Upper Borough Walls Bath

61 addresses across 6 postcodes (BA1), about 180 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 47901403.

  • 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 B; Band D in Bath and North East Somerset costs £2,383 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% to 71% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Bath Spa, about 590 m (0.4 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Alkmaar Garden, is about 150 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 27 to 29 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 36 of its 61 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is The Pulteney Practice, about 560 m (0.3 miles) away, with 4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 330 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 16% of households owned their home and 52% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 967 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
Most recent sales (7)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
3 Jul 202418 BA1 1RJOther£420,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
6 Apr 20235 BA1 1RGOther£8,250,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
1 Dec 2022NORTHGATE HOUSE BA1 1RGOther£13,000,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
12 Jan 2018ROYAL NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR RHEUMATIC DISEASES BA1 1RLOther£21,500,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
12 Jan 2018ROYAL NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR RHEUMATIC DISEASES BA1 1RLOther£19,050,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
19 Aug 201626 BA1 1RHOther£75,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
2 Jun 2015BASEMENT, GROUND AND FIRST FLOORS, 4 BA1 1RGFlat or maisonette£2,800Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).

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

No certificates found for addresses on this street.

Council tax

What each band costs in Bath and North East Somerset in 2026-27: Band D £2,383 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,589£1,854£2,119£2,383£2,913£3,443£3,972£4,767

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (27% of about 1,430 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: yes, Bath (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 58.
  • 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

And 28 more.

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

Started, not reported finished by 31 October 2026

  • 26 August 2026 to 6 November 2026: BATH AND NORTH EAST SOMERSET COUNCIL, Highway improvement works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway, carriageway (major works)

Finished in the last three months

  • 22 October 2026: VIRGIN MEDIA, Remedial works, some carriageway incursion, on the carriageway (minor works)
  • 7 October 2026: VIRGIN MEDIA, Remedial works, some carriageway incursion, on the carriageway (immediate - urgent works)
  • 1 October 2026: VIRGIN MEDIA, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the carriageway (immediate - urgent works)
  • 16 May 2026 to 17 August 2026: BATH AND NORTH EAST SOMERSET COUNCIL, Highway improvement works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway, carriageway (major 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, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 3 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
BA1 1RGnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 3 unlikely
BA1 1RHnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
BA1 1RNnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
BA1 1RJnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
BA1 1RZnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
BA1 1RLnot 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 61 addresses are between 27 m and 29 m above sea level (28 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
BA1 1RG100%67%67%0%
BA1 1RH100%71%71%0%
BA1 1RJ50%50%50%0%
BA1 1RL0%0%0%0%
BA1 1RN17%17%17%0%
BA1 1RZ100%0%0%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 stationsBath Spa 6.5 million journeys in 2024–25590 m (0.4 miles)
Oldfield Park 386,000 journeys in 2024–251.5 km (0.9 miles)
Freshford 55,000 journeys in 2024–256.1 km (3.8 miles)
Bus stops27 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 88 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Guildhall Bath City Centre80 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Bath City Centre550 m (0.3 miles)
Car parks9 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Podium Car Park120 m
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Claverton Street Car Park GeniePoint770 m (0.5 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBristol Airport BRS24.8 km (15 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 surgeries4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Pulteney Practice560 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies12 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots170 m
NHS dentists17 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Pulteney Dental Practice170 m
HospitalRoyal United Hospital Bath2.4 km (1.5 miles)
Police stationBath Police Station420 m (0.3 miles)
Cash machines6 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest BT Kiosk - Bath Upper Borough Walls Cashzone120 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 garden12 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Alkmaar Garden 570 m²150 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Royal Victoria Park 23 ha410 m (0.3 miles)
Play area7 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,590 m²590 m (0.4 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.5 ha440 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Canal Gardens Allotments 6,130 m²700 m (0.4 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 12 parks and gardens, 42 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Victoria Art Gallery and Library, a listed building (Grade II*), 80 m east. 1,367 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 82 of them Grade I and 82 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Victoria Art Gallery and LibraryListed building, Grade II*80 m east
GuildhallListed building, Grade I80 m south-east
Church of St MichaelListed building, Grade II*100 m north
The Eastgate, BathScheduled monument110 m south-east
East GateListed building, Grade II*110 m south-east
The Roman Baths and site of Roman town, BathScheduled monument180 m south
Bath City WallsScheduled monument230 m south
Parade Gardens, BathRegistered park or garden, Grade II240 m south-east
City of BathWorld Heritage Site580 m (0.4 miles) south-west
Hedgemead ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II690 m (0.4 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Smallcombe ValeValley1.1 km (0.7 miles) south-east
Great DellHollow1.4 km (0.9 miles) north-west
Lyncombe ValeValley1.4 km (0.9 miles) south
Bathwick WoodWood1.6 km (1 mile) east
Weston CutLake or reservoir2.3 km (1.4 miles) west
High Barrow HillHill3 km (1.9 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)9.94010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.5205
Particles (PM10)10.54015

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
75 dB or more70
70 to 7440
65 to 6930
60 to 6460
55 to 59160
Under 552561

36 of the street's 61 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 Bath and North East Somerset: see them on the Bath and North East Somerset 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.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
Bath College16 plus16–99400 m (0.2 miles) No published inspection
Widcombe Infant SchoolPrimary5–7700 m (0.4 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Widcombe CofE Junior School Church of EnglandPrimary7–11720 m (0.4 miles) No overall grade (Mar 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
St Andrew's Church School Church of EnglandPrimary3–11800 m (0.5 miles) Good (Apr 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Hayesfield Girls SchoolSecondary11–181.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Bathwick St Mary Church School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Beechen Cliff SchoolSecondary11–181.2 km (0.7 miles) Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Oldfield Park Infant SchoolPrimary5–71.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
St Stephens Church School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
St John's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.6 km (1 mile) Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Moorlands Infant SchoolPrimary5–71.8 km (1.1 miles) Good (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Mark's CofE School Church of EnglandSecondary11–181.9 km (1.2 miles) Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met

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.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Cascara BA1 1RGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen10 m5 Very good22 May 2025
Anthropologie BA1 1BERetailers - other20 mExempt
Bare Grills BA1 1RGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen30 m3 Generally satisfactory19 Aug 2025
The Whole Bagel BA1 1RGOther catering premises40 m4 Good4 Nov 2025
Caffe Nero BA1 5AJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen40 m3 Generally satisfactory7 Aug 2025
Society Cafe BA1 5AJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen40 m5 Very good24 Nov 2025
TK Maxx BA1 5AJRetailers - other40 mExempt
Rosario's BA1 5ARRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen50 m5 Very good7 May 2026
Coeur De Lion Public House BA1 5ARPub/bar/nightclub50 m5 Very good5 Jan 2026
Neals Yard Remedies BA1 5ARRetailers - other50 mExempt
Kaskazi Back To Nature BA1 5ARRetailers - other50 m5 Very good1 Oct 2025
Coffever BA1 5ARRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen50 mUnknown17 Mar 2025
Teahouse Emporium BA1 1RERetailers - other60 m5 Very good20 Nov 2023
Portofino BA1 5AJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen60 m4 Good11 Sep 2025
Skogen BA1 5ARRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen60 m2 Improvement necessary8 Aug 2025

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.

967 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences293
Shoplifting222
Anti-social behaviour136
Public order99
Other theft68
Criminal damage and arson40
Burglary32
Robbery21
Theft from the person17
Bicycle theft16
Other crime8
Possession of weapons6
Drugs5
Vehicle crime4

Most of these are attached to: On or near A3039 (146); On or near Westgate Street (107); On or near Cheap Street (107); On or near Bridge Street (77); On or near Parking Area (61).

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 164 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 age2840
Children under 153%17%
Aged 65 and over10%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)16%61%
Owned outright11%33%
Shared ownership1%1%
Social rented17%17%
Private rented66%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work54%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)10%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)5%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)37%32%
Travel to work by car or van15%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus6%8%
On foot or by bicycle38%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)86%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)52%34%
No qualifications5%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification2%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)79%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all3%2%

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

  • Roadworks Street works permit: VIRGIN MEDIA: Remedial works, 22 October 2026 to 23 October 2026 (some carriageway incursion) found 3 November 2026
  • Roadworks Street works permit: VIRGIN MEDIA: Remedial works, 7 October 2026 (some carriageway incursion) found 3 November 2026
  • Roadworks Street works permit: VIRGIN MEDIA: Utility repair and maintenance works, 1 October 2026 (some carriageway incursion) found 3 November 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

Walcot Street · New Bond Street · Northgate Street · Northumberland Place · Bridge Street · The Corridor · Green Street · High Street · Old Bond Street · Union Passage · Argyle Street · Union Street

All the streets in BA1 and across Bath and North East 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 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.