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On The Crofts, in Stanhope & Weardale
What it's like at DL13 3BA: every home that has sold on The Crofts 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.
1 home on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on The Crofts; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 24 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 2, The CroftsTerraced | Nov 2023 | £162,000 | 79 m² | £2,051/m² | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3, The CroftsTerraced | Jun 2005 | £98,000 | 79 m² | £1,241/m² | 1 |
| 4, The CroftsTerraced | Jan 2024 | £100,000 | 70 m² | £1,429/m² | 1 |
| 12, The CroftsTerraced | Jun 2016 | £102,000 | 83 m² | £1,229/m² | 1 |
| 13, The CroftsTerraced | Jan 2025 | £175,000 | 84 m² | £2,083/m² | 1 |
| 15, The CroftsSemi-detached | Apr 2006 | £119,950 | – | – | 3 |
| 16, The CroftsTerraced | Apr 2026 | £155,000 | 83 m² | £1,867/m² | 2 |
| 17, The CroftsTerraced | Feb 2019 | £130,000 | 84 m² | £1,548/m² | 3 |
| 18, The CroftsTerraced | Nov 2023 | £125,000 | 71 m² | £1,761/m² | 4 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Bishop Auckland, a drive away (16 km), with 169k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Darlington.
The nearest bus stop is Market Place, 200 m away, with a bus about every 33 minutes on weekdays (routes 101, 51, 101C, 101D); 7 departures an hour from the 5 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Work usually means a journey: the nearest place with 5,000 or more jobs is about 84 minutes away by public transport (48 by car).
The nearest primary school is Wolsingham Primary School, about a 10-minute walk (700 m); 76% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Wolsingham School, 650 m away; Attainment 8: 44.7 · 11.8% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Few families with young children: only 13% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is Lakes and Dales Co-Operative, 4.8 km away, with Front Street Food & Wine closer still (250 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Tow Law Surgery (4.9 km), with Wolsingham Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (300 m).
For a haircut, Salon 34 is 200 m away.
The nearest full A&E is University Hospital North Durham, 28 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: 15 restaurants and cafés, 21 pubs and bars.
The Black Bull is the closest café or restaurant (250 m), and Wolsingham Constitutional Club & Institute the nearest pub (300 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 57 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
Much of it is protected: 43% of postcodes sit in a conservation area (Stanhope, Wolsingham).
There are 368 listed buildings.
It's a mix of homes: 4% flats and 33% detached houses.
Most homes are Victorian or Edwardian: 59% were built before 1919.
The nearest park is Duck Lane, 550 m away; for exercise, Wolsingham Community Pool (550 m).
The air is clean: background nitrogen dioxide is 2.0 µg/m³, among the lowest in the country.
For holidays, Newcastle is 39 km away, and Manchester, with far more destinations, 155 km.
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.
| Building | Grade | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Wall on West Side of Garden to Rear of Whitfield House | II | 160 m |
| Former Chapel and Buildings Adjoining | II | 170 m |
| 27-29 and 31, Front Street | II* | 180 m |
| Whitfield House | II* | 180 m |
| Whitfield House Cottage | II | 180 m |
Grade I and II* are the most important few per cent. Listing means consent is needed for most changes, inside and out. Contains Historic England data © Historic England 2026 (via planning.data.gov.uk), OGL.
Plaques recorded by Open Plaques (openplaques.org), a volunteer project; its data is public domain. Not every plaque is recorded.
Bishop Auckland constituency: Dr Sam Rushworth MP (Labour), since July 2024. 2024 general election: Lab gain from Con, majority 6,672 (16.5%), turnout 57%. Vote shares: Labour 42%, Conservative 26%, Reform UK 23%, Green Party 5%.
2 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 DL13 3BA →
Neighbours tend to stay put: 48% of households own their home outright.
It's an older community: 30% are 65 or over.
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.
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 24 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 19 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 2 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 2.1% | 1.2% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 2.1% | 0.5% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 50.8% | 93.3% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 32.1% | 2.9% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 6.8% | 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 54 min
Nearest: Hunsonby Swimming Pool · about 40 min
Nearest: Hexham Racecourse · about 40 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.