Yew Tree Close Worcester

15 addresses across 1 postcode (WR5), about 100 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 45001244.

  • Sales: 16 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £312,500 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 6 homes have an energy certificate (C: 2, D: 4).
  • 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 C; Band D in Worcester costs £2,406 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Worcester Shrub Hill, about 1.7 km (1 mile) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Cromwell Crescent Park, is about 200 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.4 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 61 to 62 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 13 of its 15 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Haresfield House Surgery, about 1.5 km (0.9 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 430 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 88% of households owned their home and 38% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 69 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often shoplifting.

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£312,500£312,500£312,500
20212£235,000£210,000£260,000
20201£255,000£255,000£255,000
20171£155,000£155,000£155,000
20141£180,450£180,450£180,450
20131£155,000£155,000£155,000
20081£175,000£175,000£175,000
20061£177,995£177,995£177,995
20041£160,000£160,000£160,000
20031£135,000£135,000£135,000
20011£95,000£95,000£95,000
19981£58,000£58,000£58,000
Most recent sales (16)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
4 Oct 202413 WR5 2LHTerraced£312,500
19 Nov 20218 WR5 2LHTerraced£210,000
30 Apr 202113 WR5 2LHTerraced£260,000
22 Dec 20201 WR5 2LHSemi-detached£255,000
27 Nov 20201 WR5 2LHSemi-detached£255,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
10 Feb 20177 WR5 2LHTerraced£155,000
27 Jun 201413 WR5 2LHTerraced£180,450
16 Aug 20133 WR5 2LHTerraced£155,000
7 Mar 20088 WR5 2LHTerraced£175,000
1 Feb 20061 WR5 2LHSemi-detached£177,995
4 Jun 20041 WR5 2LHSemi-detached£160,000
31 Mar 200314 WR5 2LHTerraced£135,000
3 Apr 200113 WR5 2LHTerraced£95,000
1 Jun 19989 WR5 2LHTerraced£58,000
16 Oct 199714 WR5 2LHTerraced£62,500
9 Jun 19954 WR5 2LHSemi-detached£78,000

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from April 2014 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

6 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 101 m². Most common: House, end-terrace (4); House, mid-terrace (2). Built: 1967-1975 (4); 1976-1982 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (4); rented (private) (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (3 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Worcester in 2026-27: Band D £2,406 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

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£1,604£1,871£2,138£2,406£2,940£3,475£4,010£4,812

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (48% of about 890 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: 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: 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 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 2 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 is in flood zone 2 or 3.

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Height above sea level

The street's 15 addresses are between 61 m and 62 m above sea level (61 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
WR5 2LH100%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 stationsWorcester Shrub Hill 577,000 journeys in 2024–251.7 km (1 mile)
Worcester Foregate Street 1.9 million journeys in 2024–252.2 km (1.4 miles)
Worcestershire Parkway 456,000 journeys in 2024–253.8 km (2.4 miles)
Bus stops9 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 31 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Red Hill Top130 m
Bus or coach stationWorcester Bus Station2.2 km (1.4 miles)
Car parksCity Walls Road Parking1.6 km (1 mile)
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Shell Recharge Charging Station50 m
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX43 km (27 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 Haresfield House Surgery1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Scales Pharmacy1.2 km (0.7 miles)
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Abbotsbury Court Dental Practice1.3 km (0.8 miles)
HospitalUhcw Worcester Spire Hospital1.4 km (0.8 miles)
Police stationWorcester Police Station2.5 km (1.6 miles)
Cash machinesThe Cooperative Food Ronkswood, Ronkswood1.2 km (0.8 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 garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Cromwell Crescent Park 1.3 ha200 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 12 ha730 m (0.5 miles)
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,130 m²780 m (0.5 miles)
Playing fieldUnnamed 4,540 m²1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Foxwell Street Allotments 2.3 ha350 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 13 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Battenhall Mount (former St Mary's Convent School), a listed building (Grade II*), 690 m (0.4 miles) west. 19 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Battenhall Mount (former St Mary's Convent School)Listed building, Grade II*690 m (0.4 miles) west
Moated monastic grange and fishpond complex at Middle Battenhall Farm, 450m north of Upper Battenhall FarmScheduled monument790 m (0.5 miles) south
Fort RoyalScheduled monument1.3 km (0.8 miles) north-west
Civil War fieldwork at Tamar Close, WorcesterScheduled monument1.4 km (0.9 miles) north-west
Battle of Worcester 1651 with Powick Old Bridge 1642Registered battlefield2 km (1.2 miles) south-west
Spetchley ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II*2.7 km (1.7 miles) east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Woodside CoppiceWood550 m (0.3 miles) north-west
Perry WoodWood780 m (0.5 miles) north
Nunnery WoodWood1.2 km (0.7 miles) north-east
Crookbarrow HillHill1.7 km (1 mile) south-east
Leopard HillHill1.9 km (1.2 miles) north
Grove Farm ReservoirLake or reservoir4.3 km (2.7 miles) 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)6.74010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.4205
Particles (PM10)10.94015

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
65 to 6930
60 to 6490
55 to 5910
Under 55215

13 of the street's 15 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 Worcester: see them on the Worcester 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
Nunnery Wood Primary SchoolPrimary4–11390 m Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Nunnery Wood High SchoolSecondary11–16490 m (0.3 miles) Good (Mar 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Red Hill CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–11530 m (0.3 miles) Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Worcester Sixth Form College16 plus16–19690 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Blessed Edward Oldcorne Catholic College Roman CatholicSecondary11–161 km (0.6 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Cherry Orchard Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Perry Wood Primary and Nursery SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Stanley Road Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Feb 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Whittington CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (Jan 2020, 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
Red Hill Care Centre WR5 2JGHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises140 m5 Very good17 Dec 2025
Sushi Daily At Waitrose WR5 2JGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen140 m5 Very good5 Feb 2026
Red Hill Social Club WR5 2ETPub/bar/nightclub310 mExempt
Treetops WR5 1QESchool/college/university390 m5 Very good10 Jul 2026
SGN Whittington BP WR5 2JYRetailers - other400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good17 Oct 2023
The Cosy Corner Bistro WR5 2GNRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good21 Jan 2026
Impact Food Group At Nunnery Wood High School WR5 2LTSchool/college/university490 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good16 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.

69 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Shoplifting38
Violence and sexual offences11
Anti-social behaviour8
Public order3
Robbery3
Burglary2
Other theft2
Vehicle crime1
Criminal damage and arson1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Hillery Road (48); On or near Whittington Gate (10); On or near Yew Tree Close (6); On or near Stuart Rise (3); On or near Livingstone Street (1).

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: 429 residents in 129 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 age4640
Children under 1520%17%
Aged 65 and over29%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)88%61%
Owned outright41%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented0%17%
Private rented12%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work45%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)38%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)36%32%
Travel to work by car or van50%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including busunder 1%8%
On foot or by bicycle11%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)56%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away15%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)38%34%
No qualifications15%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification11%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)91%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all3%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 8 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

  • Energy certificates New energy certificate: band D, house, end-terrace (lodged 27 October 2026) found 2 November 2026

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.

  • WR5 2LH: 15 addresses of 16 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Cromwell Crescent Lane · Cromwell Crescent · Hillery Road · Stuart Rise · Marlborough Street · Livingstone Street · Mortlake Avenue · Blake Street · A44 · Cannon Street · Wychelm Close · Foxwell Street

All the streets in WR5 and across Worcester.

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.