Upper Churston Rise Seaton, East Devon

24 addresses across 1 postcode (EX12), about 160 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 12102412.

  • Sales: 43 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £465,000 across 1 sale.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in East Devon cost £345,256 in August 2026 (+2.1% on a year); private rents averaged £977 a month.
  • Energy: 16 homes have an energy certificate (C: 1, D: 12, E: 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.
  • Recorded floods: No recorded flood covers the centre of any of its postcodes.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band E; Band D in East Devon costs £2,595 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Axminster, about 9.4 km (5.9 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Cliff Field Gardens, is about 1 km (0.6 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 2.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.0 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 80 to 99 m above sea level.
  • Noise: None of its addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Seaton & Colyton Medical Practice, about 790 m (0.5 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 270 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 98% of households owned their home and 29% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 1 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: No collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025.

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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
20261£465,000£465,000£465,000
20251£517,000£517,000£517,000
20242£503,500£450,000£557,000
20231£465,000£465,000£465,000
20222£495,000£495,000£495,000
20211£384,046£384,046£384,046
20202£390,000£325,000£455,000
20181£405,000£405,000£405,000
20172£382,500£340,000£425,000
20162£462,500£395,000£530,000
20153£327,000£300,000£345,000
20143£345,000£345,000£375,000
Most recent sales (43)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
18 Jun 20267 EX12 2HDDetached£465,000
12 Sep 202514 EX12 2HDDetached£517,000
3 Sep 20247 EX12 2HDDetached£450,000
1 Feb 202417 EX12 2HDDetached£557,000
19 May 20233 EX12 2HDDetached£465,000
29 Jun 202213 EX12 2HDDetached£495,000
4 Mar 20224 EX12 2HDDetached£495,000
27 Jan 20216 EX12 2HDDetached£384,046
20 Nov 202012 EX12 2HDDetached£325,000
13 Nov 202016 EX12 2HDDetached£455,000
12 Jan 20188 EX12 2HDDetached£405,000
22 Nov 201717 EX12 2HDDetached£425,000
26 Sep 20173 EX12 2HDDetached£340,000
1 Dec 201621 EX12 2HDDetached£530,000
7 Jul 201618 EX12 2HDDetached£395,000
28 Oct 20158 EX12 2HDDetached£345,000
18 Aug 20157 EX12 2HDDetached£327,000
28 Jul 20153 EX12 2HDDetached£300,000
24 Nov 201418 EX12 2HDDetached£345,000
20 Oct 201416 EX12 2HDDetached£375,000
31 Jul 201421 EX12 2HDDetached£345,000
30 Oct 201210 EX12 2HDDetached£314,000
30 Nov 20111 EX12 2HDDetached£320,000
24 Aug 20113 EX12 2HDDetached£250,000
10 Mar 201116 EX12 2HDDetached£329,950
9 Dec 20093 EX12 2HDDetached£237,000
20 Jan 20091 EX12 2HDDetached£287,500
18 Mar 200815 EX12 2HDDetached£292,500
7 Nov 200720 EX12 2HDDetached£325,000
6 Sep 200610 EX12 2HDDetached£286,000
12 Jul 200616 EX12 2HDDetached£280,000
22 Jun 20063 EX12 2HDDetached£249,995
19 Aug 20051 EX12 2HDDetached£221,950
2 Dec 20042 EX12 2HDDetached£260,000
1 Jul 20048 EX12 2HDDetached£267,500
15 Sep 20033 EX12 2HDDetached£172,000
17 Jan 200323 EX12 2HDDetached£250,000
10 Jul 20024 EX12 2HDDetached£180,000
11 Jul 20018 EX12 2HDDetached£152,000
30 Mar 20012 EX12 2HDDetached£139,000
10 Aug 200014 EX12 2HDDetached£144,000
12 Aug 199817 EX12 2HDDetached£130,500
6 Mar 19976 EX12 2HDDetached£89,950

House prices and rents in East Devon

A typical home in East Devon cost £345,256 in August 2026, 2.1% more than a year before. That is 15% more than five years earlier and 35% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£536,889
Semi-detached£339,346
Terraced£275,029
Flat or maisonette£183,334
Bought by a first-time buyer£275,754

Private renters in East Devon paid £977 a month on average in September 2026, 6.6% more than a year before. That is 25% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£691
Two bedrooms£904
Three bedrooms£1,133
Four or more bedrooms£1,629

Sources: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry, with the ONS and the Welsh Government), to August 2026; ONS Price Index of Private Rents, to September 2026. Figures for the whole council area, not this street. The typical price is adjusted for the mix of homes that sold, so it is not the value of any one home; the street's own sales are above. Rents are the average paid on all private tenancies, new and existing, so they move more slowly than rents being advertised.

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 January 2011 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

16 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 97 m². Most common: Bungalow, detached (14); House, detached (2). Built: 1967-1975 (6); 1950-1966 (5); 1983-1990 (4). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (14).

Each home's certificates and sales (16 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in East Devon in 2026-27: Band D £2,595 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,730£2,019£2,307£2,595£3,172£3,749£4,326£5,191

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band E (30% of about 730 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.

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

Finished in the last three months

  • 15 October 2026: BT, Utility asset works, some carriageway incursion, on the verge (minor 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

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.

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre of this street's postcodes.

Recorded floods are where floodwater was seen or surveyed after a flood. Many floods were never mapped, an outline over a postcode's centre does not mean every home in it flooded, and homes outside one may have. Ask the seller whether the home itself has flooded.

Sources: Environment Agency Recorded Flood Outlines; 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.

Coal mining

No postcode centre here is in a coalfield: the Mining Remediation Authority records no coal mining risk here.

Source: Mining Remediation Authority (formerly the Coal Authority), development high and low risk areas, Open Government Licence. Checked at each postcode's centre, so a home near the edge of an area may differ. It covers coal mining only, not other mining (such as tin, lead, iron or chalk), and is no substitute for a coal mining search. About the risk areas.

Height above sea level

The street's 24 addresses are between 80 m and 99 m above sea level (89 m on average); the ground rises about 20 m from the lowest to the highest.

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
EX12 2HD100%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 stationsAxminster 418,000 journeys in 2024–259.4 km (5.9 miles)
Honiton 337,000 journeys in 2024–2511.9 km (7.4 miles)
Underground, metro or tramSeaton Terminus (Seaton Tramway)1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Bus stops1 stop within 400 m (0.2 miles), 14 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Churston Rise Seaton90 m
Car parksPremier Inn Seaton Car Park1.6 km (1 mile)
EV charging pointsWenea9.8 km (6.1 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsExeter International Airport EXT23.4 km (15 miles)
Nearest large airportCardiff International Airport CWL78.3 km (49 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 Seaton & Colyton Medical Practice790 m (0.5 miles)
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Jurassic Coast Pharmacy - Seaton790 m (0.5 miles)
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Ingleside Dental Surgery1.2 km (0.8 miles)
HospitalSeaton Hospital1 km (0.6 miles)
Police stationDevon & Cornwall Constabulary9.9 km (6.2 miles)
Cash machinesCashpoint® The Square Lloyds Bank1.3 km (0.8 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 gardenCliff Field Gardens 1.1 ha1 km (0.6 miles)
Play areaUnnamed 2,180 m²810 m (0.5 miles)
Playing fieldElizabeth Road Playing Field 7,390 m²880 m (0.5 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.8 ha740 m (0.5 miles)

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Roman and earlier settlement at Honeyditches, a scheduled monument, 350 m north-east. 4 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Roman and earlier settlement at HoneyditchesScheduled monument350 m north-east
Promontory fort on Seaton DownScheduled monument1.1 km (0.7 miles) north
The Axe Boat, 22m north of the Axmouth Road BridgeScheduled monument1.9 km (1.2 miles) east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Couchill CoppiceWood290 m west
Seaton DownHill1 km (0.6 miles) north
The ChineValley1.1 km (0.7 miles) south-east
Seaton BeachBeach1.1 km (0.7 miles) south
Black Hole MarshWetland1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-east
Hope PoolLake or reservoir3 km (1.9 miles) north-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)2.94010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.0205
Particles (PM10)8.44015

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
Under 552424

None of the street's 24 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic or railways.

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 East Devon: see them on the East Devon page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 4 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
Seaton Primary SchoolPrimary4–11900 m (0.6 miles) Good (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Beer Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 4 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
Dovecourt Care Home EX12 2JDHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises120 m5 Very good5 Feb 2026
Manor Farm Caravan Park EX12 2JARetailers - other220 m5 Very good22 May 2024

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.

1 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Honey Ditches Drive (1).

Road safety

Source: Department for Transport, road safety data (STATS19), collisions in 2021 to 2025, as published by November 2026. Collisions in which someone was hurt and which were reported to the police, within 150 m of the middle of any of this street's postcodes, or of the street. Severity is the worst injury as the police recorded it.

No collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025.

Only collisions in which someone was hurt and which the police were told about are here: damage-only collisions and near misses are not, and some injuries are never reported. Positions are recorded by the police, usually to within a few metres. Each year's figures are published the following September.

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: 272 residents in 129 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 age6840
Children under 154%17%
Aged 65 and over56%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)98%61%
Owned outright84%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented0%17%
Private rented2%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work26%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)12%6%
Retired (of adults)64%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)under 1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)38%32%
Travel to work by car or van47%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle11%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)52%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away24%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)29%34%
No qualifications14%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification9%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)100%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 9 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: BT: Utility asset works, 15 October 2026 to 16 October 2026 (some carriageway incursion) found 3 November 2026

Everything that has changed on and near this street

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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.

  • EX12 2HD: 24 addresses of 27 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Churston Rise · Seaton Down Hill · Honey Ditches Drive · Couchill Lane · Seaton Down Close · Couchill Drive · Merrow Down Drive · Stowford Heights · Albion Close

All the streets in EX12 and across East 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; road collisions count only those in which someone was hurt and the police were told.
  • 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.