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On South Cross Street, in Delves Lane & Leadgate
What it's like at DH8 6DJ: every home that has sold on South Cross 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.
Sales and extensions on South Cross Street; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
1 of the 35 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 1, South Cross StreetTerraced | Jun 2026 | £34,500 | 72 m² | £479/m² | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7, South Cross StreetTerraced | Jun 2005 | £52,500 | 96 m² | £547/m² | 2 |
| 8, South Cross StreetTerraced | May 2021 | £60,500 | 78 m² | £776/m² | 4 |
| 9, South Cross StreetTerraced | Apr 2011 | £44,750 | 74 m² | £605/m² | 1 |
| 10, South Cross StreetTerraced | Jun 2026 | £76,000 | 110 m² | £691/m² | 2 |
| 12, South Cross StreetTerraced | Mar 1996 | £29,950 | – | – | 1 |
| 13, South Cross StreetTerraced | Mar 2016 | £36,000 | 80 m² | £450/m² | 4 |
| 14, South Cross StreetTerraced | Apr 2022 | £82,500 | 79 m² | £1,044/m² | 2 |
| 15, South Cross StreetTerraced | Jun 2023 | £47,000 | 73 m² | £644/m² | 3 |
| 16, South Cross StreetTerraced | Dec 2005 | £50,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 20, South Cross StreetTerraced | Mar 2023 | £61,500 | 78 m² | £788/m² | 2 |
| 22, South Cross StreetTerraced | Jun 2007 | £82,000 | 81 m² | £1,012/m² | 2 |
| 23, South Cross StreetTerraced | Apr 2005 | £57,000 | 65 m² | £877/m² | 1 |
| 24, South Cross StreetTerraced | Mar 2005 | £40,000 | 79 m² | £506/m² | 2 |
| 28, South Cross StreetTerraced | Aug 2007 | £81,000 | 71 m² | £1,141/m² | 3 |
| 29, South Cross StreetTerraced | Aug 2006 | £70,000 | 81 m² | £864/m² | 1 |
| 31, South Cross StreetTerraced | Jun 2015 | £45,000 | 83 m² | £542/m² | 3 |
| 32, South Cross StreetTerraced | Jul 2024 | £45,250 | 71 m² | £637/m² | 1 |
| 33, South Cross StreetTerraced | Oct 2003 | £37,950 | 74 m² | £513/m² | 3 |
| 36, South Cross StreetTerraced | Jul 2021 | £67,000 | 86 m² | £779/m² | 4 |
| 38, South Cross StreetTerraced | Oct 2002 | £28,500 | – | – | 2 |
| 39, South Cross StreetTerraced · company-owned | Aug 2024 | £70,000 | 64 m² | £1,094/m² | 4 |
| 41, South Cross StreetTerraced | Mar 2007 | £72,000 | 75 m² | £960/m² | 1 |
| 42, South Cross StreetTerraced | Jun 2019 | £60,000 | 70 m² | £857/m² | 2 |
| 43, South Cross StreetTerraced | Jun 2005 | £67,500 | 68 m² | £993/m² | 1 |
| 46, South Cross StreetTerraced | May 2025 | £20,000 | 75 m² | £267/m² | 1 |
| 48, South Cross StreetTerraced | Nov 2017 | £46,000 | 76 m² | £605/m² | 2 |
| 49, South Cross StreetTerraced | Jan 2007 | £70,000 | 67 m² | £1,045/m² | 3 |
| 50, South Cross StreetTerraced | Jul 1996 | £17,000 | 86 m² | £198/m² | 1 |
| 52, South Cross StreetTerraced | Jun 2020 | £60,000 | 80 m² | £750/m² | 3 |
| 55, South Cross StreetTerraced | Sept 2022 | £55,000 | 65 m² | £846/m² | 5 |
| 56, South Cross StreetTerraced | Mar 2024 | £46,625 | – | – | 1 |
| 58, South Cross StreetTerraced | Feb 2022 | £78,000 | 85 m² | £918/m² | 2 |
| 63, South Cross StreetTerraced | Jun 2007 | £75,000 | 64 m² | £1,172/m² | 2 |
| 64, South Cross StreetTerraced | Oct 1998 | £26,500 | 79 m² | £335/m² | 1 |
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 (12 km), with 52k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Newcastle.
The nearest bus stop is Front Street, 100 m away, with a bus about every 8 minutes on weekdays (routes 78, 16, X15, V5); 44 departures an hour from the 13 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Work usually means a journey: the nearest place with 5,000 or more jobs is about 47 minutes away by public transport (26 by car).
The nearest primary school is Leadgate Primary School - Split Site, a few minutes' walk (400 m); 47% met the expected standard.
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.
The nearest supermarket is The Co-Operative Food, 150 m away; Best One - Khan's Foodstore (150 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Leadgate Surgery (150 m), with Leadgate Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (150 m).
For a haircut, The Man Cave is 200 m away.
The nearest full A&E is University Hospital North Durham, 15 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).
It's quiet in the evenings: only 7 restaurants, cafés and pubs in the neighbourhood itself.
Little Italy is the closest café or restaurant (300 m), and Leadgate Cricket & Social Club the nearest pub (150 m).
Crime is around the national middle: about 92 per 1,000 residents a year.
It's a mix of homes: 3% flats and 18% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1955-1964.
It's growing: about 158 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Blackhill & Consett Park, 2.0 km away; for exercise, Consett Leisure Centre (1.4 km).
The air is clean: background nitrogen dioxide is 5.0 µg/m³, among the lowest in the country.
For holidays, Newcastle is 22 km away, and Manchester, with far more destinations, 169 km.
Most households own their home, 18% 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.
25 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%.
4 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 6DJ →
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 | 2.2% | 1.2% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.1% | 0.5% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 96.9% | 93.3% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.8% | 2.9% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 1.7% | 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 38 min
Nearest: Haltwhistle Swimming & Leisure Centre · about 47 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.
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 35 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.