Lower Green Cottage, Lower Green, Felsham, Bury St Edmunds, IP30 0PP

Lower Green Cottage is a detached house in Felsham, Bury St. Edmunds, Bury St Edmunds (IP30 0PP). It has a recorded floor area of 214 m² (around 2303 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (March 2020) shows an E (score 42), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. When first surveyed in June 2011 the rating was F, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, lighting went from Poor to Very Good; while window efficiency dropped from Good to Average. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 84), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on oil.

At 214 m² the property is well over the postcode median (94 m² across 10 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. 5 planning records sit against the property, 5 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension, a porch and new windows, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2000–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 11.3% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£295/sq ft) was about 23.5% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £680,000 in February 2021. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.