2 Lower Chantry Cottages, Hadleigh Road, Ipswich, IP2 0BT

2 Lower Chantry Cottages is a two-bedroom semi-detached house in Ipswich (IP2 0BT). It has a recorded floor area of 100 m² (around 1076 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (August 2017) shows an E (score 45), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 86), a 3-band jump. Other recorded features include attached land beyond the plot. Period features are noted in the property record.

Sale prices here have outpaced Ipswich HPI: 7.9% per year against 0% for the wider region. Today's modelled estimate of £402,000 is 20% above the 2018 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£311/sq ft) was about 62.1% above the typical sold price in the postcode. 3 planning records sit against the property, 3 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an annexe, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. At 100 m² it's 15.3% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (118 m² median across 8 EPCs). It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 75% of similar EPCs). Last sold in January 2018, so it's been off the market for around 8 years.