Pulling Close Faringdon, Vale of White Horse

19 addresses across 2 postcodes (SN7), about 120 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 41600976.

  • Sales: 8 recorded sales since 1995; in 2022 the median was £238,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 17 homes have an energy certificate (C: 12, D: 5).
  • Flood: 4 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 B; Band D in Vale of White Horse costs £2,577 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 50% to 94% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Swindon (Wilts), about 17.2 km (11 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 300 m away, and Folly Park (6.2 hectares) is about 770 m (0.5 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 5.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.4 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 103 to 106 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 19 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is White Horse Medical Practice, about 820 m (0.5 miles) away.
  • People: About 250 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 54% of households owned their home and 40% 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.

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£238,000£238,000£238,000
20142£164,500£164,000£165,000
20062£160,000£154,000£166,000
20051£315,000£315,000£315,000
20041£142,000£142,000£142,000
19981£30,800£30,800£30,800
Most recent sales (8)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
16 Sep 20227 SN7 7JSTerraced£238,000
30 Apr 201419 SN7 7JSTerraced£164,000
14 Feb 201410 SN7 7JSTerraced£165,000
8 Dec 200619 SN7 7JSTerraced£166,000
10 Feb 20067 SN7 7JSTerraced£154,000
5 Jan 200521 SN7 7JSDetached£315,000
13 Feb 20047 SN7 7JSTerraced£142,000
30 Oct 199810 SN7 7JSSemi-detached£30,800

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026 (load in progress). Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from October 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

17 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 71 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (8); House, mid-terrace (3); Bungalow, semi-detached (3). Built: 1983-1990 (8); 1991-1995 (5); 1996-2002 (2). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (9); owner-occupied (6); rented (private) (1).

Council tax

What each band costs in Vale of White Horse in 2026-27: Band D £2,577 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,718£2,005£2,291£2,577£3,150£3,723£4,296£5,155

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (34% of about 930 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, Faringdon Conservation Area. Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 4.
  • 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

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 3 at medium risk and 0 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
SN7 7JSnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
SN7 7JEnot in 2 or 3 1 / 3 / 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 19 addresses are between 103 m and 106 m above sea level (104 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
SN7 7JE100%50%50%0%
SN7 7JS100%94%94%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 stationSwindon (Wilts) 3.2 million journeys in 2024–2517.2 km (11 miles)
Bus stops12 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 34 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Elms School Stop Faringdon90 m
EV charging pointsOsprey Charging Station5.9 km (3.7 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsSouthampton Airport SOU80.3 km (50 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Heathrow Airport LHR80.8 km (50 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 White Horse Medical Practice820 m (0.5 miles)
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots200 m
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Gloucester House Dental Surgery90 m
HospitalWantage Community Hospital13.9 km (8.6 miles)
Police stationThames Valley Police - Carterton Police Station11.8 km (7.3 miles)

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,220 m²300 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Folly Park 6.2 ha770 m (0.5 miles)
Play area6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 210 m²320 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 5,040 m²430 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4.0 ha280 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 6.8 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Old Town Hall, a listed building (Grade II*), 200 m east. 123 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade I and 2 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Old Town HallListed building, Grade II*200 m east
Church of All SaintsListed building, Grade I280 m north-east
Faringdon HouseListed building, Grade I400 m (0.2 miles) north
Sudbury HouseListed building, Grade II*660 m (0.4 miles) east
Wyke monastic grange and section of 18th century turnpike road, 780m south of Tudor FarmScheduled monument1.1 km (0.7 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Faringdon ClumpWood1.1 km (0.7 miles) east
Faringdon HillHill1.1 km (0.7 miles) east
Jespers HillHill1.1 km (0.7 miles) east
Grove WoodWood1.2 km (0.7 miles) north-east
SandshillHill1.2 km (0.8 miles) south
Morris's BasinLake or reservoir2.8 km (1.8 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)5.84010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.4205
Particles (PM10)11.04015

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
60 to 6410
Under 551819

1 of the street's 19 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for Vale of White Horse: see them on the Vale of White Horse 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
The Elms Primary SchoolPrimary3–11130 m No overall grade (May 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Faringdon Community CollegeSecondary11–181.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Folly View PrimaryPrimary2–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (May 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
Costa Coffee SN7 7JERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen70 m5 Very good1 Apr 2026
Suzy's Convenience Store SN7 7JPRetailers - other90 m5 Very good18 Jul 2024
Hong Kong House SN7 7JPTakeaway/sandwich shop90 m5 Very good25 Mar 2026
The Harbour Fish & Chips SN7 7JPTakeaway/sandwich shop100 m5 Very good14 Aug 2025
Author's hill convenience store SN7 7JLRetailers - other130 mAwaiting inspection
Mustard Seed SN7 7HPRetailers - other180 mExempt
Royal Spice SN7 7HATakeaway/sandwich shop180 m4 Good5 Aug 2026
The Narrows of Faringdon SN7 7HPPub/bar/nightclub180 m5 Very good1 Dec 2022
Morrisons Daily SN7 7HURetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets180 m5 Very good16 Sep 2025
Boots UK SN7 7HPRetailers - other190 mExempt
The Sadlers SN7 7HURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen200 m5 Very good17 Mar 2026
Old Crown Coaching Inn SN7 7HURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen200 m5 Very good30 Oct 2025
Faaaze SN7 7JQRetailers - other210 m5 Very good27 Nov 2024
Faringdon Day Centre SN7 7JQOther catering premises210 m4 Good14 Mar 2024
Las Chicas Faringdon SN7 7HURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen220 m5 Very good19 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.

69 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences30
Anti-social behaviour13
Public order7
Shoplifting6
Criminal damage and arson4
Other crime3
Other theft1
Vehicle crime1
Drugs1
Possession of weapons1
Robbery1
Burglary1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Parking Area (19); On or near Hart Avenue (11); On or near Marlborough Street (9); On or near Gloucester Street (8); On or near White Hart Walk (7).

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: 245 residents in 132 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 age4440
Children under 1511%17%
Aged 65 and over20%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)54%61%
Owned outright23%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented9%17%
Private rented38%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work66%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)21%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)32%32%
Travel to work by car or van47%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus4%8%
On foot or by bicycle16%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)35%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away6%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)40%34%
No qualifications14%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)94%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.

  • SN7 7JS: 18 addresses of 20 in the postcode
  • SN7 7JE: 1 address of 36 in the postcode

Nearby streets

White Hart Walk · Gravel Walk · Gloucester Street · Marlborough Street · Gloucester Street · Brewery Passage · Cornmarket · Meadow Bank · Station Road · Goddard Court · Portway · Hart Avenue

All the streets in SN7 and across Vale of White Horse.

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.