Friendly Street Thornton, Bradford

17 addresses across 3 postcodes (BD13), about 50 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 7729850.

  • Sales: 8 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £75,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 5 homes have an energy certificate (C: 1, D: 4).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area 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 Bradford costs £2,361 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 78% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Frizinghall, about 6.4 km (4 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 1.8 km (1.1 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 232 to 299 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 13 of its 17 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Hollyns Health & Wellbeing, about 2.7 km (1.7 miles) away.
  • People: About 480 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 51% of households owned their home and 27% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 166 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
20241£75,000£75,000£75,000
20231£155,000£155,000£155,000
20161£78,450£78,450£78,450
20041£58,250£58,250£58,250
20021£35,500£35,500£35,500
20001£27,500£27,500£27,500
19981£22,000£22,000£22,000
19951£36,500£36,500£36,500
Most recent sales (8)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
18 Oct 20249 BD13 3JYTerraced£75,000
10 Oct 20234 BD13 3JYTerraced£155,000
13 Oct 20164 BD13 3JYTerraced£78,450
16 Jun 200411 BD13 3JYFlat or maisonette£58,250
5 Jun 200211 BD13 3JYFlat or maisonette£35,500
21 Feb 20009 BD13 3JYTerraced£27,500
16 Jan 19986 BD13 3JYTerraced£22,000
24 Feb 199513 BD13 3JYTerraced£36,500

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 June 2016 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

5 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 69 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (2); House, enclosed end-terrace (1); House, enclosed mid-terrace (1). Built: before 1900 (5). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (3); rented (private) (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (2 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Bradford in 2026-27: Band D £2,361 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,574£1,836£2,098£2,361£2,885£3,410£3,935£4,721

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band A (28% of about 1,410 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the 2 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: yes, Thornton (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 5.
  • 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: yes, Bradford.

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 31 October 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 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, 0 at medium risk and 1 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
BD13 3JYnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
BD13 3LBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
BD13 3RAnot 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 17 addresses are between 232 m and 299 m above sea level (238 m on average); the ground rises about 67 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
BD13 3JY100%100%100%0%
BD13 3LB100%100%100%0%
BD13 3RA100%78%78%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 stationsFrizinghall 433,000 journeys in 2024–256.4 km (4 miles)
Bradford Forster Square 1.5 million journeys in 2024–256.6 km (4.1 miles)
Bingley 1.0 million journeys in 2024–256.6 km (4.1 miles)
Bus stops11 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 18 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Kipping Lane Thornton40 m
Bus or coach stationBradford Interchange Bus Station Bradford City Centre6.6 km (4.1 miles)
EV charging pointsInstaVolt Charging Station3.6 km (2.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLeeds Bradford Airport LBA15.1 km (9.4 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 surgeriesHollyns Health & Wellbeing2.7 km (1.7 miles)
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots290 m
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery180 m
HospitalLynfield Mount Hospital3.7 km (2.3 miles)
Police stationWest Yorkshire Police - Manningham Police Station4.9 km (3 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest ATM50 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 gardenUnnamed 4.7 ha1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,550 m²390 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4,270 m²400 m (0.2 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Top Royd Street Allotments 6,930 m²410 m (0.3 miles)

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is 72 and 74 Market Street, with front garden wall and railings to 74, a listed building (Grade II*), 220 m east. 85 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 3 of them Grade I and 2 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
72 and 74 Market Street, with front garden wall and railings to 74Listed building, Grade II*220 m east
Barn at Upper Headley HallListed building, Grade I510 m (0.3 miles) south
Upper Headley HallListed building, Grade I520 m (0.3 miles) south
Courtyard Entrance and Walling at Upper Headley HallListed building, Grade I540 m (0.3 miles) south
SaltaireWorld Heritage Site6.7 km (4.2 miles) north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Brow BottomValley690 m (0.4 miles) west
Headley CloughValley900 m (0.6 miles) south
Geraldine's WoodWood1.1 km (0.7 miles) north
Chat HillHill1.2 km (0.7 miles) east
Back HeightsHill1.2 km (0.7 miles) north-west
Doe Park ReservoirLake or reservoir2.5 km (1.6 miles) north-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)7.34010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.3205
Particles (PM10)9.54015

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 6470
55 to 5960
Under 55417

13 of the street's 17 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 Bradford: see them on the Bradford 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
Thornton Primary SchoolPrimary3–11350 m Good (Jan 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)
The Academy At St. James Church of EnglandPrimary2–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Report card (Jul 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Foxhill Primary SchoolPrimary3–112 km (1.2 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
Beckfoot ThorntonSecondary11–162 km (1.2 miles) Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Urgent improvement; Personal development and wellbeing: Needs attention; Inclusion: Needs attention; Leadership and governance: Urgent improvement; Safeguarding standards: Not met

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
Plenty at the Square BD13 3LDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen40 m5 Very good14 Jun 2024
Thornton Post Office BD13 3ELRetailers - other60 m5 Very good13 Feb 2013
Rose Cottage Residential Home BD13 3ELHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises60 m5 Very good24 Oct 2025
Lockwoods Pie and Sandwiches Shop BD13 3JDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen100 m5 Very good28 Jun 2025
Atwal News BD13 3JDRetailers - other100 m5 Very good13 Feb 2013
Pizza Delight BD13 3JDTakeaway/sandwich shop100 m3 Generally satisfactory28 Feb 2025
Co Op BD13 3JDRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets100 m5 Very good28 Jun 2025
The Corner Shop BD13 3JDRetailers - other110 mExempt
The Three Sisters Playroom BD13 3ENRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen110 mAwaiting inspection
Wuthering Delights Cafe and Bistro BD13 3JXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen120 m3 Generally satisfactory1 Nov 2025
Thornton Conservative Club (Bar Only) BD13 3JXPub/bar/nightclub120 m5 Very good8 May 2017
The New Inn BD13 3JXPub/bar/nightclub120 m5 Very good25 Oct 2025
Jades Chinese Takeaway BD13 3JNTakeaway/sandwich shop120 m5 Very good7 Nov 2025
Thornton Fisheries BD13 3JNTakeaway/sandwich shop120 m4 Good26 Oct 2024
Masalam Express BD13 3JDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen130 m5 Very good14 Jun 2024

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.

166 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences52
Shoplifting25
Anti-social behaviour15
Criminal damage and arson15
Other theft12
Drugs10
Vehicle crime9
Public order9
Burglary9
Other crime6
Robbery3
Bicycle theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Supermarket (41); On or near Henry Street (13); On or near Fountain Street (13); On or near South Square (12); On or near Chapel Street (10).

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: 477 residents in 232 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 age4740
Children under 1514%17%
Aged 65 and over20%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)51%61%
Owned outright18%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented15%17%
Private rented34%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work56%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)7%6%
Retired (of adults)19%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)11%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)27%32%
Travel to work by car or van59%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus4%8%
On foot or by bicycle6%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)75%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away4%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)27%34%
No qualifications25%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 3 to 6 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.

  • BD13 3JY: 15 addresses of 16 in the postcode
  • BD13 3LB: 1 address of 18 in the postcode
  • BD13 3RA: 1 address of 84 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Priestley Street · Enderley Road · Kipping Lane · Lower Kipping Lane · Kipping Place · Alan Court · Fountain Street · Chapel Street · Henry Street · Chapel Terrace · Albert Street · High Street

All the streets in BD13 and across Bradford.

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.