Tor Close Exeter

35 addresses across 3 postcodes (EX4), about 60 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 14200858.

21 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £160,000 across 1 sale. 22 homes have an energy certificate (A: 2, B: 2, C: 13, D: 3, E: 2). 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 A; Band D in Exeter costs £2,495 a year in 2026-27. Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises. The nearest railway station is Polsloe Bridge, about 720 m away in a straight line. The nearest park or garden, Mincinglake Valley Park, is about 170 m away. Background air pollution in 2024 was 5.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.4 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits. Its addresses are 65 to 67 m above sea level. None of its addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic. The nearest GP surgery is Whipton Surgery, about 1.1 km away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km. About 330 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 44% of households owned their home and 16% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification. 103 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
20241£160,000£160,000£160,000
20231£154,999£154,999£154,999
20221£152,000£152,000£152,000
20213£212,500£159,000£237,500
20171£125,000£125,000£125,000
20161£132,500£132,500£132,500
20101£155,000£155,000£155,000
20061£105,000£105,000£105,000
20052£82,500£65,000£100,000
20041£119,950£119,950£119,950
20032£84,750£49,500£120,000
20011£33,000£33,000£33,000
Most recent sales (21)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
16 Aug 20247B EX4 9ADFlat or maisonette£160,000Leasehold.
16 Nov 20236 EX4 9ADFlat or maisonette£154,999Leasehold.
9 Dec 20227A EX4 9ADFlat or maisonette£152,000Leasehold.
7 Oct 202111 EX4 9ABTerraced£250,940Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
23 Jun 202113 EX4 9ABTerraced£212,500
21 Apr 20216 EX4 9ADFlat or maisonette£159,000Leasehold.
18 Mar 202114 EX4 9ABTerraced£237,500
26 May 201710A EX4 9ADFlat or maisonette£125,000Leasehold.
28 Oct 20167B EX4 9ADFlat or maisonette£132,500Leasehold.
30 Apr 201011 EX4 9ABTerraced£155,000
13 Apr 20066 EX4 9ADFlat or maisonette£105,000Leasehold.
22 Jun 200510A EX4 9ADFlat or maisonette£100,000Leasehold.
31 Jan 20056B EX4 9ADFlat or maisonette£65,000Leasehold.
5 Apr 200411 EX4 9ABTerraced£119,950
3 Nov 20037B EX4 9ADFlat or maisonette£49,500Leasehold.
18 Mar 20031 EX4 9ADTerraced£120,000New build.
6 Jul 200117 EX4 9ABTerraced£33,000
22 May 20007A EX4 9ADFlat or maisonette£42,000Leasehold.
1 Oct 199917 EX4 9ABTerraced£50,000
16 Sep 199910A EX4 9ADFlat or maisonette£25,500Leasehold.
14 Apr 19987A EX4 9ADFlat or maisonette£19,000Leasehold.

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 May 2012 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

22 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 63 m². Most common: Flat (14); House, end-terrace (4); House, mid-terrace (4). Built: 1950-1966 (20); 1967-1975 (2). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (9); owner-occupied (8); rented (private) (3).

Council tax

What each band costs in Exeter in 2026-27: Band D £2,495 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,664£1,941£2,218£2,495£3,050£3,604£4,159£4,991

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (37% of about 650 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 1.0 km

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 35 addresses are between 65 m and 67 m above sea level (66 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
EX4 9AB100%100%100%0%
EX4 9AD100%100%100%0%
EX4 9AH100%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 stationsPolsloe Bridge 189,000 journeys in 2024–25720 m
St James Park (Exeter) 145,000 journeys in 2024–251.6 km
Pinhoe 232,000 journeys in 2024–252.2 km
Bus stops12 stops within 400 m, 45 within 800 m; nearest Beacon Heath Shops90 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Exeter City Centre2.1 km
Ferry terminalTopsham Ferry Landing6.5 km
Car parksTriangle Car Park1.9 km
EV charging points5 within 1.6 km; nearest MFG Charging Station390 m
Airport with scheduled flightsExeter International Airport EXT6.2 km
Nearest large airportCardiff International Airport CWL74.1 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 surgeries3 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Whipton Surgery1.1 km
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km; nearest Day Lewis Pharmacy830 m
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Irish And King Dental Practice950 m
HospitalExeter Community Hospital1.4 km
Police stationHeavitree Road Police Station Exeter1.9 km
Cash machinesMorrisons Daily - Exeter Barton Road Cashzone1.4 km

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; nearest Mincinglake Valley Park 28 ha170 m
Play area9 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 1,010 m²400 m
Playing field5 within 800 m; nearest Betty's Mead Playing Fields 3.7 ha340 m
Allotments4 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 3,660 m²520 m

Within 800 m: 4 parks and gardens, 32 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Polsloe Priory, a listed building (Grade II*), 390 m south. 2 listed buildings are within 1.0 km, 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Polsloe PrioryListed building, Grade II*390 m south
St Katherine's Priory, PolsloeScheduled monument400 m south
Northernhay and Rougemont GardensRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.4 km south-west
Larkbeare HouseRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.9 km south-west
Natural landmarks within 5.0 km
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Stoke HillHill1.2 km north-west
Great HillHill1.2 km north
Lower CovertWood1.3 km north-west
Fairy DellValley1.4 km north
Salmon PoolLake or reservoir3.5 km south
Duck's MarshWetland3.6 km south

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)5.04010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.4205
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
Under 553535

None of the street's 35 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road or rail traffic.

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
St James SchoolSecondary11–16420 m No published inspection
Willowbrook SchoolPrimary3–11530 m Requires improvement (Jun 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Stoke Hill Junior SchoolPrimary7–11890 m No published inspection
Stoke Hill Infant and Nursery SchoolPrimary3–7900 m No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Whipton Barton Infants and Nursery SchoolPrimary2–71.0 km No published inspection
Whipton Barton Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.0 km Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Ladysmith Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.2 km Requires improvement (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Ladysmith Infant & Nursery SchoolPrimary3–71.3 km Requires improvement (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Michael's Church of England Primary AcademyPrimary2–111.6 km No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
St Luke's Church of England SchoolSecondary11–161.6 km Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Newtown Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.8 km Requires improvement (Sep 2021, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Nicholas Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.9 km No overall grade (Sep 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Requires improvement; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Requires improvement

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
Shanghai Fish Bar EX4 8LUTakeaway/sandwich shop70 m4 Good13 Mar 2025
Spar EX4 8LURetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets70 m5 Very good2 Dec 2024
The Devon Yeoman EX4 8LXPub/bar/nightclub230 m5 Very good27 Oct 2026
Spring Cedars EX4 8LDHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises300 m5 Very good7 May 2025
Isca Community Enterprises EX4 8LZPub/bar/nightclub390 m5 Very good14 Dec 2023
Priory Community Cafe EX4 7JYRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen390 m5 Very good27 Feb 2026
Happy Home EX4 7EUTakeaway/sandwich shop470 m5 Very good10 Mar 2026
Stoke Hill Convenience Store EX4 7EURetailers - other470 m5 Very good29 Sep 2021

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.

103 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences63
Anti-social behaviour10
Criminal damage and arson8
Public order6
Other theft5
Other crime3
Shoplifting2
Bicycle theft2
Drugs1
Burglary1
Theft from the person1
Vehicle crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Merlin Crescent (18); On or near Modred Close (18); On or near Tor Close (18); On or near Fouracre Close (15); On or near Camelot Close (14).

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: 330 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 age2940
Children under 1528%17%
Aged 65 and over9%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)44%61%
Owned outright15%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented45%17%
Private rented10%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work63%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)11%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)6%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)11%32%
Travel to work by car or van55%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus16%8%
On foot or by bicycle12%10%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)79%65%
Work 30 km or more away6%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)16%34%
No qualifications29%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)81%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all5%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 4 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

  • Food hygiene ratings The Devon Yeoman (pub/bar/nightclub, EX4 8LX) re-inspected, still 5 Very good (rated 27 October 2026) found 30 October 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.

Nearby streets

Modred Close · King Arthur's Road · Uplands Drive · Camelot Close · King Arthurs Road · Guinevere Way · Fouracre Close · Merlin Crescent · Galahad Close · Beacon Lane · Bettys Mead · Edmonton Close

All the streets in EX4 and across Exeter.

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.