Irwell Terrace Bacup, Rossendale

19 addresses across 4 postcodes (OL13), about 100 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 32400553.

  • Sales: 11 recorded sales since 1995; in 2008 the median was £175,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 1 homes have an energy certificate (C: 1).
  • Flood: 19 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 A; Band D in Rossendale costs £2,520 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 44% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Walsden, about 6.3 km (3.9 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 170 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.0 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 252 to 253 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 13 of its 19 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Irwell Medical Practice, about 370 m away.
  • People: About 550 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 32% of households owned their home and 22% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 379 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
20081£175,000£175,000£175,000
20002£95,000£95,000£95,000
19992£23,750£23,750£23,750
19951£25,000£25,000£25,000
Most recent sales (11)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
26 Mar 20183 - 5 OL13 9AWOther£200,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
26 Mar 20185 OL13 9AWOther£200,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
6 Mar 2018BACUP CONSERVATIVE CLUB OL13 9AWOther£132,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
26 May 2017BACUP CONSERVATIVE CLUB OL13 9AWOther£175,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
14 Jan 2014BACUP CONSERVATIVE CLUB OL13 9AWOther£82,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
2 May 2008BACUP CONSERVATIVE CLUB OL13 9AWDetached£175,000Leasehold.
1 Feb 20003 - 5 OL13 9AWTerraced£95,000Leasehold.
1 Feb 20005 OL13 9AWTerraced£95,000Leasehold.
18 Jan 19993 - 5 OL13 9AWTerraced£23,750Leasehold.
18 Jan 19995 OL13 9AWTerraced£23,750Leasehold.
8 Aug 19955 OL13 9AWTerraced£25,000Leasehold.

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 November 2020 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

1 home with a current certificate; median floor area 92 m². Most common: Flat (1). Built: before 1900 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (1).

Council tax

What each band costs in Rossendale in 2026-27: Band D £2,520 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,680£1,960£2,240£2,520£3,080£3,640£4,200£5,040

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band A (77% of about 1,590 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: yes, Bacup Town Centre Conservation Area (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 3.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): Bacup Town Centre Conservation Area, Immediate Article 4 Direction for small Houses in Multiple Occupation.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Listed buildings

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

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 31 October 2026.

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, 16 addresses are in areas at high risk, 3 at medium risk and 11 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: of the 14 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 0 medium, 8 low and 0 very low.

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 2. Zone 2 is between 0.1% and 1% a year from rivers (0.1% and 0.5% from the sea), ignoring defences.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
OL13 9AWzone 2 0 / 0 / 3 unlikely
OL13 9HUnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
OL13 9NHzone 2 1 / 1 / 7 unlikely
OL13 9NJzone 2 15 / 2 / 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 19 addresses are between 252 m and 253 m above sea level (253 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
OL13 9AW100%100%100%0%
OL13 9HU100%100%100%0%
OL13 9NH100%100%100%0%
OL13 9NJ100%44%44%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 stationsWalsden 80,000 journeys in 2024–256.3 km (3.9 miles)
Todmorden 718,000 journeys in 2024–256.7 km (4.2 miles)
Smithy Bridge 191,000 journeys in 2024–259.6 km (6 miles)
Bus stops22 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 44 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest St James Gardens Bacup10 m
Bus or coach stationBus station Rawtenstall5.6 km (3.5 miles)
EV charging points4 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest bp pulse Charging Station160 m
Airport with scheduled flightsManchester Airport MAN39.7 km (25 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 Irwell Medical Practice370 m
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots70 m
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Bacup Primary Health Trust370 m
HospitalBirch Hill Hospital8.7 km (5.4 miles)
Police stationWaterfoot Police Station4.2 km (2.6 miles)
Cash machinesWaterfoot Mini Market Cashzone3.2 km (2 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 garden5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3,110 m²170 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 3.6 ha650 m (0.4 miles)
Play area6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The View 290 m²420 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.9 ha310 m
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4,540 m²270 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 5 parks and gardens, 6.6 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is The Laurels, a listed building (Grade II*), 270 m south-west. 28 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
The LaurelsListed building, Grade II*270 m south-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Tong CloughValley650 m (0.4 miles) south-east
Jeffry Barn WoodWood870 m (0.5 miles) north
Oaken CloughValley1.1 km (0.7 miles) east
Sheephouse CloughValley1.1 km (0.7 miles) south-east
The HileHill1.8 km (1.1 miles) west
Cowpe ReservoirLake or reservoir3.9 km (2.4 miles) south-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)6.54010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.0205
Particles (PM10)9.44015

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
65 to 6920
60 to 6410
55 to 59100
Under 55619

13 of the street's 19 addresses are 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 Rossendale: see them on the Rossendale 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
Bacup Nursery SchoolNursery2–5470 m (0.3 miles) Report card (Jun 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; Safeguarding standards: Met
Bacup Thorn Primary SchoolPrimary4–11470 m (0.3 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Mary's Roman Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary AcademyPrimary3–11620 m (0.4 miles) Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Needs attention; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Bacup St Saviour's Community Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
St Joseph's Roman Catholic Primary School, Stacksteads, BacupPrimary3–111.6 km (1 mile) Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Early years: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
Northern Primary SchoolPrimary5–111.7 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Britannia Community Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.7 km (1.1 miles) Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Sharneyford Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Report card (Jul 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
Bacup Holy Trinity Stacksteads Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Good (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)

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
J.D. Discount Store OL13 9NJRetailers - other40 mExempt
1832 Barista OL13 9NJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen40 m5 Very good27 Jul 2026
Bacup News OL13 9NJRetailers - other40 m5 Very good25 Sep 2024
Smashies OL13 9NJTakeaway/sandwich shop40 m1 Major improvement necessary20 Aug 2026
Mama Arifa 17 Limited OL13 9NJTakeaway/sandwich shop40 m5 Very good30 Jun 2026
FOOD CORNER OL13 9NJTakeaway/sandwich shop40 mAwaiting inspection
Baked.Cakes OL13 9NJTakeaway/sandwich shop40 m5 Very good28 Apr 2025
Boots The Chemists Limited OL13 9NHRetailers - other70 mExempt
Zee Desserts Ltd OL13 9NHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen70 m4 Good2 Sep 2026
Tony's Pizzas & Kebabs House OL13 9AETakeaway/sandwich shop80 m4 Good21 May 2026
Queens Hotel OL13 9AEPub/bar/nightclub80 m4 Good1 Sep 2025
The British Queen OL13 0AAPub/bar/nightclub80 m5 Very good5 Nov 2024
Mannings Bakery Ltd OL13 0AATakeaway/sandwich shop80 m5 Very good13 May 2026
Brians Of Bacup OL13 0AARetailers - other80 m2 Improvement necessary30 Mar 2026
Hillbillypies OL13 0AARetailers - other80 m1 Major improvement necessary5 Jun 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.

379 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences145
Anti-social behaviour72
Criminal damage and arson46
Public order35
Shoplifting27
Other theft15
Burglary14
Other crime8
Vehicle crime7
Drugs5
Possession of weapons2
Robbery2
Bicycle theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Hammerton Green (63); On or near Kershaw Street (29); On or near Yorkshire Street (27); On or near A681 (26); On or near Springfield Avenue (26).

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: 551 residents in 260 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 age3840
Children under 1517%17%
Aged 65 and over15%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)32%61%
Owned outright17%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented32%17%
Private rented36%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work54%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)9%6%
Retired (of adults)16%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)10%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)16%32%
Travel to work by car or van60%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus6%8%
On foot or by bicycle14%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)54%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)22%34%
No qualifications23%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 neighbourhoods around this street are all in decile 1 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 Fern Hill House Care Home (other catering premises, OL13 9BA) now 4 Good, was 5 Very good (rated 28 September 2026) found 3 November 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.

  • OL13 9AW: 16 addresses of 17 in the postcode
  • OL13 9HU: 1 address of 4 in the postcode
  • OL13 9NH: 1 address of 15 in the postcode
  • OL13 9NJ: 1 address of 33 in the postcode

Nearby streets

St James Street · St James Square · South Street · Lumb Scar · St James Street · Union Street · Carlton Terrace · Pickup Street · Tower Street · Union Street · Irwell Street · Hammerton Green

All the streets in OL13 and across Rossendale.

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.