Malting Cottage, Cross Green, Cockfield, Bury St Edmunds, IP30 0LG

Malting Cottage is a detached house in Cockfield, Bury St. Edmunds, Bury St Edmunds (IP30 0LG). It has a recorded floor area of 115 m² (around 1238 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (May 2014) shows an F (score 35), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to D (score 59), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on wood pellets in bags for secondary heating. The latest certificate is from May 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Untraded for 19 years, with the last transfer in August 2007. That sale landed at the peak of the pre-credit-crunch market, which is a useful reference point when interpreting the price. 3 planning records sit against the property, 3 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension and tree works, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. At 115 m² it's 15.4% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (136 m² median across 21 EPCs). It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 76% of similar EPCs). Across 2001–2007, sale prices on this property compounded at 14.5% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £450,000 is 39.8% above the 2007 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£260/sq ft) was about 29.1% above the typical sold price in the postcode.