Buttercups Cottage, The Row, Hartest, Bury St Edmunds, IP29 4DJ
About Buttercups Cottage
Buttercups Cottage is a two-bedroom semi-detached house in Hartest, Bury St. Edmunds, Bury St Edmunds (IP29 4DJ). It has a recorded floor area of 85 m² (around 915 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band C. It is a listed building, which means external alterations are tightly controlled but it may qualify for heritage tax reliefs. The latest certificate (October 2021) shows an E (score 45), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to A (score 95), a 4-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.
3 planning records sit against the property, 0 approved, 2 refused. The record references listed-building consent and conservation-area consent, which constrain future alterations. Most recent transfer: January 2022 at £270,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.
What this property has
Inside
- Bedrooms2
- Bathrooms1
- Dining roomYes
Outside
- Private gardenYes
Building
- Listed buildingYes
Energy performance
Buttercups Cottage's carbon output runs well above what efficient homes in the postcode produce.
EPC Rating
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Planning history
Buttercups Cottage has a listed-building consent on record — alterations to a listed property are tightly controlled.
3 applications on record at Buttercups Cottage, The Row, Hartest, Bury St Edmunds, IP29 4DJ
- Jun 2019RenovationHeritageOutcome in report
Listed Building Consent - Relocation of wall to provide parking space.
Listed- Documents
- 10 docs on file
- Reference
- DC/19/00422
- More recent applications — locked
- Tree WorksMar 2022Decision
- RenovationJun 2019Decision
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Sales history & valuation
The latest sale landed in the post-pandemic price surge — useful context when reading the figure.
£289,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables.
£270,000
Recorded with HM Land Registry.
Sales timeline
21 January 2022Most recent
£270,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in IP29 4DJ: £390,000 (2024–2021).
Nearby sales in IP29 4DJ
Windfall Cottage, The Row, Hartest, Bury St Edmunds, IP29 4DJ
Sold Dec 2024
£245,000The Old Surgery, The Row, Hartest, Bury St Edmunds, IP29 4DJ
Sold Mar 2024
£390,000Thatched Cottage, The Row, Hartest, Bury St Edmunds, IP29 4DJ
Sold Dec 2023
£455,000New House, The Row, Hartest, Bury St Edmunds, IP29 4DJ
Sold Sept 2023
£430,000Tebbit, The Row, Hartest, Bury St Edmunds, IP29 4DJ
Sold Aug 2021
£350,000
Versus other The Row homes
CO₂ Emissions for Buttercups Cottage lags the street by a wide margin.
Price per m²
£3,176
Street avg £3,966
Floor Area
85 m²
Street avg 99 m²
Habitable Rooms
3 rooms
Street avg 5 rooms
CO₂ Emissions
8.4 t/year
Street avg 5.7 t/year
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The neighbourhood at a glance
Daytime road noise here sits well below conversation level — a quiet pocket of the postcode.
Crime
1/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
0.2 km
School — bus stop.
Closest school
0.1 km
Hartest Church of England Primary School. 1 school nearby.
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A Local Area report breaks down crime, transport links, schools and air quality in depth.
Road noise across the postcode

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
44.8dB

Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
37.6dB







