Cocks Green House, Newmans Green, Acton, Sudbury, CO10 0AD

Cocks Green House is a detached house in Acton, Sudbury, Sudbury (CO10 0AD). It has a recorded floor area of 129 m² (around 1389 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (June 2018) shows an E (score 51), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. When first surveyed in April 2009 the rating was F, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, window efficiency went from Very Poor to Good and lighting went from Average to Very Good. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 76), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on oil.

2 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension and a porch, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. At 129 m² it's 18.9% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (159 m² median across 6 EPCs). It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 83% of similar EPCs). Across 2020–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 5.4% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£504/sq ft) was about 86.8% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold September 2022 for £700,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.