Simonscales Lane Cumberland

88 addresses across 7 postcodes (CA13), about 1.2 km (0.8 miles) long, classed as a local road. USRN 301037.

  • Sales: 65 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £380,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 30 homes have an energy certificate (C: 6, D: 16, E: 7, G: 1).
  • Flood: 7 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 C; Band D in Cumberland costs £2,511 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Maryport, about 10.8 km (6.7 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Harris Park, is about 640 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 2.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 4.1 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 58 to 104 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 31 of its 88 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Castlegate And Derwent Surgery, about 1.7 km (1.1 miles) away.
  • People: About 980 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 88% of households owned their home and 49% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 6 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£380,000£380,000£380,000
20252£335,000£330,000£340,000
20241£425,000£425,000£425,000
20222£317,750£282,000£353,500
20201£490,000£490,000£490,000
20194£250,500£230,000£280,000
20182£272,500£250,000£295,000
20172£230,750£225,000£236,500
20161£175,000£175,000£175,000
20152£540,000£340,000£740,000
20143£204,300£190,000£222,500
20131£192,500£192,500£192,500
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 65)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
6 Mar 202629 CA13 9DJSemi-detached£380,000
15 Sep 202525 CA13 9DHSemi-detached£330,000
31 Mar 202527 CA13 9DJSemi-detached£340,000
21 Aug 2024WATERSIDE CA13 9TGTerraced£425,000
12 Oct 20224 CA13 9DJDetached£282,000
5 Jul 202243 CA13 9EHSemi-detached£353,500
16 Dec 20202, SOUTH LODGE CA13 9FBDetached£490,000
1 Nov 2019VIOLET BANK HOLIDAY HOME PARK LTD CA13 9TGOther£2,110,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
1 Nov 2019VIOLET BANK BUNGALOW CA13 9TGDetached£380,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
30 Aug 201945 CA13 9EHSemi-detached£280,000
26 Jul 201925 CA13 9DHSemi-detached£255,000
16 Apr 2019MILL COTTAGE CA13 9FBSemi-detached£246,000
15 Mar 201929 CA13 9DJSemi-detached£230,000
3 Aug 201815 CA13 9DHSemi-detached£250,000
27 Jul 201827 CA13 9DJSemi-detached£295,000
11 Sep 20171 CA13 9DHSemi-detached£225,000
28 Jul 201710 CA13 9DJDetached£236,500
8 Jun 2017SUN VALE CA13 9TGOther£2,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
12 Aug 201625 CA13 9DHSemi-detached£175,000
5 Jun 2015SOUTH LODGE CA13 9FBTerraced£740,000
25 Mar 2015LONG HOUSE CA13 9FBTerraced£340,000
11 Jul 201429 CA13 9DJSemi-detached£222,500
2 May 20149 CA13 9DHSemi-detached£190,000
27 Mar 20144 CA13 9DJDetached£204,300
24 Jun 20132 CA13 9DJSemi-detached£192,500
23 Nov 20121 CA13 9DHSemi-detached£217,000
25 Oct 201213 CA13 9DHSemi-detached£200,000
22 Jun 20121, SOUTH LODGE CA13 9FBDetached£265,000
8 Jul 20113, SOUTH LODGE CA13 9FBDetached£400,000
29 Nov 2010THE BEECHES CA13 9TGDetached£325,000
3 Jul 20093, SOUTH LODGE CA13 9FBDetached£275,000
30 May 200819 CA13 9DHSemi-detached£200,000
20 Jul 200711 CA13 9DHSemi-detached£190,000
25 Nov 2005SOUTH LODGE CA13 9TGDetached£677,000
30 Sep 200533 CA13 9DJSemi-detached£190,000
30 Jun 200543 CA13 9EHSemi-detached£166,000
27 May 2004MILL COTTAGE CA13 9TGSemi-detached£162,000
17 Mar 2004LONG HOUSE CA13 9TGSemi-detached£292,500
12 Nov 200329 CA13 9DJSemi-detached£135,000
3 May 2002SOUTH LODGE CA13 9TGDetached£450,000
1 May 200225 CA13 9DHSemi-detached£80,000
10 Apr 200245 CA13 9EHSemi-detached£107,000
31 Jan 20024 CA13 9DJDetached£85,000
7 Dec 200141 CA13 9EHSemi-detached£84,000
28 Nov 20011 CA13 9DHSemi-detached£83,000
8 Jun 200112 CA13 9DJTerraced£90,000
24 Apr 20017 CA13 9DHSemi-detached£87,000
9 Feb 200135 CA13 9EHSemi-detached£67,000
25 Aug 200025 CA13 9DHSemi-detached£70,000
21 Jul 200015 CA13 9DHSemi-detached£95,000

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from February 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

30 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 120 m². Most common: House, detached (11); House, semi-detached (11); Bungalow, semi-detached (5). Built: 1967-1975 (9); 1950-1966 (7); 1976-1982 (6). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (23); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (20 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Cumberland in 2026-27: Band D £2,511 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,674£1,953£2,232£2,511£3,069£3,627£4,186£5,023

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band C (33% of about 1,560 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: 1.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Listed buildings

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

Roadworks

Planned, as of 31 October 2026

  • 12 November 2026 to 16 November 2026: BT, Remedial works, multi-way signals, on the footway (minor works, permit applied for)
  • 15 March 2027 to 9 April 2027: United Utilities Water Ltd, Utility repair and maintenance works, two-way signals, on the footway, carriageway, verge (major (paa) works)

Finished in the last three months

  • 14 August 2026 to 18 August 2026: United Utilities Water Ltd, Utility repair and maintenance works, give and take, on the footway (immediate - urgent works)
  • 7 August 2026 to 13 August 2026: United Utilities Water Ltd, Utility repair and maintenance works, give and take, on the footway (immediate - urgent 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, 1 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: of the 29 homes the Environment Agency counts, 6 are in areas at high risk, 1 medium, 2 low and 0 very low.

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
CA13 9TGnot in 2 or 3 1 / 1 / 1 unlikely
CA13 9DHnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
CA13 9DJnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
CA13 9FBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
CA13 9EHnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
CA13 0RFnot in 2 or 3 5 / 0 / 1 unlikely
CA13 9DQnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely

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

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

Height above sea level

The street's 88 addresses are between 58 m and 104 m above sea level (87 m on average); the ground rises about 46 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
CA13 0RF0%0%0%0%
CA13 9DH100%100%100%0%
CA13 9DJ100%100%100%0%
CA13 9DQ100%100%100%0%
CA13 9EH100%100%100%0%
CA13 9FB100%100%100%0%
CA13 9TG55%0%0%5%

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 stationsMaryport 117,000 journeys in 2024–2510.8 km (6.7 miles)
Flimby 17,000 journeys in 2024–2511.1 km (6.9 miles)
Aspatria 32,000 journeys in 2024–2512 km (7.5 miles)
Bus stops0 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Briar Bank Cockermouth Riverdale420 m (0.3 miles)
Ferry terminalNichol End (Derwentwater) Ferry Landing Portinscale14.7 km (9.1 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsNewcastle International Airport NCL116 km (72 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 surgeriesCastlegate And Derwent Surgery1.7 km (1.1 miles)
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest J W W Allison & Sons LTD1.3 km (0.8 miles)
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery1.1 km (0.7 miles)
HospitalCockermouth Hospital1.7 km (1.1 miles)
Police stationWorkington Police Station11.7 km (7.2 miles)
Cash machines*Withdrawal Only* Cockermouth Stores Cashzone1.2 km (0.8 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 Harris Park 5.2 ha640 m (0.4 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,850 m²370 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 6,070 m²340 m
AllotmentsSt Helens Street Allotment Gardens 1.1 ha1.6 km (1 mile)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 5.2 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Tute Hill motte, a scheduled monument, 1.4 km (0.9 miles) north. 5 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Tute Hill motteScheduled monument1.4 km (0.9 miles) north
Cockermouth Castle: medieval enclosure castle and site of earlier motte and bailey castleScheduled monument1.5 km (0.9 miles) north
Romano-British farmstead in Fitz WoodsScheduled monument1.8 km (1.1 miles) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Bobbinmill PlantationWood660 m (0.4 miles) south
Oakhurst WoodWood760 m (0.5 miles) north-west
East PlantationWood830 m (0.5 miles) south
The RakeLake or reservoir1.4 km (0.9 miles) south-east
Tute HillHill1.5 km (0.9 miles) north
Long BottomValley3.9 km (2.5 miles) north-east

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)2.54010
Fine particles (PM2.5)4.1205
Particles (PM10)6.44015

All three are within both the UK limits and the WHO guidelines.

Road and rail noise

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

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
60 to 6410
55 to 59300
Under 555788

31 of the street's 88 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 Cumberland: see them on the Cumberland 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
Fairfield Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
All Saints' CofE School Church of EnglandPrimary2–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No overall grade (Jan 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Inadequate; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Inadequate
Cockermouth SchoolSecondary11–181.8 km (1.1 miles) 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.

No rated food businesses within 500 m (0.3 miles).

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.

6 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences4
Public order2

Most of these are attached to: On or near Simonscales Lane (6).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 3 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 984 residents in 444 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 age5540
Children under 1512%17%
Aged 65 and over31%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)88%61%
Owned outright59%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented2%17%
Private rented10%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work53%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)36%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)42%32%
Travel to work by car or van50%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus1%8%
On foot or by bicycle6%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)44%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away15%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)49%34%
No qualifications10%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)100%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 7 to 10 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

  • Roadworks Street works permit: United Utilities Water Ltd: Utility repair and maintenance works, 15 March 2027 to 9 April 2027 (two-way signals) found 3 November 2026
  • Roadworks Street works permit: BT: Remedial works, 12 November 2026 to 16 November 2026 (multi-way signals) found 3 November 2026

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

Violet Bank · Greenbank Lane

All the streets in CA13 and across Cumberland.

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.