Hill Cottage, Fordham Road, Freckenham, Bury St Edmunds, IP28 8JB

Hill Cottage is a three-bedroom detached house in Freckenham, Bury St. Edmunds, Bury St Edmunds (IP28 8JB). It has a recorded floor area of 108 m² (around 1163 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (March 2025) shows an E (score 41), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The rating has held steady at E across 3 certificates since August 2016. Between certificates, window efficiency went from Average to Good and lighting went from Average to Very Good; while roof efficiency dropped from Poor to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 75), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on oil. Other recorded features include outbuildings.

At 108 m² it's 16.3% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (129 m² median across 18 EPCs). It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 83% of similar EPCs). Across 2000–2017, sale prices on this property compounded at 5.6% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £525,000 is 25.7% above the 2017 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£359/sq ft) was about 51.6% above the typical sold price in the postcode. On the market in February 2017 and unlisted since — roughly 9 years. One historical planning record sits against the property in 2019.