Johnson Close Wells, Somerset

42 addresses across 2 postcodes (BA5), about 330 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 25001665.

  • Sales: 42 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £170,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 31 homes have an energy certificate (C: 12, D: 18, E: 1).
  • Flood: 7 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 C; Band D in Somerset costs £2,561 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 70% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Castle Cary, about 14.7 km (9.1 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 680 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 5.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 61 to 71 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 42 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Wells Health Centre, about 1.9 km (1.2 miles) away.
  • People: About 590 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 75% of households owned their home and 35% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 28 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
20251£170,000£170,000£170,000
20241£355,000£355,000£355,000
20231£435,000£435,000£435,000
20221£320,000£320,000£320,000
20211£235,000£235,000£235,000
20201£280,000£280,000£280,000
20191£223,000£223,000£223,000
20183£265,000£180,000£345,000
20161£171,000£171,000£171,000
20152£160,500£141,000£180,000
20143£355,000£169,000£372,500
20131£133,000£133,000£133,000
Most recent sales (42)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
24 Jan 202541 BA5 3NNTerraced£170,000
21 Oct 2024WOODLANDS BA5 3NNSemi-detached£355,000
28 Apr 20237 BA5 3NNTerraced£435,000
14 Feb 20222 BA5 3NNTerraced£320,000
21 Jul 202117 BA5 3NNTerraced£235,000
1 Apr 2021WOODLANDS BA5 3NNSemi-detached£385,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
24 Jul 20203 BA5 3NNTerraced£280,000
26 Apr 201924 BA5 3NNSemi-detached£223,000
12 Oct 2018MELROSE HOUSE BA5 3NNSemi-detached£345,000
27 Feb 201820 BA5 3NNSemi-detached£180,000
16 Feb 20183 BA5 3NNTerraced£265,000
15 Dec 201617 BA5 3NNTerraced£171,000
15 May 201515 BA5 3NNTerraced£180,000
30 Apr 201523 BA5 3NNTerraced£141,000
9 Dec 2014HOLLINWOOD BA5 3NNDetached£355,000
22 Oct 2014HENFIELD HOUSE BA5 3NNDetached£372,500
11 Jul 20141 BA5 3NNTerraced£169,000
29 Nov 201317 BA5 3NNTerraced£133,000
9 Aug 20127 BA5 3NNTerraced£172,500
22 Jun 201215 BA5 3NNTerraced£139,950
5 Apr 201224 BA5 3NNSemi-detached£163,000
5 Aug 2011WOODLANDS BA5 3NNSemi-detached£275,000
14 Dec 201026 BA5 3NNSemi-detached£135,000
24 Apr 200913 BA5 3NNTerraced£122,500
11 May 200724 BA5 3NNSemi-detached£165,000
6 Mar 200631 BA5 3NNSemi-detached£137,000
18 Feb 200526 BA5 3NNSemi-detached£163,000
23 Jul 2002MELROSE HOUSE BA5 3NNSemi-detached£153,000
1 Jun 200126 BA5 3NNSemi-detached£73,000
27 Apr 20013 BA5 3NNTerraced£83,000
20 Apr 200120 BA5 3NNSemi-detached£79,000
13 Dec 20001 BA5 3NNTerraced£74,000
13 Nov 200041 BA5 3NNTerraced£27,950
6 Oct 2000WOODLANDS BA5 3NNSemi-detached£127,500
12 Nov 199943 BA5 3NNTerraced£51,500
30 Apr 199916 BA5 3NNSemi-detached£51,500
23 Oct 199824 BA5 3NNSemi-detached£53,000
24 Apr 199824 BA5 3NNSemi-detached£53,000
9 Jul 1997MELROSE HOUSE BA5 3NNSemi-detached£72,000New build.
23 Jun 1997WOODLANDS BA5 3NNSemi-detached£69,500New build.
10 Jan 199731 BA5 3NNSemi-detached£43,000
31 Aug 199523 BA5 3NNTerraced£37,000

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.

31 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 53 m². Most common: Bungalow, mid-terrace (10); Bungalow, end-terrace (7); Bungalow, semi-detached (6). Built: 1967-1975 (13); 1950-1966 (10); 1983-1990 (3). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (12); rented (social) (9); rented (private) (4).

Council tax

What each band costs in Somerset in 2026-27: Band D £2,561 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,707£1,992£2,276£2,561£3,130£3,699£4,268£5,121

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band C (32% of about 1,400 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: 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, 7 at medium risk and 0 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 21 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 6 medium, 0 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: no postcode centre on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
BA5 3NNnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
BA5 2XNnot in 2 or 3 0 / 7 / 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.

© 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 42 addresses are between 61 m and 71 m above sea level (67 m on average); the ground rises about 10 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
BA5 2XN100%100%100%0%
BA5 3NN100%70%70%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 stationCastle Cary 355,000 journeys in 2024–2514.7 km (9.1 miles)
Bus stops11 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 19 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Bedford Road Wells100 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Wells1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Car parksEuro Car Parks1.5 km (0.9 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest MFG Charging Station1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBristol Airport BRS19.8 km (12 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 surgeriesWells Health Centre1.9 km (1.2 miles)
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots1.1 km (0.7 miles)
NHS dentists5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Northam House Dental Surgery1 km (0.6 miles)
HospitalShepton Mallet Community Hospital5.4 km (3.4 miles)
Police stationWells Police Station2 km (1.2 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Mfg Peregrine - Wells220 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 1,150 m²680 m (0.4 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 100 m²240 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4.6 ha210 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4,300 m²660 m (0.4 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 0.1 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Thomas, a listed building (Grade II*), 360 m west. 113 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 20 of them Grade I and 21 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St ThomasListed building, Grade II*360 m west
Mendip Hospital CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II440 m (0.3 miles) south-east
3 and 5, St Thomas StreetListed building, Grade II*690 m (0.4 miles) west
The Dean's LodgingListed building, Grade II*740 m (0.5 miles) west
23, the LibertyListed building, Grade II*740 m (0.5 miles) west
Bishops Palace, WellsRegistered park or garden, Grade II*780 m (0.5 miles) south-west
Bishop's Palace ruined portions, walls and well houseScheduled monument860 m (0.5 miles) south-west
King's Castle enclosures, Iron Age defended settlementScheduled monument1 km (0.6 miles) south-east
Browne's GateScheduled monument1 km (0.7 miles) west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Strawberry WoodWood370 m south
Tor HillHill450 m (0.3 miles) south-west
Torhill WoodWood590 m (0.4 miles) south-west
Knapp HillHill800 m (0.5 miles) north-east
The CombeValley1.2 km (0.7 miles) north-west
Mineries PoolLake or reservoir4.9 km (3 miles) north

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)5.5205
Particles (PM10)8.64015

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 554142

1 of the street's 42 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 Somerset: see them on the Somerset 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
Stoberry Park SchoolPrimary4–11690 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
St Joseph and St Teresa Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.2 km (0.8 miles) No overall grade (Dec 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
The Blue School Church of EnglandSecondary11–181.5 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Horrington Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.9 km (1.2 miles) Requires improvement (Jan 2024, 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
Explorers Nursery of Wells BA5 3LQHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises210 m5 Very good18 Mar 2026
Budgens ? Wells BA5 3LFRetailers - other220 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.

28 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences14
Public order3
Other theft2
Anti-social behaviour2
Burglary2
Vehicle crime2
Robbery1
Other crime1
Criminal damage and arson1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Churchill Avenue (6); On or near Bath Road (5); On or near Paray Drive (4); On or near Allens Lane (4); On or near Petrol Station (3).

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: 587 residents in 287 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 1513%17%
Aged 65 and over32%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)75%61%
Owned outright51%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented9%17%
Private rented15%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work50%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)36%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)30%32%
Travel to work by car or van51%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle16%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)55%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away10%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)35%34%
No qualifications16%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 6 to 10 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.

  • BA5 3NN: 41 addresses of 42 in the postcode
  • BA5 2XN: 1 address of 24 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Plumptre Avenue · Woodbury Avenue · Churchill Avenue · Broad Close · Bekynton Avenue · Manning Close · Bedford Road · Hervey Road · Allens Lane · Hawker's Lane · Paray Drive · Churchill Road

All the streets in BA5 and across Somerset.

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.