Taw Vale Barnstaple, North Devon

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.

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 2013 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

11 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 68 m². Most common: Flat (8); House, mid-terrace (2); House, detached (1). Built: before 1900 (10); 1900-1929 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (10); rented (private) (1).

Council tax

What each band costs in North Devon in 2026-27: Band D £2,642 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (37% of about 920 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: yes, Barnstaple - Town Centre (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
• Listed buildings on or by this street: 30.
• 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

• PENROSE ALMHOUSES, grade I
• 1 AND 2, TAW VALE PARADE, grade II
• 1 AND 2, TRINITY STREET, grade II
• 14 AND 15, LITCHDON STREET, grade II
• 16, LITCHDON STREET, grade II
• 17, LITCHDON STREET, grade II
• 18, LITCHDON STREET, grade II
• 19, LITCHDON STREET, grade II
• 20, LITCHDON STREET, grade II
• 3-11, TAW VALE PARADE, grade II
• 9, LITCHDON STREET, grade II
• BARUM HOUSE, grade II
• BEACHCROFT, grade II
• BIRMINGHAM MIDSHIRES BUILDING SOCIETY, grade II
• CHURCH OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION, grade II
• CLOCKTOWER, grade II
• EXETER INN, grade II
• FIVE DOLPHIN LAMP POSTS ON EMBANKMENT BETWEEN THE SQUARE AND ROCK PARK, grade II
• GARDEN WALLS TO ALLOTMENT TO REAR OF PENROSE ALMSHOUSES, grade II
• IMPERIAL HOTEL, grade II
• K6 TELEPHONE KIOSK IMMEDIATELY NORTH OF THE IMPERIAL HOTEL, grade II
• LITCHDON POTTERY INCLUDING BOTTLE KILNS AND ALL BUILDINGS ON THE SITE, grade II
• NUMBER 1 AND HOUSE ADJOINING ON RIGHT WITH ATTACHED WALLS AND RAILINGS, grade II
• OBELISK AT NORTH ENTRANCE, grade II
• PAIR OF LAMP STANDARDS WITH PEDESTALS AT NORTH ENTRANCE OF ROCK PARK, grade II
• PUMP IN COURTYARD AT PENROSE ALMSHOUSES, grade II
• RIVERSIDE, grade II
• RIVERSVALE, grade II
• SALEM ALMSHOUSES, grade II
• WILLSHIRE FOUNTAIN ON TRAFFIC ISLAND, grade II

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

• Riversvale House, Litchdon Street Barnstaple EX32 8LN: up to 12 homes, permissioned (60 m)
• North Devon Leisure Centre, Seven Brethren Bank Barnstaple EX31 2AP: up to 245 homes, pending decision (160 m)
• Land off Buller Road, (Unit 3 & The Old Workshop), , , Banstaple, EX32 8JP: up to 10 homes, not permissioned (320 m)
• Former Paint Warehouse, Buller Road, , , Barnstaple, EX32 8JP: up to 9 homes, permissioned (330 m)
• Former Garage Site, Buller Road Barnstaple EX32 8JP: up to 8 homes, permissioned (350 m)
• Oliver Buildings, Anchorwood Bank, Taw Wharf, , Barnstaple, EX31 2AA: up to 47 homes, permissioned (370 m)
• Queen Street/Bear Street, Barnstaple EX32 8XX: up to 30 homes, not permissioned (420 m (0.3 miles))
• 22-23 High Street, Barnstaple EX31 1BG: up to 8 homes, permissioned (470 m (0.3 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

Planned, as of 31 October 2026

• 4 January 2027 to 12 February 2027: National Grid Electricity Distribution (South West), Utility asset works, road closure, on the carriageway (major (paa) 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, 18 addresses are in areas at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 34 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 58 homes the Environment Agency counts, 14 are in areas at high risk, 1 medium, 43 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: 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.

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 40 addresses are between -1 m and 4 m above sea level (1 m on average); the ground rises about 5 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.

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.

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.

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.

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 0.8 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Penrose Almhouses, a listed building (Grade I), 80 m north-east. 283 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 5 of them Grade I and 10 of them Grade II*.

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.

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).

19 of the street's 39 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 North Devon: see them on the North Devon 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.

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.

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.

Most of these are attached to: On or near Supermarket (66); On or near Brannams Square (11); On or near Litchdon Street (9); On or near Parking Area (7); On or near Barbican Terrace (5).

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: 256 residents in 144 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

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Work and commuting

Education and languages

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 3 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.

• EX32 8NJ: 33 addresses
• EX32 8NB: 4 addresses
• EX32 8ND: 1 address of 92 in the postcode
• EX32 8NN: 1 address of 14 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Litchdon Street · Litchdon Lane · Litchdon Street · Brannams Square · Trinity Street · Barbican Place · Kiln Lane · Barbican Terrace · Salem Street · Seven Brethren Bank · Belle Meadow Road · New Road

All the streets in EX32 and across North Devon.