The Pollards Barnstaple, North Devon

15 addresses across 1 postcode (EX32), about 50 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 27504145.

  • Sales: 35 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £234,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 13 homes have an energy certificate (C: 10, D: 3).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area 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 D; Band D in North Devon costs £2,642 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Barnstaple, about 1.9 km (1.2 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 250 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 4.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 4.9 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 12 to 14 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 15 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Litchdon Medical Centre, about 450 m (0.3 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 600 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 85% of households owned their home and 34% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 31 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
20241£234,000£234,000£234,000
20231£240,000£240,000£240,000
20221£226,000£226,000£226,000
20191£182,000£182,000£182,000
20161£156,500£156,500£156,500
20151£168,000£168,000£168,000
20142£188,500£169,000£208,000
20122£185,750£179,000£192,500
20071£200,000£200,000£200,000
20051£149,950£149,950£149,950
20042£146,500£115,000£178,000
20032£132,000£115,000£149,000
Most recent sales (35)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
26 Apr 20242 EX32 9PATerraced£234,000
4 Apr 20237 EX32 9PATerraced£240,000
9 Dec 20222 EX32 9PATerraced£226,000
25 Oct 20193 EX32 9PATerraced£182,000
29 Sep 20162 EX32 9PATerraced£156,500
21 Jan 20154 EX32 9PATerraced£168,000
22 Sep 201413 EX32 9PASemi-detached£208,000
7 Apr 20147 EX32 9PATerraced£169,000
12 Nov 201212 EX32 9PASemi-detached£192,500
20 Jan 20125 EX32 9PATerraced£179,000
6 Nov 200712 EX32 9PASemi-detached£200,000
3 Jun 20053 EX32 9PATerraced£149,950
13 May 200413 EX32 9PATerraced£178,000
16 Jan 20042 EX32 9PATerraced£115,000
30 Oct 20038 EX32 9PASemi-detached£149,000
2 Jul 20033 EX32 9PATerraced£115,000
17 Dec 20024 EX32 9PATerraced£110,500
27 Sep 20021 EX32 9PATerraced£113,750
25 Mar 200214 EX32 9PASemi-detached£110,000
7 Dec 20014 EX32 9PATerraced£76,200
27 Jul 200111 EX32 9PASemi-detached£80,750
25 Aug 200012 EX32 9PASemi-detached£81,000New build.
28 Jul 200013 EX32 9PATerraced£79,995New build.
30 Jun 200014 EX32 9PASemi-detached£84,995New build.
16 Jun 200011 EX32 9PASemi-detached£67,500New build.
31 May 200010 EX32 9PASemi-detached£65,995New build.
5 Apr 20009 EX32 9PASemi-detached£75,995New build.
24 Mar 20008 EX32 9PASemi-detached£76,500New build.
15 Mar 20007 EX32 9PATerraced£60,000New build.
28 Feb 20006 EX32 9PATerraced£59,995New build.
25 Feb 20005 EX32 9PATerraced£69,000New build.
18 Feb 20003 EX32 9PATerraced£59,995New build.
22 Dec 19994 EX32 9PATerraced£60,000New build.
17 Dec 19991 EX32 9PATerraced£60,000New build.
17 Dec 19992 EX32 9PATerraced£59,500New build.

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 2009 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 63 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (7); House, end-terrace (3); House, mid-terrace (2). Built: 1996-2002 (8); 1983-1990 (2); 1991-1995 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (8); rented (private) (4).

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.

ABCDEFGH
£1,761£2,055£2,349£2,642£3,229£3,817£4,404£5,284

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band D (29% of about 1,010 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: 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.

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 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: the postcode centre is in flood zone 2. Zone 2 is between 0.1% and 1% a year from rivers (0.1% and 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 15 addresses are between 12 m and 14 m above sea level (13 m on average).

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
EX32 9PA100%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 stationsBarnstaple 609,000 journeys in 2024–251.9 km (1.2 miles)
Chapelton (Devon) 160 journeys in 2024–256.2 km (3.8 miles)
Umberleigh 54,000 journeys in 2024–259.1 km (5.7 miles)
Bus stops11 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 40 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Pollards Newport10 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Barnstaple1.6 km (1 mile)
Ferry terminalInstow Ferry Landing10.5 km (6.5 miles)
Car parksCattle Market Car Park2.1 km (1.3 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest InstaVolt Charging Station770 m (0.5 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsExeter International Airport EXT57.6 km (36 miles)
Nearest large airportCardiff International Airport CWL60.4 km (38 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 Litchdon Medical Centre450 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Newport Pharmacy And Health Clinic450 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Next Wave Dental560 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalNorth Devon District Hospital2.5 km (1.6 miles)
Police stationBarnstaple Police Station2.3 km (1.4 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Costcutter Cashzone750 m (0.5 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 3,470 m²250 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 3,650 m²480 m (0.3 miles)
Play area6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 120 m²80 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 5,250 m²280 m
AllotmentsSunnybank Allotments 1.3 ha1 km (0.6 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 1.1 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Rosehill, a listed building (Grade II*), 850 m (0.5 miles) south-west. 34 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
RosehillListed building, Grade II*850 m (0.5 miles) south-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Sowden ReservoirLake or reservoir950 m (0.6 miles) north
Black Rock PitTidal water1.4 km (0.9 miles) west
Westacott PitTidal water1.7 km (1 mile) west
Frankmarsh WoodWood1.9 km (1.2 miles) north
Codden HillHill2.8 km (1.7 miles) south
Golden ValleyValley2.8 km (1.8 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)4.34010
Fine particles (PM2.5)4.9205
Particles (PM10)8.74015

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
55 to 5910
Under 551415

1 of the street's 15 addresses is 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), 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
Newport Community School Primary AcademyPrimary3–11480 m (0.3 miles) No overall grade (Mar 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Eden Park AcademyPrimary2–11590 m (0.4 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
The Park Community SchoolSecondary11–161 km (0.6 miles) No overall grade (Jun 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Orchard Vale Community SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Our Lady's Catholic Primary School, Barnstaple Roman CatholicPrimary2–111.4 km (0.8 miles) No overall grade (Mar 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Ashleigh CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (Sep 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Yeo Valley Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.9 km (1.2 miles) Good (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)

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 (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Orchards Farm Shop EX32 9DDRetailers - other70 m5 Very good30 Jan 2025
Tesco Barnstaple Customer Cafe EX32 8PGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen170 m5 Very good10 Apr 2024
Card Factory EX32 8PGRetailers - other170 mExempt
Tesco EX32 8PGRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets170 m5 Very good18 Mar 2024
Northern Devon Foodbank (Barnstaple) EX32 8PGRetailers - other170 m5 Very good23 Sep 2024
Go Outdoors EX32 8PGRetailers - other200 mExempt
Home Bargains EX32 8PGRetailers - other200 m5 Very good29 Jul 2026
Lampard Community School EX32 9DDSchool/college/university270 m5 Very good25 Feb 2026
Table Table EX32 8RYRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen280 m4 Good12 Mar 2025
Junglaroo EX32 8QDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen290 m4 Good26 Aug 2026
GOKZKUKIT EX32 8NWOther catering premises390 mAwaiting inspection
Wellesley EX32 9BZHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good12 Jan 2010
Whiddon Valley Community Centre EX32 8NTOther catering premises480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good20 Jul 2011
Kiddywinks Childcare Ltd EX32 8NTHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good25 Feb 2025
B And M Stores EX32 8QJRetailers - other490 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good9 Jan 2014

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.

31 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Shoplifting15
Anti-social behaviour5
Violence and sexual offences4
Public order3
Criminal damage and arson2
Other crime1
Burglary1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Petrol Station (22); On or near Coppice Gate (3); On or near Wayfaring (3); On or near Rose Lane (2); On or near Jordan Close (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: 598 residents in 231 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 age4440
Children under 1518%17%
Aged 65 and over17%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)85%61%
Owned outright39%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rentedunder 1%17%
Private rented15%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work67%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)21%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)0%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)24%32%
Travel to work by car or van56%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including busunder 1%8%
On foot or by bicycle19%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)78%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away5%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)34%34%
No qualifications10%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%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 8 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 9PA: 15 addresses of 20 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Cherry Arbour · Shrubbery Close · Coppice Gate · Rose Lane · Fairacre Avenue · Wayfaring · Saxons Croft · Jordan Close · Merrylees Drive · Eastern Avenue · St Johns Close · Aidan Avenue

All the streets in EX32 and across North Devon.

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.