Ballingdon Grove, Flat 7, Middleton Road, Sudbury, CO10 7LJ

Ballingdon Grove is a one-bedroom semi-detached house in Sudbury (CO10 7LJ). It has a recorded floor area of 50 m² (around 538 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band A. It is a listed building, which means external alterations are tightly controlled but it may qualify for heritage tax reliefs. At 50 m² this is the 3rd smallest of 11 units on EPC record in Ballingdon Grove, where floor areas span 45–218 m². The building's EPC ratings span F to D, with this unit at the bottom. On EPC score it ranks last in the building (34 versus a best of 68). The latest certificate (January 2022) shows an F (score 34), near the bottom of the EPC scale. When first surveyed in May 2009 the rating was G, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor, hot-water efficiency went from Poor to Average and lighting went from Very Poor to Very Good. The recommended improvements would lift it to D (score 60), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.

At 50 m² it's 23% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (65 m² median across 14 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Most recent transfer: May 2022 at £168,000. Across the public record there are 4 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend. Across 1998–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 6.7% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£312/sq ft) was about 80.9% above the typical sold price in the postcode. One historical planning record sits against the property in 2025.