Briar Cottage, Half Moon Lane, Redgrave, Diss, IP22 1RX

Briar Cottage is a five-bedroom detached house in Redgrave, Diss, Diss (IP22 1RX). It has a recorded floor area of 213 m² (around 2293 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (July 2024) shows an F (score 22), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 75), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on oil. Other recorded features include attached land beyond the plot. Period features are noted in the property record. Our model identifies extension potential, subject to local planning policy.

Held since May 2005 — that's 21 years off the open market, well above the local norm. At 213 m² the property is well over the postcode median (130 m² across 27 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 89% of similar EPCs). Across 2001–2005, sale prices on this property compounded at 15.4% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £664,000 sits 60% above the 2005 sale of £415,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£181/sq ft) was about 15.3% below the postcode norm.