Incidentally, this part of town boasted at least two asylums. Halfway up Grove Lane on the left was 'The Grove Retreat', parts of which survived until about 1990 when the bell-tower disappeared and the high strip of land along the ridge of the hill was developed as new housing. Nearer to the above house once stood 'Belle Vue Retreat'. These were both probably early Victorian privately-run workhouses (rather than Union Workhouses see Links for a splendid site on them) which also doubled as mental hospitals; cases of 'lunatics' being admitted are common. The driveway off Woodbridge Road to the remote house in a wooded area atop the hill overlooking the town probably formed the first part of Belle Vue Road. This was later cut through in a steep serpentine downward hill to meet the earlier Alexandra Road opposite the junction with Nottidge Road. Some of the gardens at the top bend of the hill still see many crocuses springing up every year behind the late Victorian houses and it is thought that these are the only traces of Belle Vue Retreat and its gardens.

Here's a citation from a Norfolk Rossbret Institutions Website(see Links).
"Belle Vue Asylum, Ipswich
Pleasantly situated on the Woodbridge Rd, is a
private establishment, for the reception of persons afflicted with insanity. It was commenced in 1835, by its present proprietor, Mr James Shaw, surgeon, & has accommodations for 40 patients.
Source: White Directory 1844 - p 84
Submitted by Betty Longbottom"
and this from a later edition:-
"BELLE VUE ASYLUM, on the Woodbridge road, has accommodations for about 40 patients and was opened in 1835, for the reception of persons afflicted with insanity by the late Mr James Shaw, surgeon, whose widow now conducts it. THE GROVE, the residence of Dr Chevallier, is another private retreat for a select number of persons afflicted with that worst of human maladies - insanity. Both establishments have large gardens and pleasure grounds and are under excellent management." 
HISTORY, GAZETTEER, AND DIRECTORY OR SUFFOLK  By WILLIAM WHITE, 1855.

The area opposite the house above is called Post Mill Close to commemorate one of the local windmills which stood near the site; the Mill Cottage still stands there. These were collectively known as Albion mills as the Woodbridge Road hill at this point is called Albion Hill (probably itself named after the large Napoleonic barracks which once stood on or around Parade Road and Khartoum Road). The pub on Woodbridge Road called 'Albion Mills' was itself an echo of these windmills; while the pub was demolished in the early nineties, the bus stop nearby is still called Albion Mills. The windmills would have benefitted from the stiff prevailing south-westerly winds which come up the Orwell valley and strike the Belle Vue hillside.
[UPDATE: 1.5.12. The red map shown here dates to 1883. The railway bridge at Woodbridge Road/Albion Hill over the cutting carrying the Felixstowe line can be see, but no Belle Vue Road. The lane leading southwards to Mill House close to the bridge can be seen, but no windmill at that date. However, "Belle Vue House" is evident at the lower left with circular plantings of trees nearby. It is also clear that the driveway up to Belle Vue Retreat come off Woodbridge Road just above the Duke of York pub – probably at the place where North Hill House stands, it's now beside North Hill Gardens which seems to have been built in the asylum grounds.

Overlaying a map in blue dated 1902 shows the developments in just a few years. Belle Vue Road has opened up the mill lane, followed the bend past Mill House (Russell Villas are on the bend, with Shaftesbury Villas on the same angled plot, but lower down and facing Woodbridge Road. Going south-westwards from the bend the road clips the ends of the two wings of the asylum; or where they would have been. We assume that Belle Vue Retreat was demolished to make way for this development. Houses were built piecemeal down this upper part of the road down as far as Ashmere Grove and the steep twisting hill from there down to Alexandra Road was built at a later date.]

There are one or two other examples of named buildings on this web site, for example Ruskin House in Foxhall Road, Tramway Place and Grove Bakery in St Helens Street, plus some roundels.