Salisbury Road Downton, Wiltshire

104 addresses across 13 postcodes (SP5), about 240 m long, classed as a a road. USRN 33501785.

  • Sales: 17 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £300,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 60 homes have an energy certificate (B: 53, C: 1, D: 2, E: 2, F: 1, G: 1).
  • Flood: 4 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 D; Band D in Wiltshire costs £2,572 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 89% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Salisbury, about 9.1 km (5.7 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 280 m away, and Longclose Park (1.1 hectares) is about 300 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 4.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 37 to 38 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 39 of its 110 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Downton Surgery, about 1.2 km (0.7 miles) away.
  • People: About 1,270 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 68% of households owned their home and 41% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 24 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often criminal damage and arson.

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
20241£300,000£300,000£300,000
20181£329,995£329,995£329,995
20171£395,000£395,000£395,000
20161£400,000£400,000£400,000
20121£430,000£430,000£430,000
20071£402,000£402,000£402,000
20051£100,000£100,000£100,000
20041£100,000£100,000£100,000
20032£202,500£170,000£235,000
20011£193,500£193,500£193,500
19981£188,000£188,000£188,000
19953£121,000£105,000£122,000
Most recent sales (17)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
10 Jun 20242, ALMA COTTAGES SP5 3JBSemi-detached£300,000
4 Jul 20232, WHITE COTTAGES SP5 3JASemi-detached£275,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
31 Oct 2018RIVERDALE HOUSE SP5 3HZDetached£329,995
6 Feb 2017THE MAGNOLIAS SP5 3HZDetached£395,000
18 Nov 2016WHITE HOUSE SP5 3HZDetached£400,000
11 Sep 2015LONGFORD SERVICE STATION SP5 3HZOther£747,305Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
28 Mar 2012THE HAMLET SP5 3HZDetached£430,000
13 Jul 2007THE HAMLET SP5 3HZDetached£402,000
3 Mar 20051, WHITE COTTAGES SP5 3JASemi-detached£100,000
3 Dec 20042, WHITE COTTAGES SP5 3JASemi-detached£100,000
14 Nov 2003DOWN ACRE SP5 3HZDetached£235,000
25 Jul 2003DOWN ACRE SP5 3HZDetached£170,000
20 Mar 2001THE LAURELS SP5 3HZDetached£193,500
30 Jun 1998UNIT D, THE HEADLANDS SP5 3JJDetached£188,000
12 Oct 1995THE MAGNOLIAS SP5 3HZDetached£121,000New build.
7 Sep 1995LITTLEGROVE SP5 3HZDetached£122,000New build.
3 Jan 1995BARNFIELD SP5 3HZDetached£105,000

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 October 2011 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

60 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 82 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (28); House, detached (18); Flat (6). Built: 2016 (47); 2021 (4); 1900-1929 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (5); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (52 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Wiltshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,572 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,715£2,000£2,286£2,572£3,143£3,715£4,286£5,144

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band D (23% of about 910 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), 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, DOWNTON (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): 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

Finished in the last three months

  • 29 September 2026: SOUTH WEST WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, no carriageway incursion, on the verge (immediate - urgent 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, 4 at medium risk and 10 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.

Groundwater flooding is possible in 13 of these postcodes: an address there is in a groundwater flood alert area.

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
SP5 3FNnot in 2 or 3 0 / 2 / 4 possible
SP5 3HZnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 possible
SP5 3JJnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 possible
SP5 3FZnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 5 possible
SP5 3FQnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 possible
SP5 3FSnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 possible
SP5 3JAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 possible
SP5 3JBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 possible
SP5 3FPnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 possible
SP5 3FRnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 possible
SP5 3HHnot in 2 or 3 0 / 2 / 1 possible
SP5 3FLnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 possible
SP5 3HXnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 possible

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 110 addresses are between 37 m and 38 m above sea level (38 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
SP5 3FL100%100%100%0%
SP5 3FN100%89%89%0%
SP5 3FP100%100%100%0%
SP5 3FQ100%100%100%0%
SP5 3FR100%100%100%0%
SP5 3FS100%100%100%0%
SP5 3FZ100%100%100%0%
SP5 3HH100%91%91%0%
SP5 3HX100%100%100%0%
SP5 3HZ100%91%91%0%
SP5 3JA100%100%100%0%
SP5 3JB100%100%100%0%
SP5 3JJ100%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 stationsSalisbury 2.0 million journeys in 2024–259.1 km (5.7 miles)
Dean (Wilts) 38,000 journeys in 2024–2510.2 km (6.3 miles)
Bus stops4 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 9 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Bull Downton160 m
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Osprey Charging Station270 m
Airport with scheduled flightsBournemouth Airport BOH24.4 km (15 miles)
Nearest large airportBristol Airport BRS79.7 km (49 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 Downton Surgery1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Day Lewis Pharmacy1.1 km (0.7 miles)
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Borough Dental Practice340 m
HospitalSalisbury District Hospital6 km (3.7 miles)
Police stationHampshire & Isle of Wight Constabulary7.9 km (4.9 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Cooperative Food Downton, Downton Cashzone630 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 garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 7,390 m²280 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Longclose Park 1.1 ha300 m
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 250 m²130 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.2 ha390 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.5 ha370 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 1.9 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Village cross, a scheduled monument, 460 m (0.3 miles) south-east. 64 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 3 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Village crossScheduled monument460 m (0.3 miles) south-east
The Downton Press the White HorseListed building, Grade II*490 m (0.3 miles) east
The CourthouseListed building, Grade II*510 m (0.3 miles) south-east
Newcourt and Newcourt FarmhouseListed building, Grade II*650 m (0.4 miles) north-east
Churchyard crossScheduled monument1.1 km (0.7 miles) east
The Moot: a ringwork and bailey, earlier Roman settlement remains and later garden earthworks immediately east of the River AvonScheduled monument1.1 km (0.7 miles) east
The Moot and Moot House, DowntonRegistered park or garden, Grade II*1.1 km (0.7 miles) east
Trafalgar HouseRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.6 km (1.6 miles) north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Giant's Grave PlantationWood1.6 km (1 mile) north-west
Ham IslandIsland2.7 km (1.7 miles) north
Clearbury RingHill3.4 km (2.1 miles) north-west
Breamore MarshWetland4 km (2.5 miles) south
The ShallowsLake or reservoir4.4 km (2.8 miles) south
Well BottomValley4.5 km (2.8 miles) 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)4.94010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.7205
Particles (PM10)9.44015

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
70 to 7420
65 to 69100
60 to 64190
55 to 5980
Under 5571110

39 of the street's 110 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 Wiltshire: see them on the Wiltshire 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
Downton CofE VA Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–11390 m Good (Jan 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)
The Trafalgar School at DowntonSecondary11–16450 m (0.3 miles) Good (Jul 2023, 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
Downton Road Convenience store SP5 3HHRetailers - other100 m5 Very good20 Nov 2025
The Bull Hotel SP5 3HLHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house230 m5 Very good20 Nov 2025
Revive Vending Ltd SP5 3RADistributors/Transporters240 m5 Very good9 Jun 2025
Tailwind Nutrition Ltd SP5 3RARetailers - other250 mExempt
Downton Brewery Company Ltd SP5 3HUManufacturers/packers260 m5 Very good9 Jun 2025
Ghostpit Distillery SP5 3HUManufacturers/packers290 mExempt
Wiltshire Country Markets SP5 3NBRetailers - other360 mExempt
Downton Football Club @ Brian Whitehead Sports & Social Centre SP5 3NHRetailers - other410 m (0.3 miles)Exempt
Downton Grill & Kebab SP5 3LXTakeaway/sandwich shop480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good7 Dec 2023
The Goat at Downton SP5 3LYPub/bar/nightclub490 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good14 Apr 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.

24 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Criminal damage and arson8
Violence and sexual offences5
Anti-social behaviour4
Burglary2
Other theft2
Shoplifting1
Vehicle crime1
Other crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Moody Drive (5); On or near The Headlands (5); On or near Greenacres (3); On or near Petrol Station (3); On or near Salisbury Road (3).

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: 1,265 residents in 536 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 age4640
Children under 1518%17%
Aged 65 and over22%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)68%61%
Owned outright36%33%
Shared ownership3%1%
Social rented8%17%
Private rented21%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work62%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)1%6%
Retired (of adults)26%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)35%32%
Travel to work by car or van54%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle8%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)59%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away16%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)41%34%
No qualifications14%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%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 9 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.

  • SP5 3FN: 41 addresses of 79 in the postcode
  • SP5 3HZ: 26 addresses of 28 in the postcode
  • SP5 3JJ: 11 addresses of 12 in the postcode
  • SP5 3FZ: 6 addresses of 19 in the postcode
  • SP5 3FQ: 3 addresses of 7 in the postcode
  • SP5 3FS: 3 addresses of 10 in the postcode
  • SP5 3JA: 3 addresses
  • SP5 3JB: 3 addresses
  • SP5 3FP: 2 addresses of 7 in the postcode
  • SP5 3FR: 2 addresses of 3 in the postcode
  • SP5 3HH: 2 addresses of 19 in the postcode
  • SP5 3FL: 1 address of 8 in the postcode
  • SP5 3HX: 1 address of 5 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Haydon Close · Moody Drive · Long Close West · Keeley Close · Salisbury Road · Batchelor Way · Wheelwright Mews · Batten Road · Bundy Grove · Greenacres · Morgan Close · Crossways Close

All the streets in SP5 and across Wiltshire.

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.