Palatine Close Torquay, Torbay

15 addresses across 1 postcode (TQ1), about 80 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 40701226.

  • Sales: 21 recorded sales since 1995; in 2022 the median was £240,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 12 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 3, D: 5, E: 2, 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 C; Band D in Torbay costs £2,470 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Torquay, about 1.5 km (0.9 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Lower Ellacombe Park, is about 480 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 5.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 63 to 70 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 15 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Croft Hall Medical Practice, about 870 m (0.5 miles) away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 300 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 48% of households owned their home and 19% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 205 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
20221£240,000£240,000£240,000
20211£235,000£235,000£235,000
20201£220,000£220,000£220,000
20171£170,000£170,000£170,000
20161£180,000£180,000£180,000
20153£125,000£120,500£125,000
20141£135,000£135,000£135,000
20131£110,000£110,000£110,000
20122£94,000£90,000£98,000
20111£127,000£127,000£127,000
20091£141,000£141,000£141,000
20041£118,000£118,000£118,000
Most recent sales (21)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
3 Oct 20249 TQ1 1RDTerraced£265,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
7 Jan 20223 TQ1 1RDTerraced£240,000
19 Nov 20217 TQ1 1RDTerraced£235,000
18 Nov 20209 TQ1 1RDTerraced£220,000
24 May 20181 TQ1 1RDTerraced£160,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
27 Apr 201812 TQ1 1RDTerraced£125,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
22 May 20177 TQ1 1RDTerraced£170,000
22 Jul 20166 TQ1 1RDTerraced£180,000
1 Dec 20154 TQ1 1RDTerraced£125,000
29 Oct 20156 TQ1 1RDTerraced£120,500
20 Feb 20153 TQ1 1RDTerraced£125,000
17 Apr 201413 TQ1 1RDTerraced£135,000
6 Sep 20139 TQ1 1RDTerraced£110,000
14 Sep 201211 TQ1 1RDTerraced£90,000
18 May 201213 TQ1 1RDTerraced£98,000
28 Oct 20111A TQ1 1RDTerraced£127,000
1 May 20091 TQ1 1RDTerraced£141,000
8 Dec 200413 TQ1 1RDTerraced£118,000
21 Feb 20031 TQ1 1RDTerraced£104,950
22 Jan 19999 TQ1 1RDSemi-detached£57,500
18 Apr 199713 TQ1 1RDTerraced£39,000

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 September 2010 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 87 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (7); House, end-terrace (5). Built: 1967-1975 (5); 1950-1966 (3); 1976-1982 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (8); rented (private) (3).

Each home's certificates and sales (10 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Torbay in 2026-27: Band D £2,470 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,647£1,921£2,196£2,470£3,019£3,568£4,117£4,941

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (27% of about 1,070 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: yes, Warberries (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • 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)

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, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 3 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 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 15 addresses are between 63 m and 70 m above sea level (67 m on average); the ground rises about 6 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
TQ1 1RD100%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 stationsTorquay 508,000 journeys in 2024–251.5 km (0.9 miles)
Torre 376,000 journeys in 2024–251.8 km (1.1 miles)
Paignton 707,000 journeys in 2024–254.6 km (2.9 miles)
Bus stops12 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 56 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Teneriffe Wellswood170 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Paignton4.7 km (2.9 miles)
Ferry terminalTorquay - North Quay750 m (0.5 miles)
Car parks4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Car Park430 m (0.3 miles)
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Wenea740 m (0.5 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsExeter International Airport EXT30.8 km (19 miles)
Nearest large airportCardiff International Airport CWL104 km (65 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 surgeries3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Croft Hall Medical Practice870 m (0.5 miles)
Pharmacies8 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Superdrug Pharmacy300 m
NHS dentists9 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Torbay Dental Practice260 m
HospitalMount Stuart Hospital1.6 km (1 mile)
Police stationDevon & Cornwall Police1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Cash machines3 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Ellacombe News Cashzone620 m (0.4 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 garden8 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Lower Ellacombe Park 8,290 m²480 m (0.3 miles)
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Princess Gardens 2.2 ha630 m (0.4 miles)
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,350 m²100 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Ellacombe Green 6,030 m²410 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Ben Venue Allotments 3,630 m²300 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 8 parks and gardens, 6.3 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Parish Church of St John the Evangelist, a listed building (Grade I), 440 m (0.3 miles) south. 217 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 5 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Parish Church of St John the EvangelistListed building, Grade I440 m (0.3 miles) south
Parish Church of St LukeListed building, Grade II*680 m (0.4 miles) west
Princess Gardens and Royal Terrace GardensRegistered park or garden, Grade II710 m (0.4 miles) south-west
Parish Church of St Mary MagdaleneListed building, Grade II*740 m (0.5 miles) north-west
D-Day Embarkation Slipways and Adjoining Section of Quay WallListed building, Grade II*890 m (0.6 miles) south
Torre AbbeyScheduled monument1.2 km (0.8 miles) west
Kent's Cavern, TorquayScheduled monument1.5 km (0.9 miles) east
Castle TorRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.5 km (1 mile) east
Prehistoric field system at Walls HillScheduled monument1.7 km (1.1 miles) north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Stentiford HillHill250 m west
Warberry HillHill740 m (0.5 miles) north-east
St Johns WoodWood900 m (0.6 miles) south
Beacon CoveTidal water1 km (0.6 miles) south
Devil's PointWetland1.7 km (1.1 miles) east
Blackball RocksCliff or slope1.7 km (1.1 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)5.74010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.5205
Particles (PM10)8.94015

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 5910
Under 551415

1 of the street's 15 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 Torbay: see them on the Torbay 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.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
Warberry CofE Academy Church of EnglandPrimary2–11480 m (0.3 miles) Good (Dec 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Ellacombe Church of England AcademyPrimary2–11650 m (0.4 miles) Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
The Spires CollegeSecondary11–181 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
All Saints Babbacombe CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Upton St James CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.1 km (0.7 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: Requires improvement
Ilsham Church of England AcademyPrimary4–111.2 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Cockington Primary SchoolPrimary5–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No overall grade (Apr 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Homelands Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.6 km (1 mile) Report card (Feb 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: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
St Margaret's AcademyPrimary4–111.7 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
Priory Roman Catholic Primary School, TorquayPrimary4–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Good (Sep 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Torre Church of England AcademyPrimary3–111.9 km (1.2 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
Torquay AcademySecondary11–182 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection

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.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Alpine Lodge TQ1 1RBHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises50 m5 Very good27 Apr 2026
Warberries Nursing Home TQ1 1QSHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises170 m5 Very good11 Jun 2025
THE MIST market TQ1 1BBTakeaway/sandwich shop280 m5 Very good4 Sep 2025
Tesco TQ1 1DBRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets290 m5 Very good6 Nov 2025
TG Jones TQ1 1ESRetailers - other290 mExempt
Costa Coffee TQ1 1ESRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen290 m5 Very good8 Oct 2026
Waterstones TQ1 1ESRetailers - other290 m5 Very good12 Feb 2025
Key's World Food Store TQ1 1ESRetailers - other300 m4 Good23 Sep 2026
Superdrug Stores TQ1 1ERRetailers - other310 mExempt
Primark TQ1 1ESRetailers - other310 mExempt
Tocco's TQ1 1DBTakeaway/sandwich shop310 m5 Very good10 Nov 2025
Torquay Fruit Stall TQ2 5PLRetailers - other320 mExempt
Richie Indian Restaurant and Takeaway TQ1 1BGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen330 mUnknown1 Jul 2026
International Food TQ1 3AQRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets330 m5 Very good24 Jun 2026
The Manor Inn TQ1 3AQPub/bar/nightclub330 m5 Very good29 Nov 2024

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.

205 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences81
Anti-social behaviour31
Other theft20
Shoplifting19
Criminal damage and arson16
Public order13
Drugs7
Vehicle crime6
Possession of weapons3
Theft from the person2
Other crime2
Bicycle theft2
Burglary2
Robbery1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Madrepore Road (119); On or near Stentiford Hill Road (12); On or near Warberry Road West (11); On or near Palatine Close (11); On or near Rosehill Road (11).

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: 302 residents in 130 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 age4940
Children under 1514%17%
Aged 65 and over21%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)48%61%
Owned outright29%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented14%17%
Private rented37%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work47%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)20%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)17%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)17%32%
Travel to work by car or van63%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including busunder 1%8%
On foot or by bicycle17%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)90%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away1%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)19%34%
No qualifications32%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)97%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%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.

  • TQ1 1RD: 15 addresses of 16 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Alpine Road · Grafton Terrace · Grafton Road · Stentiford Hill Road · Braddons Street · Stentiford Hill Road · Rosehill Road · Upper Braddons Hill Road · Ben Venue Close · Hillesdon Road · Rosehill Close · Madrepore Road

All the streets in TQ1 and across Torbay.

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.