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On The Street, in Wickham Market & Melton
What it's like at IP12 1PW: every home that has sold on The Street since 1995 and who owns them, what's happening down the road, crime on the street, a day in the life, history on the doorstep and what's changing nearby. Moving, buying, selling, improving or investing? Pick a lens above for what matters to you.
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Compared with all 7,264 neighbourhoods in England and Wales (council well-being: all councils). Open a tab below for the detail.
ORR, DfE, police.uk, OS Terrain 50 and Open Greenspace, Forestry Commission, Defra noise maps (England), Xoserve. Every distance: Moving; radon, ground and flood checks: Buying.
2 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on The Street; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 255 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 2, The StreetTerraced | Dec 1997 | £59,995 | 89 m² | £674/m² | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4, The StreetSemi-detached | Jul 2014 | £250,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 8, The StreetSemi-detached | Sept 2010 | £220,000 | 114 m² | £1,930/m² | 3 |
| 10, The StreetSemi-detached | Aug 2012 | £247,500 | 116 m² | £2,134/m² | 3 |
| Flat 2, 12, The StreetFlat | Sept 2014 | £165,000 | 69 m² | £2,391/m² | 3 |
| 14, The StreetDetached | Jun 1999 | £50,000 | 46 m² | £1,087/m² | 1 |
| 16, The StreetDetached | Aug 2011 | £142,000 | 110 m² | £1,291/m² | 1 |
| 18, The StreetTerraced | Aug 2000 | £87,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 20, The StreetDetached | Jun 2006 | £178,500 | – | – | 3 |
| 22, The StreetTerraced | Jul 2024 | £205,500 | 58 m² | £3,543/m² | 2 |
| 24, The StreetTerraced | Dec 1995 | £42,000 | 55 m² | £764/m² | 1 |
| 28, The StreetFlat | Apr 2022 | £130,000 | 133 m² | £977/m² | 2 |
| 30, The StreetTerraced | May 1999 | £43,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 32 - 34, The StreetDetached | Dec 2001 | £127,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 46, The StreetSemi-detached | Mar 2021 | £311,000 | 49 m² | £6,347/m² | 3 |
| 46a, The StreetSemi-detached | Nov 2012 | £140,000 | 43 m² | £3,256/m² | 2 |
| 48, The StreetDetached | May 2002 | £100,000 | 57 m² | £1,754/m² | 2 |
| 52, The StreetOther | Aug 2020 | £210,000 | – | – | 1 |
| The White House, 56, The StreetDetached | Mar 2026 | £700,000 | – | – | 2 |
| White House, 56, The StreetDetached | Mar 2010 | £387,500 | – | – | 1 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Melton (Suffolk), about a 5-minute walk (550 m), with 89k journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Liverpool Street.
The nearest bus stop is Chapel, 50 m away, with a bus about every 33 minutes on weekdays (routes 64, 800, O7, 963); 12 departures an hour from the 10 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Work usually means a journey: the nearest place with 5,000 or more jobs is about 58 minutes away by public transport (27 by car).
The nearest primary school is Melton Primary School, a few minutes' walk (150 m); 58% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Farlingaye High School, 1.9 km away; Attainment 8: 43.8 · 10.3% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Few families with young children: only 14% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is Morrisons Daily, 100 m away; Poppy's Pantry Woodbridge Packaging (400 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Little St John Street Surgery (1.5 km), with Boots the closest pharmacy (1.5 km).
For a haircut, Skin Deep Beauty is 1.4 km away.
The nearest full A&E is The Ipswich Hospital, 12 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 59% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 61% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 14 weeks).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 12 restaurants and cafés, 7 pubs and bars.
Deben Cafe is the closest café or restaurant (300 m), and Melton Bowls Club the nearest pub (300 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 40 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
There are 110 listed buildings.
Detached houses make up 41% of homes.
The typical home here was built in 1973-1982.
It's growing: about 112 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Hall Farm play area, 250 m away; for exercise, Gymophobics (1.5 km).
A swim is a short trip away: River Deben Estuary, Waldringfield, 8.1 km away, was rated good for water quality in 2025.
The air is clean: background nitrogen dioxide is 6.7 µg/m³, among the lowest in the country.
For holidays, Norwich is 61 km away, and London Stansted, with far more destinations, 80 km.
18 places on this map are within about a 10-minute walk.
Walking times are estimates from straight-line distance. Food businesses from the FSA food hygiene register; schools from the DfE register; nurseries from Ofsted's childcare register; care homes from the Care Quality Commission; pools, sports halls, tennis and golf from Sport England Active Places (contains data © Sport England); everything else © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Map © OpenFreeMap, OpenMapTiles, OpenStreetMap contributors.
| Building | Grade | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 25, the Street | II | 30 m |
| Melton House | II | 70 m |
| the Beeches the Bowery | II | 70 m |
| Melton Hall | II | 170 m |
| 1 and 2, Station Road | II | 190 m |
| the Rosary | II | 190 m |
| Glendene | II | 190 m |
Grade I and II* are the most important few per cent. Listing means consent is needed for most changes, inside and out. Contains Historic England data © Historic England 2026 (via planning.data.gov.uk), OGL.
Suffolk Coastal constituency: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter MP (Labour), since July 2024. 2024 general election: Lab gain from Con, majority 1,070 (2.2%), turnout 66%. Vote shares: Labour 32%, Conservative 30%, Reform UK 16%, Liberal Democrat 14%.
4 new homes, planning permissions and school changes on record within 2 km, plus energy projects, road works, storm overflows and major infrastructure. Everything changing near IP12 1PW →
Neighbours tend to stay put: 48% of households own their home outright.
It's an older community: 30% are 65 or over.
Written from the figures on this page: Census 2021, DfT journey times (2019), NaPTAN/ORR, Ofsted, CQC, FSA, police.uk and planning registers. Figures describe the neighbourhood around the street.
National infrastructure projects and headline schemes only, not local planning applications. See them all on a map.
On this street: 7 of 175 homes with certificates have solar panels, 10 a heat pump, and 144 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 1.6% | 1.7% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 2.8% | 2.5% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 81.3% | 78.3% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 5.3% | 9.5% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 8.9% | 8.9% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 1.4% | 0.1% | 2.1% |
From each home's latest energy certificate, so panels or heat pumps fitted since aren't counted and the shares are lower than today's real figures. Compare areas in the data explorer.
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.
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police.uk, 2025-09 to 2026-08. Crimes are mapped to the nearest of a set of anonymised points and labelled with that point's street, so busy roads and junctions collect crimes from nearby; the street has about 255 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.