Foundry Fields Crook, County Durham

70 addresses across 3 postcodes (DL15), about 540 m long, classed as a local access road. USRN 42811656.

21 recorded sales since 1995; in 2019 the median was £179,000 across 2 sales. 56 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 5, D: 43, E: 7). 4 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. Most homes around it are in council tax band A; Band D in County Durham costs £2,622 a year in 2026-27. Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises. The nearest railway station is Bishop Auckland, about 7.8 km away in a straight line. There is a small park or garden about 250 m away, and Glenholme Park (3.8 hectares) is about 450 m away. Background air pollution in 2024 was 4.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits. Its addresses are 157 to 166 m above sea level. 19 of its 70 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic. The nearest GP surgery is North House Surgery, about 240 m away. About 780 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 55% of households owned their home and 23% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification. 309 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
20192£179,000£135,000£223,000
20181£218,000£218,000£218,000
20171£120,000£120,000£120,000
20121£130,000£130,000£130,000
20081£115,000£115,000£115,000
20071£145,000£145,000£145,000
20061£119,500£119,500£119,500
20031£98,000£98,000£98,000
20023£68,000£52,000£68,750
20002£52,125£45,000£59,250
19983£45,000£37,000£55,000
19971£40,000£40,000£40,000
Most recent sales (21)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
19 Dec 201941A DL15 9JZDetached£223,000
26 Nov 201941 DL15 9JZSemi-detached£135,000
15 Mar 201841A DL15 9JZDetached£218,000
2 Jun 201732 DL15 9JYTerraced£120,000
12 Oct 201231 DL15 9JYSemi-detached£130,000
2 May 200836 DL15 9JYTerraced£115,000
17 Aug 200741 DL15 9JZSemi-detached£145,000
7 Aug 200641 DL15 9JZTerraced£119,500
21 Oct 200333 DL15 9JYTerraced£98,000
15 Nov 200230 DL15 9JYSemi-detached£68,000
7 Jun 200238 DL15 9JZSemi-detached£52,000
28 Mar 200233 DL15 9JYTerraced£68,750
2 Oct 200040 DL15 9JZSemi-detached£45,000
26 May 200032 DL15 9JYTerraced£59,250
12 Nov 199827 DL15 9JYTerraced£37,000
24 Aug 199832 DL15 9JYTerraced£55,000
29 May 199834 DL15 9JYTerraced£45,000
30 Apr 199739 DL15 9JZSemi-detached£40,000
29 Nov 199628 DL15 9JYDetached£45,000
21 Jul 199534 DL15 9JYTerraced£37,000
30 Jun 199532 DL15 9JYTerraced£49,950

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 13 October 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from April 2011 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

56 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 42 m². Most common: Bungalow, semi-detached (29); Bungalow, mid-terrace (10); Bungalow, end-terrace (8). Built: 1930-1949 (28); 1950-1966 (16); 1900-1929 (4). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (46); owner-occupied (7).

Council tax

What each band costs in County Durham in 2026-27: Band D £2,622 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,748£2,039£2,331£2,622£3,205£3,788£4,370£5,244

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band A (76% of about 1,650 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 2 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

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, 2 addresses are in areas at high risk, 2 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
DL15 9JYnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
DL15 9JZnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 3 unlikely
DL15 9HYnot in 2 or 3 2 / 1 / 6 unlikely

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

Height above sea level

The street's 70 addresses are between 157 m and 166 m above sea level (161 m on average); the ground rises about 8 m from the lowest to the highest.

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

Broadband

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

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
DL15 9HY100%100%100%0%
DL15 9JY100%100%100%0%
DL15 9JZ100%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 stationsBishop Auckland 169,000 journeys in 2024–257.8 km
Shildon 60,000 journeys in 2024–2512.3 km
Durham 2.8 million journeys in 2024–2512.9 km
Bus stops15 stops within 400 m, 40 within 800 m; nearest Football Ground Crook150 m
Bus or coach stationParkside School Willington3.9 km
EV charging pointsBe.EV Charging Station3.6 km
Airport with scheduled flightsTeesside International Airport MME30.9 km
Nearest large airportNewcastle International Airport NCL36.1 km

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; nearest North House Surgery240 m
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km; nearest Clemitsons LTD180 m
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Northern Smiles430 m
HospitalBishop Auckland Hospital8.1 km
Police stationCrook Police Station380 m
Cash machinesATM1.6 km

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 garden4 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 2,580 m²250 m
Largest park within 800 mGlenholme Park 3.8 ha450 m
Play area4 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 570 m²530 m
Playing field4 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 1.7 ha170 m
Allotments5 within 800 m; nearest Foundry Fields Allotments 1.0 ha150 m

Within 800 m: 4 parks and gardens, 5.5 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Central Methodist Church, a listed building (Grade II*), 410 m east. 5 listed buildings are within 1.0 km, 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Central Methodist ChurchListed building, Grade II*410 m east
Natural landmarks within 5.0 km
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Dowfold HillHill1.3 km north-east
Woodifield HillHill1.4 km south-west
Job's HillHill1.4 km south-east
Stonechester PlantationWood1.7 km north-east
South DeneValley3.3 km east
Marston LakeLake or reservoir4.3 km south

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10.0 km, battlefields within 5.0 km, registered parks and gardens within 3.0 km, scheduled monuments within 2.0 km, and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1.0 km. 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)4.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.3205
Particles (PM10)8.14015

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: 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 on the roads and railways, not measurements; they leave out aircraft, 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 and 54 dB for railways.

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
60 to 6490
55 to 59100
Under 555170

19 of the street's 70 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

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
Crook Primary SchoolPrimary2–11370 m No published inspection
Hartside Primary AcademyPrimary2–11380 m No published inspection
St Cuthbert's Catholic Primary School, Crook Roman CatholicPrimary3–11620 m No published inspection
Peases West AcademyPrimary2–111.7 km 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 of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Belle Vue Inn DL15 9HPPub/bar/nightclub80 m4 Good11 Nov 2022
Bubbles and Bites Champagne and Cocktail Bar DL15 9HRPub/bar/nightclub140 m5 Very good29 Nov 2024
Pizza Roma DL15 9HPTakeaway/sandwich shop140 m4 Good13 Jan 2025
The Crown Inn DL15 9HPPub/bar/nightclub160 m5 Very good26 Jun 2018
Deluxe dessert DL15 9HSRetailers - other160 mAwaiting inspection
UK's Pizzeria DL15 9HPDistributors/Transporters170 mAwaiting inspection
UK's Pizzeria DL15 9HPTakeaway/sandwich shop170 m3 Generally satisfactory3 Mar 2026
The Big Bite DL15 9HSRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen170 m5 Very good19 Feb 2025
THE COD FRY DL15 9HSTakeaway/sandwich shop170 mAwaiting inspection
Pizza Presto DL15 9HRTakeaway/sandwich shop170 mAwaiting inspection
Amis Pizzeria DL15 9HSTakeaway/sandwich shop170 m5 Very good8 Sep 2025
One Stop DL15 9HSRetailers - other180 m5 Very good25 Sep 2025
Le Gazzelle LTD DL15 9HSRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen180 mAwaiting inspection
Fortune Palace DL15 9HSTakeaway/sandwich shop190 m5 Very good18 Mar 2025
Heron Foods DL15 9HPRetailers - other190 m5 Very good16 May 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.

309 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences92
Anti-social behaviour56
Shoplifting48
Criminal damage and arson41
Public order32
Burglary16
Other theft6
Other crime4
Drugs4
Possession of weapons4
Robbery3
Vehicle crime1
Theft from the person1
Bicycle theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Supermarket (51); On or near Victoria Street (50); On or near Hope Street (40); On or near Lishman Avenue (22); On or near Orchard Close (17).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 777 residents in 372 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 1514%17%
Aged 65 and over27%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)55%61%
Owned outright26%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented38%17%
Private rented7%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work49%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)2%6%
Retired (of adults)31%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)10%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)22%32%
Travel to work by car or van65%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle9%10%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)35%65%
Work 30 km or more away10%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)23%34%
No qualifications28%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 2 to 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

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.

Nearby streets

Park Avenue Close · Nelson Street · Kellet Square · Kellet Square · Calvert Street · Waterloo Close · Moravian Street · Whitfield Street · Wesley Street · Lishman Avenue · Commercial Street · Broom Terrace

All the streets in DL15 and across County Durham.

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 aircraft, industry or neighbours: noise figures are models of road and rail traffic outside, in England only.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.