Puddleduck Cottage, East End Road, Stonham Aspal, Stowmarket, IP14 6AS

Puddleduck Cottage is a four-bedroom detached house in Stonham Aspal, Stowmarket, Stowmarket (IP14 6AS). It has a recorded floor area of 189 m² (around 2034 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band F. The property has an EV charger on record, all of which lower running costs and tend to lift resale appeal. Other recorded features include notable views and attached land beyond the plot. Period features are noted in the property record. The latest certificate (March 2021) shows an E (score 54), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. Earlier certificates rated it D (July 2013); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, roof efficiency went from Average to Good and lighting went from Very Poor to Very Good; while window efficiency dropped from Good to Average and hot-water efficiency dropped from Good to Average. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 75), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on oil.

Sale prices here have outpaced England HPI: 9.4% per year against 0% for the wider region. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£350/sq ft) was about 35.3% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 189 m² the property is well over the postcode median (63 m² across 5 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. Sold December 2021 for £712,000. Across the public record there are 4 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.