Ventura Cottage, Common Road, Shelfanger, Diss, IP22 2DP

Ventura Cottage is a five-bedroom detached house in Shelfanger, Diss, Diss (IP22 2DP). It has a recorded floor area of 231 m² (around 2486 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band G. It is a listed building, which means external alterations are tightly controlled but it may qualify for heritage tax reliefs. Other recorded features include a conservatory. Period features are noted in the property record. The latest certificate (March 2015) shows a D (score 55), a step below the typical UK home. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 78). Main heating runs on oil. The latest certificate is from March 2015, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

At 231 m² the property is well over the postcode median (89 m² across 17 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. 5 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count. 10 planning records sit against the property, 10 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension, a conservatory, solar panel installation and partial demolition, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Today's modelled estimate of £630,000 is 28.6% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£197/sq ft) was about 33.6% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: April 2021 at £490,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.