Rectory Drive Newcastle upon Tyne

18 addresses across 3 postcodes (NE3), about 160 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 8202672.

  • Sales: 13 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £770,113 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 11 homes have an energy certificate (C: 3, D: 5, E: 3).
  • Flood: 1 address on its postcodes is 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 D; Band D in Newcastle upon Tyne costs £2,542 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Manors, about 3.4 km (2.1 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Jesmond Dene, is about 390 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 12.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 62 to 64 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 4 of its 18 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Roseworth Surgery, about 610 m (0.4 miles) away, with 4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 1,100 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 75% of households owned their home and 72% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 41 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£770,113£770,113£770,113
20241£420,000£420,000£420,000
20211£449,000£449,000£449,000
20202£554,000£457,000£651,000
20142£320,000£290,000£350,000
20111£310,000£310,000£310,000
20061£290,000£290,000£290,000
20041£550,000£550,000£550,000
20022£230,000£210,000£250,000
19971£180,000£180,000£180,000
Most recent sales (13)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
28 Nov 20251 NE3 1XUSemi-detached£770,113
24 Jul 20249 NE3 1XTTerraced£420,000
18 Mar 202117 NE3 1XTSemi-detached£449,000
27 Nov 20202 NE3 1XUSemi-detached£651,000
5 Mar 202016 NE3 1XTSemi-detached£457,000
26 Aug 201411 NE3 1XTTerraced£350,000
24 Jan 201415 NE3 1XTDetached£290,000
15 Dec 201112 NE3 1XTSemi-detached£310,000
1 Dec 200611 NE3 1XTSemi-detached£290,000
29 Oct 20046 NE3 1XUTerraced£550,000
9 Sep 200216 NE3 1XTSemi-detached£250,000
23 Aug 200211 NE3 1XTSemi-detached£210,000
23 May 19975 NE3 1XUSemi-detached£180,000

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

11 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 158 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (7); House, end-terrace (2); House, mid-terrace (1). Built: 1930-1949 (6); 1900-1929 (4); 1950-1966 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (9).

Each home's certificates and sales (6 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Newcastle upon Tyne in 2026-27: Band D £2,542 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,695£1,977£2,260£2,542£3,107£3,672£4,237£5,084

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band D (34% of about 1,550 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 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, Gosforth (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): Jesmond and Heaton.
  • Tree preservation orders: 15 protected trees on or by this street.
  • Green belt: no.

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

Finished in the last three months

  • 10 August 2026 to 14 August 2026: NORTHUMBRIAN WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, road closure, on the carriageway (major 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, 1 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
NE3 1XTnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 2 unlikely
NE3 1XUnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
NE3 1XXnot 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 18 addresses are between 62 m and 64 m above sea level (62 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
NE3 1XT100%100%100%0%
NE3 1XU100%100%100%0%
NE3 1XX100%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 stationsManors 64,000 journeys in 2024–253.4 km (2.1 miles)
Newcastle 11 million journeys in 2024–253.9 km (2.4 miles)
MetroCentre 632,000 journeys in 2024–256.1 km (3.8 miles)
Underground, metro or tramSouth Gosforth (Tyne and Wear Metro Station)340 m
Ilford Road (Tyne and Wear Metro Station)350 m
West Jesmond (Tyne and Wear Metro Station)1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Bus stops5 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 38 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Church Avenue-Church Road South Gosforth310 m
Bus or coach stationInterchange Regent Centre1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Ferry terminalNewcastle International Ferry Terminal Royal Quays10.3 km (6.4 miles)
Car parksSalters Road Car Park810 m (0.5 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest MFG Charging Station1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsNewcastle International Airport NCL6.4 km (4 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 surgeries4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Roseworth Surgery610 m (0.4 miles)
Pharmacies6 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Mills Pharmacy540 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists11 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest 55 Gosforth Smiles Clinic630 m (0.4 miles)
HospitalFreeman Hospital1 km (0.6 miles)
Police stationNewcastle Central Police Station3.3 km (2.1 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Barclays Bank - Gosforth670 m (0.4 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 garden5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Jesmond Dene 29 ha390 m
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 690 m²350 m
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 8,140 m²320 m
Allotments6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Rectory Road Allotments 8,400 m²170 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 5 parks and gardens, 55 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is La Sagesse School, Jesmond Towers, a listed building (Grade II*), 710 m (0.4 miles) south-east. 29 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
La Sagesse School, Jesmond TowersListed building, Grade II*710 m (0.4 miles) south-east
Salters' Bridge (Tyne and Wear Bridge Number 077)Listed building, Grade I940 m (0.6 miles) north-east
Salter's Bridge, GosforthScheduled monument950 m (0.6 miles) north-east
St Mary's Well, JesmondScheduled monument1.4 km (0.9 miles) south-east
St Mary's Chapel, JesmondScheduled monument1.5 km (0.9 miles) south-east
St Andrews CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.5 km (0.9 miles) south
Jesmond Dene, Armstrong and Heaton ParksRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.7 km (1.1 miles) south-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Jesmond DeneValley1.7 km (1.1 miles) south-east
Race HillHill1.9 km (1.2 miles) south-west
Black PlantationWood2.2 km (1.4 miles) north
Fencerhill WoodWood2.2 km (1.4 miles) north
Cow HillHill2.4 km (1.5 miles) south-west
Gosforth LakeLake or reservoir2.6 km (1.6 miles) north

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)12.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.2205
Particles (PM10)9.64015

All three are within the UK legal limits; nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 are above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road, rail and aircraft 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 trafficRailwaysAircraft
60 to 64060
55 to 594110
Under 5514118

4 of the street's 18 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, and 17 from railways, 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 Newcastle upon Tyne: see them on the Newcastle upon Tyne 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
South Gosforth First SchoolPrimary3–9130 m No published inspection
Archbishop Runcie CofE First School Church of EnglandPrimary3–9690 m (0.4 miles) No overall grade (Dec 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Gosforth Central Middle SchoolMiddle deemed secondary9–13950 m (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Archibald First SchoolPrimary3–91.1 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (Apr 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
St Mary's Catholic School Roman CatholicSecondary11–181.1 km (0.7 miles) Outstanding (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Gosforth Junior High AcademyMiddle deemed secondary9–131.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
West Jesmond Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No overall grade (May 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Gosforth AcademySecondary13–181.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (Jun 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Charles' Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Gosforth East Middle SchoolMiddle deemed secondary9–131.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Cragside Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.5 km (0.9 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
St Oswald's Catholic Primary School, Gosforth Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.6 km (1 mile) Good (Dec 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)

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
Abbeyfield NE3 1NHHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises180 m5 Very good14 Aug 2026
Thomas Franks at Newcastle School for Boys NE3 1NHSchool/college/university370 m5 Very good4 Feb 2025
Gosforth Parish Church Hall NE3 1ANOther catering premises380 m5 Very good25 Nov 2025
Newlands Convenience store NE2 3NTRetailers - other440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good14 Jul 2025
Little Aidan's NE2 3NTRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen460 m (0.3 miles)2 Improvement necessary30 Apr 2025
The Millstone NE3 1QLPub/bar/nightclub470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good29 Sep 2025
Maple Lodge Nursery NE3 1NNSchool/college/university470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good24 Jun 2025
Compassion Kadampa Buddhist Centre NE3 1QDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen490 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good18 Nov 2025
Thyme Square Cafe NE3 1QDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen490 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good12 Mar 2026
South Gosforth Wine Store NE3 1QDRetailers - other490 m (0.3 miles)4 Good8 Jul 2025
Hooked Fish and Chips NE3 1QDTakeaway/sandwich shop500 m (0.3 miles)4 Good6 Aug 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.

41 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences13
Vehicle crime8
Burglary7
Other theft5
Criminal damage and arson3
Bicycle theft2
Anti-social behaviour1
Possession of weapons1
Other crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Dene View (8); On or near Rectory Terrace (6); On or near Rectory Drive (5); On or near Stoneyhurst Road (4); On or near Alnmouth Drive (4).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 3 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 1,095 residents in 495 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 age4340
Children under 1515%17%
Aged 65 and over20%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)75%61%
Owned outright45%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented1%17%
Private rented24%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work60%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)25%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)under 1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)47%32%
Travel to work by car or van28%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram7%4%
By any public transport, including bus8%8%
On foot or by bicycle16%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)79%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away5%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)72%34%
No qualifications3%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)92%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

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.

  • NE3 1XT: 9 addresses of 10 in the postcode
  • NE3 1XU: 8 addresses
  • NE3 1XX: 1 address of 17 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Stoneyhurst Road · Rectory Avenue · Rectory Road · Balmoral Avenue · Balmoral Avenue · Rectory Terrace · Dilston Terrace · Stoneyhurst Road West · Windsor Avenue · Ellesmere Avenue · Hill Crest Gardens · Dene View

All the streets in NE3 and across Newcastle upon Tyne.

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.