The Old Rectory, The Street, Lidgate, Newmarket, CB8 9PP

The 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.