Gedding Grange, Drinkstone Road, Gedding, Bury St Edmunds, IP30 0QE

Gedding Grange is a four-bedroom detached house in Gedding, Bury St. Edmunds, Bury St Edmunds (IP30 0QE). It has a recorded floor area of 255 m² (around 2745 sq ft) and construction records dating it to before 1900. It is a listed building, which means external alterations are tightly controlled but it may qualify for heritage tax reliefs. Other recorded features include outbuildings and attached land beyond the plot. Period features are noted in the property record. The latest certificate (July 2021) shows an F (score 25), near the bottom of the EPC scale. When first surveyed in February 2015 the rating was G, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, roof efficiency went from Very Poor to Very Good and lighting went from Good to Very Good; while main heating dropped from Average to Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 81), a 4-band jump. Main heating runs on oil.

At 255 m² the property is well over the postcode median (103 m² across 14 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. 9 planning records sit against the property, 8 approved, 0 refused, 1 pending. Past consents include an annexe and change of use to residential, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. An application is currently awaiting a decision. The record references listed-building consent, which constrain future alterations. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£519/sq ft) was about 176.8% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold January 2022 for £1,425,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.