Priory Close Castle Cary, Somerset

29 addresses across 3 postcodes (BA7), about 130 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 36608592.

  • Sales: 22 recorded sales since 1995; in 2022 the median was £320,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 13 homes have an energy certificate (C: 5, D: 5, E: 3).
  • 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 Somerset costs £2,561 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Castle Cary, about 1.2 km (0.7 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Fairfield, is about 360 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 4.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.8 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 87 to 93 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 Millbrook Surgery, Castle Cary, about 240 m away.
  • People: About 270 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 83% of households owned their home and 35% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 69 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.

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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£320,000£320,000£320,000
20171£275,000£275,000£275,000
20161£315,000£315,000£315,000
20151£250,000£250,000£250,000
20102£192,500£175,000£210,000
20071£235,000£235,000£235,000
20062£245,000£240,000£250,000
20041£185,000£185,000£185,000
20032£141,250£120,000£162,500
20011£90,000£90,000£90,000
19992£78,000£70,000£86,000
19981£54,000£54,000£54,000
Most recent sales (22)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
20 Dec 20222 BA7 7DHSemi-detached£320,000
8 Mar 20178 BA7 7DHDetached£275,000
31 Oct 20161, DELAWARE BA7 7DHDetached£315,000
20 Feb 20152, DELAWARE BA7 7DHDetached£250,000
12 Nov 201015 BA7 7DHSemi-detached£210,000
29 Apr 20101 BA7 7DHSemi-detached£175,000
15 May 20075 BA7 7DHDetached£235,000
30 Jun 20062, DELAWARE BA7 7DHDetached£250,000New build.
6 Jun 20061, DELAWARE BA7 7DHDetached£240,000New build.
10 Dec 20046 BA7 7DHDetached£185,000
4 Jul 20039 BA7 7DHSemi-detached£162,500
27 Jan 20039 BA7 7DHSemi-detached£120,000
18 May 200112 BA7 7DHSemi-detached£90,000
30 Nov 19992 BA7 7DHSemi-detached£86,000
28 Apr 199912 BA7 7DHSemi-detached£70,000
23 Oct 199814 BA7 7DHSemi-detached£54,000
9 May 19971 BA7 7DHSemi-detached£58,750
21 Mar 19975 BA7 7DHDetached£65,000
24 May 199612 BA7 7DHSemi-detached£55,500
9 Feb 199616 BA7 7DHSemi-detached£65,000
24 Jul 199514 BA7 7DHSemi-detached£42,000
13 Jan 19954 BA7 7DHSemi-detached£56,500

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 November 2010 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

13 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 89 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (7); House, detached (3); Bungalow, detached (3). Built: 1967-1975 (7); 1976-1982 (2); 1983-1990 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (7); rented (private) (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (13 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Somerset in 2026-27: Band D £2,561 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

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£1,707£1,992£2,276£2,561£3,130£3,699£4,268£5,121

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (32% of about 1,080 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, Castle Cary (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.

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

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 29 addresses are between 87 m and 93 m above sea level (90 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
BA7 7AF100%100%100%0%
BA7 7DH100%100%100%0%
BA7 7DZ100%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 stationsCastle Cary 355,000 journeys in 2024–251.2 km (0.7 miles)
Bruton 53,000 journeys in 2024–255.4 km (3.4 miles)
Templecombe 92,000 journeys in 2024–2512 km (7.5 miles)
Bus stops12 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 18 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Town Hall Ansford170 m
EV charging pointsGridserve Charging Station6.2 km (3.9 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBristol Airport BRS35.4 km (22 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 Millbrook Surgery, Castle Cary240 m
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots190 m
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Bramcote Dental Surgery130 m
HospitalWincanton Community Hospital7.7 km (4.8 miles)
Police stationWincanton Police Station - Avon And Somerset Police8.3 km (5.1 miles)
Cash machines3 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Barclays ATM170 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 Fairfield 2.1 ha360 m
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,550 m²230 m
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Donald Pither Memorial Field 3.0 ha200 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 5,520 m²1.4 km (0.9 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 2.1 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is The Round House, a scheduled monument, 120 m east. 101 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 7 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
The Round HouseScheduled monument120 m east
The Market HouseListed building, Grade II*160 m east
A motte with two baileys immediately north of Park PondScheduled monument320 m south-east
Church of All SaintsListed building, Grade II*340 m south
Cosenes Monument in Churchyard 5 Metres South South East of South Transept, Church of All SaintsListed building, Grade II*350 m south
Higher Flax MillsListed building, Grade II*380 m west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Horse PondLake or reservoir220 m south-east
Park PondLake or reservoir350 m south-east
Lodge HillHill770 m (0.5 miles) south-east
Honeywick HillHill1.2 km (0.8 miles) north-east
Combe BottomValley1.4 km (0.9 miles) north-east
Marl Pit CopseWood1.5 km (1 mile) south

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)4.74010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.8205
Particles (PM10)10.54015

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 552929

None of the street's 29 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 Somerset: see them on the Somerset page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 4 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
Castle Cary Community Primary SchoolPrimary4–11360 m Requires improvement (Dec 2021, overall grade under the previous framework)
Ansford AcademySecondary11–16660 m (0.4 miles) Report card (Feb 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 4 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
Castle Fryer Fish and Chips BA7 7BUTakeaway/sandwich shop90 m4 Good31 Oct 2024
Weavers Lodge (Autonomy Life Ltd) BA7 7AEHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises120 m5 Very good1 Oct 2024
Miah's Castle Tandoori BA7 7BLRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen140 m3 Generally satisfactory3 Aug 2026
The Somerset Wine Company Ltd BA7 7BLRetailers - other140 m5 Very good1 Oct 2025
Belly BA7 7ALTakeaway/sandwich shop150 m5 Very good4 Aug 2023
The Angel Inn BA7 7ALPub/bar/nightclub160 mAwaiting inspection
Castle Cary Kebab & Pizza House BA7 7BQTakeaway/sandwich shop170 m4 Good23 Feb 2026
The White Hart BA7 7BQPub/bar/nightclub170 m4 Good17 Jun 2025
The Market Garden BA7 7BQRetailers - other170 m4 Good14 May 2026
Dragon House BA7 7BETakeaway/sandwich shop180 m5 Very good7 May 2025
Co-operative Group Food Limited BA7 7BDRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets180 m5 Very good31 Mar 2025
The Place BA7 7AGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen180 m5 Very good8 May 2024
George Hotel BA7 7AHHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house190 m3 Generally satisfactory14 May 2026
Save The Children BA7 7BGRetailers - other190 mExempt
Denela's Bakery Ltd BA7 7BGRetailers - other190 m5 Very good3 Sep 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.

69 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences45
Vehicle crime5
Criminal damage and arson4
Anti-social behaviour3
Other theft3
Public order3
Shoplifting3
Drugs1
Burglary1
Other crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Florida Street (27); On or near Victoria Court (10); On or near Lower Woodcock Street (7); On or near Fore Street (6); On or near Market Place (4).

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: 274 residents in 137 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 age6340
Children under 158%17%
Aged 65 and over46%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)83%61%
Owned outright67%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented2%17%
Private rented15%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work45%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)0%6%
Retired (of adults)49%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)28%32%
Travel to work by car or van56%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus0%8%
On foot or by bicycle15%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)50%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away9%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)35%34%
No qualifications15%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%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

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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

Victoria Park · Victoria Court · Montague Gardens · Greenway Road · Victoria Road · Station Road · Florida Street · Bailey Hill · Greenway Close · Market Place · Woodcock Street · Lower Woodcock Street

All the streets in BA7 and across Somerset.

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.