Are you a property professional?Get qualified leads from motivated homeowners.
Get started4 Chaucer Cottages, Syleham, Eye, IP21 4LT
3 sales on record
About 4 Chaucer Cottages
A plain-English summary derived from public records, EPC certificates, sold prices and local data.
4 Chaucer Cottages is a semi-detached house in Syleham, Eye, Eye (IP21 4LT). It has a recorded floor area of 89 m² (around 958 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (June 2021) shows an E (score 50), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. When first surveyed in September 2009 the rating was F, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Poor to Average; while window efficiency dropped from Good to Average and lighting dropped from Very Good to Average. The recommended improvements would lift it to A (score 94), a 4-band jump. Main heating runs on dual fuel.
Sale prices here have outpaced England HPI: 4.1% per year against 0% for the wider region. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£297/sq ft) was about 56.3% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 89 m² it sits well below the postcode median (146 m² across 8 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. Sold March 2022 for £285,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.
Energy performance
Every EPC certificate filed against this property — current rating, recorded improvements, and where there's headroom to reach a higher band.
Recommended upgrades on file would lift this property by multiple EPC bands.
Current Certificate(1 of 2)
Jun 2021
EPC Rating
A
B
C
D
E
E50
F
G
Main Heating
Gas
Main Fuel
—
Hot Water
Poor
Windows
Average
CO2 Emissions
5.9 t/year
Occupancy
Owner Occupied
Sales history & valuation
Recorded transactions, our model's current estimate, and a quick read on what neighbouring properties have sold for.
The latest sale landed in the post-pandemic price surge — useful context when reading the figure.
Current estimate
See how we calculated this£292,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables and a sale-price growth of 4.1% per year over 12 years.
Last sold (2022)
£285,000
Growth on file: 4.1% per year over 12 years.
Sales timeline
Versus the street
Four headline reads against 8 similar houses on this street, drawn from the latest EPC and Land Registry data.
4 Chaucer Cottages is notably below the street on floor area.
Price per m²
£3,202
Street avg £2,151
Floor Area
89 m²
Street avg 144 m²
Habitable Rooms
5 rooms
Street avg 6 rooms
Similar properties nearby
A handful of close matches in the same postcode area, ranked by likeness on bedrooms, type and floor area.
The neighbourhood at a glance
A condensed read of the local area. Each tile links through to the full breakdown on the Eye district page.
Daytime road noise here sits well below conversation level — a quiet pocket of the postcode.
Crime
1/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
0.2 km
Weybread Road — bus stop.
Road noise across the postcode
Modelled day and night-time noise levels around IP21 4LT from Defra's strategic mapping. The pin marks this postcode's centroid.
Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
43.2dB
Everything within walking distance
Schools, transport stops and scenic spots near this property — 10 points of interest in total.
Beautiful places to visit nearby
Curated scenic spots within reach of this postcode, served by Beautifulplaces.ai. Photography and tagging come from their open dataset.
Common questions
The questions buyers, sellers and homeowners most often ask about 4 Chaucer Cottages, Syleham, Eye, IP21 4LT. Each answer is also embedded as structured data for search engines.