Sawmill Close Worcester

40 addresses across 2 postcodes (WR5), about 110 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 45001846.

  • Sales: 24 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £135,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 34 homes have an energy certificate (C: 34).
  • Flood: 2 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 B; Band D in Worcester costs £2,406 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Worcester Shrub Hill, about 760 m (0.5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Fort Royal Park, is about 510 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 35 to 37 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 21 of its 40 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is St Martin's Gate Surgery, about 770 m (0.5 miles) away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 420 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 42% of households owned their home and 27% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 104 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
20261£135,000£135,000£135,000
20251£190,000£190,000£190,000
20233£100,000£90,000£190,000
20212£106,375£74,750£138,000
20182£101,000£67,000£135,000
20171£200,000£200,000£200,000
20142£55,500£53,000£58,000
20123£62,000£57,500£119,000
20102£58,000£55,000£61,000
20083£76,250£63,000£108,000
20072£63,050£63,000£63,100
20061£54,000£54,000£54,000
Most recent sales (24)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
27 Jan 202612 WR5 1EUFlat or maisonette£135,000Leasehold.
1 Jul 20251 WR5 1EUTerraced£190,000
16 Mar 202316 WR5 1EUTerraced£190,000
16 Mar 202316 WR5 1EUTerraced£100,000
3 Mar 20232 WR5 1EUTerraced£90,000Leasehold.
11 Jun 202118 WR5 1EUTerraced£138,000
21 May 20218 WR5 1EUFlat or maisonette£74,750Leasehold.
5 Oct 20186 WR5 1EUFlat or maisonette£135,000Leasehold.
14 Sep 201812 WR5 1EUFlat or maisonette£67,000Leasehold.
24 Nov 201718 WR5 1EUTerraced£200,000
31 Oct 201412 WR5 1EUFlat or maisonette£53,000Leasehold.
14 Feb 20148 WR5 1EUFlat or maisonette£58,000Leasehold.
30 Nov 20123 WR5 1EUTerraced£119,000
10 Aug 20124 WR5 1EUTerraced£62,000Leasehold.
5 Apr 20127 WR5 1EUFlat or maisonette£57,500Leasehold.
20 May 201014 WR5 1EUTerraced£61,000Leasehold.
5 Mar 20108 WR5 1EUFlat or maisonette£55,000Leasehold.
7 Nov 20086 WR5 1EUFlat or maisonette£108,000Leasehold.
6 Aug 20085 WR5 1EUFlat or maisonette£63,000Leasehold.
19 Jun 20082 WR5 1EUTerraced£76,250Leasehold.
22 Jun 200712 WR5 1EUFlat or maisonette£63,100Leasehold.
27 Apr 20079 WR5 1EUFlat or maisonette£63,000Leasehold.
27 Jan 20065 WR5 1EUFlat or maisonette£54,000Leasehold.
10 Nov 20046 WR5 1EUFlat or maisonette£62,625New build. Leasehold.

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

34 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 75 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (9); Flat (8); House, end-terrace (7). Built: 2003-2006 (29); 1996-2002 (4); 1991-1995 (1). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (19); owner-occupied (9); rented (private) (2).

Council tax

What each band costs in Worcester in 2026-27: Band D £2,406 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,604£1,871£2,138£2,406£2,940£3,475£4,010£4,812

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (56% of about 680 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, 2 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 3 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
WR5 1EUnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
WR5 1DZnot in 2 or 3 2 / 0 / 2 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 40 addresses are between 35 m and 37 m above sea level (36 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
WR5 1DZ100%100%100%0%
WR5 1EU100%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 stationsWorcester Shrub Hill 577,000 journeys in 2024–25760 m (0.5 miles)
Worcester Foregate Street 1.9 million journeys in 2024–251.3 km (0.8 miles)
Worcestershire Parkway 456,000 journeys in 2024–254.8 km (3 miles)
Bus stops4 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 25 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Camp Hill Road Battenhall360 m
Bus or coach stationWorcester Bus Station1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Car parks3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Tallow Hill Car Park660 m (0.4 miles)
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Shell Recharge Charging Station910 m (0.6 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX43 km (27 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 surgeries3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest St Martin's Gate Surgery770 m (0.5 miles)
Pharmacies8 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Peak Pharmacy770 m (0.5 miles)
NHS dentists4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest London Road (Dental Surgery)650 m (0.4 miles)
HospitalUhcw Worcester Spire Hospital1 km (0.7 miles)
Police stationWorcester Police Station1.6 km (1 mile)
Cash machinesMFG - Commandery Service Station Cashzone840 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 garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Fort Royal Park 2.1 ha510 m (0.3 miles)
Play area6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 770 m²320 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4,540 m²630 m (0.4 miles)
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Hillborough Allotments 1.5 ha390 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 2.1 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Fort Royal, a scheduled monument, 550 m (0.3 miles) west. 192 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 5 of them Grade I and 13 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Fort RoyalScheduled monument550 m (0.3 miles) west
Civil War fieldwork at Tamar Close, WorcesterScheduled monument580 m (0.4 miles) north
Shrub Hill Station: Waiting Room to East PlatformListed building, Grade II*690 m (0.4 miles) north
The CommanderyListed building, Grade I720 m (0.4 miles) west
City walls: section extending 280ft (90m) W and SW of Clare StreetScheduled monument770 m (0.5 miles) west
Battenhall Mount (former St Mary's Convent School)Listed building, Grade II*800 m (0.5 miles) south
Royal Worcester Porcelain Works: Pan Grinding Shop and Attached BuildingsListed building, Grade II*840 m (0.5 miles) west
Battle of Worcester 1651 with Powick Old Bridge 1642Registered battlefield2.1 km (1.3 miles) south-west
Gheluvelt ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.6 km (1.6 miles) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Woodside CoppiceWood450 m (0.3 miles) south-east
Perry WoodWood530 m (0.3 miles) east
Nunnery WoodWood1.5 km (1 mile) east
Gorse HillHill1.6 km (1 mile) north-east
Leopard HillHill1.7 km (1.1 miles) north-east
Grove Farm ReservoirLake or reservoir3.6 km (2.3 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)8.84010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.6205
Particles (PM10)10.54015

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
65 to 6940
60 to 6473
55 to 59106
Under 551931

21 of the street's 40 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, and 9 from railways, 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 Worcester: see them on the Worcester 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
Stanley Road Primary SchoolPrimary3–11390 m Report card (Feb 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Red Hill CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–11520 m (0.3 miles) Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Blessed Edward Oldcorne Catholic College Roman CatholicSecondary11–16830 m (0.5 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Nunnery Wood Primary SchoolPrimary4–11890 m (0.6 miles) Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Perry Wood Primary and Nursery SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Cherry Orchard Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Nunnery Wood High SchoolSecondary11–161.2 km (0.8 miles) Good (Mar 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Worcester Sixth Form College16 plus16–191.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Hollymount SchoolPrimary2–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Christopher Whitehead Language CollegeSecondary11–181.9 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection
Bishop Perowne CofE College Church of EnglandSecondary11–162 km (1.2 miles) Good (Mar 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.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Fort Royal Community Primary School WR5 1DRSchool/college/university260 m5 Very good7 Nov 2024
Boof's Cafe At Redpoint Worcester WR5 1DSRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen260 m5 Very good30 Jul 2025
Newbridge Short Stay Secondary School WR5 1DSSchool/college/university260 m5 Very good17 Sep 2025
London Road Playgroup & Pre-School WR5 2EDHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises330 mExempt
Worcester Community Trust At Horizon Community Hub WR5 1DSOther catering premises350 m5 Very good10 Sep 2025
Access To Training & Employment WR5 1BDSchool/college/university350 mExempt
Seacrest Fish Bar WR5 2EDTakeaway/sandwich shop370 m4 Good30 Mar 2026
South Hayes Care Home WR5 2DZHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises370 m5 Very good11 Mar 2026
Lotus House WR5 2EDTakeaway/sandwich shop380 m4 Good15 Jul 2026
Stanley Road Primary School WR5 1BDSchool/college/university390 mExempt
Chung Ying WR5 2EJTakeaway/sandwich shop430 m (0.3 miles)3 Generally satisfactory23 Apr 2026
The Mount Pleasant WR5 2DYPub/bar/nightclub450 m (0.3 miles)Exempt
Tesco WR5 2ELRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good10 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.

104 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences40
Criminal damage and arson15
Anti-social behaviour14
Vehicle crime11
Public order8
Other theft6
Drugs4
Burglary3
Other crime2
Possession of weapons1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Albert Road (20); On or near Wyld'S Lane (19); On or near Sawmill Close (19); On or near Victoria Avenue (12); On or near Compton Road (8).

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: 422 residents in 135 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 age3240
Children under 1519%17%
Aged 65 and over7%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)42%61%
Owned outright17%33%
Shared ownership7%1%
Social rented18%17%
Private rented33%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work61%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)7%6%
Retired (of adults)7%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)13%32%
Travel to work by car or van60%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus6%8%
On foot or by bicycle15%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)71%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away9%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)27%34%
No qualifications25%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)66%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all11%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 3 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.

  • WR5 1EU: 39 addresses of 41 in the postcode
  • WR5 1DZ: 1 address of 76 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Mercer Avenue · Massey Drive · Albert Road · Edward Close · Compton Road · Perry Wood Walk · Burlingham Square · Oak Tree Crescent · Cranbourne Grove · Victoria Avenue · Harrison Grove · Wyld's Lane

All the streets in WR5 and across Worcester.

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.