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Get startedLodge Cottage is a four-bedroom detached house in Badwell Ash, Bury St. Edmunds, Bury St Edmunds (IP31 3JG). It has a recorded floor area of 192 m² (around 2067 sq ft) and construction records dating it to before 1900. The latest certificate (March 2021) shows a G (score 9), near the bottom of the EPC scale. Earlier certificates rated it F (February 2009); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, hot-water efficiency dropped from Average to Very Poor and main heating dropped from Average to Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to E (score 53), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on lpg.
Sale prices here have outpaced England HPI: 2.9% per year against 0% for the wider region. Today's modelled estimate of £543,000 is 35.7% above the 2022 sale price. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. 2 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an annexe, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Most recent transfer: August 2022 at £400,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.
Lodge Cottage sits at the bottom of the postcode for energy efficiency — meaningful headroom to improve.
Discharge of Conditions Application for DC/22/05651 for Condition 4 (Foul water drainage scheme)
The latest sale landed in the post-pandemic price surge — useful context when reading the figure.
£543,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables and a sale-price growth of 2.9% per year over 22 years.
£400,000
Growth on file: 2.9% per year over 22 years.
On years held, Lodge Cottage runs well behind the street norm.
Price per m²
£2,083
Street avg £1,907
Floor Area
192 m²
Street avg 214 m²
Habitable Rooms
8 rooms
Street avg 7 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
0.9 km

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
42.6dB

Changes detected from historical EPC data
Changed to a more efficient fuel source
Hot water efficiency decreased
Single glazing replaced with double or better glazing
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Planning Application - Change of use of outbuilding to form residential annexe
9 August 2022Most recent
£400,000
+86.2%over 21 years13 December 2000
£214,830
Median price across the last 5 sales in IP31 3JG: £675,000 (2022–2011).
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Sold Aug 2022
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Sold Sept 2019
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Sold Aug 2018
Badwell Green Farm Badwell Green Badwell Ash Bury St Edmunds
Sold Jul 2017
Cottage Farmhouse Badwell Green Badwell Ash Bury St Edmunds
Sold Mar 2008
CO₂ Emissions
12.0 t/year
Street avg 8.0 t/year
IP31 3PF
Bus Shelter — bus stop.
Closest school
2.8 km
Walsham-le-Willows Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School. 1 school nearby.
Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
35.7dB
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