Couhe Close Swaffham, Breckland

28 addresses across 2 postcodes (PE37), about 200 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 4000098.

Sales: 56 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £250,000 across 1 sale.
Energy: 18 homes have an energy certificate (C: 3, D: 11, E: 2, F: 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 A; Band D in Breckland costs £2,444 a year in 2026-27.
Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% to 100% of premises.
Transport: The nearest railway station is Watlington, about 21 km (13 miles) away in a straight line.
Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 120 m away.
Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 5.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.9 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
Height: Its addresses are 62 to 64 m above sea level.
Noise: 2 of its 28 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Manor Farm Medical Centre, about 380 m away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
People: About 550 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 45% of households owned their home and 17% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
Crime: 66 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)
Year	Sales	Median price	Lowest	Highest
2024	1	£250,000	£250,000	£250,000
2023	1	£257,500	£257,500	£257,500
2021	2	£212,500	£200,000	£225,000
2020	3	£215,000	£200,000	£248,000
2019	2	£182,500	£170,000	£195,000
2018	1	£190,000	£190,000	£190,000
2017	1	£180,000	£180,000	£180,000
2016	1	£141,000	£141,000	£141,000
2015	1	£161,000	£161,000	£161,000
2013	4	£134,750	£94,000	£156,000
2012	2	£130,000	£130,000	£130,000
2011	1	£130,000	£130,000	£130,000

Most recent sales (latest 50 of 56)
Date	Address	Type	Price	Notes
1 Mar 2024	12 PE37 7JS	Detached	£250,000
10 Nov 2023	3 PE37 7JS	Detached	£257,500
22 Sep 2021	10 PE37 7JS	Detached	£225,000
24 May 2021	23 PE37 7JS	Detached	£200,000
17 Dec 2020	28 PE37 7JS	Detached	£215,000
11 Dec 2020	25 PE37 7JS	Detached	£200,000
16 Oct 2020	11 PE37 7JS	Semi-detached	£248,000
16 Aug 2019	16 PE37 7JS	Semi-detached	£170,000
29 May 2019	4 PE37 7JS	Detached	£195,000
9 Aug 2018	23 PE37 7JS	Detached	£190,000
23 May 2017	19 PE37 7JS	Detached	£180,000
24 Oct 2016	15 PE37 7JS	Semi-detached	£141,000
8 May 2015	10 PE37 7JS	Detached	£161,000
12 Sep 2014	16 PE37 7JS	Semi-detached	£116,000	Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
4 Nov 2013	6 PE37 7JS	Detached	£156,000
10 Jun 2013	24 PE37 7JS	Detached	£133,000
4 Apr 2013	23 PE37 7JS	Detached	£136,500
25 Jan 2013	6 PE37 7JS	Detached	£94,000
20 Dec 2012	28 PE37 7JS	Detached	£130,000
3 Dec 2012	18 PE37 7JS	Semi-detached	£130,000
6 May 2011	9 PE37 7JS	Detached	£130,000
12 Aug 2009	18 PE37 7JS	Semi-detached	£110,000
10 Oct 2007	23 PE37 7JS	Detached	£168,000
7 Sep 2007	11 PE37 7JS	Semi-detached	£205,000
5 Sep 2007	27 PE37 7JS	Detached	£195,000
7 Aug 2007	20 PE37 7JS	Detached	£152,000
9 Jun 2006	1 PE37 7JS	Detached	£156,500
27 Apr 2006	23 PE37 7JS	Detached	£135,000
21 Apr 2006	7 PE37 7JS	Semi-detached	£126,000
3 Jun 2005	11 PE37 7JS	Semi-detached	£175,000
3 Jun 2005	10 PE37 7JS	Detached	£160,000
13 Aug 2004	13 PE37 7JS	Semi-detached	£133,000
3 Aug 2004	27 PE37 7JS	Detached	£185,000
5 Mar 2004	26 PE37 7JS	Semi-detached	£150,000
27 Jun 2003	25 PE37 7JS	Detached	£130,000
2 May 2003	27 PE37 7JS	Detached	£105,000
19 Sep 2002	2 PE37 7JS	Detached	£108,000
30 Aug 2002	17 PE37 7JS	Semi-detached	£92,500
18 Jan 2002	17 PE37 7JS	Semi-detached	£81,500
17 Dec 2001	10 PE37 7JS	Detached	£104,000
15 Aug 2001	28 PE37 7JS	Detached	£80,000
24 May 2001	26 PE37 7JS	Semi-detached	£72,000
21 May 2001	12 PE37 7JS	Detached	£72,000
17 Jan 2001	16 PE37 7JS	Semi-detached	£27,000
30 Aug 2000	20 PE37 7JS	Detached	£73,500
22 Dec 1998	2 PE37 7JS	Detached	£45,000
4 Nov 1998	18 PE37 7JS	Semi-detached	£49,500
9 Oct 1998	9 PE37 7JS	Detached	£50,000
1 Aug 1997	28 PE37 7JS	Detached	£52,000
7 Jul 1997	10 PE37 7JS	Detached	£59,500

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 March 2010 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

D11

18 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 68 m². Most common: Bungalow, detached (15); Bungalow, semi-detached (3). Built: 1967-1975 (13); 1950-1966 (3); 1976-1982 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (16).

Each home's certificates and sales (10 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Breckland in 2026-27: Band D £2,444 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H
£1,629	£1,901	£2,172	£2,444	£2,987	£3,530	£4,073	£4,887

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (43% of about 760 homes).

A43%

B25%

C17%

D8%

E4%

F1%

G1%

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: 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.

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

4 January 2027 to 22 January 2027: CADENT GAS LIMITED, Utility asset works, road closure, on the footway, carriageway (major (paa) 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

No address in this street's postcodes is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

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.

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 28 addresses are between 62 m and 64 m above sea level (62 m on average).

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)
Postcode	Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)	Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)	Gigabit	Below 10 Mbit/s
PE37 7JL	100%	100%	100%	0%
PE37 7JS	100%	0%	0%	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.

	Nearest	Distance
Railway station	Watlington 134,000 journeys in 2024–25	21 km (13 miles)
Bus stops	9 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 19 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Couhe Close Swaffham	60 m
Car parks	1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Theatre St Parking	800 m (0.5 miles)
EV charging points	3 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest PoGo Charge	520 m (0.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flights	Norwich Airport NWI	40 km (25 miles)
Nearest large airport	London Stansted Airport STN	90.9 km (56 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.

	Nearest	Distance
GP surgeries	3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Manor Farm Medical Centre	380 m
Pharmacies	3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots	490 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists	1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery	600 m (0.4 miles)
Hospital	Swaffham Community Hospital	110 m
Police station	Norfolk Police - Swaffham Public Enquiry Office	570 m (0.4 miles)
Cash machines	3 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Morrisons Daily - Swaffham Cashzone	420 m (0.3 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.

	Nearest	Distance
Park or garden	1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.1 ha	120 m
Play area	1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 230 m²	250 m
Playing field	Unnamed 2.8 ha	840 m (0.5 miles)
Allotments	2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.6 ha	390 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 2.1 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Manor House Including Attached Service Range to East, a listed building (Grade II*), 430 m (0.3 miles) south-east. 101 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade I and 2 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
Name	What it is	From the middle of the street
Manor House Including Attached Service Range to East	Listed building, Grade II*	430 m (0.3 miles) south-east
Church of St Peter and St Paul	Listed building, Grade I	430 m (0.3 miles) south
Oakleigh House	Listed building, Grade II*	560 m (0.3 miles) south-west
Swaffham Market Cross	Listed building, Grade I	560 m (0.3 miles) south-west

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
Name	What it is	From the middle of the street
Northwell Pool	Lake or reservoir	100 m north
Fen Pit	Lake or reservoir	1.2 km (0.7 miles) north
Lowroad Plantation	Wood	1.6 km (1 mile) west
Edward's Plantation	Wood	1.9 km (1.2 miles) south-west
Silverdrift Plantation	Wood	1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-west
Brake Hill	Hill	3.1 km (1.9 miles) south

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)
Pollutant	Here	UK limit	WHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)	5.0	40	10
Fine particles (PM2.5)	6.9	20	5
Particles (PM10)	12.6	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

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)
Level	Road traffic	Railways
60 to 64	1	0
55 to 59	1	0
Under 55	26	28

2 of the street's 28 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 Breckland: see them on the Breckland 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.

School	Phase	Ages	Distance	Inspection
Swaffham Meadow Primary School Roman Catholic	Primary	4–11	310 m	Inadequate (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Heartwood CofE VC Primary & Nursery School Church of England	Primary	3–11	820 m (0.5 miles)	Good (Jul 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
The Nicholas Hamond Academy	Secondary	11–16	1.4 km (0.9 miles)	Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Swaffham CofE Primary Academy Church of England	Primary	2–11	1.5 km (0.9 miles)	Good (Jun 2023, 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.

Business	Type	Distance	Rating	Rated
G4S Facilities Management PE37 7HL	Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen	90 m	5 Very good	8 May 2026
The Station Bar & Restaurant PE37 7HP	Pub/bar/nightclub	270 m	5 Very good	22 Sep 2025
Best Indian Foods (T/A Indian Summer Restaurant Ltd) PE37 7HP	Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen	290 m	4 Good	5 Jan 2026
Norse at Sacred Heart School PE37 7HL	School/college/university	310 m	4 Good	4 Oct 2024
The George Hotel PE37 7LJ	Hotel/bed & breakfast/guest house	360 m	4 Good	7 Nov 2025
Swaffham & District Mental Health Association Ltd PE37 7JE	Other catering premises	400 m (0.2 miles)	1 Major improvement necessary	18 Feb 2026
Domino's Pizza PE37 7AQ	Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen	420 m (0.3 miles)	5 Very good	21 Feb 2024
Morrisons Daily PE37 7LE	Retailers - other	440 m (0.3 miles)	5 Very good	11 Jun 2025
Tesco PE37 7XG	Retailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets	450 m (0.3 miles)	5 Very good	18 Feb 2026
Jana Market PE37 7LA	Retailers - other	450 m (0.3 miles)	5 Very good	4 Apr 2025
Jana Market Garden PE37 7LA	Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen	450 m (0.3 miles)	5 Very good	11 Jun 2025
Impson Butchers Ltd PE37 7AQ	Retailers - other	460 m (0.3 miles)	5 Very good	29 Apr 2026
Wellbread Bakers PE37 7LA	Retailers - other	460 m (0.3 miles)	4 Good	11 Jun 2025
Boots UK Ltd PE37 7LA	Retailers - other	470 m (0.3 miles)	Exempt
Swaffham & Litcham Home Hospice Support PE37 7XG	Retailers - other	470 m (0.3 miles)	5 Very good	30 Aug 2024

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.

66 recorded crimes by category
Category	Crimes
Violence and sexual offences	29
Anti-social behaviour	12
Public order	7
Criminal damage and arson	6
Drugs	4
Other theft	3
Vehicle crime	2
Other crime	2
Burglary	1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Manor Way (23); On or near Orford Road (13); On or near New Sporle Road (12); On or near Pedlar'S Grove (5); On or near Northwell Place (4).

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: 547 residents in 231 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 street	England
Median age	46	40
Children under 15	20%	17%
Aged 65 and over	27%	18%

Homes

	Around this street	England
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)	45%	61%
Owned outright	37%	33%
Shared ownership	0%	1%
Social rented	42%	17%
Private rented	13%	21%

Work and commuting

	Around this street	England
Adults (16 and over) in work	40%	57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)	13%	6%
Retired (of adults)	34%	22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)	6%	4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)	8%	32%
Travel to work by car or van	68%	48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram	0%	4%
By any public transport, including bus	2%	8%
On foot or by bicycle	21%	10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)	50%	65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away	17%	8%

Education and languages

	Around this street	England
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)	17%	34%
No qualifications	30%	18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification	8%	5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)	95%	91%
Cannot speak English well or at all	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.

PE37 7JS: 27 addresses
PE37 7JL: 1 address of 18 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Manor Way · Orford Road · Pedlar's Grove · Northwell Place · Adastral Place · Tower Meadow · Regal Close · Howard Close · Northwell Pool Road · Castle Acre Road · Providence Terrace · Sea Lord Close

All the streets in PE37 and across Breckland.

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.