Eye Road Mid Suffolk
65 addresses across 8 postcodes (IP23), about 2 km (1.2 miles) long, classed as a b road. USRN 25502587.
- Sales: 13 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £740,000 across 1 sale.
- Energy: 16 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 2, D: 5, E: 3, F: 5).
- 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 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 Diss, about 12.1 km (7.5 miles) away in a straight line.
- Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 5.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
- Height: Its addresses are 44 to 63 m above sea level.
- Noise: 21 of its 65 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
- Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Debenham Group Practice, about 5.3 km (3.3 miles) away.
- People: About 760 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 79% of households owned their home and 34% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
Sales on this street
| Year | Sales | Median price | Lowest | Highest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 1 | £740,000 | £740,000 | £740,000 |
| 2022 | 2 | £254,655 | £191,310 | £318,000 |
| 2020 | 1 | £200,000 | £200,000 | £200,000 |
| 2017 | 1 | £340,000 | £340,000 | £340,000 |
| 2016 | 1 | £394,000 | £394,000 | £394,000 |
| 2014 | 1 | £285,000 | £285,000 | £285,000 |
| 2012 | 1 | £230,000 | £230,000 | £230,000 |
| 2011 | 1 | £225,000 | £225,000 | £225,000 |
| 2010 | 1 | £565,000 | £565,000 | £565,000 |
| 2003 | 1 | £60,000 | £60,000 | £60,000 |
| 2002 | 1 | £350,000 | £350,000 | £350,000 |
| Date | Address | Type | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 May 2025 | CHURCH FARM HOUSE IP23 7JX | Other | £400,000 | Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer). |
| 24 Sep 2024 | THE OLD CHURCH IP23 7JZ | Detached | £740,000 | |
| 12 Aug 2022 | 1, WOODHOUSE COTTAGE IP23 7JX | Semi-detached | £318,000 | |
| 12 Aug 2022 | CHURCH COTTAGE IP23 7JZ | Semi-detached | £191,310 | |
| 14 Oct 2020 | PIPMANS BARN IP23 7JX | Detached | £200,000 | |
| 25 Oct 2017 | SHERON IP23 7JX | Semi-detached | £340,000 | |
| 14 Sep 2016 | THE OLD SWAN IP23 7JZ | Detached | £394,000 | |
| 1 Aug 2014 | 2, STONE COTTAGE IP23 7LN | Semi-detached | £285,000 | |
| 26 Jan 2012 | 1, STONE COTTAGE IP23 7LN | Semi-detached | £230,000 | |
| 6 Sep 2011 | SHERON IP23 7JX | Semi-detached | £225,000 | |
| 18 Mar 2010 | VALLEY FARM IP23 7JX | Detached | £565,000 | |
| 19 Dec 2003 | CANARY COTTAGE IP23 7JX | Semi-detached | £60,000 | |
| 21 Jun 2002 | THE OLD CHURCH IP23 7JZ | Detached | £350,000 |
Energy performance certificates
16 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 138 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (9); House, detached (5); Bungalow, detached (2). Built: before 1900 (8); 1967-1975 (2); 1950-1966 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (9); rented (private) (5).
Each home's certificates and sales (8 addresses)
- 1 Chapel Cottage, Eye Road, Rishangles
- 1 Stone Cottage, Eye Road, Rishangles
- 1 Woodhouse Cottage, Eye Road, Rishangles
- 2 Stone Cottage, Eye Road, Rishangles
- Canary Cottage, Eye Road, Rishangles
- Rishangles Hall, Eye Road, Rishangles
- Sheron, Eye Road, Rishangles
- The Stables Valley Farm, Eye Road, Rishangles
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.
| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| £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 (20% of about 1,720 homes).
Planning and heritage
- Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
- Listed buildings on or by this street: 9.
- 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
- THE OLD CHURCH, grade II*
- CHAPEL HOUSE, grade II
- CHURCH FARMHOUSE, grade II
- COMMON FARMHOUSE, grade II
- MILL GREEN, grade II
- Rishangles War Memorial, grade II
- SERVICE RANGE IMMEDIATELY NORTH OF STREET FARMHOUSE, grade II
- STREET FARMHOUSE, grade II
- ZION BAPTIST CHAPEL (INCLUDING ATTACHED RAILINGS), grade II
Roadworks
Finished in the last three months
- 16 September 2026 to 20 September 2026: ESSEX AND SUFFOLK WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, give and take, on the verge (immediate - urgent works)
Flood risk
Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| IP23 7JX | not in 2 or 3 | 0 / 0 / 0 | unlikely |
| IP23 7JU | not in 2 or 3 | 0 / 0 / 0 | unlikely |
| IP23 7JZ | not in 2 or 3 | 0 / 0 / 0 | unlikely |
| IP23 7LA | not in 2 or 3 | 0 / 0 / 1 | unlikely |
| IP23 7LR | not in 2 or 3 | 0 / 1 / 0 | unlikely |
| IP23 7LN | not in 2 or 3 | 1 / 0 / 0 | unlikely |
| IP23 7LP | not in 2 or 3 | 0 / 0 / 0 | unlikely |
| IP23 7QB | not in 2 or 3 | 0 / 0 / 0 | unlikely |
Height above sea level
The street's 66 addresses are between 44 m and 63 m above sea level (55 m on average); the ground rises about 19 m from the lowest to the highest.
Broadband
| Postcode | Superfast (30 Mbit/s+) | Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+) | Gigabit | Below 10 Mbit/s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IP23 7JU | 80% | 80% | 80% | 0% |
| IP23 7JX | 100% | 36% | 36% | 0% |
| IP23 7JZ | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| IP23 7LA | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| IP23 7LN | 100% | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| IP23 7LP | 100% | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| IP23 7LR | 81% | 81% | 81% | 6% |
| IP23 7QB | 100% | 100% | 100% | 0% |
Getting around
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| Railway stations | Diss 701,000 journeys in 2024–25 | 12.1 km (7.5 miles) |
| Stowmarket 976,000 journeys in 2024–25 | 14.5 km (9 miles) | |
| Bus stops | 0 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Baptist Church Rishangles | 640 m (0.4 miles) |
| Airport with scheduled flights | Norwich Airport NWI | 46 km (29 miles) |
| Nearest large airport | London Stansted Airport STN | 76.9 km (48 miles) |
Local services
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| GP surgeries | Debenham Group Practice | 5.3 km (3.3 miles) |
| Pharmacies | Wellbeing Pharmacy | 4.9 km (3 miles) |
| Hospital | Hartismere Hospital | 6.4 km (4 miles) |
| Police station | Norfolk Police - Diss Public Enquiry Office | 12.6 km (7.8 miles) |
Parks and green space
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| Play area | Unnamed 510 m² | 2.6 km (1.6 miles) |
| Playing field | Unnamed 9,870 m² | 2.6 km (1.6 miles) |
| Allotments | Unnamed 4,740 m² | 1.8 km (1.1 miles) |
Landmarks
The nearest historic landmark is The Old Church, a listed building (Grade II*), 580 m (0.4 miles) north-west. 14 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade II*.
| Name | What it is | From the middle of the street |
|---|---|---|
| The Old Church | Listed building, Grade II* | 580 m (0.4 miles) north-west |
| Buck's Hall | Listed building, Grade II* | 870 m (0.5 miles) south-east |
| Name | What it is | From the middle of the street |
|---|---|---|
| Low Plantation | Wood | 2.3 km (1.4 miles) south-east |
| Leucock's Plantation | Wood | 2.8 km (1.7 miles) south-east |
| Aspall Wood | Wood | 2.8 km (1.8 miles) south-east |
| Bellwell Plantation | Wood | 3.1 km (2 miles) south-east |
| Bedingfield Plantation | Wood | 3.3 km (2.1 miles) east |
| Thorndon Pool | Lake or reservoir | 4 km (2.5 miles) north-west |
Air quality
| Pollutant | Here | UK limit | WHO guideline |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) | 5.3 | 40 | 10 |
| Fine particles (PM2.5) | 6.7 | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 65 to 69 | 1 | 0 |
| 60 to 64 | 7 | 0 |
| 55 to 59 | 13 | 0 |
| Under 55 | 44 | 65 |
21 of the street's 65 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
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 | 56 | 40 |
| Children under 15 | 13% | 17% |
| Aged 65 and over | 32% | 18% |
Homes
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Owned (outright or with a mortgage) | 79% | 61% |
| Owned outright | 57% | 33% |
| Shared ownership | 0% | 1% |
| Social rented | 3% | 17% |
| Private rented | 18% | 21% |
Work and commuting
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Adults (16 and over) in work | 54% | 57% |
| Unemployment (of those working or looking for work) | 2% | 6% |
| Retired (of adults) | 33% | 22% |
| Long-term sick or disabled (of adults) | 1% | 4% |
| Work mainly from home (of those in work) | 39% | 32% |
| Travel to work by car or van | 54% | 48% |
| By train, Underground, metro or tram | under 1% | 4% |
| By any public transport, including bus | under 1% | 8% |
| On foot or by bicycle | 5% | 10% |
| Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work) | 35% | 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) | 34% | 34% |
| No qualifications | 14% | 18% |
| Apprenticeship as highest qualification | 4% | 5% |
| Main language English (aged 3 and over) | 100% | 91% |
| Cannot speak English well or at all | 0% | 2% |
Deprivation
The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 6 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.
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
- IP23 7JX: 21 addresses of 23 in the postcode
- IP23 7JU: 13 addresses of 22 in the postcode
- IP23 7JZ: 13 addresses of 15 in the postcode
- IP23 7LA: 7 addresses
- IP23 7LR: 5 addresses of 62 in the postcode
- IP23 7LN: 4 addresses of 8 in the postcode
- IP23 7LP: 1 address of 12 in the postcode
- IP23 7QB: 1 address of 24 in the postcode
All the streets in IP23 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.