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On Main Road, in Saxmundham & Coldfair Green
What it's like at IP17 1LF: every home that has sold on Main Road 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.
1 home on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Main Road; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
1 of the 90 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 1, Long RowTerraced | Jul 2021 | £215,000 | 78 m² | £2,756/m² | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3, Long RowTerraced | Nov 2006 | £147,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 4, Long RowTerraced | Aug 2005 | £102,000 | – | – | 3 |
| 1, Corner Cottages, Main RoadTerraced | Feb 2018 | £141,880 | 78 m² | £1,819/m² | 1 |
| 2, Corner Cottages, Main RoadTerraced | Feb 1998 | £30,000 | 56 m² | £536/m² | 1 |
| 3, Corner Cottages, Main RoadTerraced | Sept 2021 | £173,500 | 61 m² | £2,844/m² | 4 |
| 4, Corner Cottages, Main RoadSemi-detached | May 2005 | £108,000 | 71 m² | £1,521/m² | 3 |
| Church Side Cottage, Main RoadDetached | Mar 2015 | £304,000 | 144 m² | £2,111/m² | 2 |
| Dolphin Cottage, Main RoadDetached | Jun 2024 | £300,000 | 104 m² | £2,885/m² | 1 |
| Glendale, Main RoadDetached | Sept 2004 | £150,000 | 113 m² | £1,327/m² | 1 |
| Harrison & Wilden Classical Garden Furniture, Main RoadOther | Nov 2017 | £387,016 | – | – | 1 |
| Jacobs Cottage, Main RoadSemi-detached | Nov 2004 | £34,702 | – | – | 2 |
| Kimbra Cottage, Main RoadSemi-detached | Apr 2016 | £178,000 | 87 m² | £2,046/m² | 1 |
| Meadow View, Main RoadDetached | Apr 2014 | £243,000 | 167 m² | £1,455/m² | 2 |
| North Bungalow, Main RoadDetached | Oct 2005 | £85,000 | 91 m² | £934/m² | 2 |
| Ridgley Cottage, Main RoadSemi-detached | Feb 2016 | £180,000 | 96 m² | £1,875/m² | 1 |
| Rosemary Bungalow, Main RoadDetached | Jan 2014 | £132,500 | 54 m² | £2,454/m² | 1 |
| Stratford Grange, Main RoadDetached | Sept 2006 | £812,500 | 411 m² | £1,977/m² | 1 |
| Stratford Service Station, Main RoadOther | Nov 2020 | £1,575,000 | – | – | 1 |
| The Bungalow, Main RoadDetached | Dec 2010 | £250,000 | 82 m² | £3,049/m² | 1 |
| Timbers, Main RoadOther | Sept 2022 | £455,000 | 106 m² | £4,292/m² | 1 |
| White House, Main RoadDetached | Apr 2014 | £300,000 | 142 m² | £2,113/m² | 2 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Saxmundham, a drive away (4.1 km), with 177k journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Liverpool Street.
The nearest bus stop is The Shelter, 50 m away, with a bus about every 60 minutes on weekdays (routes 64, O5); 2 departures an hour from the 2 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Work usually means a journey: the nearest place with 5,000 or more jobs is about 85 minutes away by public transport (40 by car).
The nearest primary school is Benhall St Mary's Church of England Primary School, a drive away (3.3 km); 56% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest supermarket is Waitrose, 4.2 km away, with Stratford Service Station closer still (under 50 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Saxmundham Health Centre (4.5 km), with Saxmundham Pharma the closest pharmacy (4.2 km).
For a haircut, Angel's Beauty Clinic is 4.1 km away.
The nearest full A&E is The Ipswich Hospital, 27 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: 16 restaurants and cafés, 10 pubs and bars.
Friday Street Farm Shop / Cafe & Restaurant is the closest café or restaurant (1.6 km), and The Crown Inn the nearest pub (2.4 km).
It's a low-crime area: about 47 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
There are 207 listed buildings.
Detached houses make up 44% of homes.
The typical home here was built in 1973-1982.
The nearest park is Glemham Hall, 1.4 km away.
The air is clean: background nitrogen dioxide is 5.4 µg/m³, among the lowest in the country.
For holidays, Norwich is 54 km away, and London Stansted, with far more destinations, 94 km.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 45% of households own their home outright.
It's an older community: 29% 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.
3 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 4 Cottages 30 Metres South of St Andrew'S Church | II | 70 m |
| Church of St Andrew | II* | 90 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.
Central Suffolk and North Ipswich constituency: Patrick Spencer MP (Conservative), since July 2024. 2024 general election: Con hold, majority 4,290 (9.2%), turnout 64%. Vote shares: Conservative 33%, Labour 23%, Reform UK 19%, Green Party 12%.
0 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 IP17 1LF →
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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 90 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
On this street: 0 of 59 homes with certificates have solar panels, 5 a heat pump, and 42 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 2.3% | 1.7% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 2.9% | 2.5% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 64.2% | 78.3% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 19.8% | 9.5% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 12.2% | 8.9% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.0% | 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.
Nearest: Southwold The Denes · about 39 min
Nearest: River Deben Estuary, Waldringfield · about 38 min
Nearest: Christchurch Mansion · about 46 min
Nearest: Southwold Pier · about 39 min
Nearest: Foxhall Stadium · about 41 min
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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