Rookery Farm, Gedding Road, Drinkstone, Bury St Edmunds, IP30 9SZ

Rookery Farm is an eight-bedroom detached house in Drinkstone, Bury St. Edmunds, Bury St Edmunds (IP30 9SZ). It has a recorded floor area of 360 m² (around 3873 sq ft) and construction records dating it to before 1900. There is a swimming pool on the plot, uncommon for the area. Other recorded features include outbuildings and attached land beyond the plot. The latest certificate (March 2010) shows a G (score 14), near the bottom of the EPC scale. Main heating runs on lpg. The latest certificate is from March 2010, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

At 360 m² the property is well over the postcode median (44 m² across 11 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. 8 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 4 is the typical count. 9 planning records sit against the property, 7 approved, 2 refused. Past consents include an extension and an annexe, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. The record references listed-building consent, which constrain future alterations. On the market in November 2016 and unlisted since — roughly 10 years. Today's modelled estimate of £1,335,000 is 33.5% above the 2016 sale price.