Grace Road West Exeter

25 addresses across 4 postcodes (EX2), about 440 m (0.3 miles) long, classed as a local road. USRN 14202248.

  • Flood: 51 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 C; Band D in Exeter costs £2,495 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 57% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Marsh Barton, about 550 m (0.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Riverside Valley Park, is about 730 m (0.5 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 7 to 8 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 25 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Ide Lane Surgery, about 750 m (0.5 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 830 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 72% of households owned their home and 31% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.

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
Most recent sales (6)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
28 Nov 2025UNIT 4, GRACE PARADE EX2 8PUOther£435,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
11 Aug 2022UNIT 4, GRACE PARADE EX2 8PUOther£340,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
4 Jul 2022QUICKSTORE EX2 8PUOther£4,275,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
15 Jan 2020J F E NISSAN EX2 8PUOther£1,600,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
21 Sep 2018UNIT 8, GRACE PARADE EX2 8PUOther£295,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
22 Feb 2017UNIT 5, GRACE PARADE EX2 8PUOther£350,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).

Energy performance certificates

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

No certificates found for addresses on this street.

Council tax

What each band costs in Exeter in 2026-27: Band D £2,495 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,664£1,941£2,218£2,495£3,050£3,604£4,159£4,991

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band C (37% of about 1,250 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: 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.

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

Finished in the last three months

  • 19 October 2026 to 22 October 2026: SOUTH WEST WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, give and take, on the footway, carriageway (standard works)
  • 4 October 2026: BT, New service connection, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor 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, 49 at medium risk and 39 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: at least one postcode centre is in flood zone 3. Zone 3 is a 1% (1 in 100) or greater annual chance of flooding from rivers, or 0.5% from the sea, ignoring defences.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
EX2 8PUzone 3 1 / 0 / 14 unlikely
EX2 8DFzone 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
EX2 8PNzone 3 1 / 49 / 14 unlikely
EX2 8QEzone 3 0 / 0 / 10 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 25 addresses are between 7 m and 8 m above sea level (7 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
EX2 8DF100%100%100%0%
EX2 8PN100%73%73%0%
EX2 8PU100%80%80%0%
EX2 8QE100%57%57%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 stationsMarsh Barton 109,000 journeys in 2024–25550 m (0.3 miles)
Exeter St Thomas 329,000 journeys in 2024–251.5 km (0.9 miles)
Exeter Central 3.0 million journeys in 2024–252.4 km (1.5 miles)
Bus stops14 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 38 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Trusham Road Marsh Barton70 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Exeter City Centre2.3 km (1.5 miles)
Ferry terminalTopsham Lock Ferry Landing Exminster4.9 km (3 miles)
Car parksHaven Banks coach parking1 km (0.6 miles)
EV charging points13 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Source EV Charging Station220 m
Airport with scheduled flightsExeter International Airport EXT8.8 km (5.4 miles)
Nearest large airportCardiff International Airport CWL78 km (48 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Ide Lane Surgery750 m (0.5 miles)
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Alphington Pharmacy750 m (0.5 miles)
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Veysey Close (Dental Surgery)1.1 km (0.7 miles)
HospitalFranklyn Community Hospital1.7 km (1 mile)
Police stationExeter Volunteer Police Cadets2.2 km (1.4 miles)
Cash machinesThe Cooperative Food Cowick Street, Exeter Cashzone1.5 km (0.9 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 garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Riverside Valley Park 7.8 ha730 m (0.5 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 760 m²480 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.3 ha480 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.9 ha520 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 7.8 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Michael, a listed building (Grade II*), 690 m (0.4 miles) south-west. 47 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St MichaelListed building, Grade II*690 m (0.4 miles) south-west
Larkbeare HouseRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.3 km (0.8 miles) north
Linear round barrow cemetery at Castle Park, AlphingtonScheduled monument1.4 km (0.9 miles) south
Medieval bridge and part of a late medieval conduit under Holloway StreetScheduled monument1.5 km (0.9 miles) north
The medieval Exe Bridge, St Edmund's Church, and medieval tenement remains, lying between the River Exe and Frog StreetScheduled monument1.6 km (1 mile) north
St Bartholomew's Cemetery, ExeterRegistered park or garden, Grade II*2 km (1.3 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Salmon PoolLake or reservoir950 m (0.6 miles) east
Duck's MarshWetland1 km (0.6 miles) east
Knowle HillHill1.3 km (0.8 miles) south
Constitutional HillHill1.9 km (1.2 miles) west
Peamore WoodWood2.1 km (1.3 miles) south
Church Path Hill PlantationWood2.3 km (1.4 miles) south-east

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)8.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.3205
Particles (PM10)9.04015

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 552425

1 of the street's 25 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 Exeter: see them on the Exeter 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
West Exe SchoolSecondary11–16790 m (0.5 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Alphington Primary SchoolPrimary2–11820 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
St Thomas Primary SchoolPrimary5–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Isca AcademySecondary11–161.4 km (0.9 miles) Report card (Jul 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
St Leonard's (CofE) Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary5–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No overall grade (Jan 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
West Exe Nursery School - Exeter Nursery Schools FederationNursery2–51.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Bowhill Primary SchoolPrimary5–111.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
Montgomery Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.8 km (1.1 miles) No overall grade (Jan 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Wynstream Primary School AcademyPrimary3–111.9 km (1.2 miles) Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Matford Brook AcademyAll-through2–161.9 km (1.2 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; 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

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
Exe Catering EX2 8PNOther catering premises140 m5 Very good28 Oct 2024
Blossom & Bee Vegan Bakehouse EX2 8PNRetailers - other140 m5 Very good5 Oct 2023
ReaL Korea EX2 8PNRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen140 m5 Very good17 Dec 2024
Flour and Flame EX2 8PNMobile caterer140 m5 Very good8 Jun 2026
I Bounce Trampoline Park EX2 8PNRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen170 m5 Very good2 Jun 2026
Central Convenience Stores EX2 8RLRetailers - other170 m5 Very good4 Jun 2025
Street kicks Ltd EX2 8PNRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen190 mAwaiting inspection
Pit Stop Cafe EX2 8PQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen220 m5 Very good24 Jul 2026
The Bakery EX2 8RGRetailers - other220 m5 Very good13 Jan 2026
DC Trading EX2 8PNRetailers - other250 m5 Very good2 Mar 2021
Greggs EX2 8QHRetailers - other250 m5 Very good22 Jul 2026
Exeter Food Action EX2 8RGDistributors/Transporters260 mExempt
Coffee Plus EX2 8NJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen260 m5 Very good14 Nov 2022
Dish Catering/ Graze By Dish EX2 8RGOther catering premises270 m5 Very good30 Mar 2026
Cafe 53 EX2 8RGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen280 m4 Good22 Aug 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.

No crimes recorded at anonymised points within 250 m in this period (devon-and-cornwall).

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: 826 residents in 367 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 age4140
Children under 1516%17%
Aged 65 and over19%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)72%61%
Owned outright36%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented7%17%
Private rented21%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work67%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)under 1%6%
Retired (of adults)23%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)25%32%
Travel to work by car or van49%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus5%8%
On foot or by bicycle18%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)82%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away7%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)31%34%
No qualifications15%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification8%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)96%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 7 to 8 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

  • Roadworks Street works permit: SOUTH WEST WATER: Utility repair and maintenance works, 19 October 2026 to 22 October 2026 (give and take) found 3 November 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings The Thrift Warehouse (retailers - other, EX2 8NY) is no longer listed; it was rated Awaiting inspection found 30 October 2026

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.

  • EX2 8PU: 22 addresses of 23 in the postcode
  • EX2 8DF: 1 address of 3 in the postcode
  • EX2 8PN: 1 address of 110 in the postcode
  • EX2 8QE: 1 address of 26 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Bradman Way · Trusham Road · Marsh Green Road West · Alphin Brook Court · Hennock Road North · Marsh Green Road East · Grace Road Central · Marsh Green Road North · Christow Road · Alphin Brook Road · Bridford Road · Legion Way

All the streets in EX2 and across Exeter.

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.