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On Cricket Close, in Drayton & Thorpe Marriott
What it's like at NR8 6YA: every home that has sold on Cricket Close 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.
Sales and extensions on Cricket Close; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 31 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 1, Cricket CloseDetached | Sept 2015 | £246,000 | 112 m² | £2,196/m² | 3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2, Cricket CloseDetached | Jan 2017 | £280,000 | 136 m² | £2,059/m² | 5 |
| 3, Cricket CloseDetached | Dec 1996 | £79,950 | – | – | 1 |
| 4, Cricket CloseDetached | Feb 2000 | £90,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 5, Cricket CloseDetached | Jan 2002 | £139,500 | – | – | 3 |
| 6, Cricket CloseDetached | Sept 2020 | £305,000 | 105 m² | £2,905/m² | 2 |
| 7, Cricket CloseDetached | Jun 2009 | £207,500 | 104 m² | £1,995/m² | 4 |
| 8, Cricket CloseDetached | Nov 2023 | £365,000 | 105 m² | £3,476/m² | 3 |
| 9, Cricket CloseDetached | Feb 1995 | £58,000 | 67 m² | £866/m² | 1 |
| 10, Cricket CloseDetached | Jun 2015 | £210,000 | 92 m² | £2,283/m² | 3 |
| 11, Cricket CloseDetached | Jul 2022 | £311,000 | 80 m² | £3,888/m² | 4 |
| 12, Cricket CloseDetached | Oct 2024 | £385,000 | 121 m² | £3,182/m² | 3 |
| 14, Cricket CloseDetached | Feb 2007 | £200,000 | 110 m² | £1,818/m² | 2 |
| 15, Cricket CloseSemi-detached | May 2012 | £159,950 | 67 m² | £2,387/m² | 1 |
| 16, Cricket CloseDetached | Mar 2016 | £255,000 | 115 m² | £2,217/m² | 3 |
| 17, Cricket CloseSemi-detached | Jul 2025 | £240,000 | 57 m² | £4,211/m² | 1 |
| 18, Cricket CloseDetached | Dec 1995 | £69,950 | 94 m² | £744/m² | 1 |
| 19, Cricket CloseDetached | Jan 2018 | £240,000 | 68 m² | £3,529/m² | 1 |
| 20, Cricket CloseDetached | Mar 1997 | £79,950 | 129 m² | £620/m² | 1 |
| 21, Cricket CloseDetached | Nov 2021 | £290,000 | 43 m² | £6,744/m² | 4 |
| 22, Cricket CloseDetached | Mar 2004 | £194,000 | – | – | 4 |
| 23, Cricket CloseDetached | Dec 2003 | £140,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 24, Cricket CloseDetached | Nov 2019 | £312,500 | 105 m² | £2,976/m² | 3 |
| 25, Cricket CloseDetached | Mar 2020 | £235,000 | 75 m² | £3,133/m² | 2 |
| 26, Cricket CloseSemi-detached | Sept 2019 | £320,000 | 105 m² | £3,048/m² | 3 |
| 27, Cricket CloseDetached | Oct 1996 | £52,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 29, Cricket CloseDetached | Nov 1995 | £58,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 31, Cricket CloseDetached | Dec 2006 | £184,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 33, Cricket CloseDetached | Sept 1999 | £66,000 | 57 m² | £1,158/m² | 2 |
| 35, Cricket CloseDetached | Jun 1996 | £48,000 | 58 m² | £828/m² | 2 |
| 37, Cricket CloseDetached | Sept 2022 | £340,000 | 84 m² | £4,048/m² | 4 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Norwich, a drive away (9.2 km), with 4.6m journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Liverpool Street.
The nearest bus stop is Cricket Close, 100 m away, with a bus about every 13 minutes on weekdays (routes 28, 30A); 37 departures an hour from the 8 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Work usually means a journey: the nearest place with 5,000 or more jobs is about 41 minutes away by public transport (16 by car).
The nearest primary school is Drayton Community Infant School, about a 10-minute walk (650 m).
The closest top-rated primary is Ghost Hill Infant and Nursery School (1.2 km).
The nearest secondary is Taverham High School, 1.9 km away; Attainment 8: 49 · 12% of GCSEs at 8–9.
The nearest supermarket is Tesco, 300 m away; Slimming World Franchise-Chelsea Pennell (700 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Drayton Medical Practice (1.3 km), with Fittleworth Medical the closest pharmacy (1.1 km).
For a haircut, Stringfellas Barber Shop is 1.3 km away.
The nearest full A&E is Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, 6.9 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).
It's quiet in the evenings: only 7 restaurants, cafés and pubs in the neighbourhood itself.
5:17 Coffee House is the closest café or restaurant (1.5 km), and Old Mill the nearest pub (350 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 30 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
There are 12 listed buildings.
Detached houses make up 54% of homes.
The typical home here was built in 1983-1992.
Bungalow country: 24% of homes are bungalows.
It's growing: about 113 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Taverham Park, 1.8 km away; for exercise, L.A. Personal Training (1.3 km).
The air is clean: background nitrogen dioxide is 6.8 µg/m³, among the lowest in the country.
For holidays, Norwich is 3.9 km away, and London Stansted, with far more destinations, 111 km.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 42% 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.
Norwich North constituency: Alice Macdonald MP (Labour (Co-op)), since July 2024. 2024 general election: Lab gain from Con, majority 10,850 (23.7%), turnout 62%. Vote shares: Labour 45%, Conservative 22%, Reform UK 18%, Green Party 10%.
11 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 NR8 6YA →
National infrastructure projects and headline schemes only, not local planning applications. See them all on a map.
On this street: 0 of 23 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 0 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 1.5% | 1.5% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 2.4% | 2.2% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 93.8% | 80.4% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.8% | 11.6% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 2.9% | 5.1% | 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.
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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 31 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
Nearest: Beccles Lido · about 44 min
Nearest: Fakenham Racecourse · 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.