Swaffham Road Ickburgh, Breckland

28 addresses across 6 postcodes (IP26), about 4.1 km (2.6 miles) long, classed as a a road. USRN 4000854.

  • Sales: 50 recorded sales since 1995; in 2020 the median was £365,000 across 3 sales.
  • Energy: 12 homes have an energy certificate (B: 3, C: 3, D: 2, E: 4).
  • 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 C; Band D in Breckland costs £2,444 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% to 58% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Brandon, about 9.2 km (5.7 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 4.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.8 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 10 to 47 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 17 of its 28 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Brandon Medical Practice, about 9.8 km (6.1 miles) away.
  • People: About 730 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 84% of households owned their home and 23% 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
20203£365,000£178,000£495,000
20192£405,000£350,000£460,000
20181£470,000£470,000£470,000
20172£277,500£165,000£390,000
20163£299,950£240,000£315,000
20152£253,500£242,000£265,000
20143£320,000£275,000£465,000
20133£224,120£199,500£232,000
20102£231,475£173,000£289,950
20091£175,000£175,000£175,000
20081£125,000£125,000£125,000
20076£245,500£220,000£345,000
Most recent sales (50)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
1 Sep 2020THE OLD FORGE IP26 5HXDetached£495,000
27 May 2020LAVENDER BARN IP26 5HXDetached£178,000
3 Jan 20206 IP26 5HRDetached£365,000
19 Dec 2019STAGSDEN, 49 IP26 5HRDetached£350,000
28 Mar 201928 IP26 5HRDetached£460,000
21 Nov 20188 IP26 5HRDetached£470,000
20 Oct 201745 IP26 5HRDetached£390,000
9 May 2017FARRIERS LODGE IP26 5HXDetached£165,000
12 Dec 201639 IP26 5HRDetached£315,000
15 Jul 201637 IP26 5HRDetached£299,950
27 May 201612 IP26 5HRDetached£240,000
20 Nov 201514 IP26 5HRDetached£265,000
11 May 20157 IP26 5HXSemi-detached£242,000
19 Sep 201428 IP26 5HRDetached£275,000
20 Aug 201439 IP26 5HRDetached£320,000
15 Apr 2014ICKBURGH LODGE IP26 5HRDetached£465,000
18 Dec 201343 IP26 5HRDetached£224,120
8 Nov 201341 IP26 5HRDetached£232,000
8 Aug 201310 IP26 5HRDetached£199,500
25 Aug 2010GLENTRAMMAN IP26 5HXDetached£289,950
7 May 20106 IP26 5HXSemi-detached£173,000
7 Aug 200941 IP26 5HRDetached£175,000
14 Mar 200828A IP26 5HRDetached£125,000
29 Nov 200735 IP26 5HRDetached£249,000
7 Sep 200743 IP26 5HRDetached£220,000
17 Aug 200712 IP26 5HRDetached£242,000
13 Jul 200737 IP26 5HRSemi-detached£310,000
11 Jul 2007TANGLEWOOD IP26 5HXDetached£225,000New build.
29 Jun 20078 IP26 5HRDetached£345,000
9 Jun 200645 IP26 5HRDetached£249,995
12 Jan 200637 IP26 5HRSemi-detached£190,000
19 Dec 20056 IP26 5HXSemi-detached£180,000
2 Nov 200514 IP26 5HRDetached£190,000
14 Oct 2005GLENTRAMMAN IP26 5HXSemi-detached£225,000
20 May 200412 IP26 5HRDetached£182,500
2 Jun 200333 IP26 5HRDetached£195,000
14 Apr 200322 IP26 5HRDetached£125,000
14 Nov 200239 IP26 5HRDetached£225,000
28 Mar 2002RAYMA IP26 5HXDetached£360,000
28 Jun 20017 IP26 5HXSemi-detached£133,000
19 Jan 200120 IP26 5HRDetached£140,000
24 Nov 200039 IP26 5HRDetached£126,000
29 Oct 1999STAMFORD LODGE IP26 5HXDetached£147,000
11 Oct 199924 IP26 5HRDetached£57,000
9 Jul 199936 IP26 5HRDetached£95,000
24 Jul 199730 IP26 5HRDetached£75,500
27 Nov 199633 IP26 5HRDetached£95,000
14 Aug 199643 IP26 5HRDetached£55,000
5 Mar 199620 IP26 5HRDetached£37,500
17 Nov 199533 IP26 5HRDetached£83,000

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

12 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 123 m². Most common: Bungalow, detached (8); House, detached (3); House, semi-detached (1). Built: 1976-1982 (2); before 1900 (2); 2003-2006 (2). Tenure at assessment: rented (private) (4); owner-occupied (3).

Each home's certificates and sales (7 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Breckland in 2026-27: Band D £2,444 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,629£1,901£2,172£2,444£2,987£3,530£4,073£4,887

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (32% of about 1,000 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: 5.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Listed buildings

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 30 September 2026

  • 19 October 2026 to 21 October 2026: NORFOLK COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, multi-way signals, on the carriageway (minor works)

Finished in the last three months

  • 12 August 2026: NORFOLK COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, two-way signals, on the carriageway (minor 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, 3 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 4 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 46 homes the Environment Agency counts, 3 are in areas at high risk, 0 medium, 1 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: no postcode centre on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
IP26 5HXnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
IP26 5HYnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
IP26 5BYnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
IP26 5DAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
IP26 5HRnot in 2 or 3 3 / 0 / 4 unlikely
IP26 5JYnot 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 28 addresses are between 10 m and 47 m above sea level (18 m on average); the ground rises about 37 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
IP26 5BY0%0%0%100%
IP26 5DA0%0%0%100%
IP26 5HR100%7%7%0%
IP26 5HX100%56%56%0%
IP26 5HY100%0%0%0%
IP26 5JY100%58%58%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 stationsBrandon 129,000 journeys in 2024–259.2 km (5.7 miles)
Lakenheath 920 journeys in 2024–2513.1 km (8.2 miles)
Thetford 306,000 journeys in 2024–2513.5 km (8.4 miles)
Bus stopsNone within 800 m (0.5 miles)
EV charging pointsbp pulse Charging Station9.9 km (6.2 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsNorwich Airport NWI44.5 km (28 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Stansted Airport STN77.9 km (48 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 surgeriesBrandon Medical Practice9.8 km (6.1 miles)
PharmaciesBoots9.8 km (6.1 miles)
NHS dentistsHarold Smith Dental Practice9.8 km (6.1 miles)
HospitalSwaffham Community Hospital13.3 km (8.3 miles)
Police stationSuffolk Police Brandon Police Station9.5 km (5.9 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
Play areaUnnamed 820 m²2.4 km (1.5 miles)
Playing fieldUnnamed 4.9 ha2.5 km (1.5 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 5,920 m²2.2 km (1.4 miles)

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Langford Warren Lodge (also called Ickburgh Lodge), a scheduled monument, 1.7 km (1.1 miles) north.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Langford Warren Lodge (also called Ickburgh Lodge)Scheduled monument1.7 km (1.1 miles) north
Lynford HallRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.5 km (1.6 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Shakers WoodWood490 m (0.3 miles) north-west
Round CovertWood900 m (0.6 miles) north
Bett's CovertWood900 m (0.6 miles) south-west
Highash HillHill1.5 km (1 mile) north
Birdcage IslandIsland3.5 km (2.2 miles) west
Stanford WaterLake or reservoir4.9 km (3.1 miles) east

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

Air quality

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

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)4.54010
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
70 to 7420
65 to 6960
60 to 6460
55 to 5930
Under 551128

17 of the street's 28 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 Breckland: see them on the Breckland 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.

No open schools within 2 km (1.2 miles).

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.

No rated food businesses within 500 m (0.3 miles).

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 (norfolk).

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: 726 residents in 301 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 age5440
Children under 1514%17%
Aged 65 and over30%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)84%61%
Owned outright53%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented3%17%
Private rented14%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work50%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)35%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)29%32%
Travel to work by car or van65%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus0%8%
On foot or by bicycle5%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)16%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away27%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)23%34%
No qualifications24%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

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

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

What has changed

Nothing new since the change feed started on 30 October 2026. New sales and energy certificates, and hygiene ratings, school inspections and flood figures nearby, will be listed here as the sources update.

Everything that has changed on and near this street

Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

  • IP26 5HX: 17 addresses of 24 in the postcode
  • IP26 5HY: 4 addresses of 6 in the postcode
  • IP26 5BY: 3 addresses of 9 in the postcode
  • IP26 5DA: 2 addresses of 4 in the postcode
  • IP26 5HR: 1 address of 41 in the postcode
  • IP26 5JY: 1 address of 19 in the postcode

All the streets in IP26 and across Breckland.

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.