The Rookery Eye, Mid Suffolk

12 addresses across 2 postcodes (IP23), about 150 m long, classed as a minor road. USRN 25501173.

  • Sales: 8 recorded sales since 1995; in 2021 the median was £355,000 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 5 homes have an energy certificate (B: 2, D: 1, E: 1, F: 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 Mid Suffolk costs £2,317 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Diss, about 6.3 km (3.9 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 620 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.8 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 28 to 31 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 8 of its 12 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Eye Health Centre, about 740 m (0.5 miles) away.
  • People: About 290 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 71% of households owned their home and 44% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 20 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
20212£355,000£325,000£385,000
20121£225,000£225,000£225,000
20091£165,000£165,000£165,000
20061£165,000£165,000£165,000
19991£138,000£138,000£138,000
19981£130,000£130,000£130,000
19961£67,500£67,500£67,500
Most recent sales (8)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
17 Dec 20211 IP23 7ARTerraced£325,000
11 Mar 20213 IP23 7ARDetached£385,000
22 Mar 2012CLIFFORD HOUSE IP23 7ARDetached£225,000
19 Aug 20093 IP23 7ARDetached£165,000
30 Nov 20061 IP23 7ARTerraced£165,000
16 Mar 19993 IP23 7ARDetached£138,000
18 May 19983 IP23 7ARDetached£130,000
6 Sep 19962 IP23 7ARSemi-detached£67,500

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

5 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 205 m². Most common: House, detached (4); House, end-terrace (1). Built: 2013 (1); 2017 (1); Pre-1900 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (1); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (3 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 (29% of about 1,190 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: yes, Eye (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 6.
  • 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

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

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 31 October 2026.

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 on this street 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 12 addresses are between 28 m and 31 m above sea level (30 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
IP23 7AR100%0%0%0%
IP23 7AT100%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 stationDiss 701,000 journeys in 2024–256.3 km (3.9 miles)
Bus stops6 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 10 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Primary School Eye200 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Diss6.8 km (4.2 miles)
EV charging pointsMFG Charging Station6.5 km (4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsNorwich Airport NWI40.7 km (25 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Stansted Airport STN79.1 km (49 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 Eye Health Centre740 m (0.5 miles)
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Wellbeing Pharmacy270 m
NHS dentistsDiss Dental Care Centre6.5 km (4.1 miles)
HospitalHartismere Hospital770 m (0.5 miles)
Police stationNorfolk Police - Diss Public Enquiry Office6.9 km (4.3 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Eye Cashzone230 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 8,950 m²620 m (0.4 miles)
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,750 m²330 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3.6 ha370 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4,580 m²490 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 0.9 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Stayer House, a listed building (Grade II*), 120 m north-east. 136 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 3 of them Grade I and 6 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Stayer HouseListed building, Grade II*120 m north-east
Eye CastleListed building, Grade I150 m north-east
Eye Castle, the remains of a motte and bailey castle and its defensive ditch 120m west of St Peter's ChurchScheduled monument160 m north
The GuildhallListed building, Grade I230 m north-east
The Cottage White HouseListed building, Grade II*230 m north-east
Remains of Eye Priory at Abbey FarmScheduled monument750 m (0.5 miles) north-east
Moated site at Cranley HallScheduled monument1 km (0.6 miles) south-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Waterloo PlantationWood1.2 km (0.7 miles) north-east
Moorhall PlantationWood1.4 km (0.8 miles) south-west
Fox Burrow PlantationsWood1.6 km (1 mile) south
Dragon HillHill1.8 km (1.1 miles) north-east
Thorndon PoolLake or reservoir3.6 km (2.2 miles) south-west
Nut Tree ValeValley3.9 km (2.5 miles) north-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)7.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.8205
Particles (PM10)12.14015

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
55 to 5970
Under 55412

8 of the street's 12 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
St Peter and St Paul Church of England Primary School, EyePrimary3–11250 m Good (Sep 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Hartismere SchoolSecondary11–181 km (0.6 miles) No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good

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
New Happy House IP23 7AWTakeaway/sandwich shop110 m5 Very good20 Mar 2026
David Dunnett Family Butcher IP23 7BDRetailers - other220 m5 Very good25 Aug 2026
Eyes Open CIC T/A The Bank Arts Cent IP23 7ANRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen220 m5 Very good15 Nov 2017
Beard's Tea Rooms IP23 7BDOther catering premises230 m3 Generally satisfactory11 Jun 2025
Ipswich & Norwich Co-op IP23 7AFRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets270 m5 Very good8 Sep 2023
Staff Canteen IP23 7AJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen280 m5 Very good27 Nov 2025
The Tudor Bakehouse Ltd IP23 7AFRetailers - other280 m5 Very good12 Mar 2026
Cafeye IP23 7AFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen280 m5 Very good13 Nov 2025
E G H Maynard IP23 7AFRetailers - other280 mExempt
Cocoa Mama Chocolaterie IP23 7AFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen280 m5 Very good5 Oct 2026
Eye PO Stores IP23 7AJRetailers - other290 m5 Very good20 May 2026
The Queens Head IP23 7ABPub/bar/nightclub300 m4 Good20 Mar 2026
Pizza + IP23 7AJTakeaway/sandwich shop310 m5 Very good18 Dec 2024
Community Fridge IP23 7ABOther catering premises330 m5 Very good19 Aug 2021
Eye Fish & Chips IP23 7AGTakeaway/sandwich shop400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good14 Feb 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.

20 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences12
Criminal damage and arson2
Shoplifting2
Vehicle crime2
Other crime1
Burglary1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Buckshorn Lane (5); On or near Supermarket (4); On or near Castle Hill (4); On or near Hoxne Road (3); On or near B1117 (1).

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: 288 residents in 147 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 age5240
Children under 1510%17%
Aged 65 and over28%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)71%61%
Owned outright48%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented3%17%
Private rented26%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work60%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)1%6%
Retired (of adults)29%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)35%32%
Travel to work by car or van48%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle15%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)41%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away28%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)44%34%
No qualifications11%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)96%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.

Nearby streets

Castle Street · Castle Hill · Lowgate Street · Buckshorn Lane · Hayward Close · Orchard Close · Church Street · The Appletrees · Broad Street · Church Street · Magdalen Street · Dove Lane

All the streets in IP23 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.