Warefield Road Paignton, Torbay

74 addresses across 3 postcodes (TQ3), about 80 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 40700439.

  • Sales: 38 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £264,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 46 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 26, D: 12, E: 4, F: 1, G: 2).
  • 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 A; Band D in Torbay costs £2,470 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 98% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Paignton, about 510 m (0.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Victoria Park, is about 120 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 5.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 6 to 9 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 Corner Place Surgery, about 720 m (0.4 miles) away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 320 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 43% of households owned their home and 21% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 130 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
20251£264,000£264,000£264,000
20241£325,000£325,000£325,000
20211£80,000£80,000£80,000
20191£480,000£480,000£480,000
20171£74,000£74,000£74,000
20152£254,000£218,000£290,000
20142£249,250£223,500£275,000
20121£190,000£190,000£190,000
20072£186,500£93,000£280,000
20062£149,750£72,500£227,000
20054£227,000£75,000£300,000
20041£185,000£185,000£185,000
Most recent sales (38)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
16 Jan 20264 TQ3 2BHTerraced£302,418Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
31 Mar 20252, PIER SANDS TQ3 2PWSemi-detached£264,000
20 Dec 20241, PIER SANDS TQ3 2PWDetached£325,000
29 Feb 202415A TQ3 2BHOther£2,800,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
29 Feb 202415A TQ3 2BHOther£2,800,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
24 Oct 202315B TQ3 2BHFlat or maisonette£105,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
24 Oct 202315A TQ3 2BHFlat or maisonette£91,250Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
21 Feb 20216C TQ3 2BHFlat or maisonette£80,000Leasehold.
2 Jul 20192 TQ3 2BHTerraced£480,000
24 Nov 20176C TQ3 2BHFlat or maisonette£74,000Leasehold.
14 Sep 20158, PIER SANDS TQ3 2PWDetached£290,000
18 Jun 201515 TQ3 2BHSemi-detached£218,000
27 Jun 20147 TQ3 2BHTerraced£223,500
13 Feb 20148, PIER SANDS TQ3 2PWDetached£275,000New build.
25 Sep 201213 TQ3 2BHSemi-detached£190,000
15 Aug 20078 TQ3 2BHTerraced£280,000
8 Jun 20076C TQ3 2BHFlat or maisonette£93,000Leasehold.
26 Aug 200615A TQ3 2BHFlat or maisonette£72,500New build. Leasehold.
21 Apr 20064 TQ3 2BHTerraced£227,000
25 Aug 200515B TQ3 2BHFlat or maisonette£75,000Leasehold.
11 Mar 20059 TQ3 2BHTerraced£295,000
11 Mar 200515 TQ3 2BHSemi-detached£159,000
11 Feb 200512 TQ3 2BHTerraced£300,000
18 Nov 200413 TQ3 2BHSemi-detached£185,000
16 Dec 20036B TQ3 2BHFlat or maisonette£75,000Leasehold.
12 Sep 20036C TQ3 2BHFlat or maisonette£59,950Leasehold.
8 Feb 20019 TQ3 2BHTerraced£130,000
21 Dec 20008 TQ3 2BHTerraced£90,000
12 Jul 20006B TQ3 2BHTerraced£42,000
29 Oct 19992 TQ3 2BHTerraced£160,000
9 Jun 19996C TQ3 2BHFlat or maisonette£24,500Leasehold.
29 Jan 19999 TQ3 2BHTerraced£93,000
27 Mar 19987 TQ3 2BHTerraced£83,500
20 Mar 19986C TQ3 2BHFlat or maisonette£10,000Leasehold.
2 Feb 199812 TQ3 2BHTerraced£100,000
6 Nov 19975 TQ3 2BHTerraced£73,000
9 Aug 19966B TQ3 2BHTerraced£35,000
3 May 199612 TQ3 2BHTerraced£71,000

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

46 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 44 m². Most common: Flat (29); House, semi-detached (6); House, mid-terrace (3). Built: 1930-1949 (30); 1900-1929 (6); 2007-2011 (3). Tenure at assessment: rented (private) (24); owner-occupied (16).

Each home's certificates and sales (26 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Torbay in 2026-27: Band D £2,470 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,647£1,921£2,196£2,470£3,019£3,568£4,117£4,941

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (56% of about 1,240 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: in a protected area: Area at Warefield Road, Paignton.
  • 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

Finished in the last three months

  • 18 August 2026 to 19 August 2026: SOUTH WEST WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (immediate - urgent 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 on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

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 74 addresses are between 6 m and 9 m above sea level (7 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
TQ3 2BH100%98%98%0%
TQ3 2BJ100%100%100%0%
TQ3 2PW100%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 stationsPaignton 707,000 journeys in 2024–25510 m (0.3 miles)
Torquay 508,000 journeys in 2024–252.8 km (1.7 miles)
Torre 376,000 journeys in 2024–254 km (2.5 miles)
Bus stops11 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 36 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Paignton Green200 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Paignton550 m (0.3 miles)
Ferry terminalTorquay Harbour Boarding Pontoon3.4 km (2.1 miles)
Car parks2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest National Car Parks360 m
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Osprey Charging Station190 m
Airport with scheduled flightsExeter International Airport EXT34.5 km (21 miles)
Nearest large airportCardiff International Airport CWL108 km (67 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 surgeries3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Corner Place Surgery720 m (0.4 miles)
Pharmacies6 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots490 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Greentree Dental & Implant Clinic330 m
HospitalPaignton Hospital500 m (0.3 miles)
Police stationDevon & Cornwall Police3.8 km (2.4 miles)
Cash machines4 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest SGN Ltd - Riviera Cashzone380 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 garden7 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Victoria Park 4.9 ha120 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Oldway 7.0 ha360 m
Play area5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,980 m²220 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Queen's Park 2.6 ha470 m (0.3 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 8,050 m²1.2 km (0.7 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 7 parks and gardens, 18 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Torbay Cinema, a listed building (Grade II*), 460 m (0.3 miles) south. 117 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 4 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Torbay CinemaListed building, Grade II*460 m (0.3 miles) south
Oldway MansionRegistered park or garden, Grade II520 m (0.3 miles) north-west
Kirkham HouseListed building, Grade II*560 m (0.3 miles) west
Parish Church of St John the BaptistListed building, Grade I560 m (0.3 miles) south-west
Oldway MansionListed building, Grade II*570 m (0.4 miles) north-west
The Bishop's Palace, Tower RoadScheduled monument620 m (0.4 miles) south-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Paignton SandsBeach370 m east
Preston SandsBeach850 m (0.5 miles) north-east
Shorton WoodsWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) north-west
Round HillHill1.5 km (0.9 miles) north
Broken CliffCliff or slope1.8 km (1.1 miles) north-east
Aptor PoolLake or reservoir4.4 km (2.7 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)5.04010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.3205
Particles (PM10)9.04015

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
60 to 6405
55 to 5909
Under 557460

14 of the street's 74 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more 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 Torbay: see them on the Torbay 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
Sacred Heart Catholic School Roman CatholicPrimary3–11480 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Oldway Primary SchoolPrimary2–11500 m (0.3 miles) Good (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Curledge Street AcademyPrimary2–11800 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
St Michael's Church of England AcademyPrimary2–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Hayes SchoolPrimary2–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Preston Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.7 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
Kings Ash AcademyPrimary2–111.9 km (1.2 miles) Good (May 2021, overall grade under the previous framework)
Paignton AcademySecondary11–161.9 km (1.2 miles) No overall grade (Dec 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Requires improvement; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Requires improvement

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
Waverley Guest House TQ3 2BHHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house20 m4 Good26 Sep 2018
Torbay Court Hotel TQ3 2BJHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house70 m4 Good16 Dec 2024
Trentham Guest House TQ3 2BEHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house140 m5 Very good20 Mar 2019
Cedar Court TQ3 2ADHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises160 m5 Very good25 Nov 2025
Beach Hotel Torbay TQ4 6BLHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house170 m5 Very good13 Jan 2026
Abbeyfield South West Society TQ4 6AXOther catering premises170 m5 Very good4 Dec 2024
Clydesdale Guest House TQ3 2ADHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house190 m5 Very good7 Aug 2018
Belle Dene Guest House TQ4 6AXHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house200 m5 Very good2 Sep 2024
Cliveden Guest House TQ4 6AXHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house200 m5 Very good6 Jul 2026
Ibis Styles Paignton TQ4 6BQHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house240 m4 Good22 Apr 2026
Rosemead Guest House TQ4 6AXHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house250 m5 Very good23 Sep 2026
Cherwood Guesthouse TQ4 6AXHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house250 m5 Very good8 Jul 2026
Barclay Guest House TQ4 6AXHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house250 m5 Very good22 May 2024
The Kingswinford Guest House TQ4 6AXHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house250 m5 Very good10 Jun 2026
Pippins TQ3 2ATHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises260 m5 Very good9 Sep 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.

130 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences55
Anti-social behaviour31
Other theft10
Criminal damage and arson7
Drugs5
Public order5
Vehicle crime5
Theft from the person4
Burglary3
Possession of weapons2
Other crime2
Bicycle theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Norman Road (34); On or near Courtland Road (32); On or near B3201 (15); On or near Logan Road (12); On or near Polsham Park (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: 324 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 age5340
Children under 1511%17%
Aged 65 and over29%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)43%61%
Owned outright30%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented2%17%
Private rented54%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work46%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)11%6%
Retired (of adults)31%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)8%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)29%32%
Travel to work by car or van41%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus9%8%
On foot or by bicycle18%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)82%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away11%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)21%34%
No qualifications30%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification8%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%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.

Nearby streets

Oldenburg Park · Leighon Road · Norman Road · Lower Polsham Road · Barum Close · Steartfield Road · Polsham Park · Esplanade Road · Courtland Road · Wilbarn Road · Antony Crescent · Logan Road

All the streets in TQ3 and across Torbay.

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.