Queens Parade Annfield Plain, County Durham

21 addresses across 2 postcodes (DH9), about 170 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 11004253.

  • Sales: 18 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £154,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 15 homes have an energy certificate (C: 2, D: 8, E: 5).
  • Flood: 3 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 County Durham costs £2,622 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 93% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Chester-Le-Street, about 10.5 km (6.5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 100 m away, and Annfield Plain Park (5.2 hectares) is about 590 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 5.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.4 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 225 to 229 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 21 of its 21 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Drs Lambert & Ng, about 410 m (0.3 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 260 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 69% of households owned their home and 20% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 105 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
20251£154,000£154,000£154,000
20241£85,000£85,000£85,000
20211£172,000£172,000£172,000
20201£114,000£114,000£114,000
20191£108,000£108,000£108,000
20182£80,000£80,000£80,000
20141£105,000£105,000£105,000
20121£50,000£50,000£50,000
20073£119,000£78,000£130,000
20031£68,500£68,500£68,500
20011£39,950£39,950£39,950
20001£39,950£39,950£39,950
Most recent sales (18)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
22 Aug 20259 DH9 8JYTerraced£154,000
30 Sep 20249 DH9 8JYTerraced£85,000
6 Oct 202111 DH9 8JYTerraced£172,000
18 Nov 202011 DH9 8JYTerraced£114,000
3 May 20194 DH9 8JYTerraced£108,000
19 Nov 201813 DH9 8JYTerraced£80,000
9 Apr 201812 DH9 8JYTerraced£80,000
13 Jan 201712 DH9 8JYTerraced£45,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
4 Jul 20142 DH9 8JYTerraced£105,000
13 Feb 201218 DH9 8JYTerraced£50,000
17 Oct 200712 DH9 8JYTerraced£130,000
23 Jul 20077 DH9 8JYTerraced£119,000
20 Jul 200712 DH9 8JYTerraced£78,000
6 May 20037 DH9 8JYTerraced£68,500
29 Jun 20018 DH9 8JYTerraced£39,950
8 Dec 20002 DH9 8JYTerraced£39,950
5 Feb 19992 DH9 8JYTerraced£40,000
23 May 19977 DH9 8JYTerraced£41,500

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 June 2013 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

15 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 117 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (14); House, end-terrace (1). Built: before 1900 (13); 1900-1929 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (14); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (13 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in County Durham in 2026-27: Band D £2,622 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,748£2,039£2,331£2,622£3,205£3,788£4,370£5,244

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (96% of about 790 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, Annfield Plain. 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

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 3 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 2 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
DH9 8JYnot in 2 or 3 2 / 0 / 1 unlikely
DH9 8JXnot in 2 or 3 1 / 0 / 1 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 21 addresses are between 225 m and 229 m above sea level (227 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
DH9 8JX100%93%93%0%
DH9 8JY100%84%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 stationsChester-Le-Street 232,000 journeys in 2024–2510.5 km (6.5 miles)
Dunston 51,000 journeys in 2024–2511.8 km (7.3 miles)
Blaydon 69,000 journeys in 2024–2511.8 km (7.4 miles)
Bus stops14 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 28 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Library Catchgate90 m
Bus or coach stationTanfield Comprehensive School Tanfield Lea2.8 km (1.8 miles)
Car parksAsda Stanley Car Park2.6 km (1.6 miles)
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Be.EV Charging Station1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsNewcastle International Airport NCL20 km (12 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 surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Drs Lambert & Ng410 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Annfield Plain Pharmacy390 m
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Smile In Durham720 m (0.4 miles)
HospitalSouth Moor Hospital3.4 km (2.1 miles)
Police stationDurham Constabulary - Catchgate Police Station560 m (0.3 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest ATM390 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 Unnamed 1.9 ha100 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Annfield Plain Park 5.2 ha590 m (0.4 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 130 m²620 m (0.4 miles)
Playing field8 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 5.0 ha370 m
Allotments6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4,200 m²450 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 5 parks and gardens, 9.8 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Bantling Castle Lime Kilns, a scheduled monument, 1.6 km (1 mile) west. 5 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Bantling Castle Lime KilnsScheduled monument1.6 km (1 mile) west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Whinney HillHill680 m (0.4 miles) east
Iron HillHill750 m (0.5 miles) north-east
Whicken HillHill890 m (0.6 miles) north-east
Gorecock PlantationWood1.5 km (0.9 miles) south-west
Brooms DeneValley3.1 km (1.9 miles) west
Dunley FordLake or reservoir4.9 km (3.1 miles) south-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)5.34010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.4205
Particles (PM10)7.94015

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
65 to 6980
60 to 64110
55 to 5920
Under 55021

21 of the street's 21 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 County Durham: see them on the County Durham 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
Catchgate Primary SchoolPrimary2–11440 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Annfield Plain Junior SchoolPrimary7–11510 m (0.3 miles) Good (Jan 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)
Annfield Plain Infant SchoolPrimary2–7530 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
St Patrick's Catholic Primary School, Dipton Roman CatholicPrimary3–112 km (1.2 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
Coach and Horses DH9 8HUPub/bar/nightclub300 m4 Good29 Jan 2026
Mamma Mia DH9 8HYRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen320 mAwaiting inspection
David's Mini Market DH9 8HYRetailers - other320 m4 Good14 Mar 2025
Osmany Curry Out DH9 7SYTakeaway/sandwich shop330 m3 Generally satisfactory30 May 2024
Aroma spice DH9 7SYRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen330 m4 Good30 Mar 2026
Deli-icious DH9 7SYRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen330 m4 Good25 Jun 2026
Candy Parrot DH9 8HURetailers - other350 m5 Very good1 Aug 2022
Annfield Plain Democratic Club DH9 7SYPub/bar/nightclub350 m5 Very good7 Aug 2019
Prime Pizza DH9 8HYTakeaway/sandwich shop360 m5 Very good27 Feb 2026
Queens Head Hotel DH9 7SYPub/bar/nightclub360 m5 Very good7 Aug 2019
The Cubbyhole Cafe and Mini Soft Play DH9 7XARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen360 m3 Generally satisfactory12 Aug 2025
Shop Local DH9 7SYRetailers - other370 m4 Good21 Jan 2026
Best One - Gaba & Sons DH9 7XARetailers - other380 m4 Good14 Apr 2026
Golden Fry DH9 7XATakeaway/sandwich shop400 m (0.2 miles)4 Good1 Jul 2026
China Tasty DH9 7XATakeaway/sandwich shop400 m (0.2 miles)4 Good17 Apr 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.

105 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences49
Criminal damage and arson19
Anti-social behaviour15
Other crime8
Public order4
Burglary3
Other theft2
Vehicle crime2
Possession of weapons1
Robbery1
Drugs1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Frosterley Gardens (34); On or near New Front Street (17); On or near Greenfield Terrace (10); On or near Church Street (10); On or near Fines Park Court (9).

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: 260 residents in 134 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 age5040
Children under 1511%17%
Aged 65 and over22%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)69%61%
Owned outright42%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented0%17%
Private rented31%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work49%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)10%6%
Retired (of adults)28%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)7%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)14%32%
Travel to work by car or van76%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus6%8%
On foot or by bicycle3%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)36%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away3%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)20%34%
No qualifications24%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification8%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)100%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is 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

  • Energy certificates New energy certificate: band C, house, mid-terrace (lodged 28 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.

  • DH9 8JY: 19 addresses of 20 in the postcode
  • DH9 8JX: 2 addresses of 21 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Dunn Street · Syke View · Queens Parade · Antliff Terrace · Victoria Terrace · Allendale Terrace · Hamsterley Gardens · Greenfield Terrace · Pontop Court · Wesley Terrace · Fines Park Court · Staindrop Terrace

All the streets in DH9 and across County Durham.

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.