Firtree Cottage, Bury Road, Alpheton, Sudbury, CO10 9BP

Firtree Cottage is a detached house in Alpheton, Sudbury, Sudbury (CO10 9BP). It has a recorded floor area of 134 m² (around 1442 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (June 2024) shows an E (score 51), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 86), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on oil.

Untraded for 29 years, with the last transfer in January 1997. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 134 m² the property is well over the postcode median (85 m² across 15 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 80% of similar EPCs). Today's modelled estimate of £443,000 sits 638.4% above the 1997 sale of £59,995. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£42/sq ft) was about 81.9% below the postcode norm. One historical planning record sits against the property in 2023.