38 The Street, Barton Mills, Bury St Edmunds, IP28 6AA

38 The Street is a five-bedroom detached house in Barton Mills, Bury St. Edmunds, Bury St Edmunds (IP28 6AA). It has a recorded floor area of 121 m² (around 1302 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (December 2020) shows an E (score 43), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. When first surveyed in December 2020 the rating was F, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, roof efficiency went from Very Poor to Good, hot-water efficiency went from Very Poor to Very Good and main heating went from Average to Good; while wall efficiency dropped from Poor to Very Poor and lighting dropped from Good to Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 74), a 2-band jump. Other recorded features include a conservatory and a self-contained annexe. Period features are noted in the property record.

At 121 m² it's 20.7% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (153 m² median across 42 EPCs). It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 86% of similar EPCs). 5 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 4 is the typical count. Across 2001–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 5.5% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £851,000 is 48% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£441/sq ft) was about 148.6% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: June 2021 at £575,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.