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On George Street, in Consett
What it's like at DH8 0AE: every home that has sold on George Street since 1995 and who owns them, what's happening down the road, crime on the street, a day in the life, history on the doorstep and what's changing nearby. Moving, buying, selling, improving or investing? Pick a lens above for what matters to you.
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ORR, DfE, police.uk, OS Terrain 50 and Open Greenspace, Forestry Commission, Defra noise maps (England), Xoserve. Every distance: Moving; radon, ground and flood checks: Buying.
2 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on George Street; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 36 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 1, George StreetSemi-detached | Jul 2024 | £172,000 | 117 m² | £1,470/m² | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2, George StreetTerraced | Feb 2017 | £115,000 | 86 m² | £1,337/m² | 2 |
| 3, George StreetSemi-detached | Aug 2023 | £175,000 | 117 m² | £1,496/m² | 1 |
| 4, George StreetTerraced | Jul 1996 | £48,000 | 83 m² | £578/m² | 1 |
| 5, George StreetTerraced | Mar 2024 | £178,000 | 122 m² | £1,459/m² | 3 |
| 6, George StreetTerraced | Mar 2021 | £126,000 | 86 m² | £1,465/m² | 1 |
| 8, George StreetTerraced | Nov 2021 | £130,000 | 87 m² | £1,494/m² | 2 |
| 9, George StreetTerraced | Oct 2022 | £150,000 | 96 m² | £1,563/m² | 5 |
| 11, George StreetTerraced | Jan 2022 | £127,500 | 142 m² | £898/m² | 3 |
| 12, George StreetSemi-detached | Apr 2007 | £107,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 13, George StreetTerraced | Oct 1999 | £38,500 | 73 m² | £527/m² | 2 |
| 16, George StreetTerraced | Dec 2024 | £82,000 | 100 m² | £820/m² | 1 |
| 17, George StreetTerraced | Nov 2003 | £59,950 | – | – | 3 |
| 18, George StreetTerraced | Nov 2000 | £27,375 | 84 m² | £326/m² | 1 |
| 21, George StreetTerraced | May 2024 | £125,500 | 86 m² | £1,459/m² | 5 |
| 23, George StreetTerraced | Jan 2007 | £104,995 | 108 m² | £972/m² | 2 |
| 25, George StreetTerraced | Nov 2014 | £92,000 | 159 m² | £579/m² | 3 |
| 27, George StreetSemi-detached | May 2003 | £66,950 | – | – | 2 |
| 28, George StreetSemi-detached | Apr 2021 | £135,000 | 94 m² | £1,436/m² | 5 |
| 32, George StreetSemi-detached | Nov 2025 | £131,000 | 91 m² | £1,440/m² | 3 |
| 33, George StreetTerraced | Jul 2026 | £125,000 | 96 m² | £1,302/m² | 7 |
| 35, George StreetTerraced | Mar 2006 | £68,000 | 88 m² | £773/m² | 2 |
| 37, George StreetTerraced | Feb 2007 | £95,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 41, George StreetTerraced | Nov 2022 | £86,000 | 86 m² | £1,000/m² | 5 |
| 43, George StreetTerraced | Jan 2023 | £85,000 | 73 m² | £1,164/m² | 2 |
| 45, George StreetTerraced | Aug 2021 | £96,000 | 67 m² | £1,433/m² | 5 |
| 53, George StreetTerraced | Jan 2017 | £115,000 | 121 m² | £950/m² | 2 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Stocksfield, a drive away (10 km), with 52k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Newcastle.
The nearest bus stop is Tuckers shop, 150 m away, with a bus about every 27 minutes on weekdays (routes 16, 773, 689); 27 departures an hour from the 16 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Work usually means a journey: the nearest place with 5,000 or more jobs is about 48 minutes away by public transport (26 by car).
The nearest primary school is Benfieldside Primary School, a few minutes' walk (400 m).
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Consett Academy, 1.3 km away; Attainment 8: 44.2 · 9.1% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Few families with young children: only 14% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is Tesco, 200 m away; Londis Blackhill (150 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Queens Road Surgery (550 m), with John Low the closest pharmacy (550 m).
For a haircut, Jeffs Gents Barber is 1.1 km away.
The nearest full A&E is University Hospital North Durham, 17 km away, rated good by the CQC.
At its trust, 59% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 64% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 13 weeks).
Evenings out are on the doorstep: 29 restaurants and cafés and 31 pubs and bars in the neighbourhood.
Sweethart is the closest café or restaurant (150 m), and The Cricketers the nearest pub (350 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (21 of them).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 140 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
It's a mix of homes: 7% flats and 15% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1919-1929.
The nearest park is Blackhill & Consett Park, 800 m away; for exercise, Steel Town Gym (1.2 km).
The air is clean: background nitrogen dioxide is 5.2 µg/m³, among the lowest in the country.
For holidays, Newcastle is 22 km away, and Manchester, with far more destinations, 170 km.
Most households own their home, 25% rent privately.
Written from the figures on this page: Census 2021, DfT journey times (2019), NaPTAN/ORR, Ofsted, CQC, FSA, police.uk and planning registers. Figures describe the neighbourhood around the street.
32 places on this map are within about a 10-minute walk.
Walking times are estimates from straight-line distance. Food businesses from the FSA food hygiene register; schools from the DfE register; nurseries from Ofsted's childcare register; care homes from the Care Quality Commission; pools, sports halls, tennis and golf from Sport England Active Places (contains data © Sport England); everything else © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Map © OpenFreeMap, OpenMapTiles, OpenStreetMap contributors.
Blaydon and Consett constituency: Liz Twist MP (Labour), since June 2017. 2024 general election: Lab hold, majority 11,153 (26.4%), turnout 60%. Vote shares: Labour 50%, Reform UK 24%, Conservative 14%, Green Party 6%.
9 new homes, planning permissions and school changes on record within 2 km, plus energy projects, road works, storm overflows and major infrastructure. Everything changing near DH8 0AE →
Tap a type to see what it covers and how it has changed in County Durham since 2011.
police.uk, 2025-09 to 2026-08. Crimes are mapped to the nearest of a set of anonymised points and labelled with that point's street, so busy roads and junctions collect crimes from nearby; the street has about 36 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
On this street: 0 of 30 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 0 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 1.3% | 1.2% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.2% | 0.5% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 98.3% | 93.3% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.1% | 2.9% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 1.1% | 2.2% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.0% | 0.0% | 2.1% |
From each home's latest energy certificate, so panels or heat pumps fitted since aren't counted and the shares are lower than today's real figures. Compare areas in the data explorer.
Nearest: Seaham Hall Beach · about 40 min
Nearest: Haltwhistle Swimming & Leisure Centre · about 44 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.