Orchard Close Eye, Mid Suffolk

35 addresses across 1 postcode (IP23), about 160 m long, classed as a restricted local access road. USRN 25502927.

  • Sales: 50 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £350,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 25 homes have an energy certificate (B: 3, C: 21, D: 1).
  • Flood: 1 address on its postcodes is 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% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Diss, about 6.3 km (3.9 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 620 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.8 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 28 to 30 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 5 of its 35 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Eye Health Centre, about 620 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • People: About 400 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 85% of households owned their home and 32% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 33 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
20261£350,000£350,000£350,000
20251£275,000£275,000£275,000
20242£329,500£269,000£390,000
20231£415,000£415,000£415,000
20221£400,000£400,000£400,000
20211£248,000£248,000£248,000
20192£188,000£145,000£231,000
20182£237,500£142,500£332,500
20174£333,000£261,000£341,500
20162£170,250£130,000£210,500
20153£285,000£125,000£299,950
20142£155,498£124,995£186,000
Most recent sales (50)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
4 Aug 20267B IP23 7DWDetached£350,000
30 Jun 202540 IP23 7DWDetached£275,000
4 Oct 202434 IP23 7DWTerraced£269,000
20 Aug 202424 IP23 7DWDetached£390,000
24 Nov 20237 IP23 7DWDetached£415,000
11 Aug 202215 IP23 7DWDetached£400,000
18 May 202128 IP23 7DWTerraced£248,000
13 Sep 201934 IP23 7DWTerraced£231,000
21 Jun 20196 IP23 7DWFlat or maisonette£145,000Leasehold.
18 Apr 201934 IP23 7DWTerraced£235,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
23 Nov 201826 IP23 7DWDetached£332,500
1 Mar 20184 IP23 7DWFlat or maisonette£142,500Leasehold.
4 Dec 20171 IP23 7DWDetached£341,500
21 Sep 20173 IP23 7DWDetached£335,000
30 Jun 201740 IP23 7DWDetached£261,000
18 May 201717 IP23 7DWDetached£331,000
31 Mar 20162 IP23 7DWFlat or maisonette£130,000Leasehold.
30 Mar 201630 IP23 7DWTerraced£210,500
11 Dec 20156 IP23 7DWFlat or maisonette£125,000Leasehold.
21 Aug 20157B IP23 7DWDetached£285,000
16 Jul 20157C IP23 7DWDetached£299,950New build.
23 Sep 20147A IP23 7DWDetached£124,995New build.
23 Apr 201428 IP23 7DWTerraced£186,000
8 Aug 20127 IP23 7DWDetached£270,000
14 Nov 201111 IP23 7DWDetached£294,000
18 Mar 20115 IP23 7DWDetached£260,000
15 Mar 201112 IP23 7DWSemi-detached£176,000
28 Oct 20101 IP23 7DWDetached£277,500
22 Jan 201018 IP23 7DWSemi-detached£66,000Leasehold.
15 Dec 200911 IP23 7DWDetached£250,000
6 Nov 200930 IP23 7DWTerraced£187,000
22 Oct 200722 IP23 7DWDetached£299,950New build.
12 Oct 200711 IP23 7DWDetached£299,950New build.
10 Oct 200718 IP23 7DWSemi-detached£65,000Leasehold.
1 Oct 200736 IP23 7DWTerraced£204,950
7 Sep 200732 IP23 7DWTerraced£201,500
26 Jun 200715 IP23 7DWDetached£314,950
1 Jun 200734 IP23 7DWTerraced£209,950
27 Apr 200730 IP23 7DWTerraced£209,950
26 Mar 200717 IP23 7DWDetached£324,950
9 Mar 200728 IP23 7DWTerraced£221,950
1 Feb 200724 IP23 7DWDetached£314,950
17 Nov 20069 IP23 7DWDetached£269,950
27 Oct 20065 IP23 7DWDetached£250,000
26 Oct 200640 IP23 7DWDetached£224,950
12 Oct 200626 IP23 7DWDetached£314,950
29 Sep 20067 IP23 7DWDetached£269,950
31 Aug 20068 IP23 7DWFlat or maisonette£124,950Leasehold.
21 Jul 200610 IP23 7DWSemi-detached£176,950New build.
29 Jun 20063 IP23 7DWDetached£265,950New build.

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 February 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 110 m². Most common: House, detached (10); House, mid-terrace (5); House, semi-detached (4). Built: 2003-2006 (19); 2014 (2); 1991-1995 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (12); rented (private) (6).

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.

ABCDEFGH
£1,545£1,802£2,059£2,317£2,832£3,347£3,861£4,634

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (29% of about 1,190 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: 2.
  • 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

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 30 September 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 30 September 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, 1 at medium risk and 2 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 is in flood zone 2 or 3.

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 35 addresses are between 28 m and 30 m above sea level (28 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
IP23 7DW100%0%0%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 2024–256.3 km (3.9 miles)
Bus stops6 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 10 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Eye Poultry240 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Diss6.7 km (4.2 miles)
EV charging pointsMFG Charging Station6.5 km (4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsNorwich Airport NWI40.8 km (25 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Stansted Airport STN78.9 km (49 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 Eye Health Centre620 m (0.4 miles)
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Wellbeing Pharmacy210 m
NHS dentistsDiss Dental Care Centre6.5 km (4 miles)
HospitalHartismere Hospital650 m (0.4 miles)
Police stationNorfolk Police - Diss Public Enquiry Office6.9 km (4.3 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Eye Cashzone150 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 garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 8,950 m²620 m (0.4 miles)
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,750 m²170 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3.6 ha220 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4,580 m²420 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 0.9 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is 5, Broad Street, a listed building (Grade II*), 250 m north. 132 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 3 of them Grade I and 5 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
5, Broad StreetListed building, Grade II*250 m north
Town HallListed building, Grade II*270 m north
Eye CastleListed building, Grade I290 m north-east
Stayer HouseListed building, Grade II*290 m east
Eye Castle, the remains of a motte and bailey castle and its defensive ditch 120m west of St Peter's ChurchScheduled monument290 m north-east
Remains of Eye Priory at Abbey FarmScheduled monument920 m (0.6 miles) north-east
Moated site at Cranley HallScheduled monument1 km (0.7 miles) south-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Moorhall PlantationWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) south-west
Waterloo PlantationWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) north-east
Fox Burrow PlantationsWood1.5 km (1 mile) south
Dragon HillHill2 km (1.2 miles) north-east
Thorndon PoolLake or reservoir3.5 km (2.2 miles) south-west
Nut Tree ValeValley4.1 km (2.6 miles) north-east

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)7.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.8205
Particles (PM10)12.14015

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
65 to 6930
60 to 6420
Under 553035

5 of the street's 35 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

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 1 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 Peter and St Paul Church of England Primary School, EyePrimary3–11400 m (0.2 miles) Good (Sep 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Hartismere SchoolSecondary11–18850 m (0.5 miles) No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 1 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
Eyes Open CIC T/A The Bank Arts Cent IP23 7ANRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen110 m5 Very good15 Nov 2017
New Happy House IP23 7AWTakeaway/sandwich shop160 m5 Very good20 Mar 2026
Staff Canteen IP23 7AJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen160 m5 Very good27 Nov 2025
Eye PO Stores IP23 7AJRetailers - other180 m5 Very good20 May 2026
Pizza + IP23 7AJTakeaway/sandwich shop200 m5 Very good18 Dec 2024
Ipswich & Norwich Co-op IP23 7AFRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets210 m5 Very good8 Sep 2023
The Tudor Bakehouse Ltd IP23 7AFRetailers - other220 m5 Very good12 Mar 2026
Cafeye IP23 7AFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen220 m5 Very good13 Nov 2025
E G H Maynard IP23 7AFRetailers - other220 mExempt
Cocoa Mama Chocolaterie IP23 7AFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen220 m5 Very good5 Oct 2026
The Queens Head IP23 7ABPub/bar/nightclub230 m4 Good20 Mar 2026
Community Fridge IP23 7ABOther catering premises250 m5 Very good19 Aug 2021
David Dunnett Family Butcher IP23 7BDRetailers - other300 m5 Very good25 Aug 2026
Beard's Tea Rooms IP23 7BDOther catering premises350 m3 Generally satisfactory11 Jun 2025
Eye Fish & Chips IP23 7AGTakeaway/sandwich shop350 m5 Very good14 Feb 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.

33 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences18
Public order4
Anti-social behaviour3
Shoplifting3
Bicycle theft2
Criminal damage and arson1
Vehicle crime1
Burglary1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Magdalen Street (7); On or near Supermarket (6); On or near Broad Street (6); On or near Buckshorn Lane (5); On or near Castle Hill (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: 398 residents in 159 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 age5140
Children under 1515%17%
Aged 65 and over27%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)85%61%
Owned outright56%33%
Shared ownership2%1%
Social rented5%17%
Private rented8%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work54%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)30%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)46%32%
Travel to work by car or van46%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus1%8%
On foot or by bicycle4%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)51%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away16%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)32%34%
No qualifications15%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)100%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 5 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.

  • IP23 7DW: 35 addresses of 36 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Hayward Close · Lowgate Street · The Appletrees · Buckshorn Lane · Magdalen Street · The Rookery · Church Street · Broad Street · Castle Hill · Moorhall Causeway · Castle Street · Beech Close

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.