Ralph Allen Drive Bath

44 addresses across 11 postcodes (BA2), about 1.2 km (0.7 miles) long, classed as a a road. USRN 47900033.

  • Sales: 16 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £1,475,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 7 homes have an energy certificate (A: 1, C: 1, D: 1, E: 4).
  • 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 G; Band D in Bath and North East Somerset costs £2,383 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Bath Spa, about 1.3 km (0.8 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Firs Field, is about 640 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.1 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 43 to 157 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 14 of its 44 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Combe Down Surgery, about 770 m (0.5 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 1,230 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 83% of households owned their home and 66% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.

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£1,475,000£1,475,000£1,475,000
20242£935,000£820,000£1,050,000
20211£675,000£675,000£675,000
20201£985,000£985,000£985,000
20171£1,170,000£1,170,000£1,170,000
20161£710,000£710,000£710,000
20142£915,000£430,000£1,400,000
20052£421,250£350,000£492,500
20031£425,000£425,000£425,000
20021£350,000£350,000£350,000
20011£665,000£665,000£665,000
19991£215,000£215,000£215,000
Most recent sales (16)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
28 Nov 2025HIGH ORCHARD BA2 5AEDetached£1,475,000
14 Oct 2024HADLEY COTTAGE BA2 5AEDetached£1,050,000
13 Aug 2024BONNIE BANKS BA2 5AEDetached£820,000
22 Apr 2022BONNIE BANKS BA2 5AEDetached£840,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
30 Apr 2021THE LODGE BA2 5AJDetached£675,000
30 Oct 2020STONECROFT BA2 5AEDetached£985,000
1 Sep 2017HIGH ORCHARD BA2 5AEDetached£1,170,000
31 Aug 2016HADLEY COTTAGE BA2 5AEDetached£710,000
31 Jul 2014LITTLE ORCHARD BA2 5AJDetached£1,400,000
6 Jun 2014STONECROFT BA2 5AEDetached£430,000
16 Sep 2005FYFIELD BA2 5AEDetached£492,500
11 Feb 2005THE LODGE BA2 5AJDetached£350,000
28 Mar 2003HIGH ORCHARD BA2 5AEDetached£425,000
26 Apr 2002HILLCLOSE BA2 5AEDetached£350,000
11 Sep 2001LITTLE ORCHARD BA2 5AJDetached£665,000
5 Nov 1999CREFFIELD COTTAGE BA2 5AEDetached£215,000

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 September 2016 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

7 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 132 m². Most common: House, detached (6); Bungalow, detached (1). Built: before 1900 (2); 1950-1966 (2); 1930-1949 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (6); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (3 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Bath and North East Somerset in 2026-27: Band D £2,383 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,589£1,854£2,119£2,383£2,913£3,443£3,972£4,767

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band G (25% of about 1,170 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), 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: yes, Bath (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 64.
  • 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: yes, Bath and North East Somerset.

Listed buildings

And 34 more.

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

Planned, as of 31 October 2026

  • 7 November 2026 to 8 November 2026: BT, Utility asset works, multi-way signals, on the carriageway (minor works)

Finished in the last three months

  • 28 September 2026: WESSEX WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor 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, 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
BA2 5AHnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
BA2 5AEnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
BA2 5AQnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
BA2 5AFnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
BA2 5AJnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
BA2 5AGnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
BA2 5APnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
BA2 5AWnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
BA2 5AYnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
BA2 5AZnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
BA2 5BJnot 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 44 addresses are between 43 m and 157 m above sea level (127 m on average); the ground rises about 114 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
BA2 5AE100%100%88%0%
BA2 5AF100%100%100%0%
BA2 5AG100%100%0%0%
BA2 5AH50%0%0%0%
BA2 5AJ100%100%100%0%
BA2 5AP100%83%83%0%
BA2 5AQ100%50%50%0%
BA2 5AW100%100%100%0%
BA2 5AY100%100%100%0%
BA2 5AZ100%100%100%0%
BA2 5BJ100%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 stationsBath Spa 6.5 million journeys in 2024–251.3 km (0.8 miles)
Oldfield Park 386,000 journeys in 2024–252.7 km (1.7 miles)
Freshford 55,000 journeys in 2024–254.3 km (2.7 miles)
Bus stops4 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 19 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Middle Hill Lodge Ralph Allen Drive200 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Bath City Centre1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Car parksApcoa1.1 km (0.7 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Claverton Street Car Park GeniePoint1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBristol Airport BRS25.8 km (16 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 Combe Down Surgery770 m (0.5 miles)
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Widcombe Pharmacy1.1 km (0.7 miles)
NHS dentists4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Combe Down Dental Practice1 km (0.6 miles)
HospitalSt Martins Hospital (Bath)2.1 km (1.3 miles)
Police stationBath Police Station - Avon And Somerset Police1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Cash machinesThe Southern Co-Operative Bath Widcombe, Widcombe Hill Cashzone1 km (0.6 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 garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Firs Field 2.1 ha640 m (0.4 miles)
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,460 m²750 m (0.5 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 6.3 ha510 m (0.3 miles)
AllotmentsLyncombe Hill Farm Allotments 6,580 m²1 km (0.6 miles)

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

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Palladian Bridge in Grounds of Prior Park, a listed building (Grade I), 100 m north-east. 248 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 9 of them Grade I and 13 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Palladian Bridge in Grounds of Prior ParkListed building, Grade I100 m north-east
Eyre Chantry (Roman Catholic Chapel), Perrymead CemeteryListed building, Grade II*260 m north-west
Prior ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade I300 m south-east
Mortuary Chapel in Abbey CemeteryListed building, Grade II*320 m north-west
Church of St Paul, With West WingListed building, Grade I380 m south
Abbey CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II*380 m north
Bath City WallsScheduled monument1.7 km (1.1 miles) north-west
The Roman Baths and site of Roman town, BathScheduled monument1.8 km (1.1 miles) north-west
The Eastgate, BathScheduled monument1.8 km (1.1 miles) north-west
City of BathWorld Heritage Site2 km (1.2 miles) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Rainbow WoodWood580 m (0.4 miles) east
Lyncombe ValeValley630 m (0.4 miles) north-west
Free FieldsWood680 m (0.4 miles) south-east
Fairy WoodWood730 m (0.5 miles) east
Tucking Mill ReservoirLake or reservoir1.7 km (1.1 miles) south
HodshillHill2.6 km (1.6 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)6.84010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.1205
Particles (PM10)9.54015

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
65 to 6940
60 to 6460
55 to 5940
Under 553044

14 of the street's 44 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 Bath and North East Somerset: see them on the Bath and North East Somerset 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
Mulberry Park Educate Together Primary AcademyPrimary4–11880 m (0.5 miles) Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Combe Down CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Beechen Cliff SchoolSecondary11–181.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Widcombe Infant SchoolPrimary5–71.2 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Widcombe CofE Junior School Church of EnglandPrimary7–111.2 km (0.8 miles) No overall grade (Mar 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Ralph Allen SchoolSecondary11–181.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Bath College16 plus16–991.7 km (1.1 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
Prior Park College BA2 5AHSchool/college/university430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good6 Oct 2025
Next Thing Education Camps (Holiday Club) BA2 5AHOther catering premises430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good31 Jul 2023

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.

No crimes recorded at anonymised points within 250 m in this period (avon-and-somerset).

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: 1,229 residents in 470 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 age4840
Children under 1518%17%
Aged 65 and over23%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)83%61%
Owned outright51%33%
Shared ownership1%1%
Social rented2%17%
Private rented15%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work50%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)30%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)57%32%
Travel to work by car or van24%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle14%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)62%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away10%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)66%34%
No qualifications4%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification2%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)96%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhoods around this street are all in decile 10 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: BT: Utility asset works, 7 November 2026 to 8 November 2026 (multi-way signals) found 3 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.

Nearby streets

Midford Road · Pope's Walk · Priory Close · Daubeny Grove · Stennard Green · Hillyer Grove

All the streets in BA2 and across Bath and North East 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.