Brook Farm, Drinkstone Road, Beyton, Bury St Edmunds, IP30 9AQ

Brook Farm is a six-bedroom detached house in Beyton, Bury St. Edmunds, Bury St Edmunds (IP30 9AQ). It has a recorded floor area of 480 m² (around 5167 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (November 2021) shows an F (score 32), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 70), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on oil. Other recorded features include notable views and attached land beyond the plot.

Across 2004–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 5.2% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £1,591,000 is 11.6% below the 2021 sale of £1,800,000, below the original sale price, which typically signals condition or completion-status changes worth verifying. At 480 m² the property is well over the postcode median (121 m² across 9 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 89% of similar EPCs). 6 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 4 is the typical count. 10 planning records sit against the property, 8 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include change of use to residential and solar panel installation, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. The record references listed-building consent, which constrain future alterations. Sold August 2021 for £1,800,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.