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Get startedOak Cottage is a semi-detached house in Ingham, Bury St. Edmunds, Bury St Edmunds (IP31 1NG). It has a recorded floor area of 82 m² (around 883 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (January 2020) shows an E (score 39), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. When first surveyed in March 2011 the rating was F, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, window efficiency went from Poor to Average and lighting went from Average to Very Good. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 72), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on oil.
Untraded for 27 years, with the last transfer in April 1999. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. Today's modelled estimate of £261,000 sits 207.1% above the 1999 sale of £85,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£96/sq ft) was about 46.7% below the postcode norm.
Oak Cottage's carbon output runs well above what efficient homes in the postcode produce.
Oak Cottage's estimated value is more than triple its earliest registered sale price (1999).
£261,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables.
£85,000
Recorded with HM Land Registry.
Oak Cottage is notably below the street on price per m².
Price per m²
£1,037
Street avg £2,659
Floor Area
82 m²
Street avg 101 m²
Habitable Rooms
4 rooms
Street avg 5 rooms
Daytime road noise here sits well below conversation level — a quiet pocket of the postcode.
Crime
3/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
0.1 km

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
47.8dB

Changes detected from historical EPC data
Heating controls changed
Windows upgraded, improving insulation
More low energy lighting installed
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30 April 1999Most recent
£85,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in IP31 1NG: £310,000 (2024–2018).
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CO₂ Emissions
6.9 t/year
Street avg 6.1 t/year
IP31 1NJ
The Cadogan — bus stop.
Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
39.6dB
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