Little Owl, The Pound, Hawstead, Bury St Edmunds, IP29 5NJ

Little Owl is a detached house in Hawstead, Bury St. Edmunds, Bury St Edmunds (IP29 5NJ). It has a recorded floor area of 88 m² (around 947 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1996-2002 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (March 2021) shows a D (score 62), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would lift it to A (score 102), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on oil.

Today's modelled estimate of £288,000 is 28.2% below the 2021 sale of £401,014, running counter to the wider postcode trend, which makes the EPC and condition history especially worth a look. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£423/sq ft) was about 85.2% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 88 m² the property is well over the postcode median (68 m² across 14 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Its energy rating outperforms most of the postcode (better than 79% of similar EPCs). 6 planning records sit against the property, 3 approved, 3 refused. Past consents include tree works, new windows and change of use to residential, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Most recent transfer: June 2021 at £401,014. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.