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On Pemberton Avenue, in Bridgehill, Castleside & Harehope Hill
What it's like at DH8 8AN: every home that has sold on Pemberton Avenue 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.
1 home on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Pemberton Avenue; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
5 of the 33 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 2, Pemberton AvenueTerraced | Apr 2024 | £70,000 | 83 m² | £843/m² | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4, Pemberton AvenueTerraced · company-owned | Jan 2024 | £80,000 | 82 m² | £976/m² | 4 |
| 5, Pemberton AvenueSemi-detached | Jan 2025 | £160,000 | 109 m² | £1,468/m² | 3 |
| 6, Pemberton AvenueTerraced | Aug 2003 | £21,000 | 86 m² | £244/m² | 1 |
| 8, Pemberton AvenueTerraced | Jul 2006 | £69,500 | – | – | 2 |
| 10, Pemberton AvenueSemi-detached | Jan 2021 | £78,000 | 84 m² | £929/m² | 2 |
| 13, Pemberton AvenueTerraced | Nov 2022 | £88,000 | 88 m² | £1,000/m² | 1 |
| 14, Pemberton AvenueTerraced | Dec 2018 | £35,000 | 95 m² | £368/m² | 3 |
| 18, Pemberton AvenueTerraced | Nov 2004 | £41,000 | 78 m² | £526/m² | 2 |
| 19, Pemberton AvenueTerraced · company-owned | Jun 2026 | £38,500 | 73 m² | £527/m² | 3 |
| 20, Pemberton AvenueTerraced · company-owned | Apr 2024 | £44,500 | 78 m² | £571/m² | 3 |
| 21, Pemberton AvenueSemi-detached | Feb 2004 | £33,500 | – | – | 2 |
| 22, Pemberton AvenueTerraced | Aug 2008 | £83,000 | 73 m² | £1,137/m² | 2 |
| 24, Pemberton AvenueTerraced | Jul 2019 | £71,000 | 82 m² | £866/m² | 5 |
| 26, Pemberton AvenueTerraced | May 2003 | £22,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 28, Pemberton AvenueTerraced | Jan 2015 | £30,000 | 75 m² | £400/m² | 3 |
| 30, Pemberton AvenueTerraced | Apr 2012 | £30,000 | 92 m² | £326/m² | 4 |
| 32, Pemberton AvenueSemi-detached | Oct 2022 | £88,000 | 81 m² | £1,086/m² | 1 |
| 38, Pemberton AvenueTerraced | Jul 2009 | £55,000 | 84 m² | £655/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 (12 km), with 52k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Newcastle.
The nearest bus stop is Schools, 50 m away, with a bus about every 30 minutes on weekdays (routes X15, X5, SB7, 808); 19 departures an hour from the 7 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Work usually means a journey: the nearest place with 5,000 or more jobs is about 56 minutes away by public transport (29 by car).
The nearest primary school is St Pius Xth Catholic Primary School, Consett, a few minutes' walk (100 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, 2.3 km away; Attainment 8: 44.2 · 9.1% of GCSEs at 8–9.
The nearest supermarket is Tesco, 1.1 km away, with Deneburn Stores G & G Retailers closer still (250 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Moorside Surgery (700 m), with Moorside Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (750 m).
For a haircut, Bella Sorella is 1.6 km away.
The nearest full A&E is University Hospital North Durham, 19 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).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 10 restaurants and cafés, 5 pubs and bars.
Sweet Things Cafe is the closest café or restaurant (850 m), and Blackhill Club the nearest pub (1.5 km).
Crime is around the national middle: about 89 per 1,000 residents a year.
There are 47 listed buildings.
It's a mix of homes: 5% flats and 20% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1955-1964.
It's growing: about 180 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is The Heaps Country Park, 700 m away; for exercise, Steel Town Gym (1.6 km).
The air is clean: background nitrogen dioxide is 3.7 µg/m³, among the lowest in the country.
For holidays, Newcastle is 24 km away, and Manchester, with far more destinations, 168 km.
Most households own their home, 14% 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.
6 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%.
8 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 8AN →
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 33 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 25 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 | 1.7% | 1.2% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.2% | 0.5% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 95.9% | 93.3% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 1.6% | 2.9% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 1.2% | 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 Beach · about 46 min
Nearest: Haltwhistle Swimming & Leisure Centre · about 39 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.