Towerhead Towerhead, North Somerset
7 addresses across 1 postcode (BS29), about 260 m long. USRN 47805179.
14 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £650,000 across 1 sale. 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 E; Band D in North Somerset costs £2,491 a year in 2026-27. Gigabit broadband is available to 0% of premises. The nearest railway station is Worle, about 5.0 km away in a straight line. Background air pollution in 2024 was 5.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.4 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits. Its addresses are 6 to 23 m above sea level. 1 of its 7 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic. The nearest GP surgery is Winscombe Surgery, about 2.4 km away. About 430 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 77% of households owned their home and 27% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification. 2 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often public order.
Sales on this street
| Year | Sales | Median price | Lowest | Highest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 | £650,000 | £650,000 | £650,000 |
| 2024 | 2 | £433,750 | £250,000 | £617,500 |
| 2020 | 1 | £562,500 | £562,500 | £562,500 |
| 2018 | 2 | £537,500 | £525,000 | £550,000 |
| 2015 | 1 | £330,000 | £330,000 | £330,000 |
| 2013 | 1 | £440,000 | £440,000 | £440,000 |
| 2012 | 1 | £340,000 | £340,000 | £340,000 |
| 2006 | 1 | £385,000 | £385,000 | £385,000 |
| 2005 | 1 | £294,000 | £294,000 | £294,000 |
| 1998 | 1 | £128,700 | £128,700 | £128,700 |
| Date | Address | Type | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 Jan 2025 | OAK LODGE BS29 6PQ | Detached | £650,000 | |
| 12 Jul 2024 | 5 BS29 6PQ | Detached | £617,500 | |
| 3 Jul 2024 | 15 BS29 6PQ | Semi-detached | £250,000 | |
| 25 Jun 2021 | ASPEN BARN BS29 6PQ | Other | £595,000 | Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer). |
| 12 Nov 2020 | CEDAR BARN BS29 6PQ | Semi-detached | £562,500 | |
| 14 Dec 2018 | TOWERHEAD BARN BS29 6PQ | Semi-detached | £525,000 | |
| 19 Sep 2018 | CATWORTHY BARN BS29 6PQ | Semi-detached | £550,000 | |
| 1 Aug 2016 | TOWERHEAD BARN BS29 6PQ | Other | £385,000 | Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer). |
| 21 May 2015 | 7 BS29 6PQ | Semi-detached | £330,000 | |
| 12 Jul 2013 | 5 BS29 6PQ | Detached | £440,000 | |
| 1 Feb 2012 | TOWERMEAD, 11 BS29 6PQ | Detached | £340,000 | |
| 12 Oct 2006 | 5 BS29 6PQ | Detached | £385,000 | |
| 2 Dec 2005 | 9 BS29 6PQ | Semi-detached | £294,000 | |
| 12 Oct 1998 | 9 BS29 6PQ | Semi-detached | £128,700 |
Energy performance certificates
No certificates found for addresses on this street.
Council tax
What each band costs in North Somerset in 2026-27: Band D £2,491 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.
| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| £1,661 | £1,938 | £2,214 | £2,491 | £3,045 | £3,598 | £4,152 | £4,982 |
Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band E (27% of about 510 homes).
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
- F Sweeting and Son site Station Road Sandford: up to 16 homes, not permissioned (640 m)
Roadworks
No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 30 September 2026.
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 is in flood zone 2 or 3.
Height above sea level
The street's 7 addresses are between 6 m and 23 m above sea level (14 m on average); the ground rises about 17 m from the lowest to the highest.
Broadband
| Postcode | Superfast (30 Mbit/s+) | Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+) | Gigabit | Below 10 Mbit/s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BS29 6PQ | 6% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
Getting around
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| Railway stations | Worle 398,000 journeys in 2024–25 | 5.0 km |
| Weston Milton 107,000 journeys in 2024–25 | 6.6 km | |
| Yatton 527,000 journeys in 2024–25 | 6.8 km | |
| Bus stops | 2 stops within 400 m, 2 within 800 m; nearest Towerhead Farm Banwell | 310 m |
| Ferry terminal | Weston-super-Mare Knightstone Harbour | 9.8 km |
| EV charging points | Roam Charging Station | 3.7 km |
| Airport with scheduled flights | Bristol Airport BRS | 11.0 km |
Local services
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| GP surgeries | Winscombe Surgery | 2.4 km |
| Pharmacies | 1 pharmacies within 1.6 km; nearest Banwell Village Pharmacy | 1.4 km |
| NHS dentists | The Surgery | 1.7 km |
| Hospital | Bft Southmead Weston General Hospital | 8.4 km |
| Police station | North Somerset Police Centre | 4.8 km |
| Cash machines | The Southern Co-Operative Banwell Knightcott Road, Banwell Cashzone | 1.9 km |
Parks and green space
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| Play area | Unnamed 930 m² | 1.4 km |
| Playing field | 2 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 1.8 ha | 700 m |
| Allotments | Unnamed 4,280 m² | 1.4 km |
Air quality
| Pollutant | Here | UK limit | WHO guideline |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) | 5.2 | 40 | 10 |
| Fine particles (PM2.5) | 5.4 | 20 | 5 |
| Particles (PM10) | 9.1 | 40 | 15 |
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
| Level | Road traffic | Railways |
|---|---|---|
| 70 to 74 | 1 | 0 |
| Under 55 | 6 | 7 |
1 of the street's 7 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.
Nearest schools
| School | Phase | Ages | Distance | Inspection |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Banwell Primary School | Primary | 4–11 | 1.1 km | Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Needs attention; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met |
| Sandford Primary School | Primary | 4–11 | 1.8 km | Good (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) |
Food hygiene ratings nearby
No rated food businesses within 500 m.
Crime within 250 m
| Category | Crimes |
|---|---|
| Public order | 1 |
| Vehicle crime | 1 |
Most of these are attached to: On or near Towerhead Road (2).
People and work
Who lives here
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Median age | 51 | 40 |
| Children under 15 | 16% | 17% |
| Aged 65 and over | 23% | 18% |
Homes
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Owned (outright or with a mortgage) | 77% | 61% |
| Owned outright | 43% | 33% |
| Shared ownership | 1% | 1% |
| Social rented | 10% | 17% |
| Private rented | 12% | 21% |
Work and commuting
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Adults (16 and over) in work | 60% | 57% |
| Unemployment (of those working or looking for work) | 3% | 6% |
| Retired (of adults) | 26% | 22% |
| Long-term sick or disabled (of adults) | 5% | 4% |
| Work mainly from home (of those in work) | 40% | 32% |
| Travel to work by car or van | 50% | 48% |
| By train, Underground, metro or tram | 0% | 4% |
| By any public transport, including bus | 2% | 8% |
| On foot or by bicycle | 4% | 10% |
| Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work) | 56% | 65% |
| Work 30 km or more away | 10% | 8% |
Education and languages
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults) | 27% | 34% |
| No qualifications | 22% | 18% |
| Apprenticeship as highest qualification | 9% | 5% |
| Main language English (aged 3 and over) | 100% | 91% |
| Cannot speak English well or at all | under 1% | 2% |
Deprivation
The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 7 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.
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.
Postcodes on this street
- BS29 6PQ: 7 addresses of 23 in the postcode
Nearby streets
All the streets in BS29 and across North Somerset.
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.