Upper Wick Lane Upper Wick, Malvern Hills

86 addresses across 10 postcodes (WR2), about 490 m (0.3 miles) long, classed as a minor road. USRN 24407311.

  • Sales: 43 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £570,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 40 homes have an energy certificate (A: 3, B: 11, C: 12, D: 6, E: 4, F: 3, G: 1).
  • Flood: 1 address on its postcodes is in areas 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 C; Band D in Malvern Hills costs £2,451 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Worcester Foregate Street, about 3.1 km (1.9 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 420 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 5.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.1 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 15 to 31 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 28 of its 86 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is St Johns House Surgery, about 1.1 km (0.7 miles) away.
  • People: About 1,210 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 83% of households owned their home and 35% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.

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£570,000£570,000£570,000
20241£136,250£136,250£136,250
20233£331,000£136,250£575,000
20222£339,563£174,125£505,000
20214£467,500£152,250£500,000
20201£440,000£440,000£440,000
20192£462,500£425,000£500,000
20183£245,000£170,000£258,000
20171£239,950£239,950£239,950
20162£273,750£220,000£327,500
20145£380,000£300,000£490,000
20081£250,000£250,000£250,000
Most recent sales (43)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
10 Sep 2025HAVANA HOUSE WR2 5SNDetached£570,000
30 Jan 20241, PERIWINKLE COTTAGES WR2 5TSSemi-detached£136,250
4 Dec 20232, PERIWINKLE COTTAGES WR2 5TSSemi-detached£136,250
10 Feb 2023NURSERY BUNGALOW WR2 5SNDetached£575,000
3 Feb 2023MAPLE COTTAGE WR2 5SNSemi-detached£331,000
27 Oct 2022MULBERRY HOUSE WR2 5SNDetached£505,000
4 Mar 20224, PERIWINKLE COTTAGES WR2 5TSTerraced£174,125New build.
29 Oct 20213, PERIWINKLE COTTAGES WR2 5TSSemi-detached£152,250New build.
3 Sep 20215, PERIWINKLE COTTAGES WR2 5TSSemi-detached£260,000New build. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
21 Jun 20211, THE BIRCHES WR2 5SNDetached£500,000
15 Jun 20213, THE BIRCHES WR2 5SNDetached£485,000
29 Jan 2021CHESTNUT HOUSE WR2 5SNDetached£450,000
14 Sep 20204 WR2 5SNDetached£490,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
26 Aug 2020THE HOPPINS WR2 5SUTerraced£440,000
10 May 2019CHESTNUT HOUSE WR2 5SNDetached£425,000
25 Feb 2019EPISCOPI COTTAGE WR2 5SYDetached£500,000
20 Jul 2018ASH COTTAGE WR2 5SNSemi-detached£258,000
19 Jul 2018MAPLE COTTAGE WR2 5SNSemi-detached£245,000
17 Apr 2018MULBERRY HOUSE WR2 5SNOther£325,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
16 Mar 20184 WR2 5SNDetached£170,000
20 Sep 2017ASH COTTAGE WR2 5SNOther£160,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
14 Aug 20176, PERIWINKLE COTTAGES WR2 5TSSemi-detached£239,950New build.
27 Jul 2016NORCOTT WR2 5SUSemi-detached£220,000
23 May 2016HAVANA HOUSE WR2 5SNDetached£327,500
8 Aug 20141, THE BIRCHES WR2 5SNDetached£380,000New build.
8 Aug 20143 THE BIRCHES WR2 5SNDetached£357,000New build.
30 May 20144, THE BIRCHES WR2 5SNDetached£381,000New build.
29 Apr 2014NURSERY BUNGALOW WR2 5SNDetached£300,000
9 Jan 2014UPPER WICK COTTAGE WR2 5SUDetached£490,000
15 Aug 20084 WR2 5SNDetached£250,000
2 Mar 20071, OLD COTTAGE WR2 5SUDetached£330,000
14 Dec 2006STANFIELD HOUSE WR2 5SUDetached£525,000
5 Sep 2006THE STABLES, WICK EPISCOPI WR2 5SYDetached£260,000
23 Jun 2005COACHMANS COTTAGE WR2 5SYDetached£303,000
18 Oct 2002THE THRESHING BARN WR2 5SUDetached£325,000
26 Apr 2001SUNNYMEDE WR2 5SNDetached£173,000
30 Aug 20002, BUNGALOW WR2 5SUSemi-detached£116,000
23 Jun 2000THE THRESHING BARN WR2 5SUDetached£235,000
30 Sep 19991, BUNGALOW WR2 5SUSemi-detached£63,500
25 Sep 1998OLD COACH HOUSE WR2 5SUDetached£130,000
25 Jul 1997WICK EPISCOPI WR2 5SYDetached£325,000
2 Sep 1996HAVANA HOUSE WR2 5SNDetached£100,000
5 Jul 19953, THE HOPKILNS WR2 5SUSemi-detached£147,500

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026 (load in progress). 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.

40 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 117 m². Most common: House, detached (16); House, semi-detached (15); Bungalow, detached (6). Built: before 1900 (6); 2003-2006 (5); 2023 (4). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (18); rented (private) (5); rented (social) (1).

Council tax

What each band costs in Malvern Hills in 2026-27: Band D £2,451 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,634£1,906£2,179£2,451£2,996£3,540£4,085£4,902

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band C (43% of about 2,310 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 2 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) 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: 1.
  • 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

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

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, 1 at medium risk and 2 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: of the 12 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 1 medium, 0 low and 0 very low.

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
WR2 5SUnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
WR2 5SNnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
WR2 5TSnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
WR2 5SYnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
WR2 5ALnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
WR2 5TNnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
WR2 5SXnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
WR2 5SZnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 0 unlikely
WR2 5TGnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
WR2 4XPnot 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 86 addresses are between 15 m and 31 m above sea level (28 m on average); the ground rises about 16 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
WR2 4XP100%100%100%0%
WR2 5AL100%100%100%0%
WR2 5SN100%100%100%0%
WR2 5SU96%33%33%0%
WR2 5SX100%100%100%0%
WR2 5SY25%0%0%0%
WR2 5SZ73%0%0%0%
WR2 5TG100%100%100%0%
WR2 5TN100%100%100%0%
WR2 5TS100%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 stationsWorcester Foregate Street 1.9 million journeys in 2024–253.1 km (1.9 miles)
Worcester Shrub Hill 577,000 journeys in 2024–253.8 km (2.4 miles)
Worcestershire Parkway 456,000 journeys in 2024–257.2 km (4.5 miles)
Bus stops2 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 10 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Christine Avenue Rushwick310 m
Bus or coach stationWorcester Bus Station2.8 km (1.7 miles)
Car parksTybridge Street Car Park2.4 km (1.5 miles)
EV charging pointsRoam Charging Station2.4 km (1.5 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX46.3 km (29 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 surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest St Johns House Surgery1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Peak Pharmacy1.1 km (0.7 miles)
NHS dentistsThe St. Johns Dental Practice1.7 km (1 mile)
HospitalUhcw Worcester Spire Hospital2.9 km (1.8 miles)
Police stationWorcester Police Station3 km (1.9 miles)
Cash machinesThe Cooperative Food Canada Way, Lower Wick Cashzone1.3 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 garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.8 ha420 m (0.3 miles)
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,060 m²180 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Rushwich Village Green 1.5 ha200 m
AllotmentsPitmaston Allotments 3,270 m²1.4 km (0.8 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 2.3 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Powick Old Bridge, a scheduled monument, 1.4 km (0.9 miles) south-east. 10 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Powick Old BridgeScheduled monument1.4 km (0.9 miles) south-east
Moated site at Earl's CourtScheduled monument1.4 km (0.9 miles) north
Battle of Worcester 1651 with Powick Old Bridge 1642Registered battlefield2.8 km (1.8 miles) east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Grove Farm ReservoirLake or reservoir630 m (0.4 miles) north
Lord's WoodWood1.4 km (0.9 miles) south-west
Foxholes WoodWood1.6 km (1 mile) south-west
Grove CovertWood1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-west
Middleyard CoppiceWood2.2 km (1.4 miles) south-west
Atchen HillHill2.6 km (1.6 miles) north-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)5.54010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.1205
Particles (PM10)10.44015

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
65 to 6920
60 to 6410
55 to 59252
Under 555884

28 of the street's 86 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, and 2 from railways, 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 Malvern Hills: see them on the Malvern Hills 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
Rushwick CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–11240 m Report card (Jan 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
Honeywell Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.2 km (0.8 miles) Good (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Pitmaston Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic PrimaryPrimary4–111.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
Christopher Whitehead Language CollegeSecondary11–181.9 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection

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
Stanfield House Nursing Home WR2 5SUHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises80 m5 Very good14 Jul 2025
Rushwick CE Primary School WR2 5SUSchool/college/university80 mAwaiting inspection
Bedwardine House WR2 5SUHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises80 m5 Very good2 Apr 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.

No crimes recorded at anonymised points within 250 m in this period (west-mercia).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 3 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 1,211 residents in 496 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 age4840
Children under 1516%17%
Aged 65 and over29%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)83%61%
Owned outright45%33%
Shared ownership2%1%
Social rented10%17%
Private rented5%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work56%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)32%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)30%32%
Travel to work by car or van62%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including busunder 1%8%
On foot or by bicycle6%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)72%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away9%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)35%34%
No qualifications16%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 8 to 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

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.

  • WR2 5SU: 35 addresses of 43 in the postcode
  • WR2 5SN: 18 addresses
  • WR2 5TS: 8 addresses of 9 in the postcode
  • WR2 5SY: 7 addresses of 9 in the postcode
  • WR2 5AL: 6 addresses of 13 in the postcode
  • WR2 5TN: 4 addresses
  • WR2 5SX: 3 addresses of 10 in the postcode
  • WR2 5SZ: 2 addresses of 24 in the postcode
  • WR2 5TG: 2 addresses of 44 in the postcode
  • WR2 4XP: 1 address of 13 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Bedwardine Close · Snowdrop Way · Tan House Lane · Christine Avenue · Vivian Avenue · Sandys Close · Fleetwood Place

All the streets in WR2 and across Malvern Hills.

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.