Windlass Close Thorne, Doncaster

18 addresses across 1 postcode (DN8), about 80 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 11206791.

  • Sales: 39 recorded sales since 1995; in 2023 the median was £159,500 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 9 homes have an energy certificate (C: 5, D: 4).
  • 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 Doncaster costs £2,168 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Thorne North, about 560 m (0.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Toll Bar Leisure Park, is about 240 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 3 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 18 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Northfield Surgery, about 330 m away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 340 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 61% of households owned their home and 22% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 30 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
20232£159,500£154,000£165,000
20141£160,000£160,000£160,000
20121£105,000£105,000£105,000
20101£100,000£100,000£100,000
20091£97,500£97,500£97,500
20082£112,000£109,000£115,000
20072£123,475£120,000£126,950
20061£102,250£102,250£102,250
20053£106,000£98,000£115,000
20042£98,000£91,000£105,000
20035£77,000£61,000£96,500
20021£55,000£55,000£55,000
Most recent sales (39)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
25 Aug 20233 DN8 5ULTerraced£165,000
25 Aug 20235 DN8 5ULTerraced£154,000
11 Apr 201419 DN8 5ULDetached£160,000
12 Oct 20121 DN8 5ULSemi-detached£105,000
30 Jul 201017 DN8 5ULTerraced£100,000
28 Aug 20092 DN8 5ULSemi-detached£97,500
25 Jul 200815 DN8 5ULSemi-detached£115,000
25 Jul 20081 DN8 5ULSemi-detached£109,000
7 Dec 200710 DN8 5ULTerraced£126,950
30 Nov 200716 DN8 5ULTerraced£120,000
7 Apr 20069 DN8 5ULTerraced£102,250
16 May 20053 DN8 5ULTerraced£115,000
29 Apr 20051 DN8 5ULSemi-detached£106,000
22 Apr 200515 DN8 5ULSemi-detached£98,000
10 Sep 20044 DN8 5ULTerraced£91,000
2 Jul 200414 DN8 5ULSemi-detached£105,000
19 Dec 20038 DN8 5ULTerraced£96,500
31 Oct 20034 DN8 5ULTerraced£77,000
27 Oct 20037 DN8 5ULSemi-detached£95,500
3 Feb 200310 DN8 5ULTerraced£73,000
3 Feb 200314 DN8 5ULSemi-detached£61,000
19 Apr 200210 DN8 5ULTerraced£55,000
28 Feb 200111 DN8 5ULDetached£72,995New build.
25 Aug 20002 DN8 5ULSemi-detached£38,795New build.
18 Aug 20003 DN8 5ULTerraced£41,995New build.
1 Aug 200018 DN8 5ULTerraced£41,995New build.
28 Jul 200016 DN8 5ULTerraced£49,995New build.
28 Jul 20006 DN8 5ULSemi-detached£46,995New build.
28 Jul 20007 DN8 5ULSemi-detached£46,995New build.
28 Jul 20005 DN8 5ULTerraced£41,995New build.
28 Jul 200017 DN8 5ULTerraced£35,995New build.
23 Jul 20004 DN8 5ULTerraced£35,995New build.
21 Jul 20008 DN8 5ULTerraced£41,995New build.
21 Jul 200015 DN8 5ULSemi-detached£38,995New build.
14 Jul 200010 DN8 5ULTerraced£41,995New build.
14 Jul 200014 DN8 5ULSemi-detached£38,995New build.
30 Jun 20001 DN8 5ULSemi-detached£38,995New build.
30 Jun 20009 DN8 5ULTerraced£35,995New build.
16 Jun 200019 DN8 5ULDetached£67,500New build.

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 13 October 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from June 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 59 m². Most common: House, end-terrace (4); House, semi-detached (2); House, detached (2). Built: 1996-2002 (7); 2003-2006 (1); 1991-1995 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (4); rented (private) (4).

Council tax

What each band costs in Doncaster in 2026-27: Band D £2,168 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,445£1,686£1,927£2,168£2,649£3,131£3,613£4,336

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (65% of about 1,130 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 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, 0 at medium risk and 14 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 17 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 0 medium, 14 low and 3 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: the 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.

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.

Height above sea level

The street's addresses are about 3 m above sea level.

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
DN8 5UL100%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 stationsThorne North 179,000 journeys in 2024–25560 m (0.3 miles)
Thorne South 67,000 journeys in 2024–251.3 km (0.8 miles)
Hatfield and Stainforth 72,000 journeys in 2024–254.4 km (2.7 miles)
Bus stops2 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 30 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Field Side/Foundry Lane Thorne280 m
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Ionity Thorne710 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsHumberside Airport HUY41.2 km (26 miles)
Nearest large airportLeeds Bradford Airport LBA53.7 km (33 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 Northfield Surgery330 m
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Weldricks Pharmacy330 m
NHS dentists4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Thorne Dental Clinic330 m
HospitalDoncaster Royal Infirmary12.9 km (8 miles)
Police stationHumberside Police12.2 km (7.6 miles)
Cash machinesGo Local, Thorne Cashzone1 km (0.6 miles)

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Toll Bar Leisure Park 5.2 ha240 m
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 410 m²630 m (0.4 miles)
Playing fieldUnnamed 2.7 ha1.2 km (0.8 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 1.1 ha1 km (0.6 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 9.0 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Peel Hill motte and bailey castle, Thorne., a scheduled monument, 690 m (0.4 miles) east. 18 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Peel Hill motte and bailey castle, Thorne.Scheduled monument690 m (0.4 miles) east
Church of St NicholasListed building, Grade I710 m (0.4 miles) east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
The DelvesLake or reservoir450 m (0.3 miles) north-west
Bradholme HillHill1.9 km (1.2 miles) south-east
Blackshaw CloughValley2.7 km (1.7 miles) north
Tudworth HillHill3.1 km (1.9 miles) south
Stone HillHill4 km (2.5 miles) south
Tideworth Hague GorseWood4 km (2.5 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)8.04010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.2205
Particles (PM10)12.74015

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
55 to 5910
Under 551718

1 of the street's 18 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

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
Green TopPrimary3–11800 m (0.5 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Thorne King Edward Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Trinity Academy ChristianSecondary11–181.2 km (0.7 miles) Good (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Brooke Primary AcademyPrimary2–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)

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
The Old Lockside Tearoom DN8 5ETRetailers - other120 m3 Generally satisfactory6 Nov 2025
Adeline House DN8 5AQHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises170 m5 Very good27 Nov 2024
Little Shop DN8 5AARetailers - other280 m5 Very good12 Feb 2026
Harry Priestley House DN8 4BQHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises310 m5 Very good22 May 2025
The Windmill DN8 5AAPub/bar/nightclub330 m5 Very good12 Oct 2026
Hesley Group King Street DN8 5AUHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises370 m5 Very good27 Jul 2026
The Barge Inn DN8 5EPPub/bar/nightclub390 m4 Good13 Jun 2024
L&J at The Barge Inn Kitchen DN8 5EPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen390 m5 Very good4 Dec 2025
Taste Chinese Takeaway DN8 5AUTakeaway/sandwich shop390 m3 Generally satisfactory3 Feb 2026
Puffs & Pops DN8 5TWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good30 Jun 2025
Spice Hut DN8 5TWTakeaway/sandwich shop430 m (0.3 miles)4 Good30 Apr 2026
Superdrug Stores Plc DN8 5DERetailers - other460 m (0.3 miles)Exempt
Thorne Methodist Church DN8 5BARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good27 Feb 2025
Thornes Best Kebab DN8 5TWTakeaway/sandwich shop460 m (0.3 miles)3 Generally satisfactory5 Jun 2025
Rhodes Of Thorne ltd DN8 5DEManufacturers/packers480 m (0.3 miles)3 Generally satisfactory17 Feb 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.

30 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences16
Anti-social behaviour4
Criminal damage and arson3
Burglary2
Possession of weapons1
Robbery1
Vehicle crime1
Other crime1
Public order1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Lock Hill (10); On or near Dunstan Walk (4); On or near Lock Lane (3); On or near Windlass Close (3); On or near Wharfe Crescent (2).

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: 337 residents in 165 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 age4540
Children under 1513%17%
Aged 65 and over18%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)61%61%
Owned outright27%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented4%17%
Private rented34%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work69%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)18%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)20%32%
Travel to work by car or van64%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram3%4%
By any public transport, including bus6%8%
On foot or by bicycle9%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)45%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away10%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)22%34%
No qualifications19%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification10%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)96%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 3 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

Capstan Way · Rope Walk · Boating Dyke Way · Lock Lane · Dunstan Walk · Ashburnham Road · Wharfe Crescent · Dunstan Drive · Lock Hill · Rope Walk · Union Road · Queen's Court

All the streets in DN8 and across Doncaster.

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.