Rose Cottage, Drinkstone Road, Gedding, Bury St Edmunds, IP30 0QE

Rose Cottage is a detached house in Gedding, Bury St. Edmunds, Bury St Edmunds (IP30 0QE). It has a recorded floor area of 141 m² (around 1518 sq ft) and construction records dating it to before 1900. The latest certificate (March 2015) shows a D (score 66), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would lift it to A (score 97), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity. The latest certificate is from March 2015, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since August 2002 — that's 24 years off the open market, well above the local norm. At 141 m² the property is well over the postcode median (103 m² across 14 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Across 1998–2002, sale prices on this property compounded at 22.6% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £468,000 sits 150.3% above the 2002 sale of £187,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£123/sq ft) was about 44.2% below the postcode norm. 3 planning records sit against the property, 3 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension, an annexe and a garage conversion, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.