Station Road Cotton, Mid Suffolk

59 addresses across 6 postcodes (IP14), about 890 m (0.6 miles) long, classed as a b road. USRN 25502909.

  • Sales: 65 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £262,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 9 homes have an energy certificate (C: 4, D: 3, E: 2).
  • Flood: 3 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 0% to 33% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Elmswell, about 8.5 km (5.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Tailors Green, is about 1.5 km (1 mile) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 5.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.8 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 57 to 61 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 30 of its 59 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Mendlesham Medical Group, about 4.6 km (2.9 miles) away.
  • People: About 1,050 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 84% of households owned their home and 26% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.

Sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20251£262,000£262,000£262,000
20241£400,000£400,000£400,000
20232£420,000£390,000£450,000
20221£180,000£180,000£180,000
20212£421,000£420,000£422,000
20203£335,000£285,000£361,000
20194£335,500£242,000£375,000
20181£355,000£355,000£355,000
20161£325,000£325,000£325,000
20142£293,750£260,000£327,500
20131£297,500£297,500£297,500
20122£188,500£157,000£220,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 65)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
4 Sep 20252, STAGGS ROW COTTAGE IP14 4NHSemi-detached£262,000
19 Apr 2024FRESHFIELDS IP14 4NJDetached£400,000
8 Nov 2023HEDGEROWS IP14 4NQDetached£390,000
26 Oct 2023THE BAYS IP14 4NQDetached£450,000
11 Mar 2022AMBLESIDE IP14 4NQDetached£180,000
14 May 2021VANCOUVER IP14 4NQDetached£422,000
16 Mar 2021HOLLY HOUSE IP14 4NQDetached£420,000
27 Nov 2020BUSHVELD IP14 4NJSemi-detached£361,000
21 Oct 2020FRESHFIELDS IP14 4NJDetached£335,000
24 Jul 2020BUSHVELD IP14 4NJSemi-detached£370,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
15 May 2020MEADOWSIDE IP14 4NQDetached£285,000
30 Mar 2020LYNDHURST IP14 4NQOther£269,918Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
1 Oct 2019MEADOWSIDE IP14 4NQDetached£242,000
1 Jul 2019SURWOOD IP14 4NQDetached£345,000
12 Apr 2019FRESHFIELDS IP14 4NJDetached£326,000
1 Mar 2019BROADWAY IP14 4NQDetached£375,000
23 Nov 2018THE BROADWAY IP14 4NQDetached£355,000
1 Jul 2016MUAR LODGE IP14 4NQDetached£325,000
5 Dec 2014SLEEPERS IP14 4NQDetached£260,000
19 Sep 2014BROADWAY IP14 4NQDetached£245,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
14 Aug 2014BARLEY BARN IP14 4NHDetached£327,500
25 Jun 2013TAIGH-NA-BRUADAR IP14 4NJDetached£297,500
7 Dec 2012HAYBROW IP14 4NJDetached£220,000
28 Aug 2012MEADOWSIDE IP14 4NQDetached£157,000
8 Nov 2010HAYBROW IP14 4NJDetached£145,000
22 Oct 2010PLOT 1 BROADWAY IP14 4NQDetached£245,000
5 Mar 2010TREE TOPS IP14 4NQDetached£230,000
25 Nov 2009MUAR LODGE IP14 4NQDetached£265,000
2 Oct 2009LAVENDER COTTAGE IP14 4NQDetached£275,000
30 Sep 2009SLEEPERS IP14 4NQDetached£191,000New build.
11 Sep 2009THE NOOK IP14 4NQDetached£292,500
9 Apr 2009FIELD VIEW COTTAGE IP14 4NQDetached£220,000
6 Feb 2009FRESHFIELDS IP14 4NJDetached£150,000
23 May 2008TREESLAND IP14 4NJDetached£300,000
4 Feb 2008HOLLY HOUSE IP14 4NQDetached£290,000
28 Jun 2007HEDGEROWS IP14 4NQDetached£210,000
6 Jun 2007BROADWAY IP14 4NQDetached£240,000
5 Apr 2007KILN BARN IP14 4NHDetached£375,000
27 Feb 2007BROADWAY IP14 4NQDetached£390,000
15 Dec 2006THREE HARES BARN IP14 4NHDetached£234,750
4 Aug 2006BUSHVELD IP14 4NJSemi-detached£295,000
30 Jun 2006BRAMBLE END IP14 4NJDetached£220,000
16 May 2006EBERLEY HOUSE IP14 4NQDetached£97,000
10 Nov 2005HOLLY HOUSE IP14 4NQDetached£277,500
4 Aug 2005MANDALAY IP14 4NQDetached£224,000
20 Jul 2005EBERLEY HOUSE IP14 4NQDetached£332,500
17 Oct 2003DERWEN HOUSE IP14 4NQDetached£275,000
11 Jul 2003VANCOUVER IP14 4NQDetached£210,000
11 Nov 2002CORN ROSE HOUSE IP14 4NQDetached£191,500
26 Jul 2002MANDALAY IP14 4NQDetached£149,950

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 November 2008 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

9 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 151 m². Most common: Bungalow, detached (4); House, detached (2); House, semi-detached (2). Built: 2003-2006 (2); 1900 (1); 2007 onwards (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (6).

Each home's certificates and sales (5 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 neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band B (24% of about 2,590 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 3 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.

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

Planned, as of 31 October 2026

  • 2 November 2026 to 7 November 2026: SUFFOLK COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, road closure, on the carriageway (major (paa) works)
  • 2 November 2026 to 7 November 2026: SUFFOLK COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, road closure, on the carriageway (major works)

Finished in the last three months

  • 17 August 2026: SUFFOLK COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, multi-way signals, on the carriageway (minor works)

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 2 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 on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
IP14 4NHnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
IP14 4NJnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
IP14 4HPnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
IP14 4NFnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
IP14 4NQnot in 2 or 3 2 / 1 / 2 unlikely
IP14 4TQnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 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 59 addresses are between 57 m and 61 m above sea level (58 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
IP14 4HP100%0%0%0%
IP14 4NF100%0%0%0%
IP14 4NH100%0%0%0%
IP14 4NJ100%0%0%0%
IP14 4NQ100%0%0%0%
IP14 4TQ100%33%33%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 stationsElmswell 122,000 journeys in 2024–258.5 km (5.3 miles)
Stowmarket 976,000 journeys in 2024–259.4 km (5.8 miles)
Diss 701,000 journeys in 2024–2513.1 km (8.1 miles)
Bus stops0 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Old Taverns Finningham500 m (0.3 miles)
Bus or coach stationBarnards Stowmarket9.6 km (5.9 miles)
EV charging pointsCrown Street9.2 km (5.7 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsNorwich Airport NWI48.2 km (30 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Stansted Airport STN69.2 km (43 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 surgeriesMendlesham Medical Group4.6 km (2.9 miles)
PharmaciesStation Pharmacy8.4 km (5.2 miles)
NHS dentistsWedgwood House Dental Practice9.4 km (5.8 miles)
HospitalHartismere Hospital9.7 km (6 miles)
Police stationStowmarket Police Station.9.2 km (5.7 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 gardenTailors Green 1,220 m²1.5 km (1 mile)
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,410 m²660 m (0.4 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 9,090 m²660 m (0.4 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 2,170 m²1.1 km (0.7 miles)

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Westhorpe Hall moated site and associated fishponds, a scheduled monument, 1.6 km (1 mile) north-west. 6 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Westhorpe Hall moated site and associated fishpondsScheduled monument1.6 km (1 mile) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Carr PlantationWood900 m (0.6 miles) west
Low Meadow PlantationWood1 km (0.6 miles) north-east
Saracen's HillHill1.1 km (0.7 miles) north-west
Jessie's WoodWood2.4 km (1.5 miles) north-east
Jims WoodWood3.2 km (2 miles) north-east
Crooksell PondLake or reservoir3.3 km (2 miles) west

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)5.34010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.8205
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
65 to 6910
60 to 6480
55 to 59210
Under 552959

30 of the street's 59 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), 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
Bacton Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)

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
HOSD Ltd IP14 4NHRetailers - other150 m5 Very good16 Jan 2024
Emzo Cafe IP14 4NQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen170 m5 Very good21 Jan 2026
Finbows Tap IP14 4NHPub/bar/nightclub210 m5 Very good11 Dec 2024
Swallowtail Preserves IP14 4NHManufacturers/packers210 m5 Very good2 Oct 2025
G G Bakes Trading as The Cajke Shed IP14 4NHRetailers - other210 m5 Very good15 Dec 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.

No crimes recorded at anonymised points within 250 m in this period (suffolk).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 4 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 1,051 residents in 451 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

Around this streetEngland
Median age5340
Children under 1513%17%
Aged 65 and over30%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)84%61%
Owned outright53%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented8%17%
Private rented7%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work57%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)33%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)31%32%
Travel to work by car or van63%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including busunder 1%8%
On foot or by bicycle4%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)37%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away12%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)26%34%
No qualifications18%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification8%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)100%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The 3 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 5 to 7 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

What has changed

  • Roadworks Street works permit: SUFFOLK COUNTY COUNCIL: Highway repair and maintenance works, 2 November 2026 to 7 November 2026 (road closure) 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

Leamans Lane · Stewart Field · Station Road

All the streets in IP14 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.