Hexham Washington, Sunderland

73 addresses across 3 postcodes (NE38), about 280 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 38732260.

  • Sales: 99 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £180,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 31 homes have an energy certificate (B: 3, C: 13, D: 15).
  • Flood: 1 address on its postcodes is 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 Sunderland costs £2,197 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Chester-Le-Street, about 4.8 km (3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 270 m away, and Holley Park (12 hectares) is about 550 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 12.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.4 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 80 to 85 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 5 of its 73 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Galleries Medical Practice, about 1.4 km (0.9 miles) away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 570 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 91% of households owned their home and 30% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 27 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often anti-social behaviour.

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£180,000£180,000£180,000
20253£102,000£85,000£147,000
20241£152,000£152,000£152,000
20232£148,750£132,500£165,000
20225£165,000£65,000£173,000
20211£130,000£130,000£130,000
20203£145,000£130,000£146,250
20192£140,500£132,000£149,000
20182£119,000£118,000£120,000
20171£125,000£125,000£125,000
20163£130,000£107,000£138,000
20153£136,000£93,500£142,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 99)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
17 Jul 202659 NE38 0NSSemi-detached£180,000
5 Dec 20259 NE38 0NRTerraced£102,000
19 Sep 202517 NE38 0NRSemi-detached£85,000
28 Feb 202566 NE38 0NSTerraced£147,000
23 Feb 202432 NE38 0NRSemi-detached£152,000
27 Mar 20233 NE38 0NRSemi-detached£132,500
27 Jan 202328 NE38 0NRSemi-detached£165,000
9 Sep 202256 NE38 0NSSemi-detached£173,000
20 May 202257 NE38 0NSSemi-detached£165,000
19 Apr 202229 NE38 0NRSemi-detached£170,000
11 Mar 20227 NE38 0NRTerraced£107,000
28 Feb 202221 NE38 0NRSemi-detached£65,000
20 Aug 202137 NE38 0NSTerraced£130,000
28 Sep 202050 NE38 0NSSemi-detached£146,250
17 Jun 202027 NE38 0NRSemi-detached£145,000
13 Feb 202032 NE38 0NRSemi-detached£130,000
7 Jun 201923 NE38 0NRSemi-detached£149,000
21 Jan 201957 NE38 0NSSemi-detached£132,000
14 Dec 201857 NE38 0NSSemi-detached£137,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
8 Jun 201834 NE38 0NRSemi-detached£120,000
26 Jan 20183 NE38 0NRSemi-detached£118,000
28 Feb 201725 NE38 0NRSemi-detached£125,000
9 Dec 201650 NE38 0NSSemi-detached£107,000
26 Aug 201620 NE38 0NRSemi-detached£138,000
31 Mar 201624 NE38 0NRSemi-detached£130,000
23 Oct 201549 NE38 0NSSemi-detached£93,500
28 May 201559 NE38 0NSSemi-detached£142,000
6 Feb 201557 NE38 0NSSemi-detached£136,000
29 Sep 201460 NE38 0NSSemi-detached£134,156
1 Sep 201442 NE38 0NSTerraced£137,500
28 Mar 201412 NE38 0NRTerraced£95,500
23 Aug 201342 NE38 0NSTerraced£135,000
28 Jul 201156 NE38 0NSSemi-detached£117,500
25 Jul 20117 NE38 0NRTerraced£95,000
29 Oct 201034 NE38 0NRSemi-detached£90,000
14 May 201016 NE38 0NRSemi-detached£130,000
30 Apr 201041 NE38 0NSTerraced£109,000
26 Mar 201060 NE38 0NSSemi-detached£123,000
22 Jan 201027 NE38 0NRSemi-detached£118,000
4 Jan 201012 NE38 0NRTerraced£97,000
18 Dec 20093 NE38 0NRSemi-detached£99,000
26 Nov 200942 NE38 0NSSemi-detached£126,000
5 Jun 200959 NE38 0NSSemi-detached£105,950
26 May 200941 NE38 0NSTerraced£106,000
25 Apr 20089 NE38 0NRTerraced£115,000
2 Apr 200858 NE38 0NSSemi-detached£134,000
28 Mar 200851 NE38 0NSSemi-detached£142,000
20 Dec 200736 NE38 0NRSemi-detached£131,000
15 Jun 200736 NE38 0NRSemi-detached£129,000
25 Apr 200718 NE38 0NRSemi-detached£159,950

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 13 October 2026. 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.

31 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 71 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (25); House, end-terrace (3); House, mid-terrace (3). Built: 1976-1982 (17); 1967-1975 (13); 1950-1966 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (21); rented (private) (3).

Council tax

What each band costs in Sunderland in 2026-27: Band D £2,197 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,465£1,709£1,953£2,197£2,685£3,174£3,662£4,394

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (54% of about 520 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: 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

  • 10 September 2026: BT, New service connection, some carriageway incursion, on the footway, carriageway (minor works)

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

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 3 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
NE38 0NRnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 3 unlikely
NE38 0NSnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 0 unlikely
NE38 0NBnot 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.

Height above sea level

The street's 73 addresses are between 80 m and 85 m above sea level (82 m on average); the ground rises about 5 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
NE38 0NB100%100%100%0%
NE38 0NR100%100%100%0%
NE38 0NS100%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 stationsChester-Le-Street 232,000 journeys in 2024–254.8 km (3 miles)
Heworth 46,000 journeys in 2024–256.3 km (3.9 miles)
Dunston 51,000 journeys in 2024–258.4 km (5.2 miles)
Bus stops7 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 28 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Ayton Road110 m
Bus or coach stationGalleries Bus Station Washington1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Ferry terminalNewcastle International Ferry Terminal Royal Quays12.7 km (7.9 miles)
Car parksGalleries Shopping Centre Car Park1.2 km (0.7 miles)
EV charging points4 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Gridserve Charging Station630 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsNewcastle International Airport NCL18.1 km (11 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 surgeries3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Galleries Medical Practice1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Asda Pharmacy1.4 km (0.8 miles)
NHS dentists5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Galleries Health Centre1.4 km (0.9 miles)
HospitalSpire Washington Hospital1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Police stationWashington Police Station1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Singhs Convenience Store, Oxclose Village Centre 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 garden4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.5 ha270 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Holley Park 12 ha550 m (0.3 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,010 m²720 m (0.4 miles)
Playing fieldUnnamed 2.0 ha1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Ayton Gardens Allotments 1.1 ha760 m (0.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 21 hectares in all.

Landmarks

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Cube PlantationWood340 m north-west
Bassett's PondLake or reservoir1.4 km (0.9 miles) north-west
Match IslandIsland1.5 km (0.9 miles) north
Lookout LakeLake or reservoir1.5 km (0.9 miles) north
Sheddon's HillHill1.9 km (1.2 miles) north
Longacre DeneValley2.7 km (1.7 miles) north-west

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)12.04010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.4205
Particles (PM10)11.54015

All three are within the UK legal limits; nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 are 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 5950
Under 556873

5 of the street's 73 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

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
Holley Park AcademyPrimary3–11390 m No published inspection
Oxclose Community AcademySecondary11–16480 m (0.3 miles) No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Oxclose Nursery SchoolNursery2–4620 m (0.4 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; Safeguarding standards: Met
Oxclose Primary AcademyPrimary4–11660 m (0.4 miles) Good (Apr 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
St John Boste Catholic Primary School, Washington Roman CatholicPrimary3–11790 m (0.5 miles) Outstanding (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Lambton Primary SchoolPrimary3–11910 m (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Blackfell Primary SchoolPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) Report card (Feb 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: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
Ravensworth Terrace Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Lord Lawson of Beamish AcademySecondary11–181.2 km (0.7 miles) Report card (Dec 2025): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Portobello Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
St Joseph's Catholic Junior School, Birtley Roman CatholicPrimary7–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No overall grade (Jun 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Barley Mow Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.7 km (1 mile) No published inspection

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
Canford Audio NE38 0BWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen300 m5 Very good7 Dec 2017
The Tasty Pizza NE38 0LZTakeaway/sandwich shop480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good16 Apr 2026

Crime within 250 m

Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, September 2025 to August 2026. Police forces move every crime to the nearest of about 760,000 anonymised map points before publishing, so these are crimes near this street, not on it, and a busy point can collect crimes from a wider area. Counts are of records, not convictions.

27 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Anti-social behaviour9
Violence and sexual offences8
Burglary3
Criminal damage and arson3
Public order2
Other crime2

Most of these are attached to: On or near Morpeth Close (10); On or near Kielder (5); On or near Hexham (3); On or near Chipchase (3); On or near Partridge Close (2).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 565 residents in 252 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 age5340
Children under 1511%17%
Aged 65 and over25%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)91%61%
Owned outright51%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rentedunder 1%17%
Private rented8%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work59%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)2%6%
Retired (of adults)31%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)32%32%
Travel to work by car or van57%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle4%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)62%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away5%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)30%34%
No qualifications12%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification8%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)100%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 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

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

Ponteland Close · Fulmar Drive · Ayton Road · Partridge Close · Mallard Close · Greenhead · Berwick · Morpeth Close · Simonburn · Lapwing Close · Bolam · Belsay

All the streets in NE38 and across Sunderland.

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.