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Get startedThe Cottage is a three-bedroom detached house in Combs, Stowmarket, Stowmarket (IP14 2ES). It has a recorded floor area of 149 m² (around 1604 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (January 2019) shows an F (score 22), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 69), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on oil. Period features are noted in the property record.
Sale prices here have outpaced England HPI: 6% per year against 0% for the wider region. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 83% of similar EPCs). Sold March 2023 for £600,000. One historical planning record sits against the property in 2023.
The Cottage's carbon output runs well above what efficient homes in the postcode produce.
Householder Application - Insulation render applied to all the external elevations.
The Cottage has more than quadrupled in price since its earliest registered sale in 1995.
£605,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables and a sale-price growth of 6.0% per year over 28 years.
£600,000
Growth on file: 6.0% per year over 28 years.
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EPC Rating for The Cottage lags the street by a wide margin.
EPC Rating
22 (F)
Street avg 59 (D)
Floor Area
149 m²
Street avg 154 m²
CO₂ Emissions
13.9 t/year
Street avg 6.2 t/year
Daytime road noise here sits well below conversation level — a quiet pocket of the postcode.
Crime
2/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
1.1 km

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
41.2dB

30 March 2023Most recent
£600,000
+53.8%over 3 years17 January 2020
£390,000
+230.5%over 24 years24 February 1995
£118,000
Median price across the last 3 sales in IP14 2ES: £95,000 (2023–1995).
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Habitable Rooms
7 rooms
Street avg 6 rooms
IP14 2LG
Park Road — bus stop.
Closest school
1.6 km
Trinity Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School. 3 schools nearby.
Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
35.2dB