Sandy Lane North Devon

44 addresses across 11 postcodes (EX34), about 2.1 km (1.3 miles) long, classed as a minor road. USRN 27500039.

  • Sales: 22 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £720,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 22 homes have an energy certificate (B: 11, C: 3, D: 1, E: 4, F: 2, G: 1).
  • 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 D; Band D in North Devon costs £2,642 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Barnstaple, about 14.9 km (9.2 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 700 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 2.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 4.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 32 to 186 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 4 of its 45 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Combe Coastal Practice, about 6.1 km (3.8 miles) away.
  • People: About 990 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 78% of households owned their home and 36% 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
20251£720,000£720,000£720,000
20241£550,000£550,000£550,000
20231£515,000£515,000£515,000
20221£300,000£300,000£300,000
20194£411,250£385,000£492,500
20183£293,000£240,000£475,000
20153£320,000£255,000£440,000
20061£345,000£345,000£345,000
20011£215,000£215,000£215,000
19961£34,100£34,100£34,100
19951£125,000£125,000£125,000
Most recent sales (22)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
12 Sep 2025CHERRY TREE COTTAGE EX34 7EXTerraced£720,000
7 Feb 20248, OCEANPOINT EX34 7AYFlat or maisonette£550,000Leasehold.
8 Dec 202310, OCEANPOINT EX34 7AYFlat or maisonette£515,000Leasehold.
27 May 20226, OCEANPOINT EX34 7AYFlat or maisonette£300,000Leasehold.
16 Dec 2019UP BYE EX34 7EXDetached£397,500
5 Jul 201912, OCEANPOINT EX34 7AYFlat or maisonette£385,000New build. Leasehold.
4 Jul 201911, OCEANPOINT EX34 7AYFlat or maisonette£425,000New build. Leasehold.
31 May 20193, OCEANPOINT EX34 7AYFlat or maisonette£492,500New build. Leasehold.
25 Oct 2018BONAVENTURE EX34 7EXDetached£293,000
18 Sep 201810, OCEANPOINT EX34 7AYFlat or maisonette£475,000New build. Leasehold.
25 Apr 20186, OCEANPOINT EX34 7AYFlat or maisonette£240,000New build. Leasehold.
5 Feb 20181, OCEANPOINT EX34 7AYFlat or maisonette£600,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
5 Feb 20188, OCEANPOINT EX34 7AYFlat or maisonette£480,000New build. Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
5 Feb 20189, OCEANPOINT EX34 7AYFlat or maisonette£475,000New build. Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
5 Feb 20182, OCEANPOINT EX34 7AYFlat or maisonette£475,000New build. Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
3 Dec 2015UP BYE EX34 7EXDetached£320,000
17 Nov 2015WEST VIEW EX34 7ARDetached£440,000
21 Jul 2015BONAVENTURE EX34 7EXDetached£255,000
20 Oct 2006UP BYE EX34 7EXDetached£345,000
7 Sep 2001WEST VIEW EX34 7ARSemi-detached£215,000
2 Apr 1996GILMOSS EX34 7EXDetached£34,100
17 Feb 1995MARIGOLDS EX34 7EXDetached£125,000

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 May 2012 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

22 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 83 m². Most common: Flat (11); House, detached (5); Bungalow, semi-detached (3). Built: 2017 (10); 1950-1966 (3); 1967-1975 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (11).

Council tax

What each band costs in North Devon in 2026-27: Band D £2,642 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,761£2,055£2,349£2,642£3,229£3,817£4,404£5,284

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band D (20% of about 1,420 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, Woolacombe (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 1.
  • 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, 11 at medium risk and 0 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
EX34 7AYnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
EX34 7EXnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
EX34 7ARnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
EX34 7AZnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
EX34 7DGnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
EX34 7ADnot in 2 or 3 0 / 11 / 0 unlikely
EX34 7AHnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
EX34 7AQnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
EX34 7BZnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
EX34 7DQnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
EX34 7DWnot 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 45 addresses are between 32 m and 186 m above sea level (119 m on average); the ground rises about 154 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
EX34 7AD94%0%0%6%
EX34 7AH100%0%0%0%
EX34 7AQ94%0%0%0%
EX34 7AR100%0%0%0%
EX34 7AY100%0%0%0%
EX34 7AZ0%0%0%100%
EX34 7BZ100%1%1%0%
EX34 7DG100%0%0%0%
EX34 7DQ100%59%59%0%
EX34 7DW100%0%0%0%
EX34 7EX100%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 stationBarnstaple 609,000 journeys in 2024–2514.9 km (9.2 miles)
Bus stops2 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 10 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Parish Church Woolacombe310 m
Ferry terminalIlfracombe Ferry Landing7.4 km (4.6 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Esplanade Car Park550 m (0.3 miles)
EV charging pointsOsprey Charging Station7.5 km (4.7 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsCardiff International Airport CWL64.7 km (40 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 surgeriesCombe Coastal Practice6.1 km (3.8 miles)
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Barton Pharmacy (Lps)460 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentistsTorrs Park Dental Practice6.2 km (3.9 miles)
HospitalIlfracombe Hospital6.3 km (3.9 miles)
Police stationBraunton Police7.9 km (4.9 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Woolacombe Food Store Ltd Cashzone450 m (0.3 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 garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.9 ha700 m (0.4 miles)
Play areaUnnamed 940 m²1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.6 ha460 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Gora Lane Allotments 1.2 ha600 m (0.4 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 1.9 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Sabinus (Wollacombe Church), a listed building (Grade II*), 300 m south. 3 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 Sabinus (Wollacombe Church)Listed building, Grade II*300 m south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Gin CoveTidal water790 m (0.5 miles) west
Harris's CoveTidal water800 m (0.5 miles) west
Potter's HillHill1.1 km (0.7 miles) south
Bluebell WoodsWood1.9 km (1.2 miles) east
Borough ValleyValley2.5 km (1.6 miles) north-east
Upper ReservoirLake or reservoir4.3 km (2.7 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)2.14010
Fine particles (PM2.5)4.2205
Particles (PM10)7.64015

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
55 to 5940
Under 554145

4 of the street's 45 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 North Devon: see them on the North Devon 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
Woolacombe SchoolPrimary2–11390 m Good (Nov 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
St Sabinus Parish Church EX34 7BXOther catering premises230 m5 Very good20 Feb 2008
Mortehoe & Woolacombe Lunch Club EX34 7BXOther catering premises230 m5 Very good26 Apr 2016
Woolacombe County Primary School EX34 7BTSchool/college/university290 m4 Good9 Mar 2026
Calvary Chapel EX34 7BTRetailers - other380 m5 Very good23 Jul 2010
Woolacombe Fryer EX34 7BATakeaway/sandwich shop420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good29 May 2024
Captain Jacks EX34 7BARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good23 Apr 2025
Drift Coffee House and Kitchen EX34 7BARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen420 m (0.3 miles)4 Good19 Sep 2025
Bar Electric EX34 7BPPub/bar/nightclub420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good14 Oct 2026
Woolacombe Foodstore Ltd EX34 7BWRetailers - other440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good14 Oct 2026
The Beach House EX34 7BWHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good21 May 2024
Noel Corston Restaurant EX34 7BBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good25 Jul 2018
Fudgies EX34 7BWRetailers - other450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good6 Mar 2024
The Captains Table EX34 7BWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen450 m (0.3 miles)Awaiting inspection
Funder Island EX34 7BARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good16 May 2025
Barton Pharmacy Ltd EX34 7BWRetailers - other460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good15 Jan 2020

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 3 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 993 residents in 446 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 age5340
Children under 1515%17%
Aged 65 and over31%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)78%61%
Owned outright50%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented3%17%
Private rented19%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work53%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)36%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)31%32%
Travel to work by car or van56%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including busunder 1%8%
On foot or by bicycle11%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)58%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away12%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)36%34%
No qualifications15%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

Chichester Park · Springfield Road · Fairholme Road · Seymour Villas

All the streets in EX34 and across North Devon.

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.