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On High Street, in Stowmarket East & Needham Market North
What it's like at IP6 8DW: every home that has sold on High 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.
3 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on High Street; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
3 of the 169 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 114, High StreetTerraced | Aug 2000 | £60,000 | 113 m² | £531/m² | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 116, High StreetTerraced | Mar 2021 | £253,500 | 90 m² | £2,817/m² | 3 |
| 118, High StreetTerraced | Sept 2011 | £112,500 | 104 m² | £1,082/m² | 1 |
| 120, High StreetTerraced | Jan 2022 | £237,500 | 90 m² | £2,639/m² | 2 |
| 122, High StreetTerraced | Mar 2020 | £319,000 | 107 m² | £2,981/m² | 1 |
| 124, High StreetTerraced | Feb 2020 | £340,000 | 130 m² | £2,615/m² | 1 |
| 126, High StreetTerraced | May 2023 | £415,000 | 156 m² | £2,660/m² | 5 |
| 130, High StreetTerraced | Nov 2020 | £250,000 | 63 m² | £3,968/m² | 4 |
| 132 - 134, High StreetTerraced | Jan 2000 | £125,500 | 159 m² | £789/m² | 1 |
| 136, High StreetTerraced | Aug 2025 | £121,000 | 84 m² | £1,440/m² | 4 |
| 138, High StreetTerraced | May 2024 | £216,000 | 76 m² | £2,842/m² | 5 |
| 142, High StreetOther | Mar 2021 | £360,000 | 110 m² | £3,273/m² | 2 |
The nearest station is Needham Market, about a 5-minute walk (600 m), with 130k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Ipswich.
The nearest bus stop is Council Offices, 100 m away, with a bus about every 35 minutes on weekdays (routes 88, 987, O11, O1); 3 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 44 minutes away by public transport (24 by car).
The nearest primary school is Bosmere Community Primary School, about a 5-minute walk (550 m); 30% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Stowupland High School, 4.9 km away; Attainment 8: 41.1 · 6% of GCSEs at 8–9.
The nearest supermarket is East of England Co-operative Society, 150 m away; Elton House News (100 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Needham Market Country Practice (1.2 km), with Needham Market Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (1.2 km).
For a haircut, The Doghouse is 150 m away.
The nearest full A&E is The Ipswich Hospital, 19 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: 23 restaurants and cafés, 10 pubs and bars.
Coffee, Craft and More is the closest café or restaurant (300 m), and Three Tuns the nearest pub (50 m).
Crime is around the national middle: about 70 per 1,000 residents a year.
There are 146 listed buildings.
It's a mix of homes: 12% flats and 27% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1993-1999.
It's growing: about 264 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Needham Lake, 750 m away; for exercise, Needham Gym & Fitness (1.4 km).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 7.5 µg/m³).
For holidays, Norwich is 58 km away, and London Stansted, with far more destinations, 62 km.
Most households own their home, 23% rent privately.
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.
32 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 126 and 128, High Street | II | 10 m |
| Coronation Cottage | II | 20 m |
| 132, High Street | II | 20 m |
| 137 and 137a, High Street | II | 30 m |
| Silver Birches | II | 30 m |
| 114, High Street | II | 40 m |
| 133 and 135, High Street | II | 40 m |
| Numbers 110 (Lamps) with Outbuildings Attached to Rear and Number 112 | II | 50 m |
| 131, High Street | II | 60 m |
| 11, Hawksmill Street | II | 70 m |
| 13 AND 15, HAWKSMILL STREET (See details for further address information) | II | 80 m |
| The Ancient House | II* | 80 m |
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%.
14 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 IP6 8DW →
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
Nearest 12 shown. 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.
Plaques recorded by Open Plaques (openplaques.org), a volunteer project; its data is public domain. Not every plaque is recorded.
Nearest: Felixstowe North · about 32 min
Nearest: Colchester Zoo · about 34 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.
Tap a type to see what it covers and how it has changed in Mid Suffolk since 2011.
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 169 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
National infrastructure projects and headline schemes only, not local planning applications. See them all on a map.
On this street: 1 of 101 homes with certificates have solar panels, 1 a heat pump, and 43 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 1.0% | 1.7% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.3% | 7.2% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 92.5% | 53.4% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.5% | 29.2% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 5.9% | 9.1% | 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.