5 Beechcroft Road, Ipswich, IP1 6BA

5 Beechcroft Road is a four-bedroom detached house in Ipswich (IP1 6BA). It has a recorded floor area of 118 m² (around 1270 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (October 2013) shows an E (score 53), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. Earlier certificates rated it D (September 2013); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, lighting went from Very Poor to Very Good; while wall efficiency dropped from Good to Poor and roof efficiency dropped from Good to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 73), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from October 2013, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

At 118 m² the property is well over the postcode median (89 m² across 10 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. Across 2007–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 3.9% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£346/sq ft) was about 76.8% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £440,000 in July 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.