Thistleton Road Preston

48 addresses across 2 postcodes (PR2), about 350 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 30700556.

  • Sales: 39 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £120,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 38 homes have an energy certificate (C: 23, D: 11, E: 2, F: 2).
  • 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 A; Band D in Preston costs £2,576 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Preston (Lancs), about 3.2 km (2 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Ashton Park, is about 290 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.8 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 19 to 21 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 48 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is The Park Medical Practice, about 1.2 km (0.8 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 250 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 33% of households owned their home and 23% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 87 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£120,000£120,000£120,000
20241£135,000£135,000£135,000
20181£102,000£102,000£102,000
20162£102,500£97,000£108,000
20153£90,000£80,000£103,000
20144£90,500£72,000£105,000
20131£74,999£74,999£74,999
20111£92,500£92,500£92,500
20092£66,250£62,500£70,000
20082£76,375£69,000£83,750
20073£100,100£100,000£105,000
20062£93,000£90,000£96,000
Most recent sales (39)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
26 Sep 202558 PR2 1PSTerraced£125,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
4 Sep 202532 PR2 1PSTerraced£120,000
2 Aug 202412 PR2 1PSTerraced£113,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
8 May 202452 PR2 1PSTerraced£135,000
18 Dec 20185 PR2 1PSTerraced£102,000
28 Oct 201623 PR2 1PSTerraced£84,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
1 Jul 201658 PR2 1PSTerraced£97,000
8 Jan 201642 PR2 1PSTerraced£108,000
18 Dec 201552 PR2 1PSTerraced£103,000
8 Dec 20152 PR2 1PSTerraced£90,000Leasehold.
22 May 201521 PR2 1PSTerraced£80,000
28 Nov 201418 PR2 1PSTerraced£81,000
7 Nov 201420 PR2 1PSTerraced£100,000Leasehold.
18 Jun 201420 PR2 1PSTerraced£72,000Leasehold.
19 May 201422 PR2 1PSTerraced£105,000
13 Dec 201322 PR2 1PSTerraced£74,999
28 Oct 201334 PR2 1PSTerraced£68,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
5 Apr 201142 PR2 1PSTerraced£92,500
23 Nov 200926 PR2 1PSTerraced£70,000
26 Aug 200924 PR2 1PSSemi-detached£62,500
14 Nov 200821 PR2 1PSSemi-detached£83,750
4 Feb 200844 PR2 1PSTerraced£69,000
1 Oct 200752 PR2 1PSTerraced£100,000
23 Aug 20075 PR2 1PSTerraced£105,000
20 Jul 20073 PR2 1PSSemi-detached£100,100
1 Dec 200619 PR2 1PSSemi-detached£96,000
7 Feb 200658 PR2 1PSSemi-detached£90,000
30 Sep 200458 PR2 1PSSemi-detached£85,000
16 Jul 200427 PR2 1PSTerraced£80,500
31 May 200434 PR2 1PSTerraced£30,250
9 Jan 200416 PR2 1PSTerraced£69,950
10 Nov 200325 PR2 1PSTerraced£27,840
27 Sep 200242 PR2 1PSTerraced£51,500
12 Jul 200222 PR2 1PSSemi-detached£47,000
6 Feb 200216 PR2 1PSTerraced£46,000
2 Oct 200042 PR2 1PSTerraced£48,000
5 Jun 200027 PR2 1PSTerraced£20,004
6 Sep 199911 PR2 1PSTerraced£18,500
27 Feb 199842 PR2 1PSTerraced£31,000

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 October 2008 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

38 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 77 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (24); House, end-terrace (8); House, semi-detached (2). Built: 1950-1966 (30); 1930-1949 (7); 1967-1975 (1). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (16); owner-occupied (16); rented (private) (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (25 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Preston in 2026-27: Band D £2,576 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,717£2,003£2,290£2,576£3,148£3,721£4,293£5,151

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (69% of about 910 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

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 1 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

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.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
PR2 1PSnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
PR2 1PNnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 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 48 addresses are between 19 m and 21 m above sea level (20 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
PR2 1PN100%100%100%0%
PR2 1PS100%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 stationsPreston (Lancs) 5.4 million journeys in 2024–253.2 km (2 miles)
Salwick 1,620 journeys in 2024–254.5 km (2.8 miles)
Lostock Hall 24,000 journeys in 2024–256.3 km (3.9 miles)
Bus stops7 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 36 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Thistleton Road Larches50 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Preston City Centre3.9 km (2.4 miles)
Car parksMorrisons Car park-Preston Mariners Way1.2 km (0.7 miles)
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Be.EV Charging Station500 m (0.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLiverpool John Lennon Airport LPL48.2 km (30 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 The Park Medical Practice1.2 km (0.8 miles)
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Rowlands Pharmacy240 m
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Waterside Dental Clinic770 m (0.5 miles)
HospitalNHS Nightingale Hospital Preston3.1 km (1.9 miles)
Police stationPreston Police Station3.5 km (2.2 miles)
Cash machines3 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Thriftys, Ashton-on-ribble290 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 garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Ashton Park 32 ha290 m
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 260 m²240 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.1 ha650 m (0.4 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 650 m²1.3 km (0.8 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 32 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is The Willows, a registered park or garden (Grade II), 1 km (0.6 miles) east. 4 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
The WillowsRegistered park or garden, Grade II1 km (0.6 miles) east
Haslam ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.7 km (1 mile) north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Bull NoseWetland740 m (0.5 miles) south
Lower Ridding WoodWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) south-east
Hangman's Bank WoodWood1.4 km (0.9 miles) south-east
Higher Ridding WoodWood1.6 km (1 mile) south-east
The SerpentineLake or reservoir4.1 km (2.5 miles) east
Frenchwood KnollHill4.5 km (2.8 miles) east

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)7.14010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.8205
Particles (PM10)9.34015

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
55 to 5910
Under 554748

1 of the street's 48 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 Preston: see them on the Preston 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
Lea Community Primary SchoolPrimary4–11360 m 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
Ashton Community Science CollegeSecondary11–16750 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Ashton Primary SchoolPrimary4–11800 m (0.5 miles) Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
St Bernard's Catholic Primary School, PrestonPrimary3–11870 m (0.5 miles) Report card (Feb 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
Ashton-on-Ribble St Andrew's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary5–111.2 km (0.8 miles) No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School, Preston Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Ingol Community Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Penwortham Priory AcademySecondary11–161.8 km (1.1 miles) Good (Mar 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)
Penwortham Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.9 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection
Holy Family Catholic Primary School, Ingol, Preston Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.9 km (1.2 miles) Good (Mar 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
Snax PR2 1NTTakeaway/sandwich shop240 m5 Very good3 Dec 2024
Harbour City PR2 1NTTakeaway/sandwich shop240 m4 Good8 Apr 2026
Larches Post Office and Convenience Store PR2 1NTRetailers - other240 m3 Generally satisfactory2 Oct 2026
Shadys Larches Stores PR2 1NTRetailers - other270 m3 Generally satisfactory15 Oct 2025
Thriftys PR2 1LQRetailers - other330 m4 Good30 Jul 2025
Crave Marinades PR2 2TEManufacturers/packers360 m5 Very good15 Aug 2023
Luv Preston PR2 2TERetailers - other360 m4 Good18 Jun 2025
Lea C P School PR2 1PDSchool/college/university370 m5 Very good23 Sep 2026
Preston Stores Premier Express PR2 1PDRetailers - other370 m5 Very good24 Apr 2024
Lea CP School Breakfast Club PR2 1PDSchool/college/university370 m5 Very good21 Jan 2025
Makro Self Service Wholesalers PR2 2TWRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets380 m5 Very good30 Aug 2024
Hard Dock Cafe PR2 2PDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good13 Mar 2025
E H Booth and Company Limited PR2 2YLRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good11 Mar 2026
Tesco Express PR2 1XJRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good12 Aug 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.

87 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences42
Anti-social behaviour16
Criminal damage and arson8
Other theft6
Other crime4
Public order3
Vehicle crime2
Possession of weapons2
Bicycle theft1
Burglary1
Shoplifting1
Drugs1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Forton Road (15); On or near Rawcliffe Drive (15); On or near Preesall Close (13); On or near Ryelands Crescent (12); On or near Thurnham Road (9).

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: 248 residents in 133 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 age3940
Children under 1519%17%
Aged 65 and over20%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)33%61%
Owned outright14%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented58%17%
Private rented9%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work42%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)10%6%
Retired (of adults)24%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)14%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)12%32%
Travel to work by car or van70%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus15%8%
On foot or by bicycle4%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)81%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away3%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)23%34%
No qualifications30%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)86%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all3%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 2 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.

Nearby streets

The Woodlands · Elswick Road · Overton Road · Preesall Road · Forton Road · Larchwood · Oaklands Grove · Thurnham Road · Kirkland Place · Rawcliffe Drive · Preesall Close · Starrgate Drive

All the streets in PR2 and across Preston.

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.