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On Farnham Close, in Bishop Auckland North & Coundon Grange
What it's like at DL14 8YR: every home that has sold on Farnham Close 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 Farnham Close; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 16 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 1, Farnham CloseTerraced | Sept 2006 | £145,000 | – | – | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2, Farnham CloseTerraced | Jul 2015 | £140,000 | 63 m² | £2,222/m² | 3 |
| 3, Farnham CloseSemi-detached | Oct 2011 | £150,000 | 68 m² | £2,206/m² | 3 |
| 4, Farnham CloseTerraced | Nov 2018 | £135,000 | 83 m² | £1,627/m² | 5 |
| 5, Farnham CloseTerraced | Mar 2021 | £140,000 | 85 m² | £1,647/m² | 5 |
| 6, Farnham CloseTerraced | Apr 2026 | £170,000 | 92 m² | £1,848/m² | 4 |
| 7, Farnham CloseDetached | Nov 1998 | £65,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 8, Farnham CloseSemi-detached | Dec 2016 | £135,000 | 75 m² | £1,800/m² | 3 |
| 9, Farnham CloseTerraced | Nov 1998 | £59,950 | – | – | 1 |
| 10, Farnham CloseTerraced | May 2022 | £140,000 | 76 m² | £1,842/m² | 3 |
| 11, Farnham CloseSemi-detached | Dec 2024 | £143,000 | 77 m² | £1,857/m² | 3 |
| 12, Farnham CloseTerraced | Mar 2016 | £110,000 | 66 m² | £1,667/m² | 6 |
| 14, Farnham CloseDetached | Aug 2025 | £210,000 | 110 m² | £1,909/m² | 4 |
| 15, Farnham CloseSemi-detached | May 1998 | £59,995 | – | – | 1 |
| 16, Farnham CloseTerraced | Apr 2026 | £150,000 | 80 m² | £1,875/m² | 6 |
| 17, Farnham CloseTerraced | Dec 1999 | £56,000 | – | – | 2 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Bishop Auckland, about a 15-minute walk (1.2 km), with 169k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Darlington.
The nearest bus stop is Grange Avenue, 200 m away, with a bus about every 60 minutes on weekdays (route 81); 5 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 44 minutes away by public transport (19 by car).
The nearest primary school is St Andrew's Academy, about a 5-minute walk (600 m); 46% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is King James I Academy Bishop Auckland, 1.0 km away; Attainment 8: 43.9 · 3.8% of GCSEs at 8–9.
The nearest supermarket is Asda, 1.0 km away, with Ali's Store closer still (600 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Bishopgate Medical Centre (1.2 km), with Asda Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (1.0 km).
For a haircut, Cutz By Jayne is 1.1 km 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).
Evenings out are on the doorstep: 32 restaurants and cafés and 21 pubs and bars in the neighbourhood.
Asda Cafe is the closest café or restaurant (1.0 km), and .The Red Alligator Pub the nearest pub (400 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (24 of them).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 247 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
There are 87 listed buildings.
It's a mix of homes: 10% flats and 22% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1965-1972.
It's growing: about 384 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Auckland Park, 1.8 km away; for exercise, Woodhouse Close Leisure Complex (1.4 km).
The air is clean: background nitrogen dioxide is 5.1 µg/m³, among the lowest in the country.
For holidays, Teesside is 22 km away, and Manchester, with far more destinations, 150 km.
Most households own their home, 26% rent privately.
7 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.
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%.
20 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 DL14 8YR →
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.
On this street: 1 of 11 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 | 0.7% | 1.2% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 1.1% | 0.5% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 94.4% | 93.3% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.4% | 2.9% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 3.5% | 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: Seaton Carew North Gare · about 34 min
Nearest: Hunsonby Swimming Pool · about 66 min
Nearest: Weardale Railway · about 35 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.
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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 16 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.