Rectory Road Torridge

52 addresses across 3 postcodes (EX19), about 720 m (0.4 miles) long, classed as a b road. USRN 40900848.

  • Sales: 52 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £230,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 32 homes have an energy certificate (B: 3, C: 5, D: 6, E: 10, F: 6, G: 2).
  • 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 D; Band D in Torridge costs £2,601 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% to 2% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Portsmouth Arms, about 8.6 km (5.4 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 2.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 4.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 116 to 137 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 42 of its 52 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • People: About 680 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 82% of households owned their home and 28% 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
20261£230,000£230,000£230,000
20241£475,000£475,000£475,000
20223£433,000£285,000£450,000
20212£317,500£225,000£410,000
20204£337,500£206,000£410,000
20182£353,750£347,500£360,000
20171£350,000£350,000£350,000
20162£193,750£180,000£207,500
20154£265,000£170,000£390,000
20143£220,000£215,000£360,000
20124£210,000£170,000£250,000
20091£320,000£320,000£320,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 52)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
30 Jan 2026MEADOW CLOSE EX19 8QLTerraced£230,000
4 Oct 2024MAES Y DDERWEN EX19 8QLDetached£475,000
19 Jul 2022HARPER HOUSE EX19 8QLDetached£450,000
13 Apr 2022COPPERS EX19 8QLDetached£433,000
13 Apr 2022SUNRISE EX19 8QLDetached£285,000
16 Mar 2022MULBERRY HOUSE EX19 8QLOther£51,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
27 Sep 2021SHANGRI LA EX19 8QLDetached£225,000
18 Feb 2021MIDDLE HILL EX19 8QLDetached£410,000
17 Jun 202010 EX19 8QLSemi-detached£206,000
2 Jun 2020WHEELWRIGHT COTTAGE EX19 8QLTerraced£300,000
25 Mar 2020WEST BARLANDS EX19 8QLDetached£375,000
16 Jan 2020MIDDLE HILL EX19 8QLDetached£410,000
20 Nov 2018MULBERRY HOUSE EX19 8QLDetached£360,000
12 Sep 2018HARPER HOUSE EX19 8QLDetached£347,500
17 Oct 2017MIDDLE HILL EX19 8QLDetached£350,000
22 Nov 20162 EX19 8QLSemi-detached£207,500
14 Oct 2016EVELEA EX19 8QLDetached£180,000
30 Mar 2016MULBERRY HOUSE EX19 8QLDetached£192,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
8 Dec 20155 EX19 8QLSemi-detached£255,000
10 Sep 2015STRETTON HOUSE EX19 8QLDetached£390,000
28 Aug 2015BEECH HOUSE EX19 8QLDetached£275,000
20 Feb 2015MULBERRY HOUSE EX19 8QLDetached£170,000
18 Aug 2014FAIRWAYS EX19 8QLDetached£220,000
18 Aug 2014LITTLE BARLANDS EX19 8QLDetached£215,000
6 Jun 2014MAES Y DDERWEN EX19 8QLDetached£360,000
21 Dec 2012WHEELWRIGHT COTTAGE EX19 8QLTerraced£235,000
15 Aug 2012KERRY EX19 8QLDetached£185,000
20 Jun 2012THE OLD MANSE EX19 8QLDetached£250,000
2 Mar 2012MEADOW VIEW EX19 8QLDetached£170,000
29 Apr 2009MIDDLE HILL EX19 8QLDetached£320,000
1 Apr 2008STRETTON HOUSE EX19 8QLDetached£499,999
23 Nov 20074 EX19 8QLSemi-detached£232,000
31 Jan 2007MAES Y DDERWEN EX19 8QLDetached£341,500
7 Jul 2006THE OLD MANSE EX19 8QLDetached£232,500
28 Jan 2005WEST BARLANDS EX19 8QLDetached£380,000
1 Jul 2004FAIRWAYS EX19 8QLDetached£172,500
30 Jan 2004SHERDON EX19 8QLDetached£220,000
15 Oct 2003MAES Y DDERWEN EX19 8QLDetached£283,000
10 Oct 2003STRETTON HOUSE EX19 8QLDetached£290,000
18 Oct 2002CAREVE EX19 8QLDetached£185,000
28 Feb 2002THE OLD MANSE EX19 8QLDetached£153,000
31 May 2001ASHTREES EX19 8QLDetached£179,500New build.
31 May 2001WESTLEA EX19 8QLSemi-detached£144,000
27 Oct 20004 EX19 8QLSemi-detached£89,000
17 Mar 20004 EX19 8QLSemi-detached£79,950
16 Jul 1999WHEELWRIGHT COTTAGE EX19 8QLTerraced£85,000
29 Apr 1999MIDDLE HILL EX19 8QLDetached£93,000
19 Dec 1997STRETTON HOUSE EX19 8QLDetached£120,000
22 Sep 1997WESTLEA EX19 8QLSemi-detached£99,875
29 Aug 1997SHERDON EX19 8QLDetached£76,000

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 December 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

32 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 121 m². Most common: House, detached (9); Bungalow, detached (8); House, semi-detached (7). Built: 1950-1966 (9); 1967-1975 (6); 1976-1982 (5). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (20); rented (social) (4); rented (private) (4).

Council tax

What each band costs in Torridge in 2026-27: Band D £2,601 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,734£2,023£2,312£2,601£3,180£3,758£4,336£5,203

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band D (25% of about 880 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, Dolton (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 2.
  • 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

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, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 1 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
EX19 8QLnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
EX19 8QXnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
EX19 8UDnot 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 52 addresses are between 116 m and 137 m above sea level (125 m on average); the ground rises about 21 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
EX19 8QL100%2%2%0%
EX19 8QX100%0%0%0%
EX19 8UD100%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 stationsPortsmouth Arms 600 journeys in 2024–258.6 km (5.4 miles)
Kings Nympton 6,500 journeys in 2024–259.5 km (5.9 miles)
Eggesford 53,000 journeys in 2024–2510.6 km (6.6 miles)
Bus stops1 stop within 400 m (0.2 miles), 1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Barfield Road Dolton270 m
Airport with scheduled flightsExeter International Airport EXT46.6 km (29 miles)
Nearest large airportCardiff International Airport CWL73.4 km (46 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
HospitalTorrington Hospital10.3 km (6.4 miles)
Police stationTorrington Police Station9.9 km (6.1 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
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,970 m²540 m (0.3 miles)
Playing fieldUnnamed 9,630 m²920 m (0.6 miles)

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Edmund, a listed building (Grade II*), 910 m (0.6 miles) south-west. 36 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St EdmundListed building, Grade II*910 m (0.6 miles) south-west
Three bowl barrows 545m east of Cupper's PieceScheduled monument1.9 km (1.2 miles) north
Bowl barrow on Beaford Moor, 400m north east of Cupper's PieceScheduled monument2 km (1.2 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Viltham CopseWood930 m (0.6 miles) south-east
Cobblers' Plat CopseWood1.1 km (0.7 miles) north-west
East WoodWood1.1 km (0.7 miles) south-east
East Cudworthy CopseWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) north
Golden PoolLake or reservoir2.4 km (1.5 miles) west
Higher StentifordHill2.7 km (1.7 miles) 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)2.34010
Fine particles (PM2.5)4.7205
Particles (PM10)8.44015

All three are within both the UK limits and the WHO guidelines.

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 6920
60 to 64210
55 to 59190
Under 551052

42 of the street's 52 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 Torridge: see them on the Torridge 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
Dolton Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary2–11890 m (0.6 miles) Good (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)

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.

No rated food businesses within 500 m (0.3 miles).

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 (devon-and-cornwall).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 682 residents in 342 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 age6140
Children under 157%17%
Aged 65 and over41%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)82%61%
Owned outright59%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented6%17%
Private rented11%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work42%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)43%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)26%32%
Travel to work by car or van63%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including busunder 1%8%
On foot or by bicycle9%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)25%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away19%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)28%34%
No qualifications20%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 4 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.

  • EX19 8QL: 48 addresses of 51 in the postcode
  • EX19 8QX: 3 addresses of 17 in the postcode
  • EX19 8UD: 1 address of 5 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Orchard Gate · Barfield Road · Barfield Close · Barlands Way

All the streets in EX19 and across Torridge.

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.