Grove House, Middleton Road, Sudbury, CO10 7LJ

Grove House is a seven-bedroom detached house in Sudbury (CO10 7LJ). It has a recorded floor area of 489 m² (around 5264 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band A. The latest certificate (November 2017) shows an E (score 41), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. Earlier certificates rated it C (October 2016); the latest reading is 2 bands lower. Between certificates, lighting went from Average to Good; while wall efficiency dropped from Good to Very Poor and hot-water efficiency dropped from Good to Average. The recommended improvements would push it to D (score 68). Other recorded features include a self-contained annexe. Period features are noted in the property record. Records show the property has been extended at some point in its history.

At 489 m² the property is well over the postcode median (60 m² across 14 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£365/sq ft) was about 124.3% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: March 2021 at £1,920,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend. One historical planning record sits against the property in 2020.