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Wychwood Cottage, Aldridge Lane, Fornham All Saints, Bury St Edmunds, IP28 6JT

2 planning records
Property type
Detached
Habitable rooms
6
From EPC
Floor area
124 m²
1335 sq ft
Energy rating
E
Score 49
Council tax
Band E
Tenure
Owner Occupied
Overview

About Wychwood Cottage

A plain-English summary derived from public records, EPC certificates, sold prices and local data.

Wychwood Cottage is a detached house in Fornham All Saints, Bury St. Edmunds, Bury St Edmunds (IP28 6JT). It has a recorded floor area of 124 m² (around 1335 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (November 2024) shows an E (score 49), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 77), a 2-band jump.

2 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include new windows and tree works, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. The record references listed-building consent and conservation-area consent, which constrain future alterations. At 124 m² it's 29.8% larger than the typical home in the postcode (96 m² median across 6 EPCs).

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Valuation

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Risks

planning & flood

Sold prices

similar homes nearby

Trends

the local market

Energy

Energy performance

Every EPC certificate filed against this property — current rating, recorded improvements, and where there's headroom to reach a higher band.

Wychwood Cottage's carbon output runs well above what efficient homes in the postcode produce.

EPC Rating

A
B
C
D
E
E49
F
G
Main Heating
Gas
Main Fuel
Gas
Hot Water
Good
Windows
Poor
CO2 Emissions
6.8 t/year
Occupancy
Owner Occupied
Planning

Planning history

Applications and permits filed against Wychwood Cottage, Aldridge Lane, Fornham All Saints, Bury St Edmunds, IP28 6JT, sourced from the PlanIt planning register.

Wychwood Cottage has a listed-building consent on record — alterations to a listed property are tightly controlled.

  1. May 2023
    Renovation
    In report

    Application for listed building consent - replace three windows to ground floor front elevation

    ListedNew Windows
    Documents
    16 docs on file
    Reference
    DC/23/0271/LB
    View planning record
  2. Feb 2009
    Tree WorksTrees
    In report

    TCA09/1723 - Tree in a Conservation Area Application Fell one Fir tree in rear garden.

    Conservation Area
    Documents
    2 docs on file
    Reference
    SE/09/0048
    View planning record
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Price

Sales history & valuation

Recorded transactions, our model's current estimate, and a quick read on what neighbouring properties have sold for.

Wychwood Cottage has no Land Registry sales on file, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands since registration began.

Current estimate

£493,000

Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables.

See how we calculated this

No sales recorded with HM Land Registry

That can mean the property has never traded since the registry began publishing in 1995, was a new build that hasn't been registered yet, or is held in the same hands long-term.

Median price across the last 5 sales in IP28 6JT: £394,000 (2024–2019).

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On the street

Versus other Aldridge Lane homes

Four headline reads against 6 similar houses on this street, drawn from the latest EPC and Land Registry data.

On epc rating, Wychwood Cottage runs well behind the street norm.

EPC Rating

49 (E)

Street avg 55 (D)

Strongly below

Floor Area

124 m²

Street avg 103 m²

Strongly above

CO₂ Emissions

6.8 t/year

Street avg 5.4 t/year

Strongly below

Habitable Rooms

6 rooms

Street avg 5 rooms

Strongly above
Comparables

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Area

The neighbourhood at a glance

A condensed read of the local area. Each tile links through to the full breakdown on the Bury St Edmunds district page.
Full Bury St Edmunds report

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

The Green — bus stop.

Closest school

1.8 km

Howard Community Academy. 5 schools nearby.

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Noise

Road noise across the postcode

Modelled day and night-time noise levels around IP28 6JT from Defra's strategic mapping. The pin marks this postcode's centroid.
Daytime road noise heatmap for IP28 6JT

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00

46.5dB

Low
Night-time road noise heatmap for IP28 6JT

Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00

39.7dB

Low
55 dB
60 dB
65 dB
70 dB
75 dB
80 dB
Defra Road Noise Strategic Mapping, Round 4
FAQ

Common questions

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