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On Wardle Street, in Stanley West & Annfield Plain
What it's like at DH9 7EX: every home that has sold on Wardle 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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Compared with all 7,264 neighbourhoods in England and Wales (council well-being: all councils). Open a tab below for the detail.
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.
3 homes on the street extended (energy certificates). 3 homes have a new energy certificate in the last 6 months and no sale since: often a sign of a sale or let coming.
Sales and extensions on Wardle Street; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 25 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 1, Wardle StreetTerraced | May 2015 | £35,000 | 75 m² | £467/m² | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2, Wardle StreetTerraced | Apr 2023 | £57,000 | 72 m² | £792/m² | 4 |
| 3, Wardle StreetTerraced | Apr 2021 | £50,000 | 91 m² | £549/m² | 3 |
| 5, Wardle StreetTerraced | Jul 2023 | £57,000 | 72 m² | £792/m² | 3 |
| 6, Wardle StreetTerraced | Jan 2022 | £41,000 | 72 m² | £569/m² | 2 |
| 7, Wardle StreetTerraced | Jan 2008 | £63,500 | 72 m² | £882/m² | 1 |
| 8, Wardle StreetTerraced | Jul 2023 | £56,500 | 60 m² | £942/m² | 1 |
| 10, Wardle StreetTerraced | Jan 2015 | £18,000 | 72 m² | £250/m² | 1 |
| 11, Wardle StreetTerraced | Dec 2020 | £40,500 | 71 m² | £570/m² | 2 |
| 12, Wardle StreetTerraced | Mar 2022 | £55,000 | 72 m² | £764/m² | 3 |
| 13, Wardle StreetTerraced | Dec 2022 | £52,000 | 72 m² | £722/m² | 4 |
| 15, Wardle StreetTerraced | Nov 2006 | £59,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 16, Wardle StreetTerraced | Nov 2020 | £55,000 | 72 m² | £764/m² | 5 |
| 17, Wardle StreetTerraced | Sept 2007 | £67,800 | – | – | 2 |
| 18, Wardle StreetTerraced | Nov 2005 | £68,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 20, Wardle StreetTerraced | Jun 2025 | £66,000 | 73 m² | £904/m² | 2 |
| 21, Wardle StreetTerraced | Sept 2021 | £58,000 | 72 m² | £806/m² | 5 |
| 22, Wardle StreetTerraced | Mar 2026 | £39,950 | – | – | 3 |
| 23, Wardle StreetTerraced | Sept 1995 | £11,000 | 70 m² | £157/m² | 1 |
| 24, Wardle StreetTerraced | Jul 1998 | £15,500 | 101 m² | £153/m² | 1 |
| 25, Wardle StreetTerraced | Dec 2005 | £56,000 | 72 m² | £778/m² | 3 |
| 27, Wardle StreetTerraced | Jun 2006 | £55,000 | 83 m² | £663/m² | 3 |
| 28, Wardle StreetTerraced | Apr 2015 | £72,000 | 105 m² | £686/m² | 1 |
| 29, Wardle StreetTerraced | Sept 2010 | £46,000 | 90 m² | £511/m² | 2 |
| 33, Wardle StreetTerraced | Sept 2017 | £50,000 | 69 m² | £725/m² | 2 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Chester-le-Street, a drive away (8.0 km), with 232k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Newcastle.
The nearest bus stop is Wardle Street, 50 m away, with fewer than one bus an hour on weekdays (route 6); 19 departures an hour from the 8 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Work usually means a journey: the nearest place with 5,000 or more jobs is about 44 minutes away by public transport (21 by car).
The nearest primary school is Greenland Community Primary School, a few minutes' walk (250 m); 75% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is North Durham Academy, 2.0 km away; Attainment 8: 39.8 · 4.3% of GCSEs at 8–9.
The nearest supermarket is Asda, 1.4 km away, with Isha's Mini Store closer still (550 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Tanfield View Medical Group (1.7 km), with Taylors Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (700 m).
For a haircut, S.D Hairdressing is 600 m away.
The nearest full A&E is University Hospital North Durham, 11 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: 8 restaurants and cafés, 8 pubs and bars.
Quaking Houses Village Hall is the closest café or restaurant (600 m), and South Moor Sports and Community Club the nearest pub (250 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (12 of them).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 173 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
It's a mix of homes: 6% flats and 10% detached houses.
Most homes are Victorian or Edwardian: 57% were built before 1919.
It's growing: about 106 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Memorial Park, 200 m away; for exercise, Ruthless Fitness (1.5 km).
The air is clean: background nitrogen dioxide is 5.4 µg/m³, among the lowest in the country.
For holidays, Newcastle is 20 km away, and Manchester, with far more destinations, 171 km.
Most households own their home, 29% 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.
10 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.
North Durham constituency: Luke Akehurst MP (Labour), since July 2024. 2024 general election: Lab hold, majority 5,873 (14.1%), turnout 57%. Vote shares: Labour 40%, Reform UK 26%, Conservative 16%, Liberal Democrat 10%.
3 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 DH9 7EX →
No crimes recorded "on or near" Wardle Street in the last 12 months.
National infrastructure projects and headline schemes only, not local planning applications. See them all on a map.
On this street: 0 of 21 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 | 0.2% | 1.2% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.1% | 0.5% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 97.8% | 93.3% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.3% | 2.9% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 1.4% | 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 32 min
Nearest: Haltwhistle Swimming & Leisure Centre · about 53 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.