School Road Thurston, Mid Suffolk

60 addresses across 8 postcodes (IP31), about 650 m (0.4 miles) long, classed as a minor road. USRN 25503098.

  • Sales: 86 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £270,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 37 homes have an energy certificate (B: 2, C: 9, D: 18, E: 8).
  • Flood: 9 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 B; Band D in Mid Suffolk costs £2,317 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 7% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Thurston, about 680 m (0.4 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 1.2 km (0.7 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 5.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.0 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 45 to 56 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 25 of its 60 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Mount Farm Surgery, about 5.2 km (3.2 miles) away.
  • People: About 620 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 78% of households owned their home and 31% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 14 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£270,000£270,000£270,000
20244£262,750£185,000£450,000
20231£285,000£285,000£285,000
20223£370,500£266,500£450,000
20213£297,000£238,000£342,550
20202£202,500£176,000£229,000
20192£306,000£202,000£410,000
20171£215,000£215,000£215,000
20163£230,000£225,000£260,000
20154£320,000£210,000£570,000
20142£344,750£249,500£440,000
20134£167,250£151,000£250,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 86)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
5 Dec 20252 IP31 3SBDetached£270,000
3 Jul 20249 IP31 3SBTerraced£257,500
8 May 202442 IP31 3STDetached£268,000
6 Mar 2024GROUND FLOOR FLAT, 24 IP31 3SRFlat or maisonette£185,000Leasehold.
16 Feb 202421 IP31 3SBSemi-detached£450,000
16 Jan 202323 IP31 3SBSemi-detached£285,000
28 Oct 202217 IP31 3SBTerraced£266,500
31 Mar 202212 IP31 3SPDetached£450,000
28 Feb 202235 IP31 3SBSemi-detached£370,500
4 Nov 202126 IP31 3SROther£145,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
15 Oct 202114 IP31 3SPDetached£342,550
23 Aug 202125 IP31 3SBSemi-detached£297,000
6 Aug 202130 IP31 3SSSemi-detached£238,000
21 Sep 202032 IP31 3SSSemi-detached£229,000
6 Mar 2020GROUND FLOOR FLAT, 24 IP31 3SRFlat or maisonette£176,000Leasehold.
12 Nov 20195 IP31 3SBTerraced£202,000
15 Apr 2019CLARDONN IP31 3SYDetached£410,000
12 Jun 20179 IP31 3SBTerraced£215,000
16 Nov 201619 IP31 3SBTerraced£230,000
18 Aug 201642 IP31 3STDetached£225,000
29 Apr 201611A IP31 3SBDetached£260,000
6 Nov 2015SPRUCE LODGE IP31 3SRDetached£390,000
30 Oct 201517 IP31 3SBTerraced£210,000
29 Sep 2015HOLLY LODGE IP31 3SYTerraced£570,000
12 Jun 201514 IP31 3SPDetached£250,000
2 Oct 2014BAY TREE LODGE IP31 3SYDetached£440,000
16 May 201447 IP31 3SBSemi-detached£249,500
2 Sep 2013JASMINE COTTAGE IP31 3SBDetached£250,000
31 Jul 201342 IP31 3STDetached£168,000
7 Jun 201330 IP31 3SSSemi-detached£166,500
5 Apr 20131 IP31 3SBTerraced£151,000
22 Jul 2011NOOS LODGE IP31 3SYDetached£379,995
4 Mar 20115 IP31 3SBTerraced£148,000
16 Aug 201037 IP31 3SBSemi-detached£101,000
22 Jan 2010VALHALA IP31 3SYDetached£160,000
22 May 2009MALTINGS VIEW IP31 3SYDetached£162,500
1 May 20091 IP31 3SBTerraced£142,500
29 Jul 200821 IP31 3SBSemi-detached£265,000
6 Sep 2007SPRUCE LODGE IP31 3SRDetached£295,000
31 Aug 2007BARN LODGE IP31 3SYDetached£395,000
2 Aug 2007HUNTERS MOON, 18 IP31 3SRDetached£250,000
1 Aug 2007JASMINE COTTAGE IP31 3SBDetached£245,000
1 Jun 200711A IP31 3SBDetached£200,000
30 Nov 2006MALTINGS VIEW IP31 3SYDetached£170,000
15 Nov 200617 IP31 3SBTerraced£156,500
31 Oct 2006NOOS LODGE IP31 3SYDetached£170,367New build.
24 Aug 200646 IP31 3STDetached£180,000
30 Jun 20061 IP31 3SBTerraced£129,995
17 Mar 2006AQUARIUS IP31 3SYDetached£180,000
13 Oct 20057 IP31 3SBTerraced£139,500

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

37 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 89 m². Most common: House, detached (12); House, semi-detached (12); Bungalow, detached (5). Built: 1976-1982 (10); 1967-1975 (9); 1950-1966 (6). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (25); rented (social) (4); rented (private) (3).

Each home's certificates and sales (24 addresses)

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 (38% 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.

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

  • 15 October 2026 to 16 October 2026: BT, New service connection, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)
  • 17 September 2026: SUFFOLK COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, road closure, on the verge (immediate - urgent works)
  • 26 August 2026 to 28 August 2026: ANGLIAN WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)
  • 11 August 2026 to 21 August 2026: CITYFIBRE METRO NETWORKS LTD, Statutory Infrastructure Works, road closure, on the footway, carriageway, verge (major works)

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, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 8 at medium risk and 6 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 on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
IP31 3SBnot in 2 or 3 1 / 2 / 2 unlikely
IP31 3SRnot in 2 or 3 0 / 3 / 1 unlikely
IP31 3SYnot in 2 or 3 0 / 2 / 1 unlikely
IP31 3SSnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
IP31 3STnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
IP31 3SPnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
IP31 3QYnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 2 unlikely
IP31 3RSnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 0 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 60 addresses are between 45 m and 56 m above sea level (54 m on average); the ground rises about 11 m from the lowest to the highest.

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
IP31 3QY94%7%7%0%
IP31 3RS100%100%100%0%
IP31 3SB100%100%100%0%
IP31 3SP100%50%50%0%
IP31 3SR86%86%86%0%
IP31 3SS100%17%17%0%
IP31 3ST100%50%50%0%
IP31 3SY100%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 stationsThurston 124,000 journeys in 2024–25680 m (0.4 miles)
Elmswell 122,000 journeys in 2024–256.6 km (4.1 miles)
Bury St Edmunds 929,000 journeys in 2024–257.2 km (4.5 miles)
Bus stops12 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 28 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Shops Thurston50 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Bury St Edmunds7.4 km (4.6 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Thurston Station Car Park670 m (0.4 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest DLN Car Charging660 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsNorwich Airport NWI56.9 km (35 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Stansted Airport STN57.1 km (35 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 surgeriesMount Farm Surgery5.2 km (3.2 miles)
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Thurston Pharmacy570 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentistsSaxon House4.9 km (3.1 miles)
HospitalHospital Road Site7.6 km (4.7 miles)
Police stationPolice Investigation Centre6.2 km (3.9 miles)
Cash machinesNorton Service Station Cashzone3.3 km (2 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 gardenUnnamed 1,270 m²1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 470 m²410 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.6 ha240 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 7,430 m²800 m (0.5 miles)

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Manor Farm House, a listed building (Grade II*), 580 m (0.4 miles) north-east. 14 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Manor Farm HouseListed building, Grade II*580 m (0.4 miles) north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Lady Greene's PlantationWood720 m (0.4 miles) north
Twenty Acre WoodWood900 m (0.6 miles) south-west
Skeleton PlantationWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) north
Mill HeathWood1.4 km (0.9 miles) south-west
Barton MereLake or reservoir2.2 km (1.3 miles) north-west
Eastlow HillHill4.1 km (2.6 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)5.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.0205
Particles (PM10)12.24015

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 59244
Under 553556

25 of the street's 60 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, and 4 from railways, 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), 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
Thurston Community CollegeSecondary11–18760 m (0.5 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
Thurston Butchers Ltd IP31 3SRRetailers - other30 m5 Very good15 Apr 2025
FLIP BRGR IP31 3SRMobile caterer30 m5 Very good22 Jul 2025
Thurston Preschool LTD School/college/university360 m5 Very good31 Jul 2025
The Victoria IP31 3QHPub/bar/nightclub410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good7 Sep 2026
Thurston Childcare IP31 3FTSchool/college/university460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good24 Jun 2025
Thurst Cafe IP31 3TGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen490 m (0.3 miles)4 Good1 Apr 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.

14 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences9
Public order2
Anti-social behaviour1
Other theft1
Burglary1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Victoria Close (6); On or near School Road (5); On or near Oakey Field Road (1); On or near St Peters Way (1); On or near School Lane (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: 623 residents in 296 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 age5640
Children under 1513%17%
Aged 65 and over35%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)78%61%
Owned outright55%33%
Shared ownership2%1%
Social rented11%17%
Private rented9%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work47%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)2%6%
Retired (of adults)42%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)33%32%
Travel to work by car or van58%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle4%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)59%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away18%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)31%34%
No qualifications23%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 8 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

Birch Road · Lodge Close · St Peters Way · School Lane · Oakey Field Road · Victoria Close · Speckled Wood Close · Holly Blue Way · Gatekeeper Close · Meadow Brown Way · Ringlet Close · Sandpit Drive

All the streets in IP31 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.