Gardeners Cottage, Bealings Road, Martlesham, Woodbridge, IP12 4RW

Gardeners Cottage is a four-bedroom detached house in Martlesham, Woodbridge, Woodbridge (IP12 4RW). It has a recorded floor area of 183 m² (around 1970 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (April 2018) shows an E (score 50), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 74), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on oil. Other recorded features include attached land beyond the plot. Period features are noted in the property record. Our model identifies extension potential, subject to local planning policy.

Sale prices here have outpaced England HPI: 7.4% per year against 0% for the wider region. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£355/sq ft) was about 94.4% above the typical sold price in the postcode. 3 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include tree works, an extension and a conservatory, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. At 183 m² it's 20.8% larger than the typical home in the postcode (152 m² median across 12 EPCs). It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 83% of similar EPCs). Sold April 2024 for £700,000.