Fourth Street Gateshead

56 addresses across 3 postcodes (NE8), about 140 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 14911070.

  • Sales: 4 recorded sales since 1995; in 2007 the median was £176,500 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 36 homes have an energy certificate (C: 30, D: 6).
  • Flood: 4 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 Gateshead costs £2,716 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Newcastle, about 1.6 km (1 mile) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 170 m away, and Eslington Park (12 hectares) is about 750 m (0.5 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 13.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 44 to 52 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 23 of its 56 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Bensham Family Practice, about 110 m away, with 8 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 310 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 50% of households owned their home and 23% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 163 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
20071£176,500£176,500£176,500
20051£160,000£160,000£160,000
20042£147,500£140,000£155,000
Most recent sales (4)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
13 Jul 200754 NE8 2UYDetached£176,500
18 May 200554 NE8 2UYSemi-detached£160,000
20 Dec 200454 NE8 2UYSemi-detached£155,000
2 Jul 200453 NE8 2UYDetached£140,000

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 September 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 65 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (21); House, end-terrace (6); Bungalow, mid-terrace (5). Built: 1991-1995 (23); 1983-1990 (8); 1976-1982 (3). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (29); owner-occupied (2); rented (private) (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (23 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Gateshead in 2026-27: Band D £2,716 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,811£2,112£2,414£2,716£3,319£3,923£4,526£5,432

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (77% of about 1,020 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

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, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 3 at medium risk and 3 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
NE8 2UWnot in 2 or 3 1 / 3 / 2 unlikely
NE8 2UNnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
NE8 2UYnot 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 56 addresses are between 44 m and 52 m above sea level (48 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
NE8 2UN100%100%100%0%
NE8 2UW100%100%100%0%
NE8 2UY100%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 stationsNewcastle 11 million journeys in 2024–251.6 km (1 mile)
Dunston 51,000 journeys in 2024–251.7 km (1.1 miles)
Manors 64,000 journeys in 2024–252.3 km (1.4 miles)
Underground, metro or tramGateshead (Tyne and Wear Metro Station)1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Central Station (Tyne and Wear Metro Station)1.7 km (1.1 miles)
Gateshead Stadium (Tyne and Wear Metro Station)1.9 km (1.2 miles)
Bus stops9 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 65 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Bensham Road-Brighton Road90 m
Bus or coach stationInterchange Gateshead1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Ferry terminalNewcastle International Ferry Terminal Royal Quays11.5 km (7.2 miles)
Car parksCivic Centre Car Park1 km (0.6 miles)
EV charging points4 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Fastned Charging Station480 m (0.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsNewcastle International Airport NCL10.5 km (6.5 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 surgeries8 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Bensham Family Practice110 m
Pharmacies12 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest N & B Chemists LTD320 m
NHS dentists6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Bensham Dental Practice370 m
HospitalBensham Hospital1 km (0.6 miles)
Police stationGateshead Police Station1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest ATM400 m (0.2 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 garden12 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.2 ha170 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Eslington Park 12 ha750 m (0.5 miles)
Play area10 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 450 m²180 m
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3.1 ha410 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Sandown Allotments 2.0 ha490 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 12 parks and gardens, 21 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Chad, a listed building (Grade II*), 560 m (0.3 miles) south-east. 17 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 ChadListed building, Grade II*560 m (0.3 miles) south-east
Dunston StaithsScheduled monument1.2 km (0.7 miles) north-west
Saltwell ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.3 km (0.8 miles) south-east
Newcastle upon Tyne town defences: section of curtain wall including Closegate and Water TowerScheduled monument1.5 km (0.9 miles) north
Newcastle upon Tyne town defences: section of curtain wall and town ditch between Forth Street and Hanover StreetScheduled monument1.6 km (1 mile) north
Westgate Hill CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.2 km (1.4 miles) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Team GutTidal water1.1 km (0.7 miles) west
Saltwell Park GroveWood1.6 km (1 mile) south-east
Quarry PlantationWood1.9 km (1.2 miles) south-east
Millers HillHill2.6 km (1.6 miles) north-east
Ouseburn ValleyValley2.8 km (1.7 miles) north-east
St Anthony's PointWetland4.2 km (2.6 miles) 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)13.54010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.3205
Particles (PM10)10.34015

All three are within the UK legal limits; nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 are 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
60 to 6440
55 to 59190
Under 553356

23 of the street's 56 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 Gateshead: see them on the Gateshead 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
Bensham Grove Nursery SchoolNursery0–5140 m No published inspection
Brighton Avenue Primary SchoolPrimary3–11170 m No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
St Aidan's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–11400 m (0.2 miles) Good (May 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Corpus Christi Catholic Primary School, Gateshead Roman CatholicPrimary3–11620 m (0.4 miles) Outstanding (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Kelvin Grove Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–11690 m (0.4 miles) Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Caedmon Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–11720 m (0.4 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Gateshead Roman CatholicPrimary4–11950 m (0.6 miles) No published inspection
South Street Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Philip Neri Catholic Primary School, Dunston Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.4 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
North East Futures UTCSecondary14–191.4 km (0.9 miles) No overall grade (May 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
NCG16 plus14–991.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Riverside Primary AcademyPrimary3–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Good (Dec 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)

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
Bensham Grove Community Centre NE8 2XDOther catering premises70 mAwaiting inspection
Bensham Grove Nursery NE8 2XDSchool/college/university70 m5 Very good20 Oct 2025
Ping On Chop Suey House NE8 1UTTakeaway/sandwich shop80 mAwaiting inspection
Bensham News NE8 1UTRetailers - other80 m2 Improvement necessary13 Dec 2024
Ping On Chop Suey House NE8 1UTTakeaway/sandwich shop80 m4 Good14 Jan 2025
South Hill NE8 2XZHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises160 m4 Good5 Dec 2024
The Cafe Under The Spire NE8 1USRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen220 m4 Good7 Oct 2025
Alderwood NE8 1XNHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises240 m5 Very good20 Aug 2026
The Brunch Box NE8 4TERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen240 m5 Very good26 Aug 2025
Spend & Save NE8 1TDRetailers - other240 m5 Very good12 May 2026
Whickham House NE8 4TEPub/bar/nightclub300 m4 Good30 Jan 2026
Shop Local NE8 4TERetailers - other300 m4 Good12 May 2025
St Chads Community Project NE8 1YNOther catering premises320 m5 Very good28 Nov 2024
St Chad’s Market NE8 1YNRetailers - other320 mAwaiting inspection
Bensham Wines NE8 1URRetailers - other330 m4 Good14 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.

163 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences66
Anti-social behaviour37
Criminal damage and arson14
Burglary12
Other theft8
Vehicle crime6
Robbery6
Other crime4
Public order3
Drugs3
Theft from the person3
Possession of weapons1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Bensham Avenue (42); On or near Marian Court (30); On or near Rectory Place (25); On or near Ravenscourt Place (11); On or near St Aidan'S Street (10).

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: 308 residents in 125 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 over17%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)50%61%
Owned outright25%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented43%17%
Private rented7%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work51%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)10%6%
Retired (of adults)20%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)8%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)22%32%
Travel to work by car or van57%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus10%8%
On foot or by bicycle7%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)88%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away1%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)23%34%
No qualifications29%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)93%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all2%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 1 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.

  • NE8 2UW: 32 addresses of 33 in the postcode
  • NE8 2UN: 20 addresses of 21 in the postcode
  • NE8 2UY: 4 addresses of 5 in the postcode

Nearby streets

First Street · Meadowcroft Mews · Ridsdale Court · Second Street · Bensham Road · Whittingham Court · Bensham Avenue · First Street · Alston Street · Rectory Place · Derwentwater Road · Rectory Road

All the streets in NE8 and across Gateshead.

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.