Swan Street Alcester, Stratford-on-Avon

45 addresses across 3 postcodes (B49), about 70 m long, classed as a minor road. USRN 38301996.

  • Sales: 21 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £306,250 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 13 homes have an energy certificate (C: 2, D: 7, E: 4).
  • Flood: 39 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 C; Band D in Stratford-on-Avon costs £2,484 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 83% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Wilmcote, about 8 km (5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 180 m away, and River Arrow Local Nature Reserve (8.9 hectares) is about 450 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 4.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.4 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 40 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 37 of its 45 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Alcester Health Centre, about 880 m (0.5 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 550 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 60% of households owned their home and 36% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 85 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often shoplifting.

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£306,250£220,000£392,500
20191£122,000£122,000£122,000
20162£146,750£118,500£175,000
20073£165,000£115,000£250,000
20062£118,250£90,000£146,500
20041£150,000£150,000£150,000
20033£150,000£70,000£249,999
20011£58,000£58,000£58,000
19981£62,000£62,000£62,000
Most recent sales (21)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
2 Jun 20251 SWAN COTTAGES, SWAN COURT B49 5DPSemi-detached£220,000
30 May 20257 B49 5DPDetached£392,500
29 Feb 20243 B49 5DPOther£497,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
24 Apr 20194, SWAN COURT B49 5DPFlat or maisonette£122,000Leasehold.
9 Aug 20181 B49 5DPOther£545,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
2 Feb 201713A B49 5DPOther£215,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
31 Jan 20178 - 10 B49 5DPOther£415,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
11 Nov 20164, SWAN COURT B49 5DPFlat or maisonette£118,500Leasehold.
31 Mar 20161 SWAN COTTAGES, SWAN COURT B49 5DPSemi-detached£175,000
8 Apr 20151B B49 5DPOther£366,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
10 Aug 20074, SWAN COURT B49 5DPFlat or maisonette£115,000Leasehold.
18 Jun 20071 SWAN COTTAGES, SWAN COURT B49 5DPSemi-detached£165,000
25 May 20073, SWAN COURT B49 5DPSemi-detached£250,000
15 Nov 20067, SWAN COURT B49 5DPSemi-detached£90,000
12 Oct 20061 SWAN COTTAGES, SWAN COURT B49 5DPSemi-detached£146,500
30 Sep 20042 SWAN COTTAGES, SWAN COURT B49 5DPSemi-detached£150,000New build.
23 Dec 20031 SWAN COTTAGES, SWAN COURT B49 5DPSemi-detached£150,000
23 Sep 20037 B49 5DPDetached£249,999
7 May 20039 B49 5DPTerraced£70,000
29 Jun 20014, SWAN COURT B49 5DPFlat or maisonette£58,000Leasehold.
6 Feb 19982, SWAN COURT B49 5DPFlat or maisonette£62,000Leasehold.

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 November 2015 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

13 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 67 m². Most common: Flat (3); Maisonette, mid-terrace (3); House, mid-terrace (2). Built: before 1900 (7); 2003-2006 (2); 1967-1975 (2). Tenure at assessment: rented (private) (8); owner-occupied (5).

Each home's certificates and sales (3 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Stratford-on-Avon in 2026-27: Band D £2,484 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,656£1,932£2,208£2,484£3,036£3,588£4,140£4,968

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (46% of about 870 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: 8.
  • 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

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

  • 15 October 2026 to 16 October 2026: BT, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (immediate - urgent works)

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, 39 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: of the 66 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 27 medium, 4 low and 1 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: at least one postcode centre is in flood zone 3. Zone 3 is a 1% (1 in 100) or greater annual chance of flooding from rivers, or 0.5% from the sea, ignoring defences.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
B49 5DPzone 3 0 / 28 / 0 unlikely
B49 5BBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
B49 5DXzone 3 0 / 11 / 4 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 40 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
B49 5BB100%100%100%0%
B49 5DP100%83%83%0%
B49 5DX100%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 stationsWilmcote 20,000 journeys in 2024–258 km (5 miles)
Wootton Wawen 19,000 journeys in 2024–258.4 km (5.2 miles)
Bearley 2,550 journeys in 2024–259 km (5.6 miles)
Bus stops8 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 15 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Police Station Alcester100 m
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Shell Recharge Charging Station90 m
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX28 km (17 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 Alcester Health Centre880 m (0.5 miles)
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Alcester Pharmacy90 m
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery90 m
HospitalAlexandra Hospital7.8 km (4.9 miles)
Police stationAlcester Police Station90 m
Cash machinesOversley Mill Service Station, Oversley Green, Alcester Bypass Cashzone1.1 km (0.7 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 garden4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 490 m²180 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)River Arrow Local Nature Reserve 8.9 ha450 m (0.3 miles)
Play area6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 550 m²220 m
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.3 ha220 m
Allotments5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Bleachfield Street North Allotments 6,920 m²200 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 11 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is 9 and 9A, High Street, a listed building (Grade II*), 210 m north-east. 131 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade I and 5 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
9 and 9A, High StreetListed building, Grade II*210 m north-east
5 and 7 Malt Mill LaneListed building, Grade II*260 m north-east
Malt HouseListed building, Grade I260 m north-east
Church of St NicholasListed building, Grade II*270 m north-east
Roman townScheduled monument290 m south-east
Alcester AbbeyScheduled monument590 m (0.4 miles) north
Oversley CastleScheduled monument1.4 km (0.9 miles) south
Ragley HallRegistered park or garden, Grade II*2.6 km (1.6 miles) south-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Primrose HillHill1.2 km (0.8 miles) south
Arrow Lane PlantationWood1.4 km (0.8 miles) south-west
Lord Henry's ClumpWood1.4 km (0.9 miles) south-west
Durlop HillHill1.7 km (1.1 miles) east
Beech ClumpWood1.9 km (1.2 miles) south-west
The LakeLake or reservoir2.5 km (1.5 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)4.94010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.4205
Particles (PM10)10.74015

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
60 to 64280
55 to 5990
Under 55845

37 of the street's 45 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 Stratford-on-Avon: see them on the Stratford-on-Avon 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
Alcester Grammar SchoolSecondary11–18530 m (0.3 miles) Outstanding (Dec 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Benedict's Catholic High School Roman CatholicSecondary11–18570 m (0.4 miles) Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Our Lady's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–11730 m (0.5 miles) No overall grade (Jun 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
St Nicholas CofE Primary Church of EnglandPrimary4–11810 m (0.5 miles) Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Alcester AcademySecondary11–161.2 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Jul 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Exceptional; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met

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
Cardamom B49 5DPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen20 m5 Very good9 Dec 2025
Roosters B49 5DPTakeaway/sandwich shop20 m5 Very good10 Mar 2025
Alcester Country Market B49 5AFOther catering premises90 m5 Very good22 Nov 2024
Chapter 23 B49 5AFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen90 m5 Very good3 Apr 2025
Superdrug B49 5AFRetailers - other110 mExempt
The Bear Hotel B49 5ABPub/bar/nightclub120 m5 Very good28 Mar 2025
Alcester Unionist Club Ltd B49 5ABPub/bar/nightclub120 m5 Very good21 Aug 2024
The Royal Oak B49 5ABPub/bar/nightclub120 m4 Good18 Sep 2026
Lounge@26 B49 5ABRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen120 m5 Very good29 Sep 2026
Camilla Jones B49 5AERetailers - other150 m5 Very good3 Mar 2025
Ventuno B49 5AERetailers - other170 m5 Very good30 Apr 2026
Dog And Partridge B49 5BBPub/bar/nightclub170 m5 Very good31 Mar 2025
The Spice Room B49 5ADRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen170 m5 Very good14 May 2025
Turks Head B49 5ADPub/bar/nightclub170 m5 Very good14 Sep 2026
Simply Fresh Convenience Store B49 5AERetailers - other180 m4 Good21 Jan 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.

85 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Shoplifting23
Violence and sexual offences21
Anti-social behaviour18
Public order10
Vehicle crime5
Criminal damage and arson4
Other theft3
Burglary1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Supermarket (41); On or near High Street (13); On or near Swan Street (10); On or near Flax Close (6); On or near Parking Area (5).

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: 554 residents in 291 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 age4840
Children under 1513%17%
Aged 65 and over24%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)60%61%
Owned outright38%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented7%17%
Private rented33%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work64%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)26%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)31%32%
Travel to work by car or van55%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including busunder 1%8%
On foot or by bicycle13%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)49%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away17%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)36%34%
No qualifications14%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 9 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

  • Roadworks Street works permit: BT: Utility repair and maintenance works, 15 October 2026 to 16 October 2026 (some carriageway incursion) found 3 November 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Waitrose (retailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets, B49 5DA) re-inspected, still 5 Very good (rated 27 October 2026) found 3 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.

  • B49 5DP: 40 addresses of 44 in the postcode
  • B49 5BB: 4 addresses of 46 in the postcode
  • B49 5DX: 1 address of 22 in the postcode

Nearby streets

High Street · Abbey Mews · White Lion Court · Market Place · Birch Abbey · Priory Road · Flax Close · Stratford Road · High Street · Gas House Lane · Bulls Head Yard · Evesham Street

All the streets in B49 and across Stratford-on-Avon.

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.