Princesshay Exeter

37 addresses across 4 postcodes (EX1), about 150 m long. USRN 14201579.

  • 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 B; Band D in Exeter costs £2,495 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Exeter Central, about 460 m (0.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Southernhay Green, is about 100 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 44 to 46 m above sea level.
  • Noise: None of its addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is St Leonards Practice, about 350 m away, with 9 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 560 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 26% of households owned their home and 31% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 823 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
Most recent sales (1)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
17 Aug 201520 EX1 1GEOther£159,600Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).

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

No certificates found for addresses on this street.

Council tax

What each band costs in Exeter in 2026-27: Band D £2,495 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,664£1,941£2,218£2,495£3,050£3,604£4,159£4,991

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (37% of about 890 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, Central, Southernhay and The Friars (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 1.
  • 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

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 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

No address in this street's postcodes is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

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.

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 37 addresses are between 44 m and 46 m above sea level (45 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
EX1 1GE100%100%100%0%
EX1 1GJ100%100%100%0%
EX1 1LL100%100%100%0%
EX1 1TS100%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 stationsExeter Central 3.0 million journeys in 2024–25460 m (0.3 miles)
St James Park (Exeter) 145,000 journeys in 2024–25840 m (0.5 miles)
Exeter St Thomas 329,000 journeys in 2024–251.1 km (0.7 miles)
Bus stops20 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 58 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest High Street Exeter City Centre70 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Exeter City Centre310 m
Ferry terminalTopsham Ferry Landing6.2 km (3.9 miles)
Car parks9 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Princesshay Carpark110 m
EV charging points16 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Wenea520 m (0.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsExeter International Airport EXT8.1 km (5 miles)
Nearest large airportCardiff International Airport CWL75.9 km (47 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 surgeries9 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest St Leonards Practice350 m
Pharmacies7 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots110 m
NHS dentists17 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Inspired Dental Care120 m
HospitalHeavitree Hospital950 m (0.6 miles)
Police stationExeter Volunteer Police Cadets700 m (0.4 miles)
Cash machines4 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Cash machine 1 Roman Gate 252 High Street Halifax120 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 garden5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Southernhay Green 7,380 m²100 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Rougemont Gardens 3.7 ha200 m
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,370 m²550 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Belmont Pleasure Ground 2.8 ha780 m (0.5 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3,230 m²720 m (0.4 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 5 parks and gardens, 7.5 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Underground passages, a scheduled monument, 70 m north. 479 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 20 of them Grade I and 54 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Underground passagesScheduled monument70 m north
Chichester PlaceListed building, Grade II*150 m south-east
Bomb damaged remains of St Catherine's Almshouses and chapel and adjacent canon's house, 140m north of the CathedralScheduled monument160 m south-west
Church of St StephenListed building, Grade II*170 m west
The Law LibraryListed building, Grade I200 m south-west
Law Library, Cathedral YardScheduled monument200 m south-west
Rougemont HouseListed building, Grade II*200 m north-west
Northernhay and Rougemont GardensRegistered park or garden, Grade II310 m north-west
St Bartholomew's Cemetery, ExeterRegistered park or garden, Grade II*700 m (0.4 miles) west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Grassway WoodWood1.7 km (1.1 miles) north-west
Grassway PlantationWood1.8 km (1.1 miles) north-west
Salmon PoolLake or reservoir2 km (1.2 miles) south
Duck's MarshWetland2.1 km (1.3 miles) south
Constitutional HillHill2.5 km (1.5 miles) south-west
Fairy DellValley3.5 km (2.2 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)8.04010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.6205
Particles (PM10)9.34015

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
Under 553737

None of the street's 37 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic or railways.

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 Exeter: see them on the Exeter 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
Exeter Mathematics School16 plus16–19200 m No published inspection
St Sidwell's Church of England Primary School & NurseryPrimary3–11550 m (0.3 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
Newtown Primary SchoolPrimary4–11630 m (0.4 miles) Requires improvement (Sep 2021, overall grade under the previous framework)
St David's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary5–11700 m (0.4 miles) No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Exeter and North Devon Colleges Group16 plus16–99880 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
St Leonard's (CofE) Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary5–111 km (0.6 miles) No overall grade (Jan 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
St Thomas Primary SchoolPrimary5–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Ladysmith Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Requires improvement (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Ladysmith Infant & Nursery SchoolPrimary3–71.3 km (0.8 miles) Requires improvement (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Montgomery Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No overall grade (Jan 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
St Gabriel's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary2–111.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Stoke Hill Infant and Nursery SchoolPrimary3–71.6 km (1 mile) No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good

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
Nandos Chickenland Ltd EX1 1GERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen10 m5 Very good18 Sep 2025
New Look EX1 1GERetailers - other10 mExempt
Tiger EX1 1GERetailers - other10 mExempt
Slim Chickens EX1 1GERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen10 m5 Very good25 Mar 2026
Chandos Delicatessen Ltd EX1 1GNRetailers - other40 m5 Very good21 May 2026
Coffee# 1 EX1 1GNRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen40 m5 Very good21 May 2026
Starbucks Coffee Co EX4 3LFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen50 m5 Very good1 Nov 2024
Claire's EX4 3LFRetailers - other50 mExempt
Next (138) EX1 1GBRetailers - other70 mExempt
Oliver Bonas EX1 1GERetailers - other90 mExempt
BaxterStorey - Clockwise Exeter EX1 1TSRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen90 m5 Very good18 Jul 2024
Itsu EX4 3PZRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen90 m5 Very good12 Nov 2025
Hotel Chocolat EX4 3PZOther catering premises90 m5 Very good1 Nov 2024
12 Bar Music and Social EX1 1GAPub/bar/nightclub110 m5 Very good12 May 2026
Boots UK Ltd EX4 3QDRetailers - other110 m5 Very good21 Feb 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.

823 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences299
Shoplifting211
Anti-social behaviour85
Public order51
Other theft50
Criminal damage and arson35
Burglary25
Bicycle theft17
Drugs17
Robbery11
Theft from the person8
Other crime6
Vehicle crime4
Possession of weapons4

Most of these are attached to: On or near Shopping Area (353); On or near Nightclub (222); On or near Parking Area (85); On or near Northernhay Place (70); On or near Further/Higher Educational Building (30).

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: 563 residents in 120 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 age2140
Children under 15under 1%17%
Aged 65 and over3%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)26%61%
Owned outright17%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented6%17%
Private rented68%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work26%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)21%6%
Retired (of adults)3%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)under 1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)42%32%
Travel to work by car or van16%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram3%4%
By any public transport, including bus7%8%
On foot or by bicycle32%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)84%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away12%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)31%34%
No qualifications2%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualificationunder 1%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)81%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%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

  • Food hygiene ratings Warrens (retailers - other, EX1 1DZ) is no longer listed; it was rated 5 Very good found 30 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Custard Town (restaurant/cafe/canteen, EX4 3HL) now 5 Very good, was Awaiting inspection (rated 20 October 2026) found 30 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Namaste Exeter (restaurant/cafe/canteen, EX1 1BS) now 5 Very good, was 4 Good (rated 26 October 2026) found 30 October 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.

  • EX1 1GE: 31 addresses of 32 in the postcode
  • EX1 1LL: 4 addresses of 10 in the postcode
  • EX1 1GJ: 1 address of 14 in the postcode
  • EX1 1TS: 1 address of 22 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Eastgate · Bampfylde Lane · Roman Walk · Princesshay Lane · High Street · Western Way · Roman Gate · Bailey Street · Bedford Street · Egypt Lane · Musgrave Row · Little Castle Street

All the streets in EX1 and across Exeter.

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.