Gibson Close Exmouth, East Devon

71 addresses across 3 postcodes (EX8), about 240 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 12101210.

  • Sales: 42 recorded sales since 1995; in 2022 the median was £185,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 47 homes have an energy certificate (B: 3, C: 34, D: 10).
  • Flood: 4 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 B; Band D in East Devon costs £2,595 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Exmouth, about 2.5 km (1.6 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 1 km (0.6 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 4.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.4 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 30 to 46 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 71 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Rolle Medical Partnership, about 1.8 km (1.1 miles) away.
  • People: About 320 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 39% of households owned their home and 15% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 45 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
20221£185,000£185,000£185,000
20212£219,000£158,000£280,000
20201£220,000£220,000£220,000
20161£185,000£185,000£185,000
20121£154,000£154,000£154,000
20111£160,000£160,000£160,000
20101£148,500£148,500£148,500
20091£155,000£155,000£155,000
20081£160,500£160,500£160,500
20072£170,475£169,000£171,950
20061£155,000£155,000£155,000
20054£153,000£149,500£172,500
Most recent sales (42)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
8 Mar 202436 EX8 4BUTerraced£265,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
9 Jan 202436 EX8 4BUTerraced£270,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
18 Nov 2022FLAT 4, 21 EX8 4BTFlat or maisonette£185,000Leasehold.
25 Aug 202162 EX8 4BUSemi-detached£280,000
28 May 2021FLAT 4, 21 EX8 4BTFlat or maisonette£158,000Leasehold.
31 Jul 20206 EX8 4BSTerraced£220,000
2 Sep 201636 EX8 4BUTerraced£185,000
23 Mar 201242 EX8 4BUTerraced£154,000
17 Jun 201132 EX8 4BUTerraced£160,000
22 Oct 201023 EX8 4BUTerraced£148,500
6 Jul 200943 EX8 4BUTerraced£155,000
1 Feb 200843 EX8 4BUTerraced£160,500
29 Nov 200750 EX8 4BUTerraced£169,000
1 Nov 200733 EX8 4BUSemi-detached£171,950
1 Dec 200625 EX8 4BUTerraced£155,000
16 Dec 200542 EX8 4BUSemi-detached£154,000
28 Feb 200562 EX8 4BUSemi-detached£152,000
7 Feb 200514 EX8 4BSTerraced£149,500
26 Jan 200519 EX8 4BSSemi-detached£172,500
9 Jul 200458 EX8 4BUSemi-detached£161,000
21 Apr 200442 EX8 4BUSemi-detached£147,500
22 Mar 200450 EX8 4BUTerraced£144,950
28 Jan 20041 EX8 4BSTerraced£134,000
5 Jan 200433 EX8 4BUSemi-detached£144,000
12 Dec 200225 EX8 4BUTerraced£113,000
17 Jul 200260 EX8 4BUSemi-detached£98,500
2 May 200250 EX8 4BUTerraced£97,500
28 Mar 200214 EX8 4BSTerraced£76,500
11 Jan 200226 EX8 4BSTerraced£82,000
19 Oct 200127 EX8 4BUTerraced£79,000
23 Jul 200124 EX8 4BSTerraced£76,000
23 May 200126 EX8 4BSTerraced£79,500
3 Oct 200013 EX8 4BSTerraced£84,000
1 Jul 199911 EX8 4BSTerraced£52,000
14 Apr 19996 EX8 4BSTerraced£50,000
12 Nov 199839 EX8 4BUTerraced£52,000
8 May 199823 EX8 4BUTerraced£49,000
26 Nov 199737 EX8 4BUTerraced£49,500
7 Nov 199762 EX8 4BUSemi-detached£52,950
11 Mar 199646 EX8 4BUTerraced£40,500
12 Jan 19962 EX8 4BSSemi-detached£48,000
5 Oct 199556 EX8 4BUSemi-detached£46,500

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

47 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 71 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (19); Flat (15); House, end-terrace (10). Built: 1967-1975 (22); 1976-1982 (19); 2016 (2). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (25); owner-occupied (12); rented (private) (5).

Each home's certificates and sales (17 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in East Devon in 2026-27: Band D £2,595 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,730£2,019£2,307£2,595£3,172£3,749£4,326£5,191

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (69% of about 640 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: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • 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 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, 3 addresses are in areas at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 0 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 29 homes the Environment Agency counts, 3 are in areas at high risk, 0 medium, 0 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: no postcode centre on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
EX8 4BSnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
EX8 4BUnot in 2 or 3 3 / 1 / 0 unlikely
EX8 4BTnot 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 71 addresses are between 30 m and 46 m above sea level (38 m on average); the ground rises about 15 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
EX8 4BS100%96%100%0%
EX8 4BT100%0%0%0%
EX8 4BU100%97%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 stationsExmouth 1,000,000 journeys in 2024–252.5 km (1.6 miles)
Lympstone Village 93,000 journeys in 2024–253.8 km (2.3 miles)
Starcross 107,000 journeys in 2024–254.6 km (2.8 miles)
Bus stops15 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 56 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Prince of Wales Drive Brixington140 m
Bus or coach stationRailway Station Topsham8.2 km (5.1 miles)
Ferry terminalExmouth Ferry Landing The Point3.3 km (2.1 miles)
Car parksTown Hall Car Park2.7 km (1.7 miles)
EV charging pointsMFG Charging Station1.9 km (1.2 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsExeter International Airport EXT11.5 km (7.1 miles)
Nearest large airportCardiff International Airport CWL85 km (53 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 surgeriesRolle Medical Partnership1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Tesco Instore Pharmacy570 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Adp Exmouth920 m (0.6 miles)
HospitalExmouth Hospital1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Police stationExmouth Police2.2 km (1.3 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Southern Co-Operative Exmouth Brixington Parade, Churchill Road Cashzone710 m (0.4 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 gardenUnnamed 4,100 m²1 km (0.6 miles)
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 500 m²290 m
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 7,680 m²370 m
AllotmentsPound Lane Allotments 2.5 ha930 m (0.6 miles)

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is A la Ronde and The Point-in-View, a registered park or garden (Grade II), 1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-west. 6 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
A la Ronde and The Point-in-ViewRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-west
Two bowl barrows at Big Wood, 580m south west and 470m south of Moorland CottageScheduled monument1.9 km (1.2 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Liverton CopseWood300 m east
Lower Veiges PlantationWood680 m (0.4 miles) north-east
Bystock FishpondsLake or reservoir2.3 km (1.4 miles) north-east
West Down BeaconHill2.6 km (1.6 miles) south-east
Littleham CoveTidal water2.7 km (1.7 miles) south-east
Rodney PointWetland2.8 km (1.7 miles) south

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)4.84010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.4205
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
55 to 5910
Under 557071

1 of the street's 71 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 East Devon: see them on the East Devon 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
Bassetts Farm Primary SchoolPrimary2–11190 m Good (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Marpool Primary SchoolPrimary3–11870 m (0.5 miles) Inadequate (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Brixington Primary AcademyPrimary2–111 km (0.6 miles) Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; 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
Withycombe Raleigh Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Littleham Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Inadequate (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Exmouth Community CollegeSecondary11–181.7 km (1.1 miles) Requires improvement (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Exmouth Roman CatholicPrimary2–112 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection

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
Liverton Copse Community Centre EX8 4SWPub/bar/nightclub130 m5 Very good16 Mar 2026
Bassetts Farm School EX8 4GBSchool/college/university200 m5 Very good12 Mar 2026
Lidl UK EX8 4FGRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good20 Apr 2026
Ronchettis Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good7 Aug 2025
Copper Frog Distilling EX8 4RSManufacturers/packers450 m (0.3 miles)Exempt
Moores Pasties And Pies EX8 4RSManufacturers/packers470 m (0.3 miles)4 Good23 Oct 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.

45 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences25
Criminal damage and arson5
Drugs4
Other crime4
Public order3
Anti-social behaviour2
Other theft1
Possession of weapons1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Cheshire Road (11); On or near Gibson Close (9); On or near Duchy Court (8); On or near Hillcrest Gardens (5); On or near Ashfield Close (5).

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: 315 residents in 132 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 age3940
Children under 1522%17%
Aged 65 and over16%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)39%61%
Owned outright17%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented46%17%
Private rented15%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work61%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)8%6%
Retired (of adults)18%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)13%32%
Travel to work by car or van60%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus8%8%
On foot or by bicycle13%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)64%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away6%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)15%34%
No qualifications25%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)97%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all1%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

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.

  • EX8 4BS: 29 addresses of 33 in the postcode
  • EX8 4BU: 29 addresses of 30 in the postcode
  • EX8 4BT: 13 addresses of 14 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Wilmot Close · Duchy Court · Hillcrest Gardens · Prince of Wales Drive · Cheshire Road · Duke of Cornwall Close · Copperfield Close · Hillcrest Gardens · Hawthorn Grove · Sycamore Close · Dukes Crescent · Cheshire Road

All the streets in EX8 and across East Devon.

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.