Marlborough Farm, Smallworth Common, Garboldisham, Diss, IP22 2QW

Marlborough Farm is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Garboldisham, Diss, Diss (IP22 2QW). It has a recorded floor area of 128 m² (around 1378 sq ft) and construction records dating it to before 1900. The latest certificate (June 2025) shows an F (score 22), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 77), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on dual fuel. Other recorded features include outbuildings and attached land beyond the plot. Period features are noted in the property record.

Held since February 1997 — that's 29 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 128 m² the property is well over the postcode median (88 m² across 6 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. Today's modelled estimate of £387,000 sits 301% above the 1997 sale of £96,500. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£70/sq ft) was about 72.6% below the postcode norm.