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On Fountain Street, in Leek Town
What it's like at ST13 6JR: every home that has sold on Fountain 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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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.
2 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Fountain Street; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
3 of the 44 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| Flat 1, 24, Fountain StreetFlat | Feb 2022 | £150,000 | 37 m² | £4,054/m² | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat 2, 24, Fountain StreetFlat | Feb 2022 | £150,000 | 29 m² | £5,172/m² | 2 |
| 24, Fountain StreetTerraced | Feb 2022 | £150,000 | – | – | 3 |
| 26, Fountain StreetTerraced | Nov 2011 | £97,000 | 80 m² | £1,213/m² | 4 |
| 28, Fountain StreetTerraced | Jul 2010 | £82,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 30, Fountain StreetTerraced | Oct 2011 | £83,500 | 79 m² | £1,057/m² | 4 |
| 32, Fountain StreetTerraced · company-owned | Apr 2025 | £100,000 | 78 m² | £1,282/m² | 5 |
| 34, Fountain StreetTerraced | Aug 2019 | £112,000 | 61 m² | £1,836/m² | 2 |
| 36, Fountain StreetTerraced · company-owned | Nov 2020 | £90,000 | 59 m² | £1,525/m² | 3 |
| 42, Fountain StreetTerraced | Oct 2005 | £115,000 | 90 m² | £1,278/m² | 3 |
| 44, Fountain StreetTerraced | Sept 1998 | £42,500 | – | – | 2 |
| 48, Fountain StreetTerraced | Mar 2021 | £132,500 | 88 m² | £1,506/m² | 4 |
| 50, Fountain StreetTerraced | Mar 2006 | £100,000 | 88 m² | £1,136/m² | 3 |
| County Building, Fountain StreetOther · company-owned | Dec 2021 | £1,950,000 | 32 m² | £60,938/m² | 2 |
| The Cattle Market Cottage, Fountain StreetTerraced | Nov 2018 | £220,000 | – | – | 3 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Congleton, a drive away (13 km), with 324k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Manchester Piccadilly.
The nearest bus stop is Parker Street, 200 m away, with fewer than one bus an hour on weekdays (routes 166, 30, 29, 30A); 8 departures an hour from the 9 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Work usually means a journey: the nearest place with 5,000 or more jobs is about 48 minutes away by public transport (28 by car).
The nearest primary school is Leek First School, a few minutes' walk (300 m).
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Leek High School, 550 m away; Attainment 8: 38.1 · 3.3% of GCSEs at 8–9.
The nearest supermarket is Lidl, 200 m away, with H Meakin and Sons closer still (100 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Leek Health Centre (100 m), with Fountain Street Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (100 m).
For a haircut, Moe's Traditional Turkish Barbers is 200 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Royal Stoke University Hospital, 17 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 45% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 60% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 14 weeks).
Evenings out are on the doorstep: 43 restaurants and cafés and 21 pubs and bars in the neighbourhood.
the Fountain Inn is the closest café or restaurant (50 m), and Earl Grey Inn the nearest pub (100 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (23 of them).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 128 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
Much of it is protected: 36% of postcodes sit in a conservation area (Leek).
There are 105 listed buildings.
It's a mix of homes: 17% flats and 9% detached houses.
Most homes are Victorian or Edwardian: 54% were built before 1919.
The nearest park is Sparrow Park, 250 m away; for exercise, Brough Park Leisure Centre (550 m).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 7.7 µg/m³).
For holidays, Manchester is 32 km away.
Most households own their home, 26% 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.
64 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cross Street Mills | II | 60 m |
| Church of St Luke | II* | 90 m |
| London Mill | II | 100 m |
| 29,29a and 29b, Queen Street | II | 120 m |
| War Memorial | II | 190 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.
Staffordshire Moorlands constituency: Dame Karen Bradley MP (Conservative), since May 2010. 2024 general election: Con hold, majority 1,175 (2.7%), turnout 62%. Vote shares: Conservative 35%, Labour 33%, Reform UK 23%, Green Party 5%.
11 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 ST13 6JR →
On this street: 0 of 29 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 3 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 1.0% | 1.6% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.1% | 0.7% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 92.2% | 85.4% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.6% | 8.5% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 6.7% | 3.7% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.0% | 0.1% | 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: Wallasey · about 82 min
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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 44 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
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