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Get startedLancaster Cottage is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Norton, Bury St. Edmunds, Bury St Edmunds (IP31 3LJ). It has a recorded floor area of 77 m² (around 828 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (November 2010) shows an E (score 48), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would push it to D (score 55). Main heating runs on oil. The latest certificate is from November 2010, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Period features are noted in the property record.
Sale prices here have outpaced England HPI: 6.5% per year against 0% for the wider region. Today's modelled estimate of £351,000 is 26.5% above the 2016 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£335/sq ft) was about 59.9% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 77 m² it sits well below the postcode median (199 m² across 16 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. 2 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension and an annexe, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Last changed hands 10 years ago, in July 2016.
Lancaster Cottage's carbon output runs well above what efficient homes in the postcode produce.
This certificate is over 10 years old and is no longer valid.Expired 12 Nov 2020
Lancaster Cottage has an approved single-storey side and rear extension on the planning record.
Extension: Single storey · Side and rear of property
Erection of a single storey side/rear extension
Sale price has at least doubled since 2000.
£351,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables and a sale-price growth of 6.5% per year over 16 years.
£277,500
Growth on file: 6.5% per year over 16 years.
On floor area, Lancaster Cottage runs well behind the street norm.
Price per m²
£3,606
Street avg £2,650
Floor Area
77 m²
Street avg 202 m²
Habitable Rooms
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
0.8 km

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
43.5dB

New gabled roof and alterations to outbuilding to be used as Annexe.
29 July 2016Most recent
£277,500
+35.4%over 10 years16 December 2005
£205,000
+105.0%over 5 years14 June 2000
£100,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in IP31 3LJ: £690,000 (2025–2024).
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Street avg 8 rooms
CO₂ Emissions
6.7 t/year
Street avg 8.1 t/year
IP31 3TT
Old Smithy — bus stop.
Closest school
1.2 km
Norton CEVC Primary School. 2 schools nearby.
Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
37.7dB
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