Rose Cottage, Back Hills, Botesdale, Diss, IP22 1DW

Rose Cottage is a four-bedroom detached house in Botesdale, Diss, Diss (IP22 1DW). It has a recorded floor area of 174 m² (around 1873 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (March 2021) shows an E (score 54), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 69), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on oil. Other recorded features include a self-contained annexe. Period features are noted in the property record.

At 174 m² the property is well over the postcode median (86 m² across 20 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. 2 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an annexe, an extension and a porch, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 1996–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 8% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £643,000 is 10.9% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£310/sq ft) was about 43.1% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold August 2021 for £580,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.