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.

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). It changed hands recently, sold March 2026 for £460,000. Across 2002–2026, sale prices on this property compounded at 2.2% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£183/sq ft) was about 24.1% below the postcode norm. 3 planning records sit against the property, 3 approved, 0 refused.