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Get started23 Drinkwater Close is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Newmarket (CB8 0QN). It has a recorded floor area of 74 m² (around 797 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1983-1990 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (December 2019) shows a D (score 67), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 87), a 2-band jump.
Sale prices here have outpaced England HPI: 6.2% per year against 0% for the wider region. Today's modelled estimate of £319,000 is 13.9% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£352/sq ft) was about 60.9% above the typical sold price in the postcode. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2021. Past consents include an extension and a porch, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Last sale on file: £280,000 in February 2021. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.
Recommended upgrades on file would lift this property by multiple EPC bands.
23 Drinkwater Close has an approved extension on the planning record.
Householder planning application - side porch
Price for 23 Drinkwater Close has grown more than fourfold since the 1995 starting point.
£319,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables and a sale-price growth of 6.2% per year over 25 years.
£280,000
Growth on file: 6.2% per year over 25 years.
On price per m², 23 Drinkwater Close stands well clear of the street.
Price per m²
£3,784
Street avg £2,892
Floor Area
74 m²
Street avg 91 m²
Habitable Rooms
4 rooms
Daytime road noise here sits well below conversation level — a quiet pocket of the postcode.
Crime
4/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
0.2 km

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
47.2dB

5 February 2021Most recent
£280,000
+14.3%over 11 months12 March 2020
£245,000
+298.4%over 24 years22 November 1995
£61,500
Median price across the last 5 sales in CB8 0QN: £340,000 (2025–2022).
Street avg 5 rooms
CO₂ Emissions
3.1 t/year
Street avg 4.0 t/year
CB8 0GZ
Drinkwater Close — bus stop.
Closest school
0.3 km
Paddocks Primary School. 8 schools nearby.
Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
38.3dB
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