Waterloo Road Exeter

17 addresses across 2 postcodes (EX2), about 50 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 14200894.

  • Sales: 28 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £305,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 9 homes have an energy certificate (C: 3, D: 5, E: 1).
  • 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 B; Band D in Exeter costs £2,495 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Exeter St Thomas, about 750 m (0.5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Pinces Gardens, is about 50 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 7 to 8 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 6 of its 17 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is St Thomas Medical Group, about 670 m (0.4 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 280 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 77% of households owned their home and 44% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 129 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
20241£305,000£305,000£305,000
20192£227,000£226,000£228,000
20172£243,500£235,000£252,000
20161£232,500£232,500£232,500
20141£197,500£197,500£197,500
20112£169,500£169,000£170,000
20091£150,000£150,000£150,000
20082£176,000£149,000£203,000
20071£164,000£164,000£164,000
20061£150,000£150,000£150,000
20052£189,250£154,500£224,000
20021£112,500£112,500£112,500
Most recent sales (28)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
29 Oct 20249 EX2 9DTTerraced£320,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
21 May 20241 EX2 9DTTerraced£305,000
23 Aug 20196 EX2 9DTTerraced£226,000
18 Apr 20198 EX2 9DTTerraced£228,000
27 Jan 201714 EX2 9DTTerraced£235,000
4 Jan 201716 EX2 9DTTerraced£252,000
26 May 20161 EX2 9DTTerraced£232,500
27 Mar 20144 EX2 9DTTerraced£197,500
7 Jun 20112 EX2 9DTTerraced£170,000
25 Feb 20114 EX2 9DTTerraced£169,000
19 Aug 20093 EX2 9DTTerraced£150,000
20 Oct 20085 EX2 9DTTerraced£149,000
31 Mar 200813 EX2 9DTTerraced£203,000
30 May 20071 EX2 9DTTerraced£164,000
3 Mar 20063 EX2 9DTTerraced£150,000
12 May 20059 EX2 9DTTerraced£224,000
5 May 20054 EX2 9DTTerraced£154,500
31 May 200215 EX2 9DTTerraced£112,500
13 Aug 200111 EX2 9DTTerraced£97,950
27 Nov 20008 EX2 9DTTerraced£77,000
8 Oct 19998 EX2 9DTTerraced£60,000
5 Oct 19992 EX2 9DTTerraced£49,950
27 Mar 19983 EX2 9DTTerraced£39,500
27 Feb 199811 EX2 9DTTerraced£49,500
23 Dec 199713 EX2 9DTTerraced£38,500
9 Aug 19968 EX2 9DTTerraced£46,000
15 May 199615 EX2 9DTTerraced£49,000
3 May 199611 EX2 9DTTerraced£46,500

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 January 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

9 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 94 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (5); House, end-terrace (3); House, semi-detached (1). Built: 1900-1929 (8); 2007-2011 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (5).

Council tax

What each band costs in Exeter in 2026-27: Band D £2,495 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,664£1,941£2,218£2,495£3,050£3,604£4,159£4,991

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (28% of about 680 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: yes, Princes Square (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • 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 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, 2 at medium risk and 26 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 26 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 0 medium, 26 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: at least one postcode centre is in flood zone 3. Zone 3 is a 1% (1 in 100) or greater annual chance of flooding from rivers, or 0.5% from the sea, ignoring defences.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
EX2 9DTzone 3 0 / 0 / 16 unlikely
EX2 8HUzone 3 0 / 2 / 10 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 17 addresses are between 7 m and 8 m above sea level (8 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
EX2 8HU100%100%100%0%
EX2 9DT100%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 stationsExeter St Thomas 329,000 journeys in 2024–25750 m (0.5 miles)
Marsh Barton 109,000 journeys in 2024–251.4 km (0.9 miles)
Exeter Central 3.0 million journeys in 2024–251.8 km (1.1 miles)
Bus stops7 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 44 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Crawford Gardens Cowick30 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Exeter City Centre2 km (1.2 miles)
Ferry terminalTopsham Lock Ferry Landing Exminster5.8 km (3.6 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Haven Banks coach parking680 m (0.4 miles)
EV charging points12 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest bp pulse Charging Station140 m
Airport with scheduled flightsExeter International Airport EXT9.2 km (5.7 miles)
Nearest large airportCardiff International Airport CWL77.5 km (48 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 St Thomas Medical Group670 m (0.4 miles)
Pharmacies5 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Luxtons The Pharmacy660 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest St Thomas Dental Practice690 m (0.4 miles)
HospitalFranklyn Community Hospital820 m (0.5 miles)
Police stationExeter Volunteer Police Cadets2.1 km (1.3 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Tesco Bank ATM710 m (0.4 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 garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Pinces Gardens 1.4 ha50 m
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3,410 m²330 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Cowick Barton Playing Field 9.9 ha310 m
Allotments4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.4 ha80 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 1.4 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Cowick Barton, a listed building (Grade II*), 600 m (0.4 miles) west. 52 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade I and 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Cowick BartonListed building, Grade II*600 m (0.4 miles) west
Church of St Thomas the ApostleListed building, Grade I660 m (0.4 miles) north-west
BowhillListed building, Grade I920 m (0.6 miles) north-west
The medieval Exe Bridge, St Edmund's Church, and medieval tenement remains, lying between the River Exe and Frog StreetScheduled monument1 km (0.6 miles) north
Larkbeare HouseRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.1 km (0.7 miles) north-east
Medieval bridge and part of a late medieval conduit under Holloway StreetScheduled monument1.2 km (0.8 miles) north-east
St Nicholas' PrioryScheduled monument1.3 km (0.8 miles) north
St Bartholomew's Cemetery, ExeterRegistered park or garden, Grade II*1.4 km (0.8 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Constitutional HillHill1.2 km (0.7 miles) west
Salmon PoolLake or reservoir1.6 km (1 mile) east
Duck's MarshWetland1.6 km (1 mile) east
Eastdown PlantationWood2.1 km (1.3 miles) west
Knowle HillHill2.1 km (1.3 miles) south-east
Peamore WoodWood2.6 km (1.6 miles) south

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)6.14010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.5205
Particles (PM10)9.34015

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
70 to 7410
55 to 5950
Under 551117

6 of the street's 17 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for Exeter: see them on the Exeter 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
West Exe SchoolSecondary11–16370 m Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
St Thomas Primary SchoolPrimary5–11530 m (0.3 miles) Good (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
West Exe Nursery School - Exeter Nursery Schools FederationNursery2–5710 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Bowhill Primary SchoolPrimary5–11950 m (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Montgomery Primary SchoolPrimary2–111 km (0.6 miles) No overall grade (Jan 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Alphington Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
St Leonard's (CofE) Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary5–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No overall grade (Jan 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
St Gabriel's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary2–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
St David's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary5–111.5 km (1 mile) No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Ide Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.6 km (1 mile) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Exeter Mathematics School16 plus16–191.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
Exeter and North Devon Colleges Group16 plus16–992 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
Southern Co-op (0350) EX2 8JDRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets40 m5 Very good19 May 2025
Pinces Garden Bowling Club EX2 9DTOther catering premises50 m5 Very good14 Jan 2020
Costcutter Exeter EX2 8JDRetailers - other60 m4 Good20 May 2026
Fish & Chips on Alphington Road EX2 8HUTakeaway/sandwich shop90 m3 Generally satisfactory13 Mar 2025
Mcdonalds Restaurants EX2 8LHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen180 m5 Very good24 Jul 2026
Costa Coffee EX2 8LHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen180 m5 Very good20 Feb 2025
Card Factory EX2 8LHRetailers - other180 mExempt
The Birdhouse EX2 9ENRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen180 m4 Good22 Sep 2026
B and M Trail Ltd EX2 8LHRetailers - other220 m5 Very good14 Jan 2025
The Food Warehouse EX2 8LHRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets220 m5 Very good28 Sep 2022
Go Outdoors EX2 8LHRetailers - other220 mExempt
Premier Dawn Till Dark EX2 9ESRetailers - other230 m5 Very good3 Aug 2022
Acorns Day Nursery EX2 8HNHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises290 m5 Very good10 Dec 2025
St Andrews Hotel EX2 8HNHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house290 m5 Very good17 Sep 2026
West Exe School EX2 9JUSchool/college/university300 m5 Very good3 Jun 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.

129 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences42
Anti-social behaviour26
Criminal damage and arson15
Other theft11
Public order10
Vehicle crime8
Burglary7
Shoplifting3
Bicycle theft2
Drugs2
Theft from the person1
Possession of weapons1
Other crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Retail Park Close (25); On or near Fortescue Road (20); On or near Waterloo Road (15); On or near Beaworthy Close (14); On or near Taunton Close (13).

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: 283 residents in 120 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 age3840
Children under 1518%17%
Aged 65 and over19%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)77%61%
Owned outright37%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented3%17%
Private rented19%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work61%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)under 1%6%
Retired (of adults)25%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)44%32%
Travel to work by car or van31%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus5%8%
On foot or by bicycle18%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)75%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away6%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)44%34%
No qualifications14%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)97%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 4 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.

  • EX2 9DT: 16 addresses of 18 in the postcode
  • EX2 8HU: 1 address of 20 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Luccombe Lane · Crawford Gardens · Percy Road · Poplar Close · Wellington Road · Fortescue Road · Pinces Road · Courtenay Road · Queens Road · Taunton Close · Prince's Street South · Beaworthy Close

All the streets in EX2 and across Exeter.

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.