Fairfield Avenue Exeter

32 addresses across 1 postcode (EX4), about 150 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 14201027.

  • Sales: 38 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £470,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 14 homes have an energy certificate (C: 4, D: 7, E: 3).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area 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 Exeter costs £2,495 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Pinhoe, about 1.1 km (0.7 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 380 m away, and Eastern Fields Playing Field (9.3 hectares) is about 510 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 40 to 48 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 3 of its 32 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Whipton Surgery, about 370 m away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 280 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 61% of households owned their home and 33% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 98 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
20251£470,000£470,000£470,000
20231£461,000£461,000£461,000
20201£435,000£435,000£435,000
20191£427,500£427,500£427,500
20182£337,500£295,000£380,000
20171£310,000£310,000£310,000
20141£310,000£310,000£310,000
20122£236,500£205,000£268,000
20111£278,000£278,000£278,000
20101£240,000£240,000£240,000
20091£250,000£250,000£250,000
20081£330,000£330,000£330,000
Most recent sales (38)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
3 Jan 202518 EX4 8ELSemi-detached£470,000
24 Feb 20236 EX4 8ELSemi-detached£461,000
18 Dec 202019 EX4 8ELSemi-detached£435,000
2 Dec 20194 EX4 8ELTerraced£427,500
12 Dec 201819 EX4 8ELSemi-detached£380,000
12 Dec 201814 EX4 8ELSemi-detached£295,000
26 May 20176 EX4 8ELSemi-detached£310,000
18 Dec 201411 EX4 8ELSemi-detached£310,000
27 Aug 201220 EX4 8ELSemi-detached£268,000
6 Aug 201214 EX4 8ELSemi-detached£205,000
24 Mar 20117 EX4 8ELSemi-detached£278,000
30 Apr 201030 EX4 8ELSemi-detached£240,000
12 Jun 200927 EX4 8ELSemi-detached£250,000
31 Jan 200811 EX4 8ELSemi-detached£330,000
27 Jul 200721 EX4 8ELSemi-detached£270,000
22 Jun 200715 EX4 8ELSemi-detached£285,000
21 Jul 200612 EX4 8ELSemi-detached£270,000
13 Apr 200626 EX4 8ELSemi-detached£270,000
7 Apr 200610 EX4 8ELSemi-detached£300,000
31 Jan 200630 EX4 8ELSemi-detached£157,000
4 Apr 20054 EX4 8ELTerraced£265,000
28 Oct 200417 EX4 8ELSemi-detached£275,000
15 Jun 200415 EX4 8ELSemi-detached£249,950
26 Sep 200312 EX4 8ELSemi-detached£212,000
9 Jul 200323 EX4 8ELSemi-detached£245,000
22 Nov 200226 EX4 8ELSemi-detached£215,000
5 Sep 200226 EX4 8ELSemi-detached£180,000
18 Jun 20026 EX4 8ELSemi-detached£154,000
22 Oct 200116 EX4 8ELSemi-detached£150,000
11 Oct 200111 EX4 8ELSemi-detached£165,000
17 Jan 20016 EX4 8ELSemi-detached£91,000
25 Aug 20005A EX4 8ELTerraced£96,500
5 Jul 20008 EX4 8ELSemi-detached£121,500
18 Dec 199823 EX4 8ELSemi-detached£110,200
12 Aug 199829 EX4 8ELDetached£91,000
6 Mar 19989 EX4 8ELSemi-detached£90,000
11 Dec 199730 EX4 8ELSemi-detached£73,750
10 Jan 199715 EX4 8ELSemi-detached£53,000

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 January 2011 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

14 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 132 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (13); House, mid-terrace (1). Built: 1930-1949 (10); 1950-1966 (3); 1967-1975 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (11).

Each home's certificates and sales (9 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Exeter in 2026-27: Band D £2,495 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,664£1,941£2,218£2,495£3,050£3,604£4,159£4,991

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (49% of about 650 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

Finished in the last three months

  • 23 July 2026 to 5 August 2026: SOUTH WEST WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway, carriageway (standard 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

No address in this street's postcodes is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

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 is in flood zone 2 or 3.

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 32 addresses are between 40 m and 48 m above sea level (45 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
EX4 8EL100%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 stationsPinhoe 232,000 journeys in 2024–251.1 km (0.7 miles)
Polsloe Bridge 189,000 journeys in 2024–251.4 km (0.8 miles)
Digby and Sowton 968,000 journeys in 2024–252.2 km (1.4 miles)
Bus stops13 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 29 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Warwick Way Whipton80 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Exeter City Centre3 km (1.8 miles)
Ferry terminalTopsham Ferry Landing5.6 km (3.5 miles)
Car parksExeter Park and Ride1.2 km (0.7 miles)
EV charging points6 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Smart Charge Charging Station330 m
Airport with scheduled flightsExeter International Airport EXT4.9 km (3 miles)
Nearest large airportCardiff International Airport CWL74.5 km (46 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 surgeries3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Whipton Surgery370 m
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Day Lewis Pharmacy640 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Pinhoe Dental Surgery130 m
HospitalHospital Lane130 m
Police stationDevon & Cornwall Police1.6 km (1 mile)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Morrisons Daily - Exeter Barton Road Cashzone300 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 garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.9 ha380 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Eastern Fields Playing Field 9.3 ha510 m (0.3 miles)
Play area6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3,280 m²400 m (0.2 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3.0 ha770 m (0.5 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,110 m²80 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 12 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Pinbrook House, a listed building (Grade II*), 950 m (0.6 miles) north. 7 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Pinbrook HouseListed building, Grade II*950 m (0.6 miles) north
St Katherine's Priory, PolsloeScheduled monument1.3 km (0.8 miles) west
St Loye's Chapel and cross, Rifford RoadScheduled monument1.9 km (1.2 miles) south-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Upper Moor PlantationWood1.5 km (0.9 miles) south-east
Beacon HillHill1.7 km (1.1 miles) north
Middle Moor PlantationWood1.7 km (1.1 miles) south-east
Fairy DellValley2.3 km (1.4 miles) north-west
Salmon PoolLake or reservoir3.6 km (2.3 miles) south-west
Duck's MarshWetland3.7 km (2.3 miles) south-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)6.14010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.6205
Particles (PM10)9.74015

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
70 to 7410
65 to 6910
55 to 5910
Under 552932

3 of the street's 32 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 Exeter: see them on the Exeter 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
St Luke's Church of England SchoolSecondary11–16250 m Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Whipton Barton Junior SchoolPrimary7–11700 m (0.4 miles) Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Whipton Barton Infants and Nursery SchoolPrimary2–7750 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Monkerton Community Primary SchoolPrimary2–11800 m (0.5 miles) Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Willowbrook SchoolPrimary3–11870 m (0.5 miles) Requires improvement (Jun 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Nicholas Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) No overall grade (Sep 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Requires improvement; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Requires improvement
Pinhoe Church of England Primary School & NurseryPrimary2–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St James SchoolSecondary11–161.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
St Peter's Church of England Aided SchoolSecondary11–161.6 km (1 mile) No overall grade (Apr 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
St Michael's Church of England Primary AcademyPrimary2–111.8 km (1.1 miles) No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Woodwater AcademyPrimary3–111.9 km (1.2 miles) Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Westclyst Community Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.9 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection

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
Sainsbury's EX1 3PFRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets70 m5 Very good29 Sep 2025
Chapters coffee house EX4 8EPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen190 m5 Very good13 Aug 2024
ASU (Additional Support Unit) EX1 3RBHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises230 m5 Very good21 Mar 2025
Morrisons Daily EX1 3NERetailers - other290 m5 Very good26 Nov 2024
Heavitree Bowling Club EX1 3PSOther catering premises320 m5 Very good13 Jun 2017
Foxhaven EX1 3GHHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises340 m5 Very good30 Oct 2024
The Pinhoe Hoard EX4 8GAPub/bar/nightclub360 m5 Very good27 Oct 2026
Aldi EX4 8JDRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets360 m5 Very good13 Mar 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.

98 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences45
Other theft10
Shoplifting10
Criminal damage and arson9
Anti-social behaviour7
Public order6
Vehicle crime3
Bicycle theft3
Other crime2
Possession of weapons1
Drugs1
Robbery1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Supermarket (33); On or near Lloyds Crescent (21); On or near Hillyfield Road (11); On or near Thackeray Road (11); On or near Elizabeth Gardens (7).

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: 284 residents in 130 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 age5040
Children under 1513%17%
Aged 65 and over27%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)61%61%
Owned outright34%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented30%17%
Private rented8%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work50%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)29%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)7%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)25%32%
Travel to work by car or van58%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle13%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)75%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away4%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)33%34%
No qualifications18%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)91%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all2%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 3 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 The Pinhoe Hoard (pub/bar/nightclub, EX4 8GA) re-inspected, still 5 Very good (rated 27 October 2026) 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.

Nearby streets

Hospital Lane · Hill Barton Road · Lloyds Court · Elizabeth Gardens · Harts Lane · Thackeray Road · Whipton Barton Road · Grenville Avenue · Lloyds Crescent · Masefield Road · Hill Barton Close · Stratford Avenue

All the streets in EX4 and across Exeter.

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.