Woolstaplers Cottage, Prentice Street, Lavenham, Sudbury, CO10 9RD

Woolstaplers Cottage is an end-of-terrace house in Lavenham, Sudbury, Sudbury (CO10 9RD). It has a recorded floor area of 133 m² (around 1432 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (May 2023) shows an E (score 46), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. Earlier certificates rated it D (April 2009); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, hot-water efficiency went from Average to Good and lighting went from Average to Very Good; while roof efficiency dropped from Good to Very Poor and window efficiency dropped from Good to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would push it to D (score 63).

Today's modelled estimate of £520,000 is 20.6% below the 2021 sale of £655,000, below the original sale price, which typically signals condition or completion-status changes worth verifying. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£458/sq ft) was about 59.1% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 133 m² the property is well over the postcode median (85 m² across 36 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Sold November 2021 for £655,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.