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On Cairns Road, in Fulwell
What it's like at SR5 1QS: every home that has sold on Cairns Road 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).
Sales and extensions on Cairns Road; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 36 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 18, Cairns RoadSemi-detached | Nov 2018 | £176,500 | 102 m² | £1,730/m² | 1 |
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| 20, Cairns RoadSemi-detached | May 2003 | £145,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 22, Cairns RoadSemi-detached | Apr 2017 | £230,000 | 113 m² | £2,035/m² | 5 |
| 24, Cairns RoadSemi-detached | Jan 2025 | £320,000 | 123 m² | £2,602/m² | 2 |
| 25, Cairns RoadSemi-detached | Nov 2011 | £225,000 | 136 m² | £1,654/m² | 2 |
| 29, Cairns RoadSemi-detached | Aug 2024 | £240,000 | 101 m² | £2,376/m² | 1 |
| 30, Cairns RoadSemi-detached | Apr 2005 | £170,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 31, Cairns RoadTerraced | Feb 2021 | £217,650 | 100 m² | £2,177/m² | 1 |
| 32, Cairns RoadSemi-detached | Jun 1998 | £79,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 33, Cairns RoadSemi-detached | Mar 2016 | £225,000 | 138 m² | £1,630/m² | 1 |
| 35, Cairns RoadOther | Nov 2022 | £249,950 | 87 m² | £2,873/m² | 2 |
| 36, Cairns RoadSemi-detached · company-owned | Oct 2009 | £71,000 | 106 m² | £670/m² | 2 |
| 39, Cairns RoadSemi-detached | Sept 2014 | £204,950 | 111 m² | £1,846/m² | 1 |
| 41, Cairns RoadSemi-detached | Oct 2020 | £265,000 | 85 m² | £3,118/m² | 2 |
| 43, Cairns RoadSemi-detached | Dec 2020 | £265,000 | 88 m² | £3,011/m² | 2 |
| 45, Cairns RoadSemi-detached | Jun 2012 | £248,000 | 126 m² | £1,968/m² | 2 |
| 53, Cairns RoadSemi-detached | Sept 2020 | £210,000 | 90 m² | £2,333/m² | 1 |
| 61, Cairns RoadSemi-detached | Nov 1996 | £60,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 67, Cairns RoadSemi-detached | Sept 1995 | £72,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 69, Cairns RoadSemi-detached | Nov 2013 | £220,000 | 102 m² | £2,157/m² | 2 |
| 71, Cairns RoadSemi-detached | Jul 2008 | £209,950 | – | – | 2 |
| 73, Cairns RoadSemi-detached | Jul 2007 | £220,000 | – | – | 5 |
| 79, Cairns RoadDetached | Aug 2004 | £186,950 | 208 m² | £899/m² | 1 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Seaburn, a few minutes' walk (200 m).
The nearest bus stop is Newcastle Road-Cairns Road, 50 m away, with a bus about every 11 minutes on weekdays (routes 24, 9); 45 departures an hour from the 12 stops within a 5-minute walk.
The nearest primary school is Fulwell Infant School Academy, a few minutes' walk (400 m).
The closest top-rated primary is Fulwell Junior School (0.7 km).
The nearest secondary is Monkwearmouth Academy, 600 m away; Attainment 8: 45.8 · 9.5% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: St Wilfrid's RC College (5.8 km).
Few families with young children: only 13% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is Tesco, 500 m away; Marine House Gym 80 (400 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Fulwell Medical Centre, (400 m), with Sea Road Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (550 m).
For a haircut, Scruples is 450 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Sunderland Royal Hospital, 3.6 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 60% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 75% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 10 weeks).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 7 restaurants and cafés, 3 pubs and bars.
Fulwell Mill & Tearooms is the closest café or restaurant (250 m), and Mill View Social Club the nearest pub (450 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (13 of them).
It's a low-crime area: about 63 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
It's a mix of homes: 6% flats and 4% detached houses.
It's largely interwar: 45% of homes were built between 1919 and 1939.
The nearest park is Margaret Thompson Park, 950 m away; for exercise, Fulwell Day Centre (1.2 km).
The beach is on your doorstep: Seaburn - Sunderland, 1.5 km away, was rated good for water quality in 2025.
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 9.5 µg/m³).
For holidays, Newcastle is 23 km away, and Manchester, with far more destinations, 185 km.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 52% of households own their home outright.
The nearest university is University of Sunderland, 2.9 km away (TEF Silver).
33 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 |
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| Eight Lime Kilns at Fulwell Quarry Nz 3918 5955 | II | 170 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.
Sunderland Central constituency: Lewis Atkinson MP (Labour), since July 2024. 2024 general election: Lab hold, majority 6,073 (15.2%), turnout 53%. Vote shares: Labour 42%, Reform UK 27%, Conservative 14%, Liberal Democrat 9%.
6 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 SR5 1QS →
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.
Nearest: Haltwhistle Swimming & Leisure Centre · about 60 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.
On this street: 0 of 27 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 | 0.8% | 1.2% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.1% | 0.2% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 95.0% | 95.4% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.0% | 0.2% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 4.6% | 3.5% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.0% | 0.5% | 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.
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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 36 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.