Greyfriars Road Ipswich

10 addresses across 4 postcodes (IP1), about 260 m long, classed as a a road. USRN 18200455.

  • Flood: 50 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 C; Band D in Ipswich costs £2,468 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 92% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Ipswich, about 630 m (0.4 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 560 m (0.3 miles) away, and Christchurch Park (34 hectares) is about 720 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 12.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 3 to 4 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 10 of its 10 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Burlington Primary Care, about 800 m (0.5 miles) away, with 6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 210 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 10% of households owned their home and 33% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 201 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)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
Most recent sales (2)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
9 Oct 20195 IP1 1UPOther£136,400Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
2 Dec 2016NOVOTEL IP1 1UPOther£6,400,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).

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

No certificates found for addresses on this street.

Council tax

What each band costs in Ipswich in 2026-27: Band D £2,468 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,646£1,920£2,194£2,468£3,017£3,565£4,114£4,937

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (37% of about 1,060 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 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: 7.
  • 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

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

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 31 October 2026

  • 31 January 2027: BT, Utility asset works, road closure, on the carriageway (major (paa) works, permit applied for)
  • 30 March 2027 to 11 April 2027: ANGLIAN WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway, verge (major works)

Finished in the last three months

  • 22 October 2026 to 23 October 2026: SUFFOLK COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, road closure, on the carriageway (immediate - emergency works)
  • 7 August 2026: SUFFOLK COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, two-way signals, on the footway (immediate - emergency works)

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 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, 12 addresses are in areas at high risk, 38 at medium risk and 5 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 3 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 0 medium, 0 low and 3 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: at least one postcode centre is in flood zone 3. Zone 3 is a 1% (1 in 100) or greater annual chance of flooding from rivers, or 0.5% from the sea, ignoring defences.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
IP1 1UPnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
IP1 1AXzone 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
IP1 1AFzone 3 12 / 38 / 0 unlikely
IP1 1XGnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 3 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 10 addresses are between 3 m and 4 m above sea level (4 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)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
IP1 1AF100%100%100%0%
IP1 1AX100%92%92%0%
IP1 1UP100%100%100%0%
IP1 1XG100%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 stationsIpswich 3.4 million journeys in 2024–25630 m (0.4 miles)
Derby Road (Ipswich) 95,000 journeys in 2024–252.1 km (1.3 miles)
Westerfield 22,000 journeys in 2024–253.2 km (2 miles)
Bus stops16 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 79 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest St Peter's Hall Ipswich90 m
Bus or coach stationOld Cattle Market Bus Station Ipswich250 m
Ferry terminalHarwich International Ferry Terminal Harwich International Port13.7 km (8.5 miles)
Car parks16 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Cromwell Square car park170 m
EV charging points7 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest bp pulse Charging Station50 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Southend Airport SEN62.4 km (39 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Stansted Airport STN65.8 km (41 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 surgeries6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Burlington Primary Care800 m (0.5 miles)
Pharmacies10 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots480 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists20 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery40 m
HospitalSt Clements Hospital2.8 km (1.7 miles)
Police stationIpswich Police Station520 m (0.3 miles)
Cash machines7 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Cash machine 4-8 Buttermarket Halifax380 m

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 garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4.6 ha560 m (0.3 miles)
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Christchurch Park 34 ha720 m (0.4 miles)
Play area6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,040 m²230 m
Playing fieldSherrington Road Park 1.8 ha1.9 km (1.2 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 1.7 ha1.1 km (0.7 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 39 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Area of Middle and Late Saxon town, off Greyfriars Road, a scheduled monument, 50 m. 356 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 11 of them Grade I and 26 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Area of Middle and Late Saxon town, off Greyfriars RoadScheduled monument50 m
Sailors RestListed building, Grade I100 m north-east
Church of St NicholasListed building, Grade II*120 m north
1, SILENT STREET (See details for further address information)Listed building, Grade II*140 m north
45 and 45A, St Nicholas StreetListed building, Grade II*140 m north
Wolsey's Gate, College StreetScheduled monument190 m south-east
Area of middle and late Saxon town between Turret Lane and Star LaneScheduled monument230 m east
Christchurch MansionRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.2 km (0.7 miles) north
Old and New Cemetery, IpswichRegistered park or garden, Grade II*1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
New CutTidal water770 m (0.5 miles) south-east
Big PondLake or reservoir1.3 km (0.8 miles) south-east
Spinney CovertWood2 km (1.3 miles) south
Wherstead OozeWetland2.8 km (1.7 miles) south
Bourne HillHill3 km (1.9 miles) south
Stalls ValleyValley4.8 km (3 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)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)12.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.5205
Particles (PM10)12.34015

All three are within the UK legal limits; nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 are 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
75 dB or more10
70 to 7440
65 to 6940
60 to 6410
Under 55010

10 of the street's 10 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 Ipswich: see them on the Ipswich page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 3 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
St Matthew's Church of England Primary School, IpswichPrimary4–11660 m (0.4 miles) Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Hillside Primary SchoolPrimary3–11850 m (0.5 miles) Report card (Jun 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; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
St Margaret's CEVAP School, Ipswich Church of EnglandPrimary4–11850 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Suffolk New College16 plus16–99870 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
St Helen's Primary SchoolPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Stoke High School - Ormiston AcademySecondary11–161.2 km (0.7 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; 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
Handford Hall Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Ranelagh Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (May 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Halifax Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
St Mark's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary5–111.5 km (1 mile) Good (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Clifford Community Primary School & NurseryPrimary3–111.6 km (1 mile) No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Requires improvement; Personal development: Requires improvement; Leadership and management: Requires improvement
Cliff Lane Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.6 km (1 mile) Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 3 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
Novotel Ipswich IP1 1UPHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house30 m5 Very good6 May 2026
Malabar Delights IP1 1XBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen70 m5 Very good10 Mar 2026
Gurtrudes Garden C.I.C. IP1 1XBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen70 m5 Very good24 Jul 2019
Harvest Moon IP1 1XBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen70 m5 Very good18 Sep 2024
Tops Pizza - Ipswich IP1 1XBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen80 m5 Very good15 Apr 2025
Cineworld Cinemas IP1 1AXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen100 m5 Very good21 Oct 2023
KFC IP1 1AXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen100 m5 Very good3 Aug 2018
Nando's Chicken Restaurant IP1 1AXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen100 m5 Very good8 Dec 2022
Subway IP1 1AXTakeaway/sandwich shop100 m5 Very good29 Sep 2026
ASK Italian IP1 1AXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen100 m5 Very good20 Apr 2023
Five Guys IP1 1AXOther catering premises100 m5 Very good8 Apr 2026
Kervan Kitchen IP1 1AXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen100 m5 Very good31 Dec 2024
The Hidden Garden Cafe (c/o Flex Trading) IP1 1XFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen100 m5 Very good17 Sep 2024
Bark & Ember IP1 1XFPub/bar/nightclub100 mAwaiting inspection
Applaud Coffee IP1 1XFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen110 m5 Very good16 Jul 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.

201 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences100
Criminal damage and arson20
Public order17
Other theft15
Anti-social behaviour12
Drugs10
Vehicle crime6
Bicycle theft4
Possession of weapons4
Other crime4
Shoplifting3
Burglary3
Theft from the person2
Robbery1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Parking Area (63); On or near St Nicholas Street (29); On or near Silent Street (19); On or near Bridge Street (16); On or near Rose Lane (12).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this street's postcodes are in: 207 residents in 107 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 age3840
Children under 157%17%
Aged 65 and over16%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)10%61%
Owned outright5%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented38%17%
Private rented51%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work47%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)13%6%
Retired (of adults)17%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)7%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)30%32%
Travel to work by car or van26%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram4%4%
By any public transport, including bus17%8%
On foot or by bicycle26%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)89%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away2%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)33%34%
No qualifications30%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)79%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all3%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

  • Roadworks Street works permit: SUFFOLK COUNTY COUNCIL: Highway repair and maintenance works, 22 October 2026 to 23 October 2026 (road closure) found 3 November 2026
  • Roadworks Street works permit: BT: Utility asset works, 31 January 2027 (road closure) found 3 November 2026

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.

  • IP1 1UP: 5 addresses of 11 in the postcode
  • IP1 1AX: 3 addresses of 59 in the postcode
  • IP1 1AF: 1 address of 59 in the postcode
  • IP1 1XG: 1 address of 19 in the postcode

Nearby streets

St Peter's Street · Cutler Street · Wolsey Street · Civic Drive · Cardinal Street · Silent Street · Quadling Street · St Nicholas Street · Cecilia Street · Rose Lane · Cromwell Square · Grafton Way

All the streets in IP1 and across Ipswich.

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.