Nelson Close Harleston, South Norfolk

36 addresses across 2 postcodes (IP20), about 160 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 36004331.

  • Sales: 55 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £262,500 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 25 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 24).
  • Flood: 34 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 South Norfolk costs £2,483 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 89% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Diss, about 13 km (8.1 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 30 m away.
  • 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 19 to 22 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 4 of its 36 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Harleston Medical Practice, about 680 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • People: About 600 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 72% of households owned their home and 23% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 6 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
20251£262,500£262,500£262,500
20231£345,000£345,000£345,000
20222£296,500£275,000£318,000
20212£297,500£295,000£300,000
20191£126,000£126,000£126,000
20181£228,000£228,000£228,000
20171£217,000£217,000£217,000
20162£181,750£117,000£246,500
20151£185,000£185,000£185,000
20145£180,000£156,000£192,000
20133£165,000£62,000£184,950
20121£124,999£124,999£124,999
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 55)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
17 Sep 202522 IP20 9HLTerraced£262,500
1 Aug 202316 IP20 9HLDetached£345,000
1 Dec 202212 IP20 9HLDetached£318,000
22 Aug 202228 IP20 9HLTerraced£275,000
30 Jun 202114 IP20 9HLDetached£300,000
31 Mar 202116 IP20 9HLDetached£295,000
18 Mar 201932 IP20 9HLTerraced£126,000Leasehold.
22 May 201836 IP20 9HLTerraced£228,000
9 Oct 201722 IP20 9HLTerraced£217,000
31 Oct 201614 IP20 9HLDetached£246,500
15 Apr 201632 IP20 9HLTerraced£117,000Leasehold.
29 Jun 201528 IP20 9HLTerraced£185,000
21 Nov 201428 IP20 9HLTerraced£180,000Leasehold.
21 Nov 201428 IP20 9HLTerraced£180,000
14 Nov 201415 IP20 9HLTerraced£156,000
16 Jun 20143 IP20 9HLSemi-detached£167,000
19 May 201421 IP20 9HLDetached£192,000
20 Dec 201336 IP20 9HLTerraced£165,000
20 Dec 201310 IP20 9HLFlat or maisonette£62,000Leasehold.
12 Dec 201321 IP20 9HLDetached£184,950
17 Jan 20127 IP20 9HLFlat or maisonette£124,999Leasehold.
9 Dec 201140 IP20 9HLSemi-detached£163,000
30 Aug 201116 IP20 9HLDetached£199,950
17 Dec 201034 IP20 9HLTerraced£160,000
28 May 201024 IP20 9HLTerraced£42,500Leasehold.
25 Feb 201026 IP20 9HLTerraced£46,500Leasehold.
19 Dec 200824 IP20 9HLTerraced£42,500New build. Leasehold.
20 Jun 200832 IP20 9HLFlat or maisonette£186,000Leasehold.
20 Jun 200830 IP20 9HLTerraced£111,600Leasehold.
30 May 200828 IP20 9HLTerraced£94,500Leasehold.
21 May 200818 IP20 9HLSemi-detached£190,000New build.
21 Dec 200714 IP20 9HLDetached£220,000New build.
20 Dec 200732 IP20 9HLTerraced£170,000New build.
20 Dec 200724 IP20 9HLTerraced£170,000New build.
20 Dec 200728 IP20 9HLTerraced£170,000New build.
20 Dec 200730 IP20 9HLTerraced£170,000New build.
20 Dec 200726 IP20 9HLTerraced£170,000New build.
4 Oct 200720 IP20 9HLDetached£199,995
25 Sep 200712 IP20 9HLDetached£245,000
30 Aug 200716 IP20 9HLDetached£245,000New build.
28 Aug 20078 IP20 9HLTerraced£87,500New build. Leasehold.
29 Jun 200722 IP20 9HLTerraced£199,995New build.
25 May 200734 IP20 9HLSemi-detached£194,995
3 May 200736 IP20 9HLTerraced£199,995
30 Mar 200719 IP20 9HLTerraced£168,995
22 Feb 20079 IP20 9HLFlat or maisonette£149,995New build. Leasehold.
5 Feb 200717 IP20 9HLTerraced£165,995New build.
5 Feb 200715 IP20 9HLTerraced£156,000
22 Dec 200640 IP20 9HLSemi-detached£169,995
22 Dec 200611 IP20 9HLTerraced£156,000

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

25 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 75 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (10); House, end-terrace (4); House, detached (4). Built: 2003-2006 (13); 2007-2011 (10); 2007 onwards (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (13); rented (private) (6); rented (social) (3).

Each home's certificates and sales (15 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in South Norfolk in 2026-27: Band D £2,483 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,655£1,931£2,207£2,483£3,035£3,586£4,138£4,966

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (46% of about 710 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), 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: 1.
  • 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

Finished in the last three months

  • 13 October 2026: ANGLIAN WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, multi-way signals, on the carriageway (minor 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, 20 addresses are in areas at high risk, 14 at medium risk and 20 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 66 homes the Environment Agency counts, 1 are in areas at high risk, 7 medium, 30 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: at least one postcode centre is in flood zone 2. Zone 2 is between 0.1% and 1% a year from rivers (0.1% and 0.5% from the sea), ignoring defences.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
IP20 9HLzone 2 2 / 7 / 19 unlikely
IP20 9HEnot in 2 or 3 18 / 7 / 1 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 36 addresses are between 19 m and 22 m above sea level (20 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
IP20 9HE100%89%89%0%
IP20 9HL100%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 stationDiss 701,000 journeys in 2024–2513 km (8.1 miles)
Bus stops5 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 7 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Pound Close Harleston120 m
Airport with scheduled flightsNorwich Airport NWI29.8 km (19 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Stansted Airport STN93.6 km (58 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 surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Harleston Medical Practice680 m (0.4 miles)
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots780 m (0.5 miles)
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Harleston Dental And Aesthetic Clinic Limited520 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalHartismere Hospital14.7 km (9.1 miles)
Police stationNorfolk Police - Diss Public Enquiry Office14.5 km (9 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest ATM760 m (0.5 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 garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 980 m²30 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 3,990 m²470 m (0.3 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 220 m²0 m
Playing fieldUnnamed 3.8 ha2.7 km (1.7 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 1.1 ha1.3 km (0.8 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 0.5 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Candler's House, a listed building (Grade II*), 480 m (0.3 miles) south-west. 121 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 4 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Candler's HouseListed building, Grade II*480 m (0.3 miles) south-west
Reydon HouseListed building, Grade II*590 m (0.4 miles) south-west
Swan HotelListed building, Grade II*740 m (0.5 miles) south-west
16 and 18, Old Market PlaceListed building, Grade II*780 m (0.5 miles) south-west
Wind pumpScheduled monument1.7 km (1.1 miles) west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Violet PlantationWood360 m west
Gawdyhall Big WoodWood900 m (0.6 miles) north
Gower's HillHill1.1 km (0.7 miles) north-west
The DellValley1.9 km (1.2 miles) south
Mendham MarshesWetland2.3 km (1.4 miles) south-east
Brabbin's PondLake or reservoir3.3 km (2 miles) south-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)5.34010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.7205
Particles (PM10)11.84015

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
60 to 6410
55 to 5930
Under 553236

4 of the street's 36 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 South Norfolk: see them on the South Norfolk 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
The Harleston Sancroft Academy (a 3-16 Church of England School)All-through3–161.3 km (0.8 miles) No overall grade (Jun 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good

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
Prime Convenience Store IP20 9HERetailers - other130 m5 Very good21 Nov 2024
Priory Group @ Richmond House IP20 9HBHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises320 m5 Very good15 Jan 2025
Harleston Sancroft Primary Academy Catering IP20 9HGSchool/college/university400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good3 Sep 2026

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.

6 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences4
Burglary1
Anti-social behaviour1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Bridge Close (2); On or near Nelson Close (2); On or near Pound Close (1); On or near High Court (1).

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: 596 residents in 288 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 age5340
Children under 1513%17%
Aged 65 and over35%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)72%61%
Owned outright49%33%
Shared ownership3%1%
Social rented10%17%
Private rented15%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work53%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)39%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)20%32%
Travel to work by car or van64%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle13%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)40%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away9%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)23%34%
No qualifications21%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)100%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 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.

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

  • Energy certificates New energy certificate: band C, house, mid-terrace (lodged 21 October 2026) found 2 November 2026
  • Energy certificates New energy certificate: band C, house, end-terrace (lodged 22 October 2026) found 2 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.

  • IP20 9HL: 35 addresses of 37 in the postcode
  • IP20 9HE: 1 address of 44 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Pound Close · High Court · Factory Close · Station Road · Station Hill · Bridge Close · Beck View · Dicky Hill · St Mary's Close · Hallwong Lane · Maltings Drive · Station Road

All the streets in IP20 and across South Norfolk.

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.