Spellbrook Walk Islington

13 addresses across 2 postcodes (N1), about 80 m long. USRN 21606970.

  • Sales: 3 recorded sales since 1995; in 2021 the median was £615,705 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 10 homes have an energy certificate (C: 7, D: 3).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area 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 F; Band D in Islington costs £2,108 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Essex Road, about 350 m away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 20 m away, and Shoreditch Park (7.0 hectares) is about 440 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 25.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 10.1 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 20 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 12 of its 13 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Elizabeth Avenue Group Practice, about 110 m away, with 14 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 300 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 32% of households owned their home and 68% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 314 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
20211£615,705£615,705£615,705
20131£480,000£480,000£480,000
20061£330,000£330,000£330,000
Most recent sales (3)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
5 Dec 20218 N1 8TLFlat or maisonette£615,705Leasehold.
8 Oct 20135 N1 8TLFlat or maisonette£480,000Leasehold.
22 Sep 20065 N1 8TLFlat or maisonette£330,000Leasehold.

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 2021 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

10 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 99 m². Most common: Maisonette, not recorded (7); Maisonette, enclosed mid-terrace (1); Maisonette, enclosed end-terrace (1). Built: 1976-1982 (7); 1967-1975 (2); 1950-1966 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (8); rented (private) (1); rented (social) (1).

Council tax

What each band costs in Islington in 2026-27: Band D £2,108 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,405£1,640£1,874£2,108£2,577£3,045£3,514£4,216

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band F (25% 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: 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 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, 0 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 on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
N1 8TLnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 3 unlikely
N1 8TNnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 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 addresses are about 20 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
N1 8TL100%100%100%0%
N1 8TN100%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 stationsEssex Road 698,000 journeys in 2024–25350 m
Highbury and Islington 24 million journeys in 2024–251.1 km (0.7 miles)
Canonbury 2.8 million journeys in 2024–251.2 km (0.7 miles)
Underground, metro or tramAngel Underground Station1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Highbury & Islington Underground Station1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Old Street Underground Station1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Bus stops15 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 50 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Elizabeth Avenue Islington70 m
Bus or coach stationLondon St Pancras Megabusplus2.4 km (1.5 miles)
Ferry terminalBlackfriars Pier3.1 km (1.9 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Parkimo Parking Finder620 m (0.4 miles)
EV charging points65 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest ubitricity200 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon City Airport LCY10.9 km (6.8 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Heathrow Airport LHR26.6 km (16 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 surgeries14 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Elizabeth Avenue Group Practice110 m
Pharmacies26 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest New North Pharmacy140 m
NHS dentists27 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Charles Landau Dental Surgery290 m
HospitalMoorfield Eye Hospital City Road Elective Surgical Hub1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Police stationMetropolitan Police Service London900 m (0.6 miles)
Cash machines4 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Payzone320 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 garden16 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,510 m²20 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Shoreditch Park 7.0 ha440 m (0.3 miles)
Play area24 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 440 m²10 m
Playing fieldUnnamed 2.5 ha1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 840 m²590 m (0.4 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 16 parks and gardens, 15 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Former Carlton Cinema, a listed building (Grade II*), 370 m north-west. 310 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 6 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Former Carlton CinemaListed building, Grade II*370 m north-west
3, Terrett's PlaceListed building, Grade II*720 m (0.4 miles) west
6-9, Canonbury PlaceListed building, Grade II*730 m (0.5 miles) north-west
Canonbury TowerListed building, Grade II*770 m (0.5 miles) north-west
Bunhill Fields Burial GroundRegistered park or garden, Grade I1.7 km (1 mile) south
The Theatre PlayhouseScheduled monument1.8 km (1.1 miles) south-east
Golden Lane Estate Designed LandscapeRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.8 km (1.1 miles) south
Benedictine nunnery of St Mary, ClerkenwellScheduled monument1.8 km (1.1 miles) south-west
The Curtain PlayhouseScheduled monument1.9 km (1.2 miles) south-east
Tower of LondonWorld Heritage Site3.5 km (2.2 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
New RiverLake or reservoir2.5 km (1.6 miles) north
Clapton PondLake or reservoir3.3 km (2.1 miles) north-east
Upper PoolTidal water3.9 km (2.5 miles) south
Primrose HillHill4.7 km (2.9 miles) west
Main MarshWetland4.8 km (3 miles) north-east
Wick FieldWood4.8 km (3 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)25.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)10.1205
Particles (PM10)16.54015

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

Road, rail and aircraft 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 trafficRailwaysAircraft
65 to 69300
60 to 64200
55 to 59700
Under 5511313

12 of the street's 13 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 Islington: see them on the Islington 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
Rotherfield Primary SchoolPrimary3–11200 m No published inspection
City of London Academy IslingtonSecondary11–18390 m No published inspection
St Mary's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–11520 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Thomas Fairchild Community SchoolPrimary3–11590 m (0.4 miles) Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Shoreditch Park Primary SchoolPrimary3–11620 m (0.4 miles) Outstanding (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Hackney New Primary SchoolPrimary4–11670 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
William Tyndale Primary SchoolPrimary3–11710 m (0.4 miles) No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
Hanover Primary SchoolPrimary3–11710 m (0.4 miles) Good (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Canonbury Primary SchoolPrimary3–11900 m (0.6 miles) No published inspection
St John Evangelist Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–11900 m (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Comet Nursery School and Children's CentreNursery2–5910 m (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Hoxton Garden PrimaryPrimary3–111 km (0.6 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.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Cooks and Books N1 7BJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen120 m5 Very good7 Jan 2025
Golden Jade N1 7AATakeaway/sandwich shop130 m3 Generally satisfactory4 Sep 2024
Nina's Greek Finest N1 8QZImporters/Exporters160 m5 Very good20 Oct 2026
Rotherfield Junior School N1 3EESchool/college/university170 m5 Very good2 Feb 2026
B & B Convenience Store N1 7AARetailers - other170 m5 Very good26 Mar 2018
Packington Children's Centre N1 8SJHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises170 m5 Very good22 Nov 2022
Tesco N1 8SYRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets180 m4 Good19 Apr 2022
New Surma Tandoori N1 7AATakeaway/sandwich shop180 m5 Very good16 Dec 2024
Kipferl Patisserie Ltd N1 7BJRetailers - other180 m5 Very good18 Aug 2025
Quince Bakery N1 7AARetailers - other180 m4 Good28 Mar 2024
The Hanbury Arms N1 7DUPub/bar/nightclub240 m5 Very good4 Nov 2025
Caterlink @ Bentham Under Fives N1 3AAOther catering premises270 m5 Very good19 Feb 2025
Orchard Close Home N1 3ASHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises280 m5 Very good19 Sep 2024
Saponara N1 8PFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen290 m5 Very good22 Oct 2024
Pophams N1 8PFRetailers - other290 m5 Very good18 Nov 2025

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.

314 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences63
Anti-social behaviour54
Shoplifting42
Vehicle crime29
Other theft20
Theft from the person20
Drugs17
Criminal damage and arson17
Robbery15
Public order13
Bicycle theft12
Burglary8
Other crime3
Possession of weapons1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Queensbury Street (65); On or near Rotherfield Street (31); On or near Basire Street (26); On or near Raynor Place (25); On or near Bishop Street (21).

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: 297 residents in 138 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 age3140
Children under 1514%17%
Aged 65 and over5%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)32%61%
Owned outright14%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented27%17%
Private rented41%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work66%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)7%6%
Retired (of adults)8%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)67%32%
Travel to work by car or van4%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram11%4%
By any public transport, including bus16%8%
On foot or by bicycle11%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)93%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away2%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)68%34%
No qualifications12%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualificationunder 1%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)78%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all4%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 5 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 Daily Grind (mobile caterer, N1 2SN) newly listed: Awaiting inspection found 3 November 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Daily Grind (mobile caterer, N1 2SN) is no longer listed; it was rated Awaiting inspection found 31 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Nina's Greek Finest (importers/exporters, N1 8QZ) now 5 Very good, was Awaiting inspection (rated 20 October 2026) found 31 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.

  • N1 8TL: 12 addresses
  • N1 8TN: 1 address of 29 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Upper Rawreth Walk · Rawreth Walk · Prebend Street · Ridgewell Close · Steeple Walk · Basire Street · The Mews · Baddow Walk · Upper Hawkwell Walk · Coleman Fields · Raynor Place · Hawkwell Walk

All the streets in N1 and across Islington.

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.