Fairfield Road Exeter

62 addresses across 4 postcodes (EX2), about 340 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 14201376.

  • Sales: 55 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £295,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 36 homes have an energy certificate (B: 2, C: 12, D: 18, E: 3, F: 1).
  • 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 C; Band D in Exeter costs £2,495 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 72% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Marsh Barton, about 1.3 km (0.8 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Pinces Gardens, is about 1.4 km (0.9 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 5.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 21 to 29 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 62 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Ide Lane Surgery, about 240 m away.
  • People: About 800 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 73% of households owned their home and 31% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 49 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
20261£295,000£295,000£295,000
20254£343,500£300,000£473,000
20231£362,500£362,500£362,500
20212£233,250£200,000£266,500
20203£290,000£262,595£318,000
20182£266,500£249,000£284,000
20173£282,500£260,000£285,530
20161£197,000£197,000£197,000
20152£207,475£194,950£220,000
20142£189,975£179,950£200,000
20134£210,000£205,000£350,000
20111£177,500£177,500£177,500
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 55)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
16 Feb 202641 EX2 8UFSemi-detached£295,000
21 Nov 202510 EX2 8UESemi-detached£473,000
21 Nov 202566 EX2 8UFSemi-detached£379,000
14 Oct 20257 EX2 8UESemi-detached£308,000
18 Feb 202514 EX2 8UETerraced£300,000
6 Apr 20233 EX2 8UESemi-detached£362,500
28 Sep 202150 EX2 8UFSemi-detached£266,500
29 Jan 202162 EX2 8UFSemi-detached£200,000
11 Sep 202066 EX2 8UFSemi-detached£318,000
29 Jul 202018 EX2 8UESemi-detached£262,595
14 Feb 202019 EX2 8UESemi-detached£290,000
15 Jun 201823 EX2 8UESemi-detached£249,000
20 Apr 201819 EX2 8UESemi-detached£284,000
22 Aug 201717 EX2 8UESemi-detached£282,500
21 Jul 201721 EX2 8UESemi-detached£285,530
17 Mar 201719 EX2 8UESemi-detached£260,000
28 Jul 201654 EX2 8UFTerraced£197,000
5 Oct 201556 EX2 8UFTerraced£194,950
29 Jul 201552 EX2 8UFTerraced£220,000
17 Apr 20148 EX2 8UETerraced£179,950
28 Feb 20147 EX2 8UESemi-detached£200,000
2 Dec 201310 EX2 8UESemi-detached£350,000
26 Jul 201320 EX2 8UETerraced£205,000
7 May 201316 EX2 8UETerraced£215,000
9 Apr 201319 EX2 8UESemi-detached£205,000
19 May 201143 EX2 8UFSemi-detached£177,500
30 Nov 200966 EX2 8UFSemi-detached£210,000
26 Jun 200948 EX2 8UFSemi-detached£162,000
20 Dec 200734 EX2 8UFSemi-detached£190,000
17 Aug 200717 EX2 8UESemi-detached£237,000
11 Oct 200643 EX2 8UFSemi-detached£197,000
10 Aug 200664 EX2 8UFSemi-detached£180,000
17 Jul 200637 EX2 8UETerraced£174,950
30 Jun 200666 EX2 8UFSemi-detached£189,950
16 Dec 200554 EX2 8UFTerraced£171,000
24 Oct 200522 EX2 8UEDetached£190,000
26 Aug 200552 EX2 8UFSemi-detached£173,000
19 Aug 200534 EX2 8UFSemi-detached£177,500
21 Apr 20052 EX2 8UETerraced£164,000
3 May 200252 EX2 8UFSemi-detached£98,000
8 Feb 200266 EX2 8UFSemi-detached£116,500
17 Jan 200221 EX2 8UESemi-detached£119,950
23 Feb 200110 EX2 8UESemi-detached£140,000
21 Feb 200156 EX2 8UFTerraced£32,175New build.
27 Mar 200054 EX2 8UFTerraced£30,800New build.
20 Oct 199934 EX2 8UFSemi-detached£55,000
10 Sep 199962 EX2 8UFSemi-detached£59,950
27 Aug 19992 EX2 8UETerraced£70,000
26 Mar 199936 EX2 8UFSemi-detached£75,000
4 Dec 19983 EX2 8UESemi-detached£84,950

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 February 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

36 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 88 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (19); House, end-terrace (7); House, mid-terrace (6). Built: 1950-1966 (26); 1967-1975 (8); 2013 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (22); rented (social) (4); rented (private) (3).

Each home's certificates and sales (23 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 C (34% of about 770 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): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 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, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 9 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
EX2 8UEnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 4 unlikely
EX2 8UFnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
EX2 8UBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
EX2 8UWnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 5 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 62 addresses are between 21 m and 29 m above sea level (26 m on average); the ground rises about 7 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
EX2 8UB100%72%72%0%
EX2 8UE100%100%100%0%
EX2 8UF100%100%100%0%
EX2 8UW100%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 stationsMarsh Barton 109,000 journeys in 2024–251.3 km (0.8 miles)
Exeter St Thomas 329,000 journeys in 2024–252.1 km (1.3 miles)
Exeter Central 3.0 million journeys in 2024–253.2 km (2 miles)
Bus stops12 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 22 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Wheatsheaf Way Alphington160 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Exeter City Centre3.2 km (2 miles)
Ferry terminalTopsham Lock Ferry Landing Exminster5.1 km (3.2 miles)
Car parksMatford Park and Ride1.3 km (0.8 miles)
EV charging points6 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Wenea110 m
Airport with scheduled flightsExeter International Airport EXT9.6 km (6 miles)
Nearest large airportCardiff International Airport CWL78.9 km (49 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 Ide Lane Surgery240 m
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Alphington Pharmacy240 m
NHS dentistsMatford Dental Clinic1.6 km (1 mile)
HospitalFranklyn Community Hospital1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Police stationExeter Volunteer Police Cadets3.2 km (2 miles)
Cash machinesTesco Bank ATM2 km (1.3 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 gardenPinces Gardens 1.4 ha1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,700 m²490 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.3 ha510 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 5,030 m²360 m

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Michael, a listed building (Grade II*), 350 m north-east. 44 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St MichaelListed building, Grade II*350 m north-east
Linear round barrow cemetery at Castle Park, AlphingtonScheduled monument870 m (0.5 miles) south-east
Enclosures NE of Peamore CottageScheduled monument1.5 km (1 mile) south-east
Ide BridgeScheduled monument1.6 km (1 mile) north-west
Peamore Park (that part to the west of the A379)Registered park or garden, Grade II1.7 km (1.1 miles) south
Larkbeare HouseRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.2 km (1.4 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Knowle HillHill1.1 km (0.7 miles) south-east
Peamore WoodWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) south
Constitutional HillHill1.8 km (1.1 miles) north-west
Shillingford PlantationWood1.8 km (1.1 miles) south
Duck's MarshWetland1.8 km (1.1 miles) north-east
Salmon PoolLake or reservoir1.8 km (1.1 miles) north-east

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)5.54010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.5205
Particles (PM10)10.34015

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 556162

1 of the street's 62 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 Exeter: see them on the Exeter 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
Alphington Primary SchoolPrimary2–11260 m No published inspection
West Exe SchoolSecondary11–161 km (0.6 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Matford Brook AcademyAll-through2–161.4 km (0.9 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
Ide Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.7 km (1 mile) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Thomas Primary SchoolPrimary5–111.9 km (1.2 miles) Good (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
West Exe Nursery School - Exeter Nursery Schools FederationNursery2–51.9 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection

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
Spar Alphington EX2 8UXRetailers - other210 m5 Very good18 Sep 2026
Alphington Pharmacy EX2 8UPRetailers - other240 mExempt
Chatterbox Community Cafe EX2 8UPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen240 m5 Very good19 Jan 2018
Lunchbox EX2 8UPPub/bar/nightclub240 m5 Very good13 Nov 2024
Endeavour EX2 8TSHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises260 m5 Very good1 Jul 2025
Lucerne House Home EX2 8TUHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises270 m5 Very good24 Nov 2025
South West Norse @ Alphington School EX2 8RQSchool/college/university310 m5 Very good13 Jan 2026
The New Inn EX2 8TAPub/bar/nightclub320 m5 Very good12 Feb 2026
Alphington Lodge EX2 8XHHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good24 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.

49 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences34
Criminal damage and arson5
Other theft3
Public order2
Other crime2
Anti-social behaviour1
Theft from the person1
Vehicle crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Ashleigh (16); On or near Smith Field Road (11); On or near Ide Lane (6); On or near Aldens Road (4); On or near Fairfield Road (3).

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: 797 residents in 385 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 age5440
Children under 1514%17%
Aged 65 and over35%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)73%61%
Owned outright49%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented13%17%
Private rented14%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work49%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)40%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)25%32%
Travel to work by car or van55%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus4%8%
On foot or by bicycle14%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)78%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away9%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)31%34%
No qualifications18%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification10%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)97%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 8 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.

  • EX2 8UE: 35 addresses of 37 in the postcode
  • EX2 8UF: 25 addresses
  • EX2 8UB: 1 address of 49 in the postcode
  • EX2 8UW: 1 address of 17 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Bennett Close · Courtenay Gardens · Arundel Close · Aldens Green · Twoacre Court · Aldens Road · Tottons Court · Colands Court · Cludens Close · Hollow Pits Court · Denise Close · Oakridge

All the streets in EX2 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.