Back Lane Mid Suffolk

66 addresses across 9 postcodes (IP31), about 1 km (0.6 miles) long, classed as a local road. USRN 25500202.

  • Sales: 50 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £245,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 34 homes have an energy certificate (A: 1, B: 9, C: 11, D: 9, E: 4).
  • Flood: 3 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 Mid Suffolk costs £2,317 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Elmswell, about 5.4 km (3.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Langham Walled Garden, is about 2 km (1.3 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 43 to 52 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 5 of its 66 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Stanton Surgery, about 5.4 km (3.4 miles) away.
  • People: About 820 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 70% of households owned their home and 28% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.

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
20251£245,000£245,000£245,000
20242£258,500£217,000£300,000
20231£465,000£465,000£465,000
20221£270,000£270,000£270,000
20213£212,000£195,000£330,000
20201£170,000£170,000£170,000
20191£312,000£312,000£312,000
20171£180,000£180,000£180,000
20162£208,750£197,500£220,000
20153£182,500£165,000£600,000
20146£217,000£138,000£385,000
20131£162,000£162,000£162,000
Most recent sales (50)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
1 Aug 20256 IP31 3DWSemi-detached£245,000
10 May 2024DACRE IP31 3DWDetached£300,000
19 Jan 2024HAZEL COTTAGE IP31 3DWSemi-detached£217,000
20 Oct 2023DAWLISH IP31 3DWDetached£465,000
31 May 20228 IP31 3DWTerraced£270,000
8 Mar 2021THE BEECHES IP31 3DWSemi-detached£212,000
11 Feb 2021BODENS IP31 3DWDetached£330,000
27 Jan 2021IVY COTTAGE IP31 3DWDetached£195,000
21 Feb 2020HAZEL COTTAGE IP31 3DWSemi-detached£170,000
15 Nov 2019BODENS IP31 3DWDetached£312,000
1 Aug 2017PLOT 5 IP31 3DWOther£100,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
10 Feb 2017JUNIPER COTTAGE IP31 3DWSemi-detached£180,000
2 Nov 20164 IP31 3DWSemi-detached£220,000
31 Oct 2016THE ELMS IP31 3DWSemi-detached£197,500
23 Nov 2015DONARD IP31 3DWDetached£600,000
12 Jun 2015THE BEECHES IP31 3DWSemi-detached£182,500
6 Mar 20158 IP31 3DWTerraced£165,000
21 Nov 20145 IP31 3DWSemi-detached£208,000
6 Jun 2014ASH BUNGALOW IP31 3DWDetached£385,000
2 May 2014THE BEECHES IP31 3DWSemi-detached£170,000
21 Feb 2014THE BRAMBLES IP31 3DWDetached£226,000
17 Feb 2014JUNIPER COTTAGE IP31 3DWSemi-detached£138,000
5 Feb 2014COBWEBS IP31 3DWDetached£265,000
26 Jul 20134 IP31 3DWSemi-detached£162,000
20 Oct 2009THE OAKS IP31 3DWSemi-detached£156,000
6 Oct 2009DAWLISH IP31 3DWDetached£224,500
12 Aug 20094 IP31 3DWSemi-detached£156,000
2 Apr 2009COBWEBS IP31 3DWDetached£185,000
31 Jul 20082 IP31 3DWSemi-detached£154,000
23 May 20088A IP31 3DWSemi-detached£147,250
7 Sep 2007HAZEL COTTAGE IP31 3DWSemi-detached£167,950
6 Jul 2007THE LILACS IP31 3DWDetached£190,000New build.
26 Jun 2007THE ELMS IP31 3DWSemi-detached£173,500
5 Jun 2007JUNIPER COTTAGE IP31 3DWSemi-detached£154,000
2 Apr 2007THE BIRCHES IP31 3DWDetached£175,000
2 Mar 2007THE OAKS IP31 3DWSemi-detached£175,000
22 Sep 2006DAWLISH IP31 3DWDetached£249,995
30 May 20065 IP31 3DWSemi-detached£56,205
16 Feb 2006GABLE END IP31 3DWDetached£228,000
28 Jun 2005BODENS IP31 3DWDetached£225,000
12 May 2005ASH BUNGALOW IP31 3DWDetached£326,500
17 Dec 200466 IP31 3DWDetached£199,950
17 Dec 20045 IP31 3DWSemi-detached£170,000
13 Oct 20044 IP31 3DWSemi-detached£177,000
26 Jul 2004MEDLAR COTTAGE IP31 3DWDetached£245,000
30 Apr 2004GABLE END IP31 3DWDetached£219,950New build.
9 Aug 20024 IP31 3DWSemi-detached£125,550
31 Jul 1998COBWEBS IP31 3DWDetached£86,000
11 Jul 1997TERRIDON IP31 3DWDetached£69,950
14 Jul 1995THE SPRINGERS, 5 IP31 3DWSemi-detached£48,000

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 November 2008 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

34 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 101 m². Most common: House, detached (13); House, semi-detached (9); Bungalow, detached (7). Built: 2003-2006 (5); 2020 (5); 1950-1966 (4). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (20); rented (private) (4); rented (social) (4).

Each home's certificates and sales (15 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Mid Suffolk in 2026-27: Band D £2,317 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,545£1,802£2,059£2,317£2,832£3,347£3,861£4,634

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (24% of about 660 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), 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: 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

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

Planned, as of 30 September 2026

  • 5 January 2027 to 7 January 2027: ANGLIAN WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)

Finished in the last three months

  • 30 September 2026: BT, Permanent reinstatement, temp obstruction 15 minute delay, on the footway, verge (minor works)

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 30 September 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, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 2 at medium risk and 3 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 on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
IP31 3DWnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
IP31 3FFnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
IP31 3FAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
IP31 3DPnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 2 unlikely
IP31 3DRnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
IP31 3ERnot in 2 or 3 1 / 0 / 0 unlikely
IP31 3DGnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 0 unlikely
IP31 3DHnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
IP31 3DYnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely

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 66 addresses are between 43 m and 52 m above sea level (46 m on average); the ground rises about 9 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
IP31 3DG100%11%11%0%
IP31 3DH100%62%62%0%
IP31 3DP92%50%50%0%
IP31 3DR100%0%0%0%
IP31 3DW100%81%81%0%
IP31 3DY100%100%100%0%
IP31 3ER100%100%100%0%
IP31 3FA100%0%0%0%
IP31 3FF100%65%65%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 stationsElmswell 122,000 journeys in 2024–255.4 km (3.3 miles)
Thurston 124,000 journeys in 2024–259.1 km (5.7 miles)
Stowmarket 976,000 journeys in 2024–2511.7 km (7.3 miles)
Bus stopsNone within 800 m (0.5 miles)
EV charging pointsbp pulse Charging Station5.2 km (3.2 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsNorwich Airport NWI49.7 km (31 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Stansted Airport STN65.2 km (40 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 surgeriesStanton Surgery5.4 km (3.4 miles)
PharmaciesStation Pharmacy5.3 km (3.3 miles)
NHS dentistsHopton Dental Surgery10 km (6.2 miles)
HospitalHartismere Hospital15 km (9.3 miles)
Police stationStowmarket Police Station.11.1 km (6.9 miles)

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 gardenLangham Walled Garden 1.1 ha2 km (1.3 miles)
Play areaUnnamed 680 m²900 m (0.6 miles)
Playing fieldBadwell Ash Playing Fields 1.2 ha900 m (0.6 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 9,400 m²2.4 km (1.5 miles)

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Badwell Ash Hall, a listed building (Grade II*), 710 m (0.4 miles) east. 9 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 2 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Badwell Ash HallListed building, Grade II*710 m (0.4 miles) east
The WurlieListed building, Grade II*790 m (0.5 miles) west
Church of St MaryListed building, Grade I1 km (0.6 miles) west
Cross in grounds of Ashfield HouseScheduled monument1.1 km (0.7 miles) south
Castle Hill motteScheduled monument1.9 km (1.2 miles) south-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Long PlantationWood1.5 km (0.9 miles) north
Old PlantationWood1.8 km (1.1 miles) west
Parker's GroveWood2.1 km (1.3 miles) south-west
Brown's WoodWood2.2 km (1.3 miles) south
Finch's BottomsValley3 km (1.9 miles) north-east
Crooksell PondLake or reservoir3.6 km (2.2 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)5.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.8205
Particles (PM10)12.14015

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
60 to 6410
55 to 5940
Under 556166

5 of the street's 66 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 Mid Suffolk: see them on the Mid Suffolk 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.

No open schools within 2 km (1.2 miles).

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.

No rated food businesses within 500 m (0.3 miles).

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.

No crimes recorded at anonymised points within 250 m in this period (suffolk).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 820 residents in 363 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 age5240
Children under 1513%17%
Aged 65 and over28%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)70%61%
Owned outright48%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented16%17%
Private rented14%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work52%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)33%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)30%32%
Travel to work by car or van65%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including busunder 1%8%
On foot or by bicycle3%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)29%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away18%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)28%34%
No qualifications20%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)100%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is 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.

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.

  • IP31 3DW: 39 addresses of 41 in the postcode
  • IP31 3FF: 11 addresses of 23 in the postcode
  • IP31 3FA: 5 addresses of 8 in the postcode
  • IP31 3DP: 4 addresses of 71 in the postcode
  • IP31 3DR: 2 addresses of 5 in the postcode
  • IP31 3ER: 2 addresses of 10 in the postcode
  • IP31 3DG: 1 address of 26 in the postcode
  • IP31 3DH: 1 address of 34 in the postcode
  • IP31 3DY: 1 address of 5 in the postcode

Nearby streets

The Broadway · Badwell Green

All the streets in IP31 and across Mid Suffolk.

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.