Laundry Cottage, Kenninghall Road, Garboldisham, Diss, IP22 2SJ

Laundry Cottage is a two-bedroom end-of-terrace house in Garboldisham, Diss, Diss (IP22 2SJ). It has a recorded floor area of 100 m² (around 1076 sq ft) and construction records dating it to before 1900. It is a listed building, which means external alterations are tightly controlled but it may qualify for heritage tax reliefs. The latest certificate (September 2025) shows an F (score 27), near the bottom of the EPC scale. When first surveyed in March 2011 the rating was G, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor and lighting went from Average to Very Good. The recommended improvements would push it to E (score 53). Main heating runs on bottled lpg.

At 100 m² it sits well below the postcode median (156 m² across 10 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 70% of similar EPCs). Most recent transfer: December 2021 at £325,000. Across the public record there are 5 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend. 9 planning records sit against the property, 1 approved, 1 refused. Across 2001–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 7.1% per year.