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Get started2 Ivydene Cottages is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Combs, Stowmarket, Stowmarket (IP14 2JY). It has a recorded floor area of 146 m² (around 1572 sq ft) and construction records dating it to 1900-1929. The latest certificate (February 2024) shows an E (score 44), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The rating has held steady at E across 2 certificates since March 2014. Between certificates, lighting went from Average to Very Good. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 71), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on oil.
Sale prices here have outpaced England HPI: 3.9% per year against 0% for the wider region. At 146 m² the property is well over the postcode median (95 m² across 10 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Last sale on file: £335,000 in October 2024. One historical planning record sits against the property in 2008.
2 Ivydene Cottages's carbon output runs well above what efficient homes in the postcode produce.
Retention of pitched roof over existing flat-roofed extension.
2 Ivydene Cottages valuation sits well clear of the typical sold price in this postcode.
£347,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables and a sale-price growth of 3.9% per year over 17 years.
£335,000
Growth on file: 3.9% per year over 17 years.
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Years Held for 2 Ivydene Cottages lags the street by a wide margin.
Price per m²
£2,295
Street avg £2,442
Floor Area
146 m²
Street avg 107 m²
Habitable Rooms
6 rooms
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
0.2 km

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
42.8dB

Changes detected from historical EPC data
Heating controls upgraded for better temperature management
More low energy lighting installed
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25 October 2024Most recent
£335,000
+35.1%over 9 years15 January 2015
£248,000
+44.2%over 7 years3 August 2007
£172,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in IP14 2JY: £315,000 (2023–2014).
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Street avg 5 rooms
CO₂ Emissions
9.7 t/year
Street avg 7.4 t/year
IP14 2PL
Queens Close — bus stop.
Closest school
2.6 km
Trinity Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School. 4 schools nearby.
Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
35.8dB