Freestone Road Portsmouth

15 addresses across 2 postcodes (PO5), about 100 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 30501955.

  • Sales: 16 recorded sales since 1995; in 2023 the median was £841,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 6 homes have an energy certificate (C: 1, D: 1, E: 2, F: 2).
  • Flood: 1 address on its postcodes is 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 Portsmouth costs £2,292 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Fratton, about 1.6 km (1 mile) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Clarendon Gardens, is about 150 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.0 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 2 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 5 of its 15 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Trafalgar Medical Group Practice, about 500 m (0.3 miles) away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 420 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 56% of households owned their home and 47% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 481 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often shoplifting.

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
20231£841,000£841,000£841,000
20171£428,000£428,000£428,000
20151£500,000£500,000£500,000
20132£340,000£310,000£370,000
20121£495,000£495,000£495,000
20071£1,050,000£1,050,000£1,050,000
20041£420,000£420,000£420,000
20021£310,000£310,000£310,000
20013£227,000£190,000£227,000
19981£185,000£185,000£185,000
19972£123,500£80,000£167,000
Most recent sales (16)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
31 Aug 20232 PO5 2NTSemi-detached£841,000
7 Apr 20179 PO5 2NTSemi-detached£428,000
19 Jun 20153 PO5 2NTSemi-detached£500,000
16 Jul 201413 PO5 2NTDetached£861,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
12 Dec 20139 PO5 2NTSemi-detached£370,000
8 Oct 20133 PO5 2NTSemi-detached£310,000
27 Feb 20122 PO5 2NTSemi-detached£495,000
21 Sep 200713 PO5 2NTDetached£1,050,000
23 Jun 20042 PO5 2NTSemi-detached£420,000
15 May 20026 PO5 2NTDetached£310,000
7 Nov 20015 PO5 2NTSemi-detached£227,000
26 Oct 20019 PO5 2NTSemi-detached£190,000
1 Aug 20012 PO5 2NTSemi-detached£227,000
27 Feb 199811 PO5 2NTSemi-detached£185,000
30 May 19976 PO5 2NTDetached£167,000
9 Feb 19974 PO5 2NTTerraced£80,000

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 February 2012 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

6 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 116 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (3); House, detached (2); Flat (1). Built: before 1900 (4); 1900-1929 (1); 2015 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (3); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (3 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Portsmouth in 2026-27: Band D £2,292 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,528£1,782£2,037£2,292£2,801£3,310£3,820£4,583

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (56% of about 980 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: yes, Owen's Southsea. Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • 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, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 13 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: of the 24 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 1 medium, 14 low and 0 very low.

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: at least one postcode centre is in flood zone 2. Zone 2 is between 0.1% and 1% a year from rivers (0.1% and 0.5% from the sea), ignoring defences.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
PO5 2NTzone 2 0 / 1 / 10 unlikely
PO5 2LPnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 3 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 addresses are about 2 m above sea level.

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
PO5 2LP100%100%100%0%
PO5 2NT100%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 stationsFratton 2.1 million journeys in 2024–251.6 km (1 mile)
Portsmouth and Southsea 1.6 million journeys in 2024–251.6 km (1 mile)
Portsmouth Harbour 2.1 million journeys in 2024–252.1 km (1.3 miles)
Bus stops9 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 47 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Circle Southsea70 m
Bus or coach stationFratton - Goldsmith Avenue1.5 km (1 mile)
Ferry terminalSouthsea Hoverport1 km (0.6 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Southsea Common Car Park590 m (0.4 miles)
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Shell Recharge460 m (0.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsSouthampton Airport SOU26.5 km (16 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Gatwick Airport LGW75.1 km (47 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 Trafalgar Medical Group Practice500 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies7 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots240 m
NHS dentists9 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery240 m
HospitalSt Mary's Hospital2.3 km (1.4 miles)
Police stationPortsmouth South Police Station1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Cash machinesPortsmouth Great Southsea Street, Southsea Cashzone800 m (0.5 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 garden6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Clarendon Gardens 5,160 m²150 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Southsea Common 36 ha280 m
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4,270 m²460 m (0.3 miles)
Playing fieldClarence Ground 2.3 ha1 km (0.6 miles)
AllotmentsLandport Community Garden 610 m²1.9 km (1.2 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 6 parks and gardens, 40 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Southsea Common, a registered park or garden (Grade II), 310 m south-west. 112 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Southsea CommonRegistered park or garden, Grade II310 m south-west
The Kings Theatre, with numbers 24-28 (even) Albert Road, SouthseaListed building, Grade II*420 m (0.3 miles) north-east
Southsea CastleScheduled monument680 m (0.4 miles) south
Portsmouth Naval War MemorialListed building, Grade I740 m (0.5 miles) west
Lumps Fort and practice batteryScheduled monument1.3 km (0.8 miles) east
Long Curtain, King's Bastion and Spur RedoubtScheduled monument1.3 km (0.8 miles) west
Victoria ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.7 km (1.1 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Portsmouth BeachBeach890 m (0.6 miles) west
Southsea BeachBeach1 km (0.6 miles) south-east
Canoe LakeLake or reservoir1 km (0.6 miles) east
Point BatteryBeach1.7 km (1.1 miles) west
The PointWetland1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-west
Stagg WoodsWood3.6 km (2.2 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)9.14010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.0205
Particles (PM10)9.04015

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 5950
Under 551015

5 of the street's 15 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 Portsmouth: see them on the Portsmouth 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
St Swithun's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary2–11440 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Southsea Infant SchoolPrimary4–7540 m (0.3 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; 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
Cottage Grove Primary School and NurseryPrimary2–11750 m (0.5 miles) Requires improvement (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Craneswater Junior SchoolPrimary7–111 km (0.6 miles) Report card (Jul 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Bramble Infant School and NurseryPrimary2–71.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
St Jude's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.2 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Ark Ayrton Primary AcademyPrimary2–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Ark Charter Academy Church of EnglandSecondary11–161.3 km (0.8 miles) No overall grade (Dec 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Priory SchoolSecondary11–161.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Devonshire Infant SchoolPrimary4–71.4 km (0.9 miles) Report card (May 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
Fernhurst Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
St Edmund's Catholic School Roman CatholicSecondary11–161.6 km (1 mile) 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
Agora Restaurant PO5 2EDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen110 m5 Very good8 Jul 2025
Sherlock's Bar PO5 2EDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen140 mAwaiting inspection
Southsea Local PO5 2BBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen150 m5 Very good9 Jul 2026
Uppermount House PO5 2EQHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house150 m5 Very good17 Apr 2018
Autumn Vale Rest Home PO5 2EEHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises170 m5 Very good17 Oct 2025
The Fisherman's Kitchen PO5 2EETakeaway/sandwich shop170 m5 Very good21 Oct 2026
Sant-Yago PO5 2EERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen170 m5 Very good6 Nov 2025
Peperoncino Italia & Sapori PO5 2EERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen170 m5 Very good23 Sep 2026
Minnie's Sushi PO5 2AXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen170 m3 Generally satisfactory19 Sep 2025
Blossom Cafe PO5 2ATRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen180 m5 Very good18 Mar 2026
Marmion House PO5 2AXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen180 m4 Good19 Nov 2025
Waitrose & Partners Southsea PO5 2EJRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets190 m5 Very good27 May 2026
Waitrose Dining Room PO5 2EJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen190 m5 Very good27 May 2026
Crushed & Cured PO5 2BTOther catering premises200 m5 Very good10 Sep 2024
Farm Kitchen PO5 3PPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen210 m3 Generally satisfactory18 Dec 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.

481 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Shoplifting149
Violence and sexual offences111
Anti-social behaviour68
Drugs36
Other theft20
Criminal damage and arson18
Public order18
Robbery17
Vehicle crime13
Burglary8
Bicycle theft7
Possession of weapons6
Theft from the person5
Other crime5

Most of these are attached to: On or near Palmerston Road (155); On or near Richmond Place (136); On or near Shopping Area (58); On or near St Vincent Road (15); On or near Wilton Terrace (13).

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: 420 residents in 222 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 age4440
Children under 159%17%
Aged 65 and over25%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)56%61%
Owned outright32%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented3%17%
Private rented41%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work58%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)8%6%
Retired (of adults)26%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)37%32%
Travel to work by car or van36%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus6%8%
On foot or by bicycle17%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)66%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away10%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)47%34%
No qualifications10%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)92%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all2%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 4 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 Fisherman's Kitchen (Mobile) (mobile caterer, PO5 2EE) is no longer listed; it was rated 5 Very good found 31 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

Lennox Road North · Chester Place · The Circle · The Circle · Richmond Road · Victoria Road South · Stanley Street · Fontwell Road · Maple Road · Stanley Lane · Lennox Road South · The Vale

All the streets in PO5 and across Portsmouth.

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.