Glenthorne Close Torquay, Torbay

7 addresses across 2 postcodes (TQ1), about 30 m long. USRN 40701119.

  • Sales: 7 recorded sales since 1995; in 2018 the median was £337,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 6 homes have an energy certificate (C: 1, D: 3, E: 2).
  • 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 C; Band D in Torbay costs £2,470 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% to 75% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Torquay, about 2.2 km (1.4 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Torwood Gardens, is about 370 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 4.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 54 to 59 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 7 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Southover Medical Practice, about 1.5 km (1 mile) away.
  • People: About 240 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 64% of households owned their home and 26% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 127 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
20181£337,000£337,000£337,000
20171£330,000£330,000£330,000
20161£255,000£255,000£255,000
20071£275,000£275,000£275,000
20061£249,000£249,000£249,000
20001£125,000£125,000£125,000
19991£123,000£123,000£123,000
Most recent sales (7)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
19 Apr 20183 TQ1 1QLSemi-detached£337,000
27 Jan 20174 TQ1 1QLSemi-detached£330,000
24 Mar 20164 TQ1 1QLSemi-detached£255,000
19 Jan 20072 TQ1 1QLSemi-detached£275,000
9 Jun 20063 TQ1 1QLSemi-detached£249,000
11 Jul 20005 TQ1 1QLDetached£125,000
26 Nov 19992 TQ1 1QLSemi-detached£123,000

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026 (load in progress). Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from September 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

6 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 136 m². Most common: House, detached (6). Built: 1967-1975 (3); 1976-1982 (2); 1950-1966 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (3); rented (private) (2).

Council tax

What each band costs in Torbay in 2026-27: Band D £2,470 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,647£1,921£2,196£2,470£3,019£3,568£4,117£4,941

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (27% of about 1,070 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), 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, Warberries (council page). 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: in a protected area: Area around Lower Warberry Road and Old Torwood Road.
  • Green belt: no.

Listed buildings

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 30 September 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 30 September 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

No address in this street's postcodes is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

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.

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 7 addresses are between 54 m and 59 m above sea level (57 m on average).

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
TQ1 1PN100%75%75%0%
TQ1 1QL100%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 stationsTorquay 508,000 journeys in 2024–252.2 km (1.4 miles)
Torre 376,000 journeys in 2024–252.6 km (1.6 miles)
Paignton 707,000 journeys in 2024–255 km (3.1 miles)
Bus stops16 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 54 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Lower Warberry Rd Wellswood120 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Paignton5.1 km (3.2 miles)
Ferry terminalTorquay Harbour Boarding Pontoon1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Meadfoot Road Car Park740 m (0.5 miles)
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Wenea1.5 km (1 mile)
Airport with scheduled flightsExeter International Airport EXT30.7 km (19 miles)
Nearest large airportCardiff International Airport CWL104 km (65 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 surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Southover Medical Practice1.5 km (1 mile)
Pharmacies6 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Day Lewis Pharmacy500 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists8 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Park Crescent House Dental Surgery850 m (0.5 miles)
HospitalMount Stuart Hospital2.4 km (1.5 miles)
Police stationDevon & Cornwall Police2.1 km (1.3 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Cooperative Food Torquay, Ilsham Rd, Wellswood Cashzone490 m (0.3 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 garden5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Torwood Gardens 1.2 ha370 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Manor Gardens 18 ha660 m (0.4 miles)
Play areaUnnamed 980 m²860 m (0.5 miles)
Playing fieldStoodley Knowle Playing Field 1.8 ha840 m (0.5 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Ben Venue Allotments 3,630 m²750 m (0.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 5 parks and gardens, 21 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is 1-15, Wellswood Park Road, a listed building (Grade II*), 260 m north-east. 156 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 5 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
1-15, Wellswood Park RoadListed building, Grade II*260 m north-east
Parish Church of St MatthiasListed building, Grade II*510 m (0.3 miles) north-east
Hatley St GeorgeListed building, Grade II*590 m (0.4 miles) south-east
Kent's Cavern, TorquayScheduled monument710 m (0.4 miles) east
Castle TorRegistered park or garden, Grade II730 m (0.5 miles) east
Hesketh Crescent and Attached Railings No 1-15 and Attached RailingsListed building, Grade II*810 m (0.5 miles) south
Princess Gardens and Royal Terrace GardensRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.3 km (0.8 miles) west
Prehistoric field system at Walls HillScheduled monument1.3 km (0.8 miles) north-east
Torre AbbeyScheduled monument2 km (1.2 miles) west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Oxlea HillHill440 m (0.3 miles) south-east
Warberry HillHill520 m (0.3 miles) north
Oxlea CopseWood570 m (0.4 miles) east
Meadfoot BeachBeach870 m (0.5 miles) south-east
Devil's PointWetland1.2 km (0.7 miles) north-east
Blackball RocksCliff or slope1.8 km (1.1 miles) north

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)4.94010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.3205
Particles (PM10)8.74015

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

Road and rail noise

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

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
55 to 5920
Under 5557

2 of the street's 7 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 Torbay: see them on the Torbay 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
Ilsham Church of England AcademyPrimary4–11470 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Warberry CofE Academy Church of EnglandPrimary2–11470 m (0.3 miles) Good (Dec 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
All Saints Babbacombe CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Ellacombe Church of England AcademyPrimary2–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
The Spires CollegeSecondary11–181.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Upton St James CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.9 km (1.2 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Requires improvement

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
Burlington Hotel TQ1 1HNHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house90 m5 Very good19 Aug 2026
Babbacombe Convenience Store TQ1 1HNRetailers - other140 m1 Major improvement necessary29 Jul 2025
Jia Wang TQ1 2PTTakeaway/sandwich shop170 m5 Very good18 Aug 2026
Old Vienna Restaurant TQ1 2PTRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen180 m5 Very good29 Jul 2026
Yum Sing Cantonese Restaurant TQ1 1PNRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen190 m5 Very good20 Mar 2025
Erith House TQ1 2PXHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises260 m5 Very good17 Feb 2026
Garden House Nursing Home TQ1 1RNHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises330 m5 Very good4 Dec 2025
Somerville Hotel TQ1 1HJHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house370 m5 Very good29 Apr 2016
The Kents TQ1 2JGPub/bar/nightclub410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good11 Nov 2024
Robin Hill Hotel TQ1 1HFHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good1 May 2026
The Co-Operative Foodstore TQ1 2JGRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good28 Jan 2025
Gresham Court TQ1 1HGHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good18 Aug 2026
Me & Mrs Jones TQ1 2JGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good8 Dec 2025
The Shirley TQ1 1HFHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good1 May 2026
The Village Cafe and Bar/Wellswood Kitchen TQ1 2JGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good15 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.

127 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences63
Anti-social behaviour19
Criminal damage and arson14
Public order11
Burglary5
Other theft4
Other crime4
Vehicle crime3
Drugs2
Possession of weapons2

Most of these are attached to: On or near Old Torwood Road (51); On or near Higher Erith Road (26); On or near Lower Erith Road (18); On or near Lisburne Square (14); On or near Woodend Road (8).

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: 243 residents in 138 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 age6140
Children under 157%17%
Aged 65 and over40%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)64%61%
Owned outright42%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rentedunder 1%17%
Private rented35%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work46%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)8%6%
Retired (of adults)41%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)29%32%
Travel to work by car or van51%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram4%4%
By any public transport, including bus5%8%
On foot or by bicycle13%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)75%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away11%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)26%34%
No qualifications20%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification10%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%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.

Nearby streets

Babbacombe Road · Old Torwood Road · Lower Warberry Road · Daphne Close · Lisburne Square · Marlborough Avenue · Lower Erith Road · Lower Warberry Road · Woodend Road · Acadia Road · Wellswood Park · Lisburne Crescent

All the streets in TQ1 and across Torbay.

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.