Middleton Close Seaham, County Durham

39 addresses across 2 postcodes (SR7), about 270 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 11908068.

Sales: 53 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £258,000 across 1 sale.
Energy: 16 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 5, D: 10).
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 B; Band D in County Durham costs £2,622 a year in 2026-27.
Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 97% to 100% of premises.
Transport: The nearest railway station is Seaham, about 1.8 km (1.1 miles) away in a straight line.
Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 500 m (0.3 miles) away.
Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
Height: Its addresses are 66 to 72 m above sea level.
Noise: 13 of its 39 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is The New Seaham Medical Group, about 1.2 km (0.8 miles) away.
People: About 330 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 97% of households owned their home and 34% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
Crime: 16 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)
Year	Sales	Median price	Lowest	Highest
2025	1	£258,000	£258,000	£258,000
2023	1	£264,000	£264,000	£264,000
2021	1	£250,000	£250,000	£250,000
2020	1	£158,500	£158,500	£158,500
2019	1	£262,000	£262,000	£262,000
2018	1	£132,000	£132,000	£132,000
2016	2	£172,500	£115,000	£230,000
2014	1	£118,500	£118,500	£118,500
2012	2	£161,500	£125,000	£198,000
2011	1	£166,500	£166,500	£166,500
2008	1	£200,000	£200,000	£200,000
2007	2	£175,000	£140,000	£210,000

Most recent sales (latest 50 of 53)
Date	Address	Type	Price	Notes
9 Nov 2025	18 SR7 0PQ	Detached	£258,000
7 Feb 2025	37 SR7 0PQ	Detached	£266,000	Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
27 Oct 2023	30 SR7 0PQ	Detached	£264,000
7 Jun 2021	37 SR7 0PQ	Detached	£250,000
30 Apr 2021	37 SR7 0PQ	Detached	£250,000	Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
30 Sep 2020	10 SR7 0PQ	Semi-detached	£158,500
12 Jul 2019	19 SR7 0PQ	Detached	£262,000
17 Jul 2018	23 SR7 0PQ	Semi-detached	£132,000
21 Jun 2016	19 SR7 0PQ	Detached	£115,000
13 Jun 2016	37 SR7 0PQ	Detached	£230,000
4 Apr 2014	14 SR7 0PQ	Detached	£118,500
21 Sep 2012	2 SR7 0PQ	Semi-detached	£125,000
4 May 2012	13 SR7 0PQ	Detached	£198,000
9 Jun 2011	37 SR7 0PQ	Detached	£166,500
16 Dec 2008	33 SR7 0PQ	Detached	£200,000
26 Oct 2007	14 SR7 0PQ	Detached	£140,000
30 Mar 2007	9 SR7 0PQ	Semi-detached	£210,000
24 Nov 2006	14 SR7 0PQ	Detached	£140,000
29 Apr 2005	13 SR7 0PQ	Detached	£134,000
25 Jun 2004	7 SR7 0PQ	Semi-detached	£143,000
19 Apr 2004	35 SR7 0PQ	Detached	£178,750
12 Sep 2003	7 SR7 0PQ	Semi-detached	£104,000
2 Sep 2002	2 SR7 0PQ	Semi-detached	£81,000
2 Aug 2002	13 SR7 0PQ	Detached	£92,950
12 Jul 2002	35 SR7 0PQ	Detached	£99,500
5 Oct 2001	22 SR7 0PQ	Semi-detached	£67,950
21 Sep 2001	5 SR7 0PQ	Semi-detached	£69,950
23 Jul 2001	25 SR7 0PQ	Semi-detached	£60,000
8 Jun 2001	15 SR7 0PQ	Detached	£69,000
25 May 2001	9 SR7 0PQ	Semi-detached	£59,950
12 Apr 2001	3 SR7 0PQ	Semi-detached	£67,950
23 Feb 2001	29 SR7 0PQ	Detached	£76,000
19 May 2000	17 SR7 0PQ	Detached	£74,000
19 May 2000	22 SR7 0PQ	Semi-detached	£58,000
3 Sep 1999	6 SR7 0PQ	Detached	£73,000
16 Apr 1999	10 SR7 0PQ	Semi-detached	£59,950
26 Mar 1999	7 SR7 0PQ	Semi-detached	£62,500
5 Mar 1999	12 SR7 0PQ	Semi-detached	£10,000
18 Aug 1998	13 SR7 0PQ	Detached	£65,500
5 May 1998	8 SR7 0PQ	Detached	£76,500
27 Mar 1998	3 SR7 0PQ	Semi-detached	£64,000
30 Jan 1998	16 SR7 0PQ	Detached	£93,000
30 Jan 1998	18 SR7 0PQ	Detached	£72,000
17 Oct 1997	11 SR7 0PQ	Detached	£74,000
19 Sep 1997	33 SR7 0PQ	Detached	£90,000
28 Jun 1996	26 SR7 0PQ	Detached	£82,500
28 Jun 1996	14 SR7 0PQ	Detached	£60,000
31 May 1996	35 SR7 0PQ	Detached	£77,000
15 Mar 1996	25 SR7 0PQ	Semi-detached	£57,950
16 Feb 1996	13 SR7 0PQ	Detached	£60,000

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

D10

16 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 82 m². Most common: House, detached (8); House, semi-detached (5); Bungalow, detached (3). Built: 1983-1990 (12); 1976-1982 (2); 1996-2002 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (12).

Each home's certificates and sales (13 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in County Durham in 2026-27: Band D £2,622 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H
£1,748	£2,039	£2,331	£2,622	£3,205	£3,788	£4,370	£5,244

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (42% of about 710 homes).

A11%

B42%

C24%

D10%

E4%

F4%

G4%

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.

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, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 4 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.

Postcode	Planning zone	Addresses at high / medium / low risk	Groundwater
SR7 0PQ	not in 2 or 3	1 / 0 / 3	unlikely
SR7 0PH	not in 2 or 3	0 / 1 / 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 39 addresses are between 66 m and 72 m above sea level (70 m on average); the ground rises about 7 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
SR7 0PH	100%	100%	100%	0%
SR7 0PQ	97%	97%	97%	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 stations	Seaham 165,000 journeys in 2024–25	1.8 km (1.1 miles)
	Sunderland 709,000 journeys in 2024–25	6.7 km (4.2 miles)
	Horden 165,000 journeys in 2024–25	9.9 km (6.1 miles)
Bus stops	6 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 17 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Store Seaton	100 m
Bus or coach station	Interchange Seaham	2.7 km (1.7 miles)
Car parks	Seaham Hall Beach Car Park	1.9 km (1.2 miles)
EV charging points	2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Be.EV Charging Station	550 m (0.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flights	Newcastle International Airport NCL	29.6 km (18 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 The New Seaham Medical Group	1.2 km (0.8 miles)
Pharmacies	2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Netscripts Direct	490 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists	Seaham Smiles	2.1 km (1.3 miles)
Hospital	Cherry Knowle Hospital	2.1 km (1.3 miles)
Police station	Durham Police - Seaham Police Office	1.7 km (1.1 miles)
Cash machines	2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Seaton Supply Stores Cashzone	110 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.

	Nearest	Distance
Park or garden	1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.4 ha	500 m (0.3 miles)
Play area	2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 6,780 m²	550 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field	2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Seaham Town Park 9.0 ha	380 m
Allotments	1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Melrose Crescent Allotments 8,020 m²	380 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 2.4 hectares in all.

Landmarks

7 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
Lodge Field Plantation	Wood	1 km (0.6 miles) east
Seaton Plantation	Wood	1.3 km (0.8 miles) south-west
Cherry Knowle Hill	Hill	1.5 km (0.9 miles) north
Seaham Beach	Beach	2.1 km (1.3 miles) east
Dawdon Dene	Valley	2.1 km (1.3 miles) south-east
South Dock	Lake or reservoir	3 km (1.9 miles) 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)
Pollutant	Here	UK limit	WHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)	7.9	40	10
Fine particles (PM2.5)	5.6	20	5
Particles (PM10)	10.4	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
60 to 64	5	0
55 to 59	8	0
Under 55	26	39

13 of the street's 39 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 County Durham: see them on the County Durham 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
New Seaham Academy	Primary	4–11	340 m	Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Cuthbert's Catholic Primary School, Seaham Roman Catholic	Primary	4–11	440 m (0.3 miles)	No published inspection
Westlea Primary School	Primary	3–11	690 m (0.4 miles)	Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Seaham High School	Secondary	11–16	720 m (0.4 miles)	Good (Jul 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Seaview Primary School	Primary	2–11	1.6 km (1 mile)	Good (May 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.

Business	Type	Distance	Rating	Rated
Seaton Supply Stores SR7 0JL	Retailers - other	100 m	5 Very good	9 May 2025
Fun Shack SR7 0PU	Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen	220 m	5 Very good	20 Jan 2025
Suri's Store SR7 0HS	Retailers - other	220 m	4 Good	2 Sep 2024
Ambleside Fisheries SR7 0HU	Takeaway/sandwich shop	390 m	4 Good	5 Mar 2026
Oregano SR7 0HY	Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen	390 m	4 Good	23 Sep 2026
The Barn at The Mill SR7 0HP	Pub/bar/nightclub	480 m (0.3 miles)	4 Good	17 Jan 2025
Urban Grapes SR7 0PY	Distributors/Transporters	490 m (0.3 miles)	5 Very good	10 Apr 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.

16 recorded crimes by category
Category	Crimes
Violence and sexual offences	8
Anti-social behaviour	4
Public order	2
Other theft	1
Criminal damage and arson	1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Hoy Crescent (4); On or near Burdon Crescent (4); On or near Seaton Crescent (2); On or near Middleton Close (2); On or near Seaton Lane (2).

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: 327 residents in 137 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	56	40
Children under 15	9%	17%
Aged 65 and over	30%	18%

Homes

	Around this street	England
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)	97%	61%
Owned outright	66%	33%
Shared ownership	0%	1%
Social rented	0%	17%
Private rented	3%	21%

Work and commuting

	Around this street	England
Adults (16 and over) in work	53%	57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)	3%	6%
Retired (of adults)	38%	22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)	under 1%	4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)	34%	32%
Travel to work by car or van	59%	48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram	2%	4%
By any public transport, including bus	3%	8%
On foot or by bicycle	1%	10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)	54%	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)	34%	34%
No qualifications	18%	18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification	6%	5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)	98%	91%
Cannot speak English well or at all	0%	2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 9 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.

SR7 0PQ: 38 addresses
SR7 0PH: 1 address of 31 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Seaton Lane · Leechmere Crescent · Lyster Close · McCutcheon Street · Byron Lodge Estate · St Johns Terrace · Clarks Terrace · Burdon Crescent · Hoy Crescent · Slingley Close · Sharpley Drive · Gregson Terrace

All the streets in SR7 and across County Durham.

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.