The Cottage, Culford Heath, Ingham, Bury St Edmunds, IP31 1PP

The Cottage is a five-bedroom semi-detached house in Ingham, Bury St. Edmunds, Bury St Edmunds (IP31 1PP). It has a recorded floor area of 226 m² (around 2433 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (December 2016) shows an E (score 39), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 77), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on oil. Other recorded features include notable views. The home occupies a cul-de-sac position.

Held since September 2003 — that's 23 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Today's modelled estimate of £490,000 sits 97.2% above the 2003 sale of £248,500. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£102/sq ft) was about 48.5% below the postcode norm. 3 planning records sit against the property, 3 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension and a porch, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. At 226 m² it's 29.9% larger than the typical home in the postcode (174 m² median across 4 EPCs). 5 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count.