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List of Property Types/Special Category Codes

001 - AA & RAC service centres & boxes
400 - Abattoirs & slaughter houses valued with reference to building costs
401 - Abattoirs & slaughter houses valued with reference to rents
003 - Advertising right
402 - Agricultural research centres
004 - Agricultural showgrounds
006 - Air strips
007 - Aircraft works with airfields
009 - Aluminium smelting works
010 - Ambulance stations
011 - Amusement arcades
012 - Amusement parks
013 - Animal boarding
403 - Aquaria
404 - Archives
014 - Arenas
016 - Artificial fibre works
019 - Auction rooms
018 - Automatic Teller Machines
021 - Banks, building societies and other similar uses
022 - Beach huts
023 - Beet sugar factories
024 - Betting offices
025 - Bingo halls
026 - Bird sanctuaries
167 - Blockstone quarries
027 - Boat yards
405 - Boathouses
028 - Bowling alleys
030 - Bowling greens
031 - Breweries
032 - Brickworks
168 - Brine fields
406 - Bus garages valued with reference to building costs
407 - Bus garages valued with reference to rents
036 - Bus stations
408 - Business units
037 - Cable head end buildings
409 - Cafes
500 - Cafes or restaurants within another property
046 - Car & caravan sales and hire sites
038 - Car auctions
501 - Car parking within another property
042 - Car showrooms
043 - Car spaces
044 - Car supermarkets
045 - Car washes
048 - Caravan sites & pitches
049 - Casinos & gambling clubs
050 - Cattle breeding centres
033 - Cement storage depots
052 - Cement works
053 - Cemeteries
054 - Chalet parks
169 - Chalk quarries and pits
410 - Changing rooms
055 - Chemical works
170 - China clay pits and quarries
056 - Cinemas
057 - Civic & public buildings occupied by a local authority
058 - Civic amenity sites
059 - Civil airports
171 - Clay pits and quarries
060 - Clubhouses
061 - Clubs & institutions
062 - Coaching inns
172 - Coal mines and opencast sites
411 - Coastguard stations
017 - Coating plants
063 - Coking & carbonising plants
412 - Cold stores valued with reference to building costs
413 - Cold stores valued with reference to rents
065 - Colleges of further education
992 - Commercial - not already listed
066 - Communication stations & masts
067 - Community day centres
068 - Computer centres - not purpose built
069 - Computer centres - purpose built
070 - Concert halls
072 - Concrete block works
071 - Concrete or mortar batching plants
073 - Concrete product works
051 - Concrete tile works
074 - Conference & exhibition centres
075 - Conference centres in country houses
076 - Contractors huts & compounds
077 - Country house hotels
082 - County cricket grounds
414 - Courts valued with reference to building costs
415 - Courts valued with reference to rents
079 - Creameries
080 - Crematoria
081 - Cricket centres
083 - Cricket grounds - not county standard
084 - Dance schools & centres
085 - Day nurseries & play schools
086 - Departmental & large walk round stores
087 - Distilleries
151 - Distribution warehouses
088 - District heating undertakings
090 - Domestic fuel installations
091 - Drive-in restaurants
092 - Drive-thru' restaurants
995 - Educational - not already listed
149 - Electricity generating plants
096 - Factories, workshops & warehouses (Only available within Refine Your Search)
097 - Factory shops
098 - Farm shops
282 - Ferry, road & bridge tolls
099 - Field study, activity & adventure centres
100 - Film & TV studios
101 - Fire stations
102 - Fish farms
103 - Flour mills
173 - Fluorspar quarries and mines
104 - Food courts
105 - Food processing centres
106 - Food stores
152 - Food stores between 750m² & 2,500m²
107 - Football grounds
108 - Football pitches
109 - Football stadia
996 - Formula assessed properties - not already listed
110 - Foundries
111 - Funeral parlours & chapels of rest
112 - Game farms
502 - Garages within another property
114 - Garden centres
174 - Gas fields
116 - Go kart rinks
117 - Golf courses
118 - Golf driving ranges
119 - Grain silos
120 - Granaries & intervention stores
121 - Greyhound racetracks
122 - Guest & boarding houses
503 - Gymnasia or fitness suites within another property
416 - Gyms & fitness suites
123 - Gypsy camp sites
417 - Hairdressing & beauty salons
175 - Hardrock quarries
124 - Hatcheries & poultry farms
204 - Headquarters & institutional offices
125 - Health farms
126 - Heliports
128 - Heritage railways
129 - Hi-tech warehouses
130 - Holiday centres
132 - Horse racecourses
136 - Hostels
137 - Hotels - 3 star and under
138 - Hotels - 4 star & above and those run by a major chain
139 - Hypermarkets & superstores over 2,500m²
140 - Ice rinks
029 - Indoor bowling centres
994 - Industrial - not already listed
153 - Industrials over 20,000m²
176 - Inert tipping site
418 - Information & visitor centres
141 - Interactive telephone kiosks
142 - Iron & steel works
143 - Kennels & catteries
504 - Kiosks within another property
145 - Lakes with water sport facilities
146 - Land used for advertising
147 - Land used for car boot sales
419 - Land used for display
148 - Land used for storage
993 - Leisure - not already listed
047 - Leisure caravan parks
008 - Let outs at airports
133 - Let outs in hospitals
193 - Let outs in motorway service area
266 - Lets outs within a railway station
156 - Libraries
420 - Lifeboat stations
158 - Livestock markets
159 - Local authority schools
258 - Local authority sports & leisure centres with a swimming pool
257 - Local authority sports & leisure centres with no swimming pool
272 - Local authority swimming pools
160 - Lodges
161 - Lorry parks
164 - Marinas
165 - Markets - other than livestock
166 - Mineral depots
127 - Mineral processing plants
997 - Minerals properties - not already listed
093 - Minewater treatment plants
421 - Miniature railways
005 - Minor airports
999 - Miscellaneous
513 - Miscellaneous within another property
188 - Model villages
189 - Moorings
190 - Mortuaries
191 - Motor racetracks
192 - Motor vehicle works
194 - Motorway & major road service areas
039 - Multi-storey car parks
195 - Museums & art galleries valued with reference to building costs
196 - Museums & art galleries valued with reference to rents
198 - Newspaper printing works
134 - NHS hospitals & clinics
199 - Night clubs & discos
162 - Non traditional maltings
285 - Non-residential training centres
089 - Non-statutory docks & harbours
094 - Non-statutory electricity undertakings
300 - Non-statutory water undertakings
505 - Nurseries or crèches within another property
201 - Nursing & old peoples homes
202 - Observatories
203 - Offices (Only available within Refine Your Search)
506 - Offices within another property
177 - Oil fields
178 - Other mineral extraction properties
206 - Oxford & Cambridge Universities and Colleges
422 - Pack houses
207 - Paper mills
208 - Pavilions
423 - Peat fields
424 - Pet grooming parlours
209 - Petrol filling stations
210 - Pharmacies
425 - Pharmacies within or adjacent to a surgery
211 - Photographic booths
426 - Pitch and putt courses & putting greens
427 - Pitches for stalls, sales or promotions
213 - Pleasure piers
214 - Point-to-point & eventing courses
215 - Police stations
428 - Police training colleges
216 - Polo grounds
217 - Post office sorting centres
429 - Post offices
218 - Potteries
219 - Power generators
135 - Private hospitals & clinics
260 - Private sports & leisure centres with a swimming pool
259 - Private sports & leisure centres with no swimming pool
273 - Private swimming pools
222 - Provender mills
223 - Public & independent schools
224 - Public conveniences
225 - Public halls
226 - Public houses & pub restaurants
227 - Public houses or pub restaurants with lodges
430 - Pumping mines
179 - Putrescible tipping site
229 - Racing stables
231 - Railways & tramways
232 - Recording studios
431 - Religious retreats & residential study centres
286 - Residential training centres
234 - Restaurants
235 - Retail warehouses
236 - Riding schools & livery stables
238 - Roadside restaurants
239 - Roller skating rinks
241 - Rugby league grounds
242 - Rugby union grounds
243 - Sales kiosks
432 - Sales offices
507 - Salons or clinics within another property
180 - Sand and gravel quarries and pits
181 - Sand pits and quarries
244 - Scrap metal & breakers yards
245 - Sea dredged aggregate processing plants & depots
221 - Secondary aggregate processing plants
131 - Self catering holiday accommodation
246 - Sewage works
182 - Shale unburnt extraction sites
247 - Ship building yards
248 - Ship repair yards
249 - Shops (Only available within Refine Your Search)
154 - Shops between 750m² & 1,850m²
155 - Shops over 1,850m²
508 - Shops within another property
250 - Showhouses
251 - Showrooms
252 - Ski centres
183 - Slate mines and quarries
253 - Snooker halls & clubs
254 - Speedway racetracks
255 - Spoil heap workings
509 - Sports & leisure centres within another property
261 - Sports grounds
262 - Sports stadia
263 - Squash courts
264 - Stables & loose boxes
265 - Stately homes & historic houses
435 - Statutory docks & harbours
433 - Statutory docks & harbours valued using a formula
434 - Statutory docks & harbours where Regulation 5 applies
267 - Storage depots
268 - Stores
510 - Stores within another property
269 - Stud farms
270 - Studios
040 - Surfaced car parks
436 - Surgeries, clinics & health centres valued with reference to building costs
437 - Surgeries, clinics & health centres valued with reference to rents
442 - Takeaway food outlets
274 - Tanneries
275 - Telecommunications cable networks
276 - Telecommunications switching centres
228 - Telephone kiosks
438 - Telescope sites
277 - Tennis centres
278 - Tennis courts & clubs
279 - Theatres
280 - Theme parks
281 - Timeshare complexes
283 - Totalisators on horse racecourses
284 - Tourist attractions & dark rides
163 - Traditional maltings
113 - Transport & commercial garages
287 - Truck stops
095 - Tyre & exhaust centres
288 - Universities - excluding Oxford & Cambridge
439 - University land or buildings
440 - University occupations within a hospital
041 - Unsurfaced car parks
289 - Vehicle repair workshops & garages
290 - Vehicle testing centres with test tracks
291 - Vehicle testing centres without test tracks
292 - Veterinary & animal clinics
293 - Village halls, scout huts, cadet huts & similar properties
294 - Vineyards & wineries
295 - Wafer fabrications
296 - War games courses & miscellaneous agricultural uses
511 - Warehouses within another property
150 - Waste composting sites
297 - Waste incinerator plants
298 - Waste recycling plants
299 - Waste transfer stations
441 - Weighbridges
301 - Wholesale warehouses
302 - Windmills
303 - Wine bars
512 - Workshops within another property
304 - Zoos & safari parks
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