Ilex Close Exeter

22 addresses across 2 postcodes (EX4), about 70 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 14200423.

  • Sales: 52 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £296,000 across 3 sales.
  • Energy: 15 homes have an energy certificate (C: 9, D: 6).
  • 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 Exeter costs £2,495 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Polsloe Bridge, about 1.3 km (0.8 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 270 m away, and Eastern Fields Playing Field (9.3 hectares) is about 360 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 5.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.4 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 84 to 88 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 22 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Whipton Surgery, about 1.1 km (0.7 miles) away.
  • People: About 290 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 89% of households owned their home and 28% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 48 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
20243£296,000£230,000£325,000
20232£277,000£270,000£284,000
20221£236,500£236,500£236,500
20211£232,000£232,000£232,000
20202£245,000£205,000£285,000
20191£210,000£210,000£210,000
20181£250,000£250,000£250,000
20171£215,000£215,000£215,000
20161£237,500£237,500£237,500
20151£200,000£200,000£200,000
20141£168,000£168,000£168,000
20132£185,000£167,000£203,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 52)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
16 Sep 20246 EX4 9JZDetached£296,000
14 Aug 202420 EX4 9JZTerraced£230,000
23 Feb 20242 EX4 9JZSemi-detached£325,000
14 Dec 202319 EX4 9JZTerraced£270,000
15 Sep 202318 EX4 9JZTerraced£284,000
5 Jan 202216 EX4 9JZTerraced£236,500
28 Sep 202111 EX4 9JZTerraced£232,000
22 Dec 202015 EX4 9JZTerraced£205,000
31 Jul 20201 EX4 9JZDetached£285,000
18 Jan 201916 EX4 9JZTerraced£210,000
18 May 20182 EX4 9JZSemi-detached£250,000
11 Aug 201719 EX4 9JZTerraced£215,000
15 Jan 201613 EX4 9JZTerraced£237,500
10 Jul 20152 EX4 9JZSemi-detached£200,000
24 Feb 201417 EX4 9JZTerraced£168,000
29 Nov 201316 EX4 9JZTerraced£167,000
31 Jan 20133 EX4 9JZDetached£203,000
21 Apr 201119 EX4 9JZTerraced£164,000
24 Sep 201013 EX4 9JZTerraced£195,000
1 Sep 201019 EX4 9JZTerraced£163,500
5 Jul 201018 EX4 9JZTerraced£183,000
25 Jun 20105 EX4 9JZDetached£215,000
23 Oct 200921 EX4 9JZTerraced£187,950
4 Sep 200917 EX4 9JZTerraced£149,500
24 Jul 200916 EX4 9JZTerraced£154,000
1 Aug 20084 EX4 9JZDetached£209,500
16 May 20069 EX4 9JZDetached£211,000
2 Dec 200521 EX4 9JZTerraced£175,000
13 Jul 200519 EX4 9JZTerraced£163,500
10 Jun 200516 EX4 9JZTerraced£154,500
8 Apr 200515 EX4 9JZTerraced£132,000
5 Aug 20049 EX4 9JZDetached£199,950
19 Mar 200419 EX4 9JZTerraced£144,000
14 Nov 20034 EX4 9JZDetached£183,500
2 Aug 20029 EX4 9JZDetached£175,000
13 May 200216 EX4 9JZTerraced£99,950
8 Mar 200210 EX4 9JZTerraced£100,000
22 Feb 20027 EX4 9JZDetached£140,500
6 Jul 200112 EX4 9JZTerraced£86,000
17 Apr 200115 EX4 9JZTerraced£79,950
16 Feb 20012 EX4 9JZSemi-detached£91,000
14 Jan 20006 EX4 9JZDetached£82,000
27 Oct 199911 EX4 9JZTerraced£64,950
8 Sep 199917 EX4 9JZTerraced£64,950
11 Aug 199910 EX4 9JZTerraced£67,000
20 Nov 199813 EX4 9JZTerraced£64,500
24 Jun 199819 EX4 9JZTerraced£57,950
27 Jun 199714 EX4 9JZTerraced£59,000
3 Jan 19979 EX4 9JZDetached£67,000
16 Dec 19969 EX4 9JZDetached£67,000

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 January 2010 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

15 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 74 m². Most common: House, detached (5); House, end-terrace (5); House, mid-terrace (5). Built: 1983-1990 (13); 1996-2002 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (9); rented (private) (5).

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 neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (51% of about 510 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.

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

  • 9 September 2026: BT, New service connection, some carriageway incursion, on the verge (minor works)
  • 17 August 2026 to 21 August 2026: National Grid Electricity Distribution (South West), Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the carriageway (immediate - urgent 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, 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
EX4 9JZnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
EX4 9LAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 2 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 22 addresses are between 84 m and 88 m above sea level (86 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
EX4 9JZ100%100%100%0%
EX4 9LA100%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 stationsPolsloe Bridge 189,000 journeys in 2024–251.3 km (0.8 miles)
Pinhoe 232,000 journeys in 2024–251.8 km (1.1 miles)
St James Park (Exeter) 145,000 journeys in 2024–252.3 km (1.4 miles)
Bus stops14 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 28 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Chancellors Way Beacon Heath110 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Exeter City Centre2.7 km (1.7 miles)
Ferry terminalTopsham Ferry Landing6.7 km (4.2 miles)
Car parksExeter Park and Ride2.4 km (1.5 miles)
EV charging points6 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest MFG Charging Station1 km (0.6 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsExeter International Airport EXT5.7 km (3.6 miles)
Nearest large airportCardiff International Airport CWL73.6 km (46 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 Whipton Surgery1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Day Lewis Pharmacy1 km (0.6 miles)
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Pinhoe Dental Surgery1.1 km (0.7 miles)
HospitalHospital Lane1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Police stationHeavitree Road Police Station Exeter2.5 km (1.6 miles)
Cash machinesMorrisons Daily - Exeter Barton Road Cashzone1.4 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 garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.3 ha270 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Eastern Fields Playing Field 9.3 ha360 m
Play area5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,940 m²280 m
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Exhibition Fields 2.2 ha290 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 3,660 m²1.1 km (0.7 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 11 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Pinbrook House, a listed building (Grade II*), 580 m (0.4 miles) east. 10 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 3 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Pinbrook HouseListed building, Grade II*580 m (0.4 miles) east
Church of St Michael and All AngelsListed building, Grade II*920 m (0.6 miles) east
Polsloe PrioryListed building, Grade II*1 km (0.6 miles) south-west
St Katherine's Priory, PolsloeScheduled monument1 km (0.6 miles) south-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Beacon HillHill1 km (0.6 miles) north-east
Fairy DellValley1 km (0.6 miles) north
Great HillHill1.1 km (0.7 miles) north-west
Ashford CopseWood1.4 km (0.9 miles) north-east
Surry PondLake or reservoir3 km (1.8 miles) north
Duck's MarshWetland4.1 km (2.6 miles) south

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)5.04010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.4205
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 552122

1 of the street's 22 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), 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
St James SchoolSecondary11–16360 m No published inspection
Willowbrook SchoolPrimary3–11570 m (0.4 miles) Requires improvement (Jun 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Whipton Barton Infants and Nursery SchoolPrimary2–71.2 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Whipton Barton Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Stoke Hill Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Pinhoe Church of England Primary School & NurseryPrimary2–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Stoke Hill Infant and Nursery SchoolPrimary3–71.5 km (0.9 miles) No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
St Luke's Church of England SchoolSecondary11–161.5 km (0.9 miles) Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Monkerton Community Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Ladysmith Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.9 km (1.2 miles) Requires improvement (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Ladysmith Infant & Nursery SchoolPrimary3–71.9 km (1.2 miles) Requires improvement (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)

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
Isca Community Enterprises EX4 8LZPub/bar/nightclub320 m5 Very good14 Dec 2023
Spring Cedars EX4 8LDHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good7 May 2025
The Devon Yeoman EX4 8LXPub/bar/nightclub430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good27 Oct 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.

48 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences22
Anti-social behaviour7
Criminal damage and arson5
Public order5
Vehicle crime4
Burglary2
Other crime1
Other theft1
Drugs1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Fox Road (23); On or near Ilex Close (6); On or near Juniper Close (5); On or near Pinwood Meadow Drive (5); On or near Central Avenue (5).

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: 288 residents in 120 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 age4740
Children under 1514%17%
Aged 65 and over25%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)89%61%
Owned outright48%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented2%17%
Private rented10%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work61%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)0%6%
Retired (of adults)28%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)28%32%
Travel to work by car or van57%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus5%8%
On foot or by bicycle7%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)81%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away3%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)28%34%
No qualifications15%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification9%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)96%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 9 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

  • Food hygiene ratings The Devon Yeoman (pub/bar/nightclub, EX4 8LX) re-inspected, still 5 Very good (rated 27 October 2026) 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.

  • EX4 9JZ: 21 addresses of 22 in the postcode
  • EX4 9LA: 1 address of 23 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Pinwood Meadow Drive · Whitebeam Close · Fox Road · Juniper Close · Pinwood Lane · Central Avenue · Chancellor's Way · Tamarisk Close · Spruce Close · Iolanthe Drive · Webber Walk · Pinwood Lane

All the streets in EX4 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.