Birds End Chevington, West Suffolk
19 addresses across 2 postcodes (IP29), about 1.1 km (0.7 miles) long. USRN 37403070.
- Sales: 9 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £815,000 across 1 sale.
- Energy: 6 homes have an energy certificate (C: 1, D: 3, E: 2).
- Flood: 2 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 West Suffolk costs £2,351 a year in 2026-27.
- Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 67% to 100% of premises.
- Transport: The nearest railway station is Bury St Edmunds, about 8.5 km (5.3 miles) away in a straight line.
- Green space: The nearest park or garden, Barrow Green, is about 2.9 km (1.8 miles) away.
- Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 4.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.8 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
- Height: Its addresses are 78 to 89 m above sea level.
- Noise: 3 of its 19 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
- Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Wickhambrook Surgery, about 6.4 km (4 miles) away.
- People: About 290 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 73% of households owned their home and 36% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
Sales on this street
| Year | Sales | Median price | Lowest | Highest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 | £815,000 | £815,000 | £815,000 |
| 2012 | 1 | £450,000 | £450,000 | £450,000 |
| 2009 | 1 | £450,000 | £450,000 | £450,000 |
| 2006 | 2 | £365,525 | £331,050 | £400,000 |
| 2003 | 1 | £315,000 | £315,000 | £315,000 |
| 2001 | 1 | £126,282 | £126,282 | £126,282 |
| 1997 | 1 | £80,000 | £80,000 | £80,000 |
| Date | Address | Type | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 Mar 2026 | TREVAGUE IP29 5HE | Detached | £815,000 | |
| 23 Feb 2024 | FROGSEND FARM IP29 5HD | Other | £925,000 | Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer). |
| 20 Dec 2012 | FOXGLOVE COTTAGE IP29 5HE | Detached | £450,000 | |
| 1 Oct 2009 | THORNE COTTAGE IP29 5HE | Detached | £450,000 | |
| 7 Dec 2006 | ALBION COTTAGE IP29 5HE | Detached | £400,000 | |
| 7 Jul 2006 | BIRDS END FARM IP29 5HE | Detached | £331,050 | |
| 28 Aug 2003 | THORNE COTTAGE IP29 5HE | Detached | £315,000 | |
| 23 Feb 2001 | ALBION COTTAGE IP29 5HE | Detached | £126,282 | |
| 10 Jan 1997 | ALBION COTTAGE IP29 5HE | Detached | £80,000 |
Energy performance certificates
6 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 150 m². Most common: House, detached (6). Built: before 1900 (2); 1930-1949 (1); 1967-1975 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (4).
Each home's certificates and sales (3 addresses)
Council tax
What each band costs in West Suffolk in 2026-27: Band D £2,351 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.
| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| £1,568 | £1,829 | £2,090 | £2,351 | £2,874 | £3,397 | £3,919 | £4,703 |
Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (25% of about 1,020 homes).
Planning and heritage
- Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
- Listed buildings on or by this street: 1.
- 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
- FROGSEND FARMHOUSE, grade II
Roadworks
Planned, as of 31 October 2026
- 14 December 2026: UK POWER NETWORKS EASTERN & LONDON, Utility repair and maintenance works, temp obstruction 15 minute delay, on the carriageway (minor works)
- 8 February 2027 to 12 February 2027: UK POWER NETWORKS EASTERN & LONDON, Utility repair and maintenance works, road closure, on the carriageway, verge (major (paa) works)
Flood risk
Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 2 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 2 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 11 homes the Environment Agency counts, 3 are in areas at high risk, 0 medium, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| IP29 5HE | not in 2 or 3 | 2 / 0 / 2 | unlikely |
| IP29 5HD | not in 2 or 3 | 0 / 0 / 0 | unlikely |
Height above sea level
The street's 19 addresses are between 78 m and 89 m above sea level (82 m on average); the ground rises about 11 m from the lowest to the highest.
Broadband
| Postcode | Superfast (30 Mbit/s+) | Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+) | Gigabit | Below 10 Mbit/s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IP29 5HD | 67% | 67% | 67% | 0% |
| IP29 5HE | 100% | 100% | 100% | 0% |
Getting around
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| Railway stations | Bury St Edmunds 929,000 journeys in 2024–25 | 8.5 km (5.3 miles) |
| Kennett 54,000 journeys in 2024–25 | 10.2 km (6.3 miles) | |
| Newmarket 374,000 journeys in 2024–25 | 13.6 km (8.5 miles) | |
| Bus stops | 0 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Church Lane Hargrave | 770 m (0.5 miles) |
| Bus or coach station | Bus Station Bury St Edmunds | 8 km (5 miles) |
| EV charging points | InstaVolt Charging Station | 6.2 km (3.9 miles) |
| Airport with scheduled flights | London Stansted Airport STN | 44.8 km (28 miles) |
Local services
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| GP surgeries | Wickhambrook Surgery | 6.4 km (4 miles) |
| Pharmacies | Barrow Pharmacy | 2.5 km (1.6 miles) |
| NHS dentists | Mydentist | 7.7 km (4.8 miles) |
| Hospital | West Suffolk Hospital | 7.4 km (4.6 miles) |
| Police station | Bury St Edmunds police station | 8.5 km (5.3 miles) |
Parks and green space
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| Park or garden | Barrow Green 1,580 m² | 2.9 km (1.8 miles) |
| Play area | Unnamed 1,910 m² | 1.3 km (0.8 miles) |
| Playing field | Unnamed 1.0 ha | 3 km (1.9 miles) |
Landmarks
5 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).
| Name | What it is | From the middle of the street |
|---|---|---|
| Park Wood | Wood | 900 m (0.6 miles) east |
| North Plantation | Wood | 1.1 km (0.7 miles) south-east |
| Hearse Wood | Wood | 1.2 km (0.7 miles) north |
| China Pond | Lake or reservoir | 1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-east |
| Weathercock Hill | Hill | 2.8 km (1.7 miles) south-east |
| Little Field Bottom | Valley | 4.5 km (2.8 miles) west |
Air quality
| Pollutant | Here | UK limit | WHO guideline |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) | 4.4 | 40 | 10 |
| Fine particles (PM2.5) | 6.8 | 20 | 5 |
| Particles (PM10) | 11.8 | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 55 to 59 | 3 | 0 |
| Under 55 | 16 | 19 |
3 of the street's 19 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 West Suffolk: see them on the West Suffolk page.
Nearest schools
No open schools within 2 km (1.2 miles).
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 | 50 | 40 |
| Children under 15 | 14% | 17% |
| Aged 65 and over | 27% | 18% |
Homes
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Owned (outright or with a mortgage) | 73% | 61% |
| Owned outright | 47% | 33% |
| Shared ownership | under 1% | 1% |
| Social rented | 13% | 17% |
| Private rented | 12% | 21% |
Work and commuting
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Adults (16 and over) in work | 56% | 57% |
| Unemployment (of those working or looking for work) | 8% | 6% |
| Retired (of adults) | 32% | 22% |
| Long-term sick or disabled (of adults) | under 1% | 4% |
| Work mainly from home (of those in work) | 45% | 32% |
| Travel to work by car or van | 52% | 48% |
| By train, Underground, metro or tram | 0% | 4% |
| By any public transport, including bus | 0% | 8% |
| On foot or by bicycle | 2% | 10% |
| Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work) | 43% | 65% |
| Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away | 16% | 8% |
Education and languages
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults) | 36% | 34% |
| No qualifications | 16% | 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 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.
What has changed
- Roadworks Street works permit: UK POWER NETWORKS EASTERN & LONDON: Utility repair and maintenance works, 8 February 2027 to 12 February 2027 (road closure) found 3 November 2026
- Roadworks Street works permit: UK POWER NETWORKS EASTERN & LONDON: Utility repair and maintenance works, 14 December 2026 (temp obstruction 15 minute delay) found 3 November 2026
Postcodes on this street
All the streets in IP29 and across West 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.