Glebe Cottage, Church Street, Ashill, Thetford, IP25 7AW

Glebe Cottage is a three-bedroom detached house in Ashill, Thetford, Thetford (IP25 7AW). It has a recorded floor area of 49 m² (around 527 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band C. It is a listed building, which means external alterations are tightly controlled but it may qualify for heritage tax reliefs. The latest certificate (November 2022) shows an F (score 35), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The rating has held steady at F across 4 certificates since January 2009. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor, lighting went from Poor to Very Good and main heating went from Poor to Average; while window efficiency dropped from Average to Very Poor and hot-water efficiency dropped from Average to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 87), a 4-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.

3 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. The record references listed-building consent, which constrain future alterations. At 49 m² it sits well below the postcode median (100 m² across 19 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 89% of similar EPCs). Across 1996–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 7.3% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£702/sq ft) was about 364.9% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold March 2022 for £370,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.