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Get started2 Waterhall Cottages is a semi-detached house in Cowlinge, Newmarket, Newmarket (CB8 9HN). It has a recorded floor area of 64 m² (around 689 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (June 2018) shows an E (score 42), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. When first surveyed in August 2010 the rating was G, the property has climbed 2 bands since. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor, roof efficiency went from Very Poor to Good and window efficiency went from Very Poor to Good; while hot-water efficiency dropped from Poor to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to A (score 105), a 4-band jump. Main heating runs on oil.
At 64 m² it sits well below the postcode median (220 m² across 4 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally.
Recommended upgrades on file would lift this property by multiple EPC bands.
2 Waterhall Cottages has no Land Registry sales on file, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands since registration began.
£271,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables.
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.
On floor area, 2 Waterhall Cottages runs well behind the street norm.
EPC Rating
42 (E)
Street avg 50 (E)
Floor Area
64 m²
Street avg 242 m²
CO₂ Emissions
4.4 t/year
Street avg 13.6 t/year
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
1.3 km

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
42.4dB

Changes detected from historical EPC data
Heating system changed
Switched from solid fuel to cleaner energy source
Heating controls changed
Hot water efficiency improved
Windows upgraded, improving insulation
Wall insulation improved
Loft insulation installed or upgraded to 250mm+
Floor insulation added or improved
More low energy lighting installed
Replaced storage heaters with gas boiler
Fuel source changed
Heating controls upgraded for better temperature management
Hot water efficiency decreased
Low energy lighting percentage decreased
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Median price across the last 5 sales in CB8 9HN: £860,000 (2023–2011).
Habitable Rooms
4 rooms
Street avg 7 rooms
Seven Elms Green — bus stop.
Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
35.5dB