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On Norwich Road, in Buckenhams & Snetterton
What it's like at NR17 2LA: every home that has sold on Norwich 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 Norwich Road; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
1 of the 121 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| Ashtrees, Norwich RoadDetached | Jun 2026 | £625,000 | – | – | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Besthorpe Methodist Church, Norwich RoadDetached | Aug 2008 | £250,000 | – | – | 1 |
| Birch Cottage, Norwich RoadDetached | Sept 2021 | £380,000 | 140 m² | £2,714/m² | 2 |
| Boundary House, Norwich RoadDetached | Aug 2024 | £300,000 | 101 m² | £2,970/m² | 2 |
| Cherry House, Norwich RoadDetached | Dec 2014 | £430,000 | 204 m² | £2,108/m² | 1 |
| Cherry Tree Barn, Norwich RoadDetached | Apr 2023 | £435,000 | 68 m² | £6,397/m² | 1 |
| Daisy Bank, Norwich RoadSemi-detached | Aug 2019 | £280,000 | 126 m² | £2,222/m² | 1 |
| Dungivern, Norwich RoadDetached | Aug 2020 | £485,000 | – | – | 2 |
| Annexe, Dunromin House, Norwich RoadOther | Nov 2017 | £150,000 | – | – | 1 |
| Eastview, Norwich RoadDetached | Nov 2024 | £470,000 | – | – | 1 |
| Edgefield, Norwich RoadOther | Dec 2016 | £140,000 | 235 m² | £596/m² | 1 |
| Field View, Norwich RoadSemi-detached | Jun 2021 | £297,500 | 111 m² | £2,680/m² | 5 |
| Homeleigh, Norwich RoadSemi-detached | Aug 2011 | £162,000 | 64 m² | £2,531/m² | 4 |
| Hulva Cottage, Norwich RoadSemi-detached | Dec 2024 | £395,000 | 145 m² | £2,724/m² | 4 |
| Maple Cottage, Norwich RoadDetached | Sept 2021 | £340,000 | 97 m² | £3,505/m² | 1 |
| Northview, Norwich RoadDetached | Jun 2022 | £550,000 | 143 m² | £3,846/m² | 1 |
| Oaklands, Norwich RoadDetached | Feb 2021 | £590,000 | 264 m² | £2,235/m² | 1 |
| Owl Barn, Norwich RoadOther | Oct 2014 | £140,000 | – | – | 1 |
| Rose View, Norwich RoadDetached | Jul 2024 | £730,000 | 264 m² | £2,765/m² | 4 |
| Stone Cottage, Norwich RoadSemi-detached | Sept 2001 | £82,000 | – | – | 2 |
The nearest station is Spooner Row, a short drive or bike ride (2.7 km), with 1k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Norwich.
The nearest bus stop is chapel, 400 m away, with a bus about every 15 minutes on weekdays (route 14).
Work usually means a journey: the nearest place with 5,000 or more jobs is about 80 minutes away by public transport (28 by car).
This is car country: only 7% of households have no car.
The nearest primary school is Wymondham College Prep School, a short drive or bike ride (1.5 km); 70% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Wymondham College, 1.5 km away; Attainment 8: 56.4 · 21.1% of GCSEs at 8–9.
The nearest supermarket is Quick Stop Grocery & Newsagent, 2.6 km away, with Besthorpe Farm Shop closer still (100 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is The Surgery (2.6 km), with Allied Pharmacy Church Street the closest pharmacy (2.6 km).
For a haircut, Blossom is 2.6 km away.
The nearest full A&E is Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, 20 km away, rated good by the CQC.
At its trust, 68% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 64% 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: 18 restaurants and cafés, 6 pubs and bars.
Starbucks coffee company is the closest café or restaurant (350 m), and The Griffin the nearest pub (2.6 km).
It's a low-crime area: about 40 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
There are 141 listed buildings.
Detached houses make up 60% of homes.
The typical home here was built in 1973-1982.
It's growing: about 187 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Priory Gardens, 6.1 km away; for exercise, Pilates Habit (2.9 km).
The air is clean: background nitrogen dioxide is 5.5 µg/m³, among the lowest in the country.
For holidays, Norwich is 28 km away, and London Stansted, with far more destinations, 85 km.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 43% of households own their home outright.
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.
6 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.
Mid Norfolk constituency: George Freeman MP (Conservative), since May 2010. 2024 general election: Con hold, majority 3,054 (6.7%), turnout 61%. Vote shares: Conservative 37%, Labour 30%, Reform UK 21%, Liberal Democrat 7%.
10 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 NR17 2LA →
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
On this street: 2 of 83 homes with certificates have solar panels, 9 a heat pump, and 28 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 1.9% | 1.6% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 13.1% | 6.2% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 34.8% | 60.5% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 44.4% | 23.9% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 6.7% | 8.3% | 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.
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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 121 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
Nearest: Caister Point · about 47 min
Nearest: Beccles Lido · about 45 min
Nearest: Newmarket Racecourse · about 40 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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