Rowan Close Gobowen, Shropshire

12 addresses across 2 postcodes (SY11), about 80 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 29600817.

  • Sales: 18 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £155,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 8 homes have an energy certificate (C: 4, D: 4).
  • Flood: 11 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 Shropshire costs £2,528 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Gobowen, about 70 m away in a straight line.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 4.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 107 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 12 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Cambrian Medical Practice, about 3.5 km (2.2 miles) away.
  • People: About 350 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 49% of households owned their home and 25% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 90 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£155,000£155,000£155,000
20191£149,995£149,995£149,995
20181£165,000£165,000£165,000
20151£149,950£149,950£149,950
20131£125,000£125,000£125,000
20121£101,500£101,500£101,500
20111£120,000£120,000£120,000
20081£142,000£142,000£142,000
20006£66,375£51,500£70,000
19994£57,000£56,500£60,000
Most recent sales (18)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
25 Jun 20252 SY11 3JBSemi-detached£155,000
22 Jan 201918 SY11 3JBSemi-detached£149,995
27 Apr 201819 SY11 3JBDetached£165,000
3 Aug 201519 SY11 3JBDetached£149,950
2 Apr 20136 SY11 3JBSemi-detached£125,000
27 Apr 201216 SY11 3JBSemi-detached£101,500
31 May 201116 SY11 3JBSemi-detached£120,000
25 Jan 20086 SY11 3JBSemi-detached£142,000
28 Sep 200019 SY11 3JBDetached£70,000New build.
31 Aug 200012 SY11 3JBSemi-detached£70,000
2 Jun 200016 SY11 3JBSemi-detached£51,500New build.
22 Mar 200018 SY11 3JBSemi-detached£51,500New build.
21 Mar 200010 SY11 3JBDetached£63,000New build.
10 Mar 200017 SY11 3JBDetached£69,750New build.
3 Dec 199912 SY11 3JBSemi-detached£60,000New build.
19 Nov 199914 SY11 3JBDetached£57,000New build.
19 Nov 19998 SY11 3JBSemi-detached£57,000New build.
19 Jul 19996 SY11 3JBSemi-detached£56,500New build.

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

8 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 61 m². Most common: Bungalow, semi-detached (4); Bungalow, detached (2); House, semi-detached (2). Built: 1996-2002 (7); 2012 onwards (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (5); rented (social) (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (6 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Shropshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,528 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,685£1,966£2,247£2,528£3,090£3,652£4,214£5,056

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (58% of about 740 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: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • 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

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 11 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 6 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: of the 26 homes the Environment Agency counts, 11 are in areas at high risk, 0 medium, 1 low and 0 very low.

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: at least one postcode centre is in flood zone 3. Zone 3 is a 1% (1 in 100) or greater annual chance of flooding from rivers, or 0.5% from the sea, ignoring defences.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
SY11 3JBzone 3 10 / 0 / 0 unlikely
SY11 3JEnot in 2 or 3 1 / 0 / 6 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 addresses are about 107 m above sea level.

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
SY11 3JB100%100%100%0%
SY11 3JE100%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 stationsGobowen 248,000 journeys in 2024–2570 m
Chirk 107,000 journeys in 2024–254.8 km (3 miles)
Ruabon 117,000 journeys in 2024–2510.4 km (6.5 miles)
Bus stops9 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 15 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Rowan Close Gobowen90 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Oswestry3.6 km (2.3 miles)
EV charging pointsConnected Kerb Charging Stations3.5 km (2.2 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLiverpool John Lennon Airport LPL50.6 km (31 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 surgeriesCambrian Medical Practice3.5 km (2.2 miles)
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Gobowen Cross Pharma LTD100 m
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest 3 Brook Buildings (Dental Surgery)140 m
HospitalRobert Jones & Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Police stationOswestry Police Station4.4 km (2.7 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Cooperative Food Gobowen, Gobowen Cashzone110 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
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,720 m²610 m (0.4 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3.6 ha580 m (0.4 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3,440 m²250 m

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Wat's Dyke: 140m long section, 370m south west of Gobowen Station, a scheduled monument, 400 m (0.2 miles) south-west. 7 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Wat's Dyke: 140m long section, 370m south west of Gobowen StationScheduled monument400 m (0.2 miles) south-west
Wat's Dyke: 180m long section, 170m east of Pentre-wernScheduled monument600 m (0.4 miles) south-west
Bryn-y-Castell and a section of Wat's Dyke adjacent to Preeshenlle United Reformed ChurchScheduled monument620 m (0.4 miles) north
Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and CanalWorld Heritage Site8.1 km (5 miles) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Brynycastell CoppiceWood570 m (0.4 miles) north-east
Hillyards PlantationWood1.2 km (0.7 miles) east
Butts WoodWood1.6 km (1 mile) east
Munslow RoughWood1.8 km (1.1 miles) east
Mill DingleValley2.9 km (1.8 miles) south-west
The BrynHill4.6 km (2.9 miles) east

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)4.54010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.3205
Particles (PM10)9.04015

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
55 to 5910
Under 551112

1 of the street's 12 addresses is 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 Shropshire: see them on the Shropshire 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
Gobowen Primary SchoolPrimary3–11600 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection

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
The Old Vicarage Nursing Home SY11 3JSHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises80 m5 Very good19 Jun 2025
Station Cafe Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen80 m5 Very good5 Nov 2024
Cross Foxes SY11 3JRPub/bar/nightclub100 m5 Very good30 Oct 2024
Gobowen Sandwich Bar SY11 3JRTakeaway/sandwich shop130 m5 Very good28 Jun 2023
Dragon Boat Chinese SY11 3JRTakeaway/sandwich shop130 m5 Very good15 Jan 2025
The Best Kebab SY11 3JPTakeaway/sandwich shop130 m5 Very good2 Oct 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.

90 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences45
Shoplifting11
Criminal damage and arson8
Public order8
Drugs5
Other theft4
Anti-social behaviour3
Vehicle crime2
Possession of weapons2
Other crime2

Most of these are attached to: On or near Supermarket (24); On or near Fox'S Field (17); On or near Coldwell Gardens (12); On or near Almond Avenue (10); On or near Trumpet Close (6).

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: 350 residents in 150 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 1516%17%
Aged 65 and over23%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)49%61%
Owned outright28%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented25%17%
Private rented25%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work57%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)21%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)7%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)24%32%
Travel to work by car or van57%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle12%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)54%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away22%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)25%34%
No qualifications20%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)96%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all2%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 2 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.

  • SY11 3JB: 11 addresses of 12 in the postcode
  • SY11 3JE: 1 address of 20 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Meadow Drive · Coldwell Gardens · The Cross · New Road · St Davids Close · B5069 · B5069 · Trumpet Close · Beechbrook Gardens · The Meadows · St Martins Road · Silverways Drive

All the streets in SY11 and across Shropshire.

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.