The Old Rectory, Burston Road, Dickleburgh, Diss, IP21 4NN

The Old Rectory is a detached house in Dickleburgh, Diss, Diss (IP21 4NN). It has a recorded floor area of 316 m² (around 3401 sq ft) and construction records dating it to 1900-1929. The latest certificate (August 2018) shows an F (score 37), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 74), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on oil.

Sale prices here have outpaced England HPI: 6.5% per year against 0% for the wider region. Today's modelled estimate of £732,000 is 16.3% below the 2021 sale of £875,000, a rare downward gap that often correlates with deferred maintenance or unfinished works. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£257/sq ft) was about 26.9% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 316 m² the property is well over the postcode median (139 m² across 13 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. 5 planning records sit against the property, 1 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension, a porch and partial demolition, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. The record references conservation-area consent, which constrain future alterations. Most recent transfer: March 2021 at £875,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.