5 Crooked Chimney Row, West Stow, Bury St Edmunds, IP28 6HB
About 5 Crooked Chimney Row
5 Crooked Chimney Row is a semi-detached house in West Stow, Bury St. Edmunds, Bury St Edmunds (IP28 6HB). It has a recorded floor area of 88 m² (around 947 sq ft) and construction records dating it to 1900-1929. The latest certificate (October 2018) shows an E (score 51), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to A (score 107), a 4-band jump. Main heating runs on oil.
One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2014. Past consents include an extension and partial demolition, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. At 88 m² it's 25.7% larger than the typical home in the postcode (70 m² median across 3 EPCs). Today's modelled estimate of £342,000 is 14% above the 2022 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£317/sq ft) was about 161% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £300,000 in September 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.
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Valuation
against the asking price
Risks
planning & flood
Sold prices
similar homes nearby
Trends
the local market
Energy performance
Recommended upgrades on file would lift this property by multiple EPC bands.
EPC Rating
Planning history
Planning history includes recorded demolition works, indicating a major rebuild phase at this address.
- Mar 2014DemolitionFullIn report
Extension: Single storey · Side of property
Planning Application - Erection of single storey side extension (following demolition of existing) & associated alterations to windows and door.
Extension- Documents
- 10 docs on file
- Reference
- DC/14/0110/HH
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- Larger development activity nearby
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Sales history & valuation
The latest sale landed in the post-pandemic price surge — useful context when reading the figure.
£342,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables.
£300,000
Recorded with HM Land Registry.
Sales timeline
8 September 2022Most recent
£300,000
Median price across the last 4 sales in IP28 6HB: £110,975 (2023–2002).
Everything we know about 5 Crooked Chimney Row, in one report
What it's really worth, what could be wrong, and the planning, sales and area data in full.
What we flagged
- Larger development activity nearby
Versus other Crooked Chimney Row homes
5 Crooked Chimney Row outperforms the street on epc rating by a wide margin.
Price per m²
£3,409
Street avg £1,747
Floor Area
88 m²
Street avg 76 m²
Habitable Rooms
4 rooms
Street avg 4 rooms
CO₂ Emissions
5.6 t/year
Street avg 6.0 t/year
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The neighbourhood at a glance
Daytime road noise here sits well below conversation level — a quiet pocket of the postcode.
Crime
3/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
0.2 km
Telephone Box — bus stop.
Go deeper on the local area
The full report breaks down crime, transport links, schools and air quality in depth.
Road noise across the postcode
Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
42.2dB
Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
35.6dB