Lower Summerlands Exeter

22 addresses across 3 postcodes (EX1), about 100 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 14200504.

  • Sales: 11 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £162,500 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 12 homes have an energy certificate (B: 3, C: 6, D: 2, E: 1).
  • Flood: 2 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 Exeter costs £2,495 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is St James Park (Exeter), about 720 m (0.4 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Southernhay Green, is about 480 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 36 to 41 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 22 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Barnfield Hill Surgery, about 210 m away, with 8 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 260 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 33% of households owned their home and 43% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 292 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.

Sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20252£162,500£135,000£190,000
20201£620,000£620,000£620,000
20192£422,500£80,000£765,000
20141£192,000£192,000£192,000
20072£420,000£345,000£495,000
19971£150,000£150,000£150,000
19961£137,000£137,000£137,000
Most recent sales (11)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
30 Sep 2025FLAT 4, ST MATTHEWS COURT EX1 2NRFlat or maisonette£190,000Leasehold.
29 Apr 20256A EX1 2LJFlat or maisonette£135,000Leasehold.
30 Jan 20208 EX1 2LJTerraced£620,000
16 Dec 20196A EX1 2LJFlat or maisonette£80,000Leasehold.
1 Aug 20199 EX1 2LJDetached£765,000
15 Oct 20186C EX1 2LJOther£180,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
18 Feb 20145 EX1 2LJFlat or maisonette£192,000Leasehold.
19 Dec 20077 EX1 2LJTerraced£495,000
27 Apr 20071 EX1 2LJTerraced£345,000
24 Mar 19979 EX1 2LJDetached£150,000
26 Apr 19967 EX1 2LJTerraced£137,000

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 January 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

12 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 58 m². Most common: Flat (8); House, mid-terrace (2); Maisonette, mid-terrace (1). Built: 2003-2006 (3); before 1900 (3); 2007 onwards (2). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (4); owner-occupied (4).

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 A (68% of about 1,850 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: yes, Lower Summerlands (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 1.
  • 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.

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 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, 2 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 18 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
EX1 2LJnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 2 unlikely
EX1 2NRnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 6 unlikely
EX1 2LGnot in 2 or 3 2 / 0 / 10 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 36 m and 41 m above sea level (39 m on average); the ground rises about 5 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
EX1 2LG100%100%100%0%
EX1 2LJ100%100%100%0%
EX1 2NR100%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 stationsSt James Park (Exeter) 145,000 journeys in 2024–25720 m (0.4 miles)
Exeter Central 3.0 million journeys in 2024–251 km (0.6 miles)
Polsloe Bridge 189,000 journeys in 2024–251.4 km (0.9 miles)
Bus stops11 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 51 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Lower Summerlands Exeter City Centre60 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Exeter City Centre300 m
Ferry terminalTopsham Ferry Landing5.9 km (3.6 miles)
Car parks5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Triangle Car Park130 m
EV charging points16 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Wenea200 m
Airport with scheduled flightsExeter International Airport EXT7.5 km (4.7 miles)
Nearest large airportCardiff International Airport CWL75.7 km (47 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 surgeries8 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Barnfield Hill Surgery210 m
Pharmacies7 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest St Leonards Pharmacy260 m
NHS dentists17 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Spicer Road Dental Practice130 m
HospitalHeavitree Hospital370 m
Police stationHeavitree Road Police Station Exeter180 m
Cash machines5 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Tesco Bank ATM420 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.

NearestDistance
Park or garden5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Southernhay Green 7,380 m²480 m (0.3 miles)
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Rougemont Gardens 3.7 ha660 m (0.4 miles)
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 720 m²350 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Belmont Pleasure Ground 2.8 ha310 m
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,950 m²550 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 5 parks and gardens, 6.2 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is 13-15, Dix's Field, a listed building (Grade II*), 350 m west. 370 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 13 of them Grade I and 42 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
13-15, Dix's FieldListed building, Grade II*350 m west
Sidwell Street Methodist ChurchListed building, Grade II*430 m (0.3 miles) north-west
2-6, Barnfield CrescentListed building, Grade II*430 m (0.3 miles) west
Chichester PlaceListed building, Grade II*480 m (0.3 miles) west
Underground passagesScheduled monument580 m (0.4 miles) west
Law Library, Cathedral YardScheduled monument710 m (0.4 miles) west
Bomb damaged remains of St Catherine's Almshouses and chapel and adjacent canon's house, 140m north of the CathedralScheduled monument710 m (0.4 miles) west
Northernhay and Rougemont GardensRegistered park or garden, Grade II820 m (0.5 miles) west
Larkbeare HouseRegistered park or garden, Grade II1 km (0.6 miles) south-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Salmon PoolLake or reservoir1.9 km (1.2 miles) south
Duck's MarshWetland2 km (1.2 miles) south
Grassway WoodWood2 km (1.3 miles) north-west
Grassway PlantationWood2.1 km (1.3 miles) north-west
Roman HillHill2.6 km (1.6 miles) north
Fairy DellValley3.2 km (2 miles) north-east

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)8.04010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.6205
Particles (PM10)9.34015

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
60 to 6410
55 to 5910
Under 552022

2 of the street's 22 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 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
Newtown Primary SchoolPrimary4–1190 m Requires improvement (Sep 2021, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Sidwell's Church of England Primary School & NurseryPrimary3–11560 m (0.3 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Exeter Mathematics School16 plus16–19730 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Ladysmith Junior SchoolPrimary7–11780 m (0.5 miles) Requires improvement (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Ladysmith Infant & Nursery SchoolPrimary3–7790 m (0.5 miles) Requires improvement (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Leonard's (CofE) Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary5–11920 m (0.6 miles) No overall grade (Jan 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
St Michael's Church of England Primary AcademyPrimary2–111.1 km (0.7 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 David's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary5–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Stoke Hill Infant and Nursery SchoolPrimary3–71.3 km (0.8 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
Exeter and North Devon Colleges Group16 plus16–991.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Stoke Hill Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection
St Thomas Primary SchoolPrimary5–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Good (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
Exeter Christadelphians EX1 2LQOther catering premises80 m5 Very good25 May 2017
Newtown Community Preschool EX1 2BPHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises100 m5 Very good22 May 2018
Clifton Inn EX1 2BRPub/bar/nightclub100 m1 Major improvement necessary20 Mar 2026
Dee Yi Chinese Restaurant EX1 2LDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen120 m1 Major improvement necessary6 Nov 2025
Exe Coffee Roasters EX1 2LDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen120 m3 Generally satisfactory19 Sep 2024
Crossline EX1 2LDOther catering premises140 m5 Very good26 Mar 2025
Saunders Stores Ltd EX1 2BWRetailers - other200 m5 Very good22 Oct 2020
Waitrose EX1 2EBRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets210 m5 Very good12 Feb 2025
Elizabeth Finn Trust, The Lodge EX1 1SYHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises220 m5 Very good13 Oct 2026
Central & Southern Homes Ltd EX1 2BLHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises240 m5 Very good13 Feb 2025
Cross Keys Bar & Cafe EX1 2LTPub/bar/nightclub270 m5 Very good22 Sep 2026
The Maynard School For Girls EX1 1SJSchool/college/university270 m5 Very good4 Jun 2026
Co-op EX1 2FTRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets280 m5 Very good22 Oct 2025
Allstars Sports Bowl Exeter EX1 2FTRetailers - other280 m5 Very good15 Oct 2026
Sushi Daily EX1 2EBRetailers - other300 m5 Very good22 Oct 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.

292 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences112
Anti-social behaviour79
Criminal damage and arson27
Other theft18
Public order15
Drugs10
Vehicle crime6
Other crime5
Shoplifting5
Burglary5
Bicycle theft4
Robbery2
Theft from the person2
Possession of weapons2

Most of these are attached to: On or near Eaton Drive (54); On or near Parking Area (52); On or near Albert Street (44); On or near Lower Summerlands (22); On or near Russell Street (21).

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: 263 residents in 135 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 age3740
Children under 157%17%
Aged 65 and over20%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)33%61%
Owned outright23%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented28%17%
Private rented39%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work52%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)7%6%
Retired (of adults)20%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)6%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)32%32%
Travel to work by car or van28%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus10%8%
On foot or by bicycle27%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)78%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away11%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)43%34%
No qualifications14%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)91%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all2%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 3 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.

  • EX1 2LJ: 14 addresses of 16 in the postcode
  • EX1 2NR: 7 addresses
  • EX1 2LG: 1 address of 40 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Higher Summerlands · Denmark Road · Russell Street · St Matthews Walk · Clifton Road · Codrington Street · St Matthews Close · Eaton Drive · Gladstone Road · Summerland Gate · Chute Street · Gladstone Road

All the streets in EX1 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.