The Old Chapel, Fordham Road, Freckenham, Bury St Edmunds, IP28 8JB

The Old Chapel is a five-bedroom detached house in Freckenham, Bury St. Edmunds, Bury St Edmunds (IP28 8JB). It has a recorded floor area of 234 m² (around 2519 sq ft) and construction records dating it to before 1900. The latest certificate (July 2023) shows an E (score 45), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 73), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on oil. Other recorded features include a self-contained annexe and attached land beyond the plot. Period features are noted in the property record. Our model identifies extension potential, subject to local planning policy.

Untraded for 23 years, with the last transfer in December 2002. At 234 m² the property is well over the postcode median (129 m² across 18 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 83% of similar EPCs). Today's modelled estimate of £696,000 sits 148.6% above the 2002 sale of £280,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£111/sq ft) was about 53.8% below the postcode norm. 3 planning records sit against the property, 3 approved, 0 refused.