Thurston Cottage, Thurston End, Hawkedon, Bury St Edmunds, IP29 4LQ

Thurston Cottage is a three-bedroom detached house in Hawkedon, Bury St. Edmunds, Bury St Edmunds (IP29 4LQ). It has a recorded floor area of 105 m² (around 1130 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (August 2022) shows an F (score 34), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 69), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on oil. Other recorded features include attached land beyond the plot. Our model identifies extension potential, subject to local planning policy.

2 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension, a porch and partial demolition, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2006–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 3.2% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£495/sq ft) was about 39.1% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 105 m² it's 19.9% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (131 m² median across 8 EPCs). Most recent transfer: September 2022 at £560,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.