Queen Street Boston

36 addresses across 3 postcodes (PE21), about 220 m long, classed as a a road. USRN 3641489.

  • Sales: 24 recorded sales since 1995; in 2023 the median was £104,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 26 homes have an energy certificate (C: 15, D: 9, E: 2).
  • Flood: 19 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 A; Band D in Boston costs £2,309 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% to 95% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Boston, about 330 m away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 690 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 2 to 3 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 28 of its 36 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is The Sidings Medical Practice, about 240 m away, with 4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 570 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 17% of households owned their home and 16% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 513 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
20231£104,000£104,000£104,000
20221£104,000£104,000£104,000
20171£84,000£84,000£84,000
20151£56,000£56,000£56,000
20091£35,000£35,000£35,000
20071£55,000£55,000£55,000
20061£41,000£41,000£41,000
20042£45,750£23,000£68,500
20031£60,000£60,000£60,000
20022£37,500£33,000£42,000
20012£20,750£12,500£29,000
20001£24,000£24,000£24,000
Most recent sales (24)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
9 Mar 202624 PE21 8XBTerraced£78,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
4 Dec 202346 PE21 8XBTerraced£104,000
16 Dec 202218 PE21 8XBTerraced£104,000
31 Jan 202038 PE21 8XBTerraced£82,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
23 Mar 201818 PE21 8XBTerraced£91,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
1 Dec 201736 PE21 8XBTerraced£84,000
19 Dec 201626 PE21 8XBTerraced£74,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
28 Jan 201626 PE21 8XBTerraced£65,500Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
28 Oct 201536 PE21 8XBTerraced£74,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
18 Sep 201532 PE21 8XBTerraced£56,000
28 Aug 200938 PE21 8XBTerraced£35,000
10 May 200736 PE21 8XBTerraced£55,000
4 Sep 200636 PE21 8XBTerraced£41,000
28 May 200426 PE21 8XBSemi-detached£68,500
30 Jan 200438 PE21 8XBTerraced£23,000
21 Nov 200318 PE21 8XBTerraced£60,000
26 Sep 200222 PE21 8XBSemi-detached£42,000
28 Aug 200218 PE21 8XBTerraced£33,000
2 Jul 200132 PE21 8XBTerraced£29,000
27 Mar 200150 PE21 8XBTerraced£12,500
3 Jul 200052 PE21 8XBTerraced£24,000
7 Apr 199930 PE21 8XBTerraced£30,000
30 Oct 199824 PE21 8XBTerraced£21,055
6 Aug 199822 PE21 8XBSemi-detached£15,500

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 May 2013 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

26 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 45 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (12); Flat (9); House, end-terrace (3). Built: 1900-1929 (6); before 1900 (6); 1983-1990 (5). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (12); rented (private) (7); owner-occupied (7).

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 neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band A (89% of about 1,900 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 2 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) 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

  • 28 September 2026 to 29 September 2026: ANGLIAN WATER, Remedial works, road closure, on the carriageway (major 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, 11 addresses are in areas at high risk, 8 at medium risk and 29 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 36 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 0 medium, 36 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 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
PE21 8XBzone 3 11 / 8 / 10 unlikely
PE21 8XZzone 3 0 / 0 / 2 unlikely
PE21 8REzone 3 0 / 0 / 17 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 2 m and 3 m above sea level (3 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
PE21 8RE100%95%95%0%
PE21 8XB100%93%93%0%
PE21 8XZ67%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 stationsBoston 267,000 journeys in 2024–25330 m
Hubberts Bridge 760 journeys in 2024–255.4 km (3.4 miles)
Swineshead 1,230 journeys in 2024–2510.6 km (6.6 miles)
Bus stops7 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 46 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Bus Station Boston170 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Boston180 m
Car parks5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Municipal Buildings Car Park190 m
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest bp pulse Charging Station640 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsHumberside Airport HUY70.2 km (44 miles)
Nearest large airportEast Midlands Airport EMA88.8 km (55 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 surgeries4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Sidings Medical Practice240 m
Pharmacies6 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Qualipharm Pharmacy240 m
NHS dentists7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery220 m
HospitalPilgrim Hospital (Nuh)2.2 km (1.4 miles)
Police stationBoston Police Station400 m (0.2 miles)
Cash machines6 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest West End Post Office270 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 5.6 ha690 m (0.4 miles)
Play area6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 50 m²180 m
Playing field4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.4 ha610 m (0.4 miles)
AllotmentsHarrsions Land Allotments 2.8 ha1.2 km (0.7 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 5.6 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is 116, High Street, a listed building (Grade II*), 460 m (0.3 miles) south-east. 220 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 3 of them Grade I and 14 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
116, High StreetListed building, Grade II*460 m (0.3 miles) south-east
The Assembly RoomsListed building, Grade II*460 m (0.3 miles) north-east
118B, 120 and 122 High StreetListed building, Grade II*480 m (0.3 miles) south-east
Exchange Buildings, 36-39 Market PlaceListed building, Grade II*480 m (0.3 miles) north-east
Hussey TowerScheduled monument730 m (0.5 miles) east
Moated site 480m north east of Wyberton West HospitalScheduled monument1 km (0.6 miles) south
Boston CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.8 km (1.1 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Grange WoodWood1.8 km (1.1 miles) north-west
Pioneer WoodWood2.1 km (1.3 miles) north-west
Beech WoodWood2.2 km (1.4 miles) north-west
Jenny's WoodWood2.3 km (1.4 miles) south-west
Kingfisher LakeLake or reservoir2.5 km (1.6 miles) south-west
Hawk LakeLake or reservoir2.7 km (1.6 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)7.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.2205
Particles (PM10)12.64015

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
70 to 74170
65 to 6960
60 to 6410
55 to 5940
Under 55836

28 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 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
Boston Pioneers Free School AcademyPrimary4–11270 m 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
Carlton Road AcademyPrimary3–11490 m (0.3 miles) No overall grade (Jun 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
Staniland AcademyPrimary3–11490 m (0.3 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
The Boston Grammar SchoolSecondary11–18620 m (0.4 miles) 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 College16 plus16–991.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Park AcademyPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Mar 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)
Boston Nursery SchoolNursery2–41.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Haven High AcademySecondary11–161.4 km (0.9 miles) Report card (Jul 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Needs attention; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
Tower Road AcademyPrimary4–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Boston West AcademyPrimary4–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Good (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Nicholas CE Primary Academy Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.5 km (1 mile) Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Saint Mary's RC Primary Academy Boston Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.6 km (1 mile) 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
Afro-Caribbean Mini Market PE21 8XFRetailers - other50 m5 Very good25 Jul 2017
Boston Supermarket PE21 8XFRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets70 m4 Good11 Aug 2026
Park Cafe PE21 6AYRetailers - other80 m5 Very good23 Apr 2026
Tapas Lounge Restaurant PE21 8QZRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen110 m5 Very good7 Jul 2026
Pablos PE21 8QZRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen110 m5 Very good9 Sep 2026
Phoenix Chinese Takeaway PE21 8RETakeaway/sandwich shop110 m2 Improvement necessary13 May 2025
Amsterdam PE21 8QZRetailers - other120 m5 Very good24 Mar 2026
Aldi PE21 8XZRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets120 m5 Very good22 Nov 2024
£1 Plus Shop PE21 8QNRetailers - other130 m5 Very good14 Aug 2024
Chicken Palace PE21 8QNTakeaway/sandwich shop130 m5 Very good10 Sep 2026
Euro Drinks and Food PE21 8RERetailers - other130 m5 Very good31 Oct 2024
Merkur Slots PE21 8RERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen140 m5 Very good22 Jul 2021
The Eagle Public House PE21 8REPub/bar/nightclub140 m5 Very good2 Sep 2019
Zhu Guang PE21 8RERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen140 m5 Very good13 Aug 2025
Baltic Food and Grocery PE21 8RERetailers - other140 m5 Very good28 Nov 2019

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.

513 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences154
Anti-social behaviour112
Shoplifting61
Criminal damage and arson46
Public order33
Bicycle theft22
Other theft22
Burglary17
Drugs14
Robbery10
Other crime8
Vehicle crime8
Theft from the person3
Possession of weapons3

Most of these are attached to: On or near Trafalgar Place (104); On or near Supermarket (59); On or near Broadfield Street (50); On or near Trinity Street (36); On or near Liquorpond Street (32).

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: 570 residents in 252 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 age3340
Children under 1519%17%
Aged 65 and over6%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)17%61%
Owned outright10%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented41%17%
Private rented39%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work67%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)7%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)9%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)4%32%
Travel to work by car or van62%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus9%8%
On foot or by bicycle21%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)54%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away7%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)16%34%
No qualifications38%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification9%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)48%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all24%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhoods around this street are all in decile 1 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

King Street · John Adams Way · Trafalgar Place · George Street · West Row · Broadfield Street · Pipe Office Lane · Pilgrim Close · Bramley Lane · Bond Street · Trinity Street · Tannery Close

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.