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Get startedSunset 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.
Sunset Bungalow's carbon output runs well above what efficient homes in the postcode produce.
Extension: Single storey · Side of property
Householder planning application - a. single storey side extension b. front porch
Price for Sunset Bungalow has grown more than fourfold since the 1999 starting point.
£433,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables and a sale-price growth of 7.9% per year over 22 years.
£420,000
Growth on file: 7.9% per year over 22 years.
On price per m², Sunset Bungalow stands well clear of the street.
Price per m²
£5,385
Street avg £2,929
Floor Area
78 m²
Street avg 141 m²
Habitable Rooms
3 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
0.3 km

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
43.8dB

Planning Application - 1no. Dwelling
30 September 2021Most recent
£420,000
+438.5%over 22 years14 July 1999
£78,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in CB8 8XS: £525,000 (2025–2014).
4 Chapel Row Meeting Green Wickhambrook Newmarket
Sold Sept 2025
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Sold Oct 2024
3 Chapel Row Meeting Green Wickhambrook Newmarket
Sold Oct 2019
1 Chapel Row Meeting Green Wickhambrook Newmarket
Sold Oct 2013
2 Chapel Row Meeting Green Wickhambrook Newmarket
Sold Aug 2013
Street avg 6 rooms
CO₂ Emissions
9.7 t/year
Street avg 4.2 t/year
CB8 8GQ
The Meadows — bus stop.
Closest school
0.6 km
Wickhambrook Primary Academy. 1 school nearby.
Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
36.6dB
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