Chapel Cottage, The Street, Hessett, Bury St Edmunds, IP30 9AZ

Chapel Cottage is a detached house in Hessett, Bury St. Edmunds, Bury St Edmunds (IP30 9AZ). It has a recorded floor area of 64 m² (around 689 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1983-1990 and council tax band A. The latest certificate (December 2021) shows a D (score 63), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The rating has held steady at D across 2 certificates since November 2010. The recommended improvements would lift it to A (score 110), a 3-band jump.

At 64 m² it sits well below the postcode median (141 m² across 13 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. 2 planning records sit against the property, 1 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include an extension and a porch, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£363/sq ft) was about 120.3% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold May 2022 for £250,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.