Ridgemark Close Brixham, Torbay

11 addresses across 1 postcode (TQ5), about 70 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 40703009.

  • Sales: 23 recorded sales since 1995; in 2018 the median was £356,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 7 homes have an energy certificate (C: 2, D: 5).
  • 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 Torbay costs £2,470 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Paignton, about 6 km (3.7 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Churchill Memorial Gardens, is about 250 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 4.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 4.9 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 49 to 52 m above sea level.
  • Noise: None of its addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Compass House Medical Centres, about 550 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • People: About 200 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 81% of households owned their home and 32% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 16 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
20181£356,000£356,000£356,000
20162£341,500£298,000£385,000
20131£265,000£265,000£265,000
20111£250,000£250,000£250,000
20081£295,000£295,000£295,000
20071£272,000£272,000£272,000
20042£247,000£245,000£249,000
20022£194,975£190,000£199,950
20001£135,000£135,000£135,000
19993£118,250£105,000£120,000
19983£95,000£95,000£128,000
19971£98,500£98,500£98,500
Most recent sales (23)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
30 Aug 20248 TQ5 9TADetached£368,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
13 Mar 20183 TQ5 9TADetached£356,000
26 Oct 20162 TQ5 9TADetached£385,000
27 May 20166 TQ5 9TADetached£298,000
2 May 201310 TQ5 9TADetached£265,000
17 Mar 20112 TQ5 9TADetached£250,000
12 Sep 20085 TQ5 9TADetached£295,000
14 Dec 20077 TQ5 9TADetached£272,000
29 Oct 20044 TQ5 9TADetached£245,000
24 May 20049 TQ5 9TADetached£249,000
17 Dec 20026 TQ5 9TADetached£199,950
10 Jul 20023 TQ5 9TADetached£190,000
16 Oct 20003 TQ5 9TADetached£135,000
20 Aug 19997 TQ5 9TADetached£120,000
18 Jun 19999 TQ5 9TADetached£118,250New build.
30 Apr 19995 TQ5 9TADetached£105,000
28 Aug 19981 TQ5 9TADetached£95,000New build.
15 May 199810 TQ5 9TADetached£128,000New build.
31 Mar 19983 TQ5 9TADetached£95,000New build.
15 Dec 19978 TQ5 9TADetached£98,500New build.
10 Oct 19966 TQ5 9TADetached£84,950New build.
20 Sep 19962 TQ5 9TADetached£89,950New build.
29 Feb 19964 TQ5 9TADetached£82,500New build.

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 November 2009 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 89 m². Most common: House, detached (4); Bungalow, detached (3). Built: 1996-2002 (4); 1991-1995 (3). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (4).

Council tax

What each band costs in Torbay in 2026-27: Band D £2,470 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,647£1,921£2,196£2,470£3,019£3,568£4,117£4,941

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band D (22% of about 1,030 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: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • 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: 3 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

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

No address in this street's postcodes is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

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 is in flood zone 2 or 3.

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 11 addresses are between 49 m and 52 m above sea level (51 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
TQ5 9TA100%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 stationsPaignton 707,000 journeys in 2024–256 km (3.7 miles)
Torquay 508,000 journeys in 2024–257.7 km (4.8 miles)
Torre 376,000 journeys in 2024–259 km (5.6 miles)
Bus stops12 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 31 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Wall Park Holiday Centre Brixham180 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Paignton6 km (3.8 miles)
Ferry terminalBrixham Harbour Boarding Stage490 m (0.3 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Brixham Oxen Cove Car Park790 m (0.5 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Wenea730 m (0.5 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsExeter International Airport EXT38.1 km (24 miles)
Nearest large airportCardiff International Airport CWL112 km (69 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 Compass House Medical Centres550 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Day Lewis Pharmacy670 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Brixham Dental Practice Limited1 km (0.6 miles)
HospitalBrixham Hospital1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Police stationBrixham Police Station770 m (0.5 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Spar - Fore Street Cashzone790 m (0.5 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 garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Churchill Memorial Gardens 820 m²250 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Berry Head Country Park 39 ha690 m (0.4 miles)
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 370 m²630 m (0.4 miles)
Playing field4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 9,150 m²200 m
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 8,360 m²260 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 41 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Ashhole Cavern, a scheduled monument, 660 m (0.4 miles) north-east. 120 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Ashhole CavernScheduled monument660 m (0.4 miles) north-east
Windmill Hill Cave, BrixhamScheduled monument770 m (0.5 miles) south-west
Ramparts, Counterscarp Revetment, Glacis, Musketry Wall of Southern FortListed building, Grade II*1 km (0.6 miles) east
The Old Redoubt and later Victorian Rifle Range Target, 540m south west of Berry Head FortScheduled monument1 km (0.6 miles) east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Breakwater BeachBeach360 m north
Shoalstone BeachBeach590 m (0.4 miles) north-east
Oxen CoveTidal water720 m (0.4 miles) north-west
Battery GroundsWood1.2 km (0.8 miles) north-west
Southdown CliffCliff or slope2.4 km (1.5 miles) south
Sugar Loaf HillHill4.3 km (2.7 miles) north-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)4.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)4.9205
Particles (PM10)8.34015

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
Under 551111

None of the street's 11 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic or railways.

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 Torbay: see them on the Torbay 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
Brixham CollegeSecondary11–18510 m (0.3 miles) Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Needs attention; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Post-16 provision: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
Brixham Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–11680 m (0.4 miles) Good (Jul 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Furzeham Primary SchoolPrimary2–11800 m (0.5 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Eden Park Primary & Nursery SchoolPrimary2–111.6 km (1 mile) Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Margaret Clitherow Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary5–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Good (Jun 2023, 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.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Grenville House OEC TQ5 9AFOther catering premises260 m5 Very good2 Mar 2026
Stones Throw, Beach Bar, Bistro And Kiosk TQ5 9AFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen260 m3 Generally satisfactory6 Aug 2026
The Prince William TQ5 9BPPub/bar/nightclub270 m5 Very good26 Sep 2025
Astley Park Pool TQ5 9HFOther catering premises380 mExempt
Brixham Community College TQ5 9HFSchool/college/university390 m5 Very good3 Feb 2026
The Co-operative TQ5 9SWRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good21 Jan 2020
Olive TQ5 9TXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen420 m (0.3 miles)4 Good18 Feb 2026
The Mermaid Bar TQ5 9TFPub/bar/nightclub420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good18 Sep 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.

16 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences10
Anti-social behaviour2
Criminal damage and arson2
Other theft2

Most of these are attached to: On or near Heath Park (11); On or near Ranscombe Close (2); On or near Ranscombe Road (1); On or near Washbourne Close (1); On or near Marina Close (1).

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: 195 residents in 117 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 age7240
Children under 153%17%
Aged 65 and over69%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)81%61%
Owned outright66%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rentedunder 1%17%
Private rented18%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work19%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)74%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)19%32%
Travel to work by car or van61%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram3%4%
By any public transport, including bus8%8%
On foot or by bicycle11%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)63%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away0%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)32%34%
No qualifications20%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%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 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.

Nearby streets

Anchorage Close · Washbourne Close · Wall Park Close · Heath Park · Ranscombe Close · Haycock Lane · Heath Road · Marina Drive · Wall Park Road · Marina Close · Ranscombe Road · Ocean Gate

All the streets in TQ5 and across Torbay.

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.