Walcher Grove Gateshead

13 addresses across 2 postcodes (NE8), about 90 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 14929128.

  • Sales: 30 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £160,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 12 homes have an energy certificate (C: 12).
  • Flood: 2 addresses on its postcodes are 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 A; Band D in Gateshead costs £2,716 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Heworth, about 1.6 km (1 mile) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 150 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 12.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 40 to 44 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 13 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Crowhall Medical Centre, about 1.1 km (0.7 miles) away, with 4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 520 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 44% of households owned their home and 44% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 137 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
20261£160,000£160,000£160,000
20253£142,000£130,000£150,000
20242£150,000£145,000£155,000
20221£145,500£145,500£145,500
20192£121,250£117,500£125,000
20183£124,950£115,500£127,500
20163£118,000£113,000£175,000
20094£149,950£149,500£170,000
20088£148,450£134,950£149,950
Most recent sales (30)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
29 May 20266 NE8 3FJSemi-detached£160,000
29 Oct 20259 NE8 3FJTerraced£150,000
30 May 20257 NE8 3FJSemi-detached£130,000
14 Mar 202511 NE8 3FJSemi-detached£142,000
28 Jun 20245 NE8 3FJSemi-detached£155,000
10 May 202412 NE8 3FJSemi-detached£145,000
2 Nov 20233 NE8 3FJTerraced£142,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
20 Jul 20234 NE8 3FJSemi-detached£136,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
15 Jul 20228 NE8 3FJSemi-detached£145,500
31 Oct 20192 NE8 3FJSemi-detached£125,000
23 Aug 201911 NE8 3FJSemi-detached£117,500
21 Jun 201911 NE8 3FJSemi-detached£120,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
2 Nov 201812 NE8 3FJSemi-detached£127,500
28 Mar 20187 NE8 3FJSemi-detached£124,950
28 Feb 20189 NE8 3FJTerraced£115,500
4 Nov 20165 NE8 3FJSemi-detached£118,000
19 Aug 201611 NE8 3FJSemi-detached£113,000
17 Jun 20161 NE8 3FJDetached£175,000
30 Apr 20094 NE8 3FJSemi-detached£149,950
29 Apr 20092 NE8 3FJSemi-detached£149,950New build.
15 Apr 20091 NE8 3FJDetached£170,000New build.
2 Mar 200910 NE8 3FJTerraced£149,500New build.
19 Dec 20086 NE8 3FJSemi-detached£149,950New build.
19 Dec 200811 NE8 3FJSemi-detached£139,950New build.
19 Dec 200812 NE8 3FJSemi-detached£139,950New build.
17 Dec 20083 NE8 3FJTerraced£149,950
17 Dec 20088 NE8 3FJSemi-detached£149,950New build.
15 Dec 20087 NE8 3FJSemi-detached£147,950New build.
3 Jul 20085 NE8 3FJSemi-detached£148,950New build.
27 Jun 20089 NE8 3FJTerraced£134,950New build.

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 October 2008 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

12 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 70 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (8); House, detached (1); House, enclosed end-terrace (1). Built: 2007-2011 (9); 2003 (2); 2003-2006 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (7); rented (private) (3).

Each home's certificates and sales (6 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Gateshead in 2026-27: Band D £2,716 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,811£2,112£2,414£2,716£3,319£3,923£4,526£5,432

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (88% of about 780 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 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 31 October 2026.

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, 2 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 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: 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
NE8 3FJnot in 2 or 3 2 / 0 / 0 unlikely
NE8 3EDnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 2 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 13 addresses are between 40 m and 44 m above sea level (40 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
NE8 3ED100%100%100%0%
NE8 3FJ100%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 stationsHeworth 46,000 journeys in 2024–251.6 km (1 mile)
Manors 64,000 journeys in 2024–252.5 km (1.6 miles)
Newcastle 11 million journeys in 2024–252.8 km (1.7 miles)
Underground, metro or tramGateshead Stadium (Tyne and Wear Metro Station)590 m (0.4 miles)
Felling (Tyne and Wear Metro Station)630 m (0.4 miles)
Gateshead (Tyne and Wear Metro Station)1.7 km (1 mile)
Bus stops11 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 36 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Sunderland Road-St James Court Felling40 m
Bus or coach stationInterchange Heworth1.6 km (1 mile)
Ferry terminalNewcastle International Ferry Terminal Royal Quays9.4 km (5.8 miles)
Car parksCivic Centre Car Park1.5 km (0.9 miles)
EV charging points5 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Apcoa Charging Station760 m (0.5 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsNewcastle International Airport NCL11.6 km (7.2 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 Crowhall Medical Centre1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Pharmacies6 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest K & A Pharmacy1 km (0.6 miles)
NHS dentists5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery1 km (0.6 miles)
HospitalQueen Elizabeth Hospital1.7 km (1.1 miles)
Police stationGateshead Police Station1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Cash machines3 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Jay's News, Foods & Wines, Sunderland Road Cashzone200 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 garden9 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 8.5 ha150 m
Play area6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 460 m²160 m
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.7 ha340 m
Allotments4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4,030 m²180 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 9 parks and gardens, 23 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Saltwell Park, a registered park or garden (Grade II), 1.9 km (1.2 miles) south-west. 12 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Saltwell ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.9 km (1.2 miles) south-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Quarry PlantationWood1.2 km (0.8 miles) south-west
St Anthony's PointWetland2 km (1.2 miles) east
Millers HillHill2.1 km (1.3 miles) north
Sheriff HillHill2.1 km (1.3 miles) south
Ouseburn ValleyValley2.2 km (1.4 miles) north
Team GutTidal water3.4 km (2.1 miles) 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)12.44010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.3205
Particles (PM10)9.84015

All three are within the UK legal limits; nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 are 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 6910
60 to 6404
55 to 5916
Under 55113

2 of the street's 13 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, and 10 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 Gateshead: see them on the Gateshead 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
St Wilfrid's Catholic Primary School, Gateshead Roman CatholicPrimary3–11290 m No published inspection
Bede Community Primary SchoolPrimary4–11300 m No published inspection
Brandling Primary SchoolPrimary2–11750 m (0.5 miles) Good (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Falla Park Community Primary SchoolPrimary2–11760 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Carr Hill Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
South Street Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Gateshead Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
The Drive Community Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Caedmon Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.6 km (1 mile) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
XP GatesheadSecondary11–161.7 km (1 mile) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
Windy Nook Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.7 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Gateshead College16 plus16–991.7 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection

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
Saji's Restaurant NE10 0AROther catering premises100 m5 Very good26 Feb 2026
De Africana NE10 9LQRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets140 m3 Generally satisfactory5 Aug 2025
Pizza Doctor NE10 0AQTakeaway/sandwich shop180 m3 Generally satisfactory15 Sep 2026
T&S Premier NE10 0AQRetailers - other200 m5 Very good3 Feb 2025
Fellingate Care Centre NE10 0BDHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises210 m5 Very good12 Aug 2026
The Continental Corner Cafe NE10 9LQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen280 m5 Very good11 Feb 2026
Impact Food Group T/A Dolce @ Bede Primary School (Kitchen) NE10 0DJSchool/college/university290 m5 Very good20 Oct 2025
Tik-Tok Nursery NE10 0DJHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises290 m5 Very good16 Oct 2026
Gateshead School Catering at St Wilfreds RC Primary School NE10 0DJSchool/college/university290 m5 Very good15 Jan 2026
Asda NE10 0DJRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets290 m5 Very good8 Dec 2025
Pattinson House NE10 0ALRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen370 m5 Very good24 Oct 2024
Bonnebon Confectionary Company NE8 3PRDistributors/Transporters400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good17 Sep 2025
Dhillons Convenience Store NE8 3QPRetailers - other440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good27 Feb 2026
King James Hospital NE8 3EYHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good10 Sep 2025
Orchid Cottage NE8 3QPTakeaway/sandwich shop440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good27 Mar 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.

137 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences61
Anti-social behaviour21
Criminal damage and arson14
Vehicle crime13
Other crime7
Other theft6
Burglary6
Public order5
Drugs2
Possession of weapons1
Shoplifting1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Oban Street (38); On or near Parking Area (11); On or near Fox Street (11); On or near Lumley Gardens (9); On or near B1426 (9).

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: 516 residents in 227 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 age3240
Children under 1522%17%
Aged 65 and over7%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)44%61%
Owned outright8%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented12%17%
Private rented44%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work65%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)8%6%
Retired (of adults)9%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)34%32%
Travel to work by car or van44%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram8%4%
By any public transport, including bus12%8%
On foot or by bicycle9%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)80%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away7%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)44%34%
No qualifications17%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)85%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all5%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 1 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.

  • NE8 3FJ: 12 addresses of 13 in the postcode
  • NE8 3ED: 1 address of 38 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Churchill Road · Reginald Street · St James Court · Sunderland Road · Woodward Avenue · Asher Street · Wilfrid Gardens · Baird Court · Oban Street · Cross Row · Howard Street · Oban Street

All the streets in NE8 and across Gateshead.

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.