Old Reading Room Cottage, Old Bury Road, Lackford, Bury St Edmunds, IP28 6HR

Old Reading Room Cottage is a three-bedroom detached house in Lackford, Bury St. Edmunds, Bury St Edmunds (IP28 6HR). It has a recorded floor area of 70 m² (around 752 sq ft) and construction records dating it to before 1900. The latest certificate (November 2011) shows an F (score 28), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would push it to E (score 43). Main heating runs on oil. The latest certificate is from November 2011, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Other recorded features include a self-contained annexe. Period features are noted in the property record.

At 70 m² it sits well below the postcode median (162 m² across 12 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £518,000 sits 59.4% above the 2012 sale of £325,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£432/sq ft) was about 139.6% above the typical sold price in the postcode. On the market in September 2012 and unlisted since — roughly 14 years.