Clock Cottage, Chapel Lane, Brockley, Bury St Edmunds, IP29 4AS

Clock Cottage is a four-bedroom detached house in Brockley, Bury St. Edmunds, Bury St Edmunds (IP29 4AS). It has a recorded floor area of 100 m² (around 1076 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (February 2009) shows an F (score 32), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would push it to E (score 44). Main heating runs on oil. The latest certificate is from February 2009, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since August 2009 — that's 17 years off the open market, well above the local norm. That sale fell during the post-crash dip, which often skews comparisons against later neighbouring sales. At 100 m² it's 20.6% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (126 m² median across 19 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. 7 planning records sit against the property, 6 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2001–2009, sale prices on this property compounded at 10.5% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £478,000 is 44.8% above the 2009 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£307/sq ft) was about 39.8% above the typical sold price in the postcode.