Appleby Close Ipswich, Babergh

34 addresses across 1 postcode (IP2), about 180 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 1501907.

  • Sales: 41 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £275,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 16 homes have an energy certificate (C: 3, D: 11, E: 2).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area 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 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Ipswich, about 2.7 km (1.7 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Ellenbrook Open Space, is about 440 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 16 to 23 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 21 of its 34 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Hawthorn Drive Surgery, about 1.2 km (0.8 miles) away.
  • People: About 320 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 58% of households owned their home and 18% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 53 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.

Sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20241£275,000£275,000£275,000
20231£273,000£273,000£273,000
20201£240,000£240,000£240,000
20192£290,000£260,000£320,000
20183£250,000£235,000£330,000
20171£240,000£240,000£240,000
20162£255,000£210,000£300,000
20152£201,750£200,000£203,500
20141£248,500£248,500£248,500
20121£124,000£124,000£124,000
20103£204,500£165,000£249,995
20091£187,000£187,000£187,000
Most recent sales (41)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
14 Nov 202422 IP2 9XSDetached£275,000
13 Jan 202311 IP2 9XSDetached£273,000
17 Aug 202027 IP2 9XSDetached£240,000
20 Dec 201929 IP2 9XSDetached£260,000
19 Sep 201930 IP2 9XSDetached£320,000
3 Dec 20188 IP2 9XSDetached£330,000
26 Oct 20185 IP2 9XSDetached£235,000
25 Jan 201823 IP2 9XSDetached£250,000
25 May 201719 IP2 9XSDetached£240,000
28 Oct 201610 IP2 9XSSemi-detached£300,000
5 Jan 201629 IP2 9XSDetached£210,000
12 Jun 201514 IP2 9XSDetached£203,500
16 Jan 20157 IP2 9XSDetached£200,000
4 Jul 20146 IP2 9XSDetached£248,500
12 Jul 20123 IP2 9XSDetached£124,000
2 Nov 201019 IP2 9XSDetached£165,000
13 Oct 201030 IP2 9XSDetached£204,500
22 Jan 20102 IP2 9XSDetached£249,995
27 Jul 200928 IP2 9XSDetached£187,000
21 Apr 200829 IP2 9XSDetached£185,000
16 Oct 200717 IP2 9XSSemi-detached£172,000
31 Aug 20074 IP2 9XSSemi-detached£250,000
1 Feb 200710 IP2 9XSSemi-detached£238,000
20 Oct 20062 IP2 9XSDetached£200,000
20 Oct 200629 IP2 9XSDetached£175,000
22 Sep 200637 IP2 9XSDetached£199,000
12 Aug 200510 IP2 9XSSemi-detached£205,000
6 Sep 200425 IP2 9XSDetached£157,500
2 May 200313 IP2 9XSDetached£128,500
3 Feb 200325 IP2 9XSDetached£137,000
22 Mar 200221 IP2 9XSDetached£133,000
19 Feb 20022 IP2 9XSDetached£167,000
15 Aug 200133 IP2 9XSDetached£115,000
28 May 199929 IP2 9XSDetached£68,000
30 Oct 199821 IP2 9XSDetached£75,000
12 Jun 199820 IP2 9XSDetached£67,995
15 Aug 199716 IP2 9XSDetached£67,000
24 Jun 199712 IP2 9XSSemi-detached£88,000
14 May 199724 IP2 9XSTerraced£59,500
22 Nov 199628 IP2 9XSDetached£67,000
9 May 199637 IP2 9XSDetached£57,500

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from October 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

16 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 75 m². Most common: Bungalow, detached (9); House, detached (7). Built: 1967-1975 (9); 1976-1982 (4); 1950-1966 (3). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (10); rented (private) (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (10 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.

ABCDEFGH
£1,561£1,821£2,081£2,342£2,862£3,382£3,903£4,683

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (46% of about 500 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • 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.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 31 October 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 1 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

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 is in flood zone 2 or 3.

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Height above sea level

The street's 34 addresses are between 16 m and 23 m above sea level (19 m on average); the ground rises about 7 m from the lowest to the highest.

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
IP2 9XS100%100%100%0%

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 31 October 2026; Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage 2024–25 (which stations are on the National Rail network, and their journeys: entries and exits in the year to March); OurAirports (public domain, kept by volunteers); car parks and charging points from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others: not an official register, so some will be missing, private or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street, not routes, and say nothing about how often anything runs. Stations opened since the end of ORR's year appear when ORR publishes the next one, each December; heritage railways are left out.

NearestDistance
Railway stationsIpswich 3.4 million journeys in 2024–252.7 km (1.7 miles)
Derby Road (Ipswich) 95,000 journeys in 2024–255.1 km (3.2 miles)
Westerfield 22,000 journeys in 2024–256.1 km (3.8 miles)
Bus stops9 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 32 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Shortlands Brookwood70 m
Bus or coach stationLondon Road Park and Ride Copdock1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Ferry terminalHarwich International Ferry Terminal Harwich International Port14 km (8.7 miles)
Car parksBourne Park car park2.5 km (1.6 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Osprey Charging Station1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Southend Airport SEN59.4 km (37 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Stansted Airport STN62.6 km (39 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Hawthorn Drive Surgery1.2 km (0.8 miles)
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Kew Pharmacy390 m
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery810 m (0.5 miles)
HospitalSt Clements Hospital5.7 km (3.6 miles)
Police stationIpswich Police Station3.3 km (2.1 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Snax 24 - Ellenbrook300 m

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Ellenbrook Open Space 4.2 ha440 m (0.3 miles)
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 7.1 ha550 m (0.3 miles)
Play area6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 510 m²110 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3.0 ha400 m (0.2 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 5.0 ha1.5 km (0.9 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 15 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Chantry Park, a registered park or garden (Grade II), 1.8 km (1.1 miles) north. 3 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Chantry ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.8 km (1.1 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Spring WoodWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) south-east
Beech WaterLake or reservoir1.5 km (0.9 miles) north
Bourne HillHill2.4 km (1.5 miles) south-east
Cliff ReachTidal water3.3 km (2 miles) east
Wherstead OozeWetland3.3 km (2.1 miles) east
Stalls ValleyValley3.7 km (2.3 miles) south-east

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)8.94010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.3205
Particles (PM10)12.34015

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

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
55 to 59210
Under 551334

21 of the street's 34 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

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 3 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
Gusford Community Primary SchoolPrimary4–11420 m (0.3 miles) No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
Sprites Primary AcademyPrimary4–11730 m (0.5 miles) Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
One Sixth Form College16 plus16–19810 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
The Willows Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Requires improvement (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
The Oaks Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.4 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Chantry AcademySecondary11–161.5 km (0.9 miles) Good (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Mark's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary5–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Good (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Copdock Primary SchoolPrimary5–111.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 3 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Rontec Watford Limited IP2 9RPRetailers - other300 m5 Very good24 Nov 2015
Ellenbrook Fish Bar IP2 9RRTakeaway/sandwich shop390 m5 Very good11 Nov 2023
Vithusan Convenience Store IP2 9RRRetailers - other390 m5 Very good19 Nov 2024
Penalty 2 IP2 9RRRetailers - other390 m1 Major improvement necessary19 May 2025
Brookside Pre School IP2 9LQHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises420 m (0.3 miles)4 Good16 Dec 2025
Taylorshaw @ Gusford Primary School IP2 9LQSchool/college/university420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good3 Feb 2026
East of England Co-Op Foodstore IP2 9LFRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good5 Jun 2023

Crime within 250 m

Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, September 2025 to August 2026. Police forces move every crime to the nearest of about 760,000 anonymised map points before publishing, so these are crimes near this street, not on it, and a busy point can collect crimes from a wider area. Counts are of records, not convictions.

53 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences40
Anti-social behaviour4
Public order3
Possession of weapons1
Other theft1
Vehicle crime1
Criminal damage and arson1
Other crime1
Burglary1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Appleby Close (22); On or near Pin Mill Close (14); On or near Woolverstone Close (4); On or near Pendleton Road (4); On or near Rudlands (2).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this street's postcodes are in: 318 residents in 129 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

Around this streetEngland
Median age4440
Children under 1519%17%
Aged 65 and over26%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)58%61%
Owned outright38%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented36%17%
Private rented6%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work53%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)31%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)21%32%
Travel to work by car or van64%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus9%8%
On foot or by bicycle4%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)67%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away13%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)18%34%
No qualifications24%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification9%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)92%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 3 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.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

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.

Everything that has changed on and near this street

Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

  • IP2 9XS: 34 addresses of 35 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Appleby Close · Shortlands · Quilter Drive · Pin Mill Close · Rudlands · Bowland Drive · Wardley Close · Curtis Close · Pendleton Road · Knutsford Close · Dashwood Close · Swinton Close

All the streets in IP2 and across Babergh.

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.