Primate Road Sunderland

95 addresses across 5 postcodes (SR3), about 680 m (0.4 miles) long, classed as a local road. USRN 38752630.

  • Sales: 21 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £140,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 76 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 58, D: 16, F: 1).
  • 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 A; Band D in Sunderland costs £2,197 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Sunderland, about 3.2 km (2 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Barnes Park, is about 560 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.9 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 54 to 66 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 73 of its 95 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Happy House Surgery, about 210 m away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 1,170 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 32% of households owned their home and 16% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 121 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
20261£140,000£140,000£140,000
20251£108,000£108,000£108,000
20241£118,000£118,000£118,000
20231£74,000£74,000£74,000
20161£58,000£58,000£58,000
20141£76,000£76,000£76,000
20112£58,250£53,500£63,000
20091£63,750£63,750£63,750
20081£80,000£80,000£80,000
20071£105,000£105,000£105,000
20061£95,500£95,500£95,500
20032£44,000£32,000£56,000
Most recent sales (21)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
26 Jun 202631 SR3 1RPSemi-detached£140,000
5 Dec 202548 SR3 1RPTerraced£108,000
11 Apr 202478 SR3 1RWSemi-detached£118,000
26 Apr 2023100 SR3 1RJTerraced£74,000
13 May 202267 SR3 1RWSemi-detached£85,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
19 Nov 20214 SR3 1QESemi-detached£84,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
25 Oct 2019FARRINGDON HALL POLICE STATION SR3 1TQOther£700,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
12 Aug 20164 SR3 1QESemi-detached£58,000
17 Sep 201467 SR3 1RWSemi-detached£57,250Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
8 Apr 201437 SR3 1RPSemi-detached£76,000
26 Aug 20111 SR3 1QESemi-detached£53,500
10 Jan 201131 SR3 1RPSemi-detached£63,000
6 Oct 200937 SR3 1RPSemi-detached£63,750
24 Oct 200844 SR3 1RPTerraced£80,000
30 Nov 200794 SR3 1RWSemi-detached£105,000
14 Dec 2006104 SR3 1RJSemi-detached£95,500
22 Dec 200345 SR3 1RPTerraced£32,000
9 May 200374 SR3 1RPSemi-detached£56,000
18 Nov 200237 SR3 1RPSemi-detached£25,000
25 Sep 200044 SR3 1RPSemi-detached£17,050
9 Mar 199878 SR3 1RWSemi-detached£27,500

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.

76 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 81 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (42); House, mid-terrace (18); House, end-terrace (16). Built: 1950-1966 (57); 1930-1949 (19). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (60); owner-occupied (9); rented (private) (5).

Each home's certificates and sales (8 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Sunderland in 2026-27: Band D £2,197 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,465£1,709£1,953£2,197£2,685£3,174£3,662£4,394

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band A (100% of about 1,180 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 2 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) 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

Finished in the last three months

  • 26 October 2026: SUNDERLAND CITY COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (immediate - emergency works)
  • 23 October 2026: SUNDERLAND CITY COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway, carriageway (immediate - urgent works)
  • 17 September 2026 to 22 September 2026: NORTHUMBRIAN WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, give and take, on the carriageway (standard works)

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, 2 at medium risk and 18 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
SR3 1RPnot in 2 or 3 0 / 2 / 5 unlikely
SR3 1QEnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
SR3 1RWnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 7 unlikely
SR3 1RJnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 5 unlikely
SR3 1TQnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 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 95 addresses are between 54 m and 66 m above sea level (59 m on average); the ground rises about 12 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
SR3 1QE100%100%100%0%
SR3 1RJ100%100%100%0%
SR3 1RP100%100%100%0%
SR3 1RW100%100%100%0%
SR3 1TQ100%0%0%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 stationsSunderland 709,000 journeys in 2024–253.2 km (2 miles)
Seaham 165,000 journeys in 2024–257.1 km (4.4 miles)
Chester-Le-Street 232,000 journeys in 2024–2510.7 km (6.7 miles)
Bus stops21 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 46 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Durham Road-Grindon Lane Thorney Close100 m
Bus or coach stationInterchange Sunderland2.9 km (1.8 miles)
Ferry terminalNewcastle International Ferry Terminal Royal Quays12 km (7.4 miles)
Car parksMorrisons Car park-Sunderland2.2 km (1.3 miles)
EV charging points10 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Southend Road150 m
Airport with scheduled flightsNewcastle International Airport NCL24.1 km (15 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 Happy House Surgery210 m
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Well480 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Grindon Lane Primary Care Centre790 m (0.5 miles)
HospitalSunderland Royal Hospital1.9 km (1.2 miles)
Police stationGillbridge Police Station3.1 km (1.9 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Payzone280 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 garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Barnes Park 44 ha560 m (0.3 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 710 m²730 m (0.5 miles)
Playing fieldUnnamed 2.4 ha800 m (0.5 miles)
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Canal Farm Allotments 3.3 ha410 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 63 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Defended settlement on Humbledon Hill, a scheduled monument, 840 m (0.5 miles) north-east.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Defended settlement on Humbledon HillScheduled monument840 m (0.5 miles) north-east
Hasting Hill cursus and causewayed enclosure, 600m south of Hasting Hill FarmScheduled monument2 km (1.2 miles) south-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Humbledon HillHill900 m (0.6 miles) north-east
Newport HillHill1.1 km (0.7 miles) south-east
Gilleylaw PlantationWood1.1 km (0.7 miles) south
Newport DeneValley1.4 km (0.9 miles) south-east
Mill HillHill1.6 km (1 mile) south
Potato GarthBeach4.6 km (2.9 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)8.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.9205
Particles (PM10)9.94015

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
70 to 7420
65 to 69240
60 to 64290
55 to 59180
Under 552295

73 of the street's 95 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 Sunderland: see them on the Sunderland 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
Thorney Close Primary SchoolPrimary3–11550 m (0.3 miles) Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Sandhill View AcademySecondary11–16600 m (0.4 miles) Report card (Nov 2025): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Plains Farm AcademyPrimary3–11750 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
St Cuthbert's Catholic Primary School, Sunderland Roman CatholicPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) No overall grade (Sep 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
City of Sunderland College16 plus16–991 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Broadway Junior SchoolPrimary7–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Farringdon AcademyPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Hasting Hill AcademyPrimary2–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Good (Dec 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Barnes Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Barnes Infant AcademyPrimary3–71.4 km (0.9 miles) Report card (May 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
Christ's CollegeAll-through4–181.5 km (0.9 miles) Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Richard Avenue Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.5 km (0.9 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
Lidl SR3 4DFRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets230 m5 Very good5 Dec 2025
China Wok SR3 4BXTakeaway/sandwich shop270 m1 Major improvement necessary27 Mar 2026
Golden Fry SR3 4BXTakeaway/sandwich shop270 m5 Very good29 Nov 2025
Buyrite SR3 4BXRetailers - other270 m5 Very good24 Jan 2020
Roll With It SR3 4BXTakeaway/sandwich shop270 m5 Very good14 Dec 2025
Mamu's Burgers And Shakes SR3 4BXTakeaway/sandwich shop290 m3 Generally satisfactory24 Feb 2026
Toronto Food & Wine SR3 4HURetailers - other370 m5 Very good15 Sep 2023
Sunningdale Stores SR3 4HERetailers - other400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good26 Sep 2024
The Link School - Springwell Dene SR3 4EESchool/college/university480 m (0.3 miles)Awaiting inspection
Snowdon SR3 4ESRetailers - other490 m (0.3 miles)Exempt
Thorney Close Primary SR3 4BBSchool/college/university500 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good16 Sep 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.

121 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences43
Criminal damage and arson23
Anti-social behaviour21
Public order12
Burglary8
Vehicle crime6
Other crime5
Other theft1
Drugs1
Possession of weapons1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Strathmore Road (28); On or near Strathmore Square (22); On or near Primate Road (16); On or near A690 (15); On or near Plymouth Square (11).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 4 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 1,173 residents in 492 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 age3640
Children under 1521%17%
Aged 65 and over13%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)32%61%
Owned outright17%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented59%17%
Private rented10%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work51%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)9%6%
Retired (of adults)16%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)9%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)15%32%
Travel to work by car or van53%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus17%8%
On foot or by bicycle12%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)82%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away7%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)16%34%
No qualifications30%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhoods around this street are all in decile 1 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

  • Roadworks Street works permit: SUNDERLAND CITY COUNCIL: Highway repair and maintenance works, 26 October 2026 to 30 October 2026 (no carriageway incursion) found 3 November 2026
  • Roadworks Street works permit: SUNDERLAND CITY COUNCIL: Highway repair and maintenance works, 23 October 2026 to 29 October 2026 (some carriageway incursion) found 3 November 2026
  • Energy certificates New energy certificate: band C, house, mid-terrace (lodged 27 October 2026) found 2 November 2026

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.

  • SR3 1RP: 40 addresses
  • SR3 1QE: 24 addresses of 25 in the postcode
  • SR3 1RW: 18 addresses of 19 in the postcode
  • SR3 1RJ: 7 addresses of 8 in the postcode
  • SR3 1TQ: 6 addresses of 9 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Durham Road · Plymouth Square · Philip Square · Southend Road · Purley Square · Paisley Square · Pretoria Square · Polmuir Square · Strathmore Road · Peebles Road · Shaftoe Road · Polmuir Road

All the streets in SR3 and across Sunderland.

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.