4 Bottle Cottages, Diss Road, Scole, Diss, IP21 4DH

4 Bottle Cottages is a two-bedroom end-of-terrace house in Scole, Diss, Diss (IP21 4DH). It has a recorded floor area of 46 m² (around 495 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (June 2013) shows an F (score 23), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to D (score 58), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on bottled lpg. The latest certificate is from June 2013, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

At 46 m² it's 29.2% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (65 m² median across 12 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Sale prices here have lagged England HPI: -1% per year against 0% for the wider region. Today's modelled estimate of £155,000 is 34.8% above the 2015 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£232/sq ft) was about 74.5% above the typical sold price in the postcode. 2 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension and partial demolition, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. On the market in March 2015 and unlisted since — roughly 11 years.