Northdown Close Ledbury, Herefordshire, County of

19 addresses across 4 postcodes (HR8), about 70 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 23207706.

  • Sales: 26 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £205,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 10 homes have an energy certificate (C: 6, D: 2, E: 1, F: 1).
  • Flood: 1 address on its postcodes is 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 Herefordshire, County of costs £2,574 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Ledbury, about 430 m (0.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 200 m away, and The Riverside Park (4.0 hectares) is about 290 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 4.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.0 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 59 to 62 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 7 of its 19 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Ledbury Health Partnership, about 1 km (0.6 miles) away.
  • People: About 510 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 60% of households owned their home and 29% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 44 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often anti-social behaviour.

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£205,000£205,000£205,000
20231£160,500£160,500£160,500
20221£155,000£155,000£155,000
20201£185,000£185,000£185,000
20182£165,000£158,000£172,000
20151£165,000£165,000£165,000
20121£124,000£124,000£124,000
20101£175,000£175,000£175,000
20072£159,000£155,000£163,000
20062£129,475£74,000£184,950
20041£90,300£90,300£90,300
20011£72,500£72,500£72,500
Most recent sales (26)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
28 Mar 202514 HR8 2PPTerraced£205,000
23 Jun 20236 HR8 2PPDetached£160,500
14 Nov 202212 HR8 2PPTerraced£155,000
14 Aug 202014 HR8 2PPTerraced£185,000
16 Jul 201810 HR8 2PPTerraced£158,000
23 Mar 201814 HR8 2PPTerraced£172,000
24 Feb 20158 HR8 2PPTerraced£165,000
14 Dec 20125 HR8 2PPDetached£124,000
24 May 20101 HR8 2PPSemi-detached£175,000
27 Apr 20074 HR8 2PPTerraced£163,000
20 Feb 20072 HR8 2PPTerraced£155,000
7 Sep 20061 HR8 2PPSemi-detached£184,950
10 Jul 20069 HR8 2PPSemi-detached£74,000Leasehold.
13 Feb 200412 HR8 2PPTerraced£90,300
18 Apr 20014 HR8 2PPTerraced£72,500
31 Jul 20006 HR8 2PPDetached£49,500
30 Mar 20005 HR8 2PPDetached£63,000
17 Dec 19992 HR8 2PPTerraced£67,500
22 Aug 19975 HR8 2PPDetached£42,000
18 Aug 19976 HR8 2PPDetached£39,950
13 Jun 19977 HR8 2PPSemi-detached£37,000
9 May 19974 HR8 2PPTerraced£53,500
3 Feb 19979 HR8 2PPSemi-detached£24,000Leasehold.
23 Dec 19962 HR8 2PPTerraced£55,000
29 Nov 199615 HR8 2PPTerraced£27,000Leasehold.
10 May 19967 HR8 2PPSemi-detached£35,950

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

10 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 54 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (4); House, semi-detached (3); House, enclosed end-terrace (2). Built: 1991-1995 (6); 1996-2002 (3); 1983-1990 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (7); rented (private) (2).

Council tax

What each band costs in Herefordshire, County of in 2026-27: Band D £2,574 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,716£2,002£2,288£2,574£3,146£3,719£4,291£5,149

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (38% of about 760 homes).

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 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, 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.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
HR8 2PPnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
HR8 2DUnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 2 unlikely
HR8 2LRnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
HR8 2PNnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 2 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 19 addresses are between 59 m and 62 m above sea level (61 m on average).

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
HR8 2DU100%100%100%0%
HR8 2LR100%100%100%0%
HR8 2PN100%100%100%0%
HR8 2PP100%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 stationsLedbury 195,000 journeys in 2024–25430 m (0.3 miles)
Colwall 63,000 journeys in 2024–256.5 km (4 miles)
Great Malvern 429,000 journeys in 2024–2510.6 km (6.6 miles)
Bus stops10 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 17 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Golding Way Ledbury80 m
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Ledbury Station Car Park410 m (0.3 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Wenea1 km (0.6 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX65.2 km (41 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 surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Ledbury Health Partnership1 km (0.6 miles)
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Day Lewis Pharmacy950 m (0.6 miles)
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Access Centre1 km (0.6 miles)
HospitalMalvern Community Hospital11.6 km (7.2 miles)
Police stationWest Mercia Police1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Cash machinesThe Cooperative Food Ledbury Cashzone1.1 km (0.7 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 garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.7 ha200 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)The Riverside Park 4.0 ha290 m
Play area7 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 760 m²160 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.8 ha610 m (0.4 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 3.0 ha1.6 km (1 mile)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 6.9 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Tudor House Antiques, a listed building (Grade II*), 820 m (0.5 miles) south-east. 81 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 4 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Tudor House AntiquesListed building, Grade II*820 m (0.5 miles) south-east
Abbey HouseListed building, Grade II*830 m (0.5 miles) south-east
Shell HouseListed building, Grade II*840 m (0.5 miles) south-east
30, the HomendListed building, Grade II*860 m (0.5 miles) south-east
Wall Hills CampScheduled monument1.4 km (0.9 miles) west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Mill WoodWood380 m north-west
Dog HillHill830 m (0.5 miles) east
Dog Hill WoodWood870 m (0.5 miles) east
Malins' WoodWood1.1 km (0.7 miles) west
Quarry PlantationWood1.2 km (0.7 miles) east
Eastnor LakeLake or reservoir3.6 km (2.2 miles) south-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)4.74010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.0205
Particles (PM10)10.44015

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 5970
Under 551219

7 of the street's 19 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 Herefordshire, County of: see them on the Herefordshire, County of 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
Ledbury Primary SchoolPrimary2–11540 m (0.3 miles) Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
John Masefield High SchoolSecondary11–181.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection

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
Glazydayz HR8 1ARRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good30 Sep 2025
Ledbury Cider & Juice Co Ltd HR8 1LGDistributors/Transporters460 m (0.3 miles)Exempt

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.

44 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Anti-social behaviour14
Violence and sexual offences13
Public order6
Vehicle crime4
Criminal damage and arson2
Other theft2
Possession of weapons1
Other crime1
Burglary1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Saxon Way (14); On or near The Leasowes (10); On or near Ballard Close (8); On or near Yeoman Close (4); On or near Progress Close (2).

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: 509 residents in 243 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 age4840
Children under 1515%17%
Aged 65 and over26%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)60%61%
Owned outright38%33%
Shared ownership5%1%
Social rented10%17%
Private rented26%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work59%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)under 1%6%
Retired (of adults)30%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)20%32%
Travel to work by car or van63%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle14%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)52%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away9%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)29%34%
No qualifications15%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification8%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)94%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all1%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.

  • HR8 2PP: 16 addresses of 17 in the postcode
  • HR8 2DU: 1 address of 45 in the postcode
  • HR8 2LR: 1 address of 26 in the postcode
  • HR8 2PN: 1 address of 44 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Northdown Close · Target Close · Target Close · Challenger Close · Challenger Close · Golding Way · Golding Way · Viking Way · Viking Way · The Leasowes · The Leasowes · Sunshine Close

All the streets in HR8 and across Herefordshire, County of.

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.