Sunset Bungalow, Meeting Green, Wickhambrook, Newmarket, CB8 8XS

Sunset Bungalow is a two-bedroom detached house in Wickhambrook, Newmarket, Newmarket (CB8 8XS). It has a recorded floor area of 78 m² (around 840 sq ft) and construction records dating it to 1950-1966. The latest certificate (November 2020) shows an F (score 34), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 73), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity. Other recorded features include attached land beyond the plot.

Sale prices here have outpaced England HPI: 7.9% per year against 0% for the wider region. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£500/sq ft) was about 85.9% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 78 m² it sits well below the postcode median (144 m² across 6 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 83% of similar EPCs). 2 planning records sit against the property, 1 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include an extension and a porch, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Most recent transfer: September 2021 at £420,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.