Meldon Road Chagford, West Devon
17 addresses across 2 postcodes (TQ13), about 1.2 km (0.8 miles) long. USRN 43102729.
- Sales: 20 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £675,000 across 1 sale.
- Energy: 10 homes have an energy certificate (D: 4, E: 4, F: 2).
- Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
- Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band C; Band D in West Devon costs £2,705 a year in 2026-27.
- Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% of premises.
- Transport: The nearest railway station is Okehampton, about 13.8 km (8.6 miles) away in a straight line.
- Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 2.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 4.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
- Height: Its addresses are 195 to 268 m above sea level.
- Noise: 1 of its 17 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
- Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Chagford Health Centre, about 1.1 km (0.7 miles) away.
- People: About 650 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 74% of households owned their home and 47% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
Sales on this street
| Year | Sales | Median price | Lowest | Highest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 | £675,000 | £675,000 | £675,000 |
| 2022 | 1 | £620,000 | £620,000 | £620,000 |
| 2021 | 2 | £503,125 | £320,000 | £686,250 |
| 2020 | 2 | £330,900 | £306,800 | £355,000 |
| 2017 | 1 | £320,000 | £320,000 | £320,000 |
| 2016 | 3 | £265,000 | £260,000 | £395,000 |
| 2015 | 1 | £480,000 | £480,000 | £480,000 |
| 2013 | 1 | £292,500 | £292,500 | £292,500 |
| 2012 | 1 | £300,000 | £300,000 | £300,000 |
| 2010 | 1 | £320,000 | £320,000 | £320,000 |
| 2007 | 1 | £355,000 | £355,000 | £355,000 |
| 2003 | 1 | £220,500 | £220,500 | £220,500 |
| Date | Address | Type | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 Mar 2025 | 8 TQ13 8BG | Semi-detached | £675,000 | |
| 5 Jul 2022 | KENWICK TQ13 8BG | Detached | £620,000 | |
| 1 Nov 2021 | 10 TQ13 8BG | Semi-detached | £686,250 | |
| 16 Apr 2021 | 26 TQ13 8BG | Semi-detached | £320,000 | |
| 25 Nov 2020 | 22 TQ13 8BG | Semi-detached | £355,000 | |
| 6 Jan 2020 | 44 TQ13 8BG | Semi-detached | £306,800 | |
| 15 Feb 2017 | 18 TQ13 8BG | Semi-detached | £320,000 | |
| 11 Nov 2016 | 22 TQ13 8BG | Semi-detached | £265,000 | |
| 31 Oct 2016 | 30 TQ13 8BG | Semi-detached | £260,000 | |
| 16 Jun 2016 | 12 TQ13 8BG | Semi-detached | £395,000 | |
| 20 Oct 2015 | 14 TQ13 8BG | Semi-detached | £480,000 | |
| 29 Oct 2013 | 26 TQ13 8BG | Semi-detached | £292,500 | |
| 29 Jun 2012 | 18 TQ13 8BG | Semi-detached | £300,000 | |
| 19 Mar 2010 | KENWICK TQ13 8BG | Detached | £320,000 | |
| 12 Sep 2007 | 10 TQ13 8BG | Semi-detached | £355,000 | |
| 30 Dec 2003 | 14 TQ13 8BG | Semi-detached | £220,500 | |
| 25 Aug 2002 | 16 TQ13 8BG | Detached | £440,000 | |
| 6 Nov 2000 | 42 TQ13 8BG | Semi-detached | £111,000 | |
| 12 Oct 1998 | 42 TQ13 8BG | Semi-detached | £53,000 | |
| 27 Jun 1997 | KENWICK TQ13 8BG | Detached | £75,000 |
Energy performance certificates
10 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 115 m². Most common: Flat (4); House, detached (4); House, semi-detached (2). Built: before 1900 (7); 1900-1929 (3). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (8); rented (private) (2).
Each home's certificates and sales (3 addresses)
Council tax
What each band costs in West Devon in 2026-27: Band D £2,705 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.
| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| £1,804 | £2,104 | £2,405 | £2,705 | £3,307 | £3,908 | £4,509 | £5,411 |
Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (21% of about 910 homes).
Planning and heritage
- Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
- 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
- HIGHER WEDDICOTT FARMHOUSE, grade II
Roadworks
Finished in the last three months
- 21 September 2026 to 23 September 2026: DEVON COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, road closure, on the carriageway (immediate - urgent works)
- 20 August 2026: BT, Utility asset works, road closure, on the carriageway, verge (major works)
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.
Height above sea level
The street's 17 addresses are between 195 m and 268 m above sea level (238 m on average); the ground rises about 73 m from the lowest to the highest.
Broadband
| Postcode | Superfast (30 Mbit/s+) | Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+) | Gigabit | Below 10 Mbit/s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TQ13 8BG | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| TQ13 8EJ | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
Getting around
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| Railway stations | Okehampton 348,000 journeys in 2024–25 | 13.8 km (8.6 miles) |
| Yeoford 20,000 journeys in 2024–25 | 14.9 km (9.3 miles) | |
| Bus stops | None within 800 m (0.5 miles) | |
| EV charging points | Wenea | 4.8 km (3 miles) |
| Airport with scheduled flights | Exeter International Airport EXT | 30.9 km (19 miles) |
| Nearest large airport | Cardiff International Airport CWL | 88.8 km (55 miles) |
Local services
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| GP surgeries | 1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Chagford Health Centre | 1.1 km (0.7 miles) |
| Pharmacies | 1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Chagford Pharmacy | 1.3 km (0.8 miles) |
| NHS dentists | 1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Chagford Dental Practice | 1.4 km (0.9 miles) |
| Hospital | Moretonhampstead Hospital | 4.9 km (3.1 miles) |
| Police station | Okehampton Volunteer Police Cadets | 14.3 km (8.9 miles) |
| Cash machines | The Cooperative Food Moretonhampstead, Moretonhampstead | 4.9 km (3.1 miles) |
Parks and green space
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| Play area | Unnamed 730 m² | 1.2 km (0.7 miles) |
| Playing field | Unnamed 4.3 ha | 1.1 km (0.7 miles) |
| Allotments | Unnamed 1,390 m² | 950 m (0.6 miles) |
Landmarks
The nearest historic landmark is Stinhall Cottage Including Garage Adjoining to East, a listed building (Grade II*), 790 m (0.5 miles) south. 8 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.
| Name | What it is | From the middle of the street |
|---|---|---|
| Stinhall Cottage Including Garage Adjoining to East | Listed building, Grade II* | 790 m (0.5 miles) south |
| Week Down cross: a wayside cross 530m south west of Yellam | Scheduled monument | 840 m (0.5 miles) east |
| Shorter Cross: a wayside cross on the north side of a minor road, 350m north west of Middlecott | Scheduled monument | 1 km (0.6 miles) east |
| Name | What it is | From the middle of the street |
|---|---|---|
| Meldon Hill | Hill | 840 m (0.5 miles) west |
| Woodpark Plantation | Wood | 860 m (0.5 miles) north |
| Alderpark Plantation | Wood | 1.1 km (0.7 miles) north |
| Biera Wood | Wood | 1.3 km (0.8 miles) north |
| Cleave Wood | Wood | 2 km (1.3 miles) north-east |
| Fernworthy Reservoir | Lake or reservoir | 4.4 km (2.7 miles) south-west |
Air quality
| Pollutant | Here | UK limit | WHO guideline |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) | 2.0 | 40 | 10 |
| Fine particles (PM2.5) | 4.7 | 20 | 5 |
| Particles (PM10) | 7.8 | 40 | 15 |
All three are within both the UK limits and the WHO guidelines.
Road and rail noise
| Level | Road traffic | Railways |
|---|---|---|
| 55 to 59 | 1 | 0 |
| Under 55 | 16 | 17 |
1 of the street's 17 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 West Devon: see them on the West Devon page.
Nearest schools
| School | Phase | Ages | Distance | Inspection |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chagford Church of England Primary School | Primary | 2–11 | 1.7 km (1.1 miles) | Good (Jun 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) |
Food hygiene ratings nearby
No rated food businesses within 500 m (0.3 miles).
Crime within 250 m
No crimes recorded at anonymised points within 250 m in this period (devon-and-cornwall).
People and work
Who lives here
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Median age | 58 | 40 |
| Children under 15 | 11% | 17% |
| Aged 65 and over | 37% | 18% |
Homes
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Owned (outright or with a mortgage) | 74% | 61% |
| Owned outright | 57% | 33% |
| Shared ownership | 1% | 1% |
| Social rented | 5% | 17% |
| Private rented | 21% | 21% |
Work and commuting
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Adults (16 and over) in work | 52% | 57% |
| Unemployment (of those working or looking for work) | 5% | 6% |
| Retired (of adults) | 35% | 22% |
| Long-term sick or disabled (of adults) | 2% | 4% |
| Work mainly from home (of those in work) | 49% | 32% |
| Travel to work by car or van | 39% | 48% |
| By train, Underground, metro or tram | 1% | 4% |
| By any public transport, including bus | 1% | 8% |
| On foot or by bicycle | 9% | 10% |
| Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work) | 44% | 65% |
| Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away | 19% | 8% |
Education and languages
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults) | 47% | 34% |
| No qualifications | 10% | 18% |
| Apprenticeship as highest qualification | 4% | 5% |
| Main language English (aged 3 and over) | 99% | 91% |
| Cannot speak English well or at all | under 1% | 2% |
Deprivation
The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 6 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.
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.
Postcodes on this street
All the streets in TQ13 and across West Devon.
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.