Rookery Cottage, Wyverstone Road, Bacton, Stowmarket, IP14 4LQ

Rookery Cottage is a four-bedroom detached house in Bacton, Stowmarket, Stowmarket (IP14 4LQ). It has a recorded floor area of 166 m² (around 1787 sq ft) and construction records dating it to before 1900. The latest certificate (February 2017) shows a D (score 55), a step below the typical UK home. Main heating runs on oil. Period features are noted in the property record.

Held since July 2007 — that's 19 years off the open market, well above the local norm. That sale landed at the peak of the pre-credit-crunch market, which is a useful reference point when interpreting the price. Sale prices here have outpaced England HPI: 13.5% per year against 0% for the wider region. Today's modelled estimate of £625,000 sits 53.2% above the 2007 sale of £408,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£228/sq ft) was about 49.2% below the postcode norm. At 166 m² the property is well over the postcode median (75 m² across 4 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 75% of similar EPCs). One historical planning record sits against the property in 2012.