Swallow Barn, The Street, Ashen, Sudbury, CO10 8JN

Swallow Barn is a detached house in Ashen, Sudbury, Sudbury (CO10 8JN). It has a recorded floor area of 156 m² (around 1679 sq ft) and construction records dating it to before 1900. The latest certificate (August 2020) shows a G (score 14), near the bottom of the EPC scale. Earlier certificates rated it D (December 2018); the latest reading is 3 bands lower. Between certificates, window efficiency went from Poor to Average; while wall efficiency dropped from Good to Very Poor and roof efficiency dropped from Good to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to E (score 43), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on oil.

At 156 m² the property is well over the postcode median (114 m² across 20 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. 2 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include new windows, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£310/sq ft) was about 35.6% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: March 2021 at £520,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.