Solar Crescent Exeter

13 addresses across 1 postcode (EX4), about 60 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 14200763.

  • Sales: 17 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £325,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 7 homes have an energy certificate (C: 2, D: 3, E: 2).
  • 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 C; Band D in Exeter costs £2,495 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Exeter St Thomas, about 1 km (0.6 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Pinces Gardens, is about 770 m (0.5 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 4.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.4 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 24 to 26 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 St Thomas Medical Group, about 470 m (0.3 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 300 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 79% of households owned their home and 32% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 68 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
20241£325,000£325,000£325,000
20231£250,000£250,000£250,000
20191£200,000£200,000£200,000
20151£266,500£266,500£266,500
20141£245,000£245,000£245,000
20111£165,000£165,000£165,000
20102£201,250£182,500£220,000
20092£181,000£170,000£192,000
20082£195,500£193,000£198,000
20061£165,000£165,000£165,000
20041£172,000£172,000£172,000
20001£74,000£74,000£74,000
Most recent sales (17)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
5 Sep 20244 EX4 1PDDetached£325,000
10 Nov 202312 EX4 1PDSemi-detached£250,000
1 Feb 20195 EX4 1PDDetached£200,000
14 May 201510 EX4 1PDDetached£266,500
26 Aug 20146 EX4 1PDDetached£245,000
10 Jun 20116 EX4 1PDDetached£165,000
25 Oct 201010 EX4 1PDDetached£182,500
5 Mar 201011 EX4 1PDSemi-detached£220,000
29 May 20098 EX4 1PDDetached£170,000
10 Feb 20094 EX4 1PDDetached£192,000
26 Sep 20085 EX4 1PDDetached£198,000
14 Mar 200811 EX4 1PDSemi-detached£193,000
28 Nov 200611 EX4 1PDSemi-detached£165,000
14 Jul 20047 EX4 1PDDetached£172,000
11 Feb 20001 EX4 1PDSemi-detached£74,000
1 Oct 19995 EX4 1PDDetached£95,000
1 Mar 19954 EX4 1PDDetached£73,500

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 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

7 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 61 m². Most common: Bungalow, detached (5); Bungalow, semi-detached (2). Built: 1950-1966 (5); 1967-1975 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (5).

Council tax

What each band costs in Exeter in 2026-27: Band D £2,495 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,664£1,941£2,218£2,495£3,050£3,604£4,159£4,991

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (55% of about 640 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), 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.

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

  • 4 August 2026 to 21 August 2026: SOUTH WEST WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (major works)

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, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 4 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 13 addresses are between 24 m and 26 m above sea level (25 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
EX4 1PD100%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 stationsExeter St Thomas 329,000 journeys in 2024–251 km (0.6 miles)
Exeter St David's 2.9 million journeys in 2024–251.8 km (1.1 miles)
Exeter Central 3.0 million journeys in 2024–251.9 km (1.2 miles)
Bus stops11 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 38 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Surbiton Crescent St Thomas80 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Exeter City Centre2.4 km (1.5 miles)
Ferry terminalTopsham Lock Ferry Landing Exminster6.8 km (4.2 miles)
Car parksHaven Banks coach parking1.5 km (0.9 miles)
EV charging points9 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Wenea570 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsExeter International Airport EXT10 km (6.2 miles)
Nearest large airportCardiff International Airport CWL77.3 km (48 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 St Thomas Medical Group470 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Luxtons The Pharmacy490 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest St Thomas Dental Practice770 m (0.5 miles)
HospitalFranklyn Community Hospital230 m
Police stationExeter Volunteer Police Cadets2.6 km (1.6 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Tesco Bank ATM600 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 Pinces Gardens 1.4 ha770 m (0.5 miles)
Play area5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 240 m²200 m
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 9,790 m²360 m
Allotments3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4,870 m²540 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 1.4 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Bowhill, a listed building (Grade I), 110 m east. 34 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade I and 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
BowhillListed building, Grade I110 m east
Little John's CrossScheduled monument460 m (0.3 miles) south-west
Cowick BartonListed building, Grade II*610 m (0.4 miles) south-east
Church of St Thomas the ApostleListed building, Grade I710 m (0.4 miles) east
Ide BridgeScheduled monument920 m (0.6 miles) south
The medieval Exe Bridge, St Edmund's Church, and medieval tenement remains, lying between the River Exe and Frog StreetScheduled monument1.2 km (0.8 miles) north-east
St Bartholomew's Cemetery, ExeterRegistered park or garden, Grade II*1.4 km (0.9 miles) north-east
Larkbeare HouseRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.8 km (1.1 miles) east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Constitutional HillHill460 m (0.3 miles) south-west
Eastdown PlantationWood1.1 km (0.7 miles) west
Whorley Pin PlantationWood1.6 km (1 mile) west
Broademore PlantationWood1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-west
Salmon PoolLake or reservoir2.6 km (1.6 miles) east
Duck's MarshWetland2.7 km (1.7 miles) 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)4.94010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.4205
Particles (PM10)9.14015

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 551313

None of the street's 13 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 Exeter: see them on the Exeter 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
Bowhill Primary SchoolPrimary5–11250 m No published inspection
West Exe Nursery School - Exeter Nursery Schools FederationNursery2–5430 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Montgomery Primary SchoolPrimary2–11720 m (0.4 miles) 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 Gabriel's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary2–11880 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
St Thomas Primary SchoolPrimary5–11910 m (0.6 miles) Good (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
West Exe SchoolSecondary11–161.1 km (0.7 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Ide Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St David's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary5–111.5 km (1 mile) No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Exwick Heights Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Alphington Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
Exeter and North Devon Colleges Group16 plus16–991.9 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection

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
Best One EX4 1PERetailers - other60 m4 Good16 Dec 2020
Oriental Express EX4 1PETakeaway/sandwich shop70 m5 Very good17 Sep 2026
Franklyn Community Hospital EX2 9HSHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises220 m5 Very good21 Sep 2026
Torlands Academy EX4 1PTSchool/college/university220 m5 Very good5 Feb 2026
Authentic Greek Food EX4 1JUTakeaway/sandwich shop330 m3 Generally satisfactory17 Sep 2026
Wan's Chinese Takeaway EX4 1JUTakeaway/sandwich shop330 m5 Very good12 Feb 2026
Argee Bhajee EX4 1JURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen330 mAwaiting inspection
Bowhill Primary School EX4 1JTSchool/college/university350 m5 Very good18 Jun 2025
St Thomas Community Food Hub EX4 1JFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen360 m4 Good9 Jul 2026
Phoenix Chinese Food EX4 1JFTakeaway/sandwich shop370 m5 Very good18 Mar 2025
The Tasty Plaice EX4 1JFTakeaway/sandwich shop370 m5 Very good12 Feb 2026
Family Garden EX4 1PTRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen380 m5 Very good24 Sep 2025
Premier Cowick Street EX4 1JFRetailers - other380 m4 Good16 Apr 2024
Fishes EX4 1HBRetailers - other420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good6 Aug 2026
The Cakery Exeter Ltd EX4 1JERetailers - other420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good14 Aug 2026

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.

68 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences42
Anti-social behaviour7
Other theft4
Criminal damage and arson4
Public order4
Burglary3
Theft from the person1
Drugs1
Bicycle theft1
Other crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Bowhay Lane (24); On or near Hospital (13); On or near Myrtle Road (9); On or near Dunsford Gardens (7); On or near Dorset Avenue (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: 295 residents in 129 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 age4640
Children under 1519%17%
Aged 65 and over24%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)79%61%
Owned outright50%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented10%17%
Private rented11%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work59%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)27%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)27%32%
Travel to work by car or van46%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus6%8%
On foot or by bicycle18%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)82%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away1%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)32%34%
No qualifications21%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification8%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)95%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 7 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

  • Food hygiene ratings Argee bhajee (restaurant/cafe/canteen, EX4 1JU) is no longer listed; it was rated 3 Generally satisfactory found 30 October 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

Dunsford Gardens · Orchard Gardens · Kerswill Road · Littleway · Bowhay Lane · Greenway · Dunsford Road · Pineridge Close · Dunsford Gardens · Somerset Avenue · Wentworth Gardens · Merrivale Road

All the streets in EX4 and across Exeter.

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.