Sorrel Close Ipswich

21 addresses across 1 postcode (IP2), about 100 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 18200926.

  • Sales: 11 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £201,388 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 19 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 10, D: 7, E: 1).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band B; Band D in Ipswich costs £2,468 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Ipswich, about 1.1 km (0.7 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Gippeswyk Park, is about 310 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.4 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 45 to 48 m above sea level.
  • Noise: None of its addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Hawthorn Drive Surgery, about 540 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • People: About 200 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 22% of households owned their home and 15% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 176 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
20242£201,388£188,000£214,775
20231£217,500£217,500£217,500
20211£177,000£177,000£177,000
20191£180,000£180,000£180,000
20151£175,000£175,000£175,000
20131£105,000£105,000£105,000
20121£110,000£110,000£110,000
20062£134,998£129,995£140,000
Most recent sales (11)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
9 Aug 202411 IP2 0PETerraced£212,200Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
24 Jul 202416 IP2 0PESemi-detached£188,000
8 Jan 20247 IP2 0PETerraced£214,775
9 Jun 202315 IP2 0PETerraced£217,500
23 Apr 202111 IP2 0PETerraced£177,000
18 Dec 20192 IP2 0PESemi-detached£180,000
15 May 20151 IP2 0PESemi-detached£175,000
26 Apr 20139 IP2 0PESemi-detached£105,000
12 Jan 201220 IP2 0PESemi-detached£110,000
25 Aug 200624 IP2 0PETerraced£129,995
5 Apr 200613 IP2 0PESemi-detached£140,000

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.

19 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 74 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (12); House, mid-terrace (5); House, end-terrace (2). Built: 1950-1966 (17); 1930-1949 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (9); rented (social) (7).

Each home's certificates and sales (9 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Ipswich in 2026-27: Band D £2,468 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,646£1,920£2,194£2,468£3,017£3,565£4,114£4,937

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (65% of about 680 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Roadworks

Started, not reported finished by 31 October 2026

  • 29 October 2026 to 4 November 2026: ANGLIAN WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the verge (immediate - urgent works)

Planned, as of 31 October 2026

  • 18 January 2027 to 12 February 2027: CADENT GAS LIMITED, Utility asset works, temp obstruction 15 minute delay, on the footway, carriageway (major (paa) works)

Finished in the last three months

  • 27 October 2026 to 29 October 2026: ANGLIAN WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, give and take, on the footway (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

No address in this street's postcodes is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

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 21 addresses are between 45 m and 48 m above sea level (46 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
IP2 0PE100%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 stationsIpswich 3.4 million journeys in 2024–251.1 km (0.7 miles)
Derby Road (Ipswich) 95,000 journeys in 2024–253.6 km (2.3 miles)
Westerfield 22,000 journeys in 2024–254.5 km (2.8 miles)
Bus stops18 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 57 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Sorrel Close Chantry70 m
Bus or coach stationOld Cattle Market Bus Station Ipswich1.9 km (1.2 miles)
Ferry terminalHarwich International Ferry Terminal Harwich International Port14 km (8.7 miles)
Car parksIpswich Station Surface Car Park1.1 km (0.7 miles)
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest InstaVolt Charging Station1 km (0.6 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Southend Airport SEN61 km (38 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Stansted Airport STN64.1 km (40 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 Hawthorn Drive Surgery540 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Hawthorn Drive Pharmacy540 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery690 m (0.4 miles)
HospitalSt Clements Hospital4.3 km (2.7 miles)
Police stationIpswich Police Station1.7 km (1.1 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest East of England Co-op Chantry Cashzone490 m (0.3 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 garden4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Gippeswyk Park 18 ha310 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Chantry Park 44 ha780 m (0.5 miles)
Play area6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 70 m²550 m (0.3 miles)
Playing fieldUnnamed 1.1 ha1 km (0.6 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 5.0 ha460 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 66 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Gippeswyk Hall, a listed building (Grade II*), 650 m (0.4 miles) north-east. 8 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Gippeswyk HallListed building, Grade II*650 m (0.4 miles) north-east
Chantry ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.1 km (0.7 miles) north-west
Area of Middle and Late Saxon town, off Greyfriars RoadScheduled monument1.7 km (1.1 miles) north-east
Wolsey's Gate, College StreetScheduled monument1.8 km (1.1 miles) north-east
Area of middle and late Saxon town between Turret Lane and Star LaneScheduled monument1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-east
Christchurch MansionRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.6 km (1.6 miles) north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Beech WaterLake or reservoir1.2 km (0.7 miles) west
Fishpond CovertWood1.4 km (0.9 miles) south
New CutTidal water2.1 km (1.3 miles) east
Bourne HillHill2.3 km (1.5 miles) south-east
Wherstead OozeWetland2.8 km (1.8 miles) south-east
Stalls ValleyValley4.1 km (2.6 miles) south

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)9.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.4205
Particles (PM10)12.04015

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
Under 552121

None of the street's 21 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic or railways.

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 Ipswich: see them on the Ipswich page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 3 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
St Mark's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary5–11190 m Good (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Chantry AcademySecondary11–16260 m Good (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
The Oaks Primary SchoolPrimary3–11550 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
The Willows Primary SchoolPrimary4–11700 m (0.4 miles) Requires improvement (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Ranelagh Primary SchoolPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (May 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Halifax Primary SchoolPrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Gusford Community Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
Hillside Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Sprites Primary AcademyPrimary4–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Stoke High School - Ormiston AcademySecondary11–161.4 km (0.9 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Handford Hall Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.6 km (1 mile) Good (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
One Sixth Form College16 plus16–191.7 km (1.1 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
Dyers diner and coffee shack IP2 0QDOther catering premises190 m5 Very good25 Aug 2026
Taylorshaw @ Chantry Academy IP2 9LRSchool/college/university210 m5 Very good10 Sep 2025
Leaps Suffolk IP2 9HWHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises260 m5 Very good13 Sep 2019
Eastern Education Group IP2 9HWSchool/college/university260 m5 Very good11 Nov 2025
Park View Care Home IP2 0QRHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises300 m5 Very good10 Feb 2026
Lavender News IP2 0NBRetailers - other310 m4 Good8 Jan 2015
Golden Phoenix IP2 0NBTakeaway/sandwich shop310 m5 Very good19 May 2025
Kerry's Cakes IP2 0NERetailers - other400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good24 Aug 2023
East of England Co-op Foodstore Retailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good19 Oct 2016
Kays Fruit & Veg IP2 0QGRetailers - other490 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good28 Jul 2022
Chantry Butchers IP2 0QGRetailers - other490 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good17 Dec 2018
Chantry Royal Fish & Chips IP2 0QGTakeaway/sandwich shop490 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good8 Aug 2024
Tony's Pizza and Grill IP2 0QGTakeaway/sandwich shop490 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good15 Jan 2026
Subway IP2 0QGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen490 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good23 Oct 2024
Cafe Chantry IP2 0QGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen490 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good13 May 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.

176 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences108
Criminal damage and arson16
Anti-social behaviour14
Other theft13
Public order7
Drugs6
Burglary3
Other crime3
Possession of weapons3
Theft from the person2
Vehicle crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Jasmine Close (70); On or near Sorrel Close (21); On or near Widgeon Close (17); On or near Marsh Terrace (15); On or near Primrose Hill (15).

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: 203 residents in 116 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 age4040
Children under 1519%17%
Aged 65 and over19%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)22%61%
Owned outright10%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented70%17%
Private rented7%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work35%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)13%6%
Retired (of adults)22%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)17%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)7%32%
Travel to work by car or van63%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus7%8%
On foot or by bicycle20%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)70%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away4%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)15%34%
No qualifications36%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)94%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all2%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 2 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

  • Roadworks Street works permit: CADENT GAS LIMITED: Utility asset works, 18 January 2027 to 12 February 2027 (temp obstruction 15 minute delay) found 3 November 2026
  • Roadworks Street works permit: ANGLIAN WATER: Utility repair and maintenance works, 29 October 2026 to 4 November 2026 (some carriageway incursion) found 3 November 2026
  • Roadworks Street works permit: ANGLIAN WATER: Utility repair and maintenance works, 27 October 2026 to 29 October 2026 (give and take) found 3 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.

Nearby streets

Stone Lodge Lane West · Jasmine Close · Larkspur Road · Pimpernel Road · Violet Close · Thistle Close · Shamrock Avenue · Widgeon Close · Trefoil Close · Clover Close · Crocus Close · Cornflower Close

All the streets in IP2 and across Ipswich.

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.