Barking Road Barking, Mid Suffolk

64 addresses across 9 postcodes (IP6), about 2 km (1.3 miles) long, classed as a b road. USRN 25502580.

  • Sales: 25 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £600,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 20 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 4, D: 3, E: 8, F: 4).
  • Flood: 7 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 Needham Market, about 2.3 km (1.4 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Barking Tye Common, is about 1.2 km (0.7 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 5.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.8 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 26 to 66 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 28 of its 64 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Needham Market Country Practice, about 1.8 km (1.1 miles) away.
  • People: About 1,310 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 84% of households owned their home and 30% 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
20261£600,000£600,000£600,000
20233£455,000£425,000£500,000
20211£350,000£350,000£350,000
20171£480,000£480,000£480,000
20161£299,995£299,995£299,995
20143£295,000£242,000£318,000
20131£300,000£300,000£300,000
20121£262,000£262,000£262,000
20092£230,000£205,000£255,000
20074£267,500£100,000£285,000
20063£418,000£245,000£499,995
20051£220,000£220,000£220,000
Most recent sales (25)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
29 Apr 2026OAK HILL IP6 8HGDetached£600,000
27 Oct 202329 IP6 8EZDetached£455,000
2 Aug 2023THE LODGE IP6 8HGDetached£500,000
24 Mar 202339 IP6 8EZDetached£425,000
28 Sep 202131 IP6 8EZDetached£350,000
21 Jul 201745 IP6 8EZDetached£480,000
22 Jan 201637 IP6 8EZDetached£299,995
26 Aug 201445 IP6 8EZDetached£295,000
30 Jul 201443 IP6 8EZDetached£318,000
23 May 201466 IP6 8EZDetached£242,000
6 Mar 201329 IP6 8EZDetached£300,000
30 Oct 201262 IP6 8EZDetached£262,000
2 Sep 2009WESTRILL, 60 IP6 8EZDetached£255,000
23 Apr 200933 IP6 8EZDetached£205,000
9 Nov 200735 IP6 8EZDetached£250,000
3 Oct 200762 IP6 8EZDetached£100,000
24 Aug 2007WESTRILL, 60 IP6 8EZDetached£285,000
26 Jun 200768 IP6 8EZDetached£285,000
11 Aug 200643 IP6 8EZDetached£245,000
30 Mar 2006GRINSTEAD HOUSE IP6 8HGDetached£418,000
9 Feb 2006THE LODGE IP6 8HGDetached£499,995
10 Oct 200543 IP6 8EZDetached£220,000
30 Aug 200239 IP6 8EZDetached£199,450
14 Jul 2000OAK HILL IP6 8HGDetached£249,500
7 Jun 199962 IP6 8EZDetached£120,000

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 May 2015 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

20 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 141 m². Most common: Bungalow, detached (9); House, detached (9); House, semi-detached (2). Built: before 1900 (6); 2020 (4); 1900-1929 (3). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (19); rented (private) (1).

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 neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band B (23% of about 3,110 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 3 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) 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: 5.
  • 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

  • 7 December 2026 to 11 December 2026: SUFFOLK COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway improvement works, road closure, on the carriageway (major (paa) works)

Finished in the last three months

  • 24 September 2026: SUFFOLK COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, two-way signals, on the carriageway (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, 5 addresses are in areas at high risk, 2 at medium risk and 7 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 19 homes the Environment Agency counts, 1 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.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
IP6 8HJnot in 2 or 3 3 / 2 / 4 unlikely
IP6 8HGnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 2 unlikely
IP6 8HPnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
IP6 8HHnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
IP6 8HXnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
IP6 8HWnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
IP6 8RBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
IP6 8EZnot in 2 or 3 2 / 0 / 1 unlikely
IP6 8NHnot 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 69 addresses are between 26 m and 66 m above sea level (44 m on average); the ground rises about 40 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
IP6 8EZ96%86%86%0%
IP6 8HG89%0%0%0%
IP6 8HH0%0%0%0%
IP6 8HJ42%0%0%0%
IP6 8HP100%81%81%0%
IP6 8HW100%0%0%0%
IP6 8HX100%0%0%0%
IP6 8NH96%79%79%0%
IP6 8RB100%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 stationsNeedham Market 130,000 journeys in 2024–252.3 km (1.4 miles)
Stowmarket 976,000 journeys in 2024–256.1 km (3.8 miles)
Westerfield 22,000 journeys in 2024–2511.2 km (7 miles)
Bus stops2 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Church Barking290 m
Bus or coach stationBarnards Stowmarket6 km (3.7 miles)
EV charging pointsTesla Supercharger4.7 km (2.9 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Stansted Airport STN61.5 km (38 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 surgeriesNeedham Market Country Practice1.8 km (1.1 miles)
PharmaciesNeedham Market Pharmacy1.8 km (1.1 miles)
NHS dentistsDental Surgery2.2 km (1.4 miles)
HospitalIpswich Hospital14.6 km (9.1 miles)
Police stationStowmarket Police Station.6.7 km (4.1 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 gardenBarking Tye Common 14 ha1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Play areaUnnamed 380 m²1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Playing fieldUnnamed 2.8 ha1.7 km (1 mile)
AllotmentsUnnamed 5,730 m²1.7 km (1 mile)

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Mary, a listed building (Grade I), 360 m north. 14 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St MaryListed building, Grade I360 m north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Swingen's WoodWood450 m (0.3 miles) south
Priestley WoodWood640 m (0.4 miles) east
Park WoodWood670 m (0.4 miles) north-east
Barn GroveWood880 m (0.5 miles) south
Titley HillHill1.2 km (0.7 miles) east
Needham LakeLake or reservoir2.4 km (1.5 miles) north-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)5.94010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.8205
Particles (PM10)12.04015

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
65 to 6910
60 to 64120
55 to 59150
Under 553664

28 of the street's 64 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), 1 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
Bosmere Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Good (Jan 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 1 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
Barking Hall Nursing Home IP6 8HJHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises310 m5 Very good5 Sep 2025

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 3 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 1,314 residents in 581 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 1512%17%
Aged 65 and over32%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)84%61%
Owned outright51%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented3%17%
Private rented12%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work55%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)2%6%
Retired (of adults)34%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)34%32%
Travel to work by car or van57%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus1%8%
On foot or by bicycle5%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)43%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away10%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)30%34%
No qualifications19%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The 3 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 7 to 9 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.

  • IP6 8HJ: 19 addresses of 20 in the postcode
  • IP6 8HG: 17 addresses of 19 in the postcode
  • IP6 8HP: 9 addresses of 44 in the postcode
  • IP6 8HH: 5 addresses of 16 in the postcode
  • IP6 8HX: 5 addresses of 6 in the postcode
  • IP6 8HW: 4 addresses of 6 in the postcode
  • IP6 8RB: 3 addresses of 19 in the postcode
  • IP6 8EZ: 1 address of 30 in the postcode
  • IP6 8NH: 1 address of 46 in the postcode

All the streets in IP6 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.