Culford Heath Wordwell, West Suffolk
16 addresses across 3 postcodes (IP24,IP31), about 1.1 km (0.7 miles) long. USRN 37403308.
- Sales: 14 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £580,000 across 1 sale.
- Prices and rents: A typical home in West Suffolk cost £295,860 in August 2026 (-0.5% on a year); private rents averaged £1,188 a month.
- Energy: 6 homes have an energy certificate (C: 1, E: 4, F: 1).
- Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
- Recorded floods: No recorded flood covers the centre of any of its postcodes.
- Energy projects: 1 renewable energy project nearby is planned or being built; the nearest, Barrow Clump Farm, Elveden - Anaerobic Digestion Plant, is 4.9 km (3 miles) away.
- Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band B, which costs £1,829 a year in West Suffolk in 2026-27.
- Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% to 100% of premises.
- Transport: The nearest railway station is Thetford, about 8.8 km (5.5 miles) away in a straight line.
- Green space: The nearest park or garden, King's Picnic Place, is about 2.8 km (1.7 miles) away.
- Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 4.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.8 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
- Height: Its addresses are 48 to 58 m above sea level.
- Noise: None of its addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
- Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is School Lane Surgery, about 8.2 km (5.1 miles) away.
- People: About 820 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 86% of households owned their home and 37% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
- Water: Supplied by Anglian Water.
- Policing: Suffolk Constabulary: 11.3% of the crimes it recorded in 2025/26 had led to a charge or summons (England and Wales 9.3%); it answered 88.7% of 999 calls within 10 seconds (target 90%).
- MP: Nick Timothy, Conservative, MP for West Suffolk.
- Council: Risby ward, West Suffolk: Conservative won its latest election, on 4 May 2023.
- Road safety: No collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025.
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House sales on this street
See any home on its own: in the list of sales below, tap an underlined house number to open that home's page, with every energy certificate lodged for it and every sale matched to it.
| Year | Sales | Median price | Lowest | Highest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 | £580,000 | £580,000 | £580,000 |
| 2017 | 2 | £572,500 | £395,000 | £750,000 |
| 2016 | 1 | £400,000 | £400,000 | £400,000 |
| 2007 | 1 | £365,000 | £365,000 | £365,000 |
| 2005 | 1 | £210,000 | £210,000 | £210,000 |
| 2004 | 1 | £160,500 | £160,500 | £160,500 |
| 2003 | 2 | £271,750 | £248,500 | £295,000 |
| 2002 | 1 | £294,000 | £294,000 | £294,000 |
| 2001 | 1 | £132,000 | £132,000 | £132,000 |
| 1997 | 1 | £192,000 | £192,000 | £192,000 |
| Date | Address | Type | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 Apr 2025 | LING COVERT COTTAGE IP31 1PP | Other | £575,000 | Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer). |
| 24 Feb 2017 | LING COVERT COTTAGE IP31 1PP | Terraced | £395,000 | |
| 30 Jan 2004 | LING COVERT COTTAGE IP31 1PP | Terraced | £160,500 | |
| 15 Sep 2005 | PANDEMONIUM COTTAGE IP31 1PR | Detached | £210,000 | |
| 6 Feb 2026 | 1, SANDY BARRACKS IP31 1PP | Semi-detached | £580,000 | |
| 19 Jan 2007 | 1, SANDY BARRACKS IP31 1PP | Semi-detached | £365,000 | |
| 21 Oct 2003 | 1, SANDY BARRACKS IP31 1PP | Semi-detached | £295,000 | |
| 16 Dec 2016 | 2, SANDY BARRACKS IP31 1PP | Semi-detached | £400,000 | |
| 18 Jul 2002 | 2, SANDY BARRACKS IP31 1PP | Semi-detached | £294,000 | |
| 10 Aug 2001 | 2, SANDY BARRACKS IP31 1PP | Semi-detached | £132,000 | |
| 1 Sep 2003 | THE COTTAGE IP31 1PP | Semi-detached | £248,500 | |
| 1 Sep 2017 | THE OLD CHURCH IP31 1PP | Other | £525,000 | Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer). |
| 6 Feb 2017 | TRING COTTAGE IP31 1PR | Detached | £750,000 | |
| 8 Aug 1997 | TRING COTTAGE IP31 1PR | Detached | £192,000 |
House prices and rents in West Suffolk
A typical home in West Suffolk cost £295,860 in August 2026, 0.5% less than a year before. That is 8% more than five years earlier and 26% more than ten years earlier.
| Home | Typical price, Aug 2026 |
|---|---|
| Detached | £449,670 |
| Semi-detached | £280,776 |
| Terraced | £231,512 |
| Flat or maisonette | £145,376 |
| Bought by a first-time buyer | £246,508 |
Private renters in West Suffolk paid £1,188 a month on average in September 2026, 4.2% more than a year before. That is 28% more than five years earlier.
| Home | Average rent a month, Sep 2026 |
|---|---|
| One bedroom | £821 |
| Two bedrooms | £1,065 |
| Three bedrooms | £1,326 |
| Four or more bedrooms | £1,863 |
Energy performance certificates
6 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 192 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (4); House, detached (2). Built: before 1900 (4); 1900-1929 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (5).
Gas and electricity use
None of the street's postcodes has the 5 or more domestic meters needed for figures to be published.
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 neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band B (28% of about 1,230 homes).
Planning and heritage
- Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
- Listed buildings on or by this street: 3.
- 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
- CHURCH OF ST PETER, grade II
- FIELDSIDE COTTAGES, grade II
- WELLSIDE COTTAGES AND ATTACHED FORMER READING ROOM, grade II
Energy projects nearby
1 energy project near the street's postcodes, 1 of it not yet operating.
| Project | Kind | Size | Stage | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barrow Clump Farm, Elveden - Anaerobic Digestion Plant West Suffolk SCC/0205/25FH | Anaerobic digestion | Planning application made Jan 2026 | 4.9 km (3 miles) |
Planned projects can change or not go ahead; search the planning authority's applications by the reference shown for the plans, conditions and any objections. Construction brings traffic for some months; once built, solar farms and batteries are usually quiet, while turbines and waste plants can be seen or heard further away.
Roadworks
No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 31 October 2026.
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 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.
| Postcode | Planning zone | Addresses at high / medium / low risk | Groundwater |
|---|---|---|---|
| IP31 1PP | not in 2 or 3 | 0 / 0 / 2 | unlikely |
| IP31 1PR | not in 2 or 3 | 0 / 0 / 1 | unlikely |
| IP24 2GE | not in 2 or 3 | 0 / 0 / 0 | unlikely |
Recorded floods
No recorded flood covers the centre of any of this street's postcodes.
Recorded floods are where floodwater was seen or surveyed after a flood. Many floods were never mapped, an outline over a postcode's centre does not mean every home in it flooded, and homes outside one may have. Ask the seller whether the home itself has flooded.
Coastal erosion
No projected coastal erosion zone is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.
Storm overflows
No storm overflow outlet is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.
Coal mining
No postcode centre on the street is in a coalfield: the Mining Remediation Authority records no coal mining risk here.
Radon
Every 1 km square the street's postcodes are in is in the lowest band of radon potential: fewer than 1 home in 100 is estimated to be at or above the Action Level. It is not a radon Affected Area.
Historic landfill
No historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes.
Height above sea level
The street's 16 addresses are between 48 m and 58 m above sea level (55 m on average); the ground rises about 10 m from the lowest to the highest.
Broadband
| Postcode | Superfast (30 Mbit/s+) | Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+) | Gigabit | Below 10 Mbit/s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IP24 2GE | 100% | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| IP31 1PP | 33% | 33% | 33% | 0% |
| IP31 1PR | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
Water
This street's water is supplied by Anglian Water. The company gives the hardness and quality of the water at an address on its website.
Anglian Water does not publish the hardness of its tap samples as open data; only Yorkshire Water, Wessex Water and Southern Water do.
Getting around
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| Railway stations | Thetford 306,000 journeys in 2024–25 | 8.8 km (5.5 miles) |
| Bury St Edmunds 929,000 journeys in 2024–25 | 9.8 km (6.1 miles) | |
| Thurston 124,000 journeys in 2024–25 | 11.9 km (7.4 miles) | |
| Bus stops | None within 800 m (0.5 miles) | |
| Bus or coach station | Bus Interchange Thetford | 8.5 km (5.3 miles) |
| EV charging points | Lackford Lakes | 5.9 km (3.7 miles) |
| Airport with scheduled flights | Norwich Airport NWI | 53.5 km (33 miles) |
| Nearest large airport | London Stansted Airport STN | 60.6 km (38 miles) |
Local services
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| GP surgeries | School Lane Surgery Good May 2024 | 8.2 km (5.1 miles) |
| Pharmacies | School Lane Pharmacy | 8.2 km (5.1 miles) |
| NHS dentists | Honington Dental Centre | 4.1 km (2.5 miles) |
| Hospital | Hospital Road Site | 11.3 km (7 miles) |
| Care homes | Cedar Lodge Good Jul 2025 | 5.8 km (3.6 miles) |
| Police station | Norfolk Police - Thetford Public Enquiry Office | 8.6 km (5.3 miles) |
| Cash machines | RAF Honington Cashzone | 4.1 km (2.5 miles) |
Parks and green space
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| Park or garden | King's Picnic Place 4.4 ha | 2.8 km (1.7 miles) |
Landmarks
The nearest historic landmark is Bowl barrow known as Traveller's Hill tumulus, a scheduled monument, 1.1 km (0.7 miles) south-west. 3 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).
| Name | What it is | From the middle of the street |
|---|---|---|
| Bowl barrow known as Traveller's Hill tumulus | Scheduled monument | 1.1 km (0.7 miles) south-west |
| Three bowl barrows and a ring ditch 850m and 750m north east of Neville House Farm | Scheduled monument | 1.6 km (1 mile) south-east |
| Name | What it is | From the middle of the street |
|---|---|---|
| Rubbinghouse Covert | Wood | 170 m south-west |
| Ash Covert | Wood | 470 m (0.3 miles) east |
| Ling Covert | Wood | 560 m (0.3 miles) south-east |
| Rush Bottom | Valley | 4 km (2.5 miles) east |
| Jennet's Hill | Hill | 4.2 km (2.6 miles) west |
| Broad Mere | Lake or reservoir | 4.4 km (2.8 miles) east |
Air quality
| Pollutant | Here | UK limit | WHO guideline |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) | 4.9 | 40 | 10 |
| Fine particles (PM2.5) | 6.8 | 20 | 5 |
| Particles (PM10) | 11.9 | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Under 55 | 16 | 16 |
None of the street's 16 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic or railways.
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).
Nurseries and childcare
No nursery, pre-school or out-of-school club on Ofsted's register is within 1.5 km (0.9 miles) of the middle of the street.
Ofsted also registers 229 childminders and 46 home childcarers (nannies) in Suffolk. It does not publish their addresses, so they cannot be shown here; the council's family information service lists those taking children.
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 Constabulary).
Policing
This street is policed by Suffolk Constabulary. Of the 44,048 crimes it recorded in 2025/26 (April to March), 11.3% had led to someone being charged or summonsed to court, against 9.3% across England and Wales.
In the 12 months November 2025 to October 2026 it answered 88.7% of its 116,470 999 calls within 10 seconds, against a national target of 90% and 89.6% across England and Wales.
| Outcome | Suffolk Constabulary | England and Wales |
|---|---|---|
| Charged or summonsed | 11.3% | 9.3% |
| Dealt with out of court (caution, community resolution, penalty notice) | 5.4% | 4.4% |
| Closed with no suspect identified | 29.5% | 37.8% |
| Closed: the victim did not support further action | 25.7% | 25.4% |
| Closed: suspect identified, but not enough evidence | 12.8% | 15.1% |
| Other outcomes (not in the public interest, transferred elsewhere) | 12.0% | 3.9% |
| No outcome yet (still under investigation) | 3.3% | 4.0% |
Each crime is counted under the outcome it had been given when the figures were taken, a few months after the year ended, so some recorded late in the year were still being investigated. Forces differ in the crimes they deal with (a city force has more shoplifting and fewer rural thefts), which changes these shares, so a difference from England and Wales is not by itself a measure of how well a force investigates. Fraud is not included: it is recorded nationally.
Road safety
No collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025.
Only collisions in which someone was hurt and which the police were told about are here: damage-only collisions and near misses are not, and some injuries are never reported. Positions are recorded by the police, usually to within a few metres. Each year's figures are published the following September.
Traffic on nearby roads
No traffic count point is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes. The Department for Transport counts every motorway and A road and only a sample of minor roads, so a quiet residential street usually has none.
People and work
Who lives here
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Median age | 48 | 40 |
| Children under 15 | 15% | 17% |
| Aged 65 and over | 25% | 18% |
Homes
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Owned (outright or with a mortgage) | 86% | 61% |
| Owned outright | 53% | 33% |
| Shared ownership | 0% | 1% |
| Social rented | under 1% | 17% |
| Private rented | 14% | 21% |
Work and commuting
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Adults (16 and over) in work | 56% | 57% |
| Unemployment (of those working or looking for work) | 4% | 6% |
| Retired (of adults) | 28% | 22% |
| Long-term sick or disabled (of adults) | under 1% | 4% |
| Work mainly from home (of those in work) | 36% | 32% |
| Travel to work by car or van | 53% | 48% |
| By train, Underground, metro or tram | under 1% | 4% |
| By any public transport, including bus | 2% | 8% |
| On foot or by bicycle | 9% | 10% |
| Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work) | 42% | 65% |
| Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away | 20% | 8% |
Education and languages
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults) | 37% | 34% |
| No qualifications | 17% | 18% |
| Apprenticeship as highest qualification | 5% | 5% |
| Main language English (aged 3 and over) | 98% | 91% |
| Cannot speak English well or at all | under 1% | 2% |
Deprivation
The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 5 to 7 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.
Politics
This street is in the West Suffolk constituency (88% of its addresses; the rest are in Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket, Dr Peter Prinsley (Labour)). Its MP is Nick Timothy, Conservative.
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nick Timothy (elected) | Conservative | 15,814 | 34.3% | -30.1 |
| Rebecca Denness | Labour | 12,567 | 27.2% | +5.1 |
| David Bull | Reform UK | 9,623 | 20.8% | |
| Henry Batchelor | Liberal Democrat | 4,284 | 9.3% | +0.2 |
| Mark Ereira | Green Party | 2,910 | 6.3% | +1.8 |
| Katie Parker | Independent | 485 | 1.1% | |
| Luke O'Brien | Independent | 345 | 0.8% | |
| Ivan Kinsman | Social Democratic Party | 133 | 0.3% |
Conservative hold, with a majority of 3,247 votes (7.0%). 46,161 valid votes from an electorate of 77,145, a turnout of 60.1%.
Change is in percentage points of the vote on 2019, recalculated for the 2024 boundaries (the notional result), so it compares like with like where the constituency changed shape; it is blank where the party or candidate did not stand in 2019.
Council: Risby ward, West Suffolk
This street is mostly in this ward. Its latest election was on 4 May 2023.
| Candidate | Party | Votes |
|---|---|---|
| Susan Glossop (elected) | Conservative | 506 |
| Peter Leonard Appleton | Labour | 285 |
Turnout 36%.
County council: Thingoe North division, Suffolk
This street is mostly in this division. Its latest election was on 6 May 2021.
| Candidate | Party | Votes |
|---|---|---|
| Beccy Hopfensperger (elected) | Conservative | 1,961 |
| Katie Parker | Labour | 471 |
| Oliver George Ingwall King | Green Party | 369 |
| Ian Robert Chapman | Liberal Democrat | 229 |
Turnout 41%.
Councils elect all their members every four years or a third of them in three years out of four, so the members for a ward can come from more than one election; a councillor may have changed party since being elected.
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.
Postcodes on this street
- IP31 1PP: 9 addresses of 11 in the postcode
- IP31 1PR: 5 addresses
- IP24 2GE: 2 addresses of 6 in the postcode
All the streets in IP24, IP31 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; road collisions count only those in which someone was hurt and the police were told.
- 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.