.

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 30 September 2026.

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

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 12 addresses are in areas at high risk, 11 at medium risk and 43 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
NR27 9HEnot in 2 or 3 1 / 0 / 0 unlikely
NR27 0AWnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
NR27 0AHnot in 2 or 3 0 / 2 / 6 unlikely
NR27 9FAnot in 2 or 3
NR27 0APnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
NR27 9AUnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
NR27 9AZnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
NR27 9HPnot in 2 or 3 11 / 9 / 14 unlikely
NR27 9HUnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 22 unlikely
NR27 9ETnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
NR27 9HFnot 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 303 addresses are between -1 m and 14 m above sea level (9 m on average); the ground rises about 15 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
NR27 0AH100%100%100%0%
NR27 0AP100%0%0%0%
NR27 0AW100%100%100%0%
NR27 9AU100%100%100%0%
NR27 9AZ100%100%100%0%
NR27 9ET100%100%100%0%
NR27 9FA100%0%0%0%
NR27 9HE100%31%31%0%
NR27 9HF100%81%81%0%
NR27 9HP100%74%74%0%
NR27 9HU100%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 stationsCromer 249,000 journeys in 2024–25830 m (0.5 miles)
Roughton Road 21,000 journeys in 2024–251.5 km (0.9 miles)
West Runton 35,000 journeys in 2024–254 km (2.5 miles)
Bus stops6 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 17 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Cliff Avenue Cromer160 m
Bus or coach stationTravel Hub Cromer530 m (0.3 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Cadogan Rd Nndc Car Park680 m (0.4 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest MFG Charging Station760 m (0.5 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsNorwich Airport NWI28.4 km (18 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Stansted Airport STN137 km (85 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 surgeriesSheringham Medical Practice6.2 km (3.8 miles)
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots330 m
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Corner House Dental Surgery290 m
HospitalCromer Hospital870 m (0.5 miles)
Police stationNorfolk Police - Sheringham Public Enquiry Office7 km (4.3 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 garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest North Lodge Park 1.6 ha60 m
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,410 m²100 m
Playing field4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Norton Warnes Cricket Ground 9,850 m²440 m (0.3 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 9,500 m²1.8 km (1.1 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 2.3 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Parish Church of St Peter and St Paul, a listed building (Grade I), 260 m west. 82 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Parish Church of St Peter and St PaulListed building, Grade I260 m west
Cromer Hall including adjoining stablesListed building, Grade II*920 m (0.6 miles) south-west
The Pleasaunce, OverstrandRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.8 km (1.7 miles) south-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Cromer BeachBeach240 m north-west
West CliffCliff or slope400 m (0.2 miles) north-west
Warren WoodsWood640 m (0.4 miles) south-east
Stony HillHill700 m (0.4 miles) south-east
East Runton GapWetland2.2 km (1.4 miles) west
Portland PitLake or reservoir2.9 km (1.8 miles) west

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)4.74010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.3205
Particles (PM10)9.94015

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 5910
Under 55302303

1 of the street's 303 addresses is 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 Norfolk: see them on the North Norfolk 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
Cromer AcademySecondary11–16900 m (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Suffield Park Infant and Nursery School, CromerPrimary4–71 km (0.6 miles) No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
Cromer Junior SchoolPrimary7–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Oct 2023, 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
North Sea Coffee Co NR27 9HERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen140 m5 Very good12 Aug 2025
Friends Bistro NR27 0AHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen150 m4 Good11 Jun 2026
Cromer Past Present Future Ltd NR27 9ESOther catering premises160 m5 Very good14 Oct 2025
Cromer Stores NR27 9DBRetailers - other180 m3 Generally satisfactory28 Jul 2025
East Eleven Coffee Lounge NR27 9ESRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen180 m5 Very good28 Jul 2025
Red Lion Hotel NR27 9HDPub/bar/nightclub180 m5 Very good6 Oct 2026
Cambridge House B&B NR27 9HDHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house180 m5 Very good24 Oct 2025
Fika East NR27 9ERRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen190 m5 Very good26 Aug 2026
Shoreline NR27 9ESRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen190 m3 Generally satisfactory8 May 2026
Gibson's Bistro NR27 9ERRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen190 m5 Very good2 Jun 2026
Indian On The Cliff NR27 9EYRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen200 m3 Generally satisfactory27 Nov 2025
Cromer Tandoori NR27 9ESRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen200 m5 Very good16 Oct 2024
Kanton NR27 9ESTakeaway/sandwich shop200 m5 Very good24 Apr 2026
The Albion NR27 9ESPub/bar/nightclub200 m5 Very good30 Apr 2025
Sticky Earth Ltd NR27 9ESRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen200 m5 Very good4 Aug 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.

33 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences11
Criminal damage and arson8
Anti-social behaviour6
Other theft5
Shoplifting1
Bicycle theft1
Drugs1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Mount Street (11); On or near Esplanade (7); On or near Church Street (5); On or near The Gangway (5); On or near Brook Street (2).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 6 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 1,290 residents in 795 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 age5540
Children under 159%17%
Aged 65 and over34%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)44%61%
Owned outright35%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented8%17%
Private rented47%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work46%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)9%6%
Retired (of adults)35%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)6%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)21%32%
Travel to work by car or van41%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus5%8%
On foot or by bicycle29%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)55%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away17%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)27%34%
No qualifications23%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)96%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The 3 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 2 to 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

  • Food hygiene ratings Brewed Awakening (restaurant/cafe/canteen, NR27 9HN) is no longer listed; it was rated 5 Very good found 30 October 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.

  • NR27 9HE: 82 addresses of 84 in the postcode
  • NR27 0AW: 62 addresses of 115 in the postcode
  • NR27 0AH: 42 addresses of 69 in the postcode
  • NR27 9FA: 39 addresses of 41 in the postcode
  • NR27 0AP: 30 addresses of 32 in the postcode
  • NR27 9AU: 27 addresses of 53 in the postcode
  • NR27 9AZ: 15 addresses of 67 in the postcode
  • NR27 9HP: 2 addresses of 83 in the postcode
  • NR27 9HU: 2 addresses of 128 in the postcode
  • NR27 9ET: 1 address of 11 in the postcode
  • NR27 9HF: 1 address of 27 in the postcode

Nearby streets

The Gangway · Merchants Court · The Crescent · Surrey Street · Church Street · Brook Street · Ashdown Court · Mount Street · St Margaret's Road · Cambridge Street · Cliff Drive · Bond Street

All the streets in NR27 and across North Norfolk.

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.