Howard Close Cornforth, County Durham

34 addresses across 2 postcodes (DL17), about 130 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 33906643.

59 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £109,000 across 2 sales. 31 homes have an energy certificate (B: 7, C: 24). No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. Most homes around it are in council tax band A; Band D in County Durham costs £2,622 a year in 2026-27. Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises. 37 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
20252£109,000£100,000£118,000
20232£143,725£102,500£184,950
20221£190,000£190,000£190,000
20212£104,500£99,999£109,000
20202£170,000£168,000£172,000
20192£118,500£117,000£120,000
20182£87,500£55,000£120,000
20172£137,500£105,000£170,000
20163£138,000£94,000£178,000
20142£133,500£105,000£162,000
20131£85,000£85,000£85,000
201110£100,000£85,000£153,000
Most recent sales (59)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
21 Nov 202511 DL17 9LFTerraced£100,000
20 May 202525 DL17 9LFTerraced£118,000
29 Aug 202322 DL17 9LFDetached£184,950
9 Jun 202311 DL17 9LFTerraced£102,500
30 Mar 202220 DL17 9LFDetached£190,000
11 Aug 202125 DL17 9LFTerraced£109,000
14 May 20217 DL17 9LFTerraced£99,999
27 Aug 202020 DL17 9LFDetached£172,000
24 Jul 20202 DL17 9LFDetached£168,000
17 Mar 202016 DL17 9LFTerraced£105,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
23 Aug 20198 DL17 9LFTerraced£117,000
17 Apr 201933 DL17 9LFSemi-detached£120,000
18 Sep 20184 DL17 9LFTerraced£120,000
12 Jun 201812 DL17 9LFTerraced£55,000
21 Feb 201812 DL17 9LFTerraced£70,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
15 Sep 20176 DL17 9LFTerraced£105,000
11 Aug 201731 DL17 9LFDetached£170,000
6 Feb 201714 DL17 9LFSemi-detached£90,000New build. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
6 Feb 201715 DL17 9LFSemi-detached£90,000New build. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
23 Dec 201630 DL17 9LFDetached£152,499Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
23 Dec 201630 DL17 9LFDetached£138,000
7 Oct 20165 DL17 9LFTerraced£94,000
22 Jul 20165 DL17 9LFTerraced£100,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
31 Mar 201624 DL17 9LFDetached£178,000
5 Sep 20148 DL17 9LFTerraced£105,000
1 Aug 201423 DL17 9LFDetached£162,000
29 May 20137 DL17 9LFTerraced£85,000
1 Dec 201127 DL17 9LFTerraced£85,000New build.
29 Sep 20118 DL17 9LFTerraced£100,000New build.
7 Sep 201118 DL17 9LFTerraced£94,995New build.
26 Aug 201117 DL17 9LFTerraced£95,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
19 Aug 201116 DL17 9LFTerraced£95,000New build. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
22 Jul 20115 DL17 9LFTerraced£115,000New build.
21 Jul 20111 DL17 9LFDetached£153,000New build.
30 Jun 201119 DL17 9LFTerraced£100,000New build.
30 Jun 20117 DL17 9LFTerraced£92,500New build.
1 Jun 201129 DL17 9LFDetached£135,000New build.
1 Apr 20114 DL17 9LFTerraced£125,000New build.
31 Mar 201126 DL17 9LFTerraced£90,000New build.
23 Dec 201025 DL17 9LFTerraced£104,495New build.
10 Dec 201028 DL17 9LFDetached£148,000New build.
25 Nov 20109 DL17 9LFTerraced£129,995New build.
25 Nov 20106 DL17 9LFTerraced£95,000New build.
23 Nov 201033 DL17 9LFSemi-detached£100,000
29 Sep 201012 DL17 9LFTerraced£69,995New build.
24 Sep 201024 DL17 9LFDetached£175,000New build.
13 Aug 20103 DL17 9LFTerraced£133,645New build.
1 Jul 20102 DL17 9LFDetached£160,000New build.
30 Jun 201030 DL17 9LFDetached£148,000New build.
25 Jun 201032 DL17 9LFDetached£120,000New build.

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 January 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 96 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (10); House, detached (10); House, semi-detached (8). Built: 2007 (12); 2007-2011 (9); 2010 (6). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (7); rented (social) (2); rented (private) (1).

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.

ABCDEFGH
£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 (83% of about 1,310 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

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

Roadworks

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

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 1 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
DL17 9LFnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
DL17 9LTnot 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.

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
DL17 9LF100%100%100%0%
DL17 9LT100%94%100%0%

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 30 October 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.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceOfsted
West Cornforth Primary SchoolPrimary2–11240 m No overall grade (Sep 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Coxhoe Primary SchoolPrimary4–11850 m Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 30 October 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Square & Compass DL17 9JQPub/bar/nightclub230 m5 Very good6 Nov 2025
Cornforth House Partnership DL17 9HSRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen260 m5 Very good22 Jan 2026
Kung Food China DL17 9HPTakeaway/sandwich shop270 m4 Good13 Mar 2026
The Flintlock Inn and Café DL17 9HSPub/bar/nightclub330 m3 Generally satisfactory10 Mar 2026
Best Kebab DL17 9HNTakeaway/sandwich shop390 m5 Very good4 Dec 2025
Best One - West Cornforth Mini Market DL17 9HNRetailers - other420 m4 Good14 Aug 2024
Arrani convenience store DL17 9HNRetailers - other450 m4 Good17 Sep 2024
Cornforth Fisheries DL17 9HRTakeaway/sandwich shop470 mAwaiting inspection

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.

37 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences14
Anti-social behaviour7
Vehicle crime4
Criminal damage and arson3
Burglary3
Public order2
Other crime2
Other theft1
Robbery1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Bede Grove (10); On or near Barratt Way (9); On or near High Street (8); On or near Glebe Villas (4); On or near Cuthbert Road (3).

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.

  • DL17 9LF: 33 addresses of 35 in the postcode
  • DL17 9LT: 1 address of 40 in the postcode

Nearby streets

The Lane · Barratt Way · Oswald Close · Bede Grove · Bede Grove · Railway Terrace · Glebe Villas · Thrislington Close · Village Farm · The Green · St Cuthbert's Way · High Street

All the streets in DL17 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.
  • Whether you would get a place at a school: distances are straight lines, not catchments.
  • Anything about planning applications, roadworks, noise, air quality or council tax yet.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.