Friarsgate Winchester

11 addresses across 5 postcodes (SO23), about 350 m long, classed as a b road. USRN 44302778.

  • 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 B; Band D in Winchester costs £2,360 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% to 80% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Winchester, about 880 m (0.5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Abbey Grounds, is about 170 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 37 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 11 of its 13 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is St Clements Partnership, about 290 m away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 730 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 28% of households owned their home and 39% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 588 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.

No sales recorded on this street since January 1995 under this street name.

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

No certificates found for addresses on this street.

Council tax

What each band costs in Winchester in 2026-27: Band D £2,360 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,573£1,835£2,098£2,360£2,884£3,409£3,933£4,720

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (42% of about 730 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, Winchester. Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 1.
  • 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

Planned, as of 30 September 2026

  • 8 October 2026 to 9 October 2026: HAMPSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)
  • 8 October 2026 to 9 October 2026: HAMPSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)
  • 19 October 2026 to 20 October 2026: SOUTHERN WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, lane closure, on the footway, carriageway (minor works)

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 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
SO23 9BDnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
SO23 8AQnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 4 unlikely
SO23 8FLnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
SO23 8EAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
SO23 8EBnot 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 addresses are about 37 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
SO23 8AQ100%14%14%0%
SO23 8EA100%0%0%0%
SO23 8EB100%80%80%0%
SO23 8FL100%0%0%0%
SO23 9BD100%0%0%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 stationsWinchester 4.6 million journeys in 2024–25880 m (0.5 miles)
Shawford 140,000 journeys in 2024–254.7 km (2.9 miles)
Chandlers Ford 158,000 journeys in 2024–2510.3 km (6.4 miles)
Bus stops9 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 35 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Broadway St Johns Winchester150 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Winchester80 m
Car parks2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest St Peter's Car Park370 m
EV charging points17 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Be.EV Charging Station120 m
Airport with scheduled flightsSouthampton Airport SOU13 km (8 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Heathrow Airport LHR74.6 km (46 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 St Clements Partnership290 m
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Wellbeing Pharmacy150 m
NHS dentists4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Bridge Street (Dental Surgery)300 m
HospitalRoyal Hampshire County Hospital1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Police stationHampshire & Isle of Wight Constabulary330 m
Cash machines5 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Cheltenham & Gloucester180 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 garden7 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Abbey Grounds 9,320 m²170 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 4.6 ha260 m
Play area7 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,130 m²280 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest North Walls Recreation Ground 4.2 ha440 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 560 m²560 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 7 parks and gardens, 7.0 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is St John's Rooms and Chapel, a listed building (Grade I), 140 m south. 426 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 38 of them Grade I and 39 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
St John's Rooms and ChapelListed building, Grade I140 m south
Abbey HouseListed building, Grade II*190 m south
Church of St John the BaptistListed building, Grade I210 m east
24 and 25, St John's StreetListed building, Grade II*220 m east
City Bridge at the junction of High Street and Bridge StreetScheduled monument240 m south-east
City Cross or 'Butter Cross'Scheduled monument400 m (0.2 miles) west
Winchester Cathedral CloseScheduled monument420 m (0.3 miles) south-west
Magdalen Hill CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.8 km (1.7 miles) east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Tumbling BayLake or reservoir310 m north
St Catherine's HillHill1.8 km (1.1 miles) south
Winnall Down CopseWood2.2 km (1.4 miles) east
Deacon HillHill2.9 km (1.8 miles) south-east
Tops and Bottoms PlantationWood3.4 km (2.1 miles) east
Collis CopseWood3.6 km (2.2 miles) 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)9.34010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.3205
Particles (PM10)9.84015

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
60 to 6480
55 to 5930
Under 55213

11 of the street's 13 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 Winchester: see them on the Winchester 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 Bede Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–11420 m (0.3 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Winnall Primary SchoolPrimary4–11630 m (0.4 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
All Saints Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–11710 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Peter Symonds College16 plus16–991.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Lanterns Nursery School and Extended ServicesNursery2–51.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
St Faith's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.5 km (1 mile) Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
The Westgate SchoolAll-through4–161.6 km (1 mile) Outstanding (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Western Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.8 km (1.1 miles) No overall grade (Mar 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Stanmore Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.8 km (1.1 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good

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
Marks And Spencer Plc SO23 8ADDistributors/Transporters90 m5 Very good11 Nov 2025
German Doner Kebab (GDK) SO23 9JXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen100 m5 Very good12 Dec 2024
Whody Also Trading As Wings&Shakes, SoBe Burgers, Chicken'N Bun, Patty Guy SO23 9BATakeaway/sandwich shop120 m4 Good30 Sep 2026
Alfies SO23 9BAPub/bar/nightclub130 m5 Very good3 Sep 2026
Crown And Anchor SO23 9BAPub/bar/nightclub130 m4 Good12 Aug 2025
Westlands Farm Shop SO23 9BARetailers - other130 m5 Very good22 Jan 2025
Blossom & Palm Sugar SO23 9BARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen130 m4 Good21 Jan 2026
Gandhi Indian Restaurant SO23 9BARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen140 m4 Good30 Apr 2025
Subway SO23 9BATakeaway/sandwich shop140 m5 Very good1 Sep 2026
Sainsbury's SO23 8AQRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets140 m5 Very good30 Aug 2024
Iceland Foods Plc SO23 8AQRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets140 m5 Very good2 Oct 2024
Poundland SO23 8AQRetailers - other150 m5 Very good16 Sep 2024
Incognito SO23 9BERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen150 m5 Very good25 Jul 2018
Projects Boutique And 4th St Kitchen SO23 8BQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen160 m5 Very good10 Dec 2025
Sukee Market Limited SO23 8AFRetailers - other160 m5 Very good9 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.

588 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Shoplifting157
Drugs129
Violence and sexual offences128
Anti-social behaviour60
Public order43
Criminal damage and arson27
Other theft23
Robbery5
Theft from the person4
Burglary3
Other crime3
Bicycle theft3
Vehicle crime2
Possession of weapons1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Shopping Area (202); On or near Silver Hill (192); On or near Parking Area (46); On or near Busket Lane (33); On or near Tanner Street (16).

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: 732 residents in 399 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 age4540
Children under 1510%17%
Aged 65 and over27%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)28%61%
Owned outright17%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented44%17%
Private rented27%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work53%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)27%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)5%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)42%32%
Travel to work by car or van29%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus7%8%
On foot or by bicycle21%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)62%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away14%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)39%34%
No qualifications17%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)90%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all2%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 5 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.

  • SO23 9BD: 4 addresses of 32 in the postcode
  • SO23 8AQ: 3 addresses of 19 in the postcode
  • SO23 8FL: 2 addresses of 4 in the postcode
  • SO23 8EA: 1 address of 29 in the postcode
  • SO23 8EB: 1 address of 42 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Lawn Street · Garden Lane · Cossack Lane · Tanner Street · Water Lane · Union Street · Lower Brook Street · Eastgate Street · Old Bakery Yard · Cross Keys Passage · Silver Hill · Kings Walk

All the streets in SO23 and across Winchester.

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.