Sheppard's Barton Frome, Somerset

26 addresses across 2 postcodes (BA11), about 50 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 25004544.

  • Energy: 16 homes have an energy certificate (C: 2, D: 10, E: 3, F: 1).
  • Flood: 1 address on its postcodes is 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 Somerset costs £2,561 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 34% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Frome, about 1 km (0.7 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Victoria Park, is about 430 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.0 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 89 to 95 m above sea level.
  • Noise: None of its addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Frome Medical Practice, about 1.1 km (0.7 miles) away.
  • People: About 280 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 32% of households owned their home and 48% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 508 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.

No sales recorded on this street since January 1995 under this street name.

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.

16 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 63 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (13); House, end-terrace (3). Built: before 1900 (16). Tenure at assessment: rented (private) (7); owner-occupied (5); rented (social) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (7 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Somerset in 2026-27: Band D £2,561 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,707£1,992£2,276£2,561£3,130£3,699£4,268£5,121

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (42% of about 1,020 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: yes, Frome (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 11.
  • 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

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 31 October 2026.

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, 1 at medium risk and 19 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
BA11 1ELnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 4 unlikely
BA11 1BZnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 15 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 26 addresses are between 89 m and 95 m above sea level (92 m on average); the ground rises about 6 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
BA11 1BZ69%34%34%0%
BA11 1EL100%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 stationsFrome 288,000 journeys in 2024–251 km (0.7 miles)
Dilton Marsh 22,000 journeys in 2024–258.4 km (5.2 miles)
Westbury 543,000 journeys in 2024–259.6 km (6 miles)
Bus stops18 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 47 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Memorial Theatre Complex Frome150 m
Bus or coach stationHospital Frome1 km (0.6 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Catherine St Parking50 m
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Roam Charging Station1 km (0.6 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBristol Airport BRS32.1 km (20 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 Frome Medical Practice1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots220 m
NHS dentists6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Frome Dac340 m
HospitalFrome Community Hospital1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Police stationFrome Enquiry Office - Avon And Somerset Police340 m
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Morrisons Daily - Frome Cashzone280 m

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Victoria Park 2.4 ha430 m (0.3 miles)
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 5.0 ha560 m (0.3 miles)
Play area6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 380 m²260 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.6 ha370 m
Allotments5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,320 m²400 m (0.2 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 9.1 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is 21, Wine Street, a listed building (Grade II*), 100 m south-west. 349 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade I and 21 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
21, Wine StreetListed building, Grade II*100 m south-west
16 and 17, Stony StreetListed building, Grade II*130 m east
Former Rook Lane Congregational ChapelListed building, Grade I140 m south-east
Monmouth ChambersListed building, Grade II*140 m east
Drying house at The Coach House, Willow ValeScheduled monument440 m (0.3 miles) east
Hapsford HouseRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.2 km (1.4 miles) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Feltham HillHill1.2 km (0.7 miles) south
Gibbet HillHill1.2 km (0.8 miles) west
Vallis ValeValley2.1 km (1.3 miles) north-west
Murtrey BottomValley2.2 km (1.3 miles) north-west
Longhouse PlantationWood2.4 km (1.5 miles) north
Orchardleigh LakeLake or reservoir2.9 km (1.8 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)6.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.0205
Particles (PM10)9.24015

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
Under 552626

None of the street's 26 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic or railways.

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 Somerset: see them on the Somerset 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
Avanti Park SchoolMiddle deemed primary3–13220 m Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Vallis First SchoolPrimary4–9290 m No overall grade (Jun 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
St Louis Catholic Primary School, Frome Roman CatholicPrimary4–11330 m No overall grade (Jan 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
St John's Church of England Voluntary Aided First School, FromePrimary4–9390 m Requires improvement (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Oakfield AcademyMiddle deemed secondary9–13890 m (0.6 miles) Report card (Jul 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; Safeguarding standards: Met
Trinity Church of England First SchoolPrimary2–91 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Christ Church First School Church of EnglandPrimary2–91.3 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Jan 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; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Selwood Academy Church of England/MethodistMiddle deemed secondary9–131.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (Jun 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Hayesdown First SchoolPrimary5–91.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Frome Community CollegeSecondary13–181.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection

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
Still Life Gin BA11 1BYRetailers - other60 m5 Very good30 Sep 2022
Moo and Two BA11 1BYRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen60 m5 Very good9 Nov 2016
SEED BA11 1BYRetailers - other80 m5 Very good16 Dec 2025
High Pavement BA11 1DSRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen90 m5 Very good28 Oct 2024
Just Ales Part 2 BA11 1BUPub/bar/nightclub100 m5 Very good1 Aug 2024
The Good Heart BA11 1DSRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen100 m5 Very good16 Dec 2025
Little Walcot BA11 1BURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen110 m5 Very good29 May 2024
The Sun Inn BA11 1DAPub/bar/nightclub110 m3 Generally satisfactory28 May 2026
4 Palmer Street BA11 1DSRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen110 m4 Good9 Jan 2026
The Stores in Frome BA11 1BURetailers - other110 m5 Very good9 Jan 2024
Rye Bakery Ltd BA11 3BYRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen120 m5 Very good7 Feb 2024
Sunflower Montessori Nursery BA11 1DSHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises120 m4 Good8 Dec 2025
Chester House BA11 1EQPub/bar/nightclub120 m5 Very good16 May 2012
Batch BA11 1BUTakeaway/sandwich shop120 m5 Very good15 Oct 2025
The Garden Cafe BA11 1BURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen130 m4 Good9 Jan 2024

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.

508 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences162
Anti-social behaviour101
Shoplifting89
Public order62
Criminal damage and arson35
Other theft17
Vehicle crime11
Burglary9
Robbery8
Other crime6
Possession of weapons5
Drugs1
Bicycle theft1
Theft from the person1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Market Place (116); On or near Cork Street (63); On or near Milk Street (36); On or near Stony Street (29); On or near Eagle Lane (26).

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: 275 residents in 163 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 age4040
Children under 1512%17%
Aged 65 and over11%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)32%61%
Owned outright14%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented9%17%
Private rented59%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work73%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)10%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)36%32%
Travel to work by car or van38%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle23%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)54%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)48%34%
No qualifications7%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)94%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 4 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.

  • BA11 1EL: 25 addresses of 27 in the postcode
  • BA11 1BZ: 1 address of 45 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Wine Street · Catherine Hill · Catherine Street · Whittox Lane · South Parade · High Street · Stony Street · Whittox Lane · Palmer Street · West End · Rook Lane · Smithy Lane

All the streets in BA11 and across Somerset.

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.