St Davids Close Penygarn, Torfaen

28 addresses across 4 postcodes (NP4), about 290 m long. USRN 40802068.

  • Sales: 35 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £272,500 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 21 homes have an energy certificate (B: 3, C: 16, D: 1, E: 1).
  • Flood: No postcode centre on the street is in flood zone 2 or 3.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band C; Band D in Torfaen costs £2,156 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Pontypool and New Inn, about 1.6 km (1 mile) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 100 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 162 to 177 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 28 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Pontypool Medical Centre, about 560 m (0.3 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 570 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 70% of households owned their home and 26% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 38 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£272,500£272,500£272,500
20251£225,000£225,000£225,000
20241£217,500£217,500£217,500
20224£254,000£160,000£277,500
20202£255,000£220,000£290,000
20191£255,000£255,000£255,000
20181£147,000£147,000£147,000
20173£185,000£155,000£185,000
20141£155,000£155,000£155,000
20131£104,000£104,000£104,000
20101£120,000£120,000£120,000
20091£160,000£160,000£160,000
Most recent sales (35)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
17 Apr 20263 NP4 8BASemi-detached£272,500
26 Aug 202519 NP4 8BASemi-detached£225,000
12 Jan 202421 NP4 8BASemi-detached£217,500
31 May 202216 NP4 8BASemi-detached£160,000
1 Mar 202230 NP4 8BADetached£268,000
21 Jan 202211 NP4 8BADetached£277,500
7 Jan 202246 NP4 8BADetached£240,000
13 Nov 202039 NP4 8BADetached£290,000
16 Jun 202036 NP4 8BADetached£220,000
14 Jan 201931 NP4 8BADetached£255,000
31 May 201819 NP4 8BASemi-detached£147,000
30 Jun 20179 NP4 8BASemi-detached£155,000
28 Apr 201729 NP4 8BASemi-detached£185,000Leasehold.
28 Apr 201729 NP4 8BASemi-detached£185,000
14 Oct 20143 NP4 8BASemi-detached£155,000
18 Jan 201319 NP4 8BASemi-detached£104,000
2 Sep 201042 NP4 8BASemi-detached£120,000
29 May 20091 NP4 8BASemi-detached£160,000
8 Oct 200831 NP4 8BADetached£222,500
29 Jan 200824 NP4 8BASemi-detached£138,000Leasehold.
29 Jan 200824 NP4 8BASemi-detached£138,000
30 Nov 20071 NP4 8BASemi-detached£149,000
4 Nov 200519 NP4 8BASemi-detached£140,000
11 Mar 200545 NP4 8BASemi-detached£141,500
5 Dec 200345 NP4 8BASemi-detached£105,600
28 Mar 20039 NP4 8BASemi-detached£95,000
7 Mar 200324 NP4 8BASemi-detached£88,250Leasehold.
24 May 200235 NP4 8BADetached£83,000Leasehold.
24 May 200226 NP4 8BASemi-detached£74,950
10 Sep 199924 NP4 8BASemi-detached£64,950Leasehold.
24 Jul 199844 NP4 8BASemi-detached£59,000
29 Sep 199543 NP4 8BASemi-detached£45,500
28 Sep 199542 NP4 8BASemi-detached£59,250
4 Aug 199543 NP4 8BASemi-detached£59,995
12 May 199527 NP4 8BASemi-detached£48,000Leasehold.

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

21 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 44 m². Most common: Flat (15); House, detached (3); House, enclosed mid-terrace (2). Built: 1976-1982 (16); 1991-1995 (1); before 1900 (1). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (14); owner-occupied (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (21 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Torfaen in 2026-27: Band D £2,156 a year on average, including the police and community council charges.

ABCDEFGHI
£1,437£1,677£1,916£2,156£2,635£3,114£3,593£4,311£5,030

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band C (28% 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; Welsh 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 directions, tree preservation orders and green belt: Wales has no national record of these; the council's planning department holds them.

Listed buildings

Source: DataMapWales (Welsh Government): conservation areas compiled from the councils, and Cadw's listed buildings. Conservation areas are checked at each postcode's centre; some councils' boundaries in this layer have not been updated for years, so the council's own map is the one to rely on. Listed buildings are counted on or by this street. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them.

Roadworks

Street works permits come from the Department for Transport's Street Manager, which covers England only.

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: of the 81 address points in this street's postcodes, 0 at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 0 at low risk. Each counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: none is in an area at risk. Surface water and small watercourses alone: 0 at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 0 at low risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. The map allows for flood defences. Address points are every property record (UPRN) in the postcode, each counted if it is in an area or within 5 m of one (the maps stop at building walls); a few are not homes, such as garages, business units or caravan pitches. 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. Welsh zones include an allowance for climate change.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low risk
NP4 8BBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0
NP4 8BJnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0
NP4 8BLnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0
NP4 8BAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 0

Sources: Natural Resources Wales Flood Risk Assessment Wales: rivers, sea and surface water (loaded 30 October 2026), and Flood Map for Planning: rivers and sea (loaded 29 October 2026); address points from OS Open UPRN and the ONS UPRN Directory. 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 Natural Resources Wales's flood risk map.

Contains Natural Resources Wales information © Natural Resources Wales and database right. All rights reserved. Some features of this information are based on digital spatial data licensed from the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology © UKCEH. Defra, Met Office and DARD Rivers Agency © Crown copyright. © Cranfield University. © James Hutton Institute.

Height above sea level

The street's 28 addresses are between 162 m and 177 m above sea level (174 m on average); the ground rises about 15 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
NP4 8BA100%100%100%0%
NP4 8BB100%100%100%0%
NP4 8BJ100%100%100%0%
NP4 8BL100%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 stationsPontypool and New Inn 127,000 journeys in 2024–251.6 km (1 mile)
Cwmbran 432,000 journeys in 2024–255.5 km (3.4 miles)
Llanhilleth 94,000 journeys in 2024–257 km (4.3 miles)
Bus stops6 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 28 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Park Crescent Penygarn120 m
Bus or coach stationCwmbran Bus Station Stand D5.7 km (3.5 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Crane Street Monthly Car Park600 m (0.4 miles)
EV charging points4 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest George Street620 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsCardiff International Airport CWL40.4 km (25 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 Pontypool Medical Centre560 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Layanson Pharmacy540 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Wyecliffe Dental Surgery600 m (0.4 miles)
HospitalCounty Hospital1.7 km (1.1 miles)
Police stationPontypool Police Station590 m (0.4 miles)
Cash machinesPremier, Pontnewynydd1.6 km (1 mile)

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 57 ha100 m
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 220 m²290 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.8 ha420 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,340 m²70 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 57 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is The Valley Inheritance Museum, a listed building (Grade II*), 360 m south-west. 62 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 4 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
The Valley Inheritance MuseumListed building, Grade II*360 m south-west
Pontypool ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II*420 m (0.3 miles) north-east
Crane Street Baptist ChurchListed building, Grade II*570 m (0.4 miles) south-west
Shell GrottoListed building, Grade II*760 m (0.5 miles) east
Entrance Gates to Pontypool ParkListed building, Grade II*830 m (0.5 miles) south-east
Blaenavon Industrial LandscapeWorld Heritage Site9.1 km (5.7 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church WoodWood380 m north-west
Nant-y-Gollen PondsLake or reservoir390 m south-east
Twyn-gwyn WoodWood480 m (0.3 miles) east
Pen-y-park PlantationWood610 m (0.4 miles) east
Cwm Ynys-couValley1.5 km (0.9 miles) south
Little MountainHill1.9 km (1.2 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)5.5205
Particles (PM10)8.34015

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: Welsh Government, Environmental Noise Mapping 2022 (Wales), modelled with Defra's noise model for every road and railway in Wales and published in August 2023, through DataMapWales: 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 aircraft, 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 and 54 dB for railways.

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
55 to 5920
Under 552628

2 of the street's 28 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 Torfaen: see them on the Torfaen page.

Nearest schools

Source: Welsh Government address list of schools in Wales, October 2026 (maintained schools only, placed at their postcode). Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Estyn, which inspects Welsh schools, no longer gives grades; its reports describe each school in words.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
St. Albans R.C. High School Roman Catholic English mediumSecondary11–16380 m Estyn reports · My Local School
Penygarn Community Primary School English mediumPrimary3–11550 m (0.3 miles) Estyn reports · My Local School
George Street Primary School English mediumPrimary3–11760 m (0.5 miles) Estyn reports · My Local School
Padre Pio RC Primary School Roman Catholic English mediumPrimary4–11870 m (0.5 miles) Estyn reports · My Local School
West Monmouth School English mediumSecondary11–161 km (0.6 miles) Estyn reports · My Local School
Ysgol Gymraeg Gwynllyw Welsh mediumAll-through3–191 km (0.6 miles) Estyn reports · My Local School

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 4 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
Premier Express NP4 8BNRetailers - other110 m3 Generally satisfactory24 Mar 2026
Woodlands Field Limited NP4 8BUOther catering premises240 m1 Major improvement necessary25 Mar 2026
After the bell childrens centre NP4 8BUHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises240 m1 Major improvement necessary13 Mar 2026
Plas-Y-Garn Care Home NP4 8DBHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises250 m5 Very good9 Dec 2025
Salvation Army NP4 6JHOther catering premises320 m4 Good25 Feb 2025
Chartwells at St Albans RC School NP4 6XGSchool/college/university380 m5 Very good17 Mar 2026
Eastern Valley Foodbank NP4 6JHRetailers - other380 m5 Very good31 Jul 2026
Pontypool Masonic Hall NP4 8ATPub/bar/nightclub420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good2 Sep 2025
Pontymoile under fives at Pontypool Active Living Centre NP4 8ATHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good10 Sep 2024
Torfaen Museum Trust Coffee Shop (Museum Tea Rooms) NP4 6JERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good31 Jan 2024
Pontypool Christian Bookshop & Friends NP4 6JQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen480 m (0.3 miles)4 Good23 Feb 2023
Ysgol Feithrin Pontypwl NP4 6JLHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises490 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good27 Nov 2024
CYLCH TI A FI PONTYPWL NP4 6JLHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises490 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good4 Jun 2026
Ragamuffins Vintage Tea Room NP4 6JJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen490 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good8 Jan 2025
Penygarn Community Primary School NP4 8JRSchool/college/university500 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good2 Dec 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.

38 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences18
Criminal damage and arson6
Public order4
Burglary3
Anti-social behaviour3
Drugs1
Possession of weapons1
Other theft1
Vehicle crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near College Road (14); On or near St David'S Close (10); On or near Stryd Iago (6); On or near Folly View (4); On or near Park Gardens (3).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 571 residents in 241 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 streetWales
Median age5143
Children under 1517%17%
Aged 65 and over33%21%

Homes

Around this streetWales
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)70%66%
Owned outright45%38%
Shared ownershipunder 1%under 1%
Social rented21%17%
Private rented8%17%

Work and commuting

Around this streetWales
Adults (16 and over) in work43%54%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)37%25%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)9%6%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)30%26%
Travel to work by car or van57%61%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%under 1%
By any public transport, including bus3%3%
On foot or by bicycle9%8%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)68%60%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away7%10%

Education and languages

Around this streetWales
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)26%32%
No qualifications32%20%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%6%
Main language English or Welsh (aged 3 and over)98%97%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%under 1%

Deprivation

The neighbourhoods around this street are all in decile 3 of 10 on the Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of Wales's 1,917 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025 (Welsh 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

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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

Channel View · College Road · St David's Close · Park Crescent · Penygarn Road · Golwg y Ffoledd · Park Gardens · Stryd Iago · Folly View · Churchwood Close · The Woodlands · Lower Park Gardens

All the streets in NP4 and across Torfaen.

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.