Larksfield Road Drybrook, Forest of Dean

38 addresses across 2 postcodes (GL17), about 540 m (0.3 miles) long, classed as a minor road. USRN 14700307.

Sales: 33 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £332,500 across 1 sale.
Energy: 19 homes have an energy certificate (B: 2, C: 4, D: 5, E: 3, F: 4, G: 1).
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 B; Band D in Forest of Dean costs £2,443 a year in 2026-27.
Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 38% to 77% of premises.
Transport: The nearest railway station is Lydney, about 15.3 km (9.5 miles) away in a straight line.
Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 2.7 km (1.7 miles) away.
Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 4.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.9 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
Height: Its addresses are 218 to 247 m above sea level.
Noise: 7 of its 38 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Drybrook Surgery, about 300 m away.
People: About 680 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 92% of households owned their home and 28% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.

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)
Year	Sales	Median price	Lowest	Highest
2026	1	£332,500	£332,500	£332,500
2025	2	£482,500	£375,000	£590,000
2023	2	£283,250	£185,000	£381,500
2021	1	£220,000	£220,000	£220,000
2019	3	£440,000	£338,000	£475,000
2017	1	£150,000	£150,000	£150,000
2016	2	£224,998	£200,000	£249,995
2013	1	£165,000	£165,000	£165,000
2007	3	£215,000	£156,670	£250,000
2002	1	£142,500	£142,500	£142,500
2001	2	£88,000	£67,000	£109,000
2000	2	£89,500	£89,000	£90,000

Most recent sales (33)
Date	Address	Type	Price	Notes
5 Mar 2026	NEW HAVEN GL17 9JP	Semi-detached	£332,500
18 Dec 2025	ANBERRY HOUSE GL17 9JP	Detached	£590,000
18 Jul 2025	HOLLY HOUSE GL17 9JP	Semi-detached	£375,000
16 Jun 2023	SEASONS VIEW GL17 9JP	Detached	£381,500
20 Mar 2023	NORTHBANK GL17 9JP	Semi-detached	£185,000	Leasehold.
31 Mar 2022	MANSVILLE MEADOW GL17 9JP	Other	£230,000	Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
27 Oct 2021	SALMAR GL17 9JP	Semi-detached	£220,000
19 Dec 2019	OLIVE TREE GL17 9JP	Detached	£475,000
16 Aug 2019	ANBERRY HOUSE GL17 9JP	Detached	£440,000
14 Jun 2019	GLENDERRY GL17 9JP	Detached	£338,000
26 Jun 2017	HILL VIEW GL17 9JP	Detached	£150,000
13 Dec 2016	GLENDERRY GL17 9JP	Detached	£200,000
13 Dec 2016	MANSVILLE MEADOW GL17 9JP	Other	£57,500	Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
7 Apr 2016	DEAN VIEW GL17 9JP	Detached	£249,995
14 Jun 2013	TREBADEN GL17 9JP	Detached	£165,000
26 Nov 2007	DUNOON GL17 9JP	Detached	£250,000
17 Oct 2007	FOUR WINDS GL17 9JP	Detached	£156,670
2 Apr 2007	DEAN VIEW GL17 9JP	Semi-detached	£215,000
26 Jul 2002	SEASONS VIEW GL17 9JP	Detached	£142,500
13 Jul 2001	HOLLY HOUSE GL17 9JP	Semi-detached	£109,000
3 May 2001	FRESHWINDS GL17 9JP	Terraced	£67,000
8 Sep 2000	WYNDOVER GL17 9JP	Detached	£90,000
1 Aug 2000	GLENETH GL17 9JP	Semi-detached	£89,000
24 Sep 1999	LYN LODGE GL17 9JP	Detached	£102,500
10 Sep 1999	TANERA GL17 9JP	Detached	£103,000
9 Apr 1998	SALMAR GL17 9JP	Semi-detached	£70,000
11 Jul 1997	WYNDHURST GL17 9JP	Detached	£85,000
11 Jul 1997	DUNOON GL17 9JP	Detached	£84,000
31 Jan 1997	NORTHBANK GL17 9JP	Semi-detached	£61,700	New build. Leasehold.
31 Jan 1997	NORTHBANK GL17 9JP	Semi-detached	£61,700	New build.
20 Dec 1996	HOLLY HOUSE GL17 9JP	Semi-detached	£67,500	New build.
30 Oct 1996	TANERA GL17 9JP	Detached	£85,000
21 Aug 1995	HIGHVIEW GL17 9JP	Detached	£48,000

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 June 2013 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

19 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 107 m². Most common: House, detached (11); House, semi-detached (6); Bungalow, detached (2). Built: before 1900 (5); 1991-1995 (4); 1900-1929 (3). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (17).

Each home's certificates and sales (9 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Forest of Dean in 2026-27: Band D £2,443 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H
£1,629	£1,900	£2,172	£2,443	£2,986	£3,529	£4,072	£4,887

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (28% of about 900 homes).

A21%

B28%

C23%

D19%

E6%

F2%

G1%

H0%

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)

Drybrook Road Drybrook: up to 12 homes, permissioned (340 m)
Drybrook Road Drybrook: up to 12 homes, permissioned (340 m)

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

No address in this street's postcodes is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

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.

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 38 addresses are between 218 m and 247 m above sea level (230 m on average); the ground rises about 29 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)
Postcode	Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)	Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)	Gigabit	Below 10 Mbit/s
GL17 9JP	100%	77%	77%	0%
GL17 9JU	100%	38%	38%	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.

	Nearest	Distance
Railway station	Lydney 194,000 journeys in 2024–25	15.3 km (9.5 miles)
Bus stops	6 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 20 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Phone Box Harrow Hill	200 m
Bus or coach station	Bus Station Cinderford	3.2 km (2 miles)
Ferry terminal	Sharpness Old Docks	14.1 km (8.8 miles)
EV charging points	High Street, Mitcheldean	2.3 km (1.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flights	Bristol Airport BRS	54 km (34 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.

	Nearest	Distance
GP surgeries	1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Drybrook Surgery	300 m
Pharmacies	1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Drybrook Pharmacy	450 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists	Dental Surgery	2 km (1.3 miles)
Hospital	Forest Of Dean Community Hospital	2 km (1.3 miles)
Police station	West Mercia Police	8.5 km (5.3 miles)
Cash machines	1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Midcounties Co-Op Drybrook Cashzone	560 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.

	Nearest	Distance
Park or garden	Unnamed 350 m²	2.7 km (1.7 miles)
Play area	2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 110 m²	520 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field	3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.5 ha	140 m
Allotments	Steam Mills Allotment Gardens 970 m²	1.2 km (0.8 miles)

Landmarks

3 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
Name	What it is	From the middle of the street
Quarry Hill	Hill	470 m (0.3 miles) south
Loquiers Inclosure	Wood	550 m (0.3 miles) north-east
Harryhill Plantation	Wood	640 m (0.4 miles) south-east
Hollybush Hill	Hill	700 m (0.4 miles) east
Horsepool Bottom	Valley	2.1 km (1.3 miles) east
Wig Pool	Lake or reservoir	2.6 km (1.6 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)
Pollutant	Here	UK limit	WHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)	4.1	40	10
Fine particles (PM2.5)	5.9	20	5
Particles (PM10)	9.6	40	15

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)
Level	Road traffic	Railways
55 to 59	7	0
Under 55	31	38

7 of the street's 38 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 Forest of Dean: see them on the Forest of Dean 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.

School	Phase	Ages	Distance	Inspection
Drybrook Primary School	Primary	2–11	400 m (0.2 miles)	No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Steam Mills Primary School	Primary	4–11	1.2 km (0.7 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; Early years: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met

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.

Business	Type	Distance	Rating	Rated
Only Holy Water GL17 9JU	Manufacturers/packers	170 m	Awaiting inspection
Drybrook Memorial Hall Social Club GL17 9JQ	Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen	300 m	5 Very good	21 Feb 2025
Dene Magna At Drybrook Primary School GL17 9JF	School/college/university	400 m (0.2 miles)	5 Very good	7 Feb 2024
Overbook Service Station GL17 9JA	Retailers - other	470 m (0.3 miles)	5 Very good	23 Jul 2025

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.

No crimes recorded at anonymised points within 250 m in this period (gloucestershire).

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: 677 residents in 286 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 street	England
Median age	52	40
Children under 15	12%	17%
Aged 65 and over	26%	18%

Homes

	Around this street	England
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)	92%	61%
Owned outright	60%	33%
Shared ownership	under 1%	1%
Social rented	1%	17%
Private rented	7%	21%

Work and commuting

	Around this street	England
Adults (16 and over) in work	56%	57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)	4%	6%
Retired (of adults)	30%	22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)	3%	4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)	27%	32%
Travel to work by car or van	68%	48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram	0%	4%
By any public transport, including bus	under 1%	8%
On foot or by bicycle	3%	10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)	47%	65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away	8%	8%

Education and languages

	Around this street	England
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)	28%	34%
No qualifications	16%	18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification	8%	5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)	99%	91%
Cannot speak English well or at all	0%	2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 4 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.

GL17 9JP: 36 addresses of 37 in the postcode
GL17 9JU: 2 addresses of 47 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Mount Close · Dean's Walk · Woodend Road · Greenbank Close · Sycamore Road · Drybrook Road · Eastwood Road · Sycamore Road

All the streets in GL17 and across Forest of Dean.

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.