2 Faraday Road, Ipswich, IP4 1PU

2 Faraday Road is a three-bedroom end-of-terrace house in Ipswich (IP4 1PU). It has a recorded floor area of 102 m² (around 1098 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (October 2013) shows an F (score 37), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The rating has held steady at F across 4 certificates since March 2009. Between certificates, hot-water efficiency dropped from Good to Average and lighting dropped from Good to Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 83), a 4-band jump. The latest certificate is from October 2013, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

At 102 m² it's 24.6% larger than the typical home in the postcode (82 m² median across 39 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Across 1995–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 7.7% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£278/sq ft) was about 91.7% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: July 2022 at £305,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.