Lime Grove Boston

20 addresses across 1 postcode (PE21), about 110 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 3604965.

  • Sales: 46 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £146,000 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 14 homes have an energy certificate (C: 8, D: 6).
  • 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 Boston costs £2,309 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Boston, about 2.4 km (1.5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Havenside Country Park, is about 300 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 4 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 20 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Greyfriars Surgery, about 1.7 km (1.1 miles) away.
  • People: About 370 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 68% of households owned their home and 17% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 46 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
20252£146,000£128,000£164,000
20241£138,500£138,500£138,500
20191£140,000£140,000£140,000
20173£113,000£98,000£125,000
20133£125,000£107,000£133,000
20111£79,500£79,500£79,500
20104£123,475£74,950£125,000
20072£119,750£83,000£156,500
20062£122,000£105,000£139,000
20052£110,250£108,000£112,500
20032£69,000£64,500£73,500
20025£54,950£44,950£81,500
Most recent sales (46)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
24 Jun 202510 PE21 0BXTerraced£128,000
25 Apr 20258 PE21 0BXDetached£164,000
2 Apr 202414 PE21 0BXSemi-detached£138,500
26 Jun 202313 PE21 0BXTerraced£132,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
20 Dec 20198 PE21 0BXDetached£140,000
13 Oct 201711 PE21 0BXTerraced£113,000
29 Sep 201710 PE21 0BXTerraced£98,000
30 Jun 201716 PE21 0BXTerraced£125,000
1 Nov 20139 PE21 0BXTerraced£93,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
18 Oct 201319 PE21 0BXDetached£133,000
21 Aug 20134 PE21 0BXDetached£125,000
19 Apr 201313 PE21 0BXTerraced£107,000
28 Apr 201111 PE21 0BXTerraced£79,500
22 Oct 201015 PE21 0BXSemi-detached£122,000
4 Oct 20108 PE21 0BXDetached£124,950
12 Aug 20104 PE21 0BXDetached£125,000
8 Jan 201012 PE21 0BXTerraced£74,950
16 Nov 200712 PE21 0BXTerraced£83,000
21 Feb 20075 PE21 0BXDetached£156,500
20 Sep 20064 PE21 0BXDetached£139,000
13 Mar 200613 PE21 0BXTerraced£105,000
28 Aug 200513 PE21 0BXTerraced£112,500
18 Mar 200514 PE21 0BXSemi-detached£108,000
11 Apr 200314 PE21 0BXSemi-detached£73,500
11 Apr 200317 PE21 0BXTerraced£64,500
15 Nov 200210 PE21 0BXTerraced£65,500
25 Oct 200212 PE21 0BXTerraced£44,950
21 Jun 20028 PE21 0BXDetached£81,500
26 Mar 200215 PE21 0BXSemi-detached£54,950
8 Feb 200217 PE21 0BXTerraced£45,000
8 Jun 20018 PE21 0BXDetached£59,500
30 Mar 20019 PE21 0BXTerraced£42,000
17 Nov 200012 PE21 0BXTerraced£30,000
18 Oct 200013 PE21 0BXTerraced£42,500
19 May 200015 PE21 0BXSemi-detached£42,500
29 Oct 199919 PE21 0BXDetached£59,950
25 Oct 19991 PE21 0BXDetached£63,950
13 Aug 199911 PE21 0BXTerraced£34,950
22 Jan 19994 PE21 0BXDetached£45,500
27 Nov 19981 PE21 0BXDetached£55,000
27 Mar 199810 PE21 0BXTerraced£33,000
12 Jan 19987 PE21 0BXSemi-detached£45,950
19 Dec 19978 PE21 0BXDetached£44,000
1 Aug 199713 PE21 0BXTerraced£39,500
23 Aug 199614 PE21 0BXSemi-detached£34,500
14 Sep 199512 PE21 0BXTerraced£27,000

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 October 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

14 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 67 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (5); House, detached (4); House, end-terrace (2). Built: 1991-1995 (7); 1983-1990 (4); 1976-1982 (1). Tenure at assessment: rented (private) (5); owner-occupied (5); rented (social) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (8 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Boston in 2026-27: Band D £2,309 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,539£1,796£2,052£2,309£2,822£3,335£3,848£4,617

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (53% of about 860 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: 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.

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

Finished in the last three months

  • 26 August 2026: LINCOLNSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway improvement works, stop/go boards, on the footway (standard 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, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 19 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 19 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 0 medium, 19 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: the 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.

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 addresses are about 4 m above sea level.

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
PE21 0BX100%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 stationsBoston 267,000 journeys in 2024–252.4 km (1.5 miles)
Hubberts Bridge 760 journeys in 2024–257.4 km (4.6 miles)
Swineshead 1,230 journeys in 2024–2512.5 km (7.8 miles)
Bus stops4 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 16 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Pilgrim Gardens Fishtoft150 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Boston2.2 km (1.3 miles)
Car parksMunicipal Buildings Car Park2.1 km (1.3 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest bp pulse Charging Station1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsHumberside Airport HUY71.7 km (45 miles)
Nearest large airportEast Midlands Airport EMA90.5 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.

NearestDistance
GP surgeriesGreyfriars Surgery1.7 km (1.1 miles)
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Ask Chemist1 km (0.6 miles)
NHS dentistsMain Ridge West Dental Practice1.9 km (1.2 miles)
HospitalPilgrim Hospital (Nuh)2.8 km (1.8 miles)
Police stationBoston Police Station2.1 km (1.3 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest ATM590 m (0.4 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.

NearestDistance
Park or garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Havenside Country Park 12 ha300 m
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 650 m²130 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.5 ha600 m (0.4 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.4 ha480 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 12 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Parish Church of St Nicholas, a listed building (Grade II*), 600 m (0.4 miles) north-west. 6 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Parish Church of St NicholasListed building, Grade II*600 m (0.4 miles) north-west
Hussey TowerScheduled monument1.5 km (0.9 miles) north-west
Rochford TowerScheduled monument1.8 km (1.1 miles) north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Jenny's WoodWood3.4 km (2.1 miles) west
Kingfisher LakeLake or reservoir3.5 km (2.2 miles) west
Wyberton MarshWetland3.7 km (2.3 miles) south-east
Hawk LakeLake or reservoir3.7 km (2.3 miles) west
Hob HoleTidal water3.7 km (2.3 miles) south-east
Skylark LakeLake or reservoir3.8 km (2.4 miles) west

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)8.34010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.3205
Particles (PM10)12.54015

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)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
55 to 5920
Under 551820

2 of the street's 20 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 Boston: see them on the Boston 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 Nicholas CE Primary Academy Church of EnglandPrimary4–11900 m (0.6 miles) Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Boston Nursery SchoolNursery2–41 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Boston College16 plus16–991.2 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Hawthorn Tree SchoolPrimary4–111.2 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
St Thomas CofE Primary Academy Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
The Boston Grammar SchoolSecondary11–181.6 km (1 mile) Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Boston Pioneers Free School AcademyPrimary4–111.9 km (1.2 miles) No overall grade (May 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Tower Road AcademyPrimary4–112 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection

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
The Haven PE21 0BEHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises360 m5 Very good28 Oct 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.

46 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences18
Anti-social behaviour10
Vehicle crime6
Criminal damage and arson5
Other crime3
Public order2
Drugs1
Other theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Lime Grove (10); On or near Blacksmiths Grove (7); On or near Pilgrim Gardens (6); On or near Fishtoft Road (4); On or near Maple Road (4).

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: 366 residents in 136 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 age3640
Children under 1522%17%
Aged 65 and over12%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)68%61%
Owned outright30%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented7%17%
Private rented24%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work69%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)13%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)8%32%
Travel to work by car or van80%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus0%8%
On foot or by bicycle11%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)62%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away10%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)17%34%
No qualifications17%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification9%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)80%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all6%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 4 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.

Nearby streets

Chestnut Road · Yew Tree Grove · Rider Gardens · Alder Grove · Pilgrim Gardens · Bridle Close · Maple Road · The Golf Yard · River Way · Huntsman Close · Blacksmiths Grove · Powell Street

All the streets in PE21 and across Boston.

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.