Pottergate Helmsley, North Yorkshire

118 addresses across 10 postcodes (YO62), about 310 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 33303971.

  • Sales: 43 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £515,500 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 66 homes have an energy certificate (B: 3, C: 38, D: 19, E: 5, F: 1).
  • Flood: 21 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 C; Band D in North Yorkshire costs £2,544 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Thirsk, about 20.6 km (13 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 520 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 3.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 4.8 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 51 to 102 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 5 of its 118 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Helmsley Surgery, about 460 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • People: About 760 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 58% of households owned their home and 33% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 45 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£515,500£400,000£631,000
20242£477,500£205,000£750,000
20231£635,000£635,000£635,000
20222£402,500£305,000£500,000
20212£212,500£180,000£245,000
20193£300,000£288,000£375,000
20171£545,000£545,000£545,000
20162£284,222£259,000£309,444
20151£132,000£132,000£132,000
20141£310,000£310,000£310,000
20131£249,000£249,000£249,000
20111£325,000£325,000£325,000
Most recent sales (43)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
30 Jun 202533 YO62 5BXDetached£631,000
28 Mar 202531 YO62 5BXSemi-detached£400,000
30 May 20241 YO62 5BUSemi-detached£750,000
28 Mar 20247A YO62 5BUTerraced£205,000
8 Dec 20237 YO62 5BUDetached£635,000
27 Oct 202314 YO62 5BYSemi-detached£308,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
21 Jun 20228 YO62 5BYTerraced£500,000
18 Mar 20229 YO62 5BXTerraced£305,000
28 May 20213 YO62 5BUTerraced£245,000
28 May 20215 YO62 5BUTerraced£180,000
20 Dec 2019ORCHARD CLOSE YO62 5BYDetached£375,000
9 Oct 201933 YO62 5BXDetached£288,000
26 Jul 2019JASMINE HOUSE YO62 5BYDetached£300,000
9 Feb 2017THE CART HOUSE YO62 5BYDetached£545,000
18 Nov 201637 YO62 5BXDetached£309,444
31 Mar 201611 YO62 5BXTerraced£259,000
19 Aug 20157A YO62 5BUTerraced£132,000
22 Apr 201437 YO62 5BXDetached£205,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
21 Feb 20141 YO62 5BUTerraced£310,000
6 Dec 201335 YO62 5BXDetached£249,000
1 Sep 20118 YO62 5BYTerraced£325,000
30 Apr 201033 YO62 5BXDetached£325,000
22 Jan 2010JASMINE HOUSE YO62 5BYDetached£262,000
26 Sep 200835 YO62 5BXDetached£225,000
2 Aug 200720 YO62 5BYTerraced£275,000
19 Jul 20057A YO62 5BUTerraced£123,000
16 Feb 20052 YO62 5BYDetached£437,500
19 Nov 20048 YO62 5BYTerraced£185,100
10 Jun 200420 YO62 5BYTerraced£222,500
19 May 2004JUBILEE HOUSE YO62 5BYDetached£245,000
28 Nov 200320 YO62 5BYTerraced£180,000
8 Aug 200220 YO62 5BYTerraced£123,000
8 Jan 200218 YO62 5BYTerraced£95,000
9 Apr 200133 YO62 5BXDetached£135,000
6 Oct 20002 YO62 5BYDetached£195,000
2 Oct 20004 YO62 5BYDetached£65,000
30 Jun 2000BUCKLE YEAT YO62 5BYDetached£135,000
16 Jun 2000ORCHARD CLOSE YO62 5BYDetached£150,000
10 Dec 19992 YO62 5BYDetached£165,000
28 Apr 199835 YO62 5BXDetached£88,000
27 Jun 199721 YO62 5BXSemi-detached£78,000New build.
21 Mar 199718 YO62 5BYTerraced£65,500
14 Feb 19974, THE PADDOCK YO62 5BXSemi-detached£51,000

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 October 2008 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

66 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 55 m². Most common: Flat (30); House, semi-detached (12); House, detached (6). Built: 1983-1990 (28); before 1900 (13); 1900-1929 (8). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (22); owner-occupied (20); rented (private) (10).

Each home's certificates and sales (35 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in North Yorkshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,544 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,696£1,979£2,262£2,544£3,110£3,675£4,241£5,089

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (36% of about 760 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, Helmsley (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 7.
  • 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

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

Planned, as of 30 September 2026

  • 1 October 2026: QUICKLINE COMMUNICATIONS LTD, Utility asset works, give and take, on the footway (minor works)

Finished in the last three months

  • 4 September 2026: QUICKLINE COMMUNICATIONS LTD, Utility asset works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)

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, 14 addresses are in areas at high risk, 7 at medium risk and 55 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: of the 26 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 1 medium, 8 low and 1 very low.

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
YO62 5DYnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 33 unlikely
YO62 5BAnot in 2 or 3 1 / 0 / 1 unlikely
YO62 5BXnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 2 unlikely
YO62 5BYnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 3 unlikely
YO62 5BQnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
YO62 5BUnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
YO62 5AAnot in 2 or 3 3 / 3 / 11 unlikely
YO62 5DJnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
YO62 5EBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
YO62 5EZnot in 2 or 3 10 / 2 / 4 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 118 addresses are between 51 m and 102 m above sea level (54 m on average); the ground rises about 51 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
YO62 5AA100%100%100%0%
YO62 5BA100%100%100%0%
YO62 5BQ100%100%100%0%
YO62 5BU100%100%100%0%
YO62 5BX100%100%100%0%
YO62 5BY100%100%100%0%
YO62 5DJ100%100%100%0%
YO62 5DY100%100%100%0%
YO62 5EB44%0%0%0%
YO62 5EZ100%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 stationThirsk 288,000 journeys in 2024–2520.6 km (13 miles)
Bus stops4 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Feathers Hotel Helmsley240 m
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Cleveland Way Car Park490 m (0.3 miles)
EV charging pointsRoam Charging Station8.5 km (5.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsTeesside International Airport MME38 km (24 miles)
Nearest large airportLeeds Bradford Airport LBA57.8 km (36 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 Helmsley Surgery460 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Helmsley Pharmacy460 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Helmsley Smiles Limited240 m
HospitalSt Monicas Hospital16.5 km (10 miles)
Police stationEasingwold Police Station16.4 km (10 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Barclays Bank - Helmsley260 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.

NearestDistance
Park or garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 320 m²520 m (0.3 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3,050 m²270 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The John Atkinson Memorial Playing Fields 2.9 ha620 m (0.4 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,870 m²540 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 0.0 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Helmsley Bridge, a scheduled monument, 160 m south-west. 58 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 3 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Helmsley BridgeScheduled monument160 m south-west
Memorial to Second Baron FevershamListed building, Grade II*260 m north-west
Canons Garth and Doorway and WallsListed building, Grade II*370 m north-west
Church of All SaintsListed building, Grade II*370 m north-west
Helmsley Castle: twelfth century ringwork, twelfth to fourteenth century enclosure castle and sixteenth century mansionScheduled monument420 m (0.3 miles) west
Helmsley CastleListed building, Grade I450 m (0.3 miles) west
Three round barrows 800m ENE of Helmsley BridgeScheduled monument680 m (0.4 miles) east
Duncombe ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade I1.4 km (0.9 miles) south-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
East Plock WoodsWood620 m (0.4 miles) south-east
Plockwoods Bank WoodWood900 m (0.6 miles) south-west
Cliff HillHill1.2 km (0.7 miles) north
Monk Holme WoodWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) north-east
Beck DaleValley1.7 km (1.1 miles) north-west
Old Mill PondsLake or reservoir4.1 km (2.6 miles) west

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)3.84010
Fine particles (PM2.5)4.8205
Particles (PM10)8.54015

All three are within both the UK limits and the WHO guidelines.

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
65 to 6910
60 to 6410
55 to 5930
Under 55113118

5 of the street's 118 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 North Yorkshire: see them on the North Yorkshire 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
Helmsley Community Primary SchoolPrimary2–11350 m Good (Jan 2024, 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
U Tagghiu Anticu YO62 5DXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen160 m5 Very good20 Feb 2026
Morrisons Local YO62 5DXRetailers - other170 m5 Very good29 May 2025
Porters Coffee Shop YO62 5BGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen190 m5 Very good27 Nov 2025
Coopers of Helmsley YO62 5BGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen200 m5 Very good2 Oct 2024
Spice4U Helmsley YO62 5BGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen210 mAwaiting inspection
Deep Blue YO62 5BGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen210 m5 Very good27 Nov 2025
BATA Garage YO62 5EZRetailers - other220 m5 Very good19 Aug 2026
Barkers YO62 5DRRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen220 m5 Very good21 Feb 2025
The Cafe On The Square YO62 5BLRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen230 m5 Very good26 Nov 2025
Crema Coffee House YO62 5BNRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen230 m5 Very good28 Nov 2025
Helmsley Fish Shop YO62 5BRTakeaway/sandwich shop240 m5 Very good20 Feb 2026
Co-op YO62 5BHRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets250 m5 Very good1 May 2025
Hunters Of Helmsley YO62 5BLRetailers - other260 m5 Very good27 Nov 2025
Number 12 YO62 5ABRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen300 m5 Very good26 Nov 2025
La Trattoria Helmsley YO62 5BLRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen300 m5 Very good12 Feb 2026

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.

45 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences13
Anti-social behaviour9
Criminal damage and arson7
Shoplifting5
Public order4
Other theft4
Vehicle crime2
Drugs1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Eastgate (11); On or near Bridge Street (7); On or near Theatre/Concert Hall (6); On or near Petrol Station (6); On or near Supermarket (5).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 3 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 758 residents in 396 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 age5740
Children under 1512%17%
Aged 65 and over36%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)58%61%
Owned outright47%33%
Shared ownership3%1%
Social rented17%17%
Private rented22%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work49%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)2%6%
Retired (of adults)37%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)27%32%
Travel to work by car or van46%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including busunder 1%8%
On foot or by bicycle25%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)57%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away19%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)33%34%
No qualifications22%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)97%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 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.

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.

Nearby streets

Clothes Prop Alley · Ryegate · Station Road · Eastgate · South Gate · The Crescent · Bridge Street · Pottergate Mews · Southlands · Bell's Court · Ashdale Road · Barkers Yard

All the streets in YO62 and across North Yorkshire.

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.