Model valuation£417,0008 Busby Close
Local market context
Moat Farmhouse is a detached house in Hargrave, Bury St. Edmunds, Bury St Edmunds (IP29 5HY). It has a recorded floor area of 260 m² (around 2799 sq ft) and construction records dating it to 1900-1929. The latest certificate (August 2025) returns a B (score 82), comfortably above the UK average. Main heating runs on oil.
At 260 m² the property is well over the postcode median (130 m² across 9 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Its energy rating outperforms most of the postcode (better than 89% of similar EPCs). 3 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include an extension, a porch and partial demolition, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.
Moat Farmhouse's carbon output runs well above what efficient homes in the postcode produce.
Certificate validity
Valid until 14 August 2035
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Planning history includes recorded demolition works, indicating a major rebuild phase at this address.
3 applications on record at Moat Farmhouse, Wickhambrook Road, Hargrave, Bury St Edmunds, IP29 5HY
Householder Planning Application - Two storey and single storey side extension and external alterations (following demolition of existing porch and garage) as amended by letter and parking layout received 21st January 2015 and drawing nos. 365/3 Rev 1 and 4 Rev 1 received 25th February 2015 reducing the height, width and length of the extension and drawing nos. 365/5 Rev 1 and 365/6 Rev 1 received 13th April 2015.
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Moat Farmhouse has no Land Registry sales on file, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands since registration began.
£936,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables.
That can mean the property has never traded since the registry began publishing in 1995, was a new build that hasn't been registered yet, or is held in the same hands long-term.
Median price across the last 5 sales in IP29 5HY: £490,000 (2024–2017).
Alma Cottage, Wickhambrook Road, Hargrave, Bury St Edmunds, IP29 5HY
Sold Dec 2024
Field End, Wickhambrook Road, Hargrave, Bury St Edmunds, IP29 5HY
Sold Mar 2021
The Poppies, Wickhambrook Road, Hargrave, Bury St Edmunds, IP29 5HY
Sold Nov 2018
Long View, Wickhambrook Road, Hargrave, Bury St Edmunds, IP29 5HY
Sold Aug 2017
Grove Farm Barn, Wickhambrook Road, Hargrave, Bury St Edmunds, IP29 5HY
Sold Feb 2007
EPC Rating for Moat Farmhouse runs comfortably ahead of the street norm.
EPC Rating
82 (B)
Street avg 53 (E)
Floor Area
260 m²
Street avg 144 m²
CO₂ Emissions
7.1 t/year
Street avg 7.1 t/year
Habitable Rooms
8 rooms
Street avg 6 rooms
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Daytime road noise here sits well below conversation level — a quiet pocket of the postcode.
Crime
18/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
0.3 km
Chevington Road — bus stop.
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