Watling Street Wall, Lichfield
35 addresses across 4 postcodes (WS14), about 1.8 km (1.1 miles) long. USRN 23401202.
- Sales: 24 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £183,500 across 2 sales.
- Prices and rents: A typical home in Lichfield cost £339,176 in August 2026 (+2.7% on a year); private rents averaged £1,100 a month.
- Energy: 18 homes have an energy certificate (C: 4, D: 11, E: 3).
- Flood: 1 address on its postcodes is in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
- Recorded floods: No recorded flood covers the centre of any of its postcodes.
- Landfill: 1 historic landfill site within 500 m (0.3 miles) of its postcodes; the nearest, Swinfield Lane Landfill Site/North West Junction of A5 and A5127, Shenstone, is 490 m (0.3 miles) away.
- Storm overflows: 1 storm overflow within 1 km (0.6 miles) spilled 0 times (0 hours) in 2025.
- Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the A5, carries 38,913 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
- Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band D; Band D in Lichfield costs £2,352 a year in 2026-27.
- Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% to 100% of premises.
- Transport: The nearest railway station is Shenstone, about 1.9 km (1.2 miles) away in a straight line.
- Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 1 km (0.6 miles) away.
- Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.1 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
- Height: Its addresses are 100 to 113 m above sea level.
- Noise: 35 of its 35 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
- Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is The Westgate Practice, about 3.4 km (2.1 miles) away.
- People: About 470 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 71% of households owned their home and 32% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
- Road safety: 1 collision in which someone was hurt was reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025.
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House sales on this street
| Year | Sales | Median price | Lowest | Highest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 2 | £183,500 | £172,000 | £195,000 |
| 2023 | 1 | £237,000 | £237,000 | £237,000 |
| 2022 | 1 | £230,000 | £230,000 | £230,000 |
| 2021 | 1 | £152,000 | £152,000 | £152,000 |
| 2019 | 2 | £263,500 | £152,000 | £375,000 |
| 2018 | 1 | £160,000 | £160,000 | £160,000 |
| 2013 | 1 | £250,000 | £250,000 | £250,000 |
| 2010 | 1 | £150,000 | £150,000 | £150,000 |
| 2006 | 1 | £200,000 | £200,000 | £200,000 |
| 2005 | 1 | £315,000 | £315,000 | £315,000 |
| 2004 | 1 | £150,000 | £150,000 | £150,000 |
| 2000 | 2 | £105,000 | £95,000 | £115,000 |
| Date | Address | Type | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 Aug 2022 | 1 WS14 0AW | Detached | £262,500 | Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer). |
| 29 Sep 2000 | 2 WS14 0AW | Detached | £115,000 | |
| 14 Mar 1997 | 2 WS14 0AW | Detached | £89,950 | |
| 20 May 1996 | 2 WS14 0AW | Detached | £70,000 | |
| 17 May 1996 | 3 WS14 0AW | Semi-detached | £82,000 | |
| 27 Jan 2023 | 4 WS14 0AW | Terraced | £237,000 | |
| 29 Sep 2000 | 4 WS14 0AW | Terraced | £95,000 | |
| 1 Jun 2023 | 6 WS14 0AW | Terraced | £156,750 | Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer). |
| 13 Dec 2024 | 7 WS14 0AW | Terraced | £172,000 | |
| 18 Sep 2019 | 9 WS14 0AW | Terraced | £152,000 | |
| 16 Jun 2021 | 10 WS14 0AW | Terraced | £152,000 | |
| 20 Mar 1998 | 13 WS14 0AN | Semi-detached | £70,000 | |
| 13 Aug 2024 | DOVE COTTAGE, 13 WS14 0AN | Semi-detached | £195,000 | |
| 6 Jul 2010 | DOVE COTTAGE, 13 WS14 0AN | Semi-detached | £150,000 | |
| 26 Jan 2006 | 14 WS14 0AN | Terraced | £200,000 | |
| 23 Jan 2004 | 14 WS14 0AN | Terraced | £150,000 | |
| 20 Oct 2022 | 63 WS14 0AW | Terraced | £230,000 | |
| 17 Aug 2018 | 63 WS14 0AW | Terraced | £160,000 | |
| 21 Oct 1998 | 71 WS14 0AW | Semi-detached | £57,500 | |
| 9 Jan 2026 | 73 WS14 0AW | Semi-detached | £166,000 | Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer). |
| 10 Aug 2005 | OLD SCHOOL HOUSE WS14 0AN | Detached | £315,000 | |
| 22 Mar 2019 | ROSE COTTAGE WS14 0AN | Detached | £375,000 | |
| 4 Nov 2013 | ROSE COTTAGE WS14 0AN | Detached | £250,000 | |
| 28 Jul 1995 | ROSE COTTAGE WS14 0AN | Detached | £77,500 |
House prices and rents in Lichfield
A typical home in Lichfield cost £339,176 in August 2026, 2.7% more than a year before. That is 25% more than five years earlier and 47% more than ten years earlier.
| Home | Typical price, Aug 2026 |
|---|---|
| Detached | £524,798 |
| Semi-detached | £318,271 |
| Terraced | £253,811 |
| Flat or maisonette | £164,083 |
| Bought by a first-time buyer | £268,406 |
Private renters in Lichfield paid £1,100 a month on average in September 2026, 6.6% more than a year before. That is 34% more than five years earlier.
| Home | Average rent a month, Sep 2026 |
|---|---|
| One bedroom | £738 |
| Two bedrooms | £965 |
| Three bedrooms | £1,156 |
| Four or more bedrooms | £1,692 |
Energy performance certificates
18 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 58 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (6); House, end-terrace (4); Bungalow, semi-detached (3). Built: before 1900 (11); 1976-1982 (3); 1967-1975 (2). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (10); owner-occupied (6); rented (private) (1).
Each home's certificates and sales (18 addresses)
- 1 Watling Street, Wall
- 4 WATLING STREET
- 5, Watling Street, Wall
- 6, Watling Street, Wall
- 7, Watling Street, Wall
- 8, Watling Street, Wall
- 9, Watling Street, Wall
- 10, Watling Street, Wall
- 13 Watling Street, Wall
- 61 Watling Street, Wall
- 63, Watling Street, Wall
- 65, Watling Street, Wall
- 67 Watling Street, Wall
- 71, Watling Street, Wall
- 73 Watling Street, Wall
- Old Shop Cottage, Watling Street, Wall
- Rose Cottage, Watling Street, Wall
- Seven Stars, 12 Watling Street
Gas and electricity use
Homes with gas used 10,196 kWh of it on average in 2024, 21% less than the district's 12,909 kWh, and 2,806 kWh of electricity, 22% less than the district's 3,619 kWh. There are gas meters for about 100% of the homes.
| Postcode | Electricity meters | Typical electricity | Gas meters | Typical gas |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WS14 0AW | 17 | 2,778 kWh | 19 | 8,325 kWh |
| WS14 0AN | 6 | 3,304 kWh | 6 | 9,955 kWh |
These are all the homes on each postcode, whatever their size and however many live in them, so they show the kind of homes and heating here rather than what any one home uses. The typical figure is the median: half the homes used less. The district is WS14.
Council tax
What each band costs in Lichfield in 2026-27: Band D £2,352 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.
| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| £1,568 | £1,829 | £2,091 | £2,352 | £2,875 | £3,397 | £3,920 | £4,704 |
Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band D (28% of about 760 homes).
Planning and heritage
- Conservation area: yes, Wall (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
- 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: yes, Lichfield.
Listed buildings
- MANOR FARM, grade II
Energy projects nearby
No wind turbine or waste plant within 5 km (3.1 miles), and no solar farm, battery site or other project of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles), of the street's postcodes, operating or planned.
Roadworks
Planned, as of 31 October 2026
- 4 December 2026: BT, Utility repair and maintenance works, road closure, on the footway (major (paa) works)
- 4 January 2027 to 6 January 2027: STAFFORDSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway improvement works, road closure, on the carriageway (major works)
- 5 January 2027: STAFFORDSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway improvement works, road closure, on the carriageway (major (paa) works)
Finished in the last three months
- 28 September 2026 to 29 September 2026: SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, give and take, on the carriageway (immediate - urgent works)
- 20 March 2024 to 28 August 2026: STAFFORDSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway improvement works, road closure, on the carriageway (major works)
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 3 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.
| Postcode | Planning zone | Addresses at high / medium / low risk | Groundwater |
|---|---|---|---|
| WS14 0AW | not in 2 or 3 | 0 / 1 / 3 | unlikely |
| WS14 0AN | not in 2 or 3 | 0 / 0 / 0 | unlikely |
| WS14 0AH | not in 2 or 3 | 0 / 0 / 0 | unlikely |
| WS14 0AR | not in 2 or 3 | 0 / 0 / 0 | unlikely |
Recorded floods
No recorded flood covers the centre of any of this street's postcodes.
Recorded floods are where floodwater was seen or surveyed after a flood. Many floods were never mapped, an outline over a postcode's centre does not mean every home in it flooded, and homes outside one may have. Ask the seller whether the home itself has flooded.
Coastal erosion
No projected coastal erosion zone is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.
Storm overflows
1 storm overflow within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes spilled 0 times, for under an hour in all, in 2025. They discharge into Burntwood Brook (Tame).
| Overflow | Into | Spills | Hours | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rykneild Street Pumping Station Severn Trent Water | Burntwood Brook (Tame) | 0 | 0 | 100 m |
A storm overflow lets sewage diluted with rainwater into a river, stream or the sea when heavy rain overwhelms the sewers, so the spills here affect the water they run into, not homes. A spill is counted the regulators' way: a first 12 hours, then each 24 hours it goes on.
Coal mining
No postcode centre on the street is in a coalfield: the Mining Remediation Authority records no coal mining risk here.
Radon
Every 1 km square the street's postcodes are in is in the lowest band of radon potential: fewer than 1 home in 100 is estimated to be at or above the Action Level. It is not a radon Affected Area.
Historic landfill
1 historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes, the nearest 490 m (0.3 miles) away.
| Site | Waste went in | Waste | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Swinfield Lane Landfill Site/North West Junction of A5 and A5127, Shenstone Swinfield Lane, Lichfield, Staffordshire | 1958 to 1997 | Household | 490 m (0.3 miles) |
Closed tips can give off gas (methane and carbon dioxide) and leak into the ground for years. An environmental search, which conveyancers usually order, looks at landfill and contaminated land around the home; the council keeps a register of land it has found to be contaminated.
Height above sea level
The street's 35 addresses are between 100 m and 113 m above sea level (104 m on average); the ground rises about 13 m from the lowest to the highest.
Broadband
| Postcode | Superfast (30 Mbit/s+) | Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+) | Gigabit | Below 10 Mbit/s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WS14 0AH | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| WS14 0AN | 88% | 88% | 88% | 13% |
| WS14 0AR | 100% | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| WS14 0AW | 100% | 100% | 100% | 0% |
Getting around
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| Railway stations | Shenstone 150,000 journeys in 2024–25 | 1.9 km (1.2 miles) |
| Lichfield City 777,000 journeys in 2024–25 | 3 km (1.8 miles) | |
| Lichfield Trent Valley 888,000 journeys in 2024–25 | 4.5 km (2.8 miles) | |
| Bus stops | 0 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Wall Turn | 650 m (0.4 miles) |
| Bus or coach station | Bus Station Lichfield City Centre | 3.1 km (1.9 miles) |
| Car parks | Shenstone Station Car Park | 1.8 km (1.1 miles) |
| EV charging points | bp pulse Charging Station | 1.9 km (1.2 miles) |
| Airport with scheduled flights | Birmingham Airport BHX | 23.4 km (15 miles) |
Local services
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| GP surgeries | The Westgate Practice Good Oct 2019 | 3.4 km (2.1 miles) |
| Pharmacies | M W Phillips Chemists | 1.8 km (1.1 miles) |
| NHS dentists | Lichfield Dental Care | 2 km (1.3 miles) |
| Hospital | Friary Centre (St Michaels Hospital) | 3.7 km (2.3 miles) |
| Care homes | Shenstone Hall Good Apr 2019 | 2 km (1.2 miles) |
| Police station | Lichfield Police Station | 3.1 km (1.9 miles) |
| Cash machines | Tesco Bank ATM | 2.1 km (1.3 miles) |
Parks and green space
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| Park or garden | Unnamed 200 m² | 1 km (0.6 miles) |
| Play area | Unnamed 110 m² | 1.3 km (0.8 miles) |
| Playing field | Unnamed 2.2 ha | 1.7 km (1.1 miles) |
| Allotments | Unnamed 1,070 m² | 2.2 km (1.4 miles) |
Landmarks
The nearest historic landmark is Roman site, Letocetum, a scheduled monument, 810 m (0.5 miles) west. 7 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).
| Name | What it is | From the middle of the street |
|---|---|---|
| Roman site, Letocetum | Scheduled monument | 810 m (0.5 miles) west |
| Name | What it is | From the middle of the street |
|---|---|---|
| Harehurst Hill | Hill | 740 m (0.5 miles) north |
| Knowle Covert | Wood | 1.2 km (0.7 miles) east |
| Bullmoor Lane Covert | Wood | 1.3 km (0.8 miles) south-west |
| Knowle Hill | Hill | 1.4 km (0.9 miles) north-east |
| Pipe Marsh | Wetland | 2.2 km (1.4 miles) north-west |
| Freeford Pool | Lake or reservoir | 2.9 km (1.8 miles) east |
Air quality
| Pollutant | Here | UK limit | WHO guideline |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) | 8.6 | 40 | 10 |
| Fine particles (PM2.5) | 7.1 | 20 | 5 |
| Particles (PM10) | 13.2 | 40 | 15 |
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
| Level | Road traffic | Railways |
|---|---|---|
| 75 dB or more | 1 | 0 |
| 70 to 74 | 3 | 0 |
| 65 to 69 | 7 | 0 |
| 60 to 64 | 20 | 0 |
| 55 to 59 | 4 | 0 |
| Under 55 | 0 | 35 |
35 of the street's 35 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 Lichfield: see them on the Lichfield page.
Nearest schools
| School | Phase | Ages | Distance | Inspection | Exam results |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anna Seward Primary | Primary | 3–11 | 1.5 km (0.9 miles) | Report card (Jul 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: Needs attention; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met | None published |
| Greywood Primary Academy | Primary | 2–11 | 1.9 km (1.2 miles) | No published inspection | None published |
Exam results are from the Department for Education's school performance tables (Explore Education Statistics, Open Government Licence), for all pupils at each school. The middle school in England had 63% at the expected standard at the end of primary school (2025), Attainment 8 of 46.0 at GCSE (2026) and an A level average of C+ (2025). Attainment 8 adds up a pupil's grades in eight GCSEs, with English and maths counted twice (90 is the most), averaged over the school's pupils. Progress 8 compares pupils with others who had the same results at the end of primary school; it is not published for GCSEs in 2025 and 2026, as those pupils sat no primary tests during the pandemic. Small year groups swing from year to year, and figures for very small ones are withheld.
Nurseries and childcare
No nursery, pre-school or out-of-school club on Ofsted's register is within 1.5 km (0.9 miles) of the middle of the street.
Ofsted also registers 315 childminders and 25 home childcarers (nannies) in Staffordshire. It does not publish their addresses, so they cannot be shown here; the council's family information service lists those taking children.
Food hygiene ratings nearby
No rated food businesses within 500 m (0.3 miles).
Crime within 250 m
No crimes recorded at anonymised points within 250 m in this period (west-midlands).
Road safety
1 collision in which someone was hurt was reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 0 serious and 1 slight. 1 involved a child under 16. Most were on roads with a 70 mph limit.
| Year | Collisions | Fatal or serious |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025 | 0 | 0 |
| Date | Severity | Who was hurt | Road | Conditions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 Oct 2024 15:00 | Slight | 1 person: 1 child | A5, 70 mph | Daylight |
Only collisions in which someone was hurt and which the police were told about are here: damage-only collisions and near misses are not, and some injuries are never reported. Positions are recorded by the police, usually to within a few metres. Each year's figures are published the following September.
Traffic on nearby roads
The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles) is the A5 between A461 and A5127 / A51, with 38,913 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 80 m from the street's postcodes.
| Road | Between | Vehicles a day | Lorries | Ten years before | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A5 | A461 to A5127 / A51 | 38,913 counted 2025 | 11% | +10% since 2015 | 80 m |
Each figure is the annual average daily flow: the motor vehicles passing the count point, both ways, on an average day of the year. A point is counted by hand on a weekday every few years and estimated from the trend on similar roads in between. Lorries are heavy goods vehicles, as a share of all motor vehicles.
People and work
Who lives here
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Median age | 50 | 40 |
| Children under 15 | 15% | 17% |
| Aged 65 and over | 26% | 18% |
Homes
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Owned (outright or with a mortgage) | 71% | 61% |
| Owned outright | 41% | 33% |
| Shared ownership | 1% | 1% |
| Social rented | 9% | 17% |
| Private rented | 20% | 21% |
Work and commuting
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Adults (16 and over) in work | 60% | 57% |
| Unemployment (of those working or looking for work) | 3% | 6% |
| Retired (of adults) | 28% | 22% |
| Long-term sick or disabled (of adults) | 2% | 4% |
| Work mainly from home (of those in work) | 30% | 32% |
| Travel to work by car or van | 67% | 48% |
| By train, Underground, metro or tram | under 1% | 4% |
| By any public transport, including bus | under 1% | 8% |
| On foot or by bicycle | under 1% | 10% |
| Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work) | 37% | 65% |
| Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away | 8% | 8% |
Education and languages
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults) | 32% | 34% |
| No qualifications | 19% | 18% |
| Apprenticeship as highest qualification | 5% | 5% |
| Main language English (aged 3 and over) | 98% | 91% |
| Cannot speak English well or at all | under 1% | 2% |
Deprivation
The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 6 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.
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.
Postcodes on this street
- WS14 0AW: 24 addresses of 28 in the postcode
- WS14 0AN: 9 addresses of 11 in the postcode
- WS14 0AH: 1 address of 4 in the postcode
- WS14 0AR: 1 address of 3 in the postcode
Nearby streets
What this page cannot tell you
- Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
- What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
- How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported; road collisions count only those in which someone was hurt and the police were told.
- Whether you would get a place at a school: distances are straight lines, not catchments.
- Who lives on the street now: census figures describe the small areas around it in March 2021, during a lockdown.
- How long a journey takes or how often anything runs: transport distances are straight lines to the nearest stops.
- Whether a GP practice is taking new patients, or a dentist new NHS patients.
- How loud a home is inside, or noise from industry, neighbours or smaller airfields: noise figures are models of road, rail and air traffic outside.
How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.