Wretham Road Birmingham

79 addresses across 3 postcodes (B19), about 220 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 2702526.

  • Sales: 8 recorded sales since 1995; in 2019 the median was £230,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 48 homes have an energy certificate (C: 17, D: 20, E: 10, F: 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 A; Band D in Birmingham costs £2,363 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Jewellery Quarter, about 1.1 km (0.7 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 260 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 17.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 8.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 128 to 133 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 24 of its 79 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Modality Birmingham, about 340 m away, with 11 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 1,240 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 30% of households owned their home and 25% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 428 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
20191£230,000£230,000£230,000
20141£190,000£190,000£190,000
20021£77,000£77,000£77,000
19991£64,000£64,000£64,000
19981£54,000£54,000£54,000
19961£45,000£45,000£45,000
19951£41,500£41,500£41,500
Most recent sales (8)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
28 Aug 201914 B19 1EDTerraced£208,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
12 Jul 201941 B19 1EDTerraced£230,000
22 Dec 201422 B19 1EDTerraced£190,000
5 Sep 200215 B19 1EDSemi-detached£77,000
8 Jan 199922 B19 1EDSemi-detached£64,000
16 Jan 199828 B19 1EDTerraced£54,000
4 Jul 199630 B19 1EDTerraced£45,000
9 Jun 199514 B19 1EDTerraced£41,500

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.

48 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 76 m². Most common: Flat (28); House, mid-terrace (9); House, end-terrace (6). Built: 1900-1929 (27); before 1900 (11); 1976-1982 (7). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (24); owner-occupied (12); rented (private) (6).

Each home's certificates and sales (21 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Birmingham in 2026-27: Band D £2,363 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,575£1,838£2,100£2,363£2,888£3,413£3,938£4,726

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band A (78% of about 1,330 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 2 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) 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, Lozells and Soho Hill Conservation Area (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 3.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): CITY WIDE HMO.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Listed buildings

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 31 October 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 2 at medium risk and 0 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
B19 1EDnot in 2 or 3 0 / 2 / 0 unlikely
B19 1DBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
B19 1EBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 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 81 addresses are between 128 m and 133 m above sea level (131 m on average); the ground rises about 5 m from the lowest to the highest.

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
B19 1DB100%100%100%0%
B19 1EB100%100%100%0%
B19 1ED100%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 stationsJewellery Quarter 446,000 journeys in 2024–251.1 km (0.7 miles)
Birmingham Snow Hill 3.2 million journeys in 2024–252.1 km (1.3 miles)
Perry Barr 185,000 journeys in 2024–252.3 km (1.4 miles)
Underground, metro or tramSoho Benson Road (West Midlands Metro)930 m (0.6 miles)
Jewellery Quarter (West Midlands Metro)1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Winson Green Outer Circle (West Midlands Metro)1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Bus stops12 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 49 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Richmond Road Hockley70 m
Bus or coach stationBirmingham Coach Station Digbeth3.2 km (2 miles)
Car parksBaker Street Car Park1.2 km (0.8 miles)
EV charging points13 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Shell Recharge Charging Station380 m
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX12.6 km (7.8 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 surgeries11 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Modality Birmingham340 m
Pharmacies21 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Nishkam Pharmacy Villa Road340 m
NHS dentists13 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Farm Street (Dental Surgery)520 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalBirmingham City Hospital1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Police stationThornhill Road Police Station890 m (0.6 miles)
Cash machinesATM910 m (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 garden6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.4 ha260 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 5.4 ha440 m (0.3 miles)
Play area5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,130 m²240 m
Playing fieldUnnamed 1.3 ha860 m (0.5 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Matthew Boulton Allotments 2,140 m²760 m (0.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 6 parks and gardens, 15 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Convent of Our Lady of Mercy, a listed building (Grade II*), 200 m east. 72 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 5 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Convent of Our Lady of MercyListed building, Grade II*200 m east
Soho HouseListed building, Grade II*360 m west
Icknield Street School (St Chad's Roman Catholic Annexe)Listed building, Grade II*530 m (0.3 miles) south
King Edward VI Handsworth School for Girls with boundary gates, railings and piersListed building, Grade II*540 m (0.3 miles) north-west
Key Hill CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II*900 m (0.6 miles) south
Warstone Lane CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.2 km (0.7 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Soho LoopLake or reservoir1.3 km (0.8 miles) south-west
Icknield Port LoopLake or reservoir2.2 km (1.3 miles) south
Halfmoon PlantationWood2.9 km (1.8 miles) north
Perry ReservoirLake or reservoir3.8 km (2.4 miles) north
Garden GroveWood3.9 km (2.4 miles) north
Brookvale ParkLake or reservoir4.2 km (2.6 miles) north-east

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)17.34010
Fine particles (PM2.5)8.2205
Particles (PM10)12.94015

All three are within the UK legal limits; nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 are above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
70 to 7430
60 to 6420
55 to 59190
Under 555579

24 of the street's 79 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 Birmingham: see them on the Birmingham page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 3 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
St Francis Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–11270 m 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
Nishkam Primary School Birmingham SikhPrimary4–11500 m (0.3 miles) No overall grade (Apr 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Anglesey Primary SchoolPrimary3–11500 m (0.3 miles) Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Michael's CofE Primary Academy, Handsworth Church of EnglandPrimary4–11540 m (0.3 miles) Outstanding (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
King Edward VI Handsworth SchoolSecondary11–18570 m (0.4 miles) No overall grade (Dec 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Welford Primary SchoolPrimary3–11630 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Nishkam High School SikhSecondary11–19780 m (0.5 miles) No overall grade (Mar 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Oasis Academy BensonPrimary3–11890 m (0.6 miles) Inadequate (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Brookfields Primary SchoolPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Heathfield Primary SchoolPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Lozells Junior and Infant School and NurseryPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Holte SchoolSecondary11–181.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)

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
St Francis Centre B19 1EDOther catering premises40 m5 Very good16 Apr 2020
Handsworth Masonic Hall B19 1EDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen40 m4 Good6 Feb 2018
Midlands Vietnamese Community Associ B19 1DARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen90 m5 Very good2 Feb 2010
PRIME PERI PERI LIMITED B19 1AYRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen110 mAwaiting inspection
Life Style Express B19 1DBRetailers - other130 m4 Good4 Aug 2026
Admas B19 1AFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen140 m1 Major improvement necessary17 Mar 2026
Q CHIDO B19 1EBMobile caterer170 mAwaiting inspection
Eliana Habesha Cafe B19 1AYRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen180 mAwaiting inspection
Asthan babe Ke Trust B19 1AAOther catering premises200 m5 Very good28 Feb 2024
Hill House B18 5NDHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises210 m5 Very good18 Aug 2026
Blue's Caribbean Hut B19 1AYTakeaway/sandwich shop230 m5 Very good21 Dec 2023
Chucky's Chippy B19 1AATakeaway/sandwich shop270 m2 Improvement necessary22 Apr 2026
Hockley Convenience Store B19 1AARetailers - other270 m2 Improvement necessary11 Dec 2025
Jerk And Grill / Cookielicious B19 1AXTakeaway/sandwich shop270 m5 Very good20 Sep 2023
Cj's Ghetto Kitchen B19 1AXTakeaway/sandwich shop270 m4 Good14 Jul 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.

428 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences236
Criminal damage and arson32
Burglary26
Public order26
Vehicle crime22
Other theft17
Anti-social behaviour15
Drugs15
Possession of weapons15
Theft from the person8
Robbery7
Other crime5
Bicycle theft3
Shoplifting1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Charleville Road (99); On or near Naden Road (69); On or near B4124 (63); On or near Hunters Road (37); On or near Oak Bank (31).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 3 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 1,240 residents in 375 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 age3040
Children under 1524%17%
Aged 65 and over9%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)30%61%
Owned outright16%33%
Shared ownership2%1%
Social rented49%17%
Private rented19%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work41%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)19%6%
Retired (of adults)10%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)7%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)17%32%
Travel to work by car or van50%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram3%4%
By any public transport, including bus16%8%
On foot or by bicycle10%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)74%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away9%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)25%34%
No qualifications27%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)74%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all10%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhoods around this street are all 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.

  • B19 1ED: 75 addresses of 77 in the postcode
  • B19 1DB: 3 addresses of 50 in the postcode
  • B19 1EB: 1 address of 55 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Lunar Place · Charleville Road · Spring Grove · Naden Road · Abbots Way · Richmond Road · Oak Bank · Soho Hill · Claremont Road · Weston Road · Park Avenue · South Road

All the streets in B19 and across Birmingham.

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.