Friars Walk Ludlow, Shropshire

6 addresses across 2 postcodes (SY8), about 270 m long. USRN 36500777.

  • Sales: 7 recorded sales since 1995; in 2023 the median was £126,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 4 homes have an energy certificate (E: 2, F: 2).
  • Flood: 5 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 Shropshire costs £2,528 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Ludlow, about 510 m (0.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 360 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 4.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 87 to 88 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 6 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Ludlow - Portcullis, about 280 m away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 230 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 66% of households owned their home and 38% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 38 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
20231£126,000£126,000£126,000
20181£220,000£220,000£220,000
20141£150,750£150,750£150,750
20051£230,000£230,000£230,000
20041£126,500£126,500£126,500
20021£93,500£93,500£93,500
19951£63,000£63,000£63,000
Most recent sales (7)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
18 Dec 2023THE HIDEAWAY SY8 1NTTerraced£126,000
28 Sep 20183 SY8 1NTSemi-detached£220,000
27 Nov 20142 SY8 1NTTerraced£150,750
30 Mar 20053 SY8 1NTDetached£230,000
13 May 20041 SY8 1NTSemi-detached£126,500
15 Nov 20021 SY8 1NTSemi-detached£93,500
23 Oct 1995THE HIDEAWAY SY8 1NTTerraced£63,000

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

4 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 83 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (3); House, end-terrace (1). Built: before 1900 (4). Tenure at assessment: rented (private) (2); owner-occupied (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (3 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Shropshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,528 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,685£1,966£2,247£2,528£3,090£3,652£4,214£5,056

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (42% of about 740 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, Ludlow (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 6.
  • 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.

Listed buildings

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, 4 at medium risk and 5 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
SY8 1NTnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
SY8 1NSnot in 2 or 3 1 / 4 / 4 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 6 addresses are between 87 m and 88 m above sea level (87 m on average).

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
SY8 1NS100%100%100%0%
SY8 1NT100%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 stationsLudlow 271,000 journeys in 2024–25510 m (0.3 miles)
Craven Arms 100,000 journeys in 2024–2511.9 km (7.4 miles)
Broome 1,680 journeys in 2024–2513.2 km (8.2 miles)
Bus stops14 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 34 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Ludlow Mascall Centre adj100 m
Car parks4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Smithfield Car Park130 m
EV charging points9 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Connected Kerb Charging Stations300 m
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX66.4 km (41 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 surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Ludlow - Portcullis280 m
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Lunts Pharmacy170 m
NHS dentists4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Suite 2B (Dental Surgery)430 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalLudlow Hospital740 m (0.5 miles)
Police stationLudlow Police Station90 m

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,820 m²360 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 6.0 ha560 m (0.3 miles)
Play area6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 300 m²140 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 6.6 ha580 m (0.4 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4,220 m²550 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 6.6 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Augustinian friary adjacent to the junction of Lower Galdeford and Weeping Cross Lane, a scheduled monument, 120 m east. 436 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 9 of them Grade I and 28 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Augustinian friary adjacent to the junction of Lower Galdeford and Weeping Cross LaneScheduled monument120 m east
69, Old StreetListed building, Grade II*170 m west
Lane's House and Oldgate HouseListed building, Grade II*200 m south-west
Gazebo in Garden of Number 5 (Not Included)Listed building, Grade II*300 m west
Old Bull Ring TavernListed building, Grade II*320 m west
Town wallsScheduled monument430 m (0.3 miles) west
Ludford BridgeScheduled monument450 m (0.3 miles) south-west
Henley HallRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.9 km (1.8 miles) north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Lower PlantationWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) south-west
Rock CovertWood2.1 km (1.3 miles) north-east
Ledwyche PoolLake or reservoir2.2 km (1.4 miles) east
Tinkershill WoodWood2.2 km (1.4 miles) south-east
Tinkers HillHill2.4 km (1.5 miles) south-east
Mary Knoll ValleyValley3.2 km (2 miles) south-west

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

Air quality

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

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)4.44010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.2205
Particles (PM10)8.74015

All three are within the UK legal limits; PM2.5 is above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
65 to 6910
Under 5556

1 of the street's 6 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 Shropshire: see them on the Shropshire page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 3 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
St Laurence CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–1180 m Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Ludlow Primary SchoolPrimary2–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Jan 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Ludlow Church of England SchoolSecondary11–161.6 km (1 mile) No overall grade (May 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Requires improvement; Personal development: Requires improvement; Leadership and management: Requires improvement

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
Busy Bodies Childcare Centre SY8 1RZHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises40 m5 Very good18 Sep 2026
Hands Together Community Cafe SY8 1RURetailers - other210 m5 Very good23 May 2023
The Queens SY8 1RUPub/bar/nightclub230 m5 Very good14 Jul 2025
Ludlow Fishbar And Restaurant SY8 1QDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen230 m5 Very good16 Jun 2025
Thai Box SY8 1QDTakeaway/sandwich shop230 m2 Improvement necessary17 Sep 2025
Munchies SY8 1QDTakeaway/sandwich shop230 m5 Very good19 Nov 2025
The Ludlow Club SY8 1RLPub/bar/nightclub260 m5 Very good1 Jan 2000
Evergreen Fish Bar & Chinese Takeaway SY8 1NWTakeaway/sandwich shop270 m4 Good14 Sep 2026
Gather SY8 1FPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen280 m5 Very good19 Sep 2025
Kin Kitchen SY8 1NWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen280 m5 Very good8 May 2024
One Stop SY8 1RLRetailers - other280 m5 Very good1 Aug 2025
Crumbs SY8 1RLTakeaway/sandwich shop280 m5 Very good12 Mar 2025
Epic Coffee House SY8 1RLRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen280 m5 Very good25 Jun 2026
The French Pantry SY8 1RLRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen280 m5 Very good18 Jan 2023
Mahar Thai SY8 1RLRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen280 m3 Generally satisfactory16 Jun 2026

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.

38 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences19
Criminal damage and arson6
Other theft3
Other crime3
Vehicle crime2
Burglary1
Drugs1
Public order1
Robbery1
Anti-social behaviour1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Upper Galdeford (8); On or near Chandlers Close (6); On or near St Stephen'S Close (5); On or near Parking Area (5); On or near Old Street (4).

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: 234 residents in 152 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 age6640
Children under 155%17%
Aged 65 and over52%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)66%61%
Owned outright57%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented9%17%
Private rented25%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work29%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)7%6%
Retired (of adults)53%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)7%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)28%32%
Travel to work by car or van44%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle25%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)48%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away35%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)38%34%
No qualifications23%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 3 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

What has changed

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

Townsend Close · Chandlers Close · Friars Garden · Springfield Close · Warrington Gardens · Warrington Gardens · Pynfold Gardens · Packers Court · Jockey Field · Weeping Cross Lane · Friars Field · St Stephen's Close

All the streets in SY8 and across Shropshire.

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.