Station Road Alston, Westmorland and Furness

73 addresses across 8 postcodes (CA9), about 600 m (0.4 miles) long, classed as a a road. USRN 13500157.

  • Sales: 18 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £155,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 21 homes have an energy certificate (B: 3, C: 6, D: 6, E: 4, F: 1, G: 1).
  • Flood: 10 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band A; Band D in Westmorland and Furness costs £2,508 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 64% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Haltwhistle, about 17 km (11 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 1.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 4.4 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 266 to 285 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 31 of its 73 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Alston Medical Practice, about 540 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • People: About 230 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 76% of households owned their home and 31% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 4 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
20251£155,000£155,000£155,000
20241£137,500£137,500£137,500
20211£220,000£220,000£220,000
20182£109,500£94,000£125,000
20171£65,000£65,000£65,000
20161£70,000£70,000£70,000
20151£160,000£160,000£160,000
20101£50,000£50,000£50,000
20071£280,000£280,000£280,000
20051£86,000£86,000£86,000
20041£68,000£68,000£68,000
19992£55,500£36,000£75,000
Most recent sales (18)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
21 Feb 2025BURN BANK COTTAGE CA9 3HZOther£60,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
9 Jan 2025BANK COTTAGE CA9 3HZTerraced£155,000
28 Mar 2024NORWOOD CA9 3HZTerraced£137,500Leasehold.
5 Oct 2021CARDEAN CA9 3HZSemi-detached£220,000
2 Nov 2018BANK COTTAGE CA9 3HZTerraced£125,000
23 Aug 2018DALE HOUSE CA9 3HZTerraced£94,000
3 Mar 2017WESTHOLME CA9 3HZTerraced£65,000Leasehold.
9 Nov 2016BANK COTTAGE CA9 3HZTerraced£70,000
20 Mar 2015CROFT HOUSE CA9 3HZDetached£160,000Leasehold.
9 Sep 2010NORCROFT CA9 3HZTerraced£50,000Leasehold.
13 Sep 2007CROFT HOUSE CA9 3HZDetached£280,000Leasehold.
12 Jan 2005LOW MILL COTTAGE CA9 3HZSemi-detached£86,000Leasehold.
19 Nov 2004LOW MILL COTTAGE CA9 3HZSemi-detached£68,000Leasehold.
15 Dec 1999NORWOOD CA9 3HZTerraced£36,000Leasehold.
30 Apr 1999ROSELYNN CA9 3HZDetached£75,000
31 Jul 1998JUDEEN CA9 3HZTerraced£35,500Leasehold.
15 Apr 1998DALE HOUSE CA9 3HZTerraced£29,000Leasehold.
12 Dec 1997NORWOOD CA9 3HZTerraced£15,000Leasehold.

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 January 2011 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 94 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (7); House, semi-detached (7); Maisonette, end-terrace (2). Built: before 1900 (14); 2009 (3); 1900-1929 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (11); rented (private) (3).

Each home's certificates and sales (13 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Westmorland and Furness in 2026-27: Band D £2,508 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,672£1,951£2,229£2,508£3,065£3,623£4,180£5,016

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (47% of about 1,150 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: yes, Alston (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 18.
  • 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

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, 8 addresses are in areas at high risk, 2 at medium risk and 11 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 33 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 0 medium, 3 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
CA9 3HZnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 3 unlikely
CA9 3HNnot in 2 or 3 6 / 0 / 0 unlikely
CA9 3JXnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 2 unlikely
CA9 3JBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
CA9 3HUnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
CA9 3JQnot in 2 or 3 2 / 1 / 3 unlikely
CA9 3JWnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 3 unlikely
CA9 3RNnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 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 73 addresses are between 266 m and 285 m above sea level (273 m on average); the ground rises about 19 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
CA9 3HN100%100%100%0%
CA9 3HU89%78%78%0%
CA9 3HZ95%95%95%0%
CA9 3JB100%100%100%0%
CA9 3JQ100%64%64%0%
CA9 3JW100%92%92%0%
CA9 3JX100%69%69%0%
CA9 3RN100%83%83%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 stationHaltwhistle 96,000 journeys in 2024–2517 km (11 miles)
Bus stops2 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Station Yard Workshops Alston90 m
Airport with scheduled flightsNewcastle International Airport NCL54.2 km (34 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 surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Alston Medical Practice540 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Alston Pharmacy360 m
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Alston Dental Practice520 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalAlston Hospital520 m (0.3 miles)
Police stationBrampton Police Station23.8 km (15 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
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,920 m²670 m (0.4 miles)
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3.9 ha220 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3,140 m²300 m

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Moated site, 340m north east of Moorwell Bridge, a scheduled monument, 260 m south-west. 44 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Moated site, 340m north east of Moorwell BridgeScheduled monument260 m south-west
Market CrossListed building, Grade II*360 m south-east
High MillListed building, Grade II*380 m south-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Hallhill PlantationWood280 m west
Low ForceWaterfall300 m east
High Spencycroft PlantationWood850 m (0.5 miles) north-east
Mounthooly PlantationWood1 km (0.6 miles) north-east
Low BottomValley2.7 km (1.7 miles) west
Horse EdgeHill3.5 km (2.2 miles) south-west

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)1.74010
Fine particles (PM2.5)4.4205
Particles (PM10)6.04015

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 6460
55 to 59250
Under 554273

31 of the street's 73 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 Westmorland and Furness: see them on the Westmorland and Furness 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
Alston Primary SchoolPrimary4–11500 m (0.3 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
Samuel King's SchoolSecondary11–16500 m (0.3 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
Lowbyer Manor Country House CA9 3JXHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house120 m5 Very good9 Mar 2022
Cumberland Mustard CA9 3HZManufacturers/packers270 m4 Good12 Nov 2024
Moredun Garage CA9 3HZRetailers - other270 mExempt
Alston Masonic Club CA9 3JFPub/bar/nightclub300 m5 Very good20 Sep 2024
Cobbles Cafe CA9 3HSRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen340 m5 Very good24 Apr 2026
Cumbrian Co-op CA9 3HSRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets350 m5 Very good4 Nov 2022
The Turk's Head CA9 3HSPub/bar/nightclub350 m5 Very good27 Mar 2018
Cumberland Hotel CA9 3HXPub/bar/nightclub360 m5 Very good9 Apr 2026
Alston Pharmacy CA9 3QPRetailers - other360 mExempt
Alston Wholefoods CA9 3QNRetailers - other380 m5 Very good22 Jan 2025
Grisedale Croft CA9 3QSHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good19 Sep 2025
Alston Post Office CA9 3HPRetailers - other430 m (0.3 miles)Exempt
Alston House CA9 3RNHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good24 Apr 2026
Victoria Inn CA9 3SEHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good19 Sep 2025
Saddlers Bakery and Bistro CA9 3SFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen480 m (0.3 miles)4 Good9 Apr 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.

4 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences3
Other theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near A686 (2); On or near Alston (1); On or near Lowbyer Park (1).

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: 228 residents in 117 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 age5640
Children under 1511%17%
Aged 65 and over27%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)76%61%
Owned outright50%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented2%17%
Private rented22%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work57%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)2%6%
Retired (of adults)28%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)5%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)33%32%
Travel to work by car or van51%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus0%8%
On foot or by bicycle16%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)39%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away20%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)31%34%
No qualifications13%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification8%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)100%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 4 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

  • Energy certificates New energy certificate: band C, house, mid-terrace (lodged 25 October 2026) found 2 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.

  • CA9 3HZ: 25 addresses of 26 in the postcode
  • CA9 3HN: 17 addresses
  • CA9 3JX: 17 addresses of 26 in the postcode
  • CA9 3JB: 6 addresses
  • CA9 3HU: 2 addresses of 19 in the postcode
  • CA9 3JQ: 2 addresses of 22 in the postcode
  • CA9 3JW: 2 addresses of 35 in the postcode
  • CA9 3RN: 2 addresses of 11 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Townfoot · Low Byer Park · Lowbyer Park · Croft Terrace · King's Arms Lane · Sunset View · The Butts · Market Place · The Butts · Globe House

All the streets in CA9 and across Westmorland and Furness.

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.