Old Farmhouse, The Green, Bardwell, Bury St Edmunds, IP31 1AW

Old Farmhouse is a three-bedroom detached house in Bardwell, Bury St. Edmunds, Bury St Edmunds (IP31 1AW). It has a recorded floor area of 197 m² (around 2118 sq ft) and construction records dating it to before 1900. The latest certificate (March 2009) shows a G (score 13), near the bottom of the EPC scale. Main heating runs on electricity. The latest certificate is from March 2009, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Other recorded features include a loft.

Held since April 2011 — that's 15 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Sale prices here have outpaced England HPI: 14% per year against 0% for the wider region. Today's modelled estimate of £458,000 sits 52.7% above the 2011 sale of £300,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£142/sq ft) was about 42.6% below the postcode norm. At 197 m² the property is well over the postcode median (147 m² across 5 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. 4 planning records sit against the property, 3 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include tree works and new windows, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. The record references listed-building consent and conservation-area consent, which constrain future alterations.