Houghton House, Ashfield Road, Elmswell, Bury St Edmunds, IP30 9HG

Houghton House is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Elmswell, Bury St. Edmunds, Bury St Edmunds (IP30 9HG). It has a recorded floor area of 117 m² (around 1259 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (July 2017) shows an F (score 37), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to D (score 65), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on oil.

At 117 m² the property is well over the postcode median (90 m² across 38 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. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2018. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2007–2017, sale prices on this property compounded at 4.7% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £450,000 is 12.5% above the 2017 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£318/sq ft) was about 56.5% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last changed hands 9 years ago, in December 2017.