Sheffield Close Worcester

16 addresses across 1 postcode (WR5), about 60 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 45000933.

  • Sales: 22 recorded sales since 1995; in 2020 the median was £225,500 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 9 homes have an energy certificate (C: 5, D: 3, E: 1).
  • Flood: 10 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 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 1.4 km (0.9 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Worcester Woods Country Park, is about 800 m (0.5 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 62 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 3 of its 16 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Haresfield House Surgery, about 1.1 km (0.7 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 310 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 73% of households owned their home and 33% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 61 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
20201£225,500£225,500£225,500
20151£133,000£133,000£133,000
20121£139,000£139,000£139,000
20113£144,000£86,500£161,000
20091£130,000£130,000£130,000
20072£83,500£79,500£87,500
20061£127,500£127,500£127,500
20041£66,000£66,000£66,000
20031£125,000£125,000£125,000
20001£27,000£27,000£27,000
19991£52,500£52,500£52,500
19983£35,000£32,000£35,000
Most recent sales (22)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
14 Jul 202211 WR5 1RBSemi-detached£228,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
31 Jul 202013 WR5 1RBSemi-detached£225,500
15 Dec 20178 WR5 1RBSemi-detached£174,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
8 Dec 201515 WR5 1RBSemi-detached£133,000
20 Sep 201219 WR5 1RBSemi-detached£139,000
17 Jun 201111 WR5 1RBSemi-detached£144,000
17 Jun 20118 WR5 1RBSemi-detached£86,500Leasehold.
3 Jun 201121 WR5 1RBSemi-detached£161,000
28 Aug 20095 WR5 1RBSemi-detached£130,000
27 Apr 200717 WR5 1RBSemi-detached£79,500Leasehold.
12 Feb 200713 WR5 1RBSemi-detached£87,500Leasehold.
8 Dec 20063 WR5 1RBTerraced£127,500
30 Jul 20049 WR5 1RBSemi-detached£66,000Leasehold.
22 Aug 200319 WR5 1RBSemi-detached£125,000Leasehold.
29 Mar 200021 WR5 1RBSemi-detached£27,000
3 Sep 19995 WR5 1RBSemi-detached£52,500
16 Jul 19986 WR5 1RBSemi-detached£32,000Leasehold.
26 Jun 19984 WR5 1RBFlat or maisonette£35,000Leasehold.
16 Jan 19982 WR5 1RBSemi-detached£35,000Leasehold.
28 Jun 199615 WR5 1RBSemi-detached£43,000
19 Jul 199511 WR5 1RBSemi-detached£26,000Leasehold.
5 May 19956 WR5 1RBSemi-detached£29,000Leasehold.

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

9 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 66 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (9). Built: 1983-1990 (6); 1976-1982 (2); 1991-1995 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (5); 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 A (25% of about 870 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, 10 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 5 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 is in flood zone 2 or 3.

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Height above sea level

The street's addresses are about 62 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
WR5 1RB100%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 2024–251.4 km (0.9 miles)
Worcester Foregate Street 1.9 million journeys in 2024–252.2 km (1.4 miles)
Worcestershire Parkway 456,000 journeys in 2024–254.1 km (2.6 miles)
Bus stops6 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 30 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Prestwich Avenue Ronkswood260 m
Bus or coach stationWorcester Bus Station2.3 km (1.4 miles)
Car parksWorcester Shrub Hill Station Car Park1.4 km (0.9 miles)
EV charging points5 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Osprey Charging Station630 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX42.3 km (26 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 surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Haresfield House Surgery1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Scales Pharmacy520 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest London Road (Dental Surgery)1.6 km (1 mile)
HospitalWorcester Royal Infirmary740 m (0.5 miles)
Police stationWorcester Police Station2.5 km (1.5 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Cooperative Food Ronkswood, Ronkswood570 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 garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Worcester Woods Country Park 36 ha800 m (0.5 miles)
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,730 m²250 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4,540 m²740 m (0.5 miles)
AllotmentsFoxwell Street Allotments 2.3 ha1 km (0.6 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 36 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Civil War fieldwork at Tamar Close, Worcester, a scheduled monument, 1.1 km (0.7 miles) north-west. 9 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Civil War fieldwork at Tamar Close, WorcesterScheduled monument1.1 km (0.7 miles) north-west
Moated monastic grange and fishpond complex at Middle Battenhall Farm, 450m north of Upper Battenhall FarmScheduled monument1.4 km (0.9 miles) south
Fort RoyalScheduled monument1.5 km (0.9 miles) west
Spetchley ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II*2.5 km (1.5 miles) east
Battle of Worcester 1651 with Powick Old Bridge 1642Registered battlefield2.6 km (1.6 miles) south-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Perry WoodWood480 m (0.3 miles) west
Nunnery WoodWood580 m (0.4 miles) east
Woodside CoppiceWood590 m (0.4 miles) west
Leopard HillHill1.2 km (0.7 miles) north
Gorse HillHill1.6 km (1 mile) north
The LakeLake or reservoir4.1 km (2.5 miles) north

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)7.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.5205
Particles (PM10)10.34015

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 5930
Under 551316

3 of the street's 16 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 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
Nunnery Wood Primary SchoolPrimary4–11290 m Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Nunnery Wood High SchoolSecondary11–16420 m (0.3 miles) Good (Mar 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Worcester Sixth Form College16 plus16–19530 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Perry Wood Primary and Nursery SchoolPrimary3–11650 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Red Hill CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–11900 m (0.6 miles) Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Stanley Road Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) 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
Blessed Edward Oldcorne Catholic College Roman CatholicSecondary11–161.5 km (0.9 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
Hollymount SchoolPrimary2–111.6 km (1 mile) Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Cherry Orchard Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.7 km (1.1 miles) Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
The Lyppard Grange Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.7 km (1.1 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Whittington CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Good (Jan 2020, 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
Worcester Community Trust At Ronkswood Community Centre WR5 1PJOther catering premises280 mExempt
Treetops WR5 1QESchool/college/university290 m5 Very good10 Jul 2026
Impact Food Group At Nunnery Wood High School WR5 2LTSchool/college/university420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good16 Jul 2026
The Punchbowl WR5 1PEPub/bar/nightclub480 m (0.3 miles)Awaiting inspection

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.

61 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences26
Anti-social behaviour11
Criminal damage and arson5
Public order5
Drugs3
Other crime3
Vehicle crime3
Burglary2
Other theft1
Possession of weapons1
Bicycle theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Wakefield Close (23); On or near Portsmouth Close (13); On or near Guildford Close (11); On or near Lincoln Green (6); On or near Truro Gardens (3).

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: 307 residents in 128 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 age4440
Children under 1517%17%
Aged 65 and over16%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)73%61%
Owned outright37%33%
Shared ownership12%1%
Social rented0%17%
Private rented15%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work65%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)20%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)26%32%
Travel to work by car or van62%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus0%8%
On foot or by bicycle8%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)72%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away7%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)33%34%
No qualifications20%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)90%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all2%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

Newcastle Close · Bradford Place · Chester Close · Salisbury Close · Chelmsford Drive · Truro Gardens · Lincoln Green · Ely Close · Portsmouth Close · Wakefield Close · Guildford Close · Oxford Close

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.