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Get started3 Bell Farm Cottages is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Framsden, Stowmarket, Stowmarket (IP14 6HP). It has a recorded floor area of 78 m² (around 840 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (November 2021) shows an E (score 44), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 74), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on oil. Period features are noted in the property record.
At 78 m² it sits well below the postcode median (209 m² across 4 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. 2 planning records sit against the property, 1 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include an extension, a loft conversion and a porch, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Today's modelled estimate of £353,000 is 12.8% above the 2022 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£373/sq ft) was about 26.4% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold March 2022 for £313,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.
3 Bell Farm Cottages sits at the bottom of the postcode for energy efficiency — meaningful headroom to improve.
A a loft conversion application was refused at 3 Bell Farm Cottages in 2023.
Householder Application - Erection of single storey rear and two storey side extensions including insertion of rooflights in conjunction with conversion of loft and front porch (amended scheme re-submission of DC/23/00282)
The latest sale landed in the post-pandemic price surge — useful context when reading the figure.
£353,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables.
£313,000
Recorded with HM Land Registry.
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Years Held for 3 Bell Farm Cottages lags the street by a wide margin.
Price per m²
£4,013
Street avg £3,723
Floor Area
78 m²
Street avg 196 m²
CO₂ Emissions
5.7 t/year
Street avg 7.9 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
0.7 km

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
43.5dB

Householder Application - Erection of single storey rear extension, two storey side extension including construction of front and rear dormers in conjunction with conversion of loft and single storey side extension.
24 March 2022Most recent
£313,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in IP14 6HP: £770,000 (2021–2016).
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Years Held
4 years
Street avg 8 years
IP14 6LR
Cretingham House — bus stop.
Closest school
3.0 km
Helmingham Primary School and Nursery. 1 school nearby.
Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
35.6dB