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Get startedIvy Cottage is a detached house in Bacton, Stowmarket, Stowmarket (IP14 4LJ). It has a recorded floor area of 164 m² (around 1765 sq ft) and construction records dating it to before 1900. The latest certificate (December 2012) shows an F (score 23), near the bottom of the EPC scale. Main heating runs on anthracite. The latest certificate is from December 2012, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.
At 164 m² the property is well over the postcode median (116 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. Today's modelled estimate of £468,000 sits 95% above the 2013 sale of £240,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£136/sq ft) was about 60.4% below the postcode norm. Last changed hands 13 years ago, in July 2013.
Ivy Cottage sits at the bottom of the postcode for energy efficiency — meaningful headroom to improve.
This certificate is over 10 years old and is no longer valid.Expired 03 Dec 2022
£468,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables.
£240,000
Recorded with HM Land Registry.
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Price per m² for Ivy Cottage lags the street by a wide margin.
Price per m²
£1,463
Street avg £3,508
Floor Area
164 m²
Street avg 184 m²
Habitable Rooms
6 rooms
Street avg 7 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
0.3 km

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
42.5dB

12 July 2013Most recent
£240,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in IP14 4LJ: £370,000 (2025–2018).
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CO₂ Emissions
23.0 t/year
Street avg 8.0 t/year
Village Stores — bus stop.
Closest school
0.2 km
Bacton Primary School. 1 school nearby.
Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
35.7dB