Church Farm Cottage, Park Street, Dry Drayton, Cambridge, CB23 8BZ
About Church Farm Cottage
Church Farm Cottage is a detached house in Dry Drayton, Cambridge, Cambridge (CB23 8BZ). It has a recorded floor area of 279 m² (around 3003 sq ft) and construction records dating it to before 1900. The latest certificate (March 2020) shows a D (score 64), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 87), a 2-band jump.
At 279 m² the property is well over the postcode median (100 m² across 7 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 71% of similar EPCs). 2 planning records sit against the property, 1 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension and partial demolition, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.
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Valuation
against the asking price
Risks
planning & flood
Sold prices
similar homes nearby
Trends
the local market
Energy performance
Church Farm Cottage's carbon output runs well above what efficient homes in the postcode produce.
EPC Rating
Planning history
Planning history includes recorded demolition works, indicating a major rebuild phase at this address.
- Aug 2022DemolitionFullIn report
Extension: Single storey · Rear of property
Demolition of existing garden room and erection of a single storey rear extension.
- Agent
- Sones Stannard
- Council
- South Cambridgeshire District Council
Extension- Documents
- 20 docs on file
- Reference
- 22/02518/HFUL
- Feb 2020ConditionsIn report
Discharge of Condition 2 (Contamination) of planning permission S/3939/18/PA
- Council
- South Cambridgeshire District Council
- Documents
- 3 docs on file
- Reference
- S/4390/19/DC
What's in Church Farm Cottage, Park Street, Dry Drayton, Cambridge, CB23 8BZ's planning history?
Refusals, disputes and full decisions on this property and nearby, in the report.
Sales history & valuation
Church Farm Cottage has no Land Registry sales on file, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands since registration began.
£912,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables.
No sales recorded with HM Land Registry
That can mean the property has never traded since the registry began publishing in 1995, was a new build that hasn't been registered yet, or is held in the same hands long-term.
Median price across the last 5 sales in CB23 8BZ: £375,000 (2023–2022).
Nearby sales in CB23 8BZ
5 Church Farm Field, Park Street, Dry Drayton, Cambridge, CB23 8BZ
Sold Sept 2023
£375,0007 Church Farm Field, Park Street, Dry Drayton, Cambridge, CB23 8BZ
Sold Nov 2022
£210,8754 Church Farm Field, Park Street, Dry Drayton, Cambridge, CB23 8BZ
Sold Nov 2022
£254,6006 Church Farm Field, Park Street, Dry Drayton, Cambridge, CB23 8BZ
Sold Sept 2022
£410,0003 Church Farm Field, Park Street, Dry Drayton, Cambridge, CB23 8BZ
Sold May 2022
£650,000
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Versus other Park Street homes
Floor Area for Church Farm Cottage runs comfortably ahead of the street norm.
EPC Rating
64 (D)
Street avg 75 (C)
Floor Area
279 m²
Street avg 116 m²
CO₂ Emissions
11.0 t/year
Street avg 2.4 t/year
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The neighbourhood at a glance
Daytime road noise here sits well below conversation level — a quiet pocket of the postcode.
Crime
2/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Closest school
0.2 km
Dry Drayton CofE (C) Primary School. 3 schools nearby.
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Road noise across the postcode
Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
45.0dB
Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
36.7dB