A1141 Babergh
44 addresses across 11 postcodes (IP30), about 1.3 km (0.8 miles) long, classed as a a road. USRN 1500259.
- Energy: 19 homes have an energy certificate (B: 3, D: 8, E: 6, F: 2).
- Flood: 4 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
- Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band B; Band D in Babergh costs £2,342 a year in 2026-27.
- Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% to 100% of premises.
- Transport: The nearest railway station is Thurston, about 10.7 km (6.6 miles) away in a straight line.
- Green space: The nearest park or garden, Parsonage Green, is about 1.3 km (0.8 miles) away.
- Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 5.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.8 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
- Height: Its addresses are 73 to 98 m above sea level.
- Noise: 29 of its 44 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
- People: About 1,380 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 82% of households owned their home and 40% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
Sales on this street
No sales recorded on this street since January 1995 under this street name.
Energy performance certificates
19 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 118 m². Most common: House, detached (10); Bungalow, detached (6); House, semi-detached (3). Built: before 1900 (7); 1950-1966 (4); 2021 (3). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (12); rented (private) (2).
Each home's certificates and sales (8 addresses)
Council tax
What each band costs in Babergh in 2026-27: Band D £2,342 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.
| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| £1,561 | £1,821 | £2,081 | £2,342 | £2,862 | £3,382 | £3,903 | £4,683 |
Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band B (18% of about 2,180 homes).
Planning and heritage
- Conservation area: yes, Cross Green Cockfield (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
- Listed buildings on or by this street: 4.
- Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
- Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
- Green belt: no.
Listed buildings
- ABBEY FARMHOUSE, grade II
- THE ABBEY, grade II
- THE ABBEY COTTAGE, grade II
- Wagtails, grade II
Roadworks
Finished in the last three months
- 1 September 2026 to 2 September 2026: CITYFIBRE METRO NETWORKS LTD, Utility asset works, multi-way signals, on the footway, carriageway, verge (minor works)
Flood risk
Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 3 addresses are in areas at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 5 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.
Rivers and the sea alone: of the 4 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 0 medium, 1 low and 0 very low.
High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.
Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.
| Postcode | Planning zone | Addresses at high / medium / low risk | Groundwater |
|---|---|---|---|
| IP30 0LB | not in 2 or 3 | 1 / 0 / 1 | unlikely |
| IP30 0JR | not in 2 or 3 | 1 / 0 / 0 | unlikely |
| IP30 0LG | not in 2 or 3 | 1 / 1 / 2 | unlikely |
| IP30 0LX | not in 2 or 3 | 0 / 0 / 0 | unlikely |
| IP30 0HU | not in 2 or 3 | 0 / 0 / 2 | unlikely |
| IP30 0HX | not in 2 or 3 | 0 / 0 / 0 | unlikely |
| IP30 0JG | not in 2 or 3 | ||
| IP30 0JH | not in 2 or 3 | 0 / 0 / 0 | unlikely |
| IP30 0JL | not in 2 or 3 | 0 / 0 / 0 | unlikely |
| IP30 0JZ | not in 2 or 3 | 0 / 0 / 0 | unlikely |
| IP30 0LJ | not in 2 or 3 | 0 / 0 / 0 | unlikely |
Height above sea level
The street's 44 addresses are between 73 m and 98 m above sea level (81 m on average); the ground rises about 25 m from the lowest to the highest.
Broadband
| Postcode | Superfast (30 Mbit/s+) | Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+) | Gigabit | Below 10 Mbit/s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IP30 0HU | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| IP30 0HX | 85% | 54% | 54% | 0% |
| IP30 0JG | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| IP30 0JH | 100% | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| IP30 0JL | 100% | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| IP30 0JR | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| IP30 0JZ | 100% | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| IP30 0LB | 100% | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| IP30 0LG | 100% | 71% | 71% | 0% |
| IP30 0LJ | 100% | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| IP30 0LX | 100% | 100% | 100% | 0% |
Getting around
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| Railway stations | Thurston 124,000 journeys in 2024–25 | 10.7 km (6.6 miles) |
| Bury St Edmunds 929,000 journeys in 2024–25 | 11.7 km (7.3 miles) | |
| Elmswell 122,000 journeys in 2024–25 | 13 km (8.1 miles) | |
| Bus stops | 2 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Howe Lane Cockfield | 270 m |
| EV charging points | Water Street, Lavenham | 5.7 km (3.5 miles) |
| Airport with scheduled flights | London Stansted Airport STN | 47.9 km (30 miles) |
Local services
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| Pharmacies | Lavenham Pharmacy | 5.5 km (3.4 miles) |
| NHS dentists | Saxon House | 9.3 km (5.8 miles) |
| Hospital | West Suffolk Hospital | 9.6 km (6 miles) |
| Police station | Police Investigation Centre | 9.5 km (5.9 miles) |
Parks and green space
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| Park or garden | Parsonage Green 2,180 m² | 1.3 km (0.8 miles) |
| Play area | Unnamed 3,560 m² | 2.3 km (1.4 miles) |
| Playing field | Unnamed 4.1 ha | 2 km (1.3 miles) |
| Allotments | Unnamed 1.5 ha | 2.6 km (1.6 miles) |
Landmarks
The nearest historic landmark is Church House, a listed building (Grade II*), 550 m (0.3 miles) north-east. 13 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 1 of them Grade II*.
| Name | What it is | From the middle of the street |
|---|---|---|
| Church House | Listed building, Grade II* | 550 m (0.3 miles) north-east |
| Church of St Peter | Listed building, Grade I | 600 m (0.4 miles) north-east |
| Moated site 200yds (180m) S of Oldhall Green | Scheduled monument | 1.5 km (1 mile) north |
| Name | What it is | From the middle of the street |
|---|---|---|
| Saxes Grove | Wood | 1.9 km (1.2 miles) west |
| King's Grove | Wood | 2.1 km (1.3 miles) north-east |
| Out Wood | Wood | 2.2 km (1.4 miles) north |
| The Grove | Wood | 2.4 km (1.5 miles) north |
| Bull's Wood | Wood | 2.4 km (1.5 miles) east |
| Knight's Hill | Hill | 2.5 km (1.5 miles) south-east |
Air quality
| Pollutant | Here | UK limit | WHO guideline |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) | 5.2 | 40 | 10 |
| Fine particles (PM2.5) | 6.8 | 20 | 5 |
| Particles (PM10) | 11.9 | 40 | 15 |
All three are within the UK legal limits; PM2.5 is above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.
Road and rail noise
| Level | Road traffic | Railways |
|---|---|---|
| 65 to 69 | 2 | 0 |
| 60 to 64 | 11 | 0 |
| 55 to 59 | 16 | 0 |
| Under 55 | 15 | 44 |
29 of the street's 44 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.
Climate, daylight and earthquakes
Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for Babergh: see them on the Babergh page.
Nearest schools
| School | Phase | Ages | Distance | Inspection |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cockfield Church of England Primary School | Primary | 4–11 | 560 m (0.3 miles) | Good (Feb 2020, overall grade under the previous framework) |
Food hygiene ratings nearby
No rated food businesses within 500 m (0.3 miles).
Crime within 250 m
No crimes recorded at anonymised points within 250 m in this period (suffolk).
People and work
Who lives here
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Median age | 55 | 40 |
| Children under 15 | 12% | 17% |
| Aged 65 and over | 32% | 18% |
Homes
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Owned (outright or with a mortgage) | 82% | 61% |
| Owned outright | 54% | 33% |
| Shared ownership | under 1% | 1% |
| Social rented | 6% | 17% |
| Private rented | 11% | 21% |
Work and commuting
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Adults (16 and over) in work | 54% | 57% |
| Unemployment (of those working or looking for work) | 3% | 6% |
| Retired (of adults) | 34% | 22% |
| Long-term sick or disabled (of adults) | 1% | 4% |
| Work mainly from home (of those in work) | 38% | 32% |
| Travel to work by car or van | 56% | 48% |
| By train, Underground, metro or tram | 2% | 4% |
| By any public transport, including bus | 2% | 8% |
| On foot or by bicycle | 4% | 10% |
| Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work) | 32% | 65% |
| Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away | 14% | 8% |
Education and languages
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults) | 40% | 34% |
| No qualifications | 15% | 18% |
| Apprenticeship as highest qualification | 5% | 5% |
| Main language English (aged 3 and over) | 99% | 91% |
| Cannot speak English well or at all | 0% | 2% |
Deprivation
The neighbourhoods around this street are all in decile 6 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.
What has changed
Nothing new since the change feed started on 30 October 2026. New sales and energy certificates, and hygiene ratings, school inspections and flood figures nearby, will be listed here as the sources update.
Postcodes on this street
- IP30 0LB: 30 addresses
- IP30 0JR: 3 addresses
- IP30 0LG: 2 addresses of 62 in the postcode
- IP30 0LX: 2 addresses of 9 in the postcode
- IP30 0HU: 1 address of 9 in the postcode
- IP30 0HX: 1 address of 23 in the postcode
- IP30 0JG: 1 address of 5 in the postcode
- IP30 0JH: 1 address of 2 in the postcode
- IP30 0JL: 1 address of 8 in the postcode
- IP30 0JZ: 1 address of 44 in the postcode
- IP30 0LJ: 1 address of 13 in the postcode
What this page cannot tell you
- Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
- What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
- How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported.
- Whether you would get a place at a school: distances are straight lines, not catchments.
- Who lives on the street now: census figures describe the small areas around it in March 2021, during a lockdown.
- How long a journey takes or how often anything runs: transport distances are straight lines to the nearest stops.
- Whether a GP practice is taking new patients, or a dentist new NHS patients.
- How loud a home is inside, or noise from industry, neighbours or smaller airfields: noise figures are models of road, rail and air traffic outside.
How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.