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Get startedThe Old Rectory is a six-bedroom detached house in Lidgate, Newmarket, Newmarket (CB8 9PP). It has a recorded floor area of 423 m² (around 4553 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band H. There is a swimming pool on the plot, uncommon for the area. Other recorded features include outbuildings and a basement. The latest certificate (July 2022) shows an E (score 46), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. When first surveyed in August 2012 the rating was F, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, lighting went from Poor to Very Good; while roof efficiency dropped from Good to Average. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 80), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on oil.
Sale prices here have outpaced England HPI: 9.8% per year against 0% for the wider region. Today's modelled estimate of £2,189,000 is 14.2% below the 2022 sale of £2,550,000, a rare downward gap that often correlates with deferred maintenance or unfinished works. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£560/sq ft) was about 130.3% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 423 m² the property is well over the postcode median (142 m² across 18 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. 6 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 4 is the typical count. 19 planning records sit against the property, 6 approved, 3 refused. Past consents include an extension and partial demolition, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. The record references conservation-area consent, which constrain future alterations. Sold August 2022 for £2,550,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.
The Old Rectory's carbon output runs well above what efficient homes in the postcode produce.
A recent planning application at The Old Rectory was refused — worth checking the council file.
Planning application - eight arena lights around menage
Latest sale on The Old Rectory was the highest on Land Registry record across the postcode.
£2,189,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables and a sale-price growth of 9.8% per year over 5 years.
£2,550,000
Growth on file: 9.8% per year over 5 years.
Habitable Rooms for The Old Rectory runs comfortably ahead of the street norm.
Price per m²
£6,028
Street avg £3,108
Floor Area
423 m²
Street avg 172 m²
Habitable Rooms
12 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
0.5 km

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
41.8dB

Changes detected from historical EPC data
Heating controls upgraded for better temperature management
More low energy lighting installed
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Application to discharge conditions 5 (biodiversity enhancement layout) of application DC/25/0632/FUL
17 more applications for this property
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4 August 2022Most recent
£2,550,000
+54.5%over 4 years14 December 2017
£1,650,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in CB8 9PP: £350,000 (2024–2020).
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Street avg 6 rooms
CO₂ Emissions
24.0 t/year
Street avg 8.8 t/year
CB8 9FQ
Bailey Pond — bus stop.
Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
36.2dB
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