Shieldrow Lane Annfield Plain, County Durham

72 addresses across 13 postcodes (DH9), about 1.7 km (1.1 miles) long, classed as a b road. USRN 11004970.

  • Energy: 55 homes have an energy certificate (B: 52, D: 1, E: 2).
  • 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 County Durham costs £2,622 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Chester-Le-Street, about 9.3 km (5.8 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 650 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 5.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.4 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 232 to 244 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 27 of its 72 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Annfield Plain Surgery, about 1 km (0.6 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 1,440 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 67% of households owned their home and 23% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 127 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 December 2014 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

55 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 72 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (24); House, detached (20); House (11). Built: 2014 (38); 2019 (6); 2011 (4). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (4).

Each home's certificates and sales (52 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in County Durham in 2026-27: Band D £2,622 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,748£2,039£2,331£2,622£3,205£3,788£4,370£5,244

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band A (77% of about 1,760 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 2 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) 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.

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Roadworks

Finished in the last three months

  • 3 August 2026 to 6 August 2026: NORTHUMBRIAN WATER, Utility asset works, multi-way signals, on the carriageway (standard works)

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 6 addresses are in areas at high risk, 4 at medium risk and 15 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
DH9 7BYnot in 2 or 3 2 / 1 / 1 unlikely
DH9 7BZnot in 2 or 3 1 / 0 / 3 unlikely
DH9 7HUnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
DH9 7JYnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
DH9 7TPnot in 2 or 3 0 / 2 / 5 unlikely
DH9 7TRnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
DH9 7GAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
DH9 7JFnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
DH9 7JJnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 0 unlikely
DH9 7LBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
DH9 7RUnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
DH9 7RXnot in 2 or 3 1 / 0 / 2 unlikely
DH9 7UBnot in 2 or 3 2 / 0 / 3 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 72 addresses are between 232 m and 244 m above sea level (240 m on average); the ground rises about 12 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
DH9 7BY100%100%100%0%
DH9 7BZ100%100%100%0%
DH9 7GA100%67%100%0%
DH9 7HU100%100%100%0%
DH9 7JF100%0%0%0%
DH9 7JJ100%100%100%0%
DH9 7JY100%0%0%0%
DH9 7LB100%100%100%0%
DH9 7RU96%0%0%0%
DH9 7RX100%0%0%0%
DH9 7TP100%93%100%0%
DH9 7TR100%96%96%0%
DH9 7UB100%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 stationsChester-Le-Street 232,000 journeys in 2024–259.3 km (5.8 miles)
Dunston 51,000 journeys in 2024–2511.2 km (7 miles)
MetroCentre 632,000 journeys in 2024–2511.5 km (7.2 miles)
Bus stops6 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 12 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Sandhole Club New Kyo120 m
Bus or coach stationStanley Bus Station Stand A1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Car parksAsda Stanley Car Park1.5 km (1 mile)
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Be.EV Charging Station60 m
Airport with scheduled flightsNewcastle International Airport NCL19.8 km (12 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 Annfield Plain Surgery1 km (0.6 miles)
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Annfield Plain Pharmacy1.1 km (0.7 miles)
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Smile In Durham870 m (0.5 miles)
HospitalSouth Moor Hospital2.2 km (1.3 miles)
Police stationDurham Constabulary - Catchgate Police Station1.7 km (1 mile)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest News & Booze, Annfield Plain 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 garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 7,340 m²650 m (0.4 miles)
Play areaUnnamed 400 m²1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3,260 m²500 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments7 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.4 ha160 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 0.7 hectares in all.

Landmarks

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Whinney HillHill610 m (0.4 miles) west
Whicken HillHill790 m (0.5 miles) north-west
Linn's HillHill880 m (0.5 miles) north-west
Bessy Bell HillHill920 m (0.6 miles) north-east
Langleymoor PlantationWood1 km (0.7 miles) south
Fawside DeneValley3.9 km (2.4 miles) south-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)5.54010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.4205
Particles (PM10)8.04015

All three are within the UK legal limits; PM2.5 is above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
70 to 7410
60 to 64100
55 to 59160
Under 554572

27 of the street's 72 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 County Durham: see them on the County Durham 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
Annfield Plain Junior SchoolPrimary7–11920 m (0.6 miles) Good (Jan 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)
Oxhill Nursery SchoolNursery2–41 km (0.6 miles) No overall grade (Jul 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Annfield Plain Infant SchoolPrimary2–71.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Greenland Community Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
South Stanley Infant and Nursery SchoolPrimary2–71.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection
South Stanley Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.6 km (1 mile) Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Catchgate Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.7 km (1 mile) No published inspection
St Mary's Catholic Primary School, South Moor Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.7 km (1.1 miles) Good (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 3 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Kings Fayre DH9 7JHTakeaway/sandwich shop210 m5 Very good23 Jul 2025
News and Booze DH9 7TPRetailers - other340 m2 Improvement necessary8 Oct 2024
Fry Inn DH9 7TRTakeaway/sandwich shop480 m (0.3 miles)3 Generally satisfactory8 Nov 2025
New Kyo Constitutional Club & Institute Ltd DH9 7TSPub/bar/nightclub490 m (0.3 miles)4 Good20 Aug 2022

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.

127 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences61
Anti-social behaviour19
Criminal damage and arson16
Other crime7
Other theft7
Public order6
Drugs5
Burglary4
Possession of weapons1
Robbery1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Sabin Court (103); On or near Stanleyburn View (24).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 5 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 1,442 residents in 695 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 age3940
Children under 1517%17%
Aged 65 and over16%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)67%61%
Owned outright32%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented5%17%
Private rented28%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work57%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)19%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)7%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)19%32%
Travel to work by car or van66%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus5%8%
On foot or by bicycle8%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)47%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away5%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)23%34%
No qualifications21%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhoods around this street are all in decile 2 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.

  • DH9 7BY: 41 addresses of 78 in the postcode
  • DH9 7BZ: 12 addresses of 31 in the postcode
  • DH9 7HU: 6 addresses
  • DH9 7JY: 2 addresses
  • DH9 7TP: 2 addresses of 33 in the postcode
  • DH9 7TR: 2 addresses of 36 in the postcode
  • DH9 7GA: 1 address of 8 in the postcode
  • DH9 7JF: 1 address of 5 in the postcode
  • DH9 7JJ: 1 address of 22 in the postcode
  • DH9 7LB: 1 address of 29 in the postcode
  • DH9 7RU: 1 address of 53 in the postcode
  • DH9 7RX: 1 address of 32 in the postcode
  • DH9 7UB: 1 address of 18 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Jubilee Terrace · Coronation Terrace · Windsor Terrace · Sabin Terrace · Woodbine Terrace · Windsor Terrace · Edward Terrace · Unity Terrace · Unity Terrace · Stanleyburn View · Sabin Court · Sabin Terrace

All the streets in DH9 and across County Durham.

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.