Swallowfields Totnes, South Hams

64 addresses across 2 postcodes (TQ9), about 360 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 35500919.

31 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £399,000 across 2 sales. 44 homes have an energy certificate (C: 25, D: 14, E: 4, F: 1). No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. Most homes around it are in council tax band B; Band D in South Hams costs £2,615 a year in 2026-27. Gigabit broadband is available to 94% to 100% of premises. The nearest railway station is Totnes, about 440 m away in a straight line. The nearest park or garden, Heath's Garden, is about 890 m away. Background air pollution in 2024 was 3.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.0 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits. Its addresses are 10 to 18 m above sea level. 19 of its 64 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic. The nearest GP surgery is Leatside Surgery, about 790 m away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km. About 300 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 58% of households owned their home and 42% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification. 28 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
20252£399,000£390,000£408,000
20211£341,000£341,000£341,000
20202£286,000£285,000£287,000
20191£295,000£295,000£295,000
20171£200,000£200,000£200,000
20161£265,000£265,000£265,000
20151£243,000£243,000£243,000
20121£236,500£236,500£236,500
20112£229,250£228,500£230,000
20101£220,000£220,000£220,000
20092£193,000£171,000£215,000
20071£230,000£230,000£230,000
Most recent sales (31)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
14 Nov 202526 TQ9 5LASemi-detached£408,000
20 Jun 2025DRAGONFLY COTTAGE, 20 TQ9 5LASemi-detached£390,000
29 Sep 202110 TQ9 5LATerraced£341,000
30 Oct 202011 TQ9 5LATerraced£285,000
17 Jan 202019 TQ9 5LASemi-detached£287,000
7 May 201926 TQ9 5LASemi-detached£295,000
14 Feb 201749 TQ9 5LBTerraced£200,000
30 Mar 20164 TQ9 5LATerraced£265,000
10 Aug 201511 TQ9 5LATerraced£243,000
25 Apr 201211 TQ9 5LATerraced£236,500
23 Aug 201111 TQ9 5LATerraced£230,000
7 Mar 201118 TQ9 5LASemi-detached£228,500
4 Jun 201025 TQ9 5LASemi-detached£220,000
30 Oct 2009DRAGONFLY COTTAGE, 20 TQ9 5LASemi-detached£215,000
21 Aug 200949 TQ9 5LBTerraced£171,000
15 Nov 200725 TQ9 5LASemi-detached£230,000
10 Nov 200626 TQ9 5LASemi-detached£215,000
6 Mar 200648 TQ9 5LBTerraced£235,000
24 Sep 200418 TQ9 5LASemi-detached£227,000
6 Feb 200440 TQ9 5LBSemi-detached£235,000
15 Dec 20034 TQ9 5LATerraced£157,000
1 Dec 200325 TQ9 5LASemi-detached£112,500
27 May 200318 TQ9 5LASemi-detached£175,000
6 Aug 200148 TQ9 5LBTerraced£97,500
20 Nov 2000DRAGONFLY COTTAGE, 20 TQ9 5LASemi-detached£95,000
11 Feb 200023 TQ9 5LADetached£83,000
21 Dec 199918 TQ9 5LASemi-detached£79,000
16 Aug 199612 TQ9 5LASemi-detached£56,000
7 Jun 199618 TQ9 5LASemi-detached£50,000
20 Nov 19955 TQ9 5LATerraced£41,000
29 Sep 199544 TQ9 5LBTerraced£55,000

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 13 October 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from March 2010 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

44 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 84 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (22); House, mid-terrace (9); House, end-terrace (7). Built: 1900-1929 (15); 1950-1966 (12); 1930-1949 (10). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (26); owner-occupied (10); rented (private) (4).

Council tax

What each band costs in South Hams in 2026-27: Band D £2,615 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,743£2,034£2,325£2,615£3,196£3,778£4,359£5,230

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (35% of about 1,070 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

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 30 September 2026.

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

No address in this street's postcodes is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

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.

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.

Height above sea level

The street's 64 addresses are between 10 m and 18 m above sea level (15 m on average); the ground rises about 8 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
TQ9 5LA100%94%94%0%
TQ9 5LB100%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 stationsTotnes 797,000 journeys in 2024–25440 m
Paignton 707,000 journeys in 2024–259.1 km
Torquay 508,000 journeys in 2024–2511.0 km
Bus stops5 stops within 400 m, 14 within 800 m; nearest King Edward VI School Swallowfields100 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Paignton9.0 km
Ferry terminalTotnes Ferry Landing1.4 km
Car parks2 within 800 m; nearest Parking space on Ashburton Road250 m
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km; nearest MFG Charging Station1.1 km
Airport with scheduled flightsExeter International Airport EXT38.4 km
Nearest large airportCardiff International Airport CWL109.4 km

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; nearest Leatside Surgery790 m
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km; nearest Morrisons Pharmacy1.0 km
NHS dentists4 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Manor Lodge Dental Surgery1.0 km
HospitalTotnes Hospital910 m
Police stationTotnes Police Station300 m
Cash machinesPayzone800 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 gardenHeath's Garden 540 m²890 m
Play area3 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 80 m²350 m
Playing fieldUnnamed 7,720 m²1.4 km
Allotments3 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 6,920 m²470 m

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Totnes Castle, a scheduled monument, 680 m south. 210 listed buildings are within 1.0 km, 6 of them Grade I and 22 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Totnes CastleScheduled monument680 m south
Hampstead ManorListed building, Grade II*710 m north-east
Priory HouseListed building, Grade II*730 m south-east
The CastleListed building, Grade I730 m south
Outbuilding to Rear of No 39 (Former Kitchen Block)Listed building, Grade II*780 m south
Totnes PrioryScheduled monument840 m south-east
Leechwell holy well, 350m south west of St Mary's ChurchScheduled monument1.1 km south
Dartington HallRegistered park or garden, Grade II*1.8 km north
Natural landmarks within 5.0 km
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Buckham Park CopseWood550 m north
Snipe IslandIsland680 m east
St Peter's Quay PoolLake or reservoir1.4 km south-east
Harper's HillHill1.5 km south
The GutWetland4.5 km south-east
Tenner's BottomValley4.7 km east

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10.0 km, battlefields within 5.0 km, registered parks and gardens within 3.0 km, scheduled monuments within 2.0 km, and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1.0 km. 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)3.44010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.0205
Particles (PM10)9.04015

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: 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 on the roads and railways, 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
70 to 7410
65 to 6990
60 to 6430
55 to 5960
Under 554564

19 of the street's 64 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

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
King Edward VI Community CollegeSecondary11–18160 m No published inspection
The Grove SchoolPrimary3–111.0 km Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Totnes St John's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.6 km Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Dartington Church of England AcademyPrimary2–111.7 km 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 of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
School Canteen TQ9 5JXSchool/college/university160 m5 Very good5 Mar 2025
Puddavine Court Residential Care Home TQ9 6EUHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises430 m5 Very good3 Feb 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.

28 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences16
Anti-social behaviour7
Criminal damage and arson2
Public order2
Drugs1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Ashburton Road (21); On or near Dartington Lane (3); On or near Swallowfields (2); On or near Dartside (2).

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: 303 residents in 126 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 age4940
Children under 1512%17%
Aged 65 and over28%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)58%61%
Owned outright42%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented29%17%
Private rented14%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work52%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)10%6%
Retired (of adults)28%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)25%32%
Travel to work by car or van49%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus4%8%
On foot or by bicycle18%10%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)49%65%
Work 30 km or more away12%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)42%34%
No qualifications16%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%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

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

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.

  • TQ9 5LA: 39 addresses of 43 in the postcode
  • TQ9 5LB: 25 addresses of 30 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Riverside · Ashburton Road · Dartside · Ashburton Road · Dartington Lane · Water Meadow Walk · Salmons Leap · Walnut Close · Higher Weir · Brookside Pathway · Weirfields · Walnut Close

All the streets in TQ9 and across South Hams.

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 aircraft, industry or neighbours: noise figures are models of road and rail traffic outside, in England only.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.