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On Irby Street, in Boston Central & North
What it's like at PE21 8SA: every home that has sold on Irby 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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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 Irby Street; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
2 of the 27 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 1, Irby StreetDetached | Aug 2024 | £275,000 | 145 m² | £1,897/m² | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1b, Irby StreetDetached | Jul 2011 | £128,000 | 77 m² | £1,662/m² | 1 |
| 1c, Irby StreetDetached | Aug 2014 | £128,700 | 64 m² | £2,011/m² | 1 |
| 2, Irby StreetDetached | Nov 2025 | £265,000 | 145 m² | £1,828/m² | 2 |
| 3, Irby StreetDetached · company-owned | Jul 2025 | £135,000 | 111 m² | £1,216/m² | 1 |
| 4, Irby StreetDetached | Oct 2017 | £229,000 | 122 m² | £1,877/m² | 2 |
| 5, Irby StreetDetached | Jul 2022 | £265,000 | 186 m² | £1,425/m² | 1 |
| 9, Irby StreetTerraced | Apr 2018 | £85,000 | 949 m² | £90/m² | 4 |
| 10, Irby StreetTerraced | Mar 2006 | £85,000 | 60 m² | £1,417/m² | 2 |
| 12, Irby StreetDetached | Nov 2003 | £182,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 14, Irby StreetDetached | Jul 2008 | £115,000 | 94 m² | £1,223/m² | 2 |
| 15, Irby StreetTerraced | Apr 2008 | £118,500 | 100 m² | £1,185/m² | 4 |
| 16, Irby StreetTerraced | Apr 2011 | £85,000 | 93 m² | £914/m² | 2 |
| 17, Irby StreetSemi-detached | Aug 2021 | £109,950 | 88 m² | £1,249/m² | 3 |
| 18, Irby StreetDetached | Oct 2011 | £125,000 | 141 m² | £887/m² | 1 |
| 22, Irby StreetDetached | May 1995 | £59,750 | – | – | 1 |
| 24, Irby StreetDetached | Dec 2010 | £110,000 | 88 m² | £1,250/m² | 3 |
| 25, Irby StreetSemi-detached | Sept 2006 | £110,000 | 92 m² | £1,196/m² | 3 |
| 26, Irby StreetTerraced · company-owned | Dec 2025 | £75,000 | 66 m² | £1,136/m² | 2 |
| 28, Irby StreetSemi-detached | Jun 2021 | £83,500 | 57 m² | £1,465/m² | 3 |
| 29, Irby StreetTerraced | Jul 2007 | £85,500 | 67 m² | £1,276/m² | 4 |
| 31, Irby StreetSemi-detached | May 2002 | £41,000 | 73 m² | £562/m² | 1 |
| 32, Irby StreetDetached | Oct 2015 | £90,000 | 81 m² | £1,111/m² | 2 |
| 33, Irby StreetTerraced | Jul 2015 | £95,000 | 71 m² | £1,338/m² | 2 |
| 34, Irby StreetTerraced | Aug 2019 | £105,000 | 71 m² | £1,479/m² | 1 |
| 35, Irby StreetTerraced | Aug 2021 | £100,000 | 68 m² | £1,471/m² | 2 |
| 37, Irby StreetDetached | Nov 1996 | £47,000 | – | – | 2 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Boston, a few minutes' walk (200 m), with 267k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Nottingham.
The nearest bus stop is Asda Store, 250 m away, with a bus about every 40 minutes on weekdays (routes B1A, M3, A1); 15 departures an hour from the 12 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Work usually means a journey: the nearest place with 5,000 or more jobs is about 52 minutes away by public transport (30 by car).
The nearest primary school is Carlton Road Academy, a few minutes' walk (350 m); 53% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is The Boston Grammar School, 800 m away; Attainment 8: 53.1 · 9.4% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Grammar schools are within reach: The Boston Grammar School (0.3 km) and Boston High School (1.5 km).
The nearest supermarket is Asda, 400 m away, with Bode LV closer still (200 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is The Sidings Medical Practice (500 m), with Asda the closest pharmacy (150 m).
For a haircut, A Cut Above is 200 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Pilgrim Hospital, 1.8 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 64% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 63% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 14 weeks).
Evenings out are on the doorstep: 61 restaurants and cafés and 24 pubs and bars in the neighbourhood.
Bubbleistic is the closest café or restaurant (200 m), and The 20 Bar the nearest pub (200 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (23 of them).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 309 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
Much of it is protected: 36% of postcodes sit in a conservation area (Boston, Boston, Spilsby Road).
There are 236 listed buildings.
It's a mix of homes: 33% flats and 20% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1919-1929.
The nearest park is Central Park, 450 m away; for exercise, Boston Snooker Centre (700 m).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 7.2 µg/m³).
For holidays, Humberside is 70 km away, and London Stansted, with far more destinations, 123 km.
58 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1, 2 and 3, Witham Place | II | 170 m |
| 6-10, Witham Place | II | 180 m |
| 11, 11a and 12, Witham Place | II | 180 m |
| 1, Tower Street | II | 180 m |
| 13, Witham Place | II | 190 m |
| Irby House | II | 190 m |
| 14, Witham Place | II | 190 m |
| Numbers 47 and 49 and Attached Wall | II | 190 m |
| 36, Red Lion Street | II | 200 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.
Boston and Skegness constituency: Richard Tice MP (Reform UK), since July 2024. 2024 general election: RUK gain from Con, majority 2,010 (5.0%), turnout 53%. Vote shares: Reform UK 38%, Conservative 33%, Labour 19%, Green Party 4%.
18 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 PE21 8SA →
Many neighbours rent: 45% of households rent privately and 15% socially.
It's young: 21% of residents are aged 15–29.
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.
Plaques recorded by Open Plaques (openplaques.org), a volunteer project; its data is public domain. Not every plaque is recorded.
Tap a type to see what it covers and how it has changed in Boston 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 27 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
Nearest: Skegness · about 37 min
Nearest: Skegness Pier · about 37 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.
On this street: 0 of 24 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 1 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.5% | 2.4% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.1% | 1.3% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 84.6% | 79.1% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.2% | 11.6% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 15.1% | 6.9% | 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.
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