Keepers Cottage, Hengrave, Bury St Edmunds, IP28 6LX

Keepers Cottage is a semi-detached house in Hengrave, Bury St. Edmunds, Bury St Edmunds (IP28 6LX). It has a recorded floor area of 123 m² (around 1324 sq ft) and construction records dating it to 1900-1929. The latest certificate (August 2018) shows a G (score 12), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The rating has held steady at G across 4 certificates since October 2010. Between certificates, lighting went from Very Poor to Poor; while roof efficiency dropped from Good to Very Poor and hot-water efficiency dropped from Average to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 81), a 5-band jump. Main heating runs on oil.

On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. 12 planning records sit against the property, 6 approved, 3 refused. Past consents include an extension, a porch and new windows, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. The record references listed-building consent and conservation-area consent, which constrain future alterations. Today's modelled estimate of £476,000 is 19% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£302/sq ft) was about 49.6% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold March 2021 for £400,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.