Grasmere Terrace Murton, County Durham

25 addresses across 3 postcodes (SR7), about 210 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 11907701.

  • Sales: 13 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £110,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 14 homes have an energy certificate (C: 4, D: 9, E: 1).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band A; Band D in County Durham costs £2,622 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Seaham, about 3.7 km (2.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 770 m (0.5 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 5.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.4 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 98 to 102 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 Murton Medical Centre, about 290 m away.
  • People: About 390 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 75% of households owned their home and 24% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 325 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often shoplifting.
  • Road safety: 4 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025, 2 of them fatal or serious; 1 involved a pedestrian.

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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
20261£110,000£110,000£110,000
20241£107,500£107,500£107,500
20231£117,000£117,000£117,000
20222£138,500£120,000£157,000
20211£92,500£92,500£92,500
20171£92,000£92,000£92,000
20091£75,000£75,000£75,000
20081£110,000£110,000£110,000
20061£79,000£79,000£79,000
20021£53,000£53,000£53,000
20001£38,000£38,000£38,000
Most recent sales (13)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
11 Jun 20269 SR7 9NHSemi-detached£110,000
19 Dec 202417 SR7 9NUTerraced£107,500
1 Sep 202312 SR7 9NUSemi-detached£117,000
4 Nov 20228 SR7 9NHSemi-detached£157,000
19 Jan 20226 SR7 9NHSemi-detached£120,000
30 Jul 202110 SR7 9NHSemi-detached£92,500
16 Nov 201718 SR7 9NUSemi-detached£92,000
8 Feb 201716 SR7 9NUSemi-detached£77,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
15 Dec 20093 SR7 9NHSemi-detached£75,000
11 Jul 200819 SR7 9NUTerraced£110,000
9 May 200617 SR7 9NUTerraced£79,000
16 Aug 200219 SR7 9NUTerraced£53,000
10 Nov 200011 SR7 9NUSemi-detached£38,000

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

14 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 79 m². Most common: Bungalow, semi-detached (6); House, semi-detached (6); Bungalow, end-terrace (1). Built: 1950-1966 (10); 1900-1929 (2); 1983-1990 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (10); rented (private) (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (14 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.

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£1,748£2,039£2,331£2,622£3,205£3,788£4,370£5,244

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (63% of about 730 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

Finished in the last three months

  • 13 October 2026: NORTHERN POWERGRID (NORTHEAST) PLC, Utility asset works, give and take, on the footway, carriageway (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, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 2 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
SR7 9NHnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
SR7 9NUnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
SR7 9PBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 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 25 addresses are between 98 m and 102 m above sea level (101 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
SR7 9NH100%100%100%0%
SR7 9NU100%100%100%0%
SR7 9PB100%100%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 stationsSeaham 165,000 journeys in 2024–253.7 km (2.3 miles)
Horden 165,000 journeys in 2024–257.4 km (4.6 miles)
Sunderland 709,000 journeys in 2024–2510.1 km (6.3 miles)
Bus stops10 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 31 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Colliery Inn Murton180 m
Bus or coach stationInterchange Seaham4.2 km (2.6 miles)
EV charging pointsBe.EV Charging Station3.2 km (2 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsNewcastle International Airport NCL31.6 km (20 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 Murton Medical Centre290 m
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Foster Morton Healthcare Limited220 m
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery270 m
HospitalCherry Knowle Hospital5.6 km (3.5 miles)
Police stationDurham Police - Seaham Police Office3.4 km (2.1 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest ATM290 m

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 8,930 m²770 m (0.5 miles)
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 200 m²510 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Murton Recreation Ground 13 ha240 m
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.2 ha360 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 0.9 hectares in all.

Landmarks

2 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
GreenhillHill770 m (0.5 miles) north-east
Sandy HillHill1.2 km (0.7 miles) north-west
Dalton DeneValley1.2 km (0.7 miles) north-east
Coop House WoodWood1.4 km (0.9 miles) south
Stephenson LakeLake or reservoir3.5 km (2.2 miles) west
Nose's PointHeadland4.3 km (2.6 miles) 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)5.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.4205
Particles (PM10)9.84015

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 County Durham: see them on the County Durham page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 4 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
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Murton Roman CatholicPrimary2–11440 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Ribbon SchoolPrimary3–11470 m (0.3 miles) Good (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 4 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
The Co-Operative Food SR7 9NXRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets70 m5 Very good21 Nov 2024
Salvation Army SR7 9NLRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen100 m5 Very good10 Mar 2026
Murton Pizza SR7 9NLTakeaway/sandwich shop130 m3 Generally satisfactory10 Jun 2025
Premier - Victoria Stores SR7 9BPRetailers - other130 m3 Generally satisfactory3 Sep 2024
Chinese Chopsticks SR7 9ADRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen170 m4 Good6 Aug 2026
Spar SR7 9JARetailers - other170 m5 Very good21 Nov 2024
Graham Eyes High Class Butchers Ltd. SR7 9JARetailers - other170 m5 Very good22 Oct 2025
Marinos SR7 9ADTakeaway/sandwich shop190 m5 Very good4 Mar 2026
Heart On The Terrace SR7 9ADRetailers - other220 m5 Very good15 Jul 2025
Blinkrun DS SR7 9AARetailers - other230 mAwaiting inspection
Cafe Valour SR7 9BXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen240 m3 Generally satisfactory4 Jun 2026
G Whitfield Chemist SR7 9AARetailers - other260 mExempt
China Gourmet SR7 9AATakeaway/sandwich shop280 m4 Good23 Mar 2026
Murton Post Office SR7 9AARetailers - other290 mExempt
Go Local Convenience Store SR7 9BGRetailers - other300 m4 Good17 Sep 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.

325 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Shoplifting203
Violence and sexual offences45
Criminal damage and arson17
Anti-social behaviour14
Other theft14
Vehicle crime7
Public order7
Burglary6
Other crime5
Drugs3
Robbery2
Possession of weapons1
Theft from the person1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Fife Street (184); On or near George Street (40); On or near Petrol Station (38); On or near West Coronation Street (16); On or near Cookson Terrace (13).

Road safety

Source: Department for Transport, road safety data (STATS19), collisions in 2021 to 2025, as published by November 2026. Collisions in which someone was hurt and which were reported to the police, within 150 m of the middle of any of this street's postcodes, or of the street. Severity is the worst injury as the police recorded it.

4 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 2 serious and 2 slight, in which 3 people were seriously hurt. 1 involved a pedestrian. 50% happened in the dark, and 25% on a wet or icy road. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202131
202200
202300
202400
202511
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
19 Jun 2025 12:24 Serious 3 people B1285, 30 mph Daylight
20 Nov 2021 21:10 Serious 1 person B1285, 30 mph Dark, street lights on
17 Mar 2021 18:51 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian B1285, 30 mph Dark, street lights on
14 Jan 2021 12:20 Slight 1 person B1285, 30 mph Wet road

Only collisions in which someone was hurt and which the police were told about are here: damage-only collisions and near misses are not, and some injuries are never reported. Positions are recorded by the police, usually to within a few metres. Each year's figures are published the following September.

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: 386 residents in 172 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 age4440
Children under 1516%17%
Aged 65 and over17%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)75%61%
Owned outright46%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented0%17%
Private rented25%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work64%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)1%6%
Retired (of adults)20%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)6%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)20%32%
Travel to work by car or van68%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle7%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)56%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away8%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)24%34%
No qualifications18%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)97%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 5 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.

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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.

  • SR7 9NH: 14 addresses of 15 in the postcode
  • SR7 9NU: 10 addresses
  • SR7 9PB: 1 address of 6 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Fife Street · West Ellen Street · Brooklyn Street · Brooklyn Terrace North · Brooklyn Terrace North · West Ellen Street · Church Street · Church Street · East Ellen Street · The Crofts · Cookson Terrace · Cookson Terrace

All the streets in SR7 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; road collisions count only those in which someone was hurt and the police were told.
  • 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.