Front Street Annfield Plain, County Durham

56 addresses across 5 postcodes (DH9), about 120 m long, classed as a b road. USRN 11013463.

Sales: 21 recorded sales since 1995; in 2021 the median was £79,750 across 1 sale.
Energy: 9 homes have an energy certificate (B: 4, D: 4, E: 1).
Flood: 2 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 County Durham costs £2,622 a year in 2026-27.
Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% to 85% of premises.
Transport: The nearest railway station is Chester-Le-Street, about 10.3 km (6.4 miles) away in a straight line.
Green space: There is a small park or garden about 170 m away, and Annfield Plain Park (5.2 hectares) is about 300 m away.
Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 5.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.4 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
Height: Its addresses are 223 to 235 m above sea level.
Noise: 53 of its 57 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Drs Lambert & Ng, about 100 m away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
People: About 800 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 44% of households owned their home and 18% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
Crime: 205 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)
Year	Sales	Median price	Lowest	Highest
2021	1	£79,750	£79,750	£79,750
2020	2	£199,500	£184,000	£215,000
2018	1	£210,000	£210,000	£210,000
2017	2	£181,500	£178,000	£185,000
2014	1	£60,000	£60,000	£60,000
2012	1	£60,000	£60,000	£60,000
2010	1	£35,000	£35,000	£35,000
2009	1	£86,956	£86,956	£86,956
2008	1	£112,500	£112,500	£112,500
2003	1	£110,000	£110,000	£110,000
2001	1	£16,000	£16,000	£16,000
1998	1	£23,400	£23,400	£23,400

Most recent sales (21)
Date	Address	Type	Price	Notes
20 Jan 2023	32 DH9 8HY	Other	£99,000	Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
28 Apr 2022	9 DH9 7SY	Other	£166,000	Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
8 Dec 2021	28 DH9 8HY	Flat or maisonette	£79,750
2 Jul 2021	24 DH9 8HY	Other	£172,000	Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
27 Nov 2020	ASHWOOD HOUSE, 21 DH9 8HY	Detached	£184,000
23 Jul 2020	CHERRY TREE HOUSE DH9 8HY	Detached	£215,000
17 Aug 2018	28 DH9 8HY	Flat or maisonette	£21,000	Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
26 Jun 2018	32 DH9 8HY	Other	£30,000	Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
20 Apr 2018	PEAR TREE HOUSE DH9 8HY	Detached	£210,000
10 Nov 2017	5 - 7 DH9 7SY	Other	£80,000	Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
10 Nov 2017	5 - 7 DH9 7SY	Other	£80,000	Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
30 Jan 2017	CHERRY TREE HOUSE DH9 8HY	Detached	£185,000
30 Jan 2017	WILLOW TREE HOUSE, 21A DH9 8HY	Detached	£178,000
7 Apr 2014	32 DH9 8HY	Terraced	£60,000
15 Jun 2012	12 DH9 8HY	Terraced	£60,000
27 Jul 2010	17 DH9 7SY	Terraced	£35,000
17 Dec 2009	ASHWOOD HOUSE, 21 DH9 8HY	Terraced	£86,956
25 Jan 2008	12 DH9 8HY	Terraced	£112,500
9 Sep 2003	24A DH9 8HY	Detached	£110,000
16 Nov 2001	4 DH9 8HY	Terraced	£16,000
30 Oct 1998	32 DH9 8HY	Terraced	£23,400

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 2014 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

9 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 156 m². Most common: Maisonette, mid-terrace (4); House, detached (4); House, end-terrace (1). Built: before 1900 (3); 1900-1929 (2); 2014 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (6); rented (private) (3).

Each home's certificates and sales (6 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in County Durham in 2026-27: Band D £2,622 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H
£1,748	£2,039	£2,331	£2,622	£3,205	£3,788	£4,370	£5,244

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band A (73% of about 1,580 homes).

A73%

B8%

C9%

D4%

E3%

F1%

G1%

H0%

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, Annfield Plain. 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

Finished in the last three months

24 August 2026 to 26 August 2026: NORTHUMBRIAN WATER, Utility asset works, two-way signals, on the carriageway (standard works)

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, 2 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 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.

Postcode	Planning zone	Addresses at high / medium / low risk	Groundwater
DH9 8HY	not in 2 or 3	1 / 0 / 2	unlikely
DH9 7SY	not in 2 or 3	0 / 0 / 2	unlikely
DH9 7ST	not in 2 or 3	0 / 0 / 0	unlikely
DH9 8JF	not in 2 or 3	0 / 0 / 0	unlikely
DH9 9LY	not in 2 or 3	1 / 0 / 1	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 58 addresses are between 223 m and 235 m above sea level (233 m on average); the ground rises about 12 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)
Postcode	Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)	Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)	Gigabit	Below 10 Mbit/s
DH9 7ST	100%	50%	50%	0%
DH9 7SY	86%	29%	29%	0%
DH9 8HY	100%	67%	19%	0%
DH9 8JF	100%	0%	0%	0%
DH9 9LY	100%	81%	85%	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.

	Nearest	Distance
Railway stations	Chester-Le-Street 232,000 journeys in 2024–25	10.3 km (6.4 miles)
	Dunston 51,000 journeys in 2024–25	11.9 km (7.4 miles)
	Blaydon 69,000 journeys in 2024–25	12 km (7.5 miles)
Bus stops	9 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 31 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Front Street Annfield Plain	10 m
Bus or coach station	Stanley Bus Station Stand A	2.8 km (1.7 miles)
Car parks	Asda Stanley Car Park	2.5 km (1.6 miles)
EV charging points	2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Be.EV Charging Station	950 m (0.6 miles)
Airport with scheduled flights	Newcastle International Airport NCL	20.2 km (13 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.

	Nearest	Distance
GP surgeries	2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Drs Lambert & Ng	100 m
Pharmacies	1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Annfield Plain Pharmacy	90 m
NHS dentists	1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Smile In Durham	400 m (0.2 miles)
Hospital	South Moor Hospital	3.1 km (2 miles)
Police station	Durham Constabulary - Catchgate Police Station	880 m (0.5 miles)
Cash machines	4 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest ATM	100 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.

	Nearest	Distance
Park or garden	4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.9 ha	170 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)	Annfield Plain Park 5.2 ha	300 m
Play area	1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 400 m²	470 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field	8 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.5 ha	370 m
Allotments	3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.0 ha	400 m (0.2 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 9.3 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Bantling Castle Lime Kilns, a scheduled monument, 1.9 km (1.2 miles) west. 4 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
Name	What it is	From the middle of the street
Bantling Castle Lime Kilns	Scheduled monument	1.9 km (1.2 miles) west

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
Name	What it is	From the middle of the street
Whinney Hill	Hill	630 m (0.4 miles) north-east
Iron Hill	Hill	890 m (0.6 miles) north
Whicken Hill	Hill	940 m (0.6 miles) north-east
Langleymoor Plantation	Wood	1.5 km (0.9 miles) south-east
Brooms Dene	Valley	3.3 km (2.1 miles) west
Dunley Ford	Lake or reservoir	4.9 km (3 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)
Pollutant	Here	UK limit	WHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)	5.3	40	10
Fine particles (PM2.5)	5.4	20	5
Particles (PM10)	7.9	40	15

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)
Level	Road traffic	Railways
65 to 69	27	0
60 to 64	23	0
55 to 59	3	0
Under 55	4	57

53 of the street's 57 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 County Durham: see them on the County Durham 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.

School	Phase	Ages	Distance	Inspection
Annfield Plain Junior School	Primary	7–11	200 m	Good (Jan 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)
Annfield Plain Infant School	Primary	2–7	250 m	No published inspection
Catchgate Primary School	Primary	2–11	720 m (0.4 miles)	No published inspection
Oxhill Nursery School	Nursery	2–4	2 km (1.2 miles)	No overall grade (Jul 2025, 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 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.

Business	Type	Distance	Rating	Rated
Mamma Mia DH9 8HY	Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen	10 m	Awaiting inspection
Osmany Curry Out DH9 7SY	Takeaway/sandwich shop	20 m	3 Generally satisfactory	30 May 2024
Aroma spice DH9 7SY	Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen	20 m	4 Good	30 Mar 2026
Deli-icious DH9 7SY	Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen	20 m	4 Good	25 Jun 2026
David's Mini Market DH9 8HY	Retailers - other	20 m	4 Good	14 Mar 2025
Annfield Plain Democratic Club DH9 7SY	Pub/bar/nightclub	30 m	5 Very good	7 Aug 2019
Queens Head Hotel DH9 7SY	Pub/bar/nightclub	40 m	5 Very good	7 Aug 2019
Prime Pizza DH9 8HY	Takeaway/sandwich shop	50 m	5 Very good	27 Feb 2026
Shop Local DH9 7SY	Retailers - other	50 m	4 Good	21 Jan 2026
Candy Parrot DH9 8HU	Retailers - other	80 m	5 Very good	1 Aug 2022
Best One - Gaba & Sons DH9 7XA	Retailers - other	90 m	4 Good	14 Apr 2026
Golden Fry DH9 7XA	Takeaway/sandwich shop	90 m	4 Good	1 Jul 2026
China Tasty DH9 7XA	Takeaway/sandwich shop	100 m	4 Good	17 Apr 2026
Coach and Horses DH9 8HU	Pub/bar/nightclub	130 m	4 Good	29 Jan 2026
Ashchem Chemists DH9 7XA	Retailers - other	130 m	5 Very good	31 Mar 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.

205 recorded crimes by category
Category	Crimes
Violence and sexual offences	61
Anti-social behaviour	55
Shoplifting	25
Criminal damage and arson	19
Public order	12
Other theft	8
Burglary	7
Other crime	6
Vehicle crime	5
Possession of weapons	3
Drugs	3
Robbery	1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Supermarket (71); On or near Hutton Court (29); On or near Front Street (21); On or near Railway Gardens (19); On or near New Front Street (17).

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: 801 residents in 396 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 street	England
Median age	51	40
Children under 15	13%	17%
Aged 65 and over	29%	18%

Homes

	Around this street	England
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)	44%	61%
Owned outright	26%	33%
Shared ownership	under 1%	1%
Social rented	37%	17%
Private rented	18%	21%

Work and commuting

	Around this street	England
Adults (16 and over) in work	41%	57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)	9%	6%
Retired (of adults)	33%	22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)	10%	4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)	16%	32%
Travel to work by car or van	63%	48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram	under 1%	4%
By any public transport, including bus	7%	8%
On foot or by bicycle	11%	10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)	54%	65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away	8%	8%

Education and languages

	Around this street	England
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)	18%	34%
No qualifications	30%	18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification	8%	5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)	98%	91%
Cannot speak English well or at all	under 1%	2%

Deprivation

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

DH9 8HY: 38 addresses of 39 in the postcode
DH9 7SY: 15 addresses of 17 in the postcode
DH9 7ST: 1 address of 4 in the postcode
DH9 8JF: 1 address of 2 in the postcode
DH9 9LY: 1 address of 34 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Hartside Cottages · Station Road · Hutton Court · New Front Street · Castle Court · Granville Avenue · Railway Gardens · Pontop Court · Spring Close · Mitchell Street · Hartside Cottages · Stanhope Gardens

All the streets in DH9 and across County Durham.

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.